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Everyone should post their experiences with their dealer's service department & rate them for everyone to see. Then we can all decide which location truly wants our business.
For the past 16 years, I've been changing my cars every 3 years, just before the warranty expires. Why? Because of my horrible experience with my slightly used {but no remaining factory warranty}cars, prior to my decision to buy new & dump, so I wouldn't have endure such incompetence.
During the past 16 years, I've owned 5 new cars from 5 different manufacturers{nothing domestic, thank you} & absolutely non of the service departments have impressed me enough to go make me want to either keep that vehicle or even trade it in for a new one of the same manufacture.
I know that all of the manufacturers spend so much time, money & effort into sizing-up the competition, research & development & improvements to their cars & yet It seems no-one realizes how important it is to retain their clients by offering a decent service department. Isn't that amazing?
For the past 16 years, I've been changing my cars every 3 years, just before the warranty expires. Why? Because of my horrible experience with my slightly used {but no remaining factory warranty}cars, prior to my decision to buy new & dump, so I wouldn't have endure such incompetence.
During the past 16 years, I've owned 5 new cars from 5 different manufacturers{nothing domestic, thank you} & absolutely non of the service departments have impressed me enough to go make me want to either keep that vehicle or even trade it in for a new one of the same manufacture.
I know that all of the manufacturers spend so much time, money & effort into sizing-up the competition, research & development & improvements to their cars & yet It seems no-one realizes how important it is to retain their clients by offering a decent service department. Isn't that amazing?
wildsandpiper Posts: 14I picked up my 2007 Civic few days ago. Yesterday I brought it in for them to put on the leather wheel cover (included in the price I paid). At first they told me it would take 1 hour, but I actually had to wait for 3 hours!!!
All they can say is "we apology!". When I asked why it took too long, the service supervisor said they had to make sure the cover fit very well to the wheel. Since we waited too long, they did send someone to give us a ride to a restaurant and then picked us up after that but still I went home, unhappy.
To make it worse, today I found out a white spot (small but noticeable) on one of the button on my steering wheel. The white spot looks like a scratch on the Cancel button - used for canceling the cruise control function. The spot has an arrow shape. Since I didn't discover that spot right away, I'm thinking if I should put that service department on fire or I should ignore it and never come back there again.
I know just exactly how you feel. So what is it about the car manufacturers that makes them so stupid or arrogant.
Arrogant because they think that they make the most wonderful products & that we would just sit back & take their crap.
Stupid because they go on spending so much money trying to find out what would sell better or how to improve or get you to buy their cars but would totally detach themselves from the service departments.
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
Let us all put our minds together & come-up with a solution.
Complaining to the dealership dosen't help much. One way would be to share our nagative experience with as many potencial buyers & servays as possible. :mad:
tseosh Posts: 26In my experience the great deals supposedly to be had from independent shops and franchise repair shops don't really exist.
The non-dealer shops know what the dealer charges, and will sometimes be a few dollars cheaper to get your business. But, they will likely use cheap, remanufactured and/or non-Honda parts. I made this mistake on an Accord exhaust system and still regret not spending the extra few dollars on the genuine honda parts at the dealer.
You really need to price shop for a specific repair to see if there is a difference in price and then decide- and I have been surprised many times to see the dealer come in the same or less expensive than the local foreign car mechanic/guru.
The dealer has the right tools, the service bulletins, and a level of accountability the others don't have. Compare prices, but I'd give the edge to the dealer.
sandman46 Posts: 1,798I think if you find the right mechanic who knows his stuff, that should also work. We've got a great Japanese mechanic really close to the house who knows his stuff and my guy within walking distance of my installation is tops. Also have used the dealer too. Been happy with both choices. Do your homework and choose wisely.
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If you can find a good mechanic to service your Honda or Acura, I would go with them. They are considerably cheaper in my past experiences and really know what they are talking about. This is of course a biased opinion though, since I had a horrible experience recently with my local dealer, basically "guessing" with the cooling system problem I had with my car and spending my money on unnecessary repairs. (see the Honda Civic climate control system board). I took it to my mechanic and he did an excellent job diagnosing the problem for the first time, and did a head gasket, water pump, and timing belt for about $600. Called the dealer annoymously out of curiosity to see what they would charge for the same job and they wanted just over $1000. I am currently fighting the dealer for my money back for the unnecessary work they did. Like sandman46 said, just do your homework before taking it anywhere. Independent mechanics can turn out to be bogus too. Good Luck.
rupnok1 Posts: 29I use a private repair facility that only works on honda/acura. They do the work on my civic and my CL-s. I have only good things to say about them.
As far as dealer repair shops go, I have been buying new cars for twenty years and will not go back to a dealer unless there is no alternative. They are overpriced, overcrowded, push unnecessary work, and are no better (and often worse) at diagnosing and fixing problems than an independent. my worst car repair experiences have been with dealerships.
with that said, I don't wander into any old shop. I do my homework first...
nosarb Posts: 3Wow! My local honda dealer service manager is very bad indeed. I would expect these underhanded tactics from a fly by night dealer. This is an excellent car however............ I have to drive 80 miles to another dealer to get service. I've had 7 new honda cars. My next one will not be a Honda. It is interesting that I bought my first car because of the good service reputation. (1989)
As long as you are still under warranty I would be taking that car straight back to the dealer and having them fix them for you on their dime. What are they doing? How many miles are on them? The OEM brakes on my 03 Civic lasted 63,000 with a combination of city and highway driving and my parents 99 Accord got 75,000 before needing replacement.
nick_fun Posts: 6Hi, I went to the Honda Servicing center in AZ for small issue and what i get back is my car with the issue fixed and lots of scratched all around.
At the start those guys were not ready to accept there fault bt later accepted that during the washing of the car it might have happened.
So gave me a rental car and sent my civic to bodyshop for repair.
Just for the background, i got a very bad deal whle buying this car, which was from the same place. So is there anyway i can get back something out of this mess ?
Suggestions are welcome.
Thanks & Regards,
themistocles Posts: 95hey man thats pretty damn horrible, well theres no way you can get anything from your loss on buying the vehicle, and about all you can get from the mistakes they made, is getting it fixed for free and maybe some free services in the future(if you really want to take it back there). At my honda place, i took it in to get serviced, like oil change n what not. well they forgot to rotate the tires so i took it back in, they did it and i got a free mobile 1 synthetic oil change outta it and a full tank of gas. if you want to keep going back to that place, tell them youve obviously lost faith in there service, and you dont see much of a reason to keep coming back to this dealership. make it obvious that they will lose your business unless they do something about it, but in a respectful sorta way, but have to be stern too good luck to ya man
flowergirl33 Posts: 1I have a honda civic Ex 2006 and had many problems with it such as overheated engine, lack of air condition, and brake problems. I drove it straight back to the dealership on Long Island at Manhasset and got the worst customer services manages and reported it to the headquarter of honda and wrote to the better bussiness bureau. Lack of customer services and blaming game. As a result, I was insulted by the America Honda headquarter, customer services representative. Warning--do not go back to any honda dealership. Compliants goes underheard. Thinking of a law suit which can resulted in a Lemon Law. Check out your car.
Angry customer.
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I have to tell you that all car manufacturers are all the same.
I've been trading my cars in every 3 years(since '92 and never the same manufacturer twice, in search of a perfect-one) just before the warranty expiration to avoid painful visits such as yours. Unfortunately though I have yet to find that perfect car manufacturer, not even Mercedes.
I know that this is of no comfort to you. I'll let you know if I ever find the perfect manufacture.
civicowner3 Posts: 47My dealer in canada is an idiot. They can not problem solve. car is under warranty-8000 km. Can not be driven due to problems. will not do anything. do not know what is wrong, and they will not take the time to figure it out. owner has hung up in my ear 2x. i have not had a car for 11 mos that is drivable. they will not deal, and will give me a car to drive. I will never buy from honda againTHEY ARE PIGS

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This could be a picture of my local record store, but we live near the desert so the snow is a dead giveaway that I ripped it off from some website with the click of the mouse.
Not that I use a mouse, because my Mac is best navigated with my track pad. But if I did it would just take a click of it. And just as easy, should I dare, I can click and have the complete Alan Lomax Collection in my iTunes library in a matter of minutes, work that took him decades to acquire under dire circumstances and little financial support.
You can buy this stuff at your favorite e-tailer or over at the Smithsonian site, and you can find it on any number of slowly disappearing blogs whose owners took their old vinyl, ripped and uploaded it, and offer it for all to take at no charge. Those people would be the ones some refer to as pirates, and others might consider them a modern technological folklorist or archivist who just want the old stuff to stick around. Truth lays somewhere in the middle of that I imagine.
Brief interlude: I was walking the dog today and all over the suburban streets on light poles and backyard fences, someone or several folks have pasted KONY 2012 flyers such as these shown here all over the place. My mind speeded ahead to election day in November, and some poor fool stepping into the polling booth. Taking his finger he scans the list of presidential candidates and slides past Obama, Mitt, the Libertarian guy, Green party person, few independents and finally pulls back the curtain and yells out to the poor poll worker..."Hey...how come I don't see Kony's name listed here? He's the one I support." The power of marketing.
Pirates. On the week that the corporate-sponsored Stop Online Piracy Act gained attention in the press and both Republicans and Democrats back-pedaled and made noise about not rushing into things and keeping the internet open and free, something strange happened. The US government chose this particular time to seize the domain name of Megaupload, a file sharing site, grabbed $50 million in assets, and convinced New Zealand police to arrest four of the site's key employees, including enigmatic founder Kim Dotcom. In a 72-page indictment unsealed in a Virginia federal court, prosecutors charged that the site earned more than $175 million since its founding in 2005, most of it based on copyright infringement.
Artists, musicians and fans who play it straight cheered loudly for the good guys, and the corporations like Universal, SONY, Warners and little EMI all were very happy that finally someone had the guts to stick the their fingers into the dyke and stop the flow of illegally downloaded music, and films and games too while they were at it. But in a case of too much too fast, yesterday a judge here in the US has put a bomb under the Megaupload case by informing the FBI that a trial in the United States may never happen. The cyberlocker was never formally served with the appropriate paperwork by the US authorities, as it is impossible to serve a foreign company with criminal charges. Could it be that the agents were too busy cavorting with New Zealand prostitues and missed a key step? In the meantime, steps have been taken by other file sharing sites that block access to US users, despite that most operate in small countries once known as being "behind the Iron Curtain" and who believe they are far from the long arm of our said cavorting agents. No reason not to be careful I suppose. And ditto Google...they have been under fire by the RIAA (corporate music industry mouthpiece) to change their search engines to exclude or at least make it harder to find all the thousands of blog spots....these would be those of music fans and lovers for the most part...that rip their collections and share, write lovingly and with exhaustive research about niche genres and times past, and have the historical sensibility that they are saving the music that iTunes and Amazon and Universal and SONY could care less about. The market is small for Trinidad Spirituals 1922-1935...really it is.
But on the other hand, will the actions to kill off pirates have an upside for roots artists, whose sales potential averages maybe 3500-15,000 units sold per album? Instead of seeing album revenue slip away from the evil-doers...at best a couple bucks per album after distribution, marketing, advertising, recording and other costs...they will start to fill their coffers again with the green. Or will they? Because here lays the conundrum: with the huge amount of releases these days due to the low cost and ease of home recording, there's just not a market big enough to support every indie-alt-folk-singer-songwriter-band-blues-instrumentalist that's out there. So instead of seeing sales of albums increase, they will find that awareness of their art declines because folks who were acquiring it for free no longer can. But isn't that a good thing? No. Because if people don't know about you, if word of mouth turns into whispers...your little tours and small shows will have a tiny audience. And ones that have already legally bought your albums. So say goodbye to venue sales where you make more selling a CD for twelve busks than you do on Amazon, and adios to a packed coffeehouse or bar. While the pirates stole your music, they also helped create your audience. Conundrum indeed, but worth it to think about.
A couple weeks ago I spent a few days trawling the shelves at The Strand, the worlds greatest indie bookseller....yes I've been to Powell's in Portland but The Strand is just better. Staffed by old men like me and twenty-something female NYU students and grads with black hair, icy stares, ink and metal piercings, it feels more like an old indie record store than anything else, aside from the last few hundred record stores still standing I suppose. A great vibe and if they had the space and could turn some of the joint into affordable apartments, I'd move in. Got a few books while I was there, and they sent them back to me here in California rather than me taking them home on the plane. First of all, I don't pay NY sales tax on items shipped to another state. Second, the cost of shipping is less than the tax. Third, at $25 per suitcase that United wants, I save oodles letting the black haired girls with icy stares pack and ship 'em. Like the pirates and the downloaders....am I gaming the system? Am I denying someone the chance of revenue by looping the loopholes?
That's the Saturday morning ramble and now I'm off with the kid. There's a roots festival down in Normal Heights in San Diego, and we'll be looking forward to street musicians doing their thing. Twenty stages, hundreds of acts. Can't recall if there's an indie record store left standing in the area, but if there is we'll stop in and buy something from a black haired girl with an icy stare. It's supposed to be hot today...so I hope she skips the black boots and tights. Klezmer music at four. Bye y'all.
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It's not actually control Mike, it's money that drives it all. And if y'all enjoyed my explanation of how it all used to work in the not-so-old days, you'd holler like wildcats if I explained to you how buyers at some of the largest retailers make more money from vendor payoffs than they do from their own employers. The stories I could tell...but just remember that last scene: "It's Chinatown."
@LuckyMud I wish there was a "like" button on these here comments, but I'll just say "AMEN". I am locked into a relationship with ASCAP against every moral bone in my body, because someone once told me I "had to" be affiliated. Ugh. "Thugs" is exactly right, and I completely agree with your assessment that they have basically driven listening rooms underground (into houses) for the most part. It makes me physically sick every time I think about associating with the PRO's and their war against the venues I love to play.
"So IMHO it's not the sales tax perception of benefits that the e-tailers enjoy that's the big problem, it's the entire free market system that falls apart under the microscope."
No disagreement here, though the perception of "tax-free" is a highly-visible psychological come-on that's regularly cited by shoppers as a key attraction of e-tailers. Barry Lynn commented in "Is Amazon a New Monopoly?" (http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/apr/20/) that he believes large Internet retailers use books as loss-leaders to get people in the door to buy higher-margin items. No doubt they could do the same with highly popular CDs.
Full line: "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
Just read today on GeekWire that Amazon settled with Texas and among other things will start collecting sales tax there in July. We've had to pay in Washington all along since they are based here. It was also announced that they added 9,400 workers last quarter and sales were up 34% and the Kindle Fire is still the best selling item on the Amazon website.
@hyperbolium: Amazon has long been selling below cost CDs and more recently digital downloads to attract shoppers, although I know for a fact that unlike the brick and mortar retailers who demand a subsidy from the record labels for their lower prices, Amazon takes the loss as a cost of doing business for the reasons you mention. In other words, they built a better mousetrap. And by the way, that Barry Lynn link starts out like this: "Without the ability to work together, industry watchers say the 'Big 6' publishers won't be able to stop Amazon from pricing books as the company sees fit." That sounds to my ears as an advocacy for price fixing.
In other words, they built a better mousetrap.
That's one way to look at it. Another view is that Amazon is using their dominance to practice predatory pricing. On the flipside, does an agency model equate to price fixing? Are the prices for iPhone apps fixed because there's only one seller selling each app at a single price through multiple portals?
Isn't it odd that the free enterprise system seems to encourage predatory pricing while at the same time lobbying the government to put laws on the books to prevent it?
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Beautiful Gown So when I arrived to David Bridal I was excited; I had my list of dresses to try on and I was determined to leave with one of them. However, because I am plus size none of the dresses I had onmy list were available in store, in order to try them on I would need to order the dress in my size and pay for it up front before I knew if I like the dress. This is completely an inconvenience, my wounderful day of wedding shopping was almost ruined but was saved by my sales consultant. She brought to me the plus size dresses they had in stock, I tried them on and was a little disappointed, but then she brought out this lovely dress. I automatically fell in love with the quality of material and the beading along the breast. My mother loved it, my Maid of Honor loved it and I was impressed. Although I never imagined myself in a A-line dress this one was beautiful. I did not have the dress hemed, I just wore 4 in heels and everything was ok. November 21, 2013
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My Wedding Gown! This dress was brought to me out of no where and beat my mom's favorite as well as my top two choices from my first visit. The site does not do this dress justice and my wedding pictures may not either. The dress is very warm and I couldn't wear my 5 inch heels with it, but worth all of that. I wore a size 24 and needed no alterations. Do yourself a favor plus size brides and try this dress on! August 4, 2013
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Man gunned down outside Scoobies in Bethlehem
The region will wrap-up the work week with a comfortable, mostly sunny day as afternoon highs reach into the low 80s.
The Main Stage at Musikfest will no longer be dark on opening night.
A Bucks County woman was killed after being thrown from her car Thursday night.
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The Allentown School District will have to procure an additional $2.1 million to make ends meet on its 2014-2015 budget.
"From a cash standpoint we're in fine shape," a consultant said about the Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone District Authority (ANIZDA).
In Montgomery County, customers at a beauty salon got quite the shock when a car came barreling inside the shop early Thursday afternoon.
A nursing home in Warren County, New Jersey could be one step closer to being sold.
Cole Hamels pitched eight strong innings and Chase Utley had a tiebreaking RBI single in the fifth inning to lift the Philadelphia Phillies to a 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Thursday.
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To convincingly yell "I am Hercules!" in his new action movie, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had to do more than warm up his vocal chords.
State Rep. Paul Clymer faced a small but cantankerous audience Thursday night when he held a town meeting in Quakertown's public library.
Bethlehem Business Administrator David Brong has been cleared of any breach of ethics involving his ownership of a company that was doing business with the city.


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Andrew Owusu serves as an assistant at Middle Tennessee, bringing a vast amount of experience in the horizontal jumps.
Owusu has been associated with the Middle Tennessee track program since 1999, and his contribution to the program solidifies its position as one of the premier institutions for long and triple jump in the Sun Belt Conference and the nation.
Owusu is a full-time assistant professor in the Health and Human Performance Department at Middle Tennessee. He has a wealth of international experience, including two World Championships, three Olympic games, one World Cup, and four All-Africa Games.
Owusu earned his bachelor's in biology from Alabama, where he garnered eight All-America honors. He held school records in both the long and triple jump upon graduation. Owusu completed an M.S.Ed. in sports administration and management at Wayne State College, and in 2004 earned a Ph.D. from Middle Tennessee in Human Performance.


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New London's National Guard armory will once again be a drop-off point for the state's Operation ELF effort, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and the Connecticut National Guard announced on Wednesday.
The New London Armory is one of six locations in the state taking part in the effort, which is in its 10th year. Operation ELF aims to provide toys, cash, gift cards to grocery and department stores, cash, and donations of fuel oil and services such as snow removal to the families of military personnel who have recently been deployed overseas or returned to the state.
"Deployment for these brave men and women means many months away from their homes, their families and their jobs," said Wyman. "I believe it is our obligation to honor that sacrifice by supporting them and their families when they are gone and when they return. I especially urge the corporate and business community to step up and not only make a real difference in the lives of those left behind, but give peace of mind to our troops overseas."
Wyman said more than 700 Connecticut National Guard troops are currently serving in Afghanistan and other areas of Southwest Asia. She said the troops have more than 1,200 family members remaining in the state, including 400 school-age children.
Donations may be dropped off at the armory, located at 249 Bayonet Street, through Dec. 10. The hours for leaving donations are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
A holiday party at the William A. O'Neill Armory in Hartford will take place on Dec. 15 to give toys to the children of military families. For more information on Operation ELF, call 860-858-2677.


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Disk capacity has been the sexy specification the majority of us have latched onto, but it's time to start thinking about performance and power consumption.
Back when he was at Xiotech (now XIO), Rob Peglar used to present a PowerPoint deck that included a slide depicting a butcher processing a large pile of ground beef. The unappealing image provided a memorable hook for Peglar's point: for years, we've bought storage in a similar fashion, using the simple metric of dollars per pound.
Interviewing disk drive makers a few years ago, I learned a different but related truth about disk. Many disk drive industry insiders observed that their biggest sales accrued based on "larger," rather than "faster" or "smarter." Customers saw bigger capacity as the improvement that meant the most. A 1 TB drive was better than a nimbler 250 GB drive, and a 2 TB drive yielded more sales than a fancy 500 GB flash/hard disk hybrid unit.
Bigger is better made a certain kind of sense, of course. Knowing virtually nothing about data itself -- the contents of a given file, its business value, its criticality or its usage characteristics -- data storage administrators concerned themselves mainly with the simple problem of where they would find the elbow room to store it. And as the economy grew more challenging, vendors rewarded buyers with products that could store a lot of anonymous data to a much greater extent than they regarded (or even paid attention to) improvements
Peglar thought that was shortsighted, a kind of race to the bottom in the disk drive market. His former employer reached the same conclusion, deciding to discontinue its capacity line in favor of products that served a different metric altogether: IOPS per watt. XIO's storage blade, the Intelligent Storage Element or Hybrid ISE (hybrid because of its use of flash solid-state storage to augment lower capacity, faster performing SAS disk to yield a nominal 200,000 IOPS), isn't aimed at the casual consumer looking for mass file storage, but at planners with other needs and metrics in mind. Specifically, the company is seeking to serve applications with the extreme performance they require with the lowest possible power consumption. I see this strategy as important.
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Here's Time's list of the best and worst big city mayors.
Staffers apparently put their heads together with a bunch of "urban experts" to come up with the list. (Chicago's Daley is on top).
Here's their approach:
- It is tempting to judge our mayors for the little things that make city life livable, the depth of the potholes, the smell of the streets, whether or not the traffic lights are in synch. But the best mayors have also been those who act on a grand scale, building bridges, saving schools, finding the funds that cities forever lack.
Funds that cities forever lack? Hmmm. Are cities forever lacking funds or forever mismanaging them?
And acting on a "grand scale" makes me nervous. The mag points to Denver's John Hickenlooper (who should win an award for his name alone) as someone who did just that:
- And in his biggest score, he won approval for a $4.7 billion mass-transit plan, which involved persuading voters, along with about a dozen mayors in seven regional counties, to back a sales-tax hike.
What if he had proposed a less grand plan that did a better job of improving transportation? Would Time magazine still ooh and ahh over him?
Anyhow, let's just get to what people really care about.
Here are Time's worst mayors: Dick Murphy, Kwame Kilpatrick, and John Street.


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text: Because he is steeped in personal prayer and the liturgical and traditional prayers of the Church, the Holy Father offers us sound and inspiring advice about the essence, art, and practice of prayer. His reflections also provide deep insights into God's love, Jesus' own prayer, how to pray the psalms meaningfully, and the richness of devotions to the Eucharist and Mary. This is a handbook on prayer that you'll want to read over and over again.


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- [I]magine that you have never seen or heard of a roller rink. Nor an ice-skating rink. Long ago people didn't know anything of skating. Imagine yourself one of them. Imagine that a friend walks up to you and tells you with great enthusiasm about his new idea for a business:
"I'll build a huge arena with a smooth hard wooden floor and around the perimeter a naked iron hand-rail. I'll invite people to come down to the arena and strap wheels onto their feet and skate round n' round the arena floor. They won't be equipped with helmets, shoulder-pads, or knee-pads. I won't test their skating competence, nor separate skaters into lanes. Speedsters will intermingle with toddlers and grandparents, all together they will just skate just as they please. They'll have great fun. And they'll pay me richly for it!"
- Jacobs believed the most organic and healthy communities are diverse, messy and arise out of spontaneous order, not from a scheme that tries to dictate how people should live and how neighborhoods should look.


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Smithsonian Institution Mall-Wide Perimeter Security
(File Number 6423)
The Commission approved preliminary security plans for nine Smithsonian buildings on the National Mall with the exception of two aspects: 1) the low freestanding walls at the north entrance fountain and along 14th Street, NW at the National Museum of American History; and 2) the line of bollards along Jefferson Drive, SW, north of the entrances of the Freer Gallery and the Arts and Industries Building.
The Smithsonian proposal features a variety of landscape elements and site amenities to replace temporary security measures that are currently in place. Elements include cast bronze posts, decorative metal fence panels, freestanding low walls, fixed and retractable bollards, and custom-designed benches and guard booths. The project encompasses nine facilities: the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Arts and Industries Building, the Freer Gallery, the Museum of African Art, the Smithsonian Castle, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the S. Dillon Ripley Center. The Commission made several recommendations to the Smithsonian Institution as it prepares final site plans. View the EDR to see the Commission's recommendations and to review proposals for specific facilities.
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Prey 2 Details, Concept Art Emergeby Nick Breckon, Mar 15, 2008 12:37pm PDT
The follow-up to Human Head's first person shooter Prey has been officially confirmed to be in development via a now-removed website for the new middleman company Radar Group.
Though few details were revealed, a small piece of concept art (pictured left) was posted, in addition to a short sentence of plot detail. Following our initial report, the bulk of the website was taken offline.
"This time, abandoned and framed for the disappearance of his family, Tommy escapes an Earth that no longer wants him for a future that cannot survive without him," reads the description.
While 3D Realms' Scott Miller made mention of a sequel following the original game's release, today marks the first update on the project in nearly two years.
Prey 2 was listed for release on PC and Xbox 360, but no other specifics have been released thus far, including whether Human Head will reprise its role as developer. The studio currently has no known projects.


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visitors all the places a river goes – all the way
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live music, divers feeding fish, crafts, water play and
activities for children.
Aquarium celebrates the aquatic world with 9,000 animals
that swim, fly and crawl in natural exhibits," said
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20 and 21. "We want to share our appreciation of the
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OpenID Connect: Poised for greatness in enterprise authentication?
Despite the popularity of SAML, the mobile and cloud benefits of OpenID Connect may spur adoption as an enterprise authentication platform.
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GlobalSign hack update: Certificate authority finds no rogue certs
Following a breach to a GlobalSign Web server, an extensive investigation found no evidence of an infiltration of its digital certificate infrastructure and no leakage of its certificate keys.
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RSA responds to SecurID attack, plans security token replacement
Following a retooling of its manufacturing and supply chain management processes, RSA plans to replace security tokens for high risk customers.
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CA said Arcot's software as a service delivery model could help accelerate its delivery of CA identity and access management technologies from the cloud.
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Enterprise use of adaptive authentication is growing internally and for Web applications. Brad Causey details the allure of risk-based authentication. Continue Reading
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State Rep. Lenar Whitney — one of a handful of Republican candidates vying for Louisiana's 6th Congressional district — has been described by Cook Political Report analyst David Wasserman as one of the most "frightening or fact-averse candidate[s]" he's ever met following her reaction to an interview last week.
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Mid-August hearing dates have been set for dueling lawsuits over Louisiana's use of the Common Core education standards in public schools.
An investigation into the last-minute passage of a pension hike for the state police superintendent continues, despite Col. Mike Edmonson's decision not to accept the increase.
Four bedroom traditional Youngsville home or three bedroom traditional Broussard home
On Tuesday, a three judge panel (voting two to one) of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down as unconstitutional Mississippi's controversial law requiring that physicians who perform abortions maintain admitting privileges in a nearby hospital.
Safety Jairus Byrd practiced with the New Orleans Saints on Tuesday for the first time since his signing in March.
Sentencing has been delayed for a businessman who provided key testimony in the corruption case that resulted in the conviction of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.
The spectre of priest sex abuse has returned to haunt the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette following the recent release of an investigative report by Minnesota Public Radio, revealing new allegations of another child predator hiding behind the clerical collar.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
A ballpark snack topped with BBQ meat can be found cruising town on a food truck
"Although the administration is moving forward with climate change regulations at home, we don't consider how policy decisions in the United States impact greenhouse gas emissions in other parts of the world," says Roger Martella, the former general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush.
Louisiana agriculture officials say prices for long-grain rice are projected to drop this year.
First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending July 19 decreased from the previous week's total.
A judge is getting ready to set a new trial date for a former BP executive charged with obstructing a congressional investigation into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The sponsor of a Louisiana law that requires doctors that perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges doesn't believe the provision is in jeopardy after a federal appeals court struck down a similar Mississippi law.
Louisiana's state school board has jumped into a lawsuit against Gov. Bobby Jindal that accuses the governor of illegally meddling in education policy through his efforts to block Common Core education standards.
Here's how one nationally recognized conservative political pundit reacted upon hearing the news Monday that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was leaning toward an endorsement of Louisiana's lone Democrat senator.
If President Barack Obama's poll numbers, and those for his health care law, haven't yet bottomed out in the Bayou State, then Democrats surely don't want to know what the statistical floor actually looks like.
Midsouth Bank has released its second quarter earnings report, showing a year-over-year increase for shareholders.
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Two bedroom New Iberia ranch style house or two bedroom Lafayette condo
The deadline to purchase tickets for the 2014 ABiz Top 50 Business Luncheon featuring top-selling author, political activist and Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig is only two weeks away.
With the qualifying deadline for Lafayette Parish School Board elections quickly approaching, a series of candidate forums have been announced by the Lafayette Parish Public Education Stakeholders Council.
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The investigation and potential prosecution of the man charged in the recent hit-and-run death of a Youngsville cyclist won't happen overnight, according to local law enforcement officials.
Louisiana's state school board is holding a special meeting to consider whether to sue Gov. Bobby Jindal in an ongoing dispute over the Common Core education standards.
A bipartisan congressional deal to help improve veterans' health care access includes approval for new veterans clinics in Lafayette and Lake Charles.
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JUL 30 "Pranksters" have taken over Ray Nagin's website, the Picayune reports here. Nagin once used the site to hawk his book, but lost the name to some non-fans at some point, Andy Grimm reports. The posts include items predicting a less-than-joyful time in the pokey and an offer to sell the site to raise money.
JUL 30 Blogger CB Forgotston gives us the latest on the Edmonson Amendment - and the latest is that Jindal darling Neil Riser not only knew about the amendment which he previously denied all knowledge of, he sponsored the doggone thing. Worst of all, Gentleman Neil tried to throw his own staffer under the bus for it. Gotta love that guy!
JUL 30 This post on the SNAP (Survivor Network of Those Abused by Priests) calls on the Diocese of Lafayette and Bishop Michael Jarrell to immediately remove a local priest from his post due to accusations that he has abused children. The story was brought to light by the first part of a Minnesota Public Radio piece on pedophile priests in Louisiana.
JUL 30 Here's a post on the Daily Kingfish about the recent battle of twits between Jindal buddy Garret Graves and Edwin Edwards. Someone tweeted that the kids of the candidates were really cute. Graves responded by saying his kids were much cuter than Trina, apparently implying that the former governor's much-younger wife was one of his children. Har Har.
JUL 30 A group of students visiting Angola may have brought about the release of an inmate who has been in solitary confinement for longer than some of them have been alive, The Lens reports in this post. The inmate has been in solitary for almost 30 years, and may be released if Warden Burl Cain determines the man won't "cause me the blues," because Cain "needs the cell."
JUL 30 Purveyors of Louisiana's spicy condiment are doing a booming business, this post on WWL tells us. There's even the exciting news here that one of those duck people is working on his own hot sauce to sell to us. Well, hot dog. Tell us where we can get that!
JUL 30 Blogger Tom Aswell turns over his blog to Stephan Winham for this post, which takes a look at state retirement and the DROP. Who cares? Well, it's relevant to the discussion of the so-called "Edmonson Amendment," and because it affects the state's bank account.
JUL 30 Since King Bobby decided that BESE needed his permission to sue him over Common Core, the board members came up with a way around it -- they voted Tuesday to join the already existing lawsuit by a charter company, and look for a lawyer who would do the job for free, WAFB reports here. "Minutes" later, Bobby filed a countersuit to pull the state from the CC Consortium, the Pic reports.
JUL 30 As the Landrieu-Cassidy race enters its final months, Stephen Babcock takes a look at some recent skirmishes in this post on NOLA Defender. The release of an internal memo revealed that (a year ago, anyway) the Democrats felt the Landrieu race was the second most important in the country. Interestingly, Cassidy felt that was a way to make hay.
JUL 29 Saints Quarterback Drew Brees, who clearly is no slouch at public relations, countered any worries about his age by commenting from training camp that he'd like to play another 10 years on Friday. For the next two days, he says, he was subjected to "random" drug tests, this post on the Picayune says. Really?
JUL 29 Blogger Crazy Crawfish got a tip that the state Department of Education was promoting a lot of people, and so he did some digging. Instead of asking a question to which he knew he would receive no answer, he just asked for payroll records. And, he found some pretty interesting stuff there.
JUL 29 Here's yet another "lady left her kids in a hot car" story, but this one is a little more ridiculous than most. KPLC reports that this lady (a Princess, no less!) Left her little kids unattended in a parking lot while she went to her boyfriend's car so she could provide him with some oral support. Hey, she left the windows down!


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|Release Date: November 09, 1988
|Running Time: 88 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Box Office: $32,842,703.00
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---- — METHUEN — The former school custodian convicted of embezzling thousands of dollars from her union had her termination appeal dismissed by the state Civil Service Commission.
Beth A. Reuter, 49, was fired after she was convicted in February of larceny greater than $250 by a single scheme and ordered to serve 30 days of a one-year sentence in jail. Superintendent Judith Scannell fired her following a hearing at jail in March, and Reuter appealed.
In her appeal, Reuter argued that an agreement she signed with Scannell in November 2011, which brought her back to work after she was arrested for embezzling the money, protected her from any further punishment.
But the commission dismissed that reasoning in its June 27 decision.
"Nothing in this plain language can be fairly construed to mean that MPS waived its right to take action against Ms. Reuter should she eventually be convicted of a crime or to terminate her in exercise of the MPS's sound discretion in that event," the decision said. "If that had been the intent, the parties could easily have so stated in plain and unambiguous language."
The commission also cited state law saying a person may not be employed by a school system within a year of serving jail time, unless the school system agrees to start or continue employment. Being ineligible for employment for one year is just cause grounds for termination, the commission wrote.
"It was the right decision, definitely," Mayor Stephen Zanni said.
Michael Hogan, Reuter's attorney, did not return a message seeking comment. Scannell is out of the office this week.
Reuter was convicted of a felony count of larceny of property greater than $250 in value by a single scheme on Feb. 13 in a jury trial in Lawrence District Court. She was sentenced to one year in jail, with 30 days to serve and the remainder suspended for three years.
Her termination hearing was scheduled to be held at Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Framingham on March 1, but was moved to the Essex County Sheriff's Office and held on March 5, according to the decision.
The School Department fired her March 7. Reuter appealed her termination on March 15.
Scannell fired Reuter on May 26, 2011, after the original criminal complaints were filed in district court, and Reuter appealed to the Civil Service Commission. Reuter and the School Department signed a settlement agreement in November 2011 that brought her back to work, at a lower base wage that totaled $43,222.40 per year. Six months later, on May 27, 2012, her salary was bumped back up to $62,905, the rate she was paid before she was fired, according to School Department records.
Civil Service did not issue any ruling in that case, and Reuter withdrew her complaint as part of the agreement.
Last year, Scannell released a copy of the settlement agreement last summer, but key terms of the agreement were redacted. A request to the School Department for an unredacted copy of the agreement was denied.
An unredacted copy of the agreement provided by the Civil Service Commission on Wednesday showed that the School Department and Reuter agreed that she would come back to work with a 30-day unpaid suspension and a one-year demotion to junior custodian. She was reassigned as a senior custodian on May 27, 2012.
An officer in the Methuen Custodial Association reviewed account records in 2011 and discovered Reuter and Patrick Winn, a former custodian at Methuen schools and a one-time secretary/treasurer, had written checks to themselves totaling tens of thousands of dollars. In court in February, prosecutors accused Reuter of writing more than a dozen checks to herself from the union's bank account amounting to $5,815 over the course of about 18 months in 2006 and 2007. The district attorney's office believed Reuter stole much more over a longer period of time, but the Methuen Police Department only charged her for actions during that time frame.
In 2007, Reuter was charged after trying to buy cocaine in a Home Depot parking lot with her children in the car. The district court judge said in court in February that Hogan had suggested Reuter took the money to satisfy a drug habit.
Winn was charged with stealing $22,400 from the union and pleaded guilty to a single felony larceny charge in September. He was sentenced to one year of probation.
Methuen police arrested Winn in March 2009 on gambling charges after two men said they placed bets of thousands of dollars on sports with him. He admitted to sufficient facts for one of the charges, and his case was continued the case without a finding, according to court documents.
Winn resigned in June 2012.
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Daniel Baker, a Deerfield man accused of beating Vernon Hills resident Marina Aksman to death with a baseball bat over two years ago was called sane by a prosecution expert witness after he chose not to testify in his own defense Wednesday, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Baker has asked to testify each day of his trial, now in its second week, but when he had the opportunity Wednesday he chose to invoke his right not to testify against himself under the United States Constitution, according to a report on WGN. "I have my rights in tact here," Baker said in the WGN story.
Earlier: Psychiatrist: Baker Was Insane During Attack
Before Baker testified, Psychiatrist Alexander Obolsky told the court Baker was insane at the time police say he beat Aksman to death, according to a report in the Daily Herald. He did not realize what he was doing was wrong, according to what Obolsky said in the Daily Herald.
After Baker decided not to take the stand, the defense rested its case. The prosecution then introduced testimony from another psychiatrist, Dr. Stafford Henry, who said Baker was sane at the time of the attack, according to the Daily Herald.
"It is my opinion, to a reasonable degree of medical and scientific certainty, that Mr. Baker was legally sane," Henry said in the WGN story. Henry gleaned no evidence of voices Obolsky said Baker heard.
"He was not and has not suffered auditory hallucinations," Henry said in theChicago Tribune article. "He said, 'The voices I hear are real.' He made references to the voices we both heard outside of the contact room."
Testimony in the trial is complete and is in recess until next week. Closing arguments are not expected until Nov. 2, according to ABC.
According to earlier reports in Patch, police accused Baker of killing Aksman and fleeing to Montana with her daughter and his then girlfriend, Kristina Aksman. They were apprehended by police a few days later.


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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The Green Bay Packers released veteran fullback William Henderson today, leaving Brett Favre as the only member of the 1996 Super Bowl championship team still playing for the team.
The 36-year-old Henderson spent much of last season on the bench behind former Denver Broncos blocking back Brandon Miree.
Packers general manager Ted Thompson says the team decided to release Henderson now so that he can pursue other NFL opportunities.
The 6'1", 252-pound Henderson played in 188 Packers games, which is more than all but three players in team history - Favre, Bart Starr and Ray Nitschke.
Used primarily as a lead blocker, he caught 320 passes for 2400 and nine yards and 14 touchdowns.
He rushed for 426 yards on 112 carries with five touchdowns.
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Zach Braff Fed Up With Republican 'Lies'
Braff calls on Americans to pay attention, vote and hold Republicans accountable.
Actor Zach Braff is keeping close tabs on the country's presidential election this year and has reached his breaking point on what he sees as Republican falsehoods.
"What is frustrating is the lying. I know every politician spins the truth a little," Braff told Whispers. "But when you happen to know the facts and you see Paul Ryan's speech you are like 'Wait a minute. So much of that is not true.' "
Braff, who played Dr. John Dorian on the TV show Scrubs, isn't fond of the Republican party overall this year.
"The Republican party has been hijacked by the far right," he says.
Braff spent a few days kicking it in Charlotte with politicos at the Democratic National Convention, but says the highlight for him will be watching President Barack Obama accept his party's nomination.
"He's an amazing speaker," Braff says. "And Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton are fantastic speakers themselves, so he has two hard acts to follow."
Braff predicts Obama's greatest obstacle this fall will be keeping up with GOP nominee Mitt Romney's gravy train.
"I think it is clear that he is going to be outspent. That is why the ground game with Obama is so much more important," Braff says. "I don't think the Obama campaign themselves would say that they can keep up with Romney and the corporate money going into Romney's bank account."
Obama's Super PAC, Priorities USA, has struggled to raise sufficient funds this election cycle. With just nine weeks left until the election, Priorities USA tapped former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel to takeover the PAC's fundraising operation.
Braff admits, however, that while he supports the Democratic party's values as a whole, he has one grievance to air.
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France Defies US, British Demands To Kill Mistral Sale To Putin... For NowSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 17:55
Moments ago it announced that while it is far "too late" to cancel the transaction of the first warship which will be delivered in October, regardless of how much farther European sanctions escalate, France would be willing to cancel the sale of the second Russian Mistral ship should sanctions be raised. Why? Because Russia still has not paid for said ship. Of course, keep in mind that this is the same France which was already punished to the tune of $9 billion a few weeks ago when the US slapped a record fine on BNP, and which resulted in a statement by none other than the head of the French central bank (issued on the US independence day) that the BNP case would merely encourage "diversification" away from the dollar.
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Saxobank: "Be Warned" Of Delayed Market Reaction To "Escalation Of Global Turmoil"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 17:16
The escalation of turmoil in the world is yet to play a role for the market, but be warned: everything economic has a delayed reaction of nine to twelve month – whenever there is an action there will be a reaction. If the present state of alertness continues through the summer you can bet on higher energy prices having a serious impact on not only world growth but also on markets. Simply put, Steen Jakobsen concludes, "prepare for less growth, less certainty and more geopolitical risk."
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Netflix Meets EPS, Beats On International Subs, Guides To Lower Q3 EPS And Domestic SubsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 16:45
Moments ago Netflix reported Q2 Revenue and EPS which were precisely in line with Wall Street estimates, at $1.34 billion and $1.15 EPS. None of this mattered, because just like Amazon, nobody cares about where NFLX is now, everyone is much more focused on where it will be at some indefinite point in the future, with an emphasis on what many believe is virtually unlimited subscriber growth both in the US, but primarily, in the international market. Here is what NFLX reported to its subs growth.
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Oil Jumps As Stocks Dump-And-Pump But Close LowerSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 16:06
Equity prices tumbled early on - giving up all Friday's gains - before rampaging phoenix-like (thanks to an AUDJPY driven short squeeze) back to 'unch' after rumors of ceasefire discussions in Israel rolled around trading desks. Oil - it appears - was looking at the death-toll (and the fact that Hamas can only accept a deal that denies Israel's existence) and soared back towards $105 (its 2nd biggest day in over a month) notably divergent from stocks. The Russell 2000 was the laggard all day (ramped the most of the lows on the squeeze) and Trannies the leader. Since the MH17 headlines hit, the Nasdaq is the only index green, Treasury yields are -4bps, and oil up almost $4. The USD ended the day unch, 30Y Yield -2.5bps, gold, silver, and copper up modestly, and VIX up 0.5 vols at 12.7. Stocks closed on the weak side.
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Russia Touts South Stream Pipeline As Europe's Gas LifelineSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 14:59
Russia is mounting a major publicity campaign in Europe for its proposed South Stream gas pipeline in an apparent effort to reassure its EU customers that they can rely on Russian gas for the indefinite future.
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Krugman: CBO Doesn't Know How To Read Its Own ReportSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 14:07
Paul Krugman reads the latest long-term forecast from the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and he likes what he sees. Even though the chart below is the CBO's projections for the growth of federal debt, described by CBO as "a path that would ultimately be unsustainable," Krugman nonetheless offers a rosy commentary...
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SSDDSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 13:41
In awfully familiar sense of deja vu, at 1300ET on the dot, "most shorted" stocks were ignited into a vertical short squeeze by a rampfest in AUDJPY... the only problem... credit markets are not playing along... Trannies are the best performers (almost back to unch) with Russell lagging (though ramping most aggressively).
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Russian Sanctions Leading To Economic Contraction... In Germany?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 13:22
It is no secret that the gist of western thinking has been that sanctions against Russia would pressure its economy enough to force Putin to finally crawl to the negotiating table, tail between his legs, and beg for western forgiveness. Call it the law of unintended consequences striking once again, because while Russia's economy continues to hum along (if only for now, something that can't be said about Ukraine's) and has forced the Kremlin to seek a variety of deals with China to avoid western isolationism, one other country may have been crippled far faster than Russia: Germany.
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Goldman Managing Director Found Dead In Apparent Kite Surfing AccidentSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 13:01
Police are still investigating the tragic death of 39-year-old Goldman Sachs Managing Director Nicholas Valtz this weekend. As Bloomberg reports, Valtz, a "novice kiteboarder," was found dead yesterday by family members who went searching for him after he didn't return from a kiteboarding outing. While there is no accusation of suicide in this case, it sadly brings the number of young financial services executives deaths to 16 this year.
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Malaysia PM Announces MH17 Black Boxes Will Be Handed Over ShortlySubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 12:26
Quelling some conspiracies - though we are sure more will come on 'tampering' - the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak issued a statement confirming it has reached an agreement on the MH17 investigation...
Of course, this means the "credibility" of the latest YouTube clip from Ukraine, which "supposedly" revealed that the "rebels" were instructed by Moscow to hide the black boxes will be severly questioned, or would be if there was anyone out there still questioning anything in the relentless propaganda barrage. Actually scratch that: said clip will now promptly disappear from social networks, period.
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Is Yellen Being Misled By Employment Statistics?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 12:17
The actual state of employment in the U.S. is likely far weaker than the economic statistics currently suggest. If this is indeed the case, it creates a potential for policy mistakes that could have negative consequences to both the economy and the financial markets.
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Governor Perry Deploys 1,000 National Guard To Border, Denies "Militarization Of The Border"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 11:48
It appears Texas Governor Rick Perry has grown weary waiting on the President to dictate the next steps in the immigration debacle and taken things into his own hands. As The Monitor reports, an internal memo from another state official's office said the governor planned to call about 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley - at a cost of about $12 million per month. State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa exclaimed, "all these politicians coming down to border, they don't care about solving the problem, they just want to make a political point." However, state officials were careful to point out that "this is not a militarization of the border." Nope, not all...
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China Sends Surveillance Ship To Hawaii In Retaliation To US Navy Build Up In Its Back Yard,Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 11:25
China has had enough with diplomacy. Shortly after China's president Xi Jinping warned that "a conflict between China and United States will definitely be a disaster for the two countries and the world" a seemingly tone-deaf US responded by unleashing even more military forces in China's back yard, and announcing it was developing new military tactics to deter China's slow but steady territorial advances in the South China Sea, including more aggressive use of surveillance aircraft and naval operations near contested areas. The message was clear: pleasantries are great, but immediately halt any territorial ambitions which impact American allies in the region. Well, China responded, but not in the way that the US may have wanted. According to Bloomberg, China sent a surveillance vessel to waters off Hawaii even as the country participated for the first time in the world's largest international naval exercise led by the U.S.
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Obama's Ukraine Update - Live FeedSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 10:51
The "proof" is flying back and forth from The US and Russia, with the disastrous MH17 crash polarizing the world's nations in a troubling (but BFTWWIII) manner. Following a weekend of European leaders getting behind The US, China has come out strongly supporting Russia who itself asked some awkward 'proof-laden' questions this morning. We leave it to President Obama to dictate exactly what we should all believe and just how bad things will get unless Russia gives up...
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Dow Drops Below 17,000; All Friday Gains ErasedSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/21/2014 - 10:47
"Retirement Off" It appears the 'proof' that markets were Teflon and could shrug off the worst spate of geopolitical concerns in years... is wrong. US equity markets have given up all the gains from Friday's knee-jerk massive short-squeeze fest... as Treasury yields have tumbled lower all day long...
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Lyons Township High School's radio station, WLTL 88.1FM, took the "Best Radio Station in the Nation" at the 10th annual John Drury Awards on Saturday, held at North Central College in Naperville.
Lions students garnered a wealth of first-, second- and third-place prizes across the board, enough to triumph over other participating schools from as far away as Connecticut and California. (Listen to some of the award-winning pieces here.)
"They just really worked really hard putting together the best pieces that they could, asking for advice, redoing them, revising them every step along the way to just have the best work that they could have out there," said WLTL station advisor Chris Thomas. "I think the awards speak for themselves on how the work turned out."
The 2012 victory is WLTL's fifth (previously won in 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2009), and the first after a two-year lull. Thomas said that last year the station was ranked out of the top three and took home relatively few prizes, a bit of a wake-up call.
"They kind of got complacent, almost, just that they'd been winning so much and it was kind of expected we would win again," Thomas said. "Well, other schools had stepped up their game."
For the students, falling so far off—"They kind of took that personally."
The station rededicated itself in several ways, including taking on several new categories. Perhaps most notably, LT swept all three top places in the News Feature category, in which they'd never placed even once before.
"At the end of the day, and I'm very proud to say this, it was their best work that won this award," Thomas said.
First place awards: Brendan Dzwierzynski (Best Newscast), Ben Kasl (Best News Feature Story and Best Promo), Christine Pond (Best PSA), Karl Laubacer and Evan Boyd (Best Radio Drama—Adaptation).
Second place awards: Camille Suknovich (News Feature Story), Mike Maicke (Sportscast), Jacom Alderman, Sarah Delisi, Brendan Dzwierzynski and Camille Suknovich (PSA), Ben Kasl, Adam Jumpa, Charlie O'Connell, Matt Van De Sompele, Kara Lane, Ryan Foster and Caleb Tackes (Radio Drama—Original)
Third place awards: Brendan Dzwierzynski (Newscast), Karl Laubacher (News Feature Story), Collin Thomas and Joe Rocco (Promo).
According to an LT press release, "The John Drury High School Radio Awards were created to acknowledge excellence in high school radio broadcasting around the nation." All award-winners are offered a $1,000 scholarship to North Central College.


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Masochistic Tendencies
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Does anyone know any good movies that feature men being tortured and/or killed by women? (The hotter the better). I'm a hardcore masochist (my life hero is Kakihara from Ichi the Killer) Who gets off by watching men like myself getting tortured. (If Jessica Alba took a machete to me, my blood would'nt be the only thing they'd have to clean up :P) Please help a pervert out. Regards, Leopold Masoch
theres "i spit on your graverift267 on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 2:28pm
theres "i spit on your grave aka day of the woman"...both orig and remake are good IMO..."grotesque" is way out there..i think youll really enjoy this one,....um..in general i found that japanese horror has alot of sexual type torture... lemme think a lil more and ill get back to u...
SubjectHELLFIGHTER on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 11:12pm
You will LOOOOOOVE. . . . . . . HARD CANDY
Although Rifts choice is excellent, ULTRA violent and right in yer face.
lol..good comebacks man...rift267 on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 4:52pm
lol..good comebacks man...
yeah...its a male dominatedrift267 on Friday, January 25, 2013 - 4:09pm
yeah...its a male dominated genre...unfortunately ...ill see if i can get some of the other vets to come and give u some suggestions...never seen any of the august underground but ive heard those are torture...u seen any of those?
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(Born on November 10, 1922) -- Johnny Lipon managed for 31 seasons, 30 of them in the minor leagues. His worst winning percentage came in Buffalo, which tells you all you might need to know about the team he led that season.
"Skids" went to high school in Detroit and debuted in the major leagues in 1942. World War II interrupted his career, but Lipon returned to stay with the Tigers through 1952. Then he was traded to the Red Sox that also involved Boston legend Johnny Pesky. The shortstop bounced through St. Louis and Cincinnati at the end of his major-league career in 1954.
Lipon spent a few more years playing in the minors, including a stop in Havana. He got his first chance to manage in 1959 in Selma, Ala. He worked his way up to AAA and then jumped to the Indians' coaching staff. Lipon was Cleveland's interim manager in 1971, and didn't have much talent. The Tribe went 18-41.
Lipon went back to the minors from there, and skippered the Buffalo Bisons in 1981. The Pirates gave him some "colorful" personalities and not much talent, and the Bisons went 56-81.
At 58, it almost seemed like the game had passed him by. But Lipon showed his staying power from there. He managed for 11 more seasons, finally retiring in 1992 at the age of 69. Lipon died in 1998.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Cracks are already starting to show in Republican support for some major parts of Gov. Scott Walker's budget.
Lawmakers on Thursday are questioning the breadth of the Republican governor's voucher school expansion plan, the requested hiring of more than 700 new state employees and freezing spending on public education.
Republicans can pass whatever they want in the Legislature, given their 60-39 majority in the Assembly and their more narrow 18-15 edge in the Senate. But they can also put a stop to what Walker wants, or make significant changes.
State Sen. Luther Olsen says he's heard from many fellow Republicans who are already pushing for changes, in particular Walker's proposal not to allow public schools to spend more.
Concerns about Walker's plan are being raised by Assembly Republicans as well.
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