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Book a Mozambique holiday package and there's one activity you absolutely must include on all travel itineraries, no matter how many times you come to this beautiful part of the world – a visit to the Kruger National Park.
This is the largest of its kind to be found in the whole of South Africa, covering an impressive 20,000 sq km and home to some of the most amazing animals to be found anywhere. Keep your cameras at the ready when you're off on a self-drive safari because you'll be able to spot leopard, cheetah, hyena, hippo, monkey, buffalo, zebra, baboon… the list is endless and you're certainly spoiled for choice.
Of course, there are other options available to you if a self-drive safari doesn't appeal. For some, the idea of setting off on their own can be quite daunting (in which case, we certainly wouldn't advise you to go on a walking safari!), but you can book a private guided safari or a group safari if you'd rather have an expert on hand to help you navigate your way around safely.
In terms of Mozambique holiday accommodation, you have a lot to choose from if you make your way to the Kruger National Park. You can stay in luxury lodges with truly upmarket facilities or you can really rough it in a tent or a rustic camp. It all depends on your budget and your personal preferences.
You're sure to want to return to this part of the country time and time again. We look forward to seeing you each and every year! Contact us now.


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As a graduate of the prestigious Horst Institute (Now Aveda) Stacy has been transforming hair for the past 12 years. Having had the opportunity to do advanced training under a Vidal Sassoon creative director and go on to assist in Beverly Hills with celebrity stylists, she was well primed when she started her career in Beverly Hills. With an A-List clientele in salons and red carpet and fashion runway work, she was well rearing to start her own business back on the east coast.
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Remember where my brother was when he celebrated his last birthday?
He was in Peru.
I guess someone has to be the oldest, most responsible child and stay state-side. I guess.
Oh, sista SISTA!
I love you so much!
(Isn't she THE CUTEST!)
I love you so much - when you cry, I cry.
When you smile, I smile.
When you're far away, a little piece of me is missing because I am with you wherever you are.
♥ Happy Birthday Bethers! ♥


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Good afternoon,
I can't say that I will post everyday or that all of my posts will be sewing related. I am feeling this out and want to create a blog that is enjoyable to all. I was in my sewing room last night trying to organize and clean it up and came across a skirt that I had made that was cute, but a disaster. I did not think I would have been able to salvage it but with some ruching at the waist was able to wear it today.
The first time I wore this skirt, although it looked cute- it had some major issues. I had sewn the interfacing to the wrong part at the top and by the end of the day, if I did not have a belt on-it would have been at my knees.
So if I can give you any advise- make sure you use your facing correctly or your fabric will grow, LOL.
I just thought of something, maybe this blog will be mostly about giving tips- so you can learn from my errors in sewing.
Also, I will always try to list the pattern used
Here is a pic of me in the corrected skirt- Simplicty 1541.
Much love from the Sew'l Sista


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Hi all, I see that Kenneth N5VHO and Tim W6MU have addressed some of the questions about ARISS contacts. Here is a bit more. I post the information as fast as I get it and thus there could be changes that happen rapidly; after all this is real space business and ARISS is a guest. There have been times when the contact time changed 2 or 3 times in a day and I try to always post the latest info. Please listen in on the contacts if you are in the footprint. ARISS uses 145.800 MHz FM as the international downlink. Even a simple scanner can be used to hear at least part of a contact if you are in the footprint. About 1/3 of the school contacts are handled via the ARISS Telebridge system. The Telebridge system allows for schools that may not have the technical ability to handle a direct contact but still be able to have a wonderful educational activity. It also allows for ARISS to work in conjunction with the ISS crew work schedules, orbital mechanics, etc. Remember 3 things must happen simultaneously; the crew must be awake and available, the school must be in session, and the ISS must be over the ground station. The ARISS ham radio Telebridge ground stations are located in Australia, Hawaii, California, Texas, Maryland, Belgium, and South Africa. All of these locations have an outstanding satellite station equipped with a phone patch. Verizon provides for the Telebridge hookup; this is truly an international phone hookup that they donate time and personnel for and we at ARISS thank them for their contributions. The participants for a typical Telebridge contact are the school, the ARISS ground station, and an ARISS moderator who acts as net control. The remaining contacts are direct; meaning that all of the equipment is at the school. Think of it as your worst case Field Day exercise. It is not that difficulty technically, but you are dealing with anywhere from 500 to 1000 non-hams who think everything should be perfect. If you ever get the chance to help out or to even be the control op; please do so as I think you will find it pretty rewarding. I always tell the schools to plan on 500 to 700 people hours of prep time; all for 10 minutes of contact time. They always think I am crazy until after the contact and then it hits them as to the impact. Because we realize that many of you wish to listen in but may be out of the footprint, ARISS tries to have a live retransmission via IRLP, Echolink, as a live audio web stream, or a live video web stream. All Telebridge contacts will be able to be on the web courtesy of Verizon and their webservices. ARISS volunteers then pick up that audio stream and put it on Echolink and IRLP. If the contact is a direct one, then ARISS works with the school to determine if a retransmission is possible via IRLP, Echolink, or the web. In any case, as soon as I know whether the contact is going to be retransmitted, I post that information. There have been times when a school decided at the last minute to do a live retransmission, so I suggest you check the ARISS announcements right before a contact to get the most up to date info. If you have not done an ARISS contact, consider finding a school, volunteering, getting the application in, and doing one. I have been the control op for 4 and a mentor for almost 30 and each has been a blast. The present wait time is between 1.5 and 2.5 years. The schedule page has been updated as of 2006-11-10 19:00 UTC. Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt There are several ARISS web sites: English: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ French: http://c.avmdti.free.fr/ariss/index.htm ARISS Europe: http://www.ariss-eu.org/ ARISS Japan: http://www.jarl.or.jp/ariss/ I have also seen comments along the way about what ARISS can and cannot do as far as scheduling. As a school works it way through the scheduling process, it eventually gets to be about 6 months out from a contact date and an ARISS mentor is assigned. So the really hard work may go for about 6 months; serious business where ARISS works with the ISS planners and the school to get a date and for the school to be prepared. But we are only guests and we can only put in our requests for contact times; we can never demand. Sometimes we get our desired times; sometimes it is back to the drawing board. So once again, check for my postings as well as info from the other ARISS mentors for the very latest schedule. I hope this helps explain a bit more on how ARISS works to provide a truly out of this world educational experience. 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS Mentors ---- Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex
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WAUKESHA, Wis.—Federal officials say pilot error caused a twin-engine plane crash that killed four Wisconsin men in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
The August 2006 crash killed Spancrete executive Daniel Nagy, company employees Michael Wraalstad and James Wehr, and pilot Nicholas Gerger.
The Spancrete Group Inc. of Waukesha provides precast and pre-stressed concrete for structures worldwide. Nagy was the grandson of the company's founder.
A National Transportation Safety Board report released Monday says Nagy was getting flight instruction from Gerger when the plane crashed into the outer perimeter fence of the Chippewa Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, Michigan.
The report says the pilot didn't stay in control of the plane while circling for a landing and did not abort the landing when he should have.
Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com


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The next time anyone tries to tell you that the New Testament is historically reliable, try to remember the following facts:
- The authors of the four canonical gospels are completely anonymous.
- All four canonical gospels are translated works.
- There does not exist a single first-hand eyewitness account of anything Jesus ever did.
- All four canonical gospels were written decades after the fact.
- The earliest surviving fragments of the New Testament were all written at least a century after the recorded events.
- The four canonical gospels are NOT independent narratives, but actually borrow heavily from each other.
- The story of Jesus and the adulteress is almost certainly a forgery.
- Miracle stories were commonplace in the ancient world and often garnered large followings of worshipers and devotees.
- The further back in time we go, the more divergence there exists between the known manuscripts that have survived for scrutiny to modern times.
- Six out of the fourteen Pauline epistles are widely considered forgeries by modern Biblical scholars.
- Early Christianity consisted of many competing denominations with many competing gospels that never made it into the official Biblical cannon.
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- See Yale Courses
- The native language of ancient Judea was Aramaic. However, all known manuscripts of the gospels are written in Greek.
- The mere fact that they've been translated is already a strong indication of this. However, many of the narratives admit it outright. For example, Luke 1:1-4 and Galatians 1:11-12. We can also point out that Jesus never wrote down a single word of any gospel by himself.
- See Dating the Bible.
- See Dating the Bible.
- This is known as the synoptic problem. Many sections of the gospel are near-verbatim copies of sections from other books. See, for example, Mark 10:38-45. Then compare side-by-side with Matthew 20:22:28.
- See Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery.
- See Appolonius of Tyana.
- See Misquoting Jesus.
- See Authorship of the Pauline Epistles
- See Diversity in Early Christianity. See also Non-canonical Gospels


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I think there will always be a place for printed books. Other than the fact that having a tangible object is much more rewarding than having a few megabytes of memory, staring at a bright screen for too long of a period has been proven to be harmful for your eyesight in the long run. I like to have a visual clue to how far I am in a book as well. You have no way of knowing that other than page-number with a book read digitally.
I know that things are easier in this digital age as far as access to information. I love reading and books are very important to me in both digital and paper format. The paper books should NOT be removed, there is a joy to them that you will never experience with a digital version of a book. Period.
Printed books are still valid and valuable in today's society. Not everyone has access to digital books all the time. Plus some people just like to hold an actual book. Books are treasures, some of them, such as illuminated manuscripts are literally treasures with gold leaf etc. Children should be able to hold and learn to read from real books as well as digital ones.
Printed books are less and less important but they are easier to share. They also are easier to flip through, and they do not require access to electricity in order to use them. While not all books need to be read in a printed format, it is important to save them in both formats.


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Margaritas may not be as popular as Mojitos in Miami, but we do have the best climate to drink them! The best places to find them skew Mex – which is just fine with us because we're suckers for a good guac and chips.
Top 5 Margaritas in Miami
1 Rosa Mexicano
Rosa Mexicano is famous for their pink pomegranate Maragaritas. And yes, they are frozen, but they are fresh and perfect accompaniments to their table side guacamole and homemade chips.
1111 Lincoln Rd Miami Beach, FL 33139 (305) 695-1005
2 Mercadito
3 Regent Cocktail Club at The Gale
Some fancy mixology bars eschew the margarita, not this one, which some say remind them of swank spots in New York. They even embrace national Margarita Day with and Avocado Margerita. Fancy. And good.
1690 Collins Ave Miami Beach, FL 33139 (305) 673-0199
4 Cantina Beach at The Ritz Carlton Key Biscayne
Yes the margaritas are world-class, but it's more about the full-on vacation feeling one gets from dining (or drinking) at this thatched-roof oasis. It's impossible not to feel as if you've arrived in the islands, if only for a couple of hours.
455 Grand Bay Dr Key Biscayne, FL 33149 (305) 365-4500
5 Ocho at Soho Beach House
Soho Beach House's rooftop Mexican cantina boasts not only spectacular city and ocean vies, but also delicious and creative margaritas. As the name implies, they actually have eight different types of margaritas priced at $8. Our favorite? Smokey Pedro with house-made curaçao to the Watermelon & Cucumber. The only drawback? Sorry, members (and their lucky guests) only!
4385 Collins Ave Miami Beach, FL 33140 (786) 507-7902


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In a certain neighborhood a stray dog kept appearing. She was so shy that no one could get near her, only close enough to observe that she looked hungry. People began putting out food and water, but she wouldn't approach the handout until the human went into a house. Then she ate ravenously and vanished. About four of the neighbors kept the dog fed, but no one could make her acquaintance. Obviously she had had reasons to have a poor opinion of human beings.
This remote-control situation went on for many days, people trying to make friends, the dog not trusting. One morning a woman opened her door and found a small puppy, perhaps three or four weeks old, on her doormat. Of course she took the little thing in, gave it warm milk, decided to keep it. Strangely, the neighborhood talk that day was about four people, each of whom found a doorstep puppy and kept it. The dog they had fed was never seen again. Had she been testing the neighborhood's capacity for caring?
It wasn't difficult for me to believe this story because I'd had a similar experience with a cat who moved into our barn. I fed her when I fed the other animals. Soon there were three kittens in a nest of hay. Their mother had become accustomed to me and was a good affectionate tabby, and after the kittens were old enough to stagger around and try to play they were friendly, too.
So far as I know the mother cat never wandered far from the barn, which is quite a distance from the house. But one day I saw her coming across the meadow between house and barn; she was carrying something. It was one of her kittens and of course it knew what to do to help its mother. It tucked up its back legs to keep them from dragging. The cat deposited the kitten on our back porch and returned to the barn. Soon she brought kitten No. 2 and then the third. After having discarded the responsibility of motherhood she went away. I was delighted with the kittens, and the people who had foundling puppies were delighted with their rewards. I don't know why the cat selected my barn in the first place, but some instinct seemed to have led her correctly.
I knew a dog named Duke, a Labrador retriever, and Duke was such an animal lover that in some mysterious way deer and rabbits and squirrels knew that he would never harm them. When Duke and his master went walking the little wild rabbits hopped along with them. Every day Duke's owner took scraps of lettuce and carrots to a certain place in the brush and left them for the wildlife, so of course the rabbits were glad to hop along with the man and his dog. But that doesn't explain their lack of fear or Duke's kindly attitude.
One day they came across a doe and fawn. Duke looked at them and the doe looked at him. Then she took her fawn a few steps away, settled it down behind a bush, and approached Duke. Duke stepped slowly toward her. They walked to within a foot of each other, stood, and stared in a friendly fashion. The doe went back to her fawn and Duke resumed his walk with his rabbit friends.
It fascinates me when animals of different kinds become friends, especially the combination of tame and wild. I knew a cat who adopted and raised a baby rabbit, but that could be attributed to strong maternal instincts because her own kitten had died. I knew a dog who had a coyote friend, and they played together like two dogs or two coyotes. The untamed coyote would wait in a clearing in the hills for the dog to come out and play.
I am acquainted with a cow who wants to be a deer and refuses to mingle with the other cattle. She goes off in the brush with a small herd of deer and is the first to start running when she sees a human out looking for her.
Instinct is a great gift that creatures have and, though some people believe that animals are incapable of reasoning, we have watched, many times, what appeared to be the results of reason. At any rate, I have arrived at the reasonable conclusion that we humans have a lot to learn.


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The interview candidate must describe his ideal work environment in a way that suits the company's work culture. The hiring manager is more likely to consider the candidate's application if he characterizes a work environment that shares the same values and principles with the company.
The hiring manager asks the candidate to describe his ideal working environment to determine if he's compatible with the company and position. In order to give a worthy response, the candidate must familiarize with the company's work culture by exploring the company website, asking experienced employees or checking the job description. He can also go over the company's mission statement to learn the company's approach to its goals. A good response must also reflect the candidate's desire for long-term success through the available job.
The interview candidate must specify attributes that relate to the company culture. For instance, the candidate may talk about growth opportunities when applying to a company that highly values employee training. He may express interest in working with creative control if the company is looking for a potential employee who has initiative. The candidate can identify more characteristics of his ideal work environment by analyzing his past employments. He must avoid providing a generic response that merely reiterates the job description and fails to reveal his preferences.


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Cardinals reach NLCS
Before Game 5, Adam Wainwright could be lumped in with a number of St. Louis Cardinals stud hoss starters who have carried them into October 10 times since 2000.
Work horses such as Chris Carpenter, Lance Lynn, Kyle Lohse, Jake Westbrook, Braden Looper, Jason Marquis and Jeff Suppan.
Now, after a complete-game 106-pitch, 6-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the fifth and deciding game of the National League division series Wednesday night before 47,231 fans, Wainwright had moved into statue territory.
Only Dizzy Dean in 1934, Bob Gibson in 1967, Danny Cox in 1987, Carpenter in 2011 and now Wainwright have pitched complete-game victories in winner-take-all postseason games.
The Cards have erected statues outside Busch Stadium as tributes to Dean and Gibson.
Carpenter was in uniform as the victorious Cards stood in their clubhouse listening to Wainwright speak first and then spray the first bottle of bubbly at his teammates.
"I have to put this right up there with the greatest moments of my career," Wainwright told reporters after. "This is what starting pitchers live for, like Josh Beckett getting carried off the field with the Florida Marlins in 2003 and Carpenter in 2011."
Wainwright didn't want to let go of catcher Yadier Molina after striking out Pedro Alvarez to end it. It was his sixth strikeout of the game. The right-hander threw first-pitch strikes to 13 consecutive hitters — from one out in the fourth until one out in the eighth and was strike one on 22 of the first 27 hitters he faced.
"That's what you expect from Adam, he was sharp as he usually, always what he is," said David Freese, who hit a two-run homer in the second for the game's first runs.
Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said he "loved the fact everyone kept asking Wainwright about last year's Game 5," when Wainwright lasted only 21/3 innings, allowing six runs against the Washington Nationals.
"I knew that meant he'd bring that much more to the table," said Matheny.
There was a delay to start the ninth. Eight Cardinals were in the field. The bullpen door had not opened. Then, Wainwright came sprinting out of the dugout. Matheny said Wainwright had gone to the clubhouse to change his uniform.
The Busch faithful stood and roared … "when he ran out, everyone's hair stand on end," Matheny said.
"Someone asked on the off day whether I like closing games or starting better," said Wainwright. "If you pitch the game you should, you should be your own closer."
The win means the Cards will play host to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the best-of-seven NL Championship Series, starting in St. Louis on Friday.
"He boosts our confidence through the roof, battles for us every pitch," said Matt Adams, who also hit a two-run homer in the eighth.
Wainwright walked a man in the first, ending his streak of starts without a free pass, He had been tied with Mark Buehrle for the longest streak in postseason history (three games).
Wainwright's only spot of trouble came with two out in the seventh on three straight infield singles.
Yep, three straight infield singles.
The Cards were up a 3-0 when Matt Carpenter fielded Justin Morneau's grounder, slipped, and the throw to first arrived late.
Marlon Byrd bounced to shortstop Pete Kozma, who easily could have flipped to second or raced to the bag for the force. Instead, he chose to throw over Morneau to first. Late.
Alvarez hit a 3-2 pitch off the first-base bag. The ball was fielded by Carpenter, who threw to Wainwright as he and Alvarez bumped, with Morneau scoring.
"Every time we turned around, Wainwright kind of got in the way," said Pirates manager Clint Hurdle. "Two runs in 18 innings. Tip your cap."
Three more singles, a walk and the Adams homer in the eighth turned it into a one-sided affair, as Foster Hewitt turned to Jack Buck and said: "You know Jack, the score was not really indicative of the play."
Freese homered on a 1-2 curve from Pirates starter Gerrit Cole for his seventh career postseason home run. While going deep was not surprising for him, hitting a curve ball off Cole, who had allowed one hit on his previous 232 offspeed pitches, certainly was.
The last pitcher as young as Cole, 23, to start and win a winner-take-all postseason game was Fernando Valenzuela, 20, against the Montreal Expos in 1981.
Valenzuela needed help to get the last out.
Wainwright did not.


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Idaho Rules of Family Law Procedure Rule 447. General Sanctions - Failure to Comply With Any Order.
In addition to the sanctions under rules 443 through 446, for violation of discovery procedures, any court may in its discretion impose sanctions or conditions, or assess attorney's fees, costs or expenses against a party or the party's attorney for failure to obey an order of the court made pursuant to these rules.
(Adopted April 2, 2014, effective for early adopters July 1, 2014, effective statewide July 1, 2015.)
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The Beckum-based BEUMER Group will be showcasing its products and system solutions for the palletising and packaging technology sectors at the Khimia 2013 trade fair in Moscow this October.
The 'Khimia 2013: Complete systems for the chemical industry' is an international trade fair for the chemical industry and science, and will be held from October 28 to 31 in Moscow.
BEUMER Group's display at the exhibition will target the complex requirements of manufacturers in the chemical industry, with products such as bagging, palletising and load-securing equipment to warehouse management systems for chemical and petrochemical products.
BEUMER Group's paletpac high-performance layer palletiser stacks PE and PP bags to a packing height of 2,400mm on any standard size pallets. Flexible, geometrically accurate and extremely stable, the paletpac enables the user to quickly and easily set the required parameters via a multiprogram. Depending on the product requirements, the BEUMER paletpac palletisers can be fitted with a rotary clamp or a double belt turning device that moves the filled bags into the required position.
The BEUMER stretch hood M high-performance packaging machine is designed to handle numerous film thicknesses and package stacked bags quickly, reliably and sustainably. The BEUMER stretch hood M is a truly efficient and environment-friendly pallet packaging option with its flexible handling of different pallet and film formats, high throughput, reliable film handling, low energy consumption, low compressed air requirement and ability to process recyclable packaging film.
BEUMER will also be presenting its Warehouse Management System (WMS) at the Khimia. The WMS fulfils all the main requirements of the chemical industry, like the storage of sensitive substances, and batch tracking and space-saving, cost-efficient warehouse management. Providing an interface to all common ERP systems, the WMS incorporates warehouse management, material flow system and process control of individual machines, enabling the user to have a continuous overview of their production and storage facilities at all times.
BEUMER will exhibit its products at the Khimia 2013 in Hall 2.1, Booth 2.1.A80.


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The New York Times accused Rasmussen Reports of lacing a recent survey on the Wisconsin protests with conservative bias, elevating longstanding critiques about the polling firm's credibility.
The survey, released Monday, asked four questions about the Wisconsin clash over Republican Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan, which would strip the collective bargaining rights of public employees and force them to pay more for benefits. It found that 48 percent of "likely voters" agreed with Walker, while 38 percent supported his opponents.
Nate Silver of the Times' FiveThirtyEight blog is a trusted polling expert who came to fame after correctly predicting the outcomes of 49 of 50 states in the 2008 election. In a Monday evening posting, he took issue with the manner in which several of Rasmussen's questions were asked, decreeing that they were designed to engender a pro-Walker bias.
Two of the questions, Silver wrote, misrepresented the nature of the opposition in a "blatant" attempt to diminish sympathy for them before asking the respondent whose side they were on. The penultimate question was "a talking point posed as a question," he declared.
The questions were about whether the respondent thinks public or private sector employees make more money, and whether "teachers, firemen and policemen" should be allowed to go on strike — which is illegal in most places for uniformed services.
"Because of the problems with question design, my advice would be simply to disregard the Rasmussen Reports poll, and to view their work with extreme skepticism going forward," Silver concluded.
Rasmussen, fending off years of criticisms of harboring a Republican-leaning bias, is taken very seriously by the mainstream press. Its founder and president, Scott Rasmussen, has openly supported conservative causes and is a former writer for the conspiracy-minded website World Net Daily.
It released hundreds of surveys in the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections, many of which made prominent news in major outlets. The Times reported that Rasmussen "overestimated the standing of Republican candidates by roughly 4 percentage points on average."
"Rasmussen should probably just drop the pretense that they are non-partisan," Silver wrote Monday on Twitter.


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Kilgore leads the District 15-4A baseball standings, has from the beginning of district play, and that may not change this season.
The Diamond 'Dogs picked up another win Thursday night, beating Bullard in Bullard, 2-1, after another solid pitching performance, this time by Javon Smitherman, who threw a complete-game victory.
Kilgore moves to 17-4-2 on the season, and 6-0 in 15-4A competition.
Bullard scored their only run of the game in the bottom of the third inning, and led KHS 1-0 for much of the game.
But Kilgore broke through in the top of the sixth.
Catcher Khalon Clayton walked, and then Jerrick "Deuce" Ervin bunted Clayton over to second, and then Collin Pippen singled, scoring Clayton and tying the game at 1-all.
Elijah Williams came on to run for Pippen, and stole second base. Smitherman hit a single to left field, scoring Williams, the go-ahead run. The Bulldogs held Bullard scoreless in the seventh and left with the victory.
Smitherman finished with allowing just the one earned run, five hits and three walks. He struck out five.
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On any given day things to do for couples in Houston number from a dozen to literally hundreds. The events that you'll find useful have been screened for uniqueness. They are the activities that power couples or anyone on a date can enjoy doing together.
We have just finished compiling a new list of Houston events in 2017 for you to check out. They run the gambit from festivals to your favorite holiday parades. If there is an event that you want to see listed here contact us for details on getting listed in our Houston Guide.
The guide is almost complete so we wanted to give you a heads up and a sampling of what you can expect to find inside. Here is a few of the things happening just in the first quarter of the year.
Martin Luther King Jr. Grande Parade
Chevron Houston Marathon
Trinity Jazz Festival
Arbor Day Celebration
Super Bowl Weekend
Texas Lunar New Year
Texas Christian Film Festival
Cupid Cruise
Mardi Gras Galveston
Houston Creole Heritage Festival Mardi Gras Parade
HLSR Downtown Rodeo Parade
GHACC Crawfish Festival & Parade
St. Patrick's Day Parade
Houston Black Film Festival
Fun Places For Dates In Houston
Lunar New Year
The top upcoming events where lovers are in abundance include the annual Texas Lunar Festival. The celebration promotes the impressive qualities of every culture while celebrating the Asian Lunar New Year.
The colorful costumes, fireworks and friendly crowds make for a lively event. The activities take place outside the downtown area and partiers come from all over the metroplex to be a part of this Houston event.
Mardi Gras Galveston
Elaborate parades, headlining performances and non-stop entertainment are just part of the festivities at the Mardi Gras in Galveston. There are family events and plenty of opportunity for feasting during the week long celebration.
Houston Creole Heritage Festival
Houston Creole Heritage Festival features 3 days of Louisiana-style entertainment and recreational activities. Bring your beau out for the parade, carnival rides, games, casino tent and live entertainment.
The fun takes place all round town from Discovery Green to local clubs.
A showcase of the best Texas music, cuisine and culture. It's an all in one festival. It is the perfect place for newcomers to Houston to have a date, as well as Houstonians. This festival is the ideal event for enjoying live music, seeing kick-butt performances and learning about Texas culture.
Everything for your Texas music-and-drinking pleasure will be there. number from a dozen and literally hundreds.
We have just finished compiling a new list of everything from festivals to your favorite annual parades in Houston. If there is an event that you want to see listed here contact us for details on getting listed in our Houston Guide.


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Industries › Commercial Real Estate
Coastal Logistics expands warehouse space in Suffolk
- September 6, 2012
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Coastal Logistics Inc. has expanded and leased an additional 40,804 square feet of warehouse space at Ashley Capital's Bridgeway Business Center at 6701 College Dr. in Suffolk. The new space boosts the company's total leased space to 122,008 square feet.
Ashley Capital, based out of New York, is one of the largest privately held real estate investment companies in the U.S. with a current portfolio of about 22 million square feet. Coastal Logistics is a manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and port services firm.
Bobby Phillips and Patrick Mumey of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer handled lease negotiations on behalf of the landlord, Ashley Capital.


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Senior Specialists Group Mission – "The Foundation for Senior Services is a charity whose mission is to provide seniors with education, options and resources so that they can choose quality care and assistance that will help preserve their independence. We have first-hand knowledge of the complex and confusing array of issues that today's seniors must navigate in order to get quality care and assistance, and to live safely and cared for. The Foundation of Senior Services purpose is to provide this support to seniors who fit our criteria, in the local communities which we service, without consideration of social and cultural differences.
Approximately 24% of those 65 and older are living alone, and approximately 65.6% of seniors are without private or public health insurance (Wallace, Pourat, Enriquez-Haass, Alek, 2002). These numbers are expected to increase as Baby Boomers and state and federal governments determine how to deal with their care and the tremendous existing budget deficit. To circumvent both governmental budget issues and potential healthcare crises, the Foundation of Senior Services plans to connect and supplement clients' funds so that services can be readily obtained and utilized. The Foundation for Senior Services will work with agencies that provide, home care services, home repairs, meals, transportation, medical supplies and equipment to our community to form agreements and supplement payment plans on behalf of our clients.
Our goal is to spearhead a co-operative effort to meet the growing needs of the seniors in our area."


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The SC will then present the patient to the attending. If you would like to present a portion, please tell the SC. You may also alert the health educator that your patient may benefit from meeting with them, and in doing so have the opportunity to briefly present the patient to the health educator.
At the end of clinic, you will walk the patient to the front desk and make sure he or she receives a follow-up appointment, if necessary.
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It was a high bar, but Mitt Romney met the challenge.
The failed 2008 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, the failed Republican nominee for the presidency in 2012, and the guy who toyed with running again in 2016 but thought better of it, has delivered the most pointless speech of the 2016 presidential race.
Romney dominated the discussion following the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses that saw Donald Trump dramatically advance his candidacy for the nomination of the party that made Romney its standard-bearer four years ago. Justifiably concerned about the direction of a party that his father helped to define in the mid-20th century and that he hoped to define in the 21st, the former governor of Massachusetts signaled that he would identify the danger posed by Trump and challenge Republicans to halt the rise of a crude, xenophobic, and reactionary billionaire who could turn the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Trump.
As Romney prepared to speak, commentators announced that "the Mitt is about to hit the fan."
The political and media elites, who have always taken Romney more seriously than the American electorate has, did everything they could to pump up the hot-air balloon, and then Romney popped it.
Romney offered credible criticism of Trump. He detailed GOP front-runner's bullying, greed, misogyny, lunacy, and false statements, arguing: "His imagination must not be married to real power." He said, "There's plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man…," and predicted Trump's election as president would "injure our families and our country." He said the billionaire's policies would "balloon the deficit and the national debt," and said that under a Trump presidency, "the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished."
Romney called Trump's approach to foreign policy "recklessness in the extreme" and declared that Trump "lacks the temperament to be president."
Romney literally spoke of Trump as "twisted."
But Mitt Romney did not say he would refuse to vote for Trump as the Republican nominee in the fall.
Prominent Republicans who take seriously the threat Trump poses, not merely to their party but to their country, have done this: Congressman Reid Ribble of Wisconsin, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker have done this. More Republicans are stepping up each day to put the good of the United States ahead of petty partisanship.


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Waste Some Time With These 7 Awesome Jackie Chan Fight Scenes
August 2, 2010 | 1 Comment » | Topics: Awesomeness, main
Watching a Jackie Chan fight scene is like watching a ballet with roundhouse kicks to the head and spleen punches. It truly is a visual art that even after 20 or so viewings, they never ceases to impress or amaze me. Here is a compilation of a few of his best fight scenes to date.
Rumble In The Bronx
Drunken Master 2
Wheels on Meals
Police Story
Dragons Forever
Drunken Master 2 (Axe Gang)
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Timepiece :: Geek / / / / /
This page was created mostly for my own convenience. So that the next time I forget to bring my usual flash drive to work, I can use the old one and still have all my tweaks intact. A few I wrote (or adapted) myself, which I've indicated. They're also available elsewhere on the internet (list in right sidebar). But, I hope that some of the stuff here is of use to someone besides myself. You can tell I really like to tweak my software and my internet experience.
My newest discovery is Yahoo Pipes, which let you do all kinds of things with RSS feeds. I've made quite a few which replace the short little summary in the regular feed with the full articles, so I don't have to click on the link to read the full story. Much better. Plus a few comic feeds that now include the actual comic, rather than just a link, and few pipes that just filter some really overwhelming feeds to take out the stuff I never want to see. I included a link in the sidebar to all my published Yahoo Pipes.
In addition to the links below, there is somewhat easier access to the other userscripts I use regularly via my favorites at userscripts.org. Unfortunately, Userstyles.org does not have a similar favorites function, especially since I rely a lot more on styles than scripts nowadays. I'm down to less than a dozen scripts, and half are for specific sites/pages, not general use.
I used to edit the user style sheet for the browser itself (userchrome.css), but now I keep everything that used to be in that in Stylish styles so I can easily disable them temporarily - the old way I had to restart the browser each time I made a change. For the various sites I visit I some have styles for "all pages" and some for specific domains/URLs (in the styles section below). These let me choose how I want everything to look, regardless of what the author of the page(s) prefers; for instance, I have links to Youtube show up differently than other links (I have a video icon appear after the link), because I usually don't like watching videos on the internet, and no one bothers to warn you anymore. I also have new window links marked differently (green outline). There are extensions that do these things, of course, but I prefer to keep my extensions to a minimum (list below notwithstanding). Styles make fewer demands on the browser and fewer problem interactions with extensions. There are more of the common style sheet tweaks here.
If you got to this page via some weird Google quirk, (searching on what string, out of curiosity? I'd love to know) my main page is timepiece :: deb morrissey. I have several other pages, for pictures and my blogroll and a few other things, but they're all linked from the main page.


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Russian revolutionary leader Lenin with his pet cat in his hands. 1922.
Russia after the Civil War fought between the White Guards and the Bolsheviks. A man stands outside a shop in market place of a Russian city. Horse drawn carts transport material to the shops. People stand and talk on streets and outside shops. Horses and carts on the side of roads near the shops. Vladimir Lenin makes signature notes while talking to other people. A man watches as a woman opens the doors of her shop.
The trial of "Left SR" social revolutionists from Social Revolutionist Party in Moscow, Russia. A crowded street outside a court in Moscow. People enter the court room for the Moscow Trial. Pistols and other equipment lying over legal documents on a desk. Accused men and women arrive. Women write in the documents. The prosecuting attorney is seen and he speaks.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hirosi Saito officially declares that Japan would no longer abide by the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Hirosi Saito steps from his car and enters the Old Executive Office building in Washington DC. Exterior view of Executive office building. He descends the steps of the building and enters his car.
Rise of Benito Mussolini after World War I and taking Italy to World War II. Benito Mussolini and the Blackshirts parade in Rome when the Fascist Party comes to power after ousting Italian Prime Minister Luigi Facta in October 1922. Civilians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party parade in the 'March on Rome' when Mussolini takes over the government. Cheering civilians surround Mussolini as he exits from a building. The Blackshirts parade. Mussolini speaks from a balcony. A large crowd gives the Fascist salute at one of Mussolini's mass meetings. Members of the Fascist Youth parade on the streets. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler deplanes in Venice and meets Italian Prime Minister Mussolini for the first time. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gian Galeazzo Ciano and Mussolini and staff review troops. Mussolini shakes hands with Hitler, surrounded by Italian notables. A Royal Box at a ceremony shows Hitler, Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and the Queen of Italy. An Italian tank review near Rome's Colosseum. Italian crack troops goose-step past the Royal Box for Hitler to review. The Munich Conference shows Hitler, Mussolini, Prime Minister of France Eduard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain among others. Mussolini signs the Munich Pact. A crowd massed near the Victor Emmanuel Memorial acclaim Mussolini after his return from Munich.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito calls on U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull In December 1934 to inform that Japan will denounce the Washington Naval Treaty on 1922 which limited the size of the Japanese fleet. A close up of the ambassador Saito. He exits the State, War, and Navy Building (later the Executive Office Building) and gets in a car. Next segment: A female pilot Helen Richey becomes the first woman to fly mail in the United States. Richey stands in front of an aircraft and shakes hand with an official. Richey in the cockpit and the aircraft takes off. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.


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`Phantom Shares,' Failed Trades and Naked Shorts: (Transcript)
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March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Michael Schneider reports on the practice of naked short selling, its impact on companies such as Overstock.com Inc. and efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission to combat abuses. Naked short selling involves selling stocks short without borrowing the shares first, meaning sellers theoretically can place unlimited orders to drive down a company's stock. Patrick Byrne, chief executive officer of Overstock.com, and others speak. (Source: Bloomberg) (This is not a legal transcript. Bloomberg LP cannot guarantee its accuracy.) HATCH: Well how can we allow $6 billion a day not to be reported? It ought to be stopped. COX: And intentionally failing to deliver that stock within the standard three-day settlement period can be market manipulation that is clearly violative of the Federal Securities laws. O'QUINN: Which is just stealing is all it is. This is all an example of stealing. CHANOS: It sounds ominous. It sounds nefarious. And by and large it's a non-issue in the marketplace. ANGEL: Is somebody manipulating the shares? What is going on here? It certainly smells bad. SCHNEIDER: Welcome to this Bloomberg News Special Report. I'm Mike Schneider. Stock manipulation. It's a problem that dates back to a time when Wall Street was just a wall. Built by the Dutch back in 1653, stood 12 feet high, it ran pretty much beneath where I'm standing right now. Over the centuries, investors have learned many tricks to drive stocks both up and down. One of the newest ways to drive them down - and you can make lots of money doing that - is with an obscure Wall Street trading tactic called naked short selling. In a normal short sale, an investor borrows shares and sells them. If the price falls, he profits by replacing those borrowed shares with cheaper ones. But in a naked short sale, an investor fails to deliver the shares because he doesn't borrow them. In extreme cases, he even sells phantom shares, shares that don't even exist. While naked short selling is legal, manipulating markets is not, and regardless of intent, the effect of naked short selling can be the same - driving share prices lower. Our story now begins with a man who has done more to call attention to this problem than anyone else. BYRNE: There is in place a system. There is an Al-Qaeda, so to speak, a loosely organized group of people who are destroying small companies and looting the savings of America. Gather round. We're doing our morning meeting this afternoon. Come on in. SCHNEIDER: Meet Patrick Byrne, the outspoken CEO of Overstock.com, an Internet retailer based in Salt Lake City that went public in May 2002. For the past two years, Byrne has been complaining that naked shorting has driven down share prices in thousands of small public companies, including his own, by permitting the sale of stock that, in some cases, doesn't exist.
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From January 2005 to January 2007, Overstock share prices dropped nearly 70 percent. BYRNE: It's a really simple concept, and when you get to it, you think, what's all the hullabaloo about? It's really basic. There are people selling things and not delivering. SCHNEIDER: The 43-year-old Byrne, who counts Warren Buffett among his friends, says his troubles began after Overstock reported a profit for the second time in its history, in the fourth quarter of 2004. UNIDENTIFIED: It is my privilege to welcome Overstock.com to NASDAQ this morning as we honor their accomplishment as one of the most innovative and successful Internet companies in recent history. SCHNEIDER: In 2004, Overstock's sales had more than doubled, to nearly $500 million. Its stock had tripled. But the high fives and champagne soon gave way to disbelief. From a high of $77.18 in December 2004, Overstock shares began tumbling. By December 2005, they collapsed to a low of $28.02. Byrne become convinced his shares were being manipulated, a conclusion also reached by Tom Ronk, the President of Buyins.net. Ronk sells data on short sales to companies and investors. RONK: Overstock is a - is the poster boy of naked short selling. What's interesting is that, from January 1st, 2005, Overstock.com has been on the naked short list for 91 percent of the trading days. In that exact same period of time, over 86 million shares have been shorted in Overstock. How is that possible? It shouldn't be. SCHNEIDER: Ronk says naked short selling explains the huge decline in Overstock shares that January, when the stock fell 20 percent in just one month. RONK: We have found very large drops in U.S. stocks in one- month trading periods. So, we're seeing that, when they first come in and attack, they hit it hard. They really hit it hard, because they can get away with it. And they cause the largest damage to the stock usually in the first wave of selling. SCHNEIDER: Overstock is just one of hundreds of companies considered at risk for manipulation by naked short sellers. They appear on stock exchange lists mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation Short Sales, or Reg SHO. These threshold lists consist of companies with too many trades that can't be settled because stock is not delivered to the buyer, so- called failures to deliver. ANGEL: I mean, some people use the phrase counterfeit stock to describe the phenomenon, that if you can sell stock and you never have to deliver, it's going to have the same impact as selling, selling and selling. It's going to push the price down. What is naked short sell? SCHNEIDER: Angel says not all failures are the result of traders trying to manipulate stock prices. Some may be caused by clerical errors. Overstock was on the list of failed deliveries that U.S. Exchanges released in January 2005. Along with Overstock were more than 240 other companies on NASDAQ's list, among them some familiar names Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Global Crossing, Netflix, TASER and, U.S. Airways. The New York Stock Exchange had nearly 60 companies on its list, including Delta Airlines, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, and Winn-Dixie Stores. And the problem is not going away. Since Reg SHO took effect, more than 4,500 companies have been affected by stock delivery failures severe enough to qualify them as threshold securities. That's roughly one in three companies traded on U.S. exchanges, the majority of them with small or very small market caps. BYRNE: I don't opposed hedge funds. I don't oppose short selling. I object to the accumulation of unsettled trades in our financial system.
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SCHNEIDER: Reg SHO is supposed to restrict short selling in threshold securities. Once a company is on an exchange's threshold list, Reg SHO requires prime brokers to settle any new trade failures after 13 consecutive trading days. But Byrne and other CEOs say the SEC's own data prove that Reg SHO is failing to stop naked short selling. Companies including Overstock, Krispy Kreme, and Martha Stewart each have been on threshold lists for more than 400 trading days. ANGEL: I can see no reason why sellers should be able to fail to deliver shares for years in name-brand companies. It just doesn't make sense. It raises the question, what is going on here? SCHNEIDER: Patrick Byrne was convinced that illegal activity was responsible for the failures in Overstock trades. BYRNE (?): There's people going to go to prison. There's nothing they can do to make me stop. SCHNEIDER: When we return, Byrne's fight would take him to a place that is one of Wall Street's bestkept secrets. But first - what naked short selling has in common with the Producers. UNIDENTIFIED: There, how much percentage of a play can there be altogether? UNIDENTIFIED: Max, you can only sell 100 percent of anything. UNIDENTIFIED: And how much of Springtime for Hitler have we sold? UNIDENTIFIED: Twenty-five thousand percent. SCHNEIDER: In the Producers, down on his luck Broadway impresario Max Bialystock and his hapless accountant, Leo Bloom, sell more shares in a play than is mathematically possible. CEOs like Frank Dobrucki have complained for years that the same Producers style accounting is at work when abusive naked short sellers target small companies. DOBRUCKI: Twenty thousand, eight hundred percent of our company was traded in a single month. The shares weren't available. They weren't there. There was no way they could be trading. SCHNEIDER: In March 2005, the Senate Banking Committee confronted then-SEC Chairman William Donaldson with a story about Frank Dobrucki's company, the Nevada-based real estate holding company, Global Links. An investor named Robert Simpson had set out to prove that small companies were indeed frequent targets of abusive naked short sellers. Simpson placed an order for $5,000 worth of stock in Global Links. That got Simpson ownership of all 1.1 million Global Link shares in the market. Not some of them, all of them. UNIDENTIFIED: There were no shares available to be borrowed, and yet in two days, there were over 50 million shares traded. That's clearly something that needs work. SIMPSON: I was absolutely blown away when I bought 1,282,050 shares, which equated to 111 percent of the issued and outstanding. I just couldn't even fathom that. So, it wasn't just crooked, it was Wild West times 10. SCHNEIDER: The day all this started, trading in Global Links opened at 10 cents a share. Within a second, the price dropped to a penny. An hour and 16 minutes later, Global Links stock was trading at eight one-hundredths of a penny. Prices dropped 99 percent in less than two hours. Global Links CEO Frank Dobrucki wrote shareholders telling them the selling of Global Links shares was evidence of illegal trading, and when that occurs, he said ? DOBRUCKI: The company cannot meet its goals, and shareholder equity is diluted so that brokers can line their pockets with illegal cash. SCHNEIDER: The same conviction motivated Patrick Byrne to hire six-foot six-inch John O'Quinn, one of
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the few attorneys in the country tall enough to look him in the eye, and by reputation, a giant killer. In Texas, they call O'Quinn the billion-dollar man because he won billion dollar judgments against makers of silicone breast implants and Fen-Phen, and against big tobacco. O'QUINN: The deal is rigged so bad, I can make this statement safely - you have more chance to be treated fairly in a casino in Vegas than you do in the stock market. The Securities industry has things rigged where they can deal from the bottom of the deck regarding your stock and your money. SCHNEIDER: O'Quinn's co-council is another Houston-based attorney, Wes Christian. Together they represent some 20 U.S. companies that all claim damage from naked short selling, including Overstock, Sedona Corporation, and TASER. They represent Overstock in a lawsuit seeking $3.5 billion in damages from Wall Street's biggest prime brokers, accusing them of executing short sales with no intention of delivering stock, causing Overstock's share price to drop. All the accused have declined comment on pending litigation. BYRNE: If you're a short seller and you abide by all the rules governing short sales, then fine. It's legitimate, it's legal, it's proper. That's not what is going on on Wall Street. What's going on on Wall Street in our cases, and we're now seeing in many other companies is a rigged system. SCHNEIDER: But where Byrne and his lawyers see naked short sellers driving down stocks and destroying companies, many on Wall Street see something far less threatening. CHANOS: Well, I think the phrase I would use would be red herring. It sounds ominous. It sounds nefarious, and by and large it's a non-issue in the marketplace. SCHNEIDER: Jim Chanos runs Kynikos Associates, a New York Hedge Fund known for short selling. He says he's never naked shorted a stock. Chanos is among those on Wall Street who say CEOs who complain about short sellers are usually trying to divert attention from fundamental problems. CHANOS: And they often find the short sellers convenient excuse as opposed to perhaps their own failings in execution to blame for share price disappointment. And that's where I think we see a lot of the sterm and drung , if you will, of this issue. SCHNEIDER: Byrne's critics have dismissed him as a conspiracy theorist and have criticized his company's performance. In 2006, Overstock revenues fell one percent. The company lost $97 million. Share prices fell 46 percent. BYRNE: I knew as soon as I put them on, it was going to be spun as, oh, this is a CEO who is just mad about his stock price, and it was just, you know, if you only ran a better liquor store, maybe people would stop robbing it. SCHNEIDER: Byrne's battle against naked short sellers led him to one of Wall Street's best-kept secrets, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation or DTCC. It's just a few blocks from here. On average, the DTCC says it processes more than $1.4 quadrillion worth of trades a year. That's more than 20 times the economic output of the entire planet. The DTCC also keeps track of the trades that can fail due to naked shorting. Speaking at a conference just a few blocks from DTCC headquarters, Suzanne Trimbath, who worked for a subsidiary of the DTCC, explained the corporation's role in U.S. capital markets by comparing Wall Street to Broadway. TRIMBATH: Imagine that all of Wall Street is a stage. The DTCC is like backstage. These are the guys that run the lights and the cameras, the grips and the gaffers, the people that moviegoers really don't need to know what they do, and you don't need to care about it. But we all do need to care about what's happening backstage at the capital markets. SCHNEIDER: Meantime, Patrick Byrne says he received data from the DTCC that stunned him. On January 12th, 2006, Byrne says the DTCC data indicated that there were seven million more
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Overstock shares in circulation than there should have been, a discrepancy coinciding with the steep decline in the company's share price. BYRNE: If it's only seven million shares, it's 35 percent of our company has been counterfeited. I think I have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, or the people who think they are shareholders, to clean this up. SCHNEIDER: DTCC data obtained from the SEC through the Freedom of Information Act also revealed the scope of the failed trade problem. On an average day last March, failed trades amounted to more than 750 million shares in almost 2,700 stocks, exchange traded funds, and other securities. In all, the DTCC says about $6 billion in trades can't be cleared every day, 1.5 percent of the total dollar value. In this letter to the SEC, Wall Street's Trade Association, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Associations, or SIFMA, says trade settlement failures are only a problem for an extremely small universe of securities. Peter Chepucavage is a former SEC attorney who helped write Reg SHO. CHEPUCAVAGE: To say it's trivial in the context of the entire universe is a meaningless statement. We all want to know more about how many fails there are with respect to short sales and who exactly is failing. SCHNEIDER: Because trades can fail for innocent reasons, like clerical errors, the DTCC says it doesn't know how many failed trades can be blamed on abusive naked short selling. A statement on its Web site reads, ?While we have data on the volume of fails, we have no information on the underlying causes of those fails.? DTCC officials declined our request for interviews. DTCC members include the prime brokerage firms that control the $10 billion annual stock lending market and are responsible for many of the failed trades. Officials at SIFMA declined to be interviewed too. Up next, is the SEC doing enough to crack down on abusive naked short sellers? COX: The next item on our agenda is the serious problem of abusive naked short sales, which can be used as a tool to drive down a company's stock price to the detriment of all of its investors. SCHNEIDER: In July 2006, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox admitted there were loopholes in Reg SHO that permitted naked shorting to continue. COX: There continues to be a number of threshold securities with substantial and persistent fail to deliver positions that aren't been closed out under existing delivery and settlement guidelines. SCHNEIDER: One problem, trades that fail before a company lands on a threshold list can remain unsettled forever. The SEC wants to close that loophole by setting deadlines for settling failed trades, but some say this still isn't enough. Reg SHO, they say, will still fail to prevent abusive naked short selling, that's because the rule only forces naked short sellers to settle trades after they've failed, and by then it's too late. The alleged damage inflicted by naked shorting can occur before a company shows up on a threshold list. Example - January 2006, shares of Audible, the company that sells audio newspapers and books, fell nearly 15 percent. The drop coincided with a jump in undelivered shares, which occurred before Audible was placed on the NASDAQ's threshold list. RONK: Our data is showing anywhere from 15 to 35 percent drops in stock prices in the first month that this is happening. And we've seen stocks go from 26 down to three, you know, 90 percent drops in the stock price over six, seven or eight-month periods. But it's usually the first month where the most damage is done. SCHNEIDER: In 2003, the SEC filed suit against Rhino Advisors for naked short selling shares of software company Sedona Corporation two years earlier. Rhino settled the case in 2003 for $1 million
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without admitting or denying wrongdoing. According to SEC records, Rhino instructed brokers at the now-defunct brokerage Revco to clobber Sedona's stock until its share prices collapsed. The shares fell 50 percent in three weeks. UNIDENTIFIED: Yes. Did you get anything good there for me? EMRICH: They were congratulated for clobbering Sedona's stock. Go after, make sure you go all the way, run them out of business. I have now 15 employees when, at one time, I had over 70. SCHNEIDER: Traders have committed federal crimes using naked short selling. This document contains e-mails written by a convicted naked short seller serving 11 years in prison for racketeering, conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, and extortion. Anthony Elgindy directed members of his Internet-based investing cartel to sell their stock in a certain company at the same time, carpet bombing, he called it. Ken Breen was lead federal prosecutor in the case. BREEN: There was testimony at trial with regard to volume, pounding, volume trading. They were able to overwhelm the stock by just flooding the market with short sell orders. And their short sell orders would eat up all the buy orders, and it would just drive the price down. SHAPIRO: The bottom line is that the one ? SCHNEIDER: Former Under Secretary of Commerce Robert Shapiro works as a consulting for lawyers representing alleged victims of naked short sellers. He says as many as 1,000 public companies were damaged by naked shorting in the decade it took to get Reg SHO into the rule books. SHAPIRO: A lot of those companies are gone. A lot of them died. This was a fatal attack. Now, some of them were weak when they were attacked. Some of them would have failed anyway. Others wouldn't have. Again, it's not up to the naked short sellers to decide. It's up to the investors that play by the rules. SCHNEIDER: Well if you believe the $6 billion in failed trades every day could endanger a market the size of America's, some argue the dollar value isn't the real threat. The danger, they say, is in what those trade failures represent. CHEPUCAVAGE: And why should a group of overzealous short sellers, and frankly, they are mostly hedge funds, why should they be allowed to destroy the American dream? It's a matter of fairness. I think what you hear among all the critics is, let's just be fair. There's no need for this. SCHNEIDER: Right now, affected companies blame hedge funds, and hedge funds are blaming the prime brokers, the firms that process trades for institutional investors. CHANOS: If we're going to find out that there are fails in the system due to widespread naked short selling, it's going to be due to the brokerage houses, and some of my best friends are prime brokers, don't get me wrong, but it's going to be due to the back office problems at the brokerage houses, not the hedge funds. SCHNEIDER: Patrick Byrne, who once personified the NASDAQ's hopes for a dot-com recovery, is now the poster child for all that's wrong with Reg SHO. The day Overstock became a threshold security, in January 2005, the NASDAQ reported that more than 280,000 Overstock shares had failed to deliver. After becoming a threshold security, prime brokers were supposed to guarantee delivery of Overstock shares in any new short sales. Instead, the number of undelivered shares skyrocketed. By March 20th, 2006, they topped 3.8 million, an increase of more than 1,200 percent. Across the Rockies in Utah, Overstock's CEO slips his Jeep Scrambler into second gear near his company's headquarters in the foothills of the Losach Mountains. It is his place to escape. Like these roads, his battle still seems uphill, but Byrne says he won't quit.
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BYRNE: So, it becomes like a game of chicken, and I'm putting a brick on the accelerator and taking my hands off the wheel. And if they do the same thing and we crash, we crash. SCHNEIDER: Of all the numbers that we've reported here, there is one that everyone can agree on - the number one. Using the most conservative estimate, about one percent of all trades in U.S. exchanges will fail on days the market is open. State security regulators say that's one percent too much. They want the SEC and brokers and stock exchanges to take the necessary steps to ensure a 100 percent success rate. Finally, based on data from the SEC, in the half-hour it took to watch this program on a typical trading day, about four million shares failed to deliver. I'm Mike Schneider for Bloomberg News. Thank you for watching. ***END OF TRANSCRIPT*** THIS TRANSCRIPT MAY NOT BE 100% ACCURATE AND MAY CONTAIN MISSPELLINGS AND OTHER INACCURACIES. THIS TRANSCRIPT IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. BLOOMBERG RETAINS ALL RIGHTS TO THIS TRANSCRIPT AND PROVIDES IT SOLELY FOR YOUR PERSONAL, NON-COMMERCIAL USE. BLOOMBERG, ITS SUPPLIERS AND THIRDPARTY AGENTS SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN THIS TRANSCRIPT OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOSSES OR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN CONNECTION WITH THE FURNISHING, PERFORMANCE, OR USE OF SUCH TRANSCRIPT. NEITHER THE INFORMATION NOR ANY OPINION EXPRESSED IN THIS TRANSCRIPT CONSTITUTES A SOLICITATION OF THE PURCHASE OR SALE OF SECURITIES OR COMMODITIES. ANY OPINION EXPRESSED IN THE TRANSCRIPT DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF BLOOMBERG LP. #<532932.11722.214.171.124.28824.25># -0- Mar/14/2007 18:05 GMT Last Updated: March 14, 2007 14:05 EDT
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Archive for January 13th, 2013
Classical music in film
While browsing IMDb recently, I came across a list of 91 movies having to do with classical music. I'll not lie, I own Immortal Beloved. I'm a Gary Oldman fan. Which ones have you seen and what would you recommend I see? http://www.imdb.com/list/6absKyc0ZsA/
Playlist: Jan/13/13
8:17 PM Johannes Brahms — Violin Concerto Key: DOpus: 77Conductor: Sir Simon RattleEnsemble: Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraKyung Wha Chung, violinAngel/EMI, 57165 8:00 PM Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis Conductor: Andrew DavisEnsemble: BBC Symphony OrchestraBBC, 83 6:39 PM Francis Poulenc — Piano Concerto Conductor: Charles DutoitEnsemble: Philharmonia OrchestraPascal Roge, pianoLondon, 436546 […]


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Kal Ho Naa Ho
|Kal Ho Naa Ho
|Directed by
|Nikhil Advani
|Produced by
|Yash Johar
Karan Johar
|Written by
|Niranjan Iyengar
|Screenplay by
|Karan Johar
|Story by
|Karan Johar
|Shahrukh Khan
Preity Zinta
Saif Ali Khan
Jaya Bachchan
|Narrated by
|Preity Zinta
|Music by
|Anil Mehta
|Edited by
|Sanjay Sankla
|Distributed by
|Yash Raj Films
Release dates
|28 November 2003
Running time
|188 minutes
|est.₹280 million
|Box office
|est.₹861 million
Kal Ho Naa Ho (English: Tomorrow May Never Come), abbreviated as KHNH, is a 2003 Indian romantic drama, directed by debutante director Nikkhil Advani. The film was written by Niranjan Iyengar and Karan Johar and produced by Yash Johar (In his last production venture) and Karan Johar under their Dharma Productions banner. The music of the film was composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, with lyrics written by Javed Akhtar.
The film features, Jaya Bachchan as Jennifer "Jenny" Kapur, Shahrukh Khanas Aman Mathur, Saif Ali Khan as Rohit Patel, and Preity Zinta as Naina Catherine Kapur. It also features Lilette Dubey, Reema Lagoo, Sushma Sethand Delnaaz Paul in supporting roles. The film narrates the story of a pessimistic uptight student, Naina Kapur, who falls in love with her neighbour, Aman Mathur, a terminally ill patient who tries to play matchmaker for Naina and her friend, Rohit Patel.
Kal Ho Naa Ho was promoted with the tag-line "A Story of a Lifetime… In a Heartbeat". Made on a budget of ₹280 million, Kal Ho Naa Ho released on 28 November 2003 to positive critical reviews. Additionally, it was screened at the Valenciennes, Era New Horizons, Marrakech International and Helsinki Film Festival.
The film was a commercial success and emerged as the second highest-grossing film domestically, and the highest-grossing film in overseas and worldwide that year. When adjusted for inflation, its total nett gross in India is ₹1.21 billion (US$18 million). The following year, Kal Ho Naa Howon two National Film Awards and eight Filmfare Awards. The film was paid homage by the German Embassy in India by releasing a short 8 minute video named Lebe jetzt. The film was remade in Telugu as Chakram.
The story follows Naina Catherine Kapur, a pessimistic MBA student who lives in New York with her widowed mother, Jennifer 'Jenny' Kapur and two younger siblings Shiv and Gia, who was adopted. Jenny runs an unsuccessful restaurant alongside her neighbor to provide for her family. Jenny's mother-in-law, Lajjo, is cold towards Jenny and Gia, as she believes Gia's adoption is what led her son to commit suicide. Naina has two best friends; her classmate Rohit Patel and neighbor Jaspreet 'Sweetu' Kapoor. Her life is dull and shadowed by the loss of her father, until Aman Mathur moves in with his mother next door. His bubbly attitude and fun-loving ways convince Naina to improve her looks and live life to the fullest while he slowly starts solving the problems of Naina's family and friends, including revealing to the entire family that Gia is Naina and Shiv's half-sister. Aman helps Jenny's restaurant become successful, and his efforts cause Naina to realize that she loves him. Meanwhile, Rohit falls in love with Naina and asks Aman to help in proposing to her. When Naina tries to confess her feelings for Aman, he tells her that he is married to a woman named Priya. He says that Priya left for New York after a heated argument and he came to win her back. Heartbroken, Naina leaves without confessing and breaks down at the Brooklyn Bridge. It is then revealed that Aman is not married, and Priya is his doctor. Aman is a terminally-ill patient, suffering from a fatal cardiac disease, and his chances of surviving are extremely low because he needs a transplant. He lied to Naina and hid his love for her so that she can find love with Rohit, who will be there for her when Aman has died. With Aman's help, Rohit proposes to Naina, who reluctantly agrees. Their friendship blossoms into a loving relationship. While shopping with Rohit, Naina encounters Priya, whose husband Abhay reveals that Aman is terminally-ill. Shocked, Naina realizes that Aman sacrificed his love for her. She tearfully berates him for loving her so much and embraces him, as he tries to persuade her that he is happy. Rohit and Naina's wedding rituals begin, in which Aman and Naina tearfully participate. Promptly after the marriage, Aman is on his death bed and bids goodbye to everyone before he dies. Twenty years later, an elderly Naina recalls how Aman impacted their lives as she sits beside a grown-up Gia. They are joined by an aged Rohit, who reminds Naina that he loves her, and the couple's teenage daughter Ria.
|Kal Ho Naa Ho
|Soundtrack album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
27 September 2003 (India)
|Feature film soundtrack
|Sony BMG
|Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy chronology
The soundtrack of the film was released on 27 September 2003 by Sony Music at Mumbai's Taj Lands End's banquet hall, Salcette in various formats and consists of seven tracks. The music is conducted by award-winning trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, with lyrics authored by Javed Akhtar. The music went on to do extremely well at the charts, and became the most successful music album of the year. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy won their first Filmfare Best Music Director Award for this soundtrack, as well as the National Film Award for Best Music Direction.
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|Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Sadhana Sargam, Shankar Mahadevan, Madhushree
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- What: Homefront
- Where: Simply Games
- Current Price: £4.99
- Homefront PC price comparison
- Homefront (Console) Review
Considering Crytek have announced they will be developing a sequel, this could prove to be an opportune time to see what all the fuss is about. The offer from Simply Games, which is the lowest price we've seen for the PC version, provides a saving of £4.50 over the next cheapest deal over at Cool Shop.
The single player campaign is a short but enjoyable affair that doesn't really break the FPS mould, although the multiplayer is really where it's at (especially at later experience levels.) Be sure to check out Brendan's review for the full scoop. Thanks to Goonertillidie @ HUKD!


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Skip to comments.Paul to Hold Brennan Nomination (wants more info on drone use)
Posted on 02/13/2013 5:41:24 PM PST by drewh
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) just announced that hell be placing a hold on the nomination of John Brennan for CIA director until he receives answers to his questions about the administrations use of drones.
I have asked Mr. Brennan if he believed that the President has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and my question remains unanswered. I will not allow a vote on this nomination until Mr. Brennan openly responds to the questions and concerns my colleagues and I share, Paul said.
These issues must be discussed openly so that the American people can understand what constraints exist on the governments power to use lethal force against its citizens, he continued. Before confirming Mr. Brennan as the head of the CIA, it must be apparent that he understands and will honor the protections provided to every American by the Constitution.
Paul sent letters to Brennan on Jan. 25 and Feb. 12 asking a long list of questions about the drone program. Answering these most basic of questionsespecially those dealing with the power of the federal government to kill its own citizens under secret authorizations never to be seen by the publicis a necessary step in the examination of our conduct around the globe, the protection of our Constitutional rights and our values, as well as your suitability to oversee these priorities as the Director of the CIA, he wrote in the earlier letter.
In the second letter, Paul added even more questions in the wake of Brennans nomination hearing.
Before you are confirmed to head the CIA, it must be apparent that you understand and will honor the protections provided to every American by the Constitution. For that reason, I request again that you answer the questions I have submitted, both in this letter and the one before it, and I will object to all unanimous consent requests relating to your nomination until you have done so, he said.
That's a very good question. No one individual in govt. should be permitted to serve as judge, jury, and executioner without a trial....including Obama or the LAPD.
They work to serve the citizens and enforce laws. They are not dictators or executioners and that aspect needs to be addressed promptly before it gets out of hand.
I actually do not know why Rand Paul is all wigged out about this, he will in the end do what the Republican leadership say to do.
He makes lots of noise but votes with them in the end.
I would like to hear someone question Brennan on his conversion to Islam, was it while he was station chief in Riyadh as reported.
More likely in an al Qaeda training camp..../s
I was going to say the same thing.
Why doesn't he ask him about his connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, while he's at it? His good friend, Glen Beck, played an audio of an [retired] FBI agent, outling how Brennan is connected with the MB and has converted to Islam.
The blue blood country clubbers in the Senate GOP don't have the balls.
They would rather confirm a muzzie for head of the CIA than risk not getting reelected.
Its all about them staying in DC and holding on to their power and perks and pensions, they could care less about national security.
outling = outlining
Brennan is obviously a man with a very expansive view of the president's war power to kill enemies (deemed combatants) foreign and domestic. Of course Barry had a totally restrictive view of Bush's war powers.
Brennan is in so tight with Barry that he can sit there and refuse to call waterboarding "torture" (which it is not IMO) when no other Democrat or nominee could get away with that without being attacked in the MSM.
It is not much of a jump for Brennan to support domestic lethal drone strike authorization, especially when, IMO, he probably knows that such strikes have been authorized on US soil at a minimum to defend Barry for years.
If they confirm a commie mussie they will NEVER be re-elected.
Dawn Sept. 8, 2012 Pentagon JSOC attack on al-Qaeda cell near Benghazi file.
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Last Sunday I have checked out a new church.
And quite the polar opposite of the last church I checked out this was the extreme polar opposite.
I had only caught the last 5 minutes of the Sunday School, but it seemed very solid.
I will get there early next week to catch the whole class.
The Sunday preaching seemed quite biblical and I was pleased to see the content was right on.
I attended the Tuesday Men's group, and it lasted for over 2 hours.
we had 23 in attendance consisting of High School and up.
Plus we had a laptop that was Skyped to a missionary in Malaysia who wanted to be in attendance and accountability with a Church here, so the attendance was actually 24.
This was quite unique as part way into the meeting, we heard roosters crowing on his end as it was dawn in Malaysia.
After the 2 hour meeting, there were small groups that broke away.
I had to leave, but next week will stay.
I asked some there, and they explained that new people can stay in the main sanctuary, and after a while Pastor may assign you to a small group.
I was excited at this accountability, rather than a popularity method which is so common.
I will be missing this Wednesday Bible study... but will attend next week.
Hopefully with Juanita.
I also got a email for Red, who does local evangelizing.
I am hoping he reads emails and will get back with me in time for this Saturdays Night in the Tropics outting.
I look forwards to Sunday and will give it about a month before I make a decision, unless I see falseness.


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The future USS Gerald R. Ford completes builder's sea trials
NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. The future USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier precommissioning unit (CVN 78) has returned from Builder's Sea Trials to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, after seven days of testing at sea.
During the carrier's initial at-sea period, the CVN 78's crew; representatives from Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding; the Navy's CVN 78 Program Office; the Navy's Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair; and various technical subject-matter experts demonstrated many of the ship's capabilities, including tracking aircraft using the dual-band radar, conducting "no-load" cycles using the new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS), and small-boat operations.
As is typical with sea trials, the Navy and shipbuilder learned about the ship's performance during the extensive testing; analysis of the results will continue and any identified corrective actions will be addressed. CVN 78 remains on schedule to conduct acceptance trials and delivery to the Navy before summer 2017.