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Nippon Electric Glass to set up joint-venture in China
Sep 19, 11:19
Japan-based glass substrate maker Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) will cooperate with China-based Dongxu Optoelectronic Technology (DOT) to set up a glass substrate processing factory...
Schott optimistic about thin glass demand in the semiconductor industry
Sep 2, 22:11
Schott is optimistic about the roll that thin glass products will play in the market, particularly in the semiconductor industry where thin glass substrate demand is on the rise,...
China still in low panel materials self-sufficiency, says consulting firm
Dec 16, 11:57
China's TFT-LCD panel industry will have an estimated demand for 73 million square meters of glass substrates, 68 million square meters of polarizers and 116 tons of liquid crystal...
China glass substrate production still weak
Jul 18, 10:29
While China-based panel makers have been expanding production capacities to increase global market share, China-based glass substrate makers, mainly the Tunghsu Group, Irico Display...
Corning completes acquisition of Samsung Corning Precision Materials
Jan 16, 11:37
Corning has announced that it has completed the previously announced plan to obtain full ownership of Samsung Corning Precision Materials (SCP), formerly an unconsolidated equity...
G-Tech to invest NT$644 million to expand sputtering capacity
May 2, 11:06
G-Tech Optoelectronics, which provides glass processing services for the display industry, will invest NT$644 million (US$21.7 million) to expand its sputtering capacity in 2013,...
Growth slowing for TFT LCD glass substrate capacity, says DisplaySearch
Mar 18, 15:16
Over the past two years, there has been a slowdown in TFT LCD glass production. Yet demand for cover glass used on smartphones and tablets has continued to grow, causing TFT LCD glass...
China to account for over 20% of global glass substrate demand by 2015
Jan 8, 11:39
With its panel makers rapidly expanding their capacity, China's demand for glass substrates has been growing fast, and is expected to account for more than one fifth of worldwide...
AvanStrate releases new glass substrate products
Aug 22, 15:36
AvanStrate has released a series of new thin and light glass substrate products in order to meet market requirements.
Digitimes Research: Corning forecasts 2012 glass substrate demand to grow by 12.5%
Feb 16, 15:46
International glass firm Corning predicts demand from PC and LCD will both grow by 10% compared to 2011. In addition, overall demand for glass substrates will increase from 3.2 billion...
Corning cutting glass capacity
Dec 1, 11:41
Corning expects the LCD glass supply chain to exit 2011 at historically lean levels compared to past years as it moves to cut capacity amid oversupply, a company executive has reve...
China-based CSOT begins mass production at 8.5G LCD plant
Oct 12, 11:14
China's second largest LCD panel maker China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) is set to start mass production at its 8.5G plant on October 12, 2011, becoming the second maker...
China-based CEC-Panda ramps up 6G LCD output to 60,000 sheets monthly
Sep 8, 11:01
China-based CEC-Panda LCD Technology has ramped up panel production at its 6G plant to 60,000 sheets a month with a yield rate of up to 90%, according to industry sources. The 6G...
Asahi Glass to set up second substrate factory in China
May 13, 15:52
Japan-based Asahi Glass will establish a new glass substrate factory in Shenzhen, southern China, to produce substrates for 8.5G TFT-LCD panel production lines with volume production...
AGC develops glass substrate with 0.28mm thickness for touch screens
Apr 22, 01:00
Asahi Glass (AGC) has developed what it claims is the world's thinnest soda-lime glass substrate for touch screens, measuring 0.28mm, or 15% less than the currently thinnest commercial...
Digitimes Insight: Japan LCD component supplies see minimal impact from quake
Mar 18, 11:48
As the epicenter of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 was located close to the northeastern prefecture of Miyagi, the local area has...
Upstream ACF supply may be affected by Japan earthquake, says AUO
Mar 16, 14:10
The supply of anisotropic conductive film (ACF) for the production of flat panels is likely to be affected by the earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, but with a month of inventory,...
No effects from the earthquake, says Corning
Mar 11, 19:12
An earthquake measuring 8.9 struck off the northeast coast of Japan near Tokyo on Friday, March 11 at 3:14 pm local time, and major glass substrate supplier Corning noted that there...
Possible effects of earthquake to semiconductor and LCD panel industry in Japan
Mar 11, 19:11
A massive 8.4 magnitude earthquake that struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday (March 11) afternoon, with most of semiconductor and LCD panel plants located in the Northeastern...
Glass substrate demand growth for mobile PCs exceeds LCD TVs, says CDTT president
Mar 11, 01:30
Corning Display Technologies Taiwan (CDTT) president Alan Eusden has indicated that glass substrate demand growth for the mobile PC segment will reach 18% in 2010-2014, exceeding...
Corning announces 10% sequential growth in 4Q10 revenues
Jan 26, 15:53
Corning has announced revenues of US$1.77 billion for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 10% sequential increase and 15% on-year increase. EPS for the quarter was US$0.66.
LCD glass substrates demand to go up 11%, capacity 13% in 2011, says DisplaySearch
Jan 19, 11:36
As the transition to flat panel TV nears completion, TFT-LCD TV panel demand is slowing, from 41% on year in 2010 to 8.3% in 2011. Total TFT-LCD panel area demand is expected to increase...
Corning says LCD market improving
Dec 10, 10:17
Corning expects fourth-quarter LCD glass market volumes to be consistent with those from the third quarter, a slight change to its previous guidance of flat to down slightly, according...
Corning 3Q10 sales, profits drop sequentially
Nov 2, 15:44
Corning has announced sales of US$1.6 billion for the third quarter of 2010, a 6% decrease sequentially but an 8% increase on year. Earnings per share were US$0.50. Excluding special...
Corning clarifies report about investment in Taiwan
Nov 2, 14:32
Corning has clarified a recent Chinese-language report about the glass maker's capacity expansion in Taiwan.
Corning to invest additional US$400 million for capacity expansion in Taiwan, says report
Newswatch - Nov 1, 10:00
The economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) signed this summer between Taipei and Beijing is prompting US-based company to increase investment in Taiwan, with William Stanton,...
Excise tax for thin touch-panel glass substrates exempted, says report
Newswatch - Oct 4, 16:58
In order to support industrial development, Taiwan's Ministry of Finance has agreed to exempt the 10% excise tax for glass substrates that are used for touch panels thinner than 1.1mm...
GTOC to start production at China subsidiary at the beginning of 2011
Sep 17, 01:10
Optical glass processing services provider G-Tech Optoelectronics (GTOC), an affiliate of the Foxconn (Hon Hai) Group, is scheduled to start operating its reinforced glass production...
G-Tech posts net profit for 1H10
Sep 1, 11:26
Optical glass processing services provider G-Tech Optoelectronics (GTOC) has announced net profit of NT$61.58 million (US$1.92 million) with an EPS of NT$0.43.
GTOC, TPK halt establishment of joint venture in China
Aug 25, 15:36
Optical glass processing services provider G-Tech Optoelectronics (GTOC) and ITO glass-based projected capacitive touch panel maker TPK Touch Solutions will temporarily suspend the...
Jul 29, 13:33
Corning has reported that its second-quarter sales were US$1.71 billion, an increase of 10% sequentially and 23% year over year. Earnings per share were US$0.58, a gain of 12% sequentially...
Corning announces new capacity investments
Jul 22, 10:43
Corning has announced that its board of directors has approved a capital expenditure (capex) plan to expand the company's LCD glass and Gorilla glass manufacturing in response to...
G-Tech to set up reinforced glass subsidiary in Foxconn production base in China
Jul 21, 16:52
G-Tech Optoelectronics (GTOC), an affiliate of the Foxconn (Hon Hai) Group, will establish a reinforced glass manufacturing subsidiary to be located in Foxconn's production base in...
TPK to start running 3G projected capacitive touch panels in 4Q10
Jul 21, 15:51
TPK Touch Solutions, a supplier of touch panels used in the Apple iPad and iPhone 4, is installing equipment at its 3G production line for glass-based projected capacitive touch panels...
G-Tech and TPK Touch to establish reinforced glass substrate JV in China
Jun 24, 17:08
Taiwan-based optical glass processing service provider G-Tech Optoelectronics (GTOC), a member of the Foxconn (Hon Hai) Group, announced on June 23 it will establish a joint venture...
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 680781
Aborts when SourceURL returns 404
Last modified: 2011-03-08 22:08:57 EST
Description of problem:
On the review request bug 679913, I noticed that rpmlint frequently
aborts when the source URL returns 404, like:
$ rpmlint ./ftop-1.0-2.fc16.src.rpm
ftop.src: W: invalid-url Source0: http://ftop.googlecode.com/files/ftop-1.0.tar.bz2 HTTP Error 404: Not Found
0 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 1 warnings.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/rpmlint", line 373, in <module>
File "/usr/bin/rpmlint", line 168, in main
File "/usr/bin/rpmlint", line 228, in runChecks
File "/usr/share/rpmlint/SpecCheck.py", line 142, in check
self.check_spec(pkg, self._spec_file)
File "/usr/share/rpmlint/SpecCheck.py", line 545, in check_spec
clen = info.get("Content-Length")
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
60%, seems to be depending on the condition of remote (googlecode)
Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpmlint ./ftop-1.0-2.fc16.src.rpm , the testcase now preserved
on :
Actual results:
See above
Expected results:
rpmlint should not abort even if the source URL returns 404
Already fixed in upstream post-1.1 svn:
Package rpmlint-1.1-3.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 updates-testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing rpmlint-1.1-3.fc15'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
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then log in and leave karma (feedback).
rpmlint-1.1-3.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
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Is Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) a pyramid scheme? That is the question. Longs received a boost this week as Belgium reversed a decision. The actual text of the decision has yet to hit the public. It will be interesting to read what it says.
Of course, laws vary by jurisdiction. It is illegal to drive on the right side of the road in England, to chew gum in Singapore and to wear a red hat in public in Antwerp, Belgium.
Whether or not Herbalife is a pyramid scheme in the USA is an open question.
Investors who have read Herbalife's 10k should pay attention to the following text from the Risk Factors section of the 10k:
Our network marketing program is subject to a number of federal and state regulations administered by the FTC and various state agencies in the United States as well as regulations on direct selling in foreign markets administered by foreign agencies. We are subject to the risk that, in one or more markets, our network marketing program could be found not to be in compliance with applicable law or regulations. Regulations applicable to network marketing organizations generally are directed at preventing fraudulent or deceptive schemes, often referred to as "pyramid" or "chain sales" schemes, by ensuring that product sales ultimately are made to consumers and that advancement within an organization is based on sales of the organization's products rather than investments in the organization or other non-retail sales-related criteria. The regulatory requirements concerning network marketing programs do not include "bright line" rules and are inherently fact-based and, thus, we are subject to the risk that these laws or regulations or the enforcement or interpretation of these laws and regulations by governmental agencies or courts can change. The failure of our network marketing program to comply with current or newly adopted regulations could negatively impact our business in a particular market or in general.
Herbalife knows that on any given day in any given jurisdiction a regulatory authority could find it "not in compliance with applicable law".
Still, Herbalife's CEO is adamant that Herbalife is not a pyramid scheme. On air on CNBC earlier this year he called Mr. Ackman's claims a "bogus allegation." Repeatedly and publicly Mr. Johnson evangelizes Herbalife's legitimacy.
Q. Is this a direct violation of SEC rule 10b5?
It is a violation of securities law to intentionally deceive investors with a misstatement of fact and/or an omission of material information that might otherwise prove important to the investing public.
Mr. Johnson repeatedly advises investors that Herbalife is not a pyramid scheme.
My question to Mr. Johnson is simply this:
How do you know?
The only way to know whether or not your MLM is a pyramid scheme or not is to know how much "retail sales" the sales force produces.
Here is a copy of expert testimony by the FTC's pyramid scheme guru on the matter of what a pyramid scheme is and isn't.
As an aside, this author happens to think the "retail question" is a red herring. I tend to agree with Jon Taylor that any MLM that has a compensation scheme that encourages ad nauseum recruitment of distributors to the point of over-saturation can only end-up disappointing those who are last to enter the party in a given geography. I submit that this factor alone could and should instruct regulators as to whether or not a marketer of a business opportunity is deceptive.
Notwithstanding this view, Mr. Keep and Dr. Van Der Nat have advanced an argument that a cogent litmus test for differentiating a legitimate MLM (if there should be such a thing) from a pyramid scheme is to answer "the retail question". Specifically, what % of sales are made to "ultimate users" who are not participants in the sponsors pay plan? I would argue that this is a less onerous standard than a simple endless chain observation. Nonetheless, it seems to be a standard that is applied in expert testimony in FTC prosecutions.
Whether or not the SEC is as liberal as the FTC in its determination of what qualifies as a pyramid scheme remains an open question.
Still, if one is to prove, categorically, that an MLM is in fact legitimate and not a pyramid scheme then it seems obvious that the answer to "the retail question" must be apparent.
Q. Mr. Johnson. Is Herbalife a pyramid scheme?
A. "That's a bogus accusation"
Q. How do you know?
Is it not true, sir, that you have no system to track retail sales? Is it not true that you issued an 8k last year to correct Mr. Walsh's misstatements on a conference call to Mr. Einhorn?
Isn't the only reasonable answer to the question "Is Herbalife a pyramid scheme?" that would be consistent with rule 10b5 either:
a) "We don't know" or
b) "We don't know for sure but we believe we are in compliance with the law."
If I marry the information provided in your 10k to the statements you are making publicly to investors and distributors alike, isn't it obvious that you are misleading people intentionally with a deliberate misstatement of the facts?
It certainly seems understandable that Herbalife's CEO would be irate at Mr. Ackman's allegation. However, isn't the only rational response to the allegation to prove that it isn't true legitimate data from a proper retail tracking system?
Alternatively, isn't the only tenable legal response you should and could be advancing to investors a simple "I don't know" or "The best I can say is that we believe we are compliant but regulatory intervention is always a risk."
Any Herbalife executive who states, categorically, that Herbalife is a legitimate MLM knows 3 things:
1) That HLF has no system to track retail sales
2) That HLF has made no effort to implement a system to track retail sales
3) That the company has no data at all that would exonerate it against Mr. Ackman's allegation.
Ergo: Any statement that categorically asserts that Herbalife is not a pyramid scheme is an argument advanced without supporting evidence and thus can only be misleading.
Ergo: Advancing, with certainty, the claim that Herbalife is not a pyramid scheme can only be a rule 10b5 violation.
Additionally, it stands to reason that if you can't prove nor track retail sales that it is equally impossible to assert, categorically, that business opportunity seekers can earn real retail profits.
Q. You tell me I can make a retail profit at SRP. How do you know if you don't track that data?
A. We don't know. We are just guessing.
Isn't Herbalife opaque?
Herbalife isn't a legitimate business because Michael Johnson says it is or because Tim Ramey says it is or because anyone else says it is. The question of HLF's legitimacy boils down to evidence, not PR and Spin Doctoring.
Q. Are the following observations "bogus"?
- Herbalife's Marketing Plan does not limit the number of distributors that can be recruited.
- 90% of distributors churn out every year.
- Herbalife does not track retail sales.
- Herbalife pays commission on wholesale purchases.
- There is abundant video evidence of misleading earnings claims, etc.
These are all statements of fact supported by evidence. That is why Mr. Ackman's web site is called "FACTS" aboutherbalife.com and not hypotheticalsaboutherbalife.com.
Mr. Johnson's assertion that Herbalife is not a pyramid scheme is at best a guess. The honest truth is he simply doesn't know.
How could he possibly know without retail sales data?
A. He can't.
Still, we can certainly confirm that Herbalife promotes an endless chain of recruitment, an ad nauseum recruiting juggernaut that intentionally oversaturates geographies with armies of distributors. This is a statement of fact.
Endless Chains are Pyramid Schemes. Curiously, the investing world remains cavalier.
Stay Tuned.
And - if you ever find yourself in Antwerp just make sure you don't wear a red hat. (Is it true just because I write it or not? Or, should you do your own fact checking?)
P.S. Mr. Icahn's lock-up seems destined to unlock in 3 trading days. What will he do next?
When will the audit land?
Interesting times.
Disclosure: I am short HLF. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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|Even in winning, Paul Pierce admits the refs got the better of him
|12.22.10 at 11:34 pm ET
Paul Pierce started off the night by missing his first seven shots from the field, including a pair of three-point attempts. But that's not what caused him to admittedly lose his cool in the third quarter, when he was hit with a technical foul by referee Tony Brothers with 6:07 left in the third quarter. Pierce was called for his fourth personal foul, causing him to wave his hand in disgust at Brothers.
"We got frustrated," admitted Pierce, who finished with 11 points on 4-of-15 shooting and four rebounds in 34 minutes. "I got a technical. I know I was frustrated tonight. Just in a game where you're trying to get rhythm and the game is off-balance and calls are being called each and every way. It's hard to get into a rhythm so I was definitely frustrated."
How frustrated? Maybe the most he's been since he was teamed with Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen in the 2007-08 season. But there was a huge sense of relief, as Pierce raised his arms at midcourt when the final seconds ticked off of Boston's 14th straight win.
"Nothing was really going our way," Pierce said. "Nothing was really going my way. This is one of the more frustrating games I've had in a long time. It was just – I don't know – it was just something about this game, for us to pull it out the way we did, I'm very relieved.
"I felt like this was one of our better wins because we didn't let the frustration get to us all the way. We found a way, we pulled back and this is one of the many ways we're finding out about our team and tonight we found out even more about our team."
Doc Rivers agreed with Pierce in one regard. Wednesday night symbolized just how bizarre and unique this winning streak is. The Celtics are not playing their best basketball by any stretch but still winning, making this the oddest extended winning streak he's seen. Read the rest of this entry »
|The education of Avery Bradley
|12.17.10 at 3:25 pm ET
Avery Bradley is a good listener. That may not seem that important, but to the veteran Celtics it is a very big deal. They have a tendency to notice things about the young players who join the team. Not so much on the court, although that is obviously an important part of the equation, but about how they conduct themselves.
Do they pay attention during the huddle, even though they have less of a chance of getting in the game than Lucky the mascot? Do they ask questions when they don't understand something? Do they listen?
It's telling that such famously hard-to-please veterans as Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett have praised Bradley's approach in his first season for exactly those reasons.
"I really like the kid, actually," Pierce said after the Celtics beat the Hawks Thursday night. "I see how he works and soaks up so much in practice and you can see him wanting to get better. He's always asking questions and he's always in the huddle."
For Bradley, this is a no-brainer. When the vets talk, he listens and tries to absorb whatever lesson he can.
"Seeing their success, I would feel dumb if I didn't listen to those guys," Bradley said. "They know what they're talking about. When they tell me those things I want to listen so I can become a better player. They're trying to help me all the time. When I do something wrong, they pull me aside and that just shows that they care about me and want the best for me."
For the first time in his career, Rajon Rondo is the elder statesman at his position. In past years the Celtics brought in vets like Sam Cassell and Stephon Marbury to play behind him. It's the endless circle of life in the NBA and now Rondo is the mentor. It's a role he has taken an interest in with Bradley, often staying after practice to watch carefully as he plays in 2-on-2 games with fellow rookie Luke Harangody, Von Wafer and assistant coach Ty Lue.
Those games happen after every practice and it's a way for them to stay active. Bradley, in particular, seems to use those runs as a way to test out in-game situations. Rondo will usually watch intently from the sidelines and then offer his wisdom in private.
"He's a great listener," Rondo said back in November. "That might not sound like much, but that's big for a young guy to come in. He's very humble. He works extremely hard. He's going to be a great player in this league someday when he gets his opportunity. I always tell him to stay ready."
With Rondo out for a few weeks, his opportunity is coming sooner than anyone imagined, and truthfully a little sooner than Doc Rivers had envisioned. But with only 10 healthy bodies, opportunity is here.
"You don't try to put too much in his head," Rondo said. "You just try to let him learn for himself, but he can always ask me or Nate [Robinson] or coach Rivers. So he has some good guys in front of him who are willing to teach him the game."
Those lessons come the hard way in the NBA. Take Thursday night's game when Hawks guard Jeff Teague went off on Bradley. Bradley had barely checked in when Teague stripped him and soared in for a dunk.
"You have to have a short memory," Bradley said. "People make mistakes, you're going to make mistakes, especially at this level. You got to go to the next play."
Things didn't get much better for Bradley as Teague continued to dominate him. But late in the first quarter, Bradley dove into a scrum and came up with a loose ball leading to points for the Celtics on the other end. It wasn't much, but it was something positive for Bradley to take into the next game and validation that he wasn't going to back down.
"You can talk all the trash to him in practice and when you look up he's staring you right in the eyes and he's going nowhere," Rivers said a few weeks ago. "I think our veterans really appreciate that in him."
Even with all the injuries, nothing is guaranteed for Bradley. The Celtics have options, not necessarily ideal options but options nonetheless. Marquis Daniels has done spot duty as a backup point guard and Pierce and Ray Allen are more than capable of bringing the ball up the court and initiating the offense. So, the onus is on Bradley to take advantage of this opportunity.
In the end, everyone agrees that he has a bright future. He is a tenacious on-the-ball defender who is not afraid to get up on his man and force the action. "He's very physical," Rondo said. "He gets through the picks, he gets up into you, he turns you, makes you dribble with your back to the basket."
His offensive game is still developing and while his size — 6-foot-2, 180 pounds — says point guard, he may be better suited playing off the ball where he can work his mid-range game. The comparison has been made to a smaller version of Tony Allen, without the turnovers, and if he reaches that point this season the Celtics would be thrilled.
But all of that is in front of him. He missed valuable time this summer after undergoing ankle surgery, which kept him out of the Orlando summer league and the majority of training camp. Once the season began, he rolled over Pierce's foot in practice, which caused him to miss another week.
The learning curve will be steep, but the best thing Avery Bradley has going for him is that he's willing to learn.
|Doc Rivers to Nate Robinson: Don't worry, you don't suck
|at 12:34 am ET
Doc Rivers could tell early on that Nate Robinson was having trouble getting into the flow of the game as he struggled with his passes and running the Celtics offense in the first half Thursday night against Atlanta.
There was a bullet pass from Robinson to Semih Erden in the low post that didn't quite make it there as Josh Smith stepped into the lane for the easy steal. There was a pass intended for Ray Allen that sailed out of bounds later in the first half.
How bad was it? Even when Nate was hustling his rear off to grab a loose ball headed toward the Hawks basket, he flipped to the lane – expecting Kevin Garnett to catch and slam. But instead, the pass was picked off by Mike Bibby, who fed Jordan Collins for an open three, which Collins hit to add salt to the wound.
All of that added up to seven points, only two assists and four turnovers in the first half for the man who will be filling in for Rajon Rondo over the next two weeks as Rondo heals a sprained left ankle. Rivers said he had to have a heart-to-heart with Robinson, telling him to keep his head up and remind him that he didn't think Robinson "sucked" just because he was having trouble finding his game.
"You know what I told Nate at halftime?" Rivers began. "I said, 'Nate, just a notice for you. You're the starting point guard now, and I'm going to give you a lot of instruction. It's not criticism.' You know, and Nate tends to ' he gets coaching at times, he hangs his head, and it was at a point in the second quarter I couldn't even give him a play because he thought I was going to tell him, 'Nate, you suck' or something."
Robinson seemed to take Rivers' words to heart.
"Just keep playing, play through adversity," Robinson said. "Just turn the page. I was being a little timid in first half. Second half, he told me to just be me. I think I did that."
Rivers knew full well that he might be dealing with a point guard that was getting overwhelmed.
"I don't know what he thought I was going to say," Rivers said. "And he was great. He even started laughing at halftime. I thought that relaxed him, and allowed him to play a little bit more. But with Rondo, you know, I'm so used to telling him what I need everybody ' 'Rondo, tell Paul this.' I was doing that with Nate and Nate was like, 'Enough! No more. I don't want'' and he finally got what I was doing. I guess he just has to get used to that.' Read the rest of this entry »
|Irish Coffee: The Celtics & Knicks aftermath
|12.16.10 at 11:28 am ET
Wake up with the Celtics and your daily dose of Irish Coffee '¦
Amid all the glory that was Wednesday night's 118-116 Celtics last-second win over the Knicks was Nate Robinson's faceplant into the floor of Madison Square Garden as he attempted to climb atop the game's hero — Paul Pierce.
It was the funniest of all the videos Robinson has produced this season, and only because he lived to talk about it (thank God his high-top fade broke his fall).
As Robinson tweeted after the game, Pierce "damn near killed me today, but we won, so hey." Maybe Robinson could somehow work the faceplant into the dunk contest, since he's the heavy favorite now that Dwight Howard retired from it.
I watched Wednesday night's Celtics game with a diehard Knicks fan friend of mine at The Four's in Boston. The Celtics fans who braved the cold — including the bartender — kept telling him the same thing: "I had no idea the Knicks were this good; I had no idea Amar'e Stoudemire was this good."
"They are this good," he responded. "They've won eight in a row and 13-of-14. And they're just getting warmed up."
There was no "I'm just glad to be competitive!" discussion from his perspective. In his eyes, they should be competitive. They're the New York freakin' Knicks.
|Irish Coffee: Betting on the Celtics
|12.14.10 at 2:16 pm ET
Wake up with the Celtics and your daily dose of Irish Coffee '¦
Do the sportsbook oddsmakers know something that the people who cover the NBA don't? I know, I know, you'd be shocked to find out that sportswriters aren't always right. And it's not like they have millions of dollars riding on their prognostications, as the bookies do.
In most publications' NBA Power Rankings — including, likely, when WEEI's come out on Thursday — the Celtics, Spurs and Mavericks are ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 3, in some order. Yet, in most online sportsbooks, the Heat and Lakers are still heavy favorites to win the NBA title. Take a look:
NBA.com …………………………………. ESPN.com ………………………………….. CBSSports.com
1. Celtics ………………………………… 1. Mavericks …………………………………….. 1. Mavericks
2. Spurs …………………………………….. 2. Celtics ………………………………………….. 2. Spurs
3. Mavericks ……………………………….. 3. Spurs …………………………………………… 3. Celtics
4. Lakers …………………………………….. 4. Bulls …………………………………………….. 4. Heat
5. Heat ……………………………………….. 5. Heat ……………………………………………. 5. Magic
6. Thunder ………………………………… 6. Lakers …………………………………………….. 6. Jazz
7. Jazz ………………………………………… 7. Jazz ……………………………………………. 7. Hawks
8. Magic ……………………………………… 8. Magic …………………………………………. 8. Nuggets
9. Knicks ……………………………………. 9. Thunder ………………………………………… 9. Lakers
10. Hawks ………………………………….. 10. Knicks ………………………………………. 10. Hornets
BetUS.com ……………………………… Sportsbook.com ………………………………. Bodog.com
1. Lakers (+210) …………………………… 1. Heat (+180) ………………………………. 1. Lakers (+210)
2. Heat (+220) ……………………………. 2. Lakers (+200) ………………………………… 2. Heat (+220)
3. Celtics (+500) …………………………. 3. Celtics (+220) ………………………………. 3. Celtics (+500)
4. Magic (+1,000) …………………………. 4. Spurs (+800) ……………………………… 4. Magic (+1,000)
5. Spurs (+1,100) ………………………… 5. Magic (+1,200) ……………………………. 5. Spurs (+1,100)
6. Mavericks (+1,200) ……………………. 6. Bulls (+1,500) ………………………… 6. Mavericks (+1,500)
7. Bulls (+2,000) ………………………. 7. Mavericks (+2,000) ………………………. 7. Thunder (+2,000)
7. Thunder (+2,000) ……………………. 7. Knicks (+2,000) ……………………………… 8. Bulls (+2,200)
9. Jazz (+2,500) ………………………… 9. Thunder (+3,000) …………………………….. 9. Jazz (+2,500)
10. Hornets/Nuggets (+4,000) …………. 9. Jazz (+3,000) ………………………….. 10. Hornets (+3,500)
There are two possible conclusions to draw from this: either 1) the bookmakers are right to anoint the Lakers and Heat as the NBA title favorites; or 2) there's a lot of money to be made (you know, if online sports gambling were legal).
WALTHAM — Paul Pierce has a home in the Boston area and attends sporting events in the off-season. So he knows full well of the rivalries between teams like the Yankees and Red Sox and the Patriots and Jets.
But ask him about the Celtics and Knicks? Well, as the song goes, that's quite the different story.
Both teams may be on extended winning streaks and both teams may have rich basketball traditions but Celtics captain Pierce said Tuesday that doesn't mean the Celtics and Knicks have revived the old rivalry between the two cities.
"It's a rivalry? You [media] let me in on all the new stuff," Pierce said. "I didn't know we had a rivalry going."
The Celtics enter Wednesday night's game at Madison Square Garden on a 10-game winning streak while the Knicks have won their last eight to stand just four games behind Boston in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.
"We have bigger goals than winning streaks," Pierce said. "I didn't know we had a rivalry going. If that's what you all want, if it's going sell more tix, get more viewers, I guess so. You [media] all make up the rivalry, we don't, to be honest. At the end of the day, we're playing for championships, not certain opponents."
Big man Glen Davis will be one of the Celtics trying to contain the reinvigorated Knicks front court, led by Amare Stoudemire.
"I'm not worried about that, New York and Boston," Davis said of any rivalry with the 16-9 Knicks. "That's just the way it is. I'm worried about winning the game and worried about June, what's going to happen in June. That's what I'm worried about. I'm not even going to get into that. New York's a great team. They've been playing well and trying to be where we're at. It's going to be a big game for them.'
|Man charged with stabbing Paul Pierce convicted in another knife attack
|12.03.10 at 9:08 am ET
The man who was charged with stabbing Paul Pierce a decade ago was convicted Thursday in federal court for stabbing a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, according to a report in The Boston Globe.
Trevor A. Watson, 44, stabbed the informant 10 times outside a South End barbershop on Feb. 27, U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz said in a statement. The victim, who underwent emergency surgery to repair his colon and intestine, had provided information against Watson in a federal cocaine trafficking investigation.
Watson, of Dorchester, first was tried in October, but that trial ended with a hung jury. He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 10 and faces up to 30 years in prison. He also is due in court in January to face a charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Watson previously has been convicted of robbery, armed robbery, assault and battery and possession of a Class B substance.
Watson was charged with attempted murder in 2000 for allegedly stabbing Pierce in his head, back and face at the Buzz, a now-defunct nightclub in Boston's theater district. Watson only was convicted of assault and battery after multiple witnesses changed their testimony at his trial. He was sentenced to one year in prison for his role in the attack. Another man, William Ragland, received a sentence of 7-10 years in state prison for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in the incident.
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Covenant CEO vows to fight Carle's bid to 'control' market
URBANA — Presence Covenant Medical Center officials say they're objecting to more than just a bigger Carle Foundation Hospital in its 48-bed expansion plan.
They're fighting off an attempt by Carle to put Urbana's smaller hospital out of business.
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A June 24 letter from Carle CEO Dr. James Leonard to Sandra Bruce, the CEO of Covenant parent system Presence Health, included a proposal to convert Covenant into a joint-venture behavioral-health facility with Carle and for Carle to buy Presence United Samaritans Medical Center in Danville, said Dr. Jared Rogers, interim president and CEO of Covenant and United Samaritans.
"Our thinking is they (Carle) really do want to control all the medical services in this area," Rogers told The News-Gazette on Monday.
Presence Covenant transforming into a behavioral-health facility, Rogers also said, "is not in our plans."
Carle's newest proposed expansion — currently stalled before the state's Health Facilities and Services Review Board — would be a $17.7 million conversion of vacant ninth-floor tower space to add more medical-surgical beds.
The project would expand its total medical-surgical beds from 212 to 260 and boost its total licensed-bed capacity to 393.
Covenant Medical Center vigorously fought the proposal at a state board hearing last week, and the board declared an intention to deny permission for the additional beds. However, Carle says it will be returning to the board with more information at a later hearing to try again.
Rogers said Leonard's letter to Bruce, which hasn't been shared publicly, was received by Presence Health too late to be included in documentation that was submitted to the board.
Carle Vice President Mike Billimack said the letter to Presence Health leadership was "entirely separate" from its petition before the state board.
"Carle recently sent Presence leadership a letter inquiring about potential interest in their Danville hospital and/or their interest in developing a joint behavioral-health facility in Champaign," Billimack, Carle's VP for marketing, planning and government relations, said in an email to The News-Gazette. "Carle has made a long-term commitment to providing services in Danville and Vermilion County. Carle is always interested in supporting and growing the level of services available to Vermilion County residents, and we will continue to explore ideas that benefit area residents."
Billimack also said a recent community health-needs assessment Carle did with Covenant and "other local entities" identified, as expected, the issue of behavioral health as a critical need in the community.
"The idea of developing stronger behavioral-health services is one the community would clearly welcome," he said. "As the regional clinical safety-net hospital, we are always interested in exploring potential opportunities that would benefit the communities we serve."
Carle's request for more beds is about ensuring that beds are available for specialty care that isn't currently provided by other regional hospitals, "including the types of specialty care that Presence chooses not to offer," Billimack said.
But if Carle is permitted to add the extra beds, Rogers said, most of the extra patients to fill them would be drawn from Covenant, and the effect would be devastating. The 48 beds Carle wants to add equals Covenant's entire average daily number of medical-surgical patients in the hospital, he said.
The state board said there is already an excess capacity of 158 medical-surgical beds in the area that includes Carle and Covenant.
Dr. Krishnarao Tangella, Covenant's and United Samaritan's regional medical director of laboratory, contends that Carle would be adding even more excess capacity and would be allowed to grow at the expense of other hospitals.
"That's probably not the most efficient way to use $18 million," he said.
And, Rogers added, "it's the consumers who pay the $18 million."
Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing has been making her objections to Carle's plans known, saying her position is based on "the concern expressed by Presence (Covenant) that this is going to kill them."
Prussing said she believes Carle is trying to drive Presence Covenant out of business, and she contended that any move by the board to help that along will drive down competition and leave the public more vulnerable to "price gouging."
"If the purpose of this board is to not duplicate services and to benefit the public, the public is not going to be benefited by reducing competition in the market," she said. "I think we've been gouged already, and the state should not be making it worse."
Several area hospitals have taken sides on this project, with United Samaritans and Iroquois Memorial (managed by Presence Health) joining Covenant in objecting and Paris Community Hospital, Kirby Medical Center, Richland Memorial Hospital, Decatur Memorial Hospital, Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center and Crawford Memorial Hospital all supporting Carle.
Kirby Medical Center CEO Steve Tenhouse said Carle has been a good partner for the Monticello hospital.
Plus, he said, "the majority of what we're transferring to Carle is beyond the level of care that we provide here."
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What I've been saying all along. Carle wants to have a monopoly in medical services in central Illinois. Add to that the fact that they own Health Alliance and you should see how extremely dangerous this is for the consumer of health services.
Carle's $205 double billing, a.k.a. price gouging, is a perfect example of too much power in the market. Just wait until the U of I and Carle start a medical school here in CU. Carle will be able to do as it pleases, as if it doesn't already. The taxpayers already pick up the tab in the form of higher property taxes but if you think that's bad, go ahead and support a stronger, more powerful Carle.
So what, Carle, who has refused to provide care for adult psych patients unless they have the "right" insurance had to do a survey to find out there was a critical need in the community that wasn't being met? Where do they think all those poor people will go if Carle suddenly controls the market? As it is, when a patient comes into their e.r. needing medical care and they display psychological issues, they have them arrested. No treatment in jail. Covenant has always been willing to treat the whole patient.
There's a huge problem with Covenant's claim of 158 extra med/surg beds in the area. Covenant is the problem. Covenant is licensed as a 210 bed hospital and has been for many years. In the 1990's and early 2000's Covenant boasted very high inpatient numbers. However, in the last 8 - 10 years they have drastically reduced their actual, physical number of beds and their staff, yet maintained the same 210 bed licensing. The vast majority of their patient rooms are meant for and licensed as double occupancy, But, in a PR ploy and because of their financial struggles, they made them all single occupancy rooms. So, on paper there are excess beds. In reality, Covenant only has the beds and staff for 50 - 75 inpatient's on any given day. This is evident in their letter of opposition stating their ADC of only 44 patients. Meanwhile, Carle is busting at the seams everyday. Covenant's inabilty to actually provide the beds for 210 patient's isn't Carle's fault, but Carle has to make up for the difference.
All of these facts are more or less meaningless. Beds...single....double....whatever. The point remains that Carle has every intention of controlling the market. And if you know anything about economics you should know this isn't good for the consumer. It's also illegal to deliberatley attempt to drive out all competetion and for good reason. Monoplies have unchecked pricing power and in healthcare that is a very serious issue. A good example is charging $205 to simply walk through their prestigious doors. However, a true monopoly would result in much greater price gouging by Carle.
I really want to support Carle but they just make it so hard to do so. Carle is absolutely entitile to try and maximize profits. They are after all a business. But they have to do it in a legal and responsible manner. I love the idea of a CU Medical School but Carle is an example of a bad corporate citizen, in spite of being a large employer, and this will simply make them exempt from any law or oversight. Not sure exactly how you change a culture of greed and arrogance. It usually starts at the top but I'm afraid it's a culture so full of itself that it might be too late.
Thank you for your comment. Following is some information that wasn't included in the story, as it was running fairly long:
Dr. Rogers said in our interview Monday that about 48 is Covenant's average daily census for medical-surgical patients, and a figure in the 40-range referred to in its letter to the state board likely refers to medical-surgical census since medical-surgical beds are at issue.
He also said Covenant is typically staffed for an average daily census of 100 (which would include all areas of the hospital) and calls in part-timers as needed when the census rises.
This hospital cage match has been going on for at least the last 40 years and it used to be about three hospitals. Carle was a regional care center then and is even more so now. People don't travel from Paris, IL and Milford, IL to go to Covenant, but they do to Carle.
People do come from out of the area to Covenant, you're just not aware of it as much. In fact, I've known of people who were being treated at Carle after a trauma who were then transfered to Covenant for inpatient therapy. Most recently, a family member of mine was transferred from Sarah Bush to Carle. When his doctor felt there was nothing more they could do for him, they moved him farther away from family to die the next day, but at least he didn't die at Carle. It's like musical chairs.
Link to Billimack's entire statement: http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2014-07-22/carle-issues-statement.html
I find it interesting that Presence accuses Carle of trying to put them out of business, yet in 2013 Presence transferred 1,200 patients to Carle. That tells me that 1) Presence is bursting at the seems with patient population and needs Carle to take the overflow or 2) Presence doesn't have the ability to treat some of its patients and sends them to Carle. Either way, that shouldn't be a reason for Presence to oppose the Carle expansion plan.
That's not from one hospital, that's from all of the area branches of Covenant Hospital. Have you seen stories where someone has been injured in Danville and taken to Presence United Samaritans to be stabilized and then flown by chopper to Carle in Urbana because Carle is the trauma center? If someone is severely burned around here they send them to Springfield. That's where the burn unit is. Carle is doing a PR tour, read closely. They want to open that wing. When they talk ask yourself what they want. And how much it will cost you.
Please don't act as though big, bad Carle is picking on little Covenant Hospital. Covenant is part of a large medical group.
From a February 2012 press release:
"Presence Health is a family of Catholic, not-for profit, healthcare services providing advanced medical care and exceptional service with compassion and hope. With locations in Chicago and its collar counties, as well as in East-Central Illinois, it is the largest Catholic health provider in Illinois, encompassing 12 hospitals, 29 long term care and senior residential facilities, numerous outpatient services, clinics, home health services, hospice, private duty, and comprehensive Behavioral Health services. "
I do not have a problem with Covenant filing an objection in this process. I would expect a competing business to act in the best interest of their business, and Carle is a competitor.
I do have a problem with the mayor of Urbana meddling in this, adding her rancor over Carle re-establishing their historical tax free status. The legislature passing the tax exemption bill is unrelated to this issue, and it is inappropriate for the mayor of Urbana to address the issue of additional beds. I see no city role in the issue of additional beds at Carle, unless they are building in violation of code.
I also question why some government entity has to approve adding some beds at a licensed hospital. If the beds are not really needed (and who knows that for sure?) then Carle will have made a poor business decision. This is not an area in need of government regulation. Hospital health and safety procedures and practices are an appropriate area to monitor, not hospital size.
Good point. Presence is a huge system. Presence has a monopoly in Danville...but they seem to be OK with that. Sounds like they are whining because they have been out-competed in C-U.
If they are so worried about Carle why don't they hire physicians and add services to compete, rather than blaming Carle. After all, they are bigger than Carle.


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I sensed that something was wrong. I felt it "in my water", as my mum tends to say when retrospectively claiming psychic powers that she doesn't possess. But this definitely wasn't right. My Facebook news feed had had the same post at the top for nearly 15 minutes, something unheard of in the modern era: it consisted of my friend Dan bemoaning how he felt "disassociated and paranoid, paralysed by memories of failure". I needed cheering up a bit. I tentatively tried sending a sticker to my pal Charlotte featuring an anthropomorphised egg waving "Good Morning!". It remained undelivered. This was serious.
Shifting my gaze to Twitter, it became evident what the problem was. Facebook was broken. It wasn't just me; it wasn't working for anyone. This was a major international outage of the world's most popular social networking platform, with more than 1.25 billion monthly users, and as such this was evidently big news.
Liveblogs were set up by news organisations to document the ongoing problem. With no information as to when the site might be bump-started back to life, stocks in Facebook fell by 0.8 per cent. However, reassured that this wasn't our problem and that it was Facebook's, people began to mock the event as inconsequential. "I need to know if my aunt has reached Level 130 of Candy Crush Saga," I tweeted, aware that sarcasm is one of social media's favourite forms of wit.
I cast my mind back to the last major Facebook outage in 2010, when the site disappeared for more than two hours. That day, my friend Jo posted a tweet that went viral: "Facebook users are roaming the streets in tears, shoving photos of themselves in people's faces and screaming 'DO YOU LIKE THIS? DO YOU??'" It's a pretty good joke, and four years on people started posting it again, sneakily passing it off as their own work. Even KitKat got in on the Twitter gagwagon, using its "have a break" slogan to point out Facebook's unexpected downtime.
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Around 350 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day, with the site estimating in September last year that users had so far put up more than 250 billion images. That's 4,000 photos uploaded every second and around 4 per cent of all photos ever taken, according to a study by Nokia.
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Facebook's logo is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colour blind. "Blue is the richest color for me. I can see all of blue," said Zuckerberg in an interview with the New Yorker. The colour is so popular that Facebook's campus store even sells nail polish in the exact shade named 'social butterfly blue'.
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Zuckerberg's famously low-key wardrobe (either a grey t-shirt or a hoodie) is so that the CEO saves time deciding what to wear each day. However, Zuckerberg is known to dress up when the occasion demands it. For a 2011 event with Barack Obama he showed up in a suit, with the president introducing himself by saying: "I'm Barack Obama and I'm the guy who got Mark to wear a jacket and tie."
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In July 2006 Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion offer for the site from Yahoo. He was 22 years old at the time and owned 25 per cent of the company. Zuckerberg reportedly turned it down by saying "I don't know what I could do with the money. I'd just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have." He definitely made the right choice: Facebook is now valued at $135 billion.
A YouGov poll claimed that three-quarter of UK Facebook users' photos showed someone drinking or inebriated. However, the poll did ask users to estimate the number of boozy snaps themselves, and like all things on Facebook, there might have been an element of exaggeration involved.
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Facebook operates a bounty hunter program – for bugs. Like many other big technology companies Facebook offers cash rewards to security researchers who point out flaws in the site's code. The minimum payout is $500 and the largest prize to date has been $33,500.
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More than a third of divorce filings in 2011 referenced Facebook, said a survey from UK-based legal firm Divorce Online. The exact figures may be an estimate, but with just under 8 trillion Facebook messages sent in 2013 it's certain that a substantial body of evidence is to be found on the social network.
Zuckerberg isn't much of a Twitter fan. Despite having nearly three hundred thousand followers on the service he's only tweeted 19 times - once in 2012 and the rest in 2009. Although Facebook dwarfs twitter in terms of active users (1 billion compared with 200 million by some accounts) the micro-blogging site handles breaking news better. Facebook has introduced trending topics and hashtags to counter this.
Following the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 Iceland decided to rewrite their constitution using Facebook to solicit suggestions from citizens. Unfortunately, despite this forward thinking approach, the document was killed by politicians in mid-2013 for various (mostly technical) reasons.
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But as we mocked Facebook's meaninglessness, we knew deep down that we were mocking ourselves. Many of us have developed habit-forming social media routines, and, while we may not be proud of them, they frequently deliver plenty of diverting, amusing or enlightening material. So, as we laughed knowingly at the jokes, we simultaneously refreshed Facebook to see when it might be back.
Even those who spurn Facebook would reluctantly have to acknowledge that it occupies a pivotal position on the web. Many people's consumption of news is dictated by the stories that their friends share on Facebook; with that service unavailable, traffic to some news websites slumped. Technology website Techcrunch, while jokily pondering when we could "get back to 'liking' baby photos", omitted to mention that its comments section is powered entirely by Facebook and wasn't working. Virgin Media posted a tweet acknowledging the problem as it started to receive support requests from people who use Facebook as a portal. For those people, Facebook equals the internet. The web-savvy may mock, but that's not necessarily an indicator of stupidity or short-sightedness; it's just how people have chosen to use the resource they've been given. Far from being irrelevant to human existence, Facebook has become an integral part of it for millions of people.
The site was offline for around 30 minutes. As usual when something goes pear-shaped at Facebook, a statement was released referring to the "issue" that had now been "resolved". No mention of what might have caused it – although a global system with its load spread across several servers in several continents only goes down as a result of something pretty serious. But soon, everything was back to normal. My news feed updated with a post from my friend Samantha. "I looked into the abyss," she wrote of the outage, "a dark and desolate existence." And I think she was only half-joking.Reuse content