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A special weeklong examination of gun violence, gun ownership and gun legislation. NBC News journalists will report across "NBC Nightly News," "TODAY," MSNBC, CNBC, NBCNews.com, and more. The conversation will also extend across NBC News and MSNBC's social media platforms using the hashtag #GunsInUSA.
It was after midnight, early on a Saturday in the college town of Moscow, Idaho, and student Jason "Cowboy" Monson was at the police station to get back his Desert Eagle .45-caliber handgun.
In McDonough, Ga., about the same time, two teenage brothers were still awake. A friend was sleeping over, and their mother had let the boys handle her .38-caliber revolver, which was unloaded. She'd gone to bed.
In South Valley, N.M., it was quiet at the Griego household as 15-year-old Nehemiah waited for his father to come home from the night shift at a homeless shelter. The son was holding his father's AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
In the next few hours, the freshman in Idaho, one of the brothers in Georgia, and most of the Griego family would be dead, victims of three forms of gun violence — suicide, accident and murder — that are everyday occurrences in the United States.
Their deaths, and scores of others, occurred over a holiday weekend, the third weekend in January, when America celebrated the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a victim of gun violence. It also was the weekend the nation swore in a re-elected president whose inaugural address referred to guns, though he didn't actually say the word: "Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm."
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One of 91 deaths identified by guns across America on a long holiday weekend: Officers with the Bexar County, Texas, Sheriff's Office investigate the shooting death of Jesse Rosas, whose bullet-riddled body was found on the side of a road near San Antonio on Jan. 21. Police have not identified any suspects.
By the end of the long weekend — after President Barack Obama had spoken and the red, white and blue confetti strewn along Pennsylvania Avenue had been cleaned up — at least 91 people across America had been killed by guns. That's more than three times the number of caskets needed in Connecticut after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. These 91 people died, not in a single burst of violence over a few minutes, but spread over a three-day weekend, like an autoworker stealing an entire convertible one part at a time to escape notice.
In the aftermath of the Dec. 14 Newtown shooting, during a renewed national debate about gun rights and gun control, NBC News picked the weekend of Jan. 19-21 to examine gun deaths across America. Today and on Monday and Tuesday, we'll tell you what we found and introduce you to some of the victims and their families. We also invite you to look at our online map and to draw your own impressions from the stories of violence.
We don't pretend to have found all the gun deaths over that weekend. There is no official census of gun deaths, and it takes the federal government many months to compile national crime and suicide statistics. We drew our list from the deaths that were reported in the press, and confirmed the details with authorities in all but a few cases. If you only want to know how many people are killed by guns on an average day in America, simply divide the annual figure, about 31,300, by 365 days, and there's your average: about 86 people a day.
As part of a weeklong special report, "Flashpoint:Guns in America," NBC News charted every death attributable to firearms that we could find over the three-day weekend in January ending on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We found that, as President Barack Obama was being sworn in for his second term, at least 91 people were losing their lives to gunfire.
Why did we find "only" 91 in three days? The main reason is that hardly any suicides get reported in the media. Suicides by gun are twice as common as gun homicides. Some homicides don't get any publicity either. Unless a killer chooses a public place, annihilates an entire family or shoots up a Wal-Mart, he might not even get on a website, in the newspaper or on TV, not on a holiday weekend competing with the festivities in the nation's capital and the Ravens-Patriots and Falcons-Seahawks games. The Griego family massacre in New Mexico was the only incident that long weekend to get significant national news attention. It also could be that holiday weekends with NFL championships are safer, with so many young men – who are statistically far more likely to shoot someone — inside instead, watching the games.
Guns by the numbers: how violence adds up
Our goal was not, however, merely to count the deaths, but to share the stories of the people who died, to see what lessons one might learn from those whose deaths usually go unnoticed, that don't prompt the president to order the White House flag to half-staff.
It's an inescapable conclusion, even from our small sample, that there are many ways to get killed with a gun in America.
Based on interviews with police, prosecutors and family members in all but a few of the cases, we tallied 53 homicides where one person killed another. There were another three homicides where multiple people were killed. There were six murder-suicides, and six suicides. Five accidental shootings. Three shootings by police, and at least two by civilians in self-defense. That's 78 horrors with 91 dead. On a different randomly chosen weekend, the count might shake out differently.
You can get killed throwing your daughter a 17th birthday party, if your angry estranged husband shows up. Without a gun, you might have an angry confrontation and maybe some tears. With a handgun, the birthday girl in Grapevine, Texas, lost her mother and father in a murder-suicide, police said.
Or you can get killed buying a taco from a vendor on the street in Los Angeles, if you get into an argument with the wrong person, and that person has a gun.
Or catching a train: A bystander was killed at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Leandro, Calif., when a couple of gangs started trading shots.
You can get killed spending an afternoon with grandma. Just as the president was beginning his inaugural address and talking about making children safe, a gunman in Cocoa, Fla., burst into a home before a children's birthday party, shooting to death the mother of several of the children and seriously wounding their grandmother.
Or visiting a strip club. A U.S. Army soldier from Oklahoma's Fort Sill was killed outside a strip club during a dispute over a woman.
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James Brady, 26, was shot and killed in Bradenton, Fla., Jan. 20, as he and two other masked men attempted to rob a resident in his carport, police said. One alleged robber, Jared Lee, has been charged with felony murder in Brady's death. Authorities are seeking a third man, Charles Jones.
You can get killed for what may seem like like a pretty good reason, if, as the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre put it after the Newtown shooting, you're a "bad guy with a gun" who happens to run into a "good guy with a gun." There were two shootings by citizens that apparently were justified over the long weekend, including one by a man in Bradenton, Fla., who was ready with his own handgun and a concealed weapons permit when three armed robbers wearing masks confronted him and his roommate in their carport, according to police. He killed one of them, and authorities determined it was in self-defense. There also were three shootings by police officers that have tentatively been ruled as justified, including one in which an ex-con was shot dead after he threatened to kill his hostage following an armed robbery.
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Las Vegas Police Lt. Hans Walters, 52, killed his wife, former police officer Kathryn Michelle Walters, and their 5-year-old son, Maximilian, called 911 to confess and then set his house on fire on Jan. 21, according to police. Walters killed himself with the handgun as police moved in.
But as we saw last week when a former Los Angeles police officer allegedly went on a murderous rampage against fellow law enforcement officers, the "good guys" aren't immune to the demons that trigger gun violence. Over the inaugural weekend, a Las Vegas police lieutenant used a handgun to kill his wife, herself a former police officer, and their 5-year-old son, before killing himself, according to police, just as the president was taking his seat on the West Front terrace of the U.S. Capitol on Monday morning.
You can get killed when your fists are outgunned, like the 22-year-old man who his family said was standing up for his friends in a brawl, when someone else pulled a gun and shot him dead, according to police. They were in Torrance, Calif., attending a punk rock festival headlined by a band called "Aggression."
You can become an ironic headline, like the 20-year-old man in Lafayette, La., who was shot dead about 60 yards from the Martin Luther King Jr. recreation center, on Monday, the day when Dr. King's legacy of nonviolence was being celebrated. That shooting occurred about the time the Obamas left the White House for their inaugural ball.
Or you can be ignored as just another victim of a street crime or a drug deal, barely making the local newspapers if you're killed in a "confrontation at a mobile home park" or "shot and killed in an argument in a parking lot."
One of the surprises in our snapshot of gun violence was how young many of the victims were.
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Kayla Ann Hendrickson, 16, was killed alongside an Oregon highway on Jan. 19, by her boyfriend, Jacob Allen Green, 24, after an argument, according to police. Green committed suicide near the California border, they said.
Twenty of the 91 were too young to buy a beer at a baseball game. There's the 16-year-girl in Oregon named Kayla, who was shot to death by the highway, apparently by her 24-year-old boyfriend, who then shot and killed himself with the handgun, according to police. The 6-year-old girl in Cleveland — her name was Navaeh, and her family called her "Nae Nae" — who somehow got her hands on what police said was the illegal handgun of her felon father, and shot herself in the face. The 18-year-old in Baton Rouge, Terrance, who was playing with a .357 Magnum; when it went off, the bullet missed him, and hit his 2-year-old brother, Travin, in the chest.
It's hard to miss how male the victims are: Out of 91 dead, 75 were men or boys. And the men were even more likely to be the ones pulling the trigger.
There's no way to count them all, but the press accounts of these deaths are sprinkled with deadly encounters fueled by drugs and alcohol. We didn't trace the race or ethnicity of victims or shooters for this project; though research indicates that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be involved in gun violence. But the cases over this weekend were not limited to "urban" violence, with the deaths happening in cities and small towns and suburbs across many class and ethnic groups.
Looking through the deaths from just that one weekend, one wonders how many of these deaths could have been prevented by the gun-control and gun-safety changes that are being discussed in Washington. There are no easy answers, but one can draw an overall conclusion: Because the types of gun deaths vary greatly, so the solutions would have to vary as well.
David Hemenway, a professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health, says it will require a national mindset shift to make big inroads into the number of gun deaths, similar to the change that occurred in how child abuse – a condition once considered so endemic that it couldn't be addressed – was viewed after new laws against it were passed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
"If it was in your safety to have a gun in the home, people in public health would try to get you to own a gun," he said last month at a forum on gun violence sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Reuters news agency. "But what evidence we have is that it's against your self interest."
Improvement in mental health efforts, as proposed by the president, might make a difference, particularly in the 12 suicides and murder-suicides. But many of the cases will forever remain a mystery.
Warwick, R.I., Police Capt. Robert Nelson, who is investigating the murder-suicide of a longtime married couple on the MLK Day weekend, said the law enforcement system is set up to find and punish wrongdoers, not determine root causes: "We don't have clear motive, and you know, you rarely do," he told NBC News. "… As seen around the country, when someone kills somebody else then kills themselves as a result of that, you very rarely have any clear motive."
In the Griego family massacre in New Mexico, as in the Newtown school shooting, there still is no clear understanding of what may have driven a young man to commit mass murder. Nehemiah Griego, 15, is facing murder charges in adult court. Police say the minister's son shot his mother and three younger siblings with a .22-caliber rifle as they lay in their beds early on that Saturday, then waited to shoot his father with the father's military-style AR-15 rifle.
What about the proposal to take "weapons of war" — or assault-type weapons — off the streets, as Obama put it? Police are reluctant to give out details of the type of weapon used in a crime, because that's the sort of fact that they can use when interrogating witnesses and suspects. You'll see a lot of "unknown" for gun type on our map, and we don't have reliable information in most deaths about whether a gun was purchased or owned legally. There are several cases in which guns were not possessed legally.
The weekend of gun violence does leave an impression that few crimes are committed with the assault weapons whose legality is being debated in Washington. We saw one Detroit homicide where a witness said the gun was an AK-47, but police won't say one way or another. And Nehemiah Griego is said to have used a .22-caliber rifle, then a .223-caliber military-style AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
Most of the killing, however, is done with handguns that are not on the political radar, one or two victims at a time, not crimes that depend on high-capacity magazines with more than 10 bullets.
"Certainly I'm not naive enough to say that if we were to ban military-style assault rifles and if we were to ban high-capacity magazines, that we're not going to have killings or murders," said George Gascón, the San Francisco district attorney, an advocate of banning those weapons and high-capacity magazines. He was discussing the death of Daniel Colon, 44, who was killed with an unknown weapon on the morning of the inauguration, as he was walking home with his cousin from a bar where he had celebrated the football victory by the 49ers. "All we're saying is that we can reduce the mayhem, and we can have greater control to make sure that the people that own weapons do so in a lawful fashion."
Accidental shootings of children may be the most preventable, when children get their hands on guns that adults have not secured.
In McDonough, Ga., where the mother was asleep, the sheriff's office says the mother had let the children handle her .38-caliber revolver earlier in the evening, when it was unloaded. Sometime in the night, one of the boys loaded the gun.
The mother was awakened around 2:30 a.m. by a gunshot.
The mother's 14-year-old son had pointed the gun at his 15-year-old brother's chest and squeezed the trigger, the sheriff's office said. The sheriff and the district attorney haven't released the names of the boys, and say they haven't decided whether to charge the brother with a crime. The sheriff's office said it didn't consider charging the grieving mother, because her gun was legally owned.
Many gun owners say they need their guns to be at hand and ready in case of an intruder breaking in during the night. "You try to look at the science," Hemenway, the Harvard professor, said at the gun violence forum. "There's no evidence at all suggesting that having the gun that you can get within two seconds matters more than the gun you can get within 10 seconds. ... There is a huge amount of evidence that having an unsecured gun leads to all sorts of death in the family."
Looking at the gun deaths across the land, on just one weekend, is a reminder how ingrained the gun culture is in America, a large part of the story the country tells about itself, especially in the way its young men find identity.
Consider Jason "Cowboy" Monson, the freshman from the University of Idaho who went down to the police station to get his gun back.
On Friday, just before our weekend clock began, Jason's roommate spoke with his resident adviser in the dorm, saying he was afraid because Jason was keeping his Desert Eagle handgun under his pillow.
Jason was raised on a small horse farm in Middleton, Idaho, hunting and fishing, playing football for a Christian school. He was raised around guns. Jason's father is a county sheriff's patrol sergeant, and his mother is a former Boise police officer. (His parents did not respond to a request from NBC News for an interview.) Jason won a national speech competition with 4H, and was studying communications. He was also in the Air Force ROTC and hoped to serve his country. He had a new girlfriend and a sense of humor, and posted a lot of funny stuff on his Facebook page.
His online summary of himself was unassuming: "im a total cowboy. I hunt cowboy mounted shoot and drive an old ford diesel. Ive broken several bones and most recently chainsawed my foot, that was a great two months, insert sarcasm. I own several guns and will be in the ROTC at the u of I this fall. any questions message me."
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Jason Monson aims a blank pistol at the camera. Jason, who grew up on a small horse farm in Idaho, was active in Cowboy Mounted Shooting, which uses blanks.
Cowboy Mounted Shooting looks like a lot of fun. (Watch a primer on YouTube.) The riders train skilled horses and compete on an obstacle course, wearing a Western long-sleeved shirt and a cowboy hat and shooting guns loaded with powder cartridges--blanks--at ballooons. Jason had already won a couple of belt buckles. One of his fellow competitors described him as "very nice, respectful, personable and outgoing." It's a great sport for someone who likes people, horses, and guns.
When the roommate reported the gun, Jason was not at the dorm. The school called the city police, and an officer came and took the gun away. The police chief in Moscow (for non-Idahoans: that's "MOS-ko"), David Duke, said there was no hint that Jason had made any threat against anyone, and Jason wasn't in a whole lot of trouble.
After all, this is Idaho, where guns are freely allowed with no registration, and one can openly carry a gun without any permit. Jason had violated no criminal law by bringing his handgun to his dorm room, the police chief said. It was against the school rules to have it there — students have to keep their guns in the central gun locker provided by the school. Jason could have faced student judicial charges, but it wasn't a criminal matter.
When Jason got back to the dorm, his roommate had been moved to another room, and Jason was told that his gun had been confiscated. He called the Moscow police about 10 p.m. to get his gun back, and the officer asked him to come down to the station. He came down about 1 a.m., and the officer said he could have his gun, but not until Tuesday, after the MLK holiday, so he'd have a chance to lock it up at school.
At 8:46 a.m. local time Sunday morning, just as the Obama family was participating in a day of service by fixing up an elementary school in the nation's capital, Moscow police got another call from the University of Idaho, from the same dorm.
One of Jason's suitemates had found him, shot in the head, next to notes he'd written to his family.
Idaho has one of the highest rates of suicides in the country, mostly from guns. It also was the only state in the union without its own certified hotline with counselors trained in suicide prevention; a hotline opened in November, but it's open only Monday through Thursday, 9 to 5. Chief Duke says he gets a call about suicide on campus every couple of years or so.
It turned out that the Desert Eagle .45 was not Jason's only gun. Sometime in the night, he'd gone out to his pickup truck for his Smith and Wesson Model 66 .357-caliber revolver.
'Flashpoint: Guns in America,' an NBC News special report
In his obituary, his parents took the opportunity to plead against gun control: "Let us drag the evil hiding in the darkness of the most dangerous places on earth: Gun free zones."
Jason's photo with his obituary shows Cowboy Monson with a big grin, wearing a black hat and astride a reddish-brown horse at a canter. Jason is looking directly at the camera, where he is pointing his blank pistol.
That image is the profile photo atop his Facebook page, too, now and perhaps forever, along with the cover image of two semi-automatic rifles criss-crossed over the U.S. Constitution.
Read Part 2: The faces behind the numbers: Six victims of long weekend's violence
Also contributing to this story and map for NBC News: Daniel Arkin, Meredith Birkett, John Brecher, David Friedman, Kriss Chaumont, Tracy Connor, Polly DeFrank, Matthew DeLuca, Miranda Leitsinger, Shezad Morani, Lisa Riordan Seville, Jonathan Sweeney and Lisa Wilkins.
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LinkedIn announced it will be shutting down its email service after only four months, according to a report.
The service, Intro, was supposed to connect LinkedIn contacts into the iOS Mail app, but LinkedIn said it was stopping the feature because it wanted to "focus on the most relevant offerings for our members," the Verge reported. Sources say that the real reason was that LinkedIn member weren't exactly clamoring for it.
Security analysts said that users didn't really want LinkedIn reading and changing their email, according to Richard Bejtlich, a researcher at Mandiant. "It just completely breaks the idea that email traffic is going where it should go and no place else," he said told the New York Times.
While LinkedIn assured users it as secure as possible, it looks like users still didn't join the service. LinkedIn will shutter the service on March 7.

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Time Warner Cable (TWC) has given up -- for now, at least -- on plans to sell broadband Internet service on a metered basis. That is a smart move, because it was going to be an awful mistake. Consumers and lawmakers had already jumped into attack mode, and -- more importantly to Time Warner Cable's shareholders -- some TWC customers started calling up the cable company's competition to consider switching.
But the bigger problem is that there seems to be a huge disconnect between Time Warner Cable management and their customers. And that's not good. As Pali Research analyst Rich Greenfield writes in a blog post (registration required) today:
The most shocking part of Time Warner Cable's sudden termination of its plans to roll-out broadband usage caps to several additional "test" markets, is that they appear taken completely by surprise, in terms of the public/government's reaction to their new broadband strategy. In a socially-connected world of blogs, social networks, twittering, e-mail, etc… it's truly hard to fathom that TWC management did not anticipate a harsh public outcry - particularly given the "low" levels of caps they sought to impose.
It's possible Time Warner is still going to try the significant change in business model again later this year, once it has time to "educate" its (apparently ignorant?) customers, and roll out an invasive "gas gauge" that helps customers figure out how much Internet they're using, if they remember to pay attention to it. (That will certainly make watching YouTube more fun!)
But in the meantime, TWC is going to continue blaming its customers for not liking the idea of paying more money for the same service they're getting today. In a blog post yesterday, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt highlighted "misunderstanding" about its plans, and continued to insist that charging people more for their Internet service is "the best pricing plan" for consumers. What part of "your bill is going up" are most people misunderstanding?
This is almost as silly as Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs' remark earlier this month, when he likened a month of Internet consumption to a single meal transaction. "When you go to lunch with a friend, do you split the bill in half if he gets the steak and you have a salad?"
We understand why Time Warner Cable wants to raise prices: Web video will eventually threaten its legacy cable business, and if TWC can provide an economic incentive to watch more cable TV -- and an economic disincentive to watch Hulu, iTunes, or Netflix -- that's good for Time Warner. Heck, we're in favor of TWC trying to change its strategy and make more money, if it can do it right. That's capitalism.
But trying to play this off as "the best pricing plan" for consumers -- many of whom, especially the most tech-savvy, will have to pay more for Internet service -- is silly, and just bad business. So it's smart that TWC has backed off for now until it can figure out a better message.
Time Warner Cable and other ISPs -- including Time Warner's AOL (TWX) -- made the decision to sell all-you-can-eat Internet service a decade ago because it was an easy, effective way to boost subscribership. They are now stuck with that model until they can figure out an effective, convincing way to market a different business model. This is not it. (A $5/month, across-the-board price hike might even be an easier starting place, and could generate $500 million a year in more revenue. Comcast's model of capping subscribers at 250 GB a month is also more reasonable and friendly.)
The more that cable companies misunderstand their consumers and try forcing their hand into unfriendly, convoluted service models, the more people are going to hate their cable companies. And with competition increasing, Time Warner Cable can't afford to be hated.


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Facebook has bought Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite to get more serious about ads.
The price tag was rumored to be $100 million, according to AllThingsD. However, that's little compared to Facebook's $4 billion ad business. Microsoft acquired Atlas from the $6.2 billion sales of aQuantive, which it's selling off piece by piece.
So why would Facebook buy Atlas? To beef up its internal business or build out its ad network? According to AllThingsD, it's likely both. The likely plan is that Facebook will use Atlas' data tracking to prove the value of its ads and then raise the prices, because Facebook's goal is to compete directly with Google. Once the price is similar, the social network will compete head-to-head with the search titan.
This sounds like a pretty long-range plan, and we think it's ambitious that Facebook's goal is to crush the seeming indestructible Google.


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As much research as you have done you seem to be awfully confused and lost. I think one to many lies are starting to catch up with you Rockin. I did not realize Josie was on vacation! *smooches Josie for forgivness*If you will LOOK in Aiden's post for TODAY he clearly voted for you.LadySky marches over to change her vote to Rockin. Eden being on your list was the last straw for me sorry.
It's alchemist. And I have already said I killed Piano. In case you missed that again, I killed Piano I am the alchemist. And if you had any real skills in deduction, you'd know that Josie is not a wolf. ((PS - I am playing, so this is more aggressive than I'd usually say things so don't take offence. It's all said in fun ^_^))
Incase you missed it, I claimed myself as Cupid and I have yet to see anyone counter claim it. Not to mention I've done nothing wrong that is considered scummy or whatnot.
Though given Aiden's penchant for taking some sort of satisfaction in people's maulings and deaths, I think I'm going to change my vote to him.
When Trieste sent the "I want out" pm Eden was the only one not included who hadn't voted. She already knew Triest's plan from a wolf to wolf pm.
Wow... lot of hostility flying around today...I still believe Rockin is the Cupid, as he said he was. And I think that the wolves are trying to have him lynched, since he's publically identified himself, thus narrowing down the list of potential suspects. Though given Aiden's penchant for taking some sort of satisfaction in people's maulings and deaths, I think I'm going to change my vote to him.
It could be that the real Cupid was bitten by the alpha, and is/was a wolf, thereby negating the possibility of someone coming forward to prove you wrong. Maybe it was you that got bitten, even. That doesn't apply to Eden and the poison brewer though, because the poison ability had -just- been used. There hadn't been time for something like that to happen.And Teno, seriously, Josietta is -not- a wolf. You're really making me suspicious of you for pushing her so hard as a suspect.
Trie and I were talking in IM about our group game (Dark Stars) when she decided to drop out of this. It was just convenient for her to use that form of communication than send me a PM when I was right there. Would you text a person your having a face-to-face conversation with?I change my vote because I forgot Rockin came forwards as cupid. Instead of being a wolf, he's just got sawdust for brains.I'm also not going to vote for Scott, however tempting it is.I vote Ryven
If the real cupid was indeed bitten, he would've still came forth, counterclaimed that he's the real wolf, then with proven facts, they could've lynched the fake one. This would give the bitten cupid a good view as him being town. However, I've yet to see the 'bitten cupid' speak up to counterclaimed. Counter claiming is dangerous business as wolf, for if the lynchee turns up as the real said claim, they'll be next in line.Will, there's no need to defend a bitten peasant unless you want to clarify that you're a wolf >>
Nothing! You're just a good placeholder while I ferret out another wolf for us to lynch. *petpets*
Josietta watches the group and wonders why anyone trusts anyone. She stares up the dead corpses and tries to keep from being ill. ((Assuming no one has taken them down??)) She looks to the others and then writes in her vote of Saffron and slips it into the box.
Josi saddened that her Mistress died along with the guardian she seeks out the tavern leaving only a simple noted vote behind. Avi. After all he was the runner up in the previous lynching, so something has to be up with that.
Re: Even More Werewolves of Miller's Hollow (Day 2)« Reply #332 on: June 16, 2009, 11:52:37 AM » Will does have a point. I change my vote to Desan .((I'm out for the day.. i'm not sure if i'll be back tonight. *mwahs to all* have fun!))
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Bolt fails to break ten seconds in season opener
Usain Bolt failed to break the ten-second barrier in his first 100-metre race of 2012 at a meeting in Ostrava.
Bolt, getting ready for a season that many expect to end in Olympic gold at London 2012, has regularly expressed his hope that he can run the 100m in 9.4 seconds - but on Friday he could only stop the clock in 10.04 seconds, although he nevertheless won the race.
Kim Collins finished second in 10.19sec, with American Darivs Patton third in 10.22sec and Britain's Dwain Chambers adrift of the three at 10.28s - outside the Olympic qualifying standard.
With a noticeable headwind also affecting the field, the Jamaican nevertheless admitted he was bemused by his performance - blaming a poor start and inability to propel himself through the 'drive' phase of the race.
"I don't really know what went on," Bolt said. "At the start, I didn't feel as explosive as I normally feel. If you don't get that first start, well, that's where my power comes from for the transition and everything comes together.
"That's reality, a very bad day at the starting blocks. I don't know exactly where it went wrong. I was looking forward to coming here and doing a good time. I guess it's just one of those days."
He added: "When I was warming up, I did some starts and I was flying. I ran out and didn't get going, couldn't generate speed up in middle of race so I had to work hard to get some speed up.
"I'll go back, look at the replay, talk to my coach and he can explain what I need to do and then I can go to Rome and improve on my time."
Elsewhere, there was a mixed bag of performances for British athletes. Christine Ohuruogu was second behind arch-rival Sanya Richards-Ross in the women's 400m, while Tiffany Porter underlined her Olympic medal credentials with an impressive win in the 100m hurdles - equalling the meeting record of 12.56s.
It was a different story in the men's hurdles, as world bronze medallist Andy Turner found himself down in sixth as Britain's three competitors (also including Andy Pozzi and Lawrence Clarke) all finished behind their American rivals.
Andre Osagie continued his encouraging form by taking a narrow second in the 800m behind European indoor champion Adam Kszczot, although Joe Thomas unfortunately finished last. Kenyan prodigy Isiah Koech was the big winner in the 3000m with Andy Baddeley a distant third, although he nevertheless recorded a new personal best of 7min 37.14s.
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Friday, September 26, 1997
Thursday, September 25, 1997
September 27, 1997-Duckin' the 'canes
September is bad in the Sea for Hurricanes. We were peacefully resting up north in the islands when we saw the ITCZ start to generate a bunch of them. While other boats were talking about where to go we raised sail and made a dash for the safety of San Carlos. A beat of 140 miles which got a little rough but we made it, mostly in one piece, before any of those nasty 'canes got us.
Hurricane Linda was no problem, it took one little peek into the Sea of Cortez down by Cabo San Lucas and decided to go west young man, and never touched us. However the satellite pics we received were awesome, awesome.
Linda Appears
And Moves Away
Nora Appears
Nora Sneaks into the Sea of Cortez
Hurricane Nora, on the other hand, came up the outside, snuck over the Baja mountains and raised a little ruckus here for a couple of days, but since we been hidin' out behind a mountain called "Tits of the Goat (Tetas de Cabra)" we were protected from most of the storm, and it didn't pass that close anyhow. Now it's gone and we are watching the next one. We do consider ourselves very lucky though, because we made it in here, where we just got a little wind for 36 hours, but no problema. At least a couple of boats, one nearby and one up north, were caught in open roadsteads and wrecked by dragging onto shore in bad seas. No people injured that we know of. The rest of the fleet of boats cruising the Sea of Cortez made it to various bays and harbors, mostly on the west side of the Sea where they are holed up, hoping that no storms get too close. We are here on the east side, hanging out at the Mai Tai bar. Tonight we watched the live E.R. premier and had two for one drinks.
So, WINGS is fine, so are we.
We'll write again soon
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, San Carlos
Saturday, September 20, 1997
Sept 21, 1997-Back to San Carlos
We are back in San Carlos after a month in the north. On the way back we worried about a hurricane, (Linda it looked threatening for a while but went west not into the Sea of Cortez), we did sail through and fought some horrendous thunderstorms, (damage to WINGS was slight, but damage occurred nevertheless) and we sailed a 140 mile beat but gave up on completing it in one try and anchored for a night in a place called The Kitchens, 25 miles short of the end, due to big steep chop which finally wore us out.
But now we're anchored in Bahia San Carlos, enjoying the town, cell phone coverage, the happy hour at the bar, and we're going to take it easy for a little while in sunny San Carlos. Shrimp season has opened, we bought 2 lbs fresh off of a boat for $12, they are huge, and we have some steak. It looks like a barbeque tonight.
We'll write again soon.
Marina San Carlos
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, San Carlos, Mexico


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Australia's internet subscribers exceed 10 million
Internet subscribers in Australia climbed to 10.4 million in the six months to December 2010, according to a report released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This is up from 9.5 million in June 2010, which represents a growth of nearly 10% in the last six months.
The number of business and government internet subscribers grew by 26% to 2.3 million, while the number of household internet subscribers grew by 6% to 8.1 million. The growth in both sectors was driven by the continued uptake of mobile wireless broadband connections, which increased by 777,000 ( or 22.5%) to 4.2 million in the six months to 31 December 2010.
At the end of December 2010, there were 8.2 million mobile handset internet subscribers in Australia. The volume of data downloaded via mobile handsets was 4,029 Terabytes.
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Nabors Industries' (NBR) shares almost touched $50 in 2008. Today they trade for about $16. The stock deserves a better fate.
Nabors is primarily a land driller, not a glamorous deepwater driller like Transocean (RIG) or Diamond Offshore (DO). That's one reason investors aren't excited by the stock. The balance sheet won't remind you of Apple (AAPL), either. Debt is about 83% of equity. That doesn't thrill me, but it puts Nabors squarely in the middle of the pack.
The main reason the stock is cheap is an ugly tussle over executive compensation.
Former CEO Gene Isenberg was slated to receive $100 million in compensation, which had many shareholders boiling. The 81-year-old Isenberg had led the company for a quarter of a century and built it from a pipsqueak outfit to the world's largest land driller, with more than 500 drilling rigs and close to $7 billion in annual revenue. Ultimately, he relented to the pressure and gave up the payout. I have to agree with the shareholders who squawked at the size of Isenberg's going-away present.
But investors are letting the issue of corporate governance drown out all other issues. Nabors has posted a profit every year for the past decade except for a small loss in 2009 -- when many companies had horrendous losses. The stock has risen 15% this year, partly on takeover speculation. Yet it is still priced at rock-bottom levels following two successive years of declines.
Nabors shares go for 0.8 x book value. You might think book value is a suspect measure in a company that, like Nabors, has made a lot of acquisitions. But there is relatively little goodwill in that book-value figure. The stock still looks cheap at 0.9 x tangible book value. Even with this year's pop, the shares are selling for only 8x earnings. That compares with a 10-year average of 18x. The price-to-sales ratio is also very low at 0.7.
There is a gadfly seeking to make sure that the company doesn't stay undervalued. Pamplona Capital Partners III, which owns a sizeable chunk of the stock, is pressing for changes. I don't know the folks at Pamplona, but this stock is so cheap that it wouldn't take major changes to bring about good-looking gains.


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Mingling Effectively at Company Gatherings
Believe it or not, mingling is a vitally important business skill. Mingling well demonstrates that you're a friendly, open, and engaged person who is interested in other people. Mingling poorly shows others that you're either unsure of yourself or so egotistical that you can't listen to others.
Nowhere is the art of mingling more important to your career than at a company party. Make the rounds at the party. Don't spend all your time talking to one person; you want to circulate. Other people will be anxious about mingling and will welcome your efforts to make conversation.
The following tips show you how to make the most out of an event and be a good representative for your company:
- Be prepared. Know what you want to accomplish at the event — to meet a number of people, find a particular resource, or get noticed.
- Remember to carry business cards and exchange them when appropriate.
- As you circulate, make sure you politely excuse yourself from the conversation. To say nothing as you exit is considered rude.
- Hold your drink in your left hand so that if you are introduced to someone, you don't extend a cold, wet hand to shake.
- Always avoid making negative comments. You don't have to lie, but never slander your employer or coworkers. Even if you think the company is mismanaged, keep it to yourself.
- Don't overindulge at work events. Your behavior is a reflection of your company, and staying sober can keep you from saying things you will regret later.
- Introduce yourself and others properly. If possible, learn the names of the attendees and the appropriate way of making an introduction beforehand. If name tags are available, wear one.
Make eye contact, give solid handshakes, and try to speak to people you haven't met before. You never know what doors may open for you simply because you made the effort to greet your colleagues in another department. Follow the preceding guidelines and you'll be set!
Mingle! Don't let fear stop you from approaching someone you've never met. With a bit of practice and planning before the event, you'll soon be conversing with confidence.
While making small talk with a new group of people, the worst thing you can do is keep glancing around for someone better to engage in conversation. You can't find a faster way to make someone feel unimportant. When you're speaking with someone, she should receive your full attention — no wandering eyes!
Cocktail parties and other mingling events usually are noisy and punctuated with interruptions. They're not ideal venues for serious business conversations, so people will appreciate your keeping the conversation light. If you see the potential for a fruitful business discussion, hand the other person your business card, and say you will call her to make an appointment to continue the conversation.


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LOS ANGELES - The creator of TV's "Friday Night Lights" is accusing Mitt Romney of plagiarizing a phrase from the show to use as a campaign slogan.
Peter Berg wrote a letter to Romney on Friday saying he's "not thrilled" that the Republican presidential candidate is using the phrase "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose" on campaign posters and his Facebook page.
On the TV show, a small-town Texas football coach uses the phrase to inspire his players before taking the field.
Berg's agent distributed the letter to the media. In it, the writer-director-actor says Romney's politics and campaign aren't aligned with the themes of the TV series.
Berg goes on to thank the governor for supporting the show but says, "Please come up with your own campaign slogan."
The Romney campaign did not respond to a request for comment.


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When I put mascara on my bottom lashes, it gets underneath my eyes. What am I doing wrong?
The trick is to apply the mascara using the tip of the wand, says makeup artist Jeannia Robinette. Then comb out the excess with a minibrush. She likes the one that comes in the dual-ended Le 2 De Guerlain Mascara, $35.


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narwhal wall decal, whale art, arctic sea life decal, cute animal art, bedroom decor
A narwhal for your wall! Our friendly narwhal wall decal, a cute gift idea for an aquatic animal lover of any age!
This listing is for a 1 color friendly narwhal vinyl wall decal.
This decal comes in two standard sizes:
-Regular size measuresapprox. 15.25" x 23".
-Large measures approx. 23" x 34".
*Custom sizes can be accommodated, contact us for details!
*FREE SHIPPING on regular parcel service, United States and Canada!
Our illustrated wall decal designs are made in-house from the highest quality self-adhesive matte vinyl.
They are a simple, fun, and affordable way for anyone to individualize their home, office, or business. Great for any room of the house including the kitchen and bathroom!
Our step by step instructions make installation super easy. When you're ready for a change, removal is trouble-free without leaving a glue residue.
Vinyl wall decals are great for indoor use but can also be used outside, on glass, on cars and even on some slightly textured surfaces.
If you are unsure if our decals will work for you or if you'd like to see a few color samples, please contact us and we'll mail you a FREE tester pack or color samples of your choice.
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laptop, iPad, auto and other small decals are sent via regular post and do not have tracking available unless it is requested, with additional charge being paid by the customer.
One of a kind items and vinyl decal orders of $200 value or higher will ship via registered mail with insurance and tracking. this could be via surface or air mail depending on your location- please inquire with me if you would like more details.
If you would like priority shipping please let me know and I'm happy to provide a quote and get your item in the mail as soon as possible.
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when multiple items are purchased by one customer, they will be rolled together for the sake of shipping efficiency. if you wish to have separate packaging for each individual decal please let us know.
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*because our decals are computer cut rather than printed, we cannot do accurate reproductions of CMYK or Pantone colors. We offer a selection of 23 matte finish colors: black, white, dark grey, middle grey, chocolate brown, beige, light yellow, bright orange, fire red, dark red, hot pink, soft pink, purple, dark blue, brilliant blue, ice blue, turquoise, mint, lime green, key lime, metallic silver, metallic gold.
we can special order from a selection of other colors, but a minimum order must be purchased and this would be at the customer's expense.
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Our decals all come with easy to understand instructions as well as with a free tester decal.
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due to the wide variety of textures and various wall and painted surfaces, beepart cannot guarantee perfect adhesion to your wall or surface but If you would like to ensure adherence before purchasing just inquire about our test sample pack and we'll mail one out to you free of charge.
we advise waiting a minimum of 4 weeks for installation on freshly painted wall surfaces, this gives the paint a chance to completely off-gas.
it is the customer's responsibility to make sure the wall or surface is suitable for use with our decals (as we cannot inspect each wall surface).
every beepart decal comes with a free sample/test decal, we advise practicing and testing with this decal before installing your purchased decal.
Our vinyl decals are rated to last 3-5 years with outdoor use, but when used indoors away from the elements their lifespan is extended significantly.
Our vinyl decals are designed for a one-time installation and cannot be relocated once they are installed on the surface.
It is important to make sure you install the decal in the location you want it. We suggest using painter's tape to place the decal onto the wall location (with the white backing paper un-peeled and intact) and leaving it for a few days to make sure you have it in the best location possible.
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Magmic solved the BlackBerry 7 Theme drought last week when they released their first Bold 9900/9930 theme, festively titled Deck the Halls. We are not quite certain if this theme (and the four other themes released today) were created using a tweaked version of Theme Builder 6 or if Magmic has discovered a totally different way to make their themes!
What a perfect holiday gift from a renowned theme maker!
If you're decorating your home for the holiday season, why not decorate your Blackberry, too?
Deck the Halls Theme from Magmic brings the holiday decor to your Blackberry wallpaper with a creative twist. As the days in December pass, this theme will gradually add decorations all over, transforming a normal room into a cozy den suited for the holiday season*. Keep a keen eye out to find all the changes! This theme comes with an icon package complete with a festive wreath to highlight your favourite apps. Download Deck the Halls, the perfect theme for the holiday season.


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Technology has finally brought us to the point where we can have air-powered life-sized Lego cars. What more could you possibly need?
There are some downsides, though. It's possibly fragile and with the propulsion the first Super Awesome Micro Project has, it'll only work at Leisure World.
Oh, and reverberocket is nipping the apex..and gently blowing in it's ear. thought of something else:
Most painful accelerator pedal ever.
I hope it's an automatic.
Noted. That means you can't just leave your car lying around where people are going to step on it.
Honorable mention: Quattro-luvr had a good day:
I heard there was an accident this morning.
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Father and son from Fraser complete coast-to-coast bike ride
FRASER —A father and son recently completed a 3,872-mile bike ride coast-to-coast, starting in San Francisco, Calif., and ending in Portsmouth, N.H.
The ride took 52 days for Tom Evans, 65, and Tommy Evans, 15, to complete, averaging 80 miles a day with nearly perfect weather for the ride.
"From day one to day 51, it was sunny all day, except for a few minutes of rain in California, then on day 52 it poured all day," Tommy said.
The pair completed the ride with America by Bicycle, a company who will pack luggage and set up places to sleep during the long trip across the country.
The duo started riding on June 2, and ended their ride on July 24, with their longest day on the bike covering 120 miles.
Tommy is going into his junior year in high school, studying online, and his father, Tom, teaches ski lessons at Winter Park Resort during the winter.
Completing the cross-country trek has inspired Tommy, and he commented he hopes to begin competing in road bike races next year. Eventually he'll take his own children on a ride like he and his dad completed this year, he said.
While Tommy mentioned he is still tending to his saddle sores, he said he would complete the ride again if he ever had the opportunity.
The father and son are not new to multiple day rides, though they have never completed anything of this magnitude, Tommy said.
The hardest part of the ride for Tommy was tackling the arduous climbs over the mountain passes, including Monarch Pass in Colorado.
"I like going over the passes," Tommy said. "It's definitely more challenging, but on the flats, I can't get the speed I want."
Tommy's favorite section of the trip was passing Lake Erie while his father enjoyed cycling the East Coast, Tommy said.
"It was a really fun and good experience that I would recommend for anybody who loves adventure," Tommy said.
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Hiya Poutlings
Hope you're all doing faaaabulous!! Anyway, anyone been keeping up with London Fashion week? Well, I have, but very briefly.
Who are the front row fame ho's at this Fashion Week? Well, its certainly not lived up to the celebrity drenched hub that is NYC.
Even New York this year wasn't up to it's usual star-spotting standard. This year was just dull in having couples who add up to one mega star between the two of them, I mean Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas or even Kim Krapdashian and Kanye West *vomit* I'd much rather have a Gwen Stafani or a Tilda Swinton over those couples, you know, people who really are known and matter substantially more? Yes. Those!
London, on the other hand has been even more disappointing. A group of "It" fashionaista models, Laura Bauley, Poppy Delevigne, bloggers and self-affected children, Alexa Chung, Kelly Osbourne, Pixie Geldof… oh and of course, Lady Gaga jumping up and down looking for attention, again… a bit like an annoying little dog, but worse.
The highlights of the lowlights so far:
At Henry Holland, Alexa Chung tells the other spiffingly fabulous fashion twigs how she doesn't even know why anyone is interested in her.
Kelly Osbourne interrupts and offers advice on how to wear sunglasses and speak in two accents at once. And say "all fashion" all the time on TV.
At Burberry, Anna Wintour having a old girls meet 'n greet with photographer Mario Testino. She actually looks her age in this snake print suit from the cruise ship boutique.
Dita Von Teese starts an impromptu outdoor burlesque by sexily dropping her umbrella then remembers she's wearing corseting that renders her incapable of even scratching her head and waitis a knight in a shining retro tuxedo to save her.
Who ever the hell Tali Lennox is (I guess by the name she is Annie's kid – maybe!), I like her Burberry Prorsum swag.
Who ever the hell this chick is needs to go back to her struggling artists loft and brush her hair…
Samantha Cameron wonders why she can't sit with a bitchy fashion blogger or a child of celebrity.
Child of American music royalty, Daisy Lowe shows no sign of her step mother, Gwen Stefani's style, grace or genuine rock 'n roll attitude.
14 year old Marc Jacobs' muse Elle Fanning shows up to Topshop Unique straight from school… Aaah, does it make you miss how glamourous school uniform can be? hahha. NAAT.
Olivia Palermo does it up proper fashion, like also at Unique. She has an uncanny ability to make you want to buy clothes that will make you look like you are wearing a black plastic bin bag.
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Scholarships in Stewart
Scarlett Family Foundation Scholarship
Award: $15,000, Deadline: December 15
Applicant must be a high school senior or college freshman, sophomore, or junior who will graduate or have graduated from high school in Middle Tennessee and will be enrolling in a four-year not-for-profit college or university. Applicant must be a business major or STEM major and be able to demonstrate financial need. Minimum 2.5 GPA required.
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Linda Cowden Memorial Scholarship
Award: $1,000, Deadline: March 14
Applicant must be a deaf or hard of hearing person who has been accepted into a program to continue his or her education past the high school level, academically, or vocationally or be a hearing person who has been accepted into a program leading to a profession serving the deaf or hard of hearing community.
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WESTBOROUGH, Mass., July 9, 2002 – American Superconductor Corporation (Nasdaq:AMSC), a leading global supplier of superconductor products and power electronic converters for the electric power industry, and GE Industrial Systems, a business of the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced the sale of one of AMSC's D-VAR voltage regulation systems to BC Hydro, one of Canada's largest utilities. This marks the third sale of a D-VAR system by the GE/AMSC team.
The D-VAR, or "Dynamic VAR," system will mitigate significant voltage problems in Fort St. James, British Columbia. The town of Fort St. James is located in central British Columbia and resides near the end of a 70 kilometer, 66 kV radial transmission line. During peak load, the line can experience voltage sags of up to 20 percent. These voltage problems are further complicated by line events such as faults, and the use of large motors in a nearby lumber mill. While the motors are starting, voltage may sag another seven percent on the 66kV transmission line. In addition, motor stalling can also potentially cause significant voltage sags.
"Fort St. James must have a dependable and reliable source of power to keep its citizens and businesses supplied with the power they need," said Brian Avent, technical specialist at BC Hydro. "This was a highly competitive international bid process because this application required a dynamic reactive solution that was not presently available in Canada and we wanted to be sure we looked at a number of approaches for solving the voltage regulation problem. The American Superconductor-GE team submitted the best match to our technical specification and we are confident that the new D-VAR system will resolve the steady-state voltage problems and help to improve the quality of power in the area."
Utilities and grid operators often face the challenge of finding ways to improve power reliability with their existing transmission and distribution infrastructure. In particular, long radial lines with widely varying loading often require support to maintain acceptable voltage levels. The D-VAR system is well suited for this type of application. The system is expected to be operating by the end of November 2002 and will regulate voltage to within the specifications established by BC Hydro, allowing for much improved power reliability to customers in the area.
"Utilities and grid operators are looking for innovative solutions to optimize their grid operations and more effectively utilize their transmission and distribution assets," said Greg Yurek, chief executive officer of American Superconductor. "D-VAR is a low cost and flexible solution that allows utilities and grid operators to leverage their investment and offer better service to their customers. This winning proposal that the GE-AMSC team put together reinforces the strengths of our partnership and the importance this relationship plays in selling and marketing power quality and reliability solutions to utilities and industrial customers."
The D-VAR system maintains steady-state voltage levels on transmission and distribution lines and also protects against other externally caused voltage disturbances – such as those caused by large motors in manufacturing facilities. The D-VAR system is a mobile power reliability resource that utilizes AMSC's proprietary PowerModule™ power electronic converters to inject precise amounts of continuous and instantaneous reactive power (measured in VARs) into transmission grids to solve voltage regulation and dynamic voltage stability problems that otherwise may result in blackouts and brownouts. D-VAR systems can be customized to meet each customer's needs through variations in the operating software and in the number of power electronic converters per unit. The amount of reactive power delivered per unit varies typically from 3 to 8 megaVARs (MVAR) continuous, with instantaneous reactive power output up to 18 MVAR per unit.


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It is awful. For starters, the tape is supposed to keep birds away - yet our "mark" shows a bird, happy as can be, holding the tape like it's his pet snake. Also - the bird isn't cute. It's creepy. And it looks like it's wearing glasses. It's supposed to be a pigeon. Yet, it's brown. It is a horrendous mark for our product.
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Can New Management Turn Eni and Finmeccanica Around?
New government measures by recently appointed Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi are bringing renewed excitement to the country. Renzi, a relatively new face within Italian politics, decided to execute a stimulus plan that will benefit lower-income workers. Now, every Italian worker with an annual salary ranging from about $11,000 to $35,000 (8,000 euros to 26,000 euros) will receive a $109 monthly bonus. The cost? About $1.1 billion, considering that there are about 10 million people within this salary range. In order to finance this plan, Renzi will execute intense spending cuts totaling $8.2 billion.
The new Italian prime minister is also showing willingness to bring change to the companies in which the government has a stake. He changed the CEOs of oil giant Eni and industrial conglomerate Finmeccanica -- two companies in which the Italian government owns a 30% stake -- among others. What strategy is behind these changes?
Eni's new leaders
At Eni, Renzi managed to install Emma Marcegaglia, the high-profile former head of Italian industrial lobby Confindustria, as chairwoman. More importantly, however, Renzi chose an insider for CEO: Claudio Descalzi, Eni's former head of exploration and production.
And now may be the perfect time for an E&P-focused leader. Eni's operations in Northern Africa meant to supply Italian demand are not as vibrant as before. The civil war in Libya and dwindling volumes from Algeria have reduced deliveries. Algeria in particular is reducing gas exports due to its growing population and artificially low domestic energy prices. Eni's long-term gas supply deals with Algeria expire in 2019 and might not be renewed.
Given his background, Descalzi may help Eni focus on increasing the discovery of lucrative resources. Descalzi is responsible for the group's biggest-ever discovery, Mamba South off the coast of Mozambique. Africa, where the company is already the biggest foreign oil and gas operator, is the best area to continue exploring. In Mozambique especially, Eni holds a controlling stake in the gas-rich Area 4 field in Rovuma Basin, which holds more than 150 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Finmeccanica's new chief
Leadership changes are also being made at industrial group Finmeccanica, a multinational giant operating in the aerospace, defense, and security sectors. Renzi made Mauro Moretti CEO and general manager. Moretti is well known in the country for turning around the previously loss-making state railway Ferrovie dello Stato -- and this sort of turnaround expertise is exactly what Renzi is looking for.
Finmeccanica's image in particular requires an overhaul. The company is under corruption investigations, as a former CEO is facing charges for offering bribes that would guarantee the sale of 12 helicopters to India. In addition, the company could face a new corruption trial over the sale of helicopters and satellites to Panama. These issues will not disappear anytime soon.
The company's financials are what Moretti has come to improve, however. Finmeccanica's 2013 annual report showed that it is not in terrible shape, but this is mostly thanks to the sale of Ansaldo Energia, which helped reduce the group's net financial position by $857 million. However, revenue for 2013 was down 2.9% from 2012.
Digging into Finmeccanica's structure, the company operates whole businesses in two sectors: transportation and aerospace and defense. The former, which generates 10% of revenue for the company, is where Moretti might make his first move. The transportation sector, led by AnsaldoBreda, had a negative impact on the group's profitability and cash generation. In 2013, it showed a 7.3% drop in new orders.
This unit, specialized in railways, is considered inefficient by the group itself. The previous administration was actually pushing to trim parts of this area. Moretti may continue this effort, as he is expected to work on improving the company's balance sheets, though he has not commented on the matter.
Final thoughts
When analyzing the recent history of these two companies, two things stand out: corruption and the selling of business units. This could be coincidence, but it must be taken into consideration when thinking about investing in either companies.
Under Renzi's newly appointed management, Eni and Finmeccanica will likely experience sales of noncore assets. This will consequently lead to improvements in their accounting books. This stronger focus on what works for the companies is highly positive. Further, Renzi-appointed leaders may have more and stronger ties with the Italian government, potentially leading to new contracts with the state.
The installment of Claudio Descalzi at the head of Eni should assure continuity and an extra focus on exploration, which could turn highly profitable.
Meanwhile, Finmeccanica may soon show a better balance sheet with Moretti's intervention, but it is questionable whether the new management can boost the company's top line. The Italian economy is contracting, and despite Finmeccanica's relationship with the government, it will be hard to expect juicy new contracts. Italy holds a public debt of more than 132.6% of GDP, and Renzi has committed to keep Italy's deficit below the European Union limit of 3% of GDP in 2014. That would require more cuts or extra financing -- not new investments in defense.
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