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Brokers Flee Brokerages as Assets Show Broken Model
After Morgan Stanley took control of Smith Barney in May 2009 from Citigroup Inc., David Hopkins grew disillusioned with his new bosses.
Hopkins, 50, says he had built a roster of about 150 clients with $38 million in assets in nine years as a stock broker at Smith Barney in Southern California. After the acquisition, the New York-based bank imposed new maintenance fees on Smith Barney accounts and stripped away some of the autonomy of its brokers -- moves that Hopkins says were hurting his relationships with investors.
In March, Hopkins got a call from a headhunter who urged him to join a small advisory firm that works with TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., a discount brokerage. Although it meant Hopkins would have to return a retention bonus from Morgan Stanley worth a year's earnings, he decided to depart for Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC in Newport Beach, California, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its December issue.
"Smith Barney had a very hands-off environment, like you knew what was best for your clients," Hopkins says. "With Morgan Stanley, it just became an unfriendly place. Smith Barney is dying a slow death. It's all about Morgan Stanley."
More than 7,300 brokers have left the four biggest full-service brokerages -- Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Advisors and UBS Wealth Management Americas - - from the beginning of 2009 through June, according to financial services research firm Aite Group LLC in Boston and company filings.
Losing Assets
Some brokers have fled internal clashes from mergers during the financial crisis: Bank of America Corp. rescued Merrill Lynch four months before the Smith Barney deal. Others have been recruited by discounters such as Charles Schwab Corp. to join their networks of independent firms.
The big banks, which count on their brokerages to generate a steady stream of fees, are losing assets as well as brokers. Assets under management at the four top brokerages dropped 16 percent to $4.75 trillion from 2007 through 2009, Aite Group says. During the same period, assets jumped almost 14 percent to $1.54 trillion at independent firms.
"It's hurting the big brokerages," says Alois Pirker, an Aite Group research director. "They have lost assets, advisers and clients."
Morgan Stanley says the loss of brokers and assets has been inconsequential. Spokesman Jim Wiggins says the bank is sorry to see employees depart who are frustrated by a lack of success at Morgan Stanley, which doesn't compete on price for clients with low-cost brokerages.
No Conflicts
"Our business model is not for everyone," he says. "We're geared to those advisers and clients who can best benefit from the breadth and resources of a leading global investment bank."
While lacking the clout of big brokerages, independent firms boast of one advantage with clients: no conflicts of interest. Brokers at Merrill Lynch, for instance, are pressured to sell funds managed or approved by the firm because they pay a higher commission than those run by other companies, says Paul De Rosa, who worked at the brokerage for 26 years before co-founding his own firm, Gateway Advisory LLC, in Westfield, New Jersey, in January.
De Rosa set up Gateway Advisory as a registered investment adviser, which has a fiduciary duty to put its clients' financial interest first when giving advice, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules. RIA firms must also disclose conflicts. To avoid them, RIAs like Gateway typically shun commissions and charge a flat fee of less than 1 percent of assets under management regardless of the funds they recommend.
Discounter Recruiting
"Our clients know that when we make a recommendation, we're not getting compensated for that recommendation," says De Rosa, 61, whose firm manages more than $250 million.
Lyle LaMothe, who oversees Merrill Lynch's U.S. wealth management unit, says brokers don't push particular investments that pay more than others. The firm leaves it to the customer to decide whether to purchase a product sold on commission, or pay a fee for investment advice.
"That we have both methods is testimony to the fact that we are independent," LaMothe says.
Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade are capitalizing on the flight of brokers. The discounters are providing independent firms with a host of fee-based services, from recruiting advisers to supplying clients and trading and custodial assistance. Omaha, Nebraska-based TD Ameritrade announced in July that its recruiters helped bring 212 advisers from big brokerages to independent firms in the first seven months of 2010, a 44 percent increase over the same period a year earlier.
Most Profitable
Schwab's unit that offers services to independent advisers and other institutional businesses is the most profitable part of the company. San Francisco-based Schwab has about 6,000 independent advisers in its network.
"There has been a bit of a pack mentality with advisers," says Bernie Clark, head of Schwab Advisor Services. "When people started coming out and fostering growth in this industry, others saw it was possible and followed them."
Independent firms depend on their partnerships with Schwab and TD Ameritrade to succeed. Dorie Rosenband says she quit Smith Barney last year because she grew tired of its high- pressure sales culture and preferred to use her training as a certified financial planner to give advice. So she started a business in New York and Baltimore in 2009.
Trudge to Bathroom
Schwab helped Rosenband, 37, find office space and legal advisers and then hooked her up with Raylor Investments LLC, a Greenwich, Connecticut, consulting firm that screens investments for her clients. In exchange, Rosenband pays Schwab a fee for safekeeping her investors' money, executing trades and other transactions.
"You cannot underestimate the magnitude of setting up a new business," says Rosenband, whose firm oversees $50 million. "You're leaving a turnkey environment where you don't even realize what's being done for you."
Beacon Pointe, which manages $4 billion in assets, owes much of its recent expansion to TD Ameritrade. Beacon Pointe's 30 employees work in a ground-floor office decorated with undistinguished paintings by anonymous artists. To get to a bathroom, advisers have to either trudge down to the basement or take an elevator to the fourth floor. Beacon Pointe and TD Ameritrade formed an alliance in 2007: Beacon pays a fee for client trades through TD Ameritrade, and the discount brokerage funnels customers looking for advice to the small firm.
Returning Advisers
This year, the number of TD Ameritrade referrals is soaring, comprising 25 percent of Beacon's new clients through October. And Beacon is planning on acquiring an independent adviser with $120 million in assets in Scottsdale, Arizona, a first step in an expansion to get more business from TD Ameritrade branches across the country, says Matthew Cooper, Beacon's managing director.
Hopkins, the Beacon Pointe adviser, works a region between Orange County and Santa Barbara, talking with TD Ameritrade branch workers to find customers who need advice.
"They went to Ameritrade and thought they could do a self-directed approach but don't have the time or talent to do it," Hopkins says. "So Ameritrade recommends us."
Some advisers return to the comforts of big brokerages after struggling to survive on their own. James Stoker II left Smith Barney in 2004 and co-founded a firm with six of his brokerage colleagues. He wanted the freedom to place clients in more-exotic investments such as hedge funds. But Stoker had little time to develop those strategies. Because his firm in Austin, Texas, could only afford an additional handful of people for investment management and research, he spent most of his time on day-to-day duties, such as flying to meet fund executives and plowing through their documents.
Madoff Scrutiny
After the Bernard Madoff fraud scandal in 2008, investors demanded that Stoker's small staff increase the scrutiny of its investments. During a meeting in early 2009, an institutional client asked how Stoker could verify that outside auditors of managers were doing their job.
"We couldn't answer that question other than to say we couldn't do that," Stoker says. "We were just too thin. We came back from the meeting and said we have to re-affiliate with Morgan Stanley."
Stoker, 54, wound down his company in May and took six of his people back to Smith Barney. Now, at the brokerage's Graystone Consulting unit, which advises institutional investors, Stoker says he can tap into a small army of hundreds of research analysts who handle much of the groundwork of evaluating money managers.
Fiduciary Standard
"A lot of the big independents don't have 200-some people in research and sophisticated risk systems," Stoker says. "Independents can't outspend Morgan Stanley in these markets."
Independent brokers, with fewer layers of oversight and compliance officers than the big firms, are also the subject of complaints, according to records maintained by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the securities industry watchdog. Stoker received a June 2009 complaint from a client that accused him of misrepresenting and failing to disclose the risks involved in an investment that resulted in a $1.7 million loss, according to his Finra BrokerCheck report. Stoker settled the complaint for $500,000, the report said. The report doesn't say whether Stoker admitted or denied the allegations, and Morgan Stanley didn't respond to a request for comment.
Major brokerages and independent firms are also tussling over regulation. The SEC will send a report on protecting investors to Congress in January before possibly issuing new rules as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform act signed into law in July.
New Standard
Registered investment advisers are urging the SEC to adopt the tough fiduciary standard under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 that governs their profession. If advisers receive additional payments for recommending a particular fund over another, they must fully disclose the arrangement and obtain informed consent from investors every time they sell such a product, says Falls Church, Virginia-based Knut Rostad, chairman of the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard, a group of financial professionals. Advisers must also manage conflicts by, for instance, crediting that additional payment to their client's account rather than accepting it themselves, Rostad says.
Potential Payoff
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a lobbying and trade group based in New York, says the stringent fiduciary rules of the 1940 act are unnecessary to safeguard investors and would restrict their options. SIFMA does support the idea of more disclosure.
"We believe in a robust disclosure regime where the client can make the decision to consent to conflicts," says Andrew DeSouza, a SIFMA spokesman.
No matter what the SEC does, for Hopkins, there's no going back to a big brokerage. He likes the potential payoff of being an entrepreneur.
"I'm working 10 times as hard, but the opportunity is 100 times greater," he says on his cell phone, slogging through Los Angeles traffic -- hoping to find clients who value his independence as much as he does.


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HOOVER, Ala. – Although the first games involving Southeastern Conference football teams are not until Aug. 28, the league's full-on blitz in promoting the new SEC Network has been going on for a while now.
HOOVER, Ala. – Before he was done, Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive would quote Muhammad Ali, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela, stump for the league's new television network, and remind the world that the "autonomy of the SEC and the other four conferences" is really all that matters.
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And the board will consider a resolution that calls on the Germantown Municipal Schools board to release $235,080 in funding for the Germantown Community Television operation at Germantown High School.
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That's the conclusion of several recent reports that shed light on Internet piracy's funding sources.
The days of black-and-white television and the likes of Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle running around in flannel uniforms are gone. But the "Game of the Week" is coming to Memphis and AutoZone Park.
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Financial terms of the acquisition announced Monday were not disclosed. The deal is part of Google's effort to widen corporate usage of smartphones and tablets running on its mobile operating system, Android.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – AT&T says it views its planned $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV as a way to help redefine the video entertainment industry, giving it opportunities to bundle services and tap into growing Latin American markets.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The American economy shrugged off the end of a brutal winter last month, rebounding with the biggest hiring surge in two years and suggesting that the job market's gains could endure.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Federal Communications Commission is set to propose new Internet rules that would allow Internet service providers to charge content companies for faster delivery of their services over the so-called "last mile" connection to people's homes.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Netflix's videos are streaming through Comcast's Internet service at their highest speeds in 17 months, thanks to tolls Netflix pays Comcast for a more direct connection to its network.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Communications Commission says it won't appeal a court decision that struck down rules it designed to ensure that the transmission of all Internet content be treated equally. The agency says it will fashion new rules.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable company, is expanding the number of low-income families that can automatically qualify for its $9.95-per-month Internet access. It's also boosting download speeds on the service to 5 megabytes per second from 3 Mbps to attract more subscribers.
The Center City Development Corp. board will meet Wednesday, June 19, at 9 a.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, June 19, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at DeVry University, 6401 Poplar Ave., sixth floor. Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.biz.
CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up.
The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that was aided by a rising stock market, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.
A new set of programming on Comcast Channel 31 geared toward Memphis' African-American community is continuing to broaden its presence in the city.
The Carter Malone Group has developed a website for the venture, called MUTV1, which is short for Memphis Urban Television 1. In addition to serving as its agency of record, The Carter Malone Group CEO Deidre Malone also has a show on the channel called "Dialogue with Deidre."
NEW YORK (AP) – The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, on Friday announced that he's stepping down in the "coming weeks," after a four-year tenure that's garnered mixed reviews for him and tangible progress in the industries he oversees.
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This gene is a member of the cytidine deaminase gene family. It is one of seven related genes or pseudogenes found in a cluster, thought to result from gene duplication, on chromosome 22. Members of the cluster encode proteins that are structurally and functionally related to the C to U RNA-editing cytidine deaminase APOBEC1. The protein encoded by this gene lacks the zinc binding activity of other family members. The protein plays a role in immunity, by restricting transmission of foreign DNA such as viruses. One mechanism of foreign DNA restriction is deamination of foreign double-stranded DNA cytidines to uridines, which leads to DNA degradation. However, other mechanisms are also thought to be involved, as anti-viral effect is not dependent on deaminase activity. The protein encoded by this gene is the same as that encoded by APOBEC3A; however, this gene is a hybrid gene that results from the deletion of approximately 29.5 kb of sequence between the APOBEC3A gene and the adjacent gene APOBEC3B. The breakpoints of the deletion are within the two genes, so the deletion hybrid is predicted to have the promoter and coding region of APOBEC3A, but the 3' UTR of APOBEC3B. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2012]
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Hysteroscopy is used in the office setting to directly visualize the uterine cavity. A group of researchers noted that hysteroscopy is not as useful in detecting endometrial cancer as biopsy or D&C.[13] It has not been evaluated as a screening tool.[14]
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- Fleischer AC, Wheeler JE, Lindsay I, et al.: An assessment of the value of ultrasonographic screening for endometrial disease in postmenopausal women without symptoms. Am J Obstet Gynecol 184 (2): 70-5, 2001.
- Langer RD, Pierce JJ, O'Hanlan KA, et al.: Transvaginal ultrasonography compared with endometrial biopsy for the detection of endometrial disease. Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions Trial. N Engl J Med 337 (25): 1792-8, 1997.
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Stupidity from Bloomberg. Isn't that title redundant?
This is a discussion on More stupidity from Mayor Bloomberg... within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Bloomy doesn't have enough to do so he's thought up something else to keep YOU busy: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/ny....html?hp&_r=1& When I was visiting my sister-in-law in NJ ...
Bloomy doesn't have enough to do so he's thought up something else to keep YOU busy:
When I was visiting my sister-in-law in NJ a couple of years ago she told me they have "recycling police". Seriously...they are people who go through your garbage cans and make sure you haven't committed the ultimate recycling crime: mixing paper with glass. If you're caught you get a warning or a fine. How grand to live in The People's Republic of New Jersey.
Thanks to Bloomberg, NYC has gotten as bad, if not worse.
We won't discuss California because it's a lost cause.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.- Mark Twain
Stupidity from Bloomberg. Isn't that title redundant?
Once your cans reach the sidewalk they are in the public domain and ANYONE can search through them. I don't set my cans out the night before.
I set them out the morning of.
But I agree JL...I think it's rather cheeky for any city to pull ship like that on folks. Here the drivers do the checking. The funny thing is people throw out weird stuff like floor lamps that stick out of the cans. The driver sees it and sets it by the can with a note that explains this is the wrong type of a discard and he"s not permitted to pick it up.
I suppose I wouldn't care who went through my garbage can if I didn't get fined for some infraction.
There's big money in recycling and I would love to know who owns the recycling companies and which politicians are on their bankroll. Oh wait...it's for the earth.
Lucky for me, our garbage men will take anything they can physically pick up and it doesn't have to be in the can either.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.- Mark Twain
Caveat: I am not for mandatory anything! But somethings need to get done. Our planet is headed toward a disaster if we do not start doing something about it now. So many folks say they fear for what our country is becoming and fear for what our children face. It isn't just the economy or social issues, it is also the health of the planet we need to worry about.
I am sure folks thought it was stupid when it became illegal to dump motor oil and gasoline down the sewer. Quite frankly, for those that say they don't have enough time (like a gentleman in the article said) I say too bad. It is not that hard to seperate things. Folks try to find an excuse to not do anything because we have become one lazy country and only think about ourselves and the short term,
As far as who is making money off of recycling? I don't give a hoot. If there are kickbacks and illegal deals being made then that is a concern of the tax payers for that municipality. The end result is still helping the enviroment. To discount an idea just because some crooked deals could be made is not a reason to not do something. Just because Bloomberg has an idea, one that is not new, does not mean it has to be a bad one. Even the village idiot can get it right once.
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And I said, Here am I. Send me!
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Long Live Big Brother!
Long Live Big Brother!
[I'm jumping on the Big Brother Bloomberg bandwagon early so I can become a mole and destroy it from within.]
From the article: The residential program will initially work on a voluntary basis, but officials predict that within a few years, it will be mandatory. New Yorkers who do not separate their food scraps could be subject to fines, just as they are currently if they do not recycle plastic, paper or metal.
This is a far cry from people polluting the waterways with motor oil.
Just how many trash cans does the average citizen need to have in order to live up to Bloombergs (and any other knucklehead) idea of being a good citizen?
If people want to do this...fine, but the idea that they should be forced to is ridiculous. There is a lot of controversy over just how much good recycling does given that the recycling plants use a ton of energy themselves.
I'm not against private companies making a fortune on recycling as long as it's voluntary.
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Let's not worry about real problems in the city. Instead focus on making everyone compost.
* the eight plant all had different processes and use Taxpayer funds to build and dismantle when they failed! Just like the solar plants that King "O" is spending $3.6 billion on, the company I worked for built the pilot plant using the same process for Southern California Edison in the early 90s, SCE could not make that plant viable in a commercial environment, however our MaHa-I-Know-Better is urinating our tax dollar into these projects! They cost four time more than a Nuclear Plant to build per MWHr and only operate at a 30% efficiency! Another note the Solar Energy is mandated to sell for 300% more than Natural Gas cost! Hope you enjoy the feeling you get when the drill (Our Government) drives the screw in!
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I will say this. Of course mother earth will survive. I am concerned about the the human life on this planet in the near future. If you disagree then that is cool. But not one persons answer is the end all solution or correct one.
BTW: Please post the names and locations of these plants that failed. I am very concerned about how tax dollars are used and am very interested in finding out the history of these plants. Did they fail because of reasons other than the concept was flawed, such as bad management, cost over runs, etc... I would appreciate the feedback. Also the stats about the cost (4x) of Nuclear plants vs recycle. I am also interested in the 300% figure. I too am opposed to mandates but I have not seen a figure that high that is universally accepted (BTW: I just googled it and can't find one that says 300%)
EDIT: It is not always about money.
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And I said, Here am I. Send me!
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I am all for recycling.
In fact, they began putting large dump bins around our city from a company named Rumpkie and I have contributed much to them. It has cut down the garbage I toss out each week by over 1/2. That's a lot to cut down.
They are even expanding to take glass where the first go-round they did not. It may not save the Planet but it sure can't hurt to recycle either. Being good stewards of what God has given to we humans, ie the Earth is what this is all about.
However, going to the extremes that J.L. mentioned in her post will have a detrimental effect upon recycling. Forcing people to do stupid crap with their crap is counterproductive and will cause them to resist the recycling effort. We don't need Recycling Police.
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I would enjoy (kinda) recycling if we had it. No where near where I live is there a pick up for recycling. If any is to be done it is strictly a do it yourself project. Even the largest (Waste Management) does not pick up recyclables here. We used to have a recycling station about seven miles away that I used for cardboard and aluminum cans, but for some reason they closed, so now everything goes in the garbage.
....and the people of New York just keep taking it like the good little commoners they are. How pathetic.
No sympathy for any of them. Now I understand why so many were pleading for the Governments help during Hurricane Sandy....because they can't fend or think for themselves.
....has anyone heard a plea for help from the good people of Oklahoma after the devastating Tornadoes last month? Nope.....and you won't.
If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere? What a joke.....most New Yuckers wouldn't last five minutes in Oklahoma.
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The only city that's a suburb of P-town (portland, OR), but in washington. couve killa's are from The Couve, and anyone who's anyone refers to Vancouver as "The/Da Couve." When asked in a game of "outburst" for nicknames of cities, what was said first? oh yeah, "The Couve," cuz that's how we rock it.
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Originally named Vancouver, early settlers quickly renamed area to Tha Couve, which literally translates "The Cave" or "The Dark Place" This refers to a large cave where all girls reside in Vancouver year round, only coming out for the 5 sunny days in august to aimlessly cruise mill plain.
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Chengdu: Lin Dan led his 2016 Olympic team teammates to play exhibition matches held in Shuangliu District Sports Center, Chengdu on July 22nd.
Beijing: After she was left out of China's 2012 London Olympics squad in favor of Li Xuerui, World No. 9 women's singles player Wang Shixian of China was yet again left out of the 2016 Olympic squad when she was not listed amongst 15-player roster named for the Rio Games on Monday.
Madrid: World No. 1 women's shuttler Carolina Marin of Spain has withdrawn from the Australian Open as she had suffered some "discomfort" in Indonesia.
The Spanish badminton star was stunned by Wang Yihan of China in the Indonesia Open semi-final last Saturday, and has tweeted that she will not be playing at the Australian Open.
Kunshan: China's women's team was on a mission to retain the Uber Cup at home after their men's team suffered worst loss in China's Thomas Cup history when they were beaten by Korea in the men's quarter-finals.
Kunshan: The London Olympic champion Li Xuerui shook off a shaky second set, as she bounced back to earn a hard-fought three-gamer against India's Saina Nehwal in the Uber Cup semi-finals on Friday.
Beijing: "Having a clear goal of what we want to achieve in our life is key to achieving what we want and enjoying success."
China's World No. 1 mixed doubles player Zhao Yunlei wrote a Weibo (a Chinese social media platform equivalent of Facebook) post on May 4th to share her vision for the future, hinted that retirement could be her next move after Rio Olympics.
Beijing: World No. 1 Chen Long and World No. 3 Lin Dan will prepare for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics by playing at the Australian Badminton Open in June.
Wuhan: Malaysian badminton maestro Lee Chong Wei celebrated his fourth consecutive victories against World No. 1 Chen Long of China by beating the Chinese shuttler in the Badminton Asia Championships (BAC) final to regain his second BAC title in Wuhan, China on Sunday.
In the enthralling first set, Lee who won the BAC title in 2006, put on a furious fightback after trailing 11-15 to overtake Chen Long and wrapped up the set 21-17.
Bangkok: Men's doubles top seeds Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia were pushed to the limit by No. 2 seeds from South Koreans Kim Gi-Jung/Kim Sa-Rang in the 2016 Princess Sirivannavari Thailand Masters finals on Saturday they were crowned the champions.
The Indonesian pair was forced to dig deep to beat the Koreans 12-21, 21-15, 21-12 in a 43 minutes encounter. The win was Ahsan/Setiawan's sixth victory against both Kims in their eight career meetings.
Singapore: China is expected to send over a strong men's and women's team for the OUE Singapore Open that offers prize money of US$350,000 ($500,000) slated to be held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium from April 12 to 17.
Beijing: Chinese mixed doubles players Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei, with 81,025 points, held on to the top spot in the Race to Rio – Badminton World Federation (BWF) Olympic Qualification Ranking released on Thursday. Ko Sung Hyun/Kim Ha Na of Korea, and Liu Cheng/Bao Yixin round out the top three, while Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir still lingered at No. 4.
Beijing: China have decided to send their men's squad for the Badminton Asian Team Championship (BATC) slated to be held in India from Feb 15 to Feb 21 without Lin Dan and Chen Long.
Li Xuerui and Wang Yihan have also been excluded from the China women's BATC squad.
Scotland: Scottish doubles specialist Imogen Bankier has retired from international badminton, admitting lack of motivation convinced her the time was right to call it quits.
The 28-year-old was Scotland's most successful badminton player, and one of only four British players to compete at the London 2012 Olympics, playing mixed doubles alongside Chris Adcock.
Dubai: Chen Long of China and Carolina Marin of Spain took home the Player of the Year Awards at the players' reception and gala dinner for the Dubai World Superseries Finals at the Al Badia Golf Club on Monday evening.
Kuala Lumpur: Lee Chong Wei, Lin Dan and Li Xuerui will not be playing in the World Super Series Finals in Dubai that was scheduled to kick off from December 9 to December 13. According to Badminton World Federation (BWF), they only select the top eight shuttlers after the 12 legs of Tournament to compete in the finale and each country can have a maximum of two players.
Kuala Lumpur: The Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings have remained relatively stable over the past week, as men's World No. 1 Chen Long geared up to lead the BWF Destination Dubai World Superseries Finals that will kick off in Dec 9.
Hong Kong: No one imagined he would, or could ever return to his athletic endeavor after spending eight months away from badminton court. Yet, with heart and soul made of steel, Lee Chong Wei defied all the odds, kept on fighting and created an inspiring comeback and re-established himself as true champion in the sport of badminton.
Hong Kong: Unseeded former world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei put on an impressive display against local favorite Angus Ng Ka Long at the Hong Kong Open semi-finals, stretching his head-to-head record against the Hong Konger to 3-0 with a 21-19, 21-14 victory at Hong Kong Coliseum on Saturday.
Fuzhou: With his flawless performance against the current world No. 1 and an opponent seven years younger than him, former world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei has once and for all silenced his critics by winning the China Open title for the first time on Sunday by defeating Chen Long of China in 50 minutes.
Fuzhou: In the latest "badminton classic" played by two of the greatest badminton players of all time, Lee Chong Wei beat Lin Dan 17-21, 21-19, 21-19 on Saturday afternoon to move into the China Open finals.
The 35th encounter between Lee and Lin on Saturday didn't just feel like a battle for a berth in a China Open final, but also the culmination of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of the sport.
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I continue to maintain the belief that there could be very good reasons why some people would opt not to go to gunfire in this Waffle House scenario.
I agree with this statement, each persons trigger to act is set by their training, gun they carry (this would not be a place to act with a 5 shot J-frame or any other pocket pistol) and our mindsets would play a part in our action. But as Frist Sgt posted their are those who could and maybe should react at the on set of the event.


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DALLAS -- In a Game 4 the Dallas Mavericks considered a season-ender had they lost, another heart-stopping comeback victory emerged from a familiar collective resiliency -- this one bound together by multiple and remarkable individual battles of adversity and triumph.
Dirk Nowitzki never provided a clue that he was playing with a 101-degree fever and somehow shook an awful shooting night when it mattered most. He willed 10 of his team-high 21 points in the decisive fourth quarter. His powerful drive, ripping right and not to his favored left with 14.9 seconds left against rugged Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem, gave Dallas a three-point cushion after being down nine in the eventual 86-83 series-tying victory Tuesday.
The bucket came eight minutes after his only other field-goal of the fourth quarter, which was also a driving layup.
"It's a little sinus infection," Nowitzki said, typically downplaying an illness that kept him out of the morning shootaround. "Hopefully, I'll get some sleep, take some meds and be ready to go on Thursday."
DeShawn Stevenson lost his starting job earlier in the day yet jumped off the bench with supreme confidence and drained three consecutive 3-pointers. He finished with 11 points, all in the second quarter for his first double-digit scoring game of this crazy playoff push.
His move to the bench was less about J.J. Barea's offense and all about Stevenson's ability to back up Shawn Marion at small forward and shadow LeBron James.
Then for the first time this postseason, Stevenson played the entire fourth quarter. He and James finished it with the same number of points: zero. For the game Stevenson outscored the King, 11-8, marking James' first single-digit playoff game of his career.
"We have to look at the X-factors," Mavs guard Jason Terry said. "DeShawn Stevenson, for one, being taken out of the starting lineup prior to this game. He stayed with it. His confidence was there. He knew where his shots were going to come. And the defensive job he's doing in this series is very underrated."
If Nowitzki is Example 1A in courage, center Tyson Chandler is 1B. He eclipsed his season-high of 40 minutes two nights ago by going 43 on Tuesday. Backup Brendan Haywood's injured right hip wouldn't let him continue beyond a three-minute stint that ended early in the second quarter.
Sitting on the bench late in the first quarter, Chandler realized Haywood couldn't last. Before two minutes had elapsed in the second quarter, Chandler jumped out of his seat and told coach Rick Carlisle he needed in.
"I saw that he was just trying to battle it out there," Chandler said of Haywood. "But I told Coach, 'You have to get me back out there. I will play 48 if I need to.'"
Chandler walked away from a victory that often looked in doubt with 13 points and 16 rebounds, nine on the offensive glass. He and Nowitzki, who finished with 11 rebounds for the third consecutive game, teamed to hold Miami to six offensive boards over the final three quarters after the Heat stayed in a strange first quarter with nine offensive boards.
Then there's Terry, whose adversity was the usual self-induced kind with persistent off-day chatter. It was highlighted by his "Let's see if he can defend me like that for seven games" challenge to James, Terry's fourth-quarter nemesis.
Terry had been 0-of-7 in the fourth quarters of the Mavs' two losses, which didn't escape Nowitzki's public scrutiny. But the Mavs' sixth man walked the walk by taking James off the dribble for eight points, plus a pretty no-look feed inside to Chandler that got him to the free-throw line. Terry couldn't stick the dagger, missing three long jumpers in the final 3:18 of a two-point game, but he canned two huge free throws with 6.7 seconds left for the final margin.
"We needed everything and I think we got it," Stevenson said. "The lineup change, me coming off the bench and Jet being focused. I think he took the things that were said in the paper and came out and performed in the clutch."
Carlisle credited his players for pulling out yet another comeback in this playoff run of improbable rallies. But Carlisle again pushed all the right buttons. He made the call to move Stevenson to the bench and effectively turn the shooting guard into a small forward.
He turned to little-used Brian Cardinal in place of struggling 3-point shooter Peja Stojakovic, who sat the entire game until the final nine seconds, in case his long ball was needed in a pinch.
Carlisle then called for the zone defense for a majority of the fourth quarter. The Heat scored 14 points on five field goals. Dwyane Wade, superb again in carrying Miami with 32 points, helped the Mavs by missing the game-tying free throw with 30.1 seconds to go.
When it was all over, when it had all come together despite 39.7 percent shooting and basically a two-man bench, the ever-resilient Mavs found themselves back in the series and now with a chance to seize the momentum before heading back to Miami.
"We don't have the appearance of a physically, bruising-type team, but this is as mentally tough a group as I've ever had," Carlisle said. "I love this team more than any team I've had because of -- just what they stand for -- how they play together and how they trust."
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So, my situation is, I have a PC with two network cards, one is a physical ethernet adapter, the other a wireless adapter. Both network cards are on the same subnet. I need to be able to forward IP packets from one adapter to the other.
I have already attempted to use a bridge and this does allow the packet forwarding to function. The problem with the bridge is that it changes the MAC address of packets that go through it. There are devices on the network that cannot handle this.
I have also just tried setting the IPEnableRouter registry parameter, since apparently that does what I need. However it seems to have no effect.
I suspect the issue here may be that they are both on the same subnet, so the routing logic in windows just sends it back out on the same adapter.
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I have a big problem with fps-drop when playing different games. Ex. CS 1.6, having 100fps drops down to 30-50, same problem in games like LoL and WOW, tho I drop down to 7-10 in WOW... I have formated my hard drive and downloaded the latest drivers. Since I've always had settled FPS before I don't know why and how to fix this. Using a 1 year old laptop, MSI gt70 with Nvidia GTX 570M.
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Rihanna Hangs With Elephants + More in Thailand [PHOTOS]
We're used to Rihanna being all sexy and tough in her Instagram photos and videos. She's often topless. And she's even gone makeup-free. But in her latest installment of Insta pictures, she offers a look at her exploits in Thailand and the images give us a rare glimpse at the cute side of the singer.
Rihanna, Conan O'Brien, Farrah Abraham + More in Celebrity Tweets of the Day
It's September 11, which means it has been 12 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a day the citizens of the United States promised never to forget because much like the North, America remembers. Cue all the celebs of Twitter tweeting their memories and honoring those who were lost.
Rihanna Has Another Mullet [PHOTOS]
Rihanna's trend of bad hairstyles in 2013 continues. The singer is rocking a mullet…again.
Joss Whedon, Rihanna, John Cleese + More in Celebrity Tweets of the Day
It's Friday, Friday and we used up all our Rebecca Black jokes already. Today (Aug. 16) in the celebrity Twitter-sphere, stars threw shade at one another, made us laugh at their witticisms and quoted 'Mean Girls.' All in all, not a bad start to the weekend.
Rihanna Supports Katy Perry at 'Prism' Pre-Launch + Preps Second Fashion Collection [PHOTO]
Rihanna Sued Over Grandmother's Unpaid Funeral Bill
Sorry, Rihanna: Katy Perry is Done Saving Celebrities From Themselves
There was once a time when pop star Katy Perry would stick her neck out for her celebrity pals, but then being a nice person who helped others ended up being all for naught -- so she's given up her righteous ways.
Thanks a lot, Rihanna. Way to ruin it for everyone.
Rihanna Breaks Down in Tears After Her Performance of 'Stay'
Despite the fact that an audience pelted Rihanna with food during a performance in England earlier this month, the singer still feels a strong connection to her fans. The connection is so strong, in fact, that RiRi couldn't hold back the tears while performing 'Stay' during her July 20 show!
Rihanna Style Breakdown: What's Right, What's Wrong, and How to Fix It
Rihanna is a style lightning rod. On one hand, she plays by her own rules, creating and breaking fashion prescriptions with little regard to how everyone else does things, and sometimes she wows us. Other times, though, she completely misses the mark. We noticed that happens usually when she wears pants.
Now, we're not suggesting she go pantsless anymore -- she does that enough on social media. But her dresses tend to be style grand slams, while her pants are pure strikeouts.
Best + Worst Dressed of the Week: Mila Kunis, Rihanna, Tina Fey + More
It's that time again -- let's take a moment to gawk at some of the best and worst dressed celebs of the week.
Whether it's Mila Kunis stunning in an Alexander McQueen gown for one of the 'Oz the Great and Powerful' premieres or Rihanna raising eyebrows with doubled up jeans (if that's indeed what they were), there were several head-turning ensembles worthy of praise ... and dissection.


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Full Jaffe PAX keynote posted online with added swearing
GameSpot's gone live with the full PAX keynote of Eat, Sleep, Play boss David Jaffe. You may have seen the keynote without any swearing in the shorts on Monday, but this one fucking does. And everyone knows that swearing is the best fucking thing in the world. Go watch it after the fucking break. Expect an interview from us with Jaffe tomorrow.
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- 1also: Convocation(no article) (+ singular or plural verb) 1.1 (Religion)Example sentences1.2 (Educ)
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- Though now under royal control the convocations of Canterbury and York survived.
- The proceedings of the convocation of Canterbury were conducted in English quite often by the 1370s, and Henry IV spoke to Parliament in English in 1399 and had his words carefully recorded.
- Despite its being known as the Authorized Version, it was never publicly authorized by parliament, convocation, privy council, or king.
- Initially, the hall was to host lectures and speeches as primary functions, followed by university convocations and ceremonies, and lastly musical and theatrical performances.
- The three were selected from 25 nominations submitted last month and will be recognized at the university's spring awards convocation March 28.
- The President's Office confirmed the award winner would be honored during the university's spring awards convocation, lending additional legitimacy to the award.
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- This was their second reunion as a similar convocation gathered for a get together in Summerhill twenty-five years ago.
- Security and logistic preparations are well under way in Algeria in preparation for the convocation of the highest-level Arab wide congregation.
- Thanks to things like the Poetry Project and Naropa and other off-the-beaten-track arts centres there are festivals and convocations, and poets are on the Internet too.
- From Megiddo in 1485 BC to Kosovo in ad 1999, this argument runs, the only thing all wars have had in common has been to increase governments' powers of convocation and coercion.
- The proposal is to complete the convocation by July ', Prof. Ponnusamy states.
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Roast Turkey with Cornbread-Sausage Stuffing
This recipe, part of our Throwback Thanksgiving feature, comes from our 1974 issue. As the magazine states: "To even consider Thanksgiving without turkey is mutiny on the bounty!"
Silver Dollar Latkes
Sure, this recipe can make standard-size latkes, but the minis are just right for noshing while chatting.


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5 Fast and Fresh New Recipes to Make in July
This is what we want to eat when July blazes in.
Seared Scallops with Red Chile Paste and Fennel Salad
Scallops: so meaty and delicious and yet so easy to overcook. That's why we sear these on only one side, preserving the meltingly tender, near-raw texture on the other end.
Fettuccine ai Frutti di Mare
You can make the sauce the day before, then cook the pasta and seafood the next day to put it all together.
Sea Scallops with Celery Root and Meyer Lemon Salad
Pick a small to medium celery root and peel off its hide with a sharp knife. Inside you'll find ivory-green flesh that's crisp, a bit nutty, and utterly delicious in salads. This take on a classic remoulade provides perfect contrast to the silken luxury of seared scallops.
Seafood Stew for Two
How to pull off an elegant, effortless date night? Make the rich seafood broth the day before, then sear a couple pieces of fish and reheat the stew during the cocktail hour.
Scallops with Hazelnuts and Warm Sun Gold Tomatoes
Quick-cooking scallops means you can have this light summer meal on the table in a matter of minutes.
Scallops with Nori Brown Butter and Dill
These seared scallops on the half shell make for a showstopping presentation. If your fishmonger can't order the shells for you, use small plates.
Scallops with Herbed Brown Butter
Ask for "dry" scallops at your fish market; they are free of preservatives and release very little liquid while cooking, which is key to getting a good crusty sear in this easy recipe.
Scallops with Apple Pan Sauce
Granny Smith apples are ideal for this dish: Their sweet-tart juice complements the rich scallops, and they keep their shape when cooked.
Pistachio-Crusted Scallops
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It isn't quite the 2012 cinematic version of "Dreamgirls" but it's close enough.
If you want to see, though, just how terribly sad the substance-related death of Whitney Houston was on Grammy weekend, you'll have to see "Sparkle." It would, for sure, have been her comeback movie. You could have guaranteed much talk about the the fade of her once-bursting, blooming beauty and the booze and crackpipe roughening of her voice.
But when, in her big musical number, she does the best she can with the voice she's got and sings "His Eye is On the Sparrow" in a church after a family tragedy, she owns the movie and she owns the audience. There would have been a new Houston after this movie -- no longer the gorgeous star whose voice and power ballad delivery thrilled the world and inspired thousands of soundalikes and wannabes, but an actress, a survivalist and very much a cinematic and musical force to be reckoned with.
It wasn't to be.
You can't get around the facts here, just as you couldn't on Grammy night when the young, beautiful wondervoice of the show was going to belong to someone else appointed by Clive Davis as "the new Whitney Houston." The old one was going to be audience wreckage, listening while someone else's beauty dazzled the audience and the camera and hit goosebump high notes.
Instead, she reportedly drank and drugged in her hotel, had a heart attack and slid under the warm bathwater into eternity.
"Sparkle" -- a remake of a 1976 film with Curtis Mayfield music that was a pre-"Dreamgirls" fictional version of the Supremes -- is a good summer tear-jerker that takes the star focus off the male half of an aspirant relationship (Philip Michael Thomas, originally) and puts it square on the shoulders of one of the new Whitneys that have been disgorged weekly by "American Idol" -- Jordin Sparks.
There'll be no Oscar at the end of this rainbow as there was for Jennifer Hudson's showstopping electrification of the "Dreamgirls" movie (just as, on stage, her predocessor Jennifer Holliday had so memorably jolted and rocked the house on Broadway).
But Sparks is earnest and lovely and lovable as Sparkle, the music-besotted songwiting sister of the Williams clan who's so afraid to take the stage alone she hides as a slinky backup singer for her ultra-sleek and worldly sister (Carmen Ejogo, the major arrival performance here by many lights).
In this fictionalization of the Supremes tale, they're really sisters fleeing the home of the forbidding, churchgoing Big Mama (Houston) who insists on huge Saturday night curlers in her offspring's hair to get the girls ready for church Sunday morning.
Instead, the girls slip out of the house Saturday night, go clubbing and perform as much as possible in the joints that have sprung up in 1968 Detroit in an era when Berry Gordy's Motown had recalibrated R&B and his headlining act The Supremes publicly reimagined black womanhood.
Showbiz films are fueled by cliches and this one's no different. There's even a drug-pushing snake-in-the-grass male around. In the original, he was a drug lord, in this 2012 showbiz version he's a slimy nightclub version of a Nipsy Russell/Slappy White comic who tells white audiences all the stereotyping jokes they could want to hear and, in private, feeds white powder to the nostrils of his latest bed partners.
He brings a showbiz upgrade to the sisters. He also brings periodic beatings to the face of the would-be Diana at the center of the sister act.
It's showbiz melodrama and soap opera, as old as the hills, but not camp mockery a la "Rock of Ages." It's affecting about a world that enraptures those so in love with performing music that they never notice the view as they ascend.
It's the old-fashioned tale, of course, of Sparkle's personal empowerment -- mega-kitsch to be sure but performed with enough conviction and well-enough directed by Salim Akil (writer of "Drylongso" and TV's "The Game") to rock the house and moisten the eye.
None of the music, old or new (R. Kelly) is all that great but none is terrible either.
Would it have been as good if the film hadn't been such a long-term Houston project -- the comeback film that she couldn't have survived intact even if she'd lived? Probably not.
This, to be sure, would have been a major second act in Houston's terribly troubled life, the one where she could play a woman on screen who says at one point to her daughters "I passed out a few times sure but you never saw me lying in my own vomit."
She couldn't survive it. The film gave the role of a woman in recovery to a star who could never quite get there herself.
Her second life, now, will only happen on film. How very sad indeed.
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RUNNING TIME: 120 minutes ���
RATING: PG-13 for pervasive language including sexual references, graphic nudity, some violence and drug content. ���
THE LOWDOWN: Remake of the 1976 film about the tragedies and triumphs of a girl group in 1968 Detroit.