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Zion Lutheran School winners in the American Legion
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American Legion Auxiliary Unit
263 recently sponsored their annual Americanism Essay Contest, with
30 Logan County entries. Each of the top three winners in Logan
County received a certificate and a cash prize from Auxiliary Unit
263. Marlene Schrader is the Americanism chairman.
Zion Lutheran School students won both first and second place in the
essay contest. Kathryn Nobbe won first place and Katie Lynn was
awarded second place.
ZLS students Emma Cooper, Emilie Messner, Elijah Burton and
Ashlan Broom all received honorable mention for their essays.
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After winning the local contest, Kathryns's essay was next
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Eaton Vance Management (EV) said early Thursday that it hired former Goldman Sachs (GS) CIO Edward Perkin to become the chief equity investment officer of its Eaton Vance unit.
Perkin will begin work on April 29, when he will replace Duncan W. Richardson, who retired on Oct. 31, and Thomas Faust, who has served as interim chief equity investment officer since then.
Perkin led Goldman Sachs Asset Management as its CIO of international and emerging markets equity and was managing director and portfolio manager of Europe, EAFE and global products in London. In this role, he was responsible for leading a 50-person team of portfolio managers and analysts in eight locations, according to Eaton Vance.
"I am pleased to introduce Eddie as EVM's next chief equity investment officer," said Faust, in a press release. "He brings a record as an outstanding value stock investor and a skilled leader of investment teams. I am confident that, under Eddie's leadership, our equity group can deliver superior results for the clients we serve."
As of Dec. 31, 2013, EVM's equity group managed $39.2 billion for individual and institutional clients through funds and separately managed accounts.
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Recent political debate in the United States and other advanced capitalist democracies has been dominated by two issues: the rise of economic inequality and the scale of government intervention to address it. As the 2012 U.S. presidential election and the battles over the "fiscal cliff" have demonstrated, the central focus of the left today is on increasing government taxing and spending, primarily to reverse the growing stratification of society, whereas the central focus of the right is on decreasing taxing and spending, primarily to ensure economic dynamism. Each side minimizes the concerns of the other, and each seems to believe that its desired policies are sufficient to ensure prosperity and social stability. Both are wrong.
Inequality is indeed increasing almost everywhere in the postindustrial capitalist world. But despite what many on the left think, this is not the result of politics, nor is politics likely to reverse it, for the problem is more deeply rooted and intractable than generally recognized. Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it -- because some individuals and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that capitalism affords. Despite what many on the right think, however, this is a problem for everybody, not just those who are doing poorly or those who are ideologically committed to egalitarianism -- because if left unaddressed, rising inequality and economic insecurity can erode social order and generate a populist backlash against the capitalist system at large.
Over the last few centuries, the spread of capitalism has generated a phenomenal leap in human progress, leading to both previously unimaginable increases in material living standards and the unprecedented cultivation of all kinds of human potential. Capitalism's intrinsic dynamism, however, produces insecurity along with benefits, and so its advance has always met resistance. Much of the political and institutional history of capitalist societies, in fact, has been the record of attempts to ease or cushion that insecurity,
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There's a new type of Internet piracy called "phishing." It's pronounced "fishing," and that's exactly what these thieves are doing: "fishing" for your personal financial information. What they want are account numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers, and other confidential information that they can use to loot your checking account or run up bills on your credit cards.
In the worst case, you could find yourself a victim of identity theft. With the sensitive information obtained from a successful phishing scam, these thieves can take out loans or obtain credit cards and even driver's licenses in your name. They can do damage to your financial history and personal reputation that can take years to unravel. But if you understand how phishing works and how to protect yourself, you can help stop this crime.
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The e-mail will probably warn you of a serious problem that requires your immediate attention. It may use phrases, such as "Immediate attention required," or "Please contact us immediately about your account." The e-mail will then encourage you to click on a button to go to the institution's Web site.
In a phishing scam, you could be redirected to a phony Web site that may look exactly like the real thing. Sometimes, in fact, it may be the company's actual Web site. In those cases, a pop-up window will quickly appear for the purpose of harvesting your financial information. In either case, you may be asked to update your account information or to provide information for verification purposes: your Social Security number, your account number, your password, or the information you use to verify your identity when speaking to a real financial institution, such as your mother's maiden name or your place of birth.
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Never click on the link provided in an e-mail you believe is fraudulent. It may contain a virus that can contaminate your computer.
Do not be intimidated by an e-mail or caller who suggests dire consequences if you do not immediately provide or verify financial information.
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This, just like Cranberry Dessert Cake with Warm Butter Sauce, was snagged from one of those little Pillsbury cookbooks sold at the checkout stands of the grocery store. I think it might have even been the cover photo. (Theirs was perfectly topped with a scoop of ice cream because, unlike me, they used special "food photo techniques" to keep it from sliding off.) The photo and recipe were oh so tempting, and I just couldn't resist. Pumpkin Gingerbread with Warm Caramel Sauce quickly became one of my fall and winter staples. It is truly old-fashioned, comfort-food dessert at its finest.
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup butter
3/4 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ginger
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cloves
3/4 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
1 egg
Preheat oven to 350F.
Combine flour and sugar.
Mix in butter with a pastry blender until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
In a 9-inch square baking pan, place 1 3/4 cups of the mixture and press evenly along the bottom to form a crust.
Add pecans, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, salt, and cloves to crumb mixture and stir well.
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Pour batter on top of the crust in the baking pan.
Bake for 40-50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
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1 1/4 cups light brown sugar
2 tablespoons corn syrup
1/2 cup heavy cream
Melt butter in a heavy saucepan.
Stir in brown sugar and corn syrup.
Stirring constantly, bring mixture to a boil, and cook for 1 minute or until sugar dissolves.
Gradually add cream and return to a boil.
Remove from heat.
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Ad Parnassum, vol. 4, n. 8 (October 2006)Stewart-MacDonald's book is a substantial and welcome addition to a fine recent wave of scholarly activity on behalf of that complex, in many ways enigmatic composer, Muzio Clementi. Most of this spurt of activity has emanated from Cremona and Bologna (and lately Lucca), through the indefatigable efforts of Roberto Illiano, Massimiliano and Luca Sala, and Roberto De Caro at Ut Orpheus Edizioni. There is an Opera omnia in progress, the first ever for this composer (excluding an abortive effort by Breitkopf & Härtel in the early nineteenth century). ... There is much to admire in Clementi's music. He deserves a much better hearing than our century - now already distinctly a 'long century' - has given him. Stewart-MacDonald's book, in its patient, detailed, and often convincing advocacy for the late works, gives us yet more reason to think this is so. (Leon Plantinga)


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Here is a cool tattoo design I drew yesterday and I think it came out absolutely lovely. I am calling it "how to draw a gothic angel" step by step. She has these awesome bat like devilish wings that are so big, they cover her body. Her hair is long, fluffy, and flowing, and her eyes are black and piercing with a smile that is dark and inviting. I really do like how this tattoo design came out because it is so clean and simple that anyone will be able to tackle this tutorial. The way that I drew this gothic angel is epic I think because even though she carries some very simple qualities with her initial design, this angel makes a great tattoo for any woman who is looking to get something inked on their skin that conveys the word sexy, with a hint of mystery. Drawing tattoo art is so incredibly fun and they are incredibly simple for anybody to create and draw. The types of things that you can draw into tattoo's is practically limitless, which is why it is so fun to draw tattoo art. I have to go for now but I shall return in a while. I know you guys or girls will have fun learning "how to draw a gothic angel" step by step. Following the steps and instructions will lead you to drawing greatness. Peace out and have fun!
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Junior Parker Washburn
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Washburn, the five-seat in the Crimson's undefeated, San Diego Crew Classic-champion varsity eight, has been invited to the Men's U23 National Team Sweep Camp in Seattle, Wash. Meyer-Bosse, who has helped the Harvard freshman eight defeat each its six opponents, has been asked to the Men's U23 National Team Sculling Camp in Norwalk, Conn.
The sweep camp, coached by Luke McGee and Paul Cooke, will select the men's eight and men's four that will compete at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships July 11-15 in Trakai, Lithuania. In addition, the camp may select the men's four with coxswain that will compete at the USRowing Under 23 National Team Trials June 24-27 in West Windsor, N.J. A full team roster will be named by July 1.
The sculling camp, coached by Yan Vengerovskiy, will select the men's quadruple sculls that will compete at the World Rowing U23 Championships. In addition, the camp may select men's double sculls crews that will compete at the USRowing Under 23 National Team. A full team roster will be named by July 1.
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Tim Aghai – Wisconsin
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Keanan Clark* – Princeton
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Austin Hack – Stanford
Spencer Hall – California
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Justin Jones – Northeastern
Luke Juckett – Wisconsin
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Mike Donohue – Columbia
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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child learns about the concept of economics and the exchange of goods for money by solving difficult problems and unlocking key parts to the map.
Your child practices telling time by matching numbers on a digital clock to the correct wall clock. Your child helps make sure the airplanes are leaving at the correct time, a real world math concept.
Your child develops an understanding of rhymes by creating their own endings to the verses.
Your child develops geography by watching a song about all the states and capitals.
Your child learns about geology, sharks and ancient Egypt by playing this trivia game and choosing a mummy or shark to help with the questions.
Your child develops an understanding of quantity and representation of equal forms of the same number by placing together a certain number of sandwiches using the correct numbers.
Your child gains familiarity of colonial occupations as well as spatial reasoning skills by completing challenge along the way of delivering a midnight message.
Your child practices ordering large numbers by directing which numbered apples to shoot in descending order.
Your child learns the flags of Spanish-speaking countries and practices memory skills in this matching game.
Your child develops an understanding of synonyms by defining the actions and feelings of the dog in the lab.
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Friday, 6 January 2012
A Slight Change
I just wanted to let you know I will be reducing my posting. I didn't want to just stop so have decided to no longer post on a Friday and see how that goes, though I'll continue to post on a Wednesday and Sunday (and do the beauty spotlight post on Saturday).
Thanks for reading x
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I'm really pleased you're not stopping altogether. I shall look forward to your posts even more :). I know it's hard work at times to keep blogging, feel free to have a moan whenever you need too xxReplyDelete
Second everything Jane said! Sometimes, as a reader, I can't help feeling selfish and greedy: I know just how much work goes into posting (pics, swatches, thoughtful reviews, exposure etc) and I wholeheartedly admire all of you guys. You shouldn't feel obliged to do anything at all...keeping it fun is the key to it I guess.ReplyDelete
And, anyway, every post is a treat!
Have a lovely weekend honey :))
Nina xxx
I'll second everything the other ladies said. I'm glad you're not stopping I really enjoy your posts, your reviews are always so well written. Blogging is meant to be fun and not to replace real life, so if you need to reduce it so be it. But you have one faithful reader here :-)ReplyDelete
It's great that you're not completely stopping! I look forward to your posts, and honestly your blog is one of the best!ReplyDelete
I can completely understand why you'd need more time. Blogging takes up a lot of my spare time which is why I may too have to slow down.
I agree with everyone else. You are one of my favourite bloggers and I will always look out for your posts, whenever they may be! xReplyDelete
Hi Jane,ReplyDelete
Thanks, it does mean a lot to know that you get something out of my blog especially as I often query if my content is what people are really wanting to read, I guess its the "can't keep up with the big boys" complex ;) xx
Hi Nina,
Thank you, I have to say that I am always hopeful that you will start up a blog someday as you have great taste and your opinion is always really helpful xx
Hi Ana Marta,
What a lovely compliment, thank you :) Your right that it should stay fun, I do tend to get myself stressed over my photos as I really dislike to do posts when I feel the pictures are not as reflective of real life as they should be.
Hi Vintage Makeup,
Thank you, that's so kind of you to say :) I do admire bloggers who can post more frequently, it is hard to find the time, especially the rate I buy makeup, I can't seem to keep my posts up with my buys ;)
Hi Meeta,
Thank you, I feel really chuffed now ;) I'm not sure I could stop completely as I do love sharing my cosmetics buys etc, my people in the real world as it were, aren't really like minded x
I've been reading you for years, and only recently come to realise the amount of work that goes into such well-crafted posts -- many of which I refer back to again and again.ReplyDelete
Thanks, basically, and I'll keep reading, whenever you should post :)
Hi Kate,ReplyDelete
Thank you, you know I forget how long I have been doing this for sometimes, so I'm really glad you have stuck with me as it were ;)
I'd hate to see you go! I didn't realize it was a consideration, but I do completely understand the need for balance.ReplyDelete
I agree with what everyone else said above. I really love your blog and often just browse and look back at your older posts, they're always so helpful so I'm glad you're not stopping. xReplyDelete
Hi Zuzu's Petals,ReplyDelete
I've been thinking about it off and on for a while, though I am sure I would miss it and the people, as its a really nice community :)
Hello Klara,
Thank you, thats so nice to hear, thanks for the kind words x
Dear Replica,ReplyDelete
I always make it a point to visit your blog every few days even if I don't comment on every post.. LOVE your blog, your taste and value your opinion greatly, so any posting frequency that is convenient to you works for me!


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An Auckland accountant has been struck off and ordered to pay more than $31,000 after he used 60 clients to get tax rebates on donations for his own benefit.
Stephen Naismith Fleming made an arrangement with 60 of his clients which involved them accepting money from him to donate to a charity.
The New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA) Disciplinary Tribunal said Fleming was involved with and "had a substantial economic interest in" that charity.
The tribunal said a condition of Fleming's arrangement with the clients was that the resulting donations tax rebates went back to him, not the clients.
Prior to April 1 2009, there were thresholds limiting the value of tax rebates a person could claim back on donations, based on the person's income.
Fleming's arrangement allowed him to get around those rules.
"The Member used clients to obtain a donations tax rebate greater than that to which his own taxable income entitled him to," the tribunal said in its decision.
Fleming was found guilty of "cavalier treatment of his clients with the intention of furthering his own interests".
The tribunal also said Fleming failed to carry out due diligence in making sure the donation tax rebate claims made by his clients were legitimate.
"The Member undertook only minimal enquiry as to the validity of these arrangements for taxation purposes, thereby potentially exposing his clients to repay the rebates that they had not received together with penalties and interest."
Clients were given no opportunity to take independent advice and Fleming failed to disclose his conflict of interest in writing to them, the tribunal said.
Under a second charge, he was also found guilty of offering accounting services to the public without holding the proper qualification (a Certificate of Public Practice).
When the tribunal wrote to him about the charges on several occasions earlier this year, Fleming did not respond in "a timely manner".
Fleming, who was suspended as a chartered accountant in June 2011, did not turn up for his final disciplinary hearing last month and entered no plea.
He has now been struck off the professional register of chartered accountants.
The disciplinary tribunal ordered Fleming to pay the NZICA a total of $31,183 to cover the costs and expenses of three hearings before the tribunal, the investigation by the Professional Conduct Committee and the cost of publicity.
He has 14 days to appeal the decision.


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Building a Video SEO StrategyBlog Post: December 03, 2012
I'm the guy Phil was talking about when he mentioned the how a small law firm in Raleigh, NC, implemented self-hosted videos with rich snippets. I'm the Kurtz of Kurtz & Blum. What Phil didn't mention was that I chose to implement the self hosted model based on Phil's previous post about video hosting (an SEO's Guide to Video Hosting and Embedding). If you haven't read it, you should.
Let me expound for a moment on the merits of the video hosting paradigm as Phil describes it. By self hosting and promoting the videos we shot, we are reaping all of the benefits from them as opposed to giving that juice to Youtube or Vimeo. My firm's rankings improved organically and they did so with our search result showing up smartly with a nice large video thumbnail next to it. Moreover, when we did a press release for one of those videos and it was picked up in Yahoo News, it resulted in slightly more than 4,000 hits on our site. The time that people spent on our site was actually time on site as opposed to on some other host's site. Granted, our content isn't the type that you would expect to have viral impact as it is rather educational and dry stuff but by hosting it internally (S3 with JW Player) it also doesn't have to compete for ratings against other similar videos as it would on an external host.
The next step for us was to have our Web developers set it up so we could share our self hosted embedded videos on our facebook page. This was also a nice plus. Shortly it will be set up for Twitter as well.
While I understand the potential benefits of hosting on Youtube for initial reach, I am a firm believer that the long-term benefits of embedding self hosted videos with rich snippets gives my firm's site a substantial tactical advantage. I am grateful to Phil for setting it out in terms that even a lawyer could understand.


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Harry Styles of One Direction is a Cheap Date
If you're one of the zillions of girls who lust after One Direction's Harry Styles, you're in luck — because you can buy his love … for cheap, too!
Styles is the subject of a new iTunes app, entitled 'Harry Styles: My Boyfriend.' For 69 pence (roughly $1.12 in USD), you can woo the mop-topped 'What Makes You Beautiful' singer. MTV U.K. reports that in the app, girls can go on dates with Styles until he falls in love with them and proposes. You can choose coffee or dinner with Styles, and if you pay a bit extra, you can even lock lips with him!
This should make Directioners happy, as Hazza has been breaking hearts left and right. While stars like Rihanna and Taylor Swift expressed crushes on the 'X Factor U.K.' alum, he was recently spotted swapping spit with New Zealand model Emma Ostilly.
Based on the band's skyrocketing popularity, we wouldn't be surprised if Harry's app was the next Angry Birds.


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What if Tesla does not survive?
What if Tesla does not survive?
I don't know.
Pick one.
You could ask the same about GM or any car company. Despite the bailout, GM continues to wobble.
At this point if you buy a Tesla you're taking a huge chance. If you are squeamish about losing 100K, maybe this isn't for you. :-)
I don't think it is "huge chance". Elon said they would be profitable after 8000 cars sold and reservation list is far longer than that. I would say that there is a risk, but not huge one.
OTOH, like Jewsh said, if $100k is enormous, house ruining risk to you I wouldn't gamble on that. It's like playing russian roulette with a revolver with 1000 chambers in it. Only 1/1000 chance to get killed, but if that happens it is game over.
8K/annum, I think. "Profitable" is always a period-related measure. And "sold" means delivered for Tesla.
It does not look like if Tesla Motors would not survive as a car company. On the contrary actually. Tesla is doing good business now. Reservations for the Model S are coming in every day.
But say six month's ago there were not that many reservations. Maybe that was the moment to ask such a question, but now things are going upwards only. And that's great.
I even think that Tesla Motors has set a standerd (Model S) which will not be reached by other car companies in a few years time. Tesla Motors has become a leader in the segment of Electric Vehicles. And this segment is going to grow substantially in the coming years. The numbers of Electric Vehicles that are going to be sold will start growing year by year.
For the record I think Tesla has done very well so far. It is important to be objective though and therefore to realize even great companies with awesome ideas can go under.
If TM faces a crisis, they would reorganize under the same ownership, if that did not work, they would declare Ch7 and I believe new investors would pick up the assets and start over.
In any event, there is enough value here that I just can't believe that it will go away.
Look at Eclipse Jet.
Good point.
But in case of Tesla Motors, if something like that would happen, then that would be caused by external entities, not by Tesla Motors itself. Because Tesla Motors itself has great potential.
Talking about external entities. Who could that external entity be? I can think of only 1. And that is the oil industry. Because Electric Vehicles do not need petrol or diesel. The oil industry already has "killed" the EV1 less then 10 years ago. The question is: "Can the oil industry do something to stop the succes of Electric Vehicles?".
I'm interested to see whether Mercedes would buy Tesla, regardless of their financial status. To date I believe they've been the most major investor.
I am a great fan of German cars, but would I like it if Daimler (Mercedes) one day would decide to buy Tesla Motors? I think that I would prefer it if Tesla Motors would not be taken over by any company at all. Because I want all the other car companies to be in a position in which they will have to compete with Tesla Motors. Because that is the best way for themselves to manufacture good Electric Vehicles. Because then, these other car companies will have a certain standard (the Tesla cars) which they will have to improve, like a target.
A take-over of Tesla Motors would be a great strategic move by Daimler. And it surely would improve the company value of Daimler. If a take-over of Tesla Motors is anyhow going to happen one day, then I surely hope that it will be realised by Daimler, and not by any other (car) company. Because Daimler is a car company that manufactures high quality cars itself.
Tesla has management has stated that the future of the company does not depend on manufacturing cars alone. They have supply contracts with Toyota and Mercedes for both battery packs and powertrains. They are very unlikely to be going away, and service for their cars will continue to be available regardles of whether they continue production.
Extra has in there. Oops.
I think Daimler has "first refusal" in the event of ownership control being sold. But Elon and associates are unlikely to cede control until the market (suppliers) has "caught up and caught on". Take Elon's goals seriously. He is not blowing hot air like most staters of "missions".
On the comment that the oil industry might be Tesla's biggest enemy and therefore problem: I wouldn't be surprised to hear that some far-sighted oil executive woke one morning with this realization. Putting a couple of fast EV charging stations at his gas stations around the country where there are min-marts and such would be a very good business move.
He would make money by charging for the charge, make money by more people stopping at his mini-marts for a longer period of time, and be on his way to changing his company over to supplying the car energy of the future.
Moral of the story "biggest enemy becomes biggest friend."
If Tesla does not survive you can forget Warranty coverage for sure.
That said the car will continue to be supported by one or more companies which will spring up to cater to the market of whatever number of thousands of Model S owners are out there. They would pick up Tesla's stash of spare parts, procure more parts as needed from suppliers, and so on.
Battery packs can be rebuilt from new cells that Panasonic will still manufacture.
So the cars would keep running pretty much indefinitely.
All that said, I don't see Tesla failing any time soon. Elon isn't into failure, and Space X is making money.
So capital should be available. This means that a scenario of stock dilution would be the first firewall against the company shutting down. But that would not be a problem for car owners, only for shareholders. And, right now, even that doesn't look like a likely near term possibility.
I would not worry about continuity at all. If anything, a collapse would make the Model S a valued collector's item, like a Tucker or DeLorean. There is simply no chance the car will become worthless.
I concur with Danielc3,
IF they do go under, you still have your car - you are not "out" of 100k. - you have the prettiest, most aerodynamic, top performance all-electric vehicle that is truly a Joy to drive.
There ARE risks, but Elon's money, his healthy ego and Space X profits will try their best to prevent any failure.
And, yes, small outfits will also pop up to service the "rich boys" toys.
So "have no fear, Elon is here"
If the purchase won't break the bank, do go for it, but if it does, then as some have said, it may be wiser to wait.
Good luck.
Wishful thinking?
The Oil Industry will never turn electric. They hate everything that can be treated as a substitute to each of their oil products. They will do everything to limit the sales of EV's. Worse, they would actually prefer to take all the EV's off the roads. The Oil Industry wants us to remain addicted to their oil. They will not stop producing barrels of oil, until every drop of oil has been taken away from the earth and put in a barrel.
We should be thankful that Barack Obama is the current President of the USA, and not someone like George W. Bush. Politics can be real mean and leathel. Therefore, I hope for Tesla Motors that the next President of the USA will also be friendly towards EV's.
They won't survive! It is only a matter of when. Does it look like the near future? Not to me. And I am not investing for 100 years from now, just the next 5, 10, or 20 years.
You are not very clear in your communication, I must say.
It would be wise if you would add some arguments for your statement. You just say that they won't survive and that it is only a matter of when. If you want to say something, then try to be more specific. We cannot look into your mind, you see. But we do want to know what your thoughts are, and what arguments you have. We just might learn something from you, that we don't know about already. Maybe you have some information that we do not have. It's possible, but you have to tell us first about it. Before we can discuss about it.
RNB is a present or future short-seller. He will suffer the consequences. :)
Doesn't look that way to me Brian. If he sells in 10 or 20 years he may be well ahead. Probably nobody wants to hold for 100 years. I know I'm not going to be around that long.
That makes no sense in short-selling. You sell at today's price to be settled at a future date, in hopes of picking up the shares required at a lower price then. Not going to happen.
@joyrider: The oil companies do not own gas stations in the US. They brand and franchise them. The operators are small mostly businesses or regional chains. The oidl companies therefor do not benefit from ancillary sales and cannot make money from EV charging. The actual station operators could do so, but only IF their agreements with the brand providers allow it. For example, no McDonalds owner can change their individual menus without approval from corporate, even though McDonalds does not generally own their stores. This is how the brand mantains its identity and uniformity across all of its store owners.
There are some uninformed Tesla fanboy comments in this thread. I am also a huge fan and will take delivery in a few days. HOWEVER, this is NOT a real car company in terms of profitability and cash flow analysis. In Elon's wildest dreams, Tesla will never independently deliver enough cars in a year to compare with even the smallest major auto brands. The smallest competitors, like Jaguar and Volvo, currently sell many multiples of the TARGET sales for TM. Last year Volvo sold 449,000 cars at prices averaging half what a Model S costs now. TM can only dream of that volume.
Those of us who love our Teslas need to be realistic - we have an almost custom product that we expect to work as well as an Apple iPod, but with development costs spread over a few thousand cars per month (best case), compared to many millions of every Apple product sold every month. Based on this forum's postings, we seem to expect features with costs that so far are spread across a few thousand cars that have been delivered, and maybe 20,000 vehicles this year. Even if those volumes double every year, we are still talking ridiculously low numbers of products being delivered compared to the highly complex technology and development investment when related to any other major consumer product (like a gaming device, laptop, tablet or cell phone).
A car is far more complex than a laptop, yet every laptop requires updates and regular support. We all hope that TM will be around, but it is NOT comparable to any other auto manufacturer in terms of survivability and financial prospects. Elon continues to say that the next six months will be dicey. We should beleive him.
I put my money down, but only with the full expectation to be orphaned in the next couple years. Any other expectation is unrealistic - a psychological mind game that some must play to rationalize their purchase decision. If you can't afford to see this car as a contribution to the next generation, and a potential write-off, you probably should look elsewhere for transportation. The hard numbers are not so pleasant - this company is still a big gamble. The survival odds are a lot worse than the 1,000 to 1 Russian roulette example given above. The vast majority of new businesses fail. I say this as a nationwide retail landlord... we expect all new tenants (especially restaurants) to fail within 5 years and are pleasantly surprised when one survives longer than that. With that said, no one will be happier than me if Tesla is the exception. But an exception is what it would be.
My bet is that at some point Elon will cash in his chips like he did with PayPal, and sell TM to one of the major auto manufacturers that can spread development costs more widely. Daimler Benz would be logical and my preference, but Toyota is also a good candidate. Such a move would professionalize the TM world and smooth off some of the burrs that us early adopters are experiencing.
BTW, I am short against the box, not betting against TM, but hedged for now.
Maybe RNB means oil industry with the comment of not survival. It it right under Benz message that talks about oil industry.
Pungoteague_Dave -- Elon has expressed this week his desire to keep Tesla in the family (like Ford) so a sale is highly unlikely. Remember, his graduate studies were focused on energy storage for electric vehicles, so he will not treat his interest in Tesla the same way he did Paypal. Space X, Tesla, and Solarcity are exactly where he wants to be for a very long time, potentially till the end, so his strategy will take a committed approach. Tesla has a five million square foot factory that is currently working at a fraction of capacity (20K/year). Model S has a wait list well over 20K right now, basically sold out through 2013. The momentum from 2013, will spill into 2014 like a word of mouth block buster and keep demand high and keep production rates growing and money coming in. With expansion of service centers and superchargers across the country by the end of this year, the ground work is being laid for the higher volume geniii vehicle. Elon has also stated he wants a small window of time to learn how to sustain Model S and X levels before taking on geniii, so the mindset is in the right place for long term success. GenIII is expected to produce near 400K/year alone in 4-5 years. The environmental issues are not going away, nor will the gas prices, so Tesla will become even more compelling over this period. They are the only relevant automobile company that is solely electric, they are the only company that has spent the time developing and executing a long range battery solution as they have. No other auto company can come close to the range. They have a competitive advantage that will take years to chip away.
I also think you are mistaken about the average early adopter of a Tesla. I think most damn well do expect Tesla to be a sustainable company in the auto industry...
It's always good to have somebody in the group who is keeping his feet on the ground. Your view sounds very realistic to me. But still I hope that no other car company will ever take over Tesla Motors. I would not like that to happen. Therefore, I hope that what jk2014 is saying will come true. Time will tell.
I own stock and call options, have for years. I am not hedged, not short.
All companies cease to exist at some point, so yes they will not survive. I do not think tesla will go under soon, will take a long time.
Who knows, there might be a better slingshot technology being developed that will decrease need for ecars...or perhaps the mars colony will be vertically developed and we all use elevators...
Well, let's hope that Tesla Motors is the exception to your theory, and that Tesla Motors will not cease to exist (at least not in this century).
Most of the R&D spent by the majors is to solve problems TM doesn't have. (Engine, transmission). Aside from the E-drivetrain and touchscreen, most of the rest is "fungible" shared knowledge. TM's money and talent has gone to exactly the right places: its core unique "dimensions that matter", in Elon's words.
It is worth watching for ownership developments; Elon has speculated about forming a holding company to control TM and SC and/or SpaceX. That would shield TM from hostile takeover.
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"Elon has speculated about forming a holding company to control TM and SC and/or SpaceX. That would shield TM from hostile takeover."
Yes, good plan. Eventually somebody (the bad guys: oil/ICE) will try to stop Tesla Motors. Security and protection is required.
Elon Musk is the Da Vinci of the 21st century. Not to mention my idol! He even accepted me on Google+ yesterday. I don't know how he manages two companies with 5 kids and no wife. He must be one pretty awesome dad and a hell of a CEO. My hat is off to him!
Elon was the first to revolutionize online payments transfers on the internet at a large scale (PayPal), he founded the first commercial rocket launch company, SpaceX, which revolutionized space travel and beat Orbital, a 30 year old space company, to the International Space Station, funded the greatest energy company to date by using the sun (Solar City). And last but not least, Elon plans to capitalize and improve Daryl Oster's idea of Evacuated Tube Transport on www.et3.com to create faster and cheaper ways to transport people on earth, that being the "Hyperloop". They both may have come up with the idea, but I think Elon's net worth can make it happen.
I agree that TM has had a decade of revenue losses, but once the generation III comes out, their line of cars will be unstoppable with 2.5 million cars being manufactured in 5 years. I realize that during the last election, they were called "Losers". That name was given based on statistics. The major auto manufacturers see losses when manufacturing electric cars. Mostly because it cost too much to have their parts manufacturered for them. Many of the larger auto manufacturers continue to keep engineering them because of the government. That is likely to change. TM makes 70% of their parts in house. This is the same strategy SpaceX and many other profitable companies stay alive. It's a genious methodology, and it works! If outside companies made all your parts, they just increase the price of the parts to make up for errors. If they're built in house, you either fix them or you fail. It's as simple as that. TM has several hundred patents, and have won the 2013 car of the year award. So not too shabby. Fisker made some bad moves, and didn't build much in house, so they went down quickly. Elon is taking out loans from other places, and TM is selling lots of ZEV credits as stock to stay alive, at least for now. But they have to considering the cost of R&D, expenses for labor, and other factors for a start up in a multi-billion dollar industry. But the cost to make their electric cars are far cheaper than making most cars in our auto industry because there are far less mechanical parts that can fail in a car with hundres of less moving parts that don't need oil to keep them functioning.
I totally agree that TM and Solar City need some protection against the oil industry. The third largest oil supplier, Abu Dhabi-based Aabar Investments, bought 4% of Tesla shares (40% of Daimler's shares). I have seen too many other "green" companies fail because of the oil companies buying patents or lobbying to change laws that don't promote a green planet. Oil is essential for many things (like plastics and to grease mechanical parts), but not to kill our planet from combustion engines.
Elon has pretty awesome DNA. I hope his kids continue his success in years to come so I can watch them from heaven after I pass on. I hope Elon's SpaceX teams up with Google and some of the Google X Lab experiments they're doing (with Ray Kurzweil as Google Engineer) and create artificial intelligence that will carry the DNA of humans cryogenically and have the AI fly Elon's Falcon Heavy to other galaxies to keep exploring, and keep humans alive forever. Although the first step is getting to Mars and colonizing life there and to start to terriform the planet.
Yeah I can imagine the oil people pacing and scratching their heads, wondering how to shut this thing down or stunt its growth. With GM and the others, it was easy, as they were braindead puppet CEO companies with not so highly concentrated share ownership so they could just buy a bunch of shares, perhaps covertly through family and friends or obscure companies, and control them that way. Or maybe even just indirectly could have done the trick. But with Elon and his bunch of merry but now impatient followers, they have no influence, no way in because Elon et al own most of the shares. This is indeed their worst nightmare as the rebellion is gathering and gaining strength. It will still take some time, which is their only consolation.
I'm surprised Elon added you on Google+, kwanta. I'm surprised he even has time to be on that. Are you sure it was the real him. To be honest, I've been trying to establish contact with him, if he'd have a few minutes to spare so I can share an idea or two. That's why I joined Twitter, although I'm not one for social media. My current idea for him is an inflatable space ship, but I've decided to work out the details before I try to share again.
ummm where have you guys been? Don't want to burst your bubble but, the oil guys already slowed this down by more than 20 years.
There was a working Electric car in 1996 that was killed and we are all still paying for it.
Do you think GM just decided to stop making Hummers because they couldn't afford to make them? After a credit boom and solid numbers? not likely. More like they were told 9 miles to the gallon it was unacceptable and they realized they already destroyed their saving grace with a bunch of side deals.
They couldn't just start building it again. So they've done the next best thing. Put gas motors beside electrics. It's a compromise right?
If it wasn't for Elon, the EV most likely would not have been reborn and we'd be stuck with a bunch of electric/gas hybrids and all the other half assed band-aids they are still attempting.
Tesla will survive, but there will still be much more chaos. Sadly as it never even had to be this bad.
Tesla has a great Leader, so to my mind only an external problem like a war or a mega crisis can kill Tesla. As you know Tesla will have to spend lot of money in Supercharger but it's necessary.
Be confident, Tesla will write the electric market.
Actually, Superchargers, even the whole network, are quite cheap. They are a long-term marketing expense, much less expensive than advertising, and much more effective.
If Tesla has allocated $1000 per car sale to the super charger network (we know they charge $2k for the option with the 60kW MS) and I don't believe that the hardware costs anything like that much to make, $1K tops IMO.
This year Tesla is to sell at least 20k units and the following two years say conservatively 50k (25k each year) you would have 20k + 50k=70k units x $1k=$70m by the end of 2015. Divide that by 300k for stated cost of each station and you get 233 stations! That seems to be about what the 2015 map has.
Also I understand (someone please verify) there are no net running costs for these stations for Tesla after they are up and running.
Piece of cake. Tesla can't loose over that.
Although I don't particularly like the idea from an convenience stand point. If Tesla ever does offer their stations to the general public they could charge a hefty fee for the fast charge and make a further killing.
There is software and "tuning", individual to each car, much of which involves expert staff time. Do you have any idea what significant options cost from other manufacturers? Your attempt to parse the pennies Tesla charges is nonsense.
As for "making a further killing", that betrays a complete lack of understanding of the Supercharger project. It is infrastructure, to make the Model S and its descendants more attractive and useful. It, like the Service Centers, is NOT a profit center.
Besides, any other car would have to engineered to meet the standard that Tesla created for the superchargers. I can't see many other manufacturers being eager to do that........ for now anyway.


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- The 28th edition of the Marathon des Sables began Sunday
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- It has to be entered several years in advance
(CNN) -- Would you pay thousands of dollars to spend seven days running under the scorching sun of the Sahara Desert, traversing shifting sand dunes and punishing rocky plateaus for more than 220 kilometers, with all your food and kit affixed to your back?
It may sound like insanity, but it's exactly what daring men and women of all ages have chosen to do by taking part in this year's iconic Marathon des Sables (MDS).
Known as the world's toughest footrace, the MDS began Sunday morning as the driving sounds of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" blasted through loud speakers to usher a record 1,024 competitors from nearly 50 countries into the heart of the Southern Moroccan desert.
Over the next few days, the grueling adventure will challenge participants -- the oldest aged 76 -- to test their bodies and minds as they take on whipping sandstorms and blazing temperatures of up to 50C in their epic journey across the desert.
To toughen the ordeal, competitors are required to carry all their equipment for the duration of the ultra-marathon -- from food and sleeping gear to an anti-venom pump and glow sticks. Three runners have died in the 28 years the race has been taking place.
"Some runners come here to push back their limits and brave the extreme to write their tale," says Frenchman Patrick Bauer, who founded the race in the mid-1980s.
"For a lot of participants, the Marathon des Sables is an opportunity to break with everyday life and feel a sense of timelessness. There is even a spiritual dimension, a quest for answers to what are at times very personal questions," he adds. "The desert magnifies the soul."
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Patrick Bauer, MDS creator
The exact route for the week-long event, which costs more than $4,500 to enter, changes slightly every year but racers have to complete the equivalent of five and a half marathons over six stages -- including a non-stop stage of some 75 kilometers that must be completed in 34 hours.
Runners are provided with just their water supply and a tent to sleep in at night. They're also guaranteed spectacular views and stunning landscapes, as well as sore muscles, blisters on their feet and the inevitable moments of agonizing despair as they battle with weariness and dehydration whilst snaking their way past rolling dunes, steep-sided uplands, dried-up lakes and abandoned settlements in the baking heat.
"It's the toughest race I've ever done," says British ultra-running champion Jen Salter, who's competed at the MDS four times so far.
"That's a combination of having to carry, obviously, quite a lot of weight on your back, the temperature and the terrain -- some of the sand dunes, their stretches are really quite long. It's just unlike anything you can really prepare for or train for in another country," she adds.
'Crème de la crème'
Yet despite such hostile conditions, the race's popularity is growing every year; due to high interest, competitors have to apply to enter MDS several years in advance.
Currently in its 28th consecutive year, the roots of the MDS can be traced back to 1984, when Bauer decided to embark on a self-sufficient journey across the Algerian desert on foot, covering a distance of 350 kilometers over 12 days.
That expedition had a major influence on the adventurous Frenchman, who realized that other people would be interested in taking on similar challenges.
So in 1986 Bauer returned to Africa to organize the very first edition of the ultra marathon, completed that year by 23 pioneering runners. Twenty-eight years and more than 12,000 participants later, the MDS has grown to become a major endurance event whose model has been copied by several other races.
"It's the crème de la crème," says Salter. "There are so many multi-stage races these days, but the MDS is definitely the one that sets a bar for others to try to live up to," she adds. "The organization that goes into it is quite remarkable."
Indeed, putting the race together requires months of preparations and a plethora of resources: 120,000 liters of mineral water, 6.5 kilometers of Elastoplast, 400 support staff, 270 berber and Saharan tents, 100 all-terrain vehicles, 52 medical staff, 23 buses, 19,000 compresses and 6,000 painkillers. In addition, the organizers have two helicopters, one Cessna plane and six commercial planes at their disposal.
There is something magic inside the marathon because everybody is the same level.
Olivier Sepulchre, MDS
Olivier Sepulchre, MDS
'1,000 people, 1,000 stories'
So, what is it that's attracting people from across the world to the vast unforgiving sands of the Sahara, turning the MDS into such a big event?
Organizers say it is the tantalizing cocktail of testing one's limits and achieving the unattainable, helped by the haunting surroundings of the desert, which have shrouded the MDS with a veil of mystique over the years, making it appeal to all kinds of thrill seekers.
For experienced ultra-runners the challenge of self-sufficient running in the extreme heat of the Sahara is too good to ignore. Former competitors include British rowing legend James Cracknell, who completed the MDS in 2010.
But the race's extraordinary concept is also a major draw for anyone with an audacious spirit. Over the years, a diverse caravan of novice runners, amateur athletes, enthusiastic 16-year-olds, spry septuagenarians and even visually impaired and partially paralyzed people have all converged on the MDS to test their limits, mark an occasion or escape briefly from their regular lives.
"Of the 1,000 people [in the race], you can be sure there are 1,000 stories," says Olivier Sepulchre, member of the MDS organizing team.
He adds that more than just an endurance event, the race often becomes a breeding ground for lifelong friendships amongst runners.
"There is something magic inside the marathon because everybody is the same level," says Sepulchre. "You can be a good runner, a bad runner ... you can be the most rich, or the most poor guy, [here] you are in the same level and that's something unique."
Salter agrees. "The running is obviously amazing but a large part of it is also the camaraderie you have with your tent mates." Salter even met her partner at the race. "You share a tent with the same people for a week and it's really nice and you all help each other through."


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- Occupy London protesters set up camp outside St. Paul's Cathedral in October
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Occupy London protesters who have been camped outside the landmark St. Paul's Cathedral for the past three months lost their court bid to avoid eviction Wednesday.
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Behind the Fuddy Autopsy Fraud; a Bullet or a Bribe?
April 2, 2014 2 Comments
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How the Calvin Case Dooms Your Future; pt. 4
Should we be pessimistic about the future of America? A better question is "can we be reasonably optimistic about the future?" The answer is that if the power structure that rules our nation is not overthrown, there will be no future that we would want to see (aside from advances of various sorts).
It is corrupt to the core and both parties are party to it, with one simply pushing harder on the accelerator than the other.
Has history ever recorded any corrupted government and morally vacuous and ignorant population that ever reversed the course they were on toward a destination of decay, collapse and/or conquest? Are we destined to repeat history because we are ignorant of it?
Well, being ignorant is a natural status of human nature it seems. There is no one who is superior in this world, but compared to those who are simply normal, there are a heck of a lot of people who are in many ways sub-normal. And their numbers are growing by leaps and bounds.
So what will come is unknown and unknowable without taking a God's-eye view of the human race, and the American people in particular. That is probably a frightful view to take, and I, for one, hesitate to take it since I've been there, done that, and found you can't live life in the knowledge of what you see.
But sometimes in the history of man, (like in the Matrix trilogy) something changes everything and this times it's different from what went before. That happened in a very good way with the life and legacy of Jesus. It took centuries and lots of corrupt detours along the way, but eventually the vision of God and Man that sprang from his existence produced the natural rights and liberties of Western Civilization, not to mention hope eternal.
The problem is that liberty can become license to live ignorant and self-indulgent spoiled lives, -and that is where a great proportion of the population is today. Just consider one aspect of American life; drug usage. Could it be more pervasive? Could laws against it be more impotent at stopping it? Or a government hand-out mentality.
Entire segments of American society are rotten to the core, personally and publicly. Just consider Detroit and what a nightmare it has degenerated into compared to what it was. There is a cancer and rot spreading in America and it is connected to many negative factors that render the role and duty and privilege of citizenship almost irrelevant in the lives of millions of almost unfixable people. Maybe they can be fixed, but probably not in this life, -not with the resources available to government and the powers it is limited to.
I once read the response of a law enforcement officer or social worker who said that the only way to fix or change the attitude of hard-core criminally inclined teenagers would require measures that would put them in a hospital. A lot of people need to suffer those measures, including many in government who have a different kind of corrupt attitude.
The communists tried a form of reform with their "re-education camps" that threw the academic and government elites down into the mud of real life in labor camps in the countryside, -perhaps cruelly and unjustly in most cases and without discrimination based on real attitudes and character. But that succeeded at one thing; it changed their view of how important they were in relationship to others who were "nobodies".
American patriots would rejoice and thank heaven to see our corrupt and isolated and insulated government elite overlord class find themselves face-down in the figurative mud that the rest of the population has to live in because of their damn awful and self-serving governance.
And many of them deserve worse; deserve many years in a cell where they, like Jack Abramoff, can come to realize the magnitude of their betrayal of the American people.
And others still, who pull the extortion levers behind the curtains, -who know the secrets of the hidden lives of public officials and servants, -who intimate harm might come to their children if their agendas suffer because of the choices of those officials, -who weigh threats to the status quo of those in power as well as those who benefit from their largess, and thus arrive at decisions about who must conveniently be silenced via a "natural death" or an "accidental death" that no one can explain.
The people behind those untimely life-ending occurrences deserve nothing less than a bullet to the brain. They are the ones who keep the secrets hidden that need to see the light of day in order for a new revolution to take place in America.
They are the Luciferians of the power complexes that pull whatever strings they can accomplish pulling, -either by bribe or by bullet.
And God forbid if you are ever viewed as a liability, unless you are someone truly not expendable or too high profile and popular to terminate. Were the Kennedys such victims and yet not immune even though of the highest profile?
The most recent example of their handiwork is the murder of Loretta Fuddy, -the Director of the Hawaii Department of Health. She was a healthy, kindly, lonely, gentle soul who never married or had children, and in excellent health, but was emotionally vulnerable to persuasion exerted by a powerful and charismatic President of the United States who needed the birth certificate that the department had not given to his mother in response to her affidavit claiming she gave birth to her half-Kenyan son in her Hawaiian home but with no medical witnesses present.
The Registrar at that time (1961) was required to see some proof of one year residency. Such proof didn't exist, so with no eye-witness affidavits supporting her claim, they simply filed her half hand-written, half typed affidavit and that piece of paper became the only vital record in their archive. It was microfilmed, and later digitized when all microfilm records were digitized.
All Barack needed was for her to just allow access to that record so it could be used in conjunction with the record of a deceased child who was born but died at the same time, and he would then be able to acquire a simulated genuine certificate like the one that his mother was never able to acquire for him.
It was important for the nation to get its attention off of such a "distracting" and divisive issue. After all, what good was served by not allowing the nation to be convinced of his birth in Hawaii? He was convinced, but he needed her help in order that others could also "know" the truth.
She loyally and dutifully agreed with his request and went along with it, even allowing the release of the lie that she watched the copying of his "original" birth certificate (as if a real Hawaiian hospital Certificate of Live Birth) in order to make it all seem official and not some mystery like his supposed short-form certification of live birth that appeared three years earlier out of nowhere with no attribution from anyone as to its origin.
The Leftist media bought into its legitimacy and the issue was "put behind us", …until, that is, Doug Vogt submitted a legal brief to a federal court in Washington State which contained a sealed affidavit which named her as a co-conspirator in the fabrication of a counterfeit birth certificate for Barack Obama, and revealed financial details showing that she happened to have somehow acquired $50-70,000 that could not be accounted for, -money used to make substantial payments on a home mortgage.
Did that secret affidavit stay sealed as Vogt had requested, or did it, like IRS information and NSA information get dropped into the lap of a White House operative who knew someone who knew someone… and voila! -within a month she is suddenly and mysteriously dead?
Could anything be more convenient for Barack Obama and his wealthy puppet-masters than derailing any possible investigation into Ms Fuddy's Lois Lerner-like role in the production of a counterfeit birth certificate for the "Hawaiian born" President?
That alone would raise anyone's suspicions if they had a brain (which no one in the media does anymore) but what followed absolutely demonstrated that nefarious machinations were transpiring behind the scenes in order to make Fuddy's murder appear perfectly natural.
What happened exactly? Did the medical examiner who did the autopsy (which required mysteriously waiting a month -perhaps for toxicology results) come out and present a clinical evaluation of the medical factors that precipitated the failure of her heart to keep beating?
That is what anyone and everyone would expect to happen, and yet nothing like that happened, -not even remotely like that. Instead the police department released "details" of the supposed autopsy which the public was not allowed to see, -including those who sued under the Freedom on Information Act to acquire, since major portions came completely blacked out "for privacy law concerns". So they were protecting the privacy of the dead? Or protecting the family that she didn't have?
The reason it was done like that was because what the autopsy actually said could not be the story that was released to the public because it made it clear that either she died by an unknown cause or by a highly suspicious cause (which was reported to the public as "accidental".
How do you accidentally die while floating placidly in a warm ocean with a flotation vest on without any rescue concerns at all? No person in history ever died from the terror of such non-excitement. The only stress from such a situation is the stress of boredom. And I'm pretty sure that boredom never killed anyone.
The explanation supposedly from the Medical Examiner's autopsy report was a string of subjective psychological claims about her mental and emotional state, (-things that are NEVER part of an autopsy) including something that is impossible to conclude; that she died from an irregular and inadequate heartbeat, (aka; cardiac arrhythmia).
Well, anyone from a Nurse's Assistant to everyone who has watched medical investigation programs over the last decade knows that you cannot determine the heart rhythm of a heart that is not beating. That would be like reporting on the pulse rate of a corpse.
How can a claim of an irregular heart beat be substantiated when it leaves no evidence whatsoever?
A heart that goes out of rhythm is not like a train that leaves the tracks and can clearly be seen to not be on the tracks where it belongs. It would be more like a train that disappeared. -Or like a plane that disappeared.
How can you say it crashed if you don't know where it even went?
If investigators of the Malaysian airliner that vanished claimed that it crashed, everyone would want to know how they knew that since there was no evidence of any kind.
Same with Fuddy's death. Reminds me of a book & movie title: "Murder by Death", -by unexplainable death, as is shared in clear terms in:
Obama. and Hawaiian DoH Director Fuddy's Convenient Death
( http://h2ooflife.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/fuddys-convenient-death/)
and… https://h2ooflife.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/turning-a-blind-eye-to-death-of-loretta-fuddy.pdf
(a re-formated and condensed version of the web post: http://networkedblogs.com/Vr4M7 )
Is anyone going to question the police department that was the facade for the most fraudulent autopsy in American history? Is anyone going to go all Woodward & Bernstein and follow the money (or the extortion-intimidation)?
As was reportedly said to a witness in Roswell, N.M. "its a big desert out there and no one would ever find someone's bones." (Same with the Pacific ocean.) -Or ever trace the cash used to buy a condo on Maui.
Either by a bribe or a bullet, or both, they get the job done, and none of the submissive, brain-dead, juvenile children that pass themselves off as journalists ever ask the logical questions, -nor perhaps, even think of them. We're so screwed.
by Adrien Nash April 2014 obama–nation.com


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The First Detainees of the War?
Three days after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress formed a committee to collect depositions of what had happened on 18-19 Apr 1775. Political activists on both sides had likewise collected such sworn testimony after the Boston Massacre in 1770 and other disputed events.
Here's the first of those depositions as they were eventually printed, written down and sworn to at Lexington on 25 April:
We, Solomon Brown, Jonathan Loring, and Elijah Sanderson, all of lawful Age, and of Lexington, in the County of Middlesex, and Collony of the Massachusett Bay, in New England, do testifie and declare, that on the evening of the Eighteenth of April, Instant [i.e., this year], being on the Road between Concord and Lexington, and all of us mounted on Horses, we were, about ten of the Clock, suddenly surprized by nine Persons, whom we took to be Regular [i.e., army] Officers, who Rode up to us, mounted and armed, each having a Pistol in His Hand, and after Putting Pistols to our Breasts, and seizing the Bridles of our Horses, they swore, that if we stirred another step, we should be all Dead Men, upon which we surrendered our selves.What an outrage against British and American liberty! Young men detained at pistol point on threat of death—their horses taken away—all by officers of a standing army!
They Detained us until Two o'Clock the next morning, in which tune they searched and greatly abused us; having first enquired about the Magazine at Concord, whether any Guards were posted there, and whether the bridges were up, and said four or five Regiments of Regulars would be in Possession of the stores soon; they then brought us back to Lexington, cut the Horses Bridles and Girts, turned them Loose, and then Left us.
Yet somehow these three deponents have managed to leave out some details:
- Just why they were riding between Lexington and Concord at 10:00 at night.
- Anyone else who was detained by the same British officers during the next four hours—in particular, a man who'd come all the way to Lexington from Boston named Paul Revere.
- What they did after they were released from army custody.
Brown was eighteen years old in 1775, Loring twenty-six, and Sanderson probably twenty-four. They would all live into the next century, and two would eventually say more about their experiences on the first day of the Revolutionary War. I'll be quoting more from and about them.