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Posted on 05/17/2011 6:05:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Five years ago, a Comair flight taxied onto the wrong runway at the airport in Lexington, Ky., and crashed on takeoff, killing 49 of the 50 people aboard. It turned out that the lone air controller on duty who should have caught the mistake was operating on two hours of sleep. Two years before that, a tired controller nearly let two commercial jets collide on an LAX runway.
Now, in the wake of a raft of air traffic controllers caught sleeping on the job, the Federal Aviation Administration issued new rules to combat fatigue. But this problem has dogged the FAA for years.
Fatigue is just one piece of a long history of FAA management problems with the air traffic control (ATC) system, according to an IBD review of government reports and audits and various news accounts. Just last week, the Transportation Department's inspector general announced two audits focusing on air traffic controller mistakes.
To some, this record calls into question whether the FAA can be trusted to fix the problems plaguing the ATC.
Reason Foundation transportation expert Robert Poole, for example, argues that the FAA's problems stem from its dual role as operator and regulator of air traffic control, which he says "creates a potential conflict of interest."
FAA head Randy Babbitt said recently that "employees at the FAA work diligently every day to run the safest air transportation system in the world." And an FAA spokesman told IBD that while the Air Traffic Organization is part of the FAA, "it's regulated by another group that is independent of the ATO's chain of command."
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It's better than all the rest but its decline can be traced to the time it was placed under the DOT.
About as much as you want to trust the Department of Education to teach your kids sufficiently to compete in the world.
About as well as government agencies setup traffic lights.
How did air traffic control decline when it was placed under the DOT?
Q: Can the FAA Be Trusted to Fix Air Traffic Control?
A: F=Federal
Therefore, NO.
You can't trust the government to "fix" anything.
Can the FAA Be Trusted to Fix Air Traffic Control?
Can the Obama-butt be trusted to provide an real birth certificate?
Is Nancy Pelosi really a female?
Did Jimmy Carter ever have a brain?
Did Bill Clinton "never have sex with that woman?
The only thing I can trust the federal government to fix, is to fix it so that they are more in control.
What would you do instead? Have a Czar work with a blue ribbon congressional committee that reports directly to the WH?
Yep. The politicians wanted to spend the money the FAA controlled but couldn't until they put it under DOT.
Since then it has been all downhill and politics rules over safety and innovation.
If it was up to me, it would be turned over to the Department of Defense (DoD).
Privatization of ATC might work if you got the government to take the insurance liability.
Excellent expertise post
No! The FAA is being run by non-pilots and non-aviation morons.
This man speaks the truth. USAF controllers were the best.
(Admitted prejudice from a USAF instructor and test guy)
This man speaks the truth. USAF controllers were the best.
(Admitted prejudice from a USAF instructor and test guy)
I wouldn't even let them be school crossing guards. Fools would probably fall asleep after a hard weekend and all the school kids would get run over by a run away garbage truck.
PATCO screwed it up, then FAA caught a break and had a great opportunity to fix it, but....
Pressure to rebuild quickly, exacerbated by intense EEO mandates brought about another union that management essentially turned the day-to-day operation over to.
The genie is out of the bottle, the cadre of experienced personnel that is essential to ANY operation is gone now, replaced by scared kids who duck traffic and only stay on because of massive pay and ironclad union protection.
If you fly at all, thank your lucky stars for technology like TCAS...don't fly without it.
I knew one FAA controller that worked 40 plus hours in his second job, every week, stocking groceries.
You know he was tired when he got to work on his mids, and on his swings.
Oh lordy, that is truly laughable.
In the modern FAA ex USAF controllers are able to handle the upgrade to FAA Enroute; but only because of lower requirements and FAA's 'no-fail' policy.
Prior to that, they were normally inferior to new hires off the street.
My 35 years were all Enroute, starting with 13 years at Chicago Center, the busiest facility in the world, with NO computers, limited radar coverage, hand-written strips, following targets by pushing plastic chips across the screen, relying greatly on time/speed/distance calculations in your head.
The initial CAA cadre did have a lot of AF guys, only because the job was basically unknown to most. Once it got some ink, the AF numbers dropped radically.
Perhaps the AF guys do better in TRACON/Tower crossovers, but it just wasn't so in ARTCC upgrades.
After the USAF came to the rescue for Reagan, the hatred the FAA management and controllers have for the USAF, well you can cut it with a knife.
The FAA likes Navy controllers as hire-ees, but they despise Air Force Controllers.
What's your gripe with traffic lights? I hate to stop at them as much as anyone, but here in the Chicago suburbs, I find it hard to fault their design and operation, which I assume is under the control of state and local government.
Second job? None of FAA's business how one spends his off time. For 25 years I owned an aviation market research business, it had no effect on my FAA work, except to make me more knowledgeable about aircraft.
The young kids today do seem to burn both ends of the candle, but that is a personal choice guided by their entitlement mentality and buttressed by the union. The pay is great, but damn, the quality of the people has just plummeted. I would never urge a kid I thought highly of to take this job in today's FAA.
As a retired Air Traffic Controller I tend to agree with your thinking. I left before the strike. I was an Air Force Pilot prior to going with ATC. It will be quite difficult to devise a good system even if allowed to. I am glad that is not my job..
What in the world are you talking about?
>> rotation is hardest on the body, but a favorite ... due to the time off.
>> Did he truly have an undisturbed eight hours of rest before his Air Traffic Control Shift?
As a senior airline captain, when I taught CRM (Crew Resource Management) courses to the flight attendants at our airline some years ago, I informally surveyed the group re. adequate rest before duty. It was not uncommon for many of them to report for a 15-16 hour duty day (Pacific flight) having had 3-5 hours sleep the night before.
Sounds like a "personal responsibility" issue here. Controllers are an extremely high IQ group. Unlike airline pilots, most have nothing more than a high school diploma. They have damn good pay, no layoffs, and a great retirement for the amount of "picking sh*t with the chickens" they had to do to get there. Quit screwing around and get some sleep before your shift. Come to work prepared.
ZAB = Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center
ZME = Memphis Air Route Traffic Control Center
In summer 1981 PATCO, the union of federal air traffic controllers went on strike, violating a federal law prohibiting government unions from striking.[101] Declaring the situation an emergency as described in the 1947 Taft Hartley Act, Reagan stated that if the air traffic controllers "do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated."[102] They did not return and on August 5, Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored his order, and used supervisors and military controllers to handle the nation's commercial air traffic until new controllers could be hired and trained.[103]As one historian concluded, "The firing of PATCO employees not only demonstrated a clear resolve by the president to take control of the bureaucracy, but it also sent a clear message to the private sector that unions no longer needed to be feared."[104]
"Quit screwing around and get some sleep before your shift.
Come to work prepared.""
I couldn't agree, more.
Here in Atlanta they manufacture congestion out of smoothly moving traffic. They are either too long or too short. One would suppose nobody ever comes back to check on the affect those lights have on traffic. Atlanta has few roads that run either parallel or perpendicular to each other. It is a paved spider web that offers few alternative routes between any two points.
I'm sure that you, as a grizzled veteran FAA controller wannabe, are aware of certification requirements for FAA controller positions.
I can GUARANTEE you that NO AF controllers worked any traffic positions at any ARTCC in the country during the strike period. I was a 13 year veteran at Chicago ARTCC when the strike occured. Counting the guys who beat the deadline, plus supes and staff who could work traffic, we had 62 controllers to handle the busiest air traffic facility in the world.....we fired 465....WITHOUT a single AF controller.
If we got 'bailed out' by anybody, it was by furloughed airline pilots. The strike came during a recession, and there were buttloads of pilots laid off. FAA offered them temporary jobs as flight data aides in the centers. Eventually there were about 100 controllers from other centers sent to Chicago on temporary duty.
Reagan's dictat to FAA was to run enough traffic to not harm the economy (or he would Federalize). The bottleneck for the country was Chicago Center....we were the busiest and got hit the hardest...we were the key to keeping the system going.
So, WHO bailed Reagan out during the strike? Nobody...he needed no bailout, he had taken a decision and was comfortable with it.
But, in your context, who bailed the Air Traffic system out? Not AF controllers working in towers....it was 62 very tired FAA controllers and some laid-off airline pilots.
There were many other locations that our controllers were disbursed to, but I can't remember them, now.
After a year and three-quarters, we only got two of the controllers back, and one of those two caught an assignment to a remote overseas location (he had just reenlisted a week before the strike).
As our disbursed controllers ended their contract with the AF, we were tasked to send replacement controllers to those sites, even after our controller that timed out of the AF stayed at that FAA location, and didn't miss a day of work.
The controller just tripled his salary with the FAA pay.
Yes, the USAF rescued Ronald Reagan by keeping the airways safe and expeditious, when the FAA Union turned it's back on the United States.
One, the system would perform well enough not to hurt the economy, or
Two, if needed, he was prepared to Federalize ATC. No fuss, no muss.
The facilities you mention were not a big worry for the FAA...it was Chicago, PATCO knew it, and exerted immense pressure on their members to go out and stay out, and they did a damned good job of that. Out of 479 members at ZAU, only 14 did not walk out, or made it back before the deadline. I was one of 8 non-members, naturally we all stayed.
The architect of FAA contingency plans was Bob Thorne - he and Helms spent a LOT of time at the center, briefing us and asking what we needed. We learned a LOT of stuff that was never given to the press, including the Federalizing option.
Many of the approach controls we worked with expanded greatly to take some pressure off us. This included altitude expansion, as well as lateral so as to butt up with other approaches, allowing what was called 'tower enroute', where aircraft could fly fairly long distances without needing to contact the center. This was all done to allow the center to concentrate more on the higher traffic, which is where the most commercial traffic was.
On Monday, we ran 3,000, Tuesday 3,300, Wednesday 3,600 (normal avg was about 7,000), and management would not let us go any higher, as they were concerned about us burning out over time - probably a good call, but it pissed us off.
Helms and Thorne made it very clear to us that due to that extremely high percentage we lost that we were THE facility that MUST hold up. They said that due to the recession and much lower percentages of strikers elsewhere that other facilities were not of concern as to keeping the system running.
We got TDY controllers from JAX, FTW, MEM, STL, MIA and ABQ centers. Boston and NY got a few, but nowhere what we did.
Again, NO AF at Chicago...it was tough enough training experienced enroute controllers from other facilities to get them checked out on two or three positions to make them usefull, ain't no way we could take the time to train a tower type from the ground up.
In conclusion....bailed out Reagan???...my ass.
I respect your view from a management (non-union) position.
I appreciate the hard working controllers, and trainees that stayed with the FAA.
BUT, the USAF kept the system from collapsing.
Where did "flow control" come from? The USAF controllers implemented it.
And let's not forget the trainees that picked up the ball.
Some didn't get it. Some trainees didn't see the problem.
But those that did show some spark, got the little training they needed to complete the position.
Then they got chained to that position, until we could get back to them.
I heard how the FAA worked from some of my friend that were TDY, and at that time, they didn't have time to continue their pompous over-bloated egos.
One of our TDY members arrived at a TRACON with only the facility chief and one trainee left to man that facility.
The facility chief pointed him to the D-Brite and ask him if he had worked radar from the tower before.
He advised him of his experience doing just that at Osan AB Korea, for over two hours, when a cable was cut taking out the Rapcon.
The facility chief ask him if he could handle the local and arrival positions combined in the tower.
He said he could, and he did.
Their trainee was handling ground and flight data, with very little supervision. The facility chief took the other two USAF TDY people and went down stairs to reopen the radar facility.
Other friends told similar stories of how the rating process was no more than a few minutes, and was told to read the Ops Letters and Letters of Agreement when time allowed.
Yes, the USAF rescued Reagan.
Without the USAF controllers, the system would have collapsed.
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What worries stockbrokers and investment bankers not involved in the potential deal is that the offer price seems too good to be true, and might never eventuate, because it is described as indicative, non-binding and subject to a period of non-exclusive due-diligence.
In effect, KKR and Rhone have put TWE "in play", not that there seems to be anybody else who wants to play with a takeover target which has been a serial disappointment for the past few years, misjudging markets and failing to capitalize on the profit potential of some of the best-known names in the wine industry, including the sector leading Penfolds Grange, a shiraz (syrah) based red which routinely sells for $300 a bottle while old vintages can fetch more than $20,000 a bottle.
Erratic marketing strategies and a revolving management door has seen TWE lurch from crisis to crisis and while the current view of investment banks such as is that the latest strategy of focusing on a narrow number of brands could work the stock is a sell even with a potential takeover bid in the wings.
The highest price UBS has put on TWE in a research report released yesterday is $4.03, 16.5% less than the conditional offer from KKR and Rhone. has an even gloomier view of TWE, telling clients today that it sees a 12-month price target of $3.63, 25% below the indicative offer from KKR and Rhone.
Back To The Future
It is possible that the buy-out partners are hatching a plan to unwind the TWE structure which could involve carving out the U.S. wine assets that include big names such as Beringer and Stags' Leap to create a pure North American wine business in what would be a back-to-the-future process.
Returning a business to its North American roots has recently become popular in the resources sector with the iron ore miner, , being forced by activist investors to sell Australian mining assets, and Corporation being forced to sell some of its Australian oil assets.
What's good for iron ore and oil might also be good for wine, especially when it comes to escaping from the high cost environment in Australia as it comes down from the heights of the China-driven boom that has left the classic resources curse of high domestic costs and over-valued currency.
If KKR and Rhone have a plan to split TWE they certainly have not revealed that card, yet, and probably would not until they win control, if they do.
Troubles In China
But, that leads to the question of what would they actually get control of, a company which is under intense price pressure from the rise of retailers developing their own in-house wine brands, an Asian division which has refused to perform as planned, and now the indignity of being forced to fight a legal in China because someone at TWE forgot to trade mark the Penfolds name.
In keeping with the state of the wine industry for the past few years it remains a time when it is far better to be consuming the end product than trying to make a living making it or selling it.


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The financial crisis of 2007–10 has presented a number of key policy challenges for those concerned with the long-term stability of the euro area. It has shown that price stability as provided by the European Central Bank is not enough to guarantee financial stability, and exposed fault lines in governance and deficiencies in the architecture of the financial supervisory and regulatory framework. This book addresses these and other issues, including why the crisis affected some countries more than others, whether the euro is still attractive for new EU states, and what policy changes and structural reforms, both macro and micro, should be undertaken to ensure its future viability. Written by a team of leading academic and central bank economists, the book also includes chapters on the cross-country incidence of the crisis, the Irish crisis and ECB monetary policy during the crisis, and studies on Spain, the Baltics, Slovakia and Slovenia.
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This research paper discusses the origin and significance of cultural gender differences in contemporary society. As the human species as evolved over time, significant differences between the male and female genders have developed due to a combination of, and the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Those differences have been the subject of every day observation and societal judgment, as epitomized by the French saying, vive la difference! The roles of males and females have undergone a confusing transformation in recent decades which has stimulated serious scientific and other research into the origins, cultural outcomes and significance of these differences. This essay attempts to present a balanced summary of the results of that research. Its theses are that: (1) as this research deepens human understanding of gender-differences, society will be afforded the opportunity to break with the rigid gender stereotypes of the past and to fashion new roles for each sex that correspond more closely to their respective needs and society's; but also that (ii) this process of societal change will unfold fitfully and be accompanied by considerable cultural and political conflict and uncertainty.
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2013 Knoxville Chota Club Roll Class Sessions will occur on the following additional dates from 7 to 8:45pm at UT Acuatic Center:
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Fact table and dimension tables communicate using a referential key. When ever you want to account one dimension, the respective fact table key will take you to that particular dimension and vice versa
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Genarally data flows goes to Dimension to Fact.
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In a Data Warehouse Consider there are two tables, D and F, where F is a fact table and D is a dimension table.
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I really enjoyed hearing about the history of the bridge during the walk. It was not as high as I thought but the view from the top was amazing. Loved it!
The Story Bridge is not very high and the river is a river so not The Sydney bridge climb . They do a good job make it interesting but if you are visiting Australia make the right choice
Its a nice bridge, the view is great and climbing it was fun. My experience would however have been improved 100% if they eased up on the safety nonsense a bit. Its just walkways, they all have handrails, so why the silly outfit, the lectures, the guide ropes etc? I dont have to secure myself to the railing when i...
Hi Zoe, thanks for your review. We pride ourselves on safety and do not apologise for the lengths we go to ensure all our climbers are safe. In a tall hotel you are within walls and a built in structure, on a bridge you are fully exposed 80m above a highway with cars and pedestrians under us. Thank you for...
For those with no fear of heights, this is for you. Just tie yourself to the wire and up you go. You do get a super view from the top. Leave your bits and pieces at the meeting point. You don't want to drop anything. It would do a lot of damage if it fell to the bridge roadway.
I did the Bridge Climb with my two teenage children and we all enjoyed it. Having done the Sydney Harbour Bridge some years ago, it was a little underwhelming for me, but they liked it.
A great adventure perhaps not suitable for people who do not enjoy heights. Initially you have a bit of trepidation prior to commencing the climb when they are suiting you up but all that is dispelled when you are on the journey up the bridge. It really is very safe and so worth the climb up for the fabulous views...
Loved doing this - can get a terrific view of Brisbane and the staff are extremely professional and really want you to enjoy your time. Definately a great way to see Brisbane from another angle and thoroughly reconmend it.
Im bit of a bigger person, but quite fit and active. Just wondering if they have many sizes of the suits they give you. Would hate to get there and not be able to get my bum in a suit :P lol
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WWE wrestler and former World Champion CM Punk has successfully obtained a restraining order against his own mother. Punk, real name Phillip Brooks, filed for the restraining order after what he claims were "repeated financial demands and years of abusive, harassing and threatening behavior."
TMZ obtained the documents that were filed, in which Brooks says he's given his mother more than $100,000, but eventually cut her off. According to the wrestler, she then sent him a string of harsh emails, including one that reads, "You don't give a s*** about us. You just care about your money and money hungry/fame hungry friends. You would sell us for a nickel."
Brooks also says his mother has threatened to share information about her son's past, which may be embarrassing. He suggests that it could be connected to arrests from his high school days. He further claims she told him she would commit suicide on at least four different occasions in 2012.
"I wish for the harassment to stop and am requesting the assistance of the court in this regards," he says in the documents.
Brooks has been open in the past about the relationship he has with his family. In the 2012 documentary "CM Punk: Best in the World," Brooks says he and his family are not close and haven't been in a long time. He specifically notes an incident where his brother stole money from him, adding that the two haven't spoken in 12 years.


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Today I was in the yard, trying to re-arrange the overly-exotic zinc arrangement I have for all my bronze rudder hinges. The lowest hinge on the hull has a zinc that is drilled into the hull with a wire that goes to the hinge. Today I pulled out the 1/4" stainless fasteners that went through the hull at the bottom of the full keel and some water came out.
That can't be good.....
For reference, we're talking about a full keel boat, where the bottom portion is supposed to be solid, thick glass, with lead (and metal stuff) encapsulated into the keel. The bit that these bolts came out of is supposed to be solid glass and lead, yet a few tsb of water came out when the fasteners came out.
Is it possible that this was just the water trapped along the length of the bolt itself? Or.... by drilling through the gelcoat on the outside, did the previous owner expose non-waterproof fiberglass to water that has now soaked it up? (please excuse my lack of fiberglass knowledge, I'm a recovering wooden boat owner).
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I'm not familiar with the innards of your boat, but many boats with an encapsulated keel also have a "false keel" - this is a void typically behind the lead. Clearly it needs to be filled with something, but filling it with solid epoxy is expensive, so boatyards have been known to fill it with all sorts of low-density high-volume fillers.
Personally I would see if the water continues to drain out. If not, drill an oversize hole, fill with thickened epoxy; then re-drill to the correct size, and don't worry about it.
If water continues to leak out, you may need to remove some of the glass around the hole to expose the saturated area. This happened with me; the fiberglass "skin" had actually "rotted", and a 3'x3' area had to be removed to expose the core and allow it to dry out, then refill and refinish. If you are on the hard, this is not so intimidating as it appears, as fiberglass is a lot easier in many ways to work with than wood, in that the new epoxy chemically bonds to the old, leaving the repair as strong as the original (I hope).
It'll be interesting to see what others think....
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I agree with Paul. Over drill to get some more information.
I would over drill the size anyway so I could fill it with thickened epoxy and make a new hole. It will be stronger and water tight.
Good luck.
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Skywalker, nail on head, has hit. Force not enough to intrusion find. Drill and fill, one must.
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I had an issue with a boat that had a crack near the front of the keel. every time it was pulled and set on stands water would come from that spot. Turns out the keel had water in it around the ballast.. There was a hole inside the boat down in the keel area behind the ballast. The damage from the outside had let water in and the hole inside was small and so low in the bilge it went unnoticed. Well It had to be drained and patched. Water leaked out for months till I used a Shop -vac and sucked out a bunch. Epoxy wont set up when water is present unless it was made to be used in water. . My question to you would be why wasnt the zinc screwed directly to the hinge ?
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Med- I'd drill a small hole in the bottom of the keel directly under the hinge to see if more water comes out. If it does then there must be a void in that area. You might be able to figure it out by tapping with a small hammer to determine the size and then drill holes and fill with epoxy, at least that's what I've done on rudders that had water in them. Good luck, wet day to be working under the boat.
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Choosing a stock is no easy task. Beginning investors, advanced traders and everyone in between have to look at a company's operations, financial health and executive leadership to determine if a share in that company is worth buying.
What are the prospects for growth? What are the risks? What is the competition doing? What if, after spending days or weeks agonizing over the decision, you decide to buy shares only to hear that the company you were investigating so thoroughly was a lie?
What Is Back-Door Registration?
Welcome to the world of back-door registration, one of the newer headaches facing regulators of America's securities exchanges. Back-door registration is a product of a reverse merger, in which a private company goes public by merging with a company already listed on an exchange. The key to this type of merger is that the publicly traded company is really just a shell company, effectively acting as a front that all but disappears as soon as the merger is finalized.
Rather than go through the complicated process of conforming to the rules and regulations of organizations such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), followed by paying expensive underwriting fees and listing fees (the non-refundable application fee for Nasdaq is $25,000) in order to launch an initial public offering (IPO), a private company can bypass all the trouble by finding a public company willing to be bought out. (Reverse mergers can provide excellent opportunities for companies and investors, but there are still some downsides and risks. For more, see Reverse Mergers: The Pros And Cons.)
Why Shell Companies Are a Problem
One of the major problems facing investors trying to weed out companies who sneak into the market through a back-door registration is noise. As of March 31, 2011, there were nearly 8,000 issues on NYSE Euronext, with more than 4,000 listings in the United States. Each year more than one hundred new listings are added. For investors who don't investigate a company fully, or who do not know that a company is cooking its books, new listings may be seen simply as opportunities. In reality, the listing could be nothing more than a sham.
The issue of shell companies is nothing new to the SEC. In 2004, it proposed a new set of rules designed to protect investors. The rules would have redefined what a shell company is, adjusted Form 8-K reporting requirement for shell companies that cease being shell companies, amended the succession process (when the shell company is taken over by another company), as well as a host of other regulatory changes. The rules were adopted in 2005, but didn't slow down headline-grabbing abuses. Since 2007, more than 600 firms entered the market through back-door registrations. Many of these firms are based in China, including RINO International and China MediaExpress, two of the big blowouts that made the news this past year.
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In April 2011, the SEC admitted that a number of firms being listed are either fraudulent or are reporting financial figures that cannot be trusted. American auditing firms, responsible for reviewing the financial figures of these firms, have raised concern that even they don't have a good grasp on what is going on. One of the major problems is that foreign firms using American shell companies are not necessarily subject to the same requests for information that traditionally registered firms are. In essence, the SEC cannot go after the meat within the shell because the company resides abroad.
What makes this situation more complicated is that it creates an environment in which a legitimately-run foreign firm that buys an American company, and thus can raise money by issuing shares, is lumped in with companies that operate nefariously. For these firms, the choice may be to either wait out better regulation by the SEC and hope that this instills market confidence, or seek investments from other, private sources. For small companies in emerging markets, the expense of raising private money is higher and can quickly dry up if the credit markets take a hit. It is also possible that regulatory bodies stop allowing reverse mergers all together. (For more, see The Wonderful World of Mergers.)
Investors Are at Risk
What does this mean for investors? Over the counter exchanges may pose a risk, as shares of bad reverse merger companies may still be found there. Investors would be wise to also review the Halter index, which is comprised of Chinese companies listed in the United States, to see how the firm in question compares to others similar to it. Many reverse merger firms are notorious for having to restate earnings downward. Review profit margins and other key statistics over time to see if these are too good to be true or rarely budge from a specific range of values. If an investor cannot readily verify the financials of a reverse-merger listing, or if digging deep hits a wall, it is probably a good bet to walk away.
The Bottom Line
With regulators keenly tuned in to the issue of reverse mergers and back-door registration, new rules will make it more difficult for foreign firms to become listed. Exchanges are likely to delist some companies that they have found to operate in ways that flaunt the rules and put investors at risk. (For more, see A Guide To Spotting A Reverse Merger.)
Until then, caveat emptor.
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A fun, easy to play, hard to master game of yummy pastry matching! This delicious, incredibly addictive pastry puzzle game is so entertaining you won't be able to put it down!
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So the election isn't quite over. Before Wednesday night's presidential debate in Denver, the conventional wisdom was that public opinion polls showed an electoral map with an Obama victory written in stone. But the polls, in addition to being imperfect, are also impermanent.
Polls are numerical snapshots. Elections are moving pictures with plotlines written by human agents. Here's what Mitt Romney needs to do to author a Republican victory on Nov. 6.
First, Romney must make President Obama own his economic record, something that the president's team seems embarrassingly willing to do. Last week in North Carolina, Vice President Joe Biden wailed about "the middle class that has been buried the last four years." Who exactly does he think has been shoveling dirt on them?
Here are the facts. The Obama administration presided over the longest period of unemployment above 8 percent since the Great Depression.
An Associated Press analysis of 10 U.S. recessions since World War II and the recoveries that followed them found that "by just about any measure, the one that began in June 2009 is the weakest."
Median incomes have fallen 7.3 percent since President Obama took office, or $4,000 per family. Under his watch, Standard & Poor's for the first time downgraded U.S. government debt.
The recession ended more than three years ago. This is an economy that President Obama built. Nobody else made that happen.
Second, Romney must make the election a referendum on the size and scope of government. Rather than being a one-time "boost" to the economy, the president's $787 billion so-called stimulus set a new baseline for federal spending that has created four consecutive years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
FactCheck.org notes that as a percentage of GDP, federal spending under President Obama "reached the highest level since World War II in fiscal 2009, and has declined only slightly since." Federal debt held by the public is also at post-war highs. And all this is before the most expensive aspects of Obamacare take effect.
The solution proposed by the Obama economic team is — seriously — more of the same: more government, more spending, more debt, more quantitative easing and more cheap money, in addition to more taxes. In 2010, the president's own debt commission warned, "Our nation is on an unsustainable fiscal path." After two more years of Obamanomics, trickle-down government still doesn't work.
Third, Romney must offer a positive vision for the future. The most damning aspect of the "47 percent" video is not that his argument about who pays taxes and who receives government benefits was wrong or that he seemed so willing to dismiss such a large portion of the electorate. It is, instead, that his endorsement of economic determinism betrayed an obliviousness to the conservative goal of empowering individuals.
Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan telling any gathering under any circumstances anything even remotely close to what Romney said? Of course not. Reagan would have talked about the desire of all people to be in control of their lives, to support themselves and their families and to determine their own destinies rather than being dependent on the beneficence of the state. And rather than writing people off, he would have laid out a framework for economic empowerment that appeals across all social, ethnic and racial boundaries. Romney should do the same.
Time is short. The sliver of the electorate that is undecided or swayable is growing smaller. President Obama is unlikely to perform as miserably at the remaining two debates as he did Wednesday night. But Romney finally has some momentum. The question now, with one month to go until the election, is whether he can sustain it.
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In "City of Quartz", Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West-a city in which we may glimpse our own future, mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this special 15-year anniversary edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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In what we're hearing was an extremely competitive situation, Magnet Management and Condé Nast have secured the rights to an article published in The New Yorker this week, "We Live in the Pop-Culture World That Lou Pearlman Created" by John Seabrook with plans to develop the story into a limited series.
After stepping into a spotlight as the first reporter to break a story on a murder in her hometown, 9-year-old Hilde Lysiak landed a book deal. Now, the rights to the forthcoming series of mystery novels, as well as the life rights to Lysiak's story, have been optioned by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content.
Seeso has picked up the half-hour scripted comedy pilot Shrink to series from creators Tim Baltz and Ted Tremper. Baltz will star in the series which Tremper will direct. The project was previously in development at Pivot – Participant Media's now defunct TV network.
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The CW is making some new changes to their show's streaming availability. The network is finalizing a new deal with Netflix to shorten the window for seasons to be released on the site to two weeks.
Online network Hulu has signed a deal with A+E Networks for the exclusive subscription streaming rights to Roots, War & Peace, and Barbarians Rising.
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Now that the major five networks have released their new orders and schedules, it is time to begin planning our viewing calendars!
We've broken down all of the network pilots for you, tracked casting, and followed their updates all season long. Now we've collected all that information and have put it together for you in one handy guide!
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Bordertown, Cooper Barrett's Guide To Surviving Life, Grandfathered, and The Grinder have all been cut from Fox's series ranks.
Say goodbye to cult favorite Agent Carter and long-standing hour-long Castle, as ABC has decided to cancel both shows in addition to The Muppets, Galavant, Nashville, and The Family.
Supergirl is making a big move to CW and Vancouver for season two and CW picks up three pilots to series: Riverdale, Frequency, and No Tomorrow.
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Hulu announces a new "skinny bundle" in the works, but not to be outdone, YouTube makes a similar announcement ahead of their NewFronts tomorrow.
Where Upfronts used to be comprised of the big five television networks and a few cable channels, the events now span months with dozens of channels and platforms presenting their wares. Here's a rundown of the biggest news to come out of this year's Newfronts.
Well Marvel fans, the news we all hoped for is finally here: The Punisher is headed to Netflix. Since Jon Bernthal's initial casting in the role of Frank Castle, rumors have swirled that there may be spinoff series.
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Fullscreen, a new media management/production company, has launched a new subscription service for $5 a month targeted at YouTube-obsessed teens.
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Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the compliments guys!
Admittedly the shirt is terrible, and I agree about the point collar. I have a few shirts in transit as we speak--trying to pin down my go to shirt (finnamore, borrelli and a ledbury). We shall see!
NYR, camel hair jacket? I've been looking for one myself. Cool.