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his daughter took. Her hair fell across her shoulders. He kneeled down
to her side and took her tiny dark, shaking hands into his large ones. He was still amazed at how much she looked like Jacina. He wanted to hold her at that moment and make her pain go away. He would do anything to make it go away.
"Father." Her voice brought him out of his trance. She gripped his hand.
"Yes, Saria."
"It hurts," she said weakly. "I'm not ready to die yet." Her black eyes quivered as she spoke. "There is so much I want to do."
He took a deep breath and tried to remain calm as he looked upon his daughter. "I won't let you die, Saria. That is a promise."
He bent down, placed a kiss on her forehead and never looked back as he exited the room. He stopped in the doorway and looked down the stone hall where Jacina stood among the line of guards against the wall.
"Our medicine is beyond help for Saria," he said softly as he bowed his and closed his eyes.
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Original recipe yields 1 -10 inch bundt or tube pan
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 10 inch tube or Bundt pan.
- Mix the cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil, and apricot nectar together.
- Dissolve the gelatin in the hot water and add to cake batter. Mix well and pour the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 60 minutes. Invert cake onto a plate and cool for several minutes. Pour glaze over cake while it is still warm.
- To Make Glaze: Combine the confectioner's sugar and the lemon juice. Use immediately to pour over still warm cake.
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This cake enters the "disaster" recipes category. Way too sweet even without the icing. The icing quantity was adequate for probably 5 or 6 cakes. The cake ended up a soggy mess, with icing pouring over the plate. I had to lift this soggy mess out of the plate and, of course, it fell apart in the process. Will definitely not make it again.
Good recipe, easy and delicious. I didn't have Apricot Nectar, took a can of Apricots put in blender to make the nectar, also chopped some of the apricots and added to batter. Made it in a 9x13 pan, baked for 35 minutes. DELICIOUS!
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Easy and Tasty. No-stick spray worked fine. I used canola oil and reduced it to 1/2 cup since it's thinner than vegetable oil. It's my Dad's favorite, so I made him one for father's day. Everyone gave it a thumbs up.
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---- — There is no professional sport working harder at marginalizing itself than the National Hockey League.
We've gotten used to the occasional strike or lock-out in professional sports. It's been part of the landscape for decades. But these kinds of disputes are infrequent, in large part because owners and players seem to realize that their wrangles over money are largely meaningless to the legions of fans who love to watch the games and follow the subplots and drama. Those fans form the foundation of their wealth.
In the past couple of years, there's been labor disputes in three of the four top professional team sports — football, hockey and basketball. But the NHL has distinguished itself for throwing itself over a self-indulgent cliff.
One-third of this year's season has been canceled due to a player lock-out. There's been some efforts made at getting the two sides together this week, but if the talks break down there is a real chance that the entire season will be canceled.
The NHL infamously canceled its entire 2004-2005 season due to a labor dispute that resulted in a lock-out. It seemed poised to cancel the next season, or perhaps bring in "scab" players. But both sides came to that magic realization that fans had become alienated and the sport was losing support. Things were patched up, problems with the sport itself were fixed, and the games resumed.
Then, the improbable happened. The NHL became one of those rare labor dispute success stories, with profits setting new records each year. Indeed, last season was the most profitable and successful the sport has ever seen, with some $2.9 billion in revenues (by comparison, the National Football League brought in $9.5 billion, Major League Baseball brought in $7.7 billion and the National Basketball Association brought in $4.3 billion).
That glut of money has fattened the appetite of both sides in this dispute. Both want a bigger share of what the fans and sponsors are shelling out. Both sides want more control over the inner workings of the sport. And so both appear willing to risk another no-show season to get what they want.
Perhaps the NHL ownership, and the players to a lesser degree, feel that they are immune to turning off fans and trickling the spigot of money that has been flowing their way in recent years. Perhaps they are right.
Let's hope they learn the kind of lesson that the NFL learned earlier this year when it brought in unqualified referees and saw disastrous results.
Fans shouldn't allow themselves to become willing dupes in this. The NHL needs to respect the foundation of its success — the fans — and remember that the sport is nothing if it doesn't return the loyalty that its fans have granted.


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KANAWHA COUNTY, W. Va. (WSAZ) – Illicit drug activity state troopers say was caught on camera landed two men in jail.
It happened Friday night at the Mardi Gras Casino.
A trooper was watching surveillance video when he saw Joshua T. Wilkerson, 28, and Selwyn G. Brewer, 45, get into a car illegally parked in a handicapped spot.
The trooper says he saw Wilkerson give Brewer pills, then watched Brewer crush and snort the pills. The dome light of the vehicle was on during the event.
Officers approached the vehicle and informed them of what they saw, then arrested Wilkerson and Brewer.
Wilkerson is facing charges of possession with intent to deliver, public intoxication, conspiracy to commit a felony and illegally parking in a handicap parking spot. He is also facing a charge of littering, after the trooper witnessed him dispose of a hamburger wrapper in the parking lot.
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City Councilman and chair of the Redondo Beach Redevelopment Agency Steven Diels was not happy about yesterday's ruling from the State Supreme Court that upholds state legislation to abolish redevelopment agencies.
"It's just silliness to the nth degree," Diels said. "The legislature really just passed some bad policy."
Redevelopment agencies use special funding from local property taxes to work with developers to create projects that are intended to abolish blight in cities and help create affordable housing. The agencies came under fire last spring as certain abuses came to light throughout the state. In addition, the agencies have been criticized for using money that could go to schools and other public projects.
A law passed last summer allowed the state to abolish redevelopment agencies throughout California, which also means that the funds provided by local property taxes for those agencies will revert back to the state's general fund. The law was promptly challenged in the State Supreme Court, but upheld by the Thursday ruling.
"The news that the California Supreme Court decided to support the Governor in dissolving local redevelopment agencies was disheartening to us all," wrote Redondo Beach City Manager Bill Workman in an email to Patch.
Diels, for his part, said that he understood the ruling, even if he didn't like it.
"It held up the legislature's right to make bad policy," he said.
When asked about the abuses that other agencies had been accused of, including spending redevelopment funds inappropriately, Diels said that such abuse doesn't justify dismantling the agencies overall.
"I'm not making excuses for abuses," he said. "If things are being done inappropriately or illegally, they need to be corrected. That's not to say that all RDAs are bad."
As for the criticism that money from the agencies could fund other needs such as schools, Diels pointed out that one affordable housing project, Heritage Point, is on Redondo Beach Unified School District property.
"Our schools received something like $1.5 million from that project," Diels said. "That's the irony, that [funding the schools is] exactly what we've been doing. In the end, they're really taking money from schools."
Supporters of redevelopment agencies point out that the projects provide jobs and build tax revenues for cities, some of which also funds future redevelopment projects. Workman pointed out in his email that dissolving the agencies will work against job creation and other state mandates.
"As a consequence of the ruling, California's governments have on overall economic development programs to address needed job creation, business expansion-retention and production of State mandated affordable housing," Workman wrote.
Diels said that perhaps one affordable housing project in Redondo Beach is currently threatened by the dissolving of the agencies, since all the other projects in the city are currently under contract, and thus not affected by the ruling. Workman wrote that city staff members will be assessing "known programmatic and fiscal impacts," and will provide the city council with an evaluation in January.
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CD Review by Gregory S. Burkart
Those of you cool enough to appreciate the bygone ?Mr Show? will remember a reference to this sort-of band, which evolved as a side-project for Maynard James Keenan - better known as the driving force behind Tool and A Perfect Circle. It was more or less a joke then, and it's still pretty much one now... but it continues to mutate into increasingly confusing and naughty forms.
My first true experience with this completely unhinged multimedia outing (there's also a successful clothing line featuring a mascot who looks disconcertingly like one of my cats) totally failed to clue me in to the schizophrenic nature of what is essentially a creative spit-bucket for ideas that don't quite fit into Maynard's more high-profile musical outlets. That's not a negative, mind you. The metaphor just fits. He describes it himself as ?a space with no clear or discernible goals,? which really sells the work short in my opinion. I think there's more at work here than that. Well, maybe.
That early taste of Puscifer was one most of you probably share, thanks to the soundtracks of both Underworld movies: ?Rev 22:20? in its original incarnation appeared in the first film (there have been other remixes since, including one by Charlie Clouser for Saw II), and ?The Undertaker? featured in the sequel (mixed by NIN alum Danny Lohner). Although both of those tracks resurface on this album, those expecting the same moody, ambient low-tempo industrial vibe are in for a pants-wetting.
Case in point: before walking headlong into the sonic acid bath which is Puscifer's first full-length release (bearing a title that pretty much guarantees exclusion from most big-box stores), I'd caught a version of ?Queen B? - a throaty, simplistic homage to ample-bottomed babes that plays like a heroin-addled version of Mix-A-Lot's ?Baby Got Back.? It's probably the most-played track outside the titles mentioned above (and there's a pretty goofy video to go with it) but sadly it wears out its welcome pretty quickly.
Still, it's a good way to weed out the Tool/APC purists with no sense of humor, who have quite virulently lambasted this album in online forums since its release... not to mention a certain single, the title of which I can't list here. Suffice to say it's a sweet little ballad about a randy country-western singer who services Nashville legends in a most unseemly manner.
Still, this is not exactly a novelty band. Despite Keenan's online disclaimer warning listeners about the berserk nature of this project, there is some real creative power at work here - hardly throwaway material that didn't happen to fit within the Tool or APC oeuvre. The tracks run the gamut from the spaghetti western-flavored trip-hop of ?Dozo? to the intense, ritualistic electro-vibe of ?Indigo Children,? the martial rhythms of ?Trekka? to the menacing, offbeat but remarkably hooky ?Vagina Mine.?
Most of Maynard's vocals are pitched down to a deep bass grunt that calls to mind Mike Patton's post-Faith No More projects (indeed, many of these cuts invite comparison to the eclectic, beat-heavy Peeping Tom). His voice even takes on a certain Tom Waits quality in the ? time piano-driven ?Drunk With Power.? But the liquid vocal richness that gave Tool much of its emotional impact is still present here, often built up in elaborate harmonies, looped phrases and eerie, dissonant call-backs. Ambient effects abound - the evil hand of Brian ?Lustmord? Williams is quite prevalent, as he contributes his trademark sonic darkness to several of these tracks.
The Underworld songs are here too, but in alternate versions. ?Rev 22:20? appears in significantly altered form, a sort of lounge variant entitled the ?Dry Martini Mix.? Although it nicely showcases Keenan's singing and writing strengths with its acidic blend of religious and sexual imagery, it's more of a curiosity, and not really party mix-worthy. ?The Undertaker,? however, is full of raw power and remains one of Puscifer's standout tracks.
I'm not sure where Maynard was heading with an emotional and irony-free Gospel tune ?Sour Grapes.? Color me cynical, but I kept waiting for a punchline that never arrived. It's emotionally heavy, and undeniably well-executed, but comes off like the musical equivalent of a pierced, tattooed clubber wearing a ?Jesus Is My Homeboy? t-shirt. It's interesting, but... well, it's interesting.
Hopefully I've managed to convey the crazy-quilt quality of this release, but I do have to stress that there is a thru-line here of sorts that ties it all together. Through his Puscifer persona, Maynard has channeled the same primal energy that propels every Tool track, despite sounding nothing like them. Also, where that band's creative work concerned itself largely with feelings of fear, guilt, anger, spiritual longing and emotional hunger, these songs are simpler, more urge-based and full of mischief... sometimes harmlessly naughty, other times a bit more dangerous. Sure, a few of the tracks are cute and forgettable, others odd and even ill-fitting. But the ones that ring true, ring hard.
Definitely work checking out... but preview some of the tracks first. As I mentioned, it's not comparable to anything else in Keenan's career, so tread lightly. For the adventurous listener, there are huge rewards to be found here ? including some hilarious album art. Just don't say Maynard and I didn't warn you.


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Last weekend our neighborhood organized it's first outdoor movie night. It was a blast! More importantly, it was easy to pull off.
One day I was talking to my neighbor and mentioned how fun it would be to host an outdoor movie night for the kids. He mentioned that he had a projector from work that we could use.
From there, the idea took off. So, sharing what I learned from our event, here are 5 tips for you to plan a spectacular outdoor movie night for your neighbors, friends or family. (This would also be an awesome birthday party idea.)
1. Stay close to home. When choosing a location for your movie event, keep a few things in mind - electricity, light control, bathroom access, and rain. We have an open field near our houses where I was thinking of hosting movie night because we would have a lot of room. However, we would have had to run so many extension cords that the idea was not feasible. So, pick a spot where you have easy access to electricity like your backyard, patio, or even garage. Make sure there aren't any really bright street lights nearby to ruin your viewing. If you stay close to home the kids can easily run home to use the restroom. If it rains, you'll want a back-up plan like someone's garage to move the fun under cover and quickly.
2. It's all in the equipment. To project your movie you're going to need a movie player (DVD player or computer), screen or side of a house, a projector and a sound system. For the screen, we just hung a white sheet over the garage door to even out the surfaces. The picture looked amazing. Here's a link with easy instructions on how to set up the equipment. You can rent equipment but ask around and see if your friends or neighbors have what you need. Keep it inexpensive! Finally, if you have a giant TV, just move it outside for viewing under the stars.
3. Snacks make the party. You can have so much fun with snacks for an outdoor movie party. A gourmet popcorn bar with different flavors or seasonings would be fun. Movie theater-style candy like Junior Mints, Milk Duds, Raisinettes, and Dots will get everyone in the mood. Here's a post I wrote on Snacks to Spice Up Family Game Night that would work perfect for an outdoor movie night as well.
4. Pick the right movie. Consider the ages of the kids that will be coming and choose a movie accordingly. It could be a classic, a family-friendly movie or a great comedy. Keep in mind that really young kids might not attend because movie night will start after their bedtime. Stick with PG or PG-13 movies to make sure no one is offended or uncomfortable. We watched Despicable Me, one of my favorites. Ask the kids in your neighborhood for suggestions or check out this list of 20 Best Movies for Families from Parenting.com.
5. Delegate. Even if you are hosting or organizing the event, put your neighbors and friends to work. Put one in charge of making the flyer that goes in everyone's mailbox. Ask everyone to bring extra chairs, drinks, or snacks. Ask houses with an even number address to bring a dessert while odd number houses bring an appetizer.
For more planning, decorating, and snack ideas, check out my Family Movie Night Board on Pinterest.
Have you ever hosted an outdoor movie night? Any other tips you can add? What movie did you watch?
Sue Kirchner is a family fun coach, kids party planner, and weekly contributor to Patch.com. Sue and her family fun ideas have been featured on TV, newspapers, magazines, blogs, as well as her own family fun site ChocolateCakeMoments.com.


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The counterfeit official items include the routing number 055073480, which is assigned to First Liberty National Bank. However, First Liberty National Bank issues cashier's checks, which bear the routing number 054001602, a routing number also assigned to First Liberty National Bank. Counterfeit items display the wording "OFFICIAL CHECK" in the top-center portion of the item. "ENTERPRISE FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK" followed by a Largo, Maryland address, is shown in the top-left corner of the item. Counterfeit items display two signature lines.
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SUPER EGO So a toothy blonde pretend social media exec, a blindingly sequined Latina drag queen, a huge rack of elk antlers with hot-pink panties on them, and a pair of Google Glasses walk into a "punk bar" ...
What the holy highballs is happening on our bar scene lately? Rowdy Mission hangout Pop's Bar closed over the weekend. (Who got all those panties, I wonder?) Last week, 40-year-old Mission gay hangout Esta Noche announced it was shutting down (new owners and a hetero-craft cocktail concept). And then there was that oddball Google Glass kerfuffle at Molotov's, wherein a social media starlet claims she was the victim of a tech hate crime when the patrons allegedly got in her privacy-violating face.
The Esta Noche situation hits close to my floppy liver's home most, though. With the recent closures of Marlena's, Deco, and Ginger's Trois (and the Transfer, Mister Leeona's, and practically every gay watering hole on Polk Street shuttering in the past decade), there are hardly any queer bars outside the Castro and SoMa left. Lady, can you pour a fierce cosmo out those Google Glasses of yours? Until then, I won't have what she's having. I need my queer space to get sozzled!
There are DJs to love, and then there are DJs to love. Fiercely intelligent yet laidback, shaggy in that classic rave-dude way, Vancouverite Jay Tripwire has been honing his deep, deep techno sound for more than two decades and 200 releases. Like every great DJ wizard, he transforms the records on his tables into other beasts entirely. You just hear differently after his masterly sets. At the Housepitality weekly, he'll get a warm reception.
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The splendid Direct to Earth and Public Works crews bring in Buenos Aires- and Berlin-based Mauricio Barembuem, aka Barem of Minus Records, for some good old fashioned Germano-Latin post-minimal techno swing. Bring a couple pairs of (cute) shoes, because he'll wear your kitten heels right out.
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It's a great weekend for hard-driving and esoteric techno in the Bay. It's even getting into our more melodic parties, like the monthly Play It Cool, which is showcasing wiggy Brooklyn-based, SF-native "junta rave" purveyor Hound Scales of the Fifth Wall label. The speaker bins, they will explode I think. Jolly good show.
Fri/7, 10pm-3am, $10. Public Works, 161 Erie, SF. www.publicsf.com
Hey, $35 all you can drink from dozens of local spirits concocters, brew houses, and wineries? Plus: cosmic tunes from Cosmic Amanda (she's cosmic), tarot readings by the zebra-leotarded Dr. Zebrowski, and one last time to party in the glorious Old Mint building before it gets renovated into the SF History Museum? Why am I still asking questions? Our sister-paper SF Weekly's Drink event is sloshy, superb.
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HOUSTON -- A family is outraged over how they say a tow truck driver treated a teenager after a call for a SAFEClear tow last month.
It happened on a Wednesday night in December: a breakdown in the HOV lane of the Southwest Freeway.
"It's just not right dropping off a 16-year-old in the middle of nowhere," said C.J. Barner, a junior at Lamar High School.
Barner said he called for a SAFEClear tow and that a wrecker from Allied Collision & Auto Repair showed up, hooked onto his vehicle and was supposed to take him and his friend to Midwest Auto Storage. He also called his mother from the scene.
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The Madison Central girls soccer team bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 1-0 win over Boone County Saturday in Richmond.
The Lady Indians (7-1-1) got a goal from Haleigh Cable with about 15 minutes left to provide the game's only score. Cable scored on a rebound after a Madison Goodman shot.
"We had a much better performance in the second half," Central coach Chris Dunham said. "Hopefully, that will help us get back on track."
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I'm too tired to seriously contemplate this one, but I'll definitely consider it after a few hours of sleep. It did strike a proverbial chord ^_^
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Advisers lobby National Audit Office to probe FSCS budget
by Michelle Abrego on Feb 07, 2013 at 11:45
The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (Apfa) has called on the National Audit Office (NAO) to examine the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) over its 'blank cheque' budget.
Under the Financial Services Act, the NAO will have the power to scrutinise the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and its subsidiaries, the FSCS, Financial Ombudsman Service and Money Advice Service.
Apfa policy director Chris Hannant has raised concerns with the NAO over the FSCS almost doubling its budget for compensation recovery, which includes its Keydata legal battle, for 2012/13 from £3.9 million to £7.7 million.
'The FSCS looks like a budget out of control…the lack of clarity of where they're going with this [legal battle] makes it look like a bill that could grow and grow,' he said.
A spokesman from the NAO said the body was in the early stages of planning what work it would do in relation to the FCA.
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Feb 07, 2013 at 12:11
Why not use the money from the fines imposed on the banking sector to fund the FSCS rather than crippling good honest financial advisersreport this
Feb 07, 2013 at 12:21
Part of the FSCS bill will be the CF Arch debacle. Which looks increasingly like regulatory failure and the bill for it will be paid by IFA's:
Chris Gilchrist wrote: Lack of supervision is real reason for Arch cru failure
28 January 2013 8:00 am
When Oeics were introduced in the UK, the Treasury said regulation would ensure that Oeics were as safe as unit trusts. Experienced executives and commentators knew that the structure of Oeics, with a weaker supervisory role for the ACD than for the unit trust trustee, would only provide equivalent protection for investors if there was stronger regulatory oversight of Oeics. Naturally the FSA promised to provide this.
In practice, the FSA has failed to exercise the oversight it needed to ensure the safety of Oeics in the simple terms that investors should not suffer losses from fraud and should be 100 per cent compensated for any such losses. Any level of protection less than this is sure to cause investor losses that erode confidence in the collective fund industry.
.The unit trust trustee unequivocally remains on the hook with unlimited liability for any and all such losses and this fact has always been recognised by trustees and managers.
In the case of the Oeic's ACD, there is not the same degree of clarity. As we have seen in the Arch cru case, there is a blurring of responsibility. That has enabled the FSA to push through a partial compensation scheme which lands a large part of the cost of the failure of a fund on financial advisers.
In the Arch cru case, I have always believed it was failures by the FSA itself in its capacity as regulator that lie at the root of the failure. The FSA should never have granted authorisation to the fund because of the illiquid assets which formed part of the cell companies of the Oeic.
This is exactly the higher degree of supervision that the Treasury acknowledged was necessary to make Oeics as safe as unit trusts. And it hasn't happened.
The FSA was warned. It has yet to fess up to the warnings it received from several experienced unit trust bosses who raised serious concerns about the Arch cru range before it sank.
The question of whether some advisers gave bad advice on Arch cru is entirely secondary. If the FSA had done its job, they would not have been able to advise clients about it.
Another regulatory failure concerns the ACD. It seems remarkable to me that the FSA permitted it to operate on a capital base that would not provide investors with adequate protection. Standard Life's PI insurers have just paid out £100m in respect of inadequate disclosure regarding the risk in a 'cash' fund. Yet the FSA allows ACDs to operate without such insurance?
The FSA needs, as a matter of urgency, to address its regulatory failures and bomb-proof the investor protection within all authorised funds.report this
Feb 07, 2013 at 12:29
Surely this is something that should fall within the remit not of the NAO but of an Independent Regulatory Oversight Committee charged with policing not just budgetary matters but a whole host of other aspects of regulatory policy and practice. In addition to the FSCS, the FSA is a totally out of control and unaccountable monster whilst we don't yet know whether the FCA will be any better ~ as things presently stand, there appears to be nothing to prevent it from being just as bad as its predecessor.
APFA needs to have bigger ambitions than involving the NAO in just one aspect of the activities of just one regulatory body.report this
Feb 07, 2013 at 13:21
Please can we have someone audit the FSA and related organisations to see how they can justify increased expenditure, when most other parts of the 'public sector' are experiencing cut backs! The FSA want transparency for the industry and have changed rules to achieve this, without giving full consideration to the impacts created. They should be leading by example.report this
Feb 07, 2013 at 13:34
Of course the FSA should lead by example but, as we all know, it doesn't. ~ its mantra is Do as we say, not as we do (and if you don't.....). Which is why we need an IROC to enforce adherence to the Statutory Code of Practice for Regulators (on both of which the TSC, APFA and just about everyone else seem to be conspicuously silent).report this
Feb 07, 2013 at 13:38
Charles, about as much chance of that as the EU getting its Budget cleared by its own 'independent' auditors.report this
Feb 07, 2013 at 21:03
Good job
The lack of controls of Herbert smith are clear.
it is a shame that the average IFA cannot afford to employ such a firm, but sadly they cannot afford it.
But of course the format is the IFA pays into a fund without choice, the fund then employs expensive solicitors and then the solicitors sue the funders.
And lastly senior members of the FSCS/FSA get jobs at the solicitors. Seems like conflicts somewherereport this
Feb 07, 2013 at 21:26
So we do not forget. Was PWC not involved with keydata. That's right I nearly forget the administrator
enforcer Margaret Cole to join PwC
Margaret Cole, the Financial Service Authority's most effective enforcer who resigned earlier this year, is to join accountants PwC as its top legal adviser in Britain.report this
Feb 07, 2013 at 21:29
Jun 26, 2012 – Martyn Hopper, a former FSA enforcer now with law firm Herbert Smith
The Financial Services Authority is losing one of its most senior lawyers, David Mayhew, who is to join law firm Herbert Smith. Mr Mayhew was leading advocate at the City regulator and its former acting director of enforcement. At Herbert Smith he will be reunited with other former FSA staff, including Martyn Hopper who represented former Shell chairman Sir Philip Watts in a case involving the FSA. Margaret Cole, FSA head of enforcement, said: "The FSA has greatly valued David's commitment and enthusiasm over the past four years and his interim management of the enforcement division."report this
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There are some decent special effects, but overall it's about what you'd expect from a movie inspired by a line of toys.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
The result is a colossal bore.
Time Out
There are lots of flashes and bangs, but the effects are neither special nor camp enough to be more than vaguely amusing.
| Original Score: 2/5
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| Original Score: 1/5
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
| Original Score: 1/5
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
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Apollo Guide
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New York Times
Their weapons make a Fourth of July sparkler show, but they almost never hit anybody.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Sci-Fi Movie Page
Halfway through this live action version of the popular early 1980s kiddies TV show, I wondered what I had done wrong to deserve all this pain and suffering.
Full Review | Original Score: 0/4
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
| Original Score: 1/5
I'm not saying He-Man deserved all that brilliant of a movie ... but this thing's a freaking disaster.
| Original Score: 1/5
Washington Post
Little kids at play have come up with craftier plots, better characterization and conceivably more spectacular effects -- provided their mothers let them play with matches.


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Proudly announcing the arrival of....
...Primrose Sadie Frances.
Who arrived earlier this week. She was born in a birthing pool in our front room weighing 8lb 14oz. Her birth was speedy and beautiful and she's adored by us all.
She joins big sister Madeleine Rose and her two big brothers, Gabriel James and Nathaniel Ray. Her middle names honour my two wonderful Grandmothers.
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Congrats! She has a beautiful name! I love her siblings' names as well!
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August 30th, 2013 12:22 PM #7
Congrats on your little girl !! I love your kids names"
" Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift " ~ Mary Oliver
My name is Vasiliki but I prefer Bellerose . A lover of dark names , trying to be something in her life .
Persephone " Seph " ~ Hades ~ Prometheus .
August 30th, 2013 01:03 PM #9
Congratulations! All your children have wonderful names.


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Kathleen Sadaro, 89, of Centerville, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 at the Bloomfield Care Center in Bloomfield.
Graveside services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 at Oakland Cemetery in Centerville with Father Bill Hubmann officiating. There will be no public visitation.
Memorials have been established to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Centerville and may be given to Lange Funeral Home and Crematory, 1900 S. 18th St., Centerville, Iowa, 52544.
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Salem — Dominic J. "Jersey" DeMartino, age 18, of Salem, formerly of New Jersey, died Thursday, October 18, from injuries sustained from a train accident.
Born in New Brunswick, N.J., he was raised and educated in Barnegat, N.J., until moving to Salem four years ago. Dominic was frequently seen around Salem and Beverly pursuing his passion for skateboarding. He was also an avid gardener.
He is survived by his mother, Robyn and his stepfather, Mike Mortola of Salem; his father, Brian DeMartino of Sayerville, N.J.; his brothers and sisters, Ryan Mortola of N.J., Kristine Mortola of Swampscott, Annie Mortola of Salem, and Jonathon James DeMartino of N.J. and a large extended family.
ARRANGEMENTS: Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Visiting hours will be on Friday, October 26, in the Murphy Funeral Home, 85 Federal St, corner of North St, Salem, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to be followed by funeral services at 7 p.m. in the funeral home. Interment will be private. Dominic's family request that those who wish share indoor plants with his family to be used to establish family memorial gardens in Dominic's honor. For online guest book or additional information, call 978 744 0497 or visit www.MurphyFuneralHome.com.


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11/06/2006 11:48 pm
Sorry I can't cover this event with you. Damn cut-backs - at least you may meet some colleagues of mine. :o( Rob
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Hi...just a quick update. I am scheduled to present a Webinar on Nov 16th at 2:00pm EST, which means I will get to the Viral and WOMM panel late, and that I will not be able to cover ecom session. (http://thebmaboston.com/content/events/detail.jsp/q/event-id/17)


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"You're going to see a unified vote, I think you're going to see unified Democrats," Dean told CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the party's support of the compromise resolution sponsored by Sens. John Warner, R-Virginia, and Carl Levin, D-Michigan.
"The resolution is not watered down," Dean said. "They changed a few words; I think this is a very smart move on the part of Harry Reid. If we can get significant numbers of Republicans to repudiate the Republican president's policy, which is about to — about what's about to happen, then I think that's very, very positive."
The resolution is not watered down," Dean said. "They changed a few words; I think this is a very smart move on the part of Harry Reid. If we can get significant numbers of Republicans to repudiate the Republican president's policy, which is about to — about what's about to happen, then I think that's very, very positive."
"You're going to see a unified vote, I think you're going to see unified Democrats..."
"If we can get significant numbers of Republicans to repudiate the Republican president's policy... then I think that's very, very positive."
Yeah, screw the damage it'll do, repudiation of the plan is a "very, very positive" thing, isn't it, Howard? Politics and party over anything else. If it is very, very positive politically for Democrats (repudiation without actually doing anything), then it must be good, regardless of the possible negative cost to a war effort.
If you believe as Dean and most people do, that the "war" is unnecessary, and continuing it has a severe negative cost to the country, anything to try to force the President to alter course is a good thing.
"A political, military and moral failure on the part of the US."
"We have made a lot of mistakes in Iraq. But when Arabs kill Arabs and Shiites kill Shiites and Sunnis kill all in a spasm of violence that is blind and furious and has roots in hatreds born long before America was even a republic, to place the blame on the one player, the one country, the one military that has done more than any other to try to separate the combatants and bring conciliation is simply perverse.It infantilizes (sic) Arabs. It demonizes Americans. It willfully overlooks the plainest of facts: Iraq is their country. We midwifed their freedom. They chose civil war."
That remains to be seen. I think the negative cost to our walking away from SVN was greater than the negative cost of following our commitments.
"... the AP scored big on the Bush administration with a deceptive story about the nation's savings rate. After-tax savings rate, that is. The rate that does not include 401Ks and other pre-tax savings plans.But [the] report led to the headlines sought, like this one in the Columbus Dispatch:"It is the Depression all over again to the liberals who run big-city newspapers."
"...the loose confederation of well-regarded economists, who have not been working in concert, say their research points to the startling conclusion that many Americans are saving too much, not too little."
So Doc, I guess you ARE a libertarian... the Big Government/ Social Engineering thing is a turn-off? Or is it that Social Engineering can work in the US, but not outside of it? Some elucidation please.
"Or is it that Social Engineering can work in the US, but not outside of it? Some elucidation please."
If you believe as Dean and most people do, that the "war" is unnecessary, and continuing it has a severe negative cost to the country, anything to try to force the President to alter course is a good thing.There is no reason for anyone to believe your conclusion if they don't believe your assumptions.
It's easy to take cheap shots at our elected representatives
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
but brought chaos which has been consistently deteriorating since 2003
It is both possible to oppose the war and not do things which merely harm the war effort without helping substantively in ending it. For example, you could vote with Russ Feingold to defund the war. That would be the course Dean, assuming he actually really agrees with you, could take. It accomplishes something at least.Instead he takes the cowards way out, argues for a resolution that undermines the mission and the troops without actually doing anything. Feingold is showing some actual courage, because there are major risks to politicians advocating what he is advocating. Dean, Hagel and others are showing they can read polls and hedge bets.
"You guys don't get it."
"If further importuned to elucidate, insist that the questioner has no nuance and is incapable of understanding this issue."
" …Iraq has failed…Staying there longer does no good…unwinnable…we can't "win"… quagmire …I don't believe things will be worse for Iraq if we leave…We aren't a force for good …we … brought chaos… deteriorating…undercut this "war" …"
"Simply move on."
"And yes, I'm against government as a social engineer."
"How do we get out? [of Iraq.] I want to first go over some options…Option 1: Leave. Just pick up and go. …From a policy stand point… this option is a non-starter. …First, it would be an absolute admission of defeat. . It would be read throughout the world as trumpeting American weakness… Option 2: Enhance the troop levels, and seriously go for victory. … attempting to push it could significantly hurt the GOP… Option 3: Stay the course. …Most insurgents are Iraqi, and would not care about the US if we weren't there. …Al qaeda and like organizations are gleeful about American policy. …For the record, I prefer a quicker withdraw (closer to option 1)."
"… anything to try to force the President to alter course is a good thing…. I would vote to defund the war"
"Juan Cole is a must read."
"So I'm looking for a Hagel-Snowe ticket in 2008..."
You guys don't get it. Foreign policy in Iraq has failed. We aren't protecting Iraqis, we aren't stopping the killing, and we don't have the capacity to bring them peace.
And I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Talk about a ticket to Hell...(snort!) Jeebus Christ! A Hagel-Snowe ticket?
This one stopped me. I took a look at Professor Erb's blog to see if, like most liberals, he was a social engineer. To my surprise, he is not. So he is off the hook on that one. And he may be a libertarian. He definitely is an odd duck.
Thanks — I don't mind people criticizing me for what I really think, it just get tiring to be thrown into the "typical liberal" stereotype.
Actually, Scott, we do. What we lack, as you're writing clearly demonstrates, is the will.
I have looked around, and your version of 'reality' would be laughable, were it not so tragic.And isn't it odd, how each time you get called out for your anti-americanism... and there's no other description for it... your Kerry-esque counter charge is we're not nuanced enough to figure you out? You're predictable, I'll give you that. Always wrong... Usually, vehemently so.
I was right about Iraq. You were wrong.
The issue is in doubt, primarily because of the domestic political success of attitudes like those held by Scott Erb. We can maintain this deployment at this level of expense indefinitely, so long as the morale of the troops holds at the very positive level it is at—even if the situation on the ground remains at this status quo—and the American populace does not betray that realistic optimism by ending our very good chance at eventual total success by withdrawing.
The policy has already failed.
It was supposed to be cheap (paid for by oil revenues), we were to be hailed as victors, have a stable democratic American ally, and re-shape the Mideast.
That was folly, and it has crashed and burned. The war will be over a trillion dollars, has weakened the US on virtually every front, and serves no national interest.
It is pointless to continue, every American death there is in vain, and we have unleashed more suffering in Iraq than even Saddam had, save his disastrous choice for war against Iran.
The "surge" is just getting troops back to their 2005 point, it's not significant, and certain to end up failing, just like every other attempt.
The reason is that we won the war in 2003.
We are now engaged in a big government social engineering effort of the kind that almost never works.
And you can't compare it to Germany and Japan because those were wars against real powers;
this is just folly, a social engineering experiment gone bad, an example of how big government trying to shape culture doesn't work. It's pointless, all we're trying to do now is save face.
Gen. Odom is right: this is the biggest strategic disaster and fiasco in American history. Wake Up~
No, this is counterinsurgency, undertaken by a major power, with the insurgents dependent on arms from outside minor powers. If we don't quit, we win. That is how that has worked out since the beginning of the 18 century, and power projection became something other than armed migration.
We never went to war for their oil, we were hailed as victors, and initally liberators, stability is quite doable—certainly stability of the sort Mexico enjoys, and going into Iraq was supposed to begin the re-shaping of the Middle East, not be the end-all-be-all of it. Turning a wrong course that's been traveled for 1500 years will take longer than a generation. Why are you so inconstant or foolish to expect it should already be accomplished?
The course maintained for the last several decades, which led to 9/11, that course was folly. You embrace folly and do not know it's face.
A trillion dollars is not much compared to what going on as before would cost us,
and has at worst confirmed weaknesses that were suspected, enduring, and of a historic character that could not be avoided by the Bush or any other prospective administration. You don't expect him to travel back in time to shoot Truman so MacArthur can swim the Yalu, do you? The disposition of our strength abroad is the result of decades which cannot be undone to better effect. You work with what you have unless, like you've a problem with, reality cannot be recognized.
Given our dependence on allies willing to let us use their territory for basing, that we maintain the credibility that sticking with the elected government of Iraq provides us with is a must. Nevermind that unless we change the Middle East, we'll have to keep on doing this. Unless you have some persuasively better idea, of which we've had no indication.
The strategic goals of the American nation in Iraq will be realized if we kill the enemy when we see him while doing good works for the people in Iraq. We've been too hesitant with the first part of that formula. There is no flaw in the formula, the flaw is in you, in your faintheartedness.
The deaths of our people in Iraq can only be in vain if we forsake them. You propose we forsake them. Why?
Why do you think that unlike every other insurgency, many of which are undertaken with far worse ratios of force, that this one is unique and unwinnable?
Heh. I may as well ask why you think the Vietnam war was a "mistake." I'd've as much sense from you.
And no, it is quite unlikely we've unleashed any particular hurt on Iraq that could be avoided by anything except either leaving Saddam in place, or setting up a similarly autocratic successor. Either course would be abhominable, it surprises me not at all that an passive-aggressive enabler of the Khmer Rouge would find one of them preferable to the current course.
If the Sunnis and Shiites are determined to go at it hammer and tongs, then while killing the armed partisans and sometimes being killed by them is tragic—it is better the boil is lanced now. It would be wrong either to have let it alone or to leave it unaddresed.
In 2005, we were working up against AlQaeda, which is now a shell of it's former self in Iraq, a pathetic remnant with little respect and fewer trigger pullers. We beat them. Did you know that?
Human societies evolve, they change over time in response to forces. They do so at a range of rates, and do so to be more compatible with human nature and the sum of their circumstances.Liberal social engineering far too frequently tries to cause societies to change faster than they can without undue stress, they try to cause societies to evolve without due regard to the laws of economics, and they even attempt to cause expressly retrograde evolution—descent into totalitarianism to try to focus the force required to produce the undue stress.What was aimed for in the Enlightenment as the founders of the American republic saw it, that is evolution in keeping with human nature. We move Iraq towards that best by staying, not by leaving.
If Odom really said that, then he is a fool. The biggest strategic disaster and fiasco in American history was how long it took to find a general who would kill the Rebs until they quit, second biggest would be our abandonment of Vietnam, not doing more to prevent Saddam Hussein from reasserting control of Iraq in '91 comes to mind.The Iraq Occupation ranks above the War of 1812 only if we leave, because if we stick it out we win.But that's an actual historical perspective on the issue, I expect you want your want your unmeasured, unlearned hyperbole reflected back on you, it's all your fit for countering.
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