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Not a race, but much more than a religion, the Jewish People is often described as being at the center of a triangle consisting of one God, the Land of Israel, and their sacred text, the Bible.
The Bible has been the source of the great impact this small people (numbering approximately 13 million) have made on world culture and faith. Its first five books are known as the Torah, which means teaching, a term that has expanded to include an enormous amount of Jewish wisdom transcribed over the centuries. However, for many Jews, their teachings are distilled into one commandment, first uttered by a Jewish sage some 2,000 years ago: "Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you."
The Bible contains the Ten Commandments (in the biblical book of Exodus 20:1-13), moral teachings including, among others, not only prohibitions on murder and stealing, but also the commandment to keep a weekly day of rest, the Sabbath, a hallmark of Jewish faith and culture, and the commandment to honor one's father and mother. The Bible is the foundation for the teachings of Jesus and Christianity and for the New Testament.
Over the centuries, Jews added the Talmud to their sacred texts. This is a commentary on the Bible that developed mainly after the Jewish People were exiled from their homeland of Israel (see below) yet struggled to maintain connections to each other, to God, and to their land. Learning Bible and Talmud, and study in general, became an important element of Jewish culture, as did the ancient Hebrew language of the Bible, which was renewed in modern times.
Perhaps the most famous Bible story is the Exodus, in which Moses led the people, then called Israelites and divided into 12 tribes, from Egyptian slavery to freedom. The Israelites eventually entered the Land of Israel, which according to the Bible, God promised to the first Patriarch, Abraham. The Twelve Tribes are descended from Abraham through his grandson, Jacob, who was also called Israel.
The best known event in Abraham's life was when God tested him by calling on him to sacrifice his son Isaac, although God did not let Abraham actually do so.
Eventually, the Israelites established a kingdom in the land of Israel, led by Saul, David, Solomon and other kings. The kingdom eventually split into northern and southern branches. The northern part was exiled by the Assyrians in 721 BCE and its tribes disappeared, becoming known as the Ten Lost Tribes.
David is also a significant Jewish religious figure. He is the forefather of the longed-for redeemer (the Messiah), and the writer of some of the Bible's most moving religious poetry, the Psalms. David also made Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish People, purchasing the land on Mount Moriah where Abraham had been tested, where later the great shrine known as the Temple would be built.
Mount Moriah is today known as the Temple Mount. Solomon built the First Temple there in around 950 BCE, which was destroyed by the Babylonians, who exiled the Jews from their land in 586 BCE. But some 50 years later, Jews returned and built the Second Temple, which was embellished by King Herod around the time of Jesus. It, too, was destroyed, in 70 CE by the Romans.
The Temple Mount, on which the Muslim Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque now stand, is one of the best known sites in Israel, as is the Western Wall, the last remnant of Herod's Temple and a great Jewish holy place.
In the 19th century, Theodore Herzl, whom many called a modern-day Moses, founded a modern political movement to bring Jews back to the ancient land. The movement was named Zionism, from the word "Zion," a name for Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible. Thus throughout the centuries of their exile, the Jews never forgot their Holy City. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, Jerusalem became its capital.


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A new destructive worm, "NEWLOVE," has been reported which, like the variants of the "ILOVEYOU" virus, attacks those who use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail.
While there have been no sightings reported on the Princeton University campus, those who use Outlook are urged to take precautions and contact the known senders of any suspicious e-mail before attempting to open the messages. CIT has installed a filter intended to capture messages with the worm.
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Cincinnati @ Houston- It's going to be pretty hard for the Texans to overcome the injuries to their quarterbacks in this game. Plus, rookie Andy Dalton has been gingering his way to getting more than a cup a coffee in this league. What? That all happened last year? They're playing again? Shouldn't there be a rule against two teams playing two bad Wild Card Games two seasons in a row? Cincy's offense has managed to regress some and is now predicated on how many times A.J. Green is able to make a great catch. Houston's defense has also gotten tickets onto the regression train. So, where is this going? PICK: (HOU 6-3)
Minnesota @ Green Bay- Like a jerk, I shall quote last week's column:
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Indianapolis @ Baltimore- Cancer Survivor vs. Retiring Reformed Preacher All-Time Great LB. The football Gods are so confused here. Chuckstrong is 7-1 in close games and even cements the story with a quarterback named Luck for a team who managed to give up more points than it allowed and once gave up 350+ rushing yards and still managed 11 wins. The Colts expected wins, according to Pro Football Reference, was a meager 7.2. The Council barely prefers the guy who talks to God every day over the guy to gave the middle finger to cancer. PICK: (BAL 5-4)
A quick aside where I ask the world for something: World, please, hear me out. I'm not a very emotional man. I promise to scream and cry if I ever find out that the appearance fee for Chuck Pagano to speak is lower than anyone from The Jersey Shore; ever. Please, world, don't do what I think you're going to do. Put down the duck phone.
Seattle @ Washington- There's no 0-0 Game of the Week in the playoffs because playoff games cannot end in ties, but this game may be the Read Option Showcase Game of the Year. Unlike the Nationals, the Redskins did not sit their star player during the final 16% of the season. If they had, then Robert Griffin III would have not have come back at all after the first half in Cleveland. Meanwhile, Pete Carroll's team has gotten Seattle and himself so excited that he started forcing his players to take Adderall. Josh Freeman now has become Kris Humpries to Bill Simmons' Russell Wilson and I hear they might be expecting. PICK: (SEA 5-4)


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As we are beginning the process of the 2010 National Jamboree, I am learning a lot about more about just how much the BSA is concerned about Health and Safety. For obvious reasons, it is a good thing to be concerned about.
But here is what I find almost shocking. The restrictions and "Suggestions" of the BSA regarding the participants at National Jamboree.
Now before I go any further… I have to say that I agree in total with the decisions made by the BSA. While I never want to exclude a Scout or Scouter from any activity, I think it is right to protect those folks that have medical conditions or are not physically fit to function in a certain environment.
Just like the standard for participating at one of the BSA's High adventure Bases, like Philmont. The Boy Scouts of America has outlined what participants at the National Jamboree should maintain as their health and safety guidelines.
Starting with weight, when we interviewed for the Scoutmaster positions, the panel clearly outlined the weight requirements. Scouts and Scouters that exceed the maximum weight for their height will not be permitted to attend. I can see this. Being overweight may bring with it many other conditions. Most folks that I know that are what would be considered "Obese" also have diabetes problems, trouble breathing, asthma, and other conditions that would not be conducive to warm Virgina Summers.
Heart trouble and other physical issues can also lead to a very troublesome Jambo experience.
After the 2005 National Jamboree, I think the BSA had an eye opener when Adult leaders had medical issues and the heat ran rough shot throughout the encampment.
The BSA program teaches us to be "physically strong". This is subjective at best as the BSA also just wants us to "Do our Best" but! When you are at a National Program I believe that the BSA wants a bit more. We set our Scouts up for success, and we need to remember that keeping them safe and providing a healthy environment is part of our obligation to the Scouts.
Setting guidelines and rules regarding Health and safety are good things for the BSA.
Those that would like to participate should seek the necessary help in meeting the standard. If they can not achieve that, they should understand that it is in their best interest to obtain from the activity. The last thing anyone wants to see is a Scout or Scouter get hurt, extremely sick, or even killed due to a lack of fitness or health issue.
You can learn more about the National Jamboree standard and guidelines by checking out this site.
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By Tiernan Ray
As MetroPCS (PCS) rumbles toward a special shareholder vote this Friday over whether to consummate the proposed $33 billion recapitalization with Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGY) T-Mobile USA unit, amidst objections from some holders of PCS stock, Oppenheimer & Co.'s Tim Horan reiterated an Underperform rating on PCS stock, advising the vote will most likely reject the deal.
Writes Horan, "T-Mobile could potentially improve the bid by 10% or so through a number of ways, but we don't expect that until after the vote, and while we believe there is a 75% chance of this, it is largely baked into PCS's stock price."
"PCS's current price of $11.22 reflects its stake in NewCo plus the $4.06 cash
compensation; we think the market is already pricing in a 12% increase in the offer price vs. our estimate of $10 using a 5x 2013E EBITDA multiple."
With the pre-paid cellular market "under pressure" as a result of "saturation," with lots of mobile virtual network operators, or MVNOs, Horan thinks PCS is going to be faced with a lot of spending to try to achieve economies of scale that will keep it competitive:
Over the longer term PCS has limited capacity and will need to spend an additional $1.5B in spectrum and would have to spend another $1-2B after that on the build-out. This would take PCS's standalone EV to ~$10B with a 7x multiple. ISS has argued that the $1.5B spectrum purchase estimate should not be deducted for valuation purposes as it would add to the overall value of the company. While true, this would only be relevant if T-Mobile were to later be acquired by Sprint. In any case, on a standalone basis spectrum is only a means to an end (i.e., EBITDA and FCF growth).
PCS stock today rose 5 cents, or half a percent, to $11.27. The stock is down 15% since the deal was announced on October 3rd.


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i lack a pretty good foundation in programming and i'm willing to start with some basics. however, when i look at the programming languages used in the ethical hacker field i see mostly perl,python and c. i was wondering whats the best language to start with according to easiest learning curve and power. also, where do i find good documentation/tutorials to start?
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One year into Xi Jinping's presidency of China, it would be easy to despair about the current state of U.S.-China relations. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to push cooperation with Beijing on North Korea and climate change have fallen well short of Washington's ambitions. China's search for a "new relationship among major powers" has yet to materialize into something of real substance. And sparks are flying as the United States and its allies contend with a China that appears determined to enforce its claim to contested areas in the East and South China Seas in increasingly provocative and dangerous ways.
Domestic politics in both countries, moreover, offer little hope for significant improvement in the near term. Xi is emerging as a Chinese strongman—consolidating his personal power, cracking down on freedom of expression on the Internet, presiding over a significant expansion not only of China's military capabilities but also of its objectives and pushing forward on a bold—but as yet unrealized—economic reform package. While there is the potential over the mid to longer term for a stronger China to be a better partner for the United States, unless the economic reforms fulfill their promise, few of Xi's initial policy innovations will move the country in a direction that promotes greater cooperation.


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Mississippi State freshman guard Fred Thomas will be out about six weeks after undergoing foot surgery on Wednesday. He's scheduled to have the procedure to repair a stress fracture in his right foot, the school said in a release.
It shouldn't affect his status for the coming season.
"It's disappointing because Fred came in with a tremendous attitude and ready to go to work," first-year MSU coach Rick Ray said in a statement. "Fortunately, we caught it at a time where we expect to have him back at the start of practice."
MSU begins preseason practices Oct. 12, and the season begins Nov. 9 at Troy.
Thomas (6-foot-3, 180 pounds) is the second freshman to undergo surgery this summer. Jacoby Davis, who'd been expected to start at point guard, had surgery a few weeks ago to repair a torn ACL.
Thomas comes from Jackson Jim Hill High School, which he led to the Class 6A state title this season. He averaged 19.9 points and 5.9 rebounds as a senior and is expected to compete for a starting job this season.
Thomas was academically cleared by the NCAA just last week.


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I see that PP's self proclaimed "Only True Conservative" is still pouting over his man in the race going zero for the campaign. Doing everything you can to make sure you go down with the ship eh?
Something it is NOT is boring. Scary as hell but not boring. Just my two cents worth.
I like the direction of the country. If you believe that Romney/Ryan will be fiscally responsible, you are grossly mistaken.
You all act as if the world is going to end if he is re-elected. You said that when he was elected the first time and life goes on. And before you talk about the spending he has done...he just continued with what those before him have done. So lets not post 100 post about how he is spending us to failure.
If Romney wins, I'm sure I will wake up and put one boot on at a time and go about my business. Might be smart to load up on defense stock, but I'm sure my world for the good or the bad will not be impacted at all, as yours will.
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Now I got to add 10 charaters ,cause my message is to short.
If you think Romney/Ryan will fix all your problems....my question is whos head is in the sand?


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By Chris Kieffer/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – Students from Tupelo Middle School and Tupelo High School dominated the Mississippi bridge-building competition this week in Jackson.
Tupelo teams captured six of the nine places awarded in the three divisions – seventh and eighth grade, ninth and 10th grade and 11th and 12th grade. A Tupelo team took first place in each division.
"I'm extremely proud of all of the students," said Tupelo Middle School teacher Julia Smith, who sponsored the teams along with Connie Gusmus and Holly Bailey. "All of the students that participated did an outstanding job. Their presentations were impeccable."
Nineteen teams competed in the state competition, which was held for the first time by the Mississippi Department of Transportation's Transportation and Civil Engineering program. The contest was modeled after the annual national competition.
To participate, teams had to build bridges from sticks and submit extensive 30-page portfolios explaining the process. They were judged on their portfolio, design and presentation and on their bridge's strength-to-weight ratio.
Tupelo entered nine teams in the competition, and Mantachie Schools entered one.
In the seventh- and eighth-grade division, the winning team was TMS Bridge Builders (Abigail Grant, Ryan Malone and Saajan Patel), and second place was The Midas Builders (Noah Hunt, Ryan Spivey and Justin Zosel).
The winning ninth- and 10th-grade team was Diamond Pi (Kimya Jamasbi, Ricardo Ungo and Katerina Kushla), The Creators (Xen Gaerlan, Nolan Vora and Kai Brieck) was second, and Bridge Engineers of Tupelo (James Grant, Josephine Orrick and Luke Tucker) was third.
Tupelo Bruggenbouwers (Caitlin Bailey, Jimmy Stone and Penelope Dao) won the 11th- and 12th-grade division.
In a separate process, Tupelo learned it will have four teams competing in the national bridge-building championships, which will be held May 5 in Providence, R.I. Those are TMS Bridge Builders, Diamond Pi, Bridge Engineers of Tupelo and Tupelo Bruggenbouwers.
Booneville Middle School also has a team that qualified for nationals.


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The latest news I've heard is that House conservatives reached out to Cruz and Lee for direction in the battle over the CR. Cruz and Lee urged them to reject Boehner's proposal to fight the defunding/delay of Obamacare until considering the debt limit legislation. They listened to Cruz & Lee, and Boehner could not get the votes to implement his proposal. Cruz and Lee also pledged to support those conservatives in this position.
We can say a lot of negative things about Cruz (and a lot of people already have), but there are some things he needs credit for.
First, he is willing to put his principles before the politically expediency of the moment. He's taken plenty of slings and arrows from Rs and Ds alike, and hasn't resorted to the name-calling of his detractors.
Second, he is demonstrating leadership. He formulated a plan to achieve a goal, and conservatives seem to believe that he does, indeed, have a plan; including contingency plans.
Third, he really does seem to know how the machine of Congress works. He was realistic about the outcomes, and he still was willing to set himself up as a target with his 21-hour speech. People like McCain, Reid and Schumer looked pathetically small in their demeaning criticism of Cruz for standing up for his beliefs.
I saw one commentator make the analogy: Col. Travis knew there was no good outcome to the battle at the Alamo, but his defense of his beliefs, at great sacrifice, became an integral part of making TX part of the US, rather than Mexico.
This may be Cruz's Alamo ... but, unlike Travis, I don't think it will cost him his life (political, that is). He'll be around to provide leadership and support to conservative candidates in the 2014 elections.
Cruz may be polite (avoiding the name-calling ploys of Reid and others) ... but he sure ain't "Mr. Nice Guy". He doesn't back down.


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That darn Colts game was the turning point in Miami having a non-playoff season
Is that 2 pick 6's on henne?
Dolphins Inactives - QB Pat Devlin WR Davone Bess CB Nolan Carroll LB Josh Kaddu OT Patrick Brown TE Kyle Miller DT Kheeston Randall
Patriots Inactives - WR Kamar Aiken CB Marquice Cole CB Alfonzo Dennard DB Nate Ebner OL Nick McDonald OL Markus Zusevics DE Jake Bequette
I Hate these late starts.... .. messes up my pre game schedule.
The Pats catch every break.
I hope Smith is seeing how VD is coming through in the clutch


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70s, with a few later day small t-storms only lasting a few minutes...
70s, with a few later day small t-storms only lasting a few minutes...
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
It's been rather cool the last couple days. Being outside requires a light jacket or sweatshirt, but I'm not complaining. It'll be hot and humid soon enough...
Mid 70s, started sunny but now cloudy.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Its 37 right now without the wind. There is a frost advisory on for tonight.
Considerably cooler today, but still in the upper 50s or low 60s. It's sunny and clear, looks to be a great day to do some stuff outside.
Cloudless sky as per typical summer day around here. 98ºF right now. Supposed to be 104ºF today. Welcome to summer.....early.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
We are in the low 60's, still cool enough to wear a light jacket, but it's supposed to warm up this week.
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West Texas is sunny and warm today....sometimes I feel I should only post on this thread when it's NOT sunny and warm here, but then I'd never post.....
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.
100ºF and cloudy. To the east, over the Southern Sierras and into the Mojave, there's a chance of thunderstorms and flash flooding. Since I'm closer to the mountains than the rest of town, we stand a chance of getting wet, too, here in the valley. It looks like Arizona has lent us some of their monsoon weather but really, really early in the season.
We set a record high at 105ºF yesterday, BTW.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Man, San Diego has been blue skies, sunny, and warm for days now (and the Padres have been winning all their home games - coincidence?).
The weather might not change save for June-gloom (overcast from fog over the ocean) and the heat wave of our summer for July, August, Sept, Oct.
In time for you Comic Con attendees from out-of-state to experience almost our worst heat waves (but Aug-Sept can be much hotter).


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Mexico wasn't a simple choice – the societal challenges the country faces were present every day – but taking up an invite, Carlos Neira, Sergio Muñoz, Mark Frölich, Carlos Zarazua, Adrien Bulard and Isaac García joined Fernán Origel and the local skate crews of Mexico City and Guadalajara during a trip through an incredible country with some surprising spots to skate.
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With 10+ years as Vans athlete and an obsession with The Simpsons, Mr. Hugo Zurita launches his new video, skating through the streets of Mexico City and showing off his skate mastery once again with tailor made tricks like his late flips, one of Zurita's classics.
Craig and Mark McMorris' big day out at the Blackomb Park
Just a few days before Mark's injury the McMorris brothers cruised Blackcomb Park under the Whistler sunshine!
Fast Life with Loïc Bruni: S1E1 - Time Waits For No One
With the UCI DH MTB World Cup season fast approaching, the top riders in both the men's and women's divisions get ready to prove that their off seasons were well-spent. The time for talk is over. Riding fast is all that matters now.
BNQT Babes: Mahila Mendez in a bikini won't ruin your Friday (15 images)
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Family: Anatidae, Ducks and Geese view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has mainly bright cinnamon-red plumage, darkest on back. Note the beady reddish eye. Eclipse male recalls adult female, but plumage is redder. ADULT FEMALE Has buffy brown plumage. JUVENILE Similar to adult female.
Dimensions Length: 14-17" (36-43 cm)
Habitat Locally common. Widespread in breeding season, favoring marshes and shallow, weedy lakes. Outside breeding season, migrates south and west; most birds winter from Mexico southward, but small numbers remain in southwest.
Observation Tips Visit coastal wetlands in California in winter.
Range Eastern Canada, Southwest, Western Canada, California, Great Lakes, Texas, Alaska, Florida, Northwest, Plains, Southeast, Rocky Mountains
Voice Male utters rattling clicks, female utters a soft quack.
Discussion Slim-looking dabbling duck with a proportionately long bill, recalling that of Northern Shoveler. Sexes are dissimilar: male's plumage color is unmistakable; female is superficially similar to female Blue-winged Teal, but distinguishable by bill length, uniformly brown head, and association with male. Both sexes show pale underwings in flight and upper-wing markings similar to those of Blue-winged: pale blue panel, white wedge, and greenish speculum. Not particularly gregarious.


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Well fellas thanks for the prayers...unfortunately the cards were not in my favor. Joe, remember that piece of advice about going to your first setup that feels right...well of course I did not follow it, lol...and I paid for it too. I'm getting pretty good at figuring out roosting sites without seeing them fly-up...so good in fact I managed to plop down not 10 yards from the tree those birds where roosting in. In doing so I had to do a little cross country trekking so I was probably louder than I should of been and in being honest the reason why I did not go with my first setup was because it was uncomfortably close to the backyard property line. Anyway, no sooner I find a suitable tree and sit down I start hearing this weird soft putting noise...I'm thinking to myself,,,what bird is making...UH OH...and the whooosh, flap, flap, flap...two birds fly off the roost headed for the adjacent farm property...BUSTED GAME OVER!!! So then I had a decision to make...do I try to go after these birds, circle around and try to cut them off, or run and gun? I chose to run and gun because they were spooked so trying to chase'em down and not knowing if there were other hunters in the woods was probably a bad idea...I could have circled around but I decided to try some running and gunning...if for no other reason than I've not really done it. So i waited a few mins then got up and marched up the hill. I won't say i was stealthy, but I was cautious and deliberate and mixed up my calling. I got no responses, which is what I expected. Then I doubled back to the original setup from last week and parked it there for a half hour...nothing. Then I went across road thinking they may have headed that way...setup and went into an aggressive series of yelps, clucks, and purrs...no response. At that point I ended the hunt because I had to go to work, but as I drove down the road a little further I saw a hen in the woods across the road and the area she crossed would have coincided with the area where I busted them off the roost. So in hind sight I probably should have circled back around or as Joe calls it Hook and run, but the reality is they generally don't cross that side and get into that area until after 0900, and I'm on my way to work by then.
This piece of public/private land these birds call home is a tricky piece and its no wonder this Tom has survived for so many years...its not easy to get back to, and their roost/strut zones are sandwiched in between private parcels, so taking into account the legal standoff required and other factors, it makes for a difficult hunt..and these birds know it! Its going to take some special consideration and tactics to pull this guy from his hens and get him to come to you...in an area that is further away than he probably likes.
I may have a slim window of opportunity to get in there tomorrow, but I'm guessing since I spooked them off the roost, and this Tom is smart, he probably won't be roosting in the same spot...and if I do go it will probably be on the other side of the road and just in the treeline, so I can see them coming, at which point I could do a delay and defend type tactic...reality is though my season is over [:'(].
As I mentioned previously though, this season has been a huge learning curve for me, and one full of great memories and experiences. I've learned something just about every time I'm out. I had some great encounters, took a couple long shots (literally) that did not pay off, but for sure I'm a better hunter for it. Most of all I've made some great friends here, and I can't thank you all enough for your patience, understanding, and willingess to help a stranger out...it speaks volumes about your character as hunters and decent human beings. I'll probably spend the next month tweaking my setup and repatterning my shotgun...did not get a chance to resolve that issue fully and I don't want to wait until next spring for that. Aside from that, its time to perform some needed maint on my gear, a deep cleaning on the shotgun, then pack it all away, ready to go at it next spring. I'll keep a call or two handy though for practice [;)]
Fall Bow Season is around the corner, and the fish are biting...so you all won't see me as much here , but can catch me on D&DH...but I'll pop in from time to time. You all are good people so I'm not sure I can stay away until next season anyway, lol[:D]. For anyone whose season has not ended, best of luck..keep at'em!!!
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There really doesn't seem to be any good automated GUI testers out there. This is especially true for the main toolkit I use, Qt. But I just had an idea for relatively easy way to do it. It will allow recording and logging of events in the GUI, which is great since users never tell you what they REALLY did to make your program crash. You could then look at the logs to figure out how the user actually made the program crash/misbehave. You could also replay the log to take the drudgery out of testing your fix. Finally, you could create automated tests. That parts harder, as you would really need a nice test case editor to put together tests.
I'm really excited about this and want to start coding it RIGHT NOW, which is bad because I'm really tired and I need to get up and go to work in the morning. This weekend I'll start up the code, and release it to try to get other developers interested. I can really see it in my head. The last part of the project, the test case editor, is going to be really big. But I think it'll be really nice. The only thing is, where am I going to get the time to work on it? Then again, why would I want to do it? I'm an embedded systems guy with an interest in music. An automated GUI tester would be a great thing, but it keeps my from doing embedded and music stuff. The core library that makes it work is incredibly simple, though. I can write that, and maybe get other developers interested in writing the test case editor. That is the way open source works, after all.
I just finished a paper on the scalability and performance of multimaster I2C in sensor networks, and submitted it to a conference. I'm going to start working on a paper this week on error detection and recovery for I2C in sensor network applications. That paper should come together fairly quickly, it's just a matter of writing it all down in a coherent fashion. My thesis advisor says that if I take the information in these two papers, combine them, and elaborate a little bit, I'll have my thesis. Unfortunately, the deadline to submit a final copy for 72-hour review is in less than 3 weeks. (I didn't know what any of the deadlines were until 2 weeks ago.) And I don't have a committee. D'oh!
We got some samples of the LTC4300-1 hotswap buffer, and Chris got the smart hub layed out. We should be able to build a smart hub pretty soon.
I got the transmit portion of the AKO stack done for ATmega uC's. The receive portion is kindof a low priority, since I'm working on that paper which will get rolled into my thesis. It turns out my problem all along was that the ATmega can detect/generate an "illegal TWI condition", which requires special handling to recover from. The part of the data sheet which tells you that is hidden remarkably well. Once I handled this special case, the code worked fine. I like the AVR uC's a lot better than PIC's, but the PIC's have much better data sheets.
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GP94 The Gnomes of Yetholm, in the Scottish Borders. Spot my cuddly monkey among the gnomes in the garden of Anne Yeomans in the Scottish Borders village of Yetholm.
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A "perfect" score is a very difficult thing to give, especially in this day and age where standards, expectations, and preferences are changing more rapidly than ever before. However I can give Mujun Rasen, the fifth installment of the Kara no Kyoukai film series, a perfect score without regret or doubt. The film opens in a manner quite different from the style of the earlier movies. Where several of them start with mundane, almost tedious seeming activities and then later build up tension through shocking and/or disturbing turns of events, Mujun Rasen's beginning is heavy on both... See full review
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What happens when the worlds of cute girls doing cute things, robots, and ridiculous random humor combine? If you guessed Cromartie High or Azumanga Daiou, you are a little off. Nichijou caught me by surprise: with startlingly stupid humor and incredibly well done animation, I found myself wanting more immediately after. Anyone who is easily angered by random and completely trivial humor, this anime is not for you. If you thoroughly enjoy epic battles fought over octopus wieners or girl-like robots with steam powered rocket toes, this is absolutely for you.
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me•di•o•cre adj. -of moderate or low quality. -ordinary or so-so. According to Merriem-Webster dictionary, mediocre can be defined by both of the above. When considering how to review this anime, this is the term that kept flashing before my eyes. After careful deliberation, I can say that this show was not mediocre, but mediocre nonetheless. Index has a thrilling premise and a vivid universe; many interesting or unique characters are introduced throughout the plot (if you could call it that). Where this anime really falls short is in its execution... See full review
My praise for Read or Die may be undeserved, but for its one and a half hour run time, it is executed in a way such that the laughs, tears, and dozens of jumps and shouts from the audience will be strung together in quick succession. The plot leaves something to be desired in that it is somewhat incoherent, but despite any flaws it may have, it is twisty, dark, and cool enough to wow just about anyone. With three episodes, its obviously difficult to make a good set up for the series, but the first half of the first episode does so with startling effectiveness. The animation, though it may... See full review
I was not sure what to expect when I started watching Black Rock Shooter. I knew it had a decent following as far as artork went and I was familiar with the song bearing the same name. However, after watching for 50 minutes, I decided it fell somewhere between mediocrity and art. While the first long while of the animation may leave some a little alienated (I came to see action, not slice of life!) I found it quite nice. The relationship between the two protagonists was quite well done, albeit a bit shallow. As we continue to witness their characters develop (at a snail's pace), we are greeted by... See full review


text: Picked up the Speeder Bike set at Mississippi TRU, they had 2 sets left, nothing new in their SW section besides that, a lone Yavin Pilots set is still there. Exposition WM had Commander Wolffe and Commander Fox, I got the lone Wolffe but they had a Fox left still. Nothing else terribly exciting on my afternoon run, K-Mart on Chambers and Colfax had a couple AT-STs, but no Ewok or AT-ST pilot sets.


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loved ricky, wish he would of not missed that season, set our franchise back
loved ricky, wish he would of not missed that season, set our franchise back
Regardless of how well Miami did with Ricky on the team, he was still a premiere runningback. He was drafted high by the Saints and traded for a bevy of picks for a reason. It wasn't his fault we didn't have enough talent and good coaching around him. I only wish he played when Marino was playing. We went through somewhere around 15 runningbacks during Marino's tenure. Imagine Ricky in Marino's backfield.
Ricky Williams may have had his problems off the field, but he was by NO MEANS a mediocre player. Can they build on this current group? I'd say the fact that this group contended for a better part of the year under a rookie quarterback with no real playmakers at WR, and an "OK at best" offensive line, yes, I think it is safe to say we can build with this group.
In retrospect both choices were mistakes. I dont agree that Long has played like the first overall pick because the last two years he hasnt, not even close. with all out cap space it would be an easy decision if he had played so well, there is no doubt that Atlanta will be keeping Ryan around for a long time. As for Rodgers very few people on this board were fascinated with Rodgers in that draft and I actually got in many arguements about Rodgers as our possible pick over a guy that wasnt even a full time starter in college. Both drafts illustrate that u dont take Rb's and OL over qb when u have a need for one.
We got a QB now. Lets get him a WR and a TE and an OT.
The four most important people in an NFL franchise are the owner, GM, head coach and QB (not necessarily in that order). You need at least TWO of those to be top-notch for a team to be successful, and we really don't even have one. The best that can be said for any of ours is "The jury is still out"...
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Why I eschew Hollywood
Watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night -- the first "mainstream" movie I've seen in a year or two. Every now and then it's nice to watch a mainstream Hollywood movie just to reconfirm why I generally choose to watch independent or foreign films:
1. I prefer films with substance. A movie which, at its essence, consists largely of elaborately choreographed battle scenes is very impressive visually, but ultimately unsatisfying.
2. It's nice when a movie has a female character, not just a female plot device. There's a difference.
3. It's nice to watch something creative, and not just a rehash of a tried-and-true provably-profitable recipe. It seems to me like every Disney movie can be reduced to the same old story, told over and over by different characters set in different venues.


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After quite a long time, I'm adding a new entry. What has happened in the meantime? Well, quite a lot.
- akpop3d, my POP3 daemon, got improved in many aspects, and quite a lot of have contributed code, already.
- I started writing my own network intrusion detection system, named cinderella, which contains most of the ideas that are (were) contained in the NIDS that I wrote for a company a year ago.
- I did a number of talks at the Linuxwochen 2003, and it was quite a success.


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women can always get birth control wow it costs 9 a month . I do not want my tax payer money to pay for a late term abortion ( or any) because she finds out its a girl and they wanted a boy. Obama believes this is fine.
Just on tv God and jerusalem are back on the platform. Way to late for me.
The only news network talking about this is FOX...wonder why?
Wouldn't matter if they put it back question is why did they take it out? Way worse to put it back now.
What was it suppose to say? Some document they call a platform has to have the word god in it or it is wrong....most everyone I heard speak had god in their heart and said god...so did it say not to say god?
They took a vote on the floor to add it back in, the No's had it they didnt know what to do so they took the vote again, the No's had it again. I guess they ended up taking the vote three times, but they said it passed by 2/3 which now is really bad. The no's were much louder the poor little speaker looked around and didnt know what to do. If you listen it didnt pass.


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Laboratory Field Services electronically stores license data for California based and out-of-state based clinical laboratories, public health laboratories, and clinical laboratory personnel in the Health Application Licensing (HAL) system. The system has a subsystem identified as the Laboratory Personnel Website (LPW) that is an ITSD-developed and maintained web-based application using the HAL System data that allows the public to verify, on the internet, whether an individual has been issued a clinical laboratory personnel license. The system can be searched by last name and first name, partial last name, license number, and 37 license categories. The information available for public viewing is as accurate and reliable as possible with the limitations of the HAL System. The LPW is highly utilized by stakeholders.
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Geno Iafrate, executive vice president for Regional Operations for Pinnacle. (Donna Price / American Press)
Last Modified: Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:08 PM
By Bobby Dower / American PressThe pending acquisition of Ameristar by Pinnacle, which owns L'Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles, has raised many questions.
Geno Iafrate, executive vice president for Regional Operations, and Kerry Andersen, director of Media Relations and Public
Affairs, discussed the deal and Pinnacle's plans when it is completed, with the American Press.
American Press: What prompted Pinnacle to purchase Ameristar?
Geno Iafrate: Let's start with Ameristar because I think a lot of the confusion that occurred, a lot of the questions that are being generated locally are primarily because of a lack of understanding of Ameristar. Ameristar has no brand presence here or no recognition here, and so for all intents and purposes, people think that Ameristar is the 15th (gaming) license in Louisiana and the second casino next to L'Auberge, right?
That's not really the case. That's a part, a small part, of Ameristar. Ameristar is bigger than Pinnacle. Ameristar has casino operations in — they are based in Las Vegas, Nevada and they were founded in Jackpot, Nevada, Craig Neilsen's casino in Jackpot is still there. They have a property in Blackhawk, Colorado. They have property in Council Bluffs, Iowa. They have a property in Kansas City, Missouri. They have a property in St. Louis, Missouri, a property in East Chicago, Indiana and the property that is being built here in Lake Charles.
When you think about that structure, the real opportunity for Pinnacle was not specifically the property in Lake Charles, albeit that strategically is going to be important for us. The opportunity was for us was to double the size of our company, more than double the size of our company.
We were able to execute on our strategy of diversifying our company which will circle around to, was one of the reasons we canceled the Sugar Cane Bay project in the first place which was lack of diversification of our company. So this project, because of the size of Ameristar, inherently give us broad diversification across 13 jurisdictions. And Ameristar is No. 1 or No. 2 — oh, Vicksburg, Mississippi, I left out — No. 1 or No. 2 in every jurisdiction they do business in. So, a great company.
We got to know them — we've known them — but we really got to know them here in Lake Charles as we worked on things like roadway designs, site access. We've allowed them to have construction access through our customer entrance. They brought trucks right up L'Auberge Drive, right up our golf course.
So just in our relationship that we've developed and gotten to know them here in Lake Charles, we found that they were a lot like us as a company. Almost like we're looking in a mirror. That culture — a lot of time it's easy to add assets, it's hard to integrate cultures and our cultures were so similar it seemed like a natural fit. It's exciting.
There is the notion out there that the reason that the deal went down was that Pinnacle was just protecting its turf here in Lake Charles.
Iafrate: That question is rooted in a lack of understanding of how big Ameristar is and how broadly distributed they are and diverse they are, as well as us. A lot of people in the state of Louisiana, I meet people that don't know that we own Boomtown in Bossier (City), Boomtown in Harvey. If you know that L'Auberge opened in Baton Rouge, you assume that we own it because we own L'Auberge here. But then beyond that we have Lumere Place in St. Louis, we have River City in St. Louis, we have River Downs in Cincinnati, we have Belterra in Indiana. People don't realize that Pinnacle is bigger than just Lake Charles.
We canceled Sugar Cane Bay, let's go back to that and I'll tell you why we canceled Sugar Cane Bay and why it makes sense to have this project and complete this project. When Sugar Cane Bay was first announced it was a grand idea, but the funding never existed. Recognize that this is all prior regime of Pinnacle. Pinnacle we think of as a start-up company, although our roots go back for many, many years with Hollywood Park. Think of the current Pinnacle Entertainment as being about three years old. The start of that company was March of 2010 when our current CEO, Anthony Sanfilippo, joined and really recreated our company. Our company, prior to that was a development company. We would just build properties and then move on, build another property and move on, never really focus on operating our businesses.
Now, we have become a quality operating company that takes advantage of, selective advantage of development opportunities. Since 2010, we've added with the exact same assets, not counting Baton Rouge, over 100 million dollars in incremental free cash flow a year. So, financial strength, right? Our debt ratio has been brought down pretty substantially since 2010, 2009 and 2010. So the financial strength of our company has changed substantially since we canceled Sugar Cane Bay.
Sugar Cane Bay was announced, the funding never existed to build it. Never. So, it was a grand project that did not have financial backing. Along the way, it was extended, the date was pushed out, right? Now this was all pre-me, but I'm just giving some brief history backwards. At some point there was a change in leadership at Pinnacle where Dan (Lee) left and then John Giovenco was the interim CEO. At that point, John realized that the project could not be funded and they made substantial changes to the project that included some modifications, really downsized the project. You guys probably remember this process. Again, pre-me, began working on that modified project, started driving piles, etcetera.
So now 2010, Anthony joins the company and realizes that we are still on the tail end of the worse economic conditions in 70 years, the great recession that we dealt with from 2007 to 2010. Our company had substantial exposure on the Texas border and we were about to double down in Lake Charles. At the time, we had a $250 million commitment in Baton Rouge.
We assessed all of that and decided that although we're in the gambling business, we didn't want to bet the entire company on Lake Charles. It just wasn't a prudent to make. We have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders and we felt like that was a prudent decision.
So we canceled Sugar Cane Bay. We raised the scale of the project in Baton Rouge from a 250 dollar million project to a 368 million dollar project. Baton Rouge doesn't have a Texas exposure, so if something happens in Texas, Baton Rouge in unaffected by it.
Then we began to focus on operation excellence throughout our organization and we were able to generate with the exact same assets incremental 100 (million) to 120 million dollar in free cash flow while laying down debt all along.
Add a Retama Park acquisition in San Antonio, Texas, which, once again, one of the primary questions always asked of us by analysts is what happens if Texas legalizes. We answered that question. We have a presence in Texas now. We are close to having a presence in Texas. We expect to close that deal January 31st and begin operating that race track on February 1st, so just a couple weeks away. And we want to diversity.
So, you put all that stuff together, our financial strength, the general economic conditions of the world are not great, but better, the financial health of our company is substantially better, solved for the diversification and the risk of having too much exposed in one market, solved for because of the Ameristar transaction. We are not outlaying cash to build a project in Baton Rouge that isn't generating any cash flow. It's opened. It opened on September 1st.
So our company now versus our company in March of 2010 when we made the decision to cancel Sugar Cane Bay is a fundamentally different company. And now this project is a project that we can be very excited about instead of scared to death of, if that makes sense.
What does the acquisition of the 15th license mean for Lake Charles and the L'Auberge property and what your vision is to do next door?
Iafrate: We were working toward some things with Ameristar that I think were going to be really exciting for both of our properties. We were going to combine our golf and tennis. They have a license condition to have an 18-hole golf course and a pro tennis facility. We have already to come an agreement with Ameristar and the Port (of Lake Charles) to jointly operate — we were going to create a separate company — and jointly operate the golf and tennis facilities, so we would have a collection of four nine-hole courses instead of each of us having an 18-hole golf course. Think of the synergies and the draw that that creates as a golf destination.
We are already doing that pre-Ameristar acquisition. So now, physically owning both of the facilities allows us to integrate the facilities to be much more seamless from a guest perspective. We can market them jointly, we can create a connection between them that is as seamless as can be. The buildings aren't going to probably physically be connected because of where they are located. I don't know that they are going to be physically connected, but as far as pedestrian traffic, vehicle traffic, potentially some sort of automated people mover, whether that's a train, a bus, we're still working on that. But our ability to integrate those and have two complimentary facilities that increase the offering, both for local guests as well as the draw for regional and national guests.
We envision you checking into the hotel at the Ameristar facility or the L'Auberge facility and being able to charge stuff to your room no matter what building you are in. We envision you being able to gamble and earn comps at either facility and use them frankly at any one of our facilities in the entire country — all 15 properties with our one-card system.
The benefits both locally and regionally and nationally are substantial.
We've all seen the drawings that Ameristar had. How much of that will you embrace or will you sort of start all over?
Iafrate: Ameristar is a separate company and they are going to continue construction as if they have to remain a separate company. It's part of their fiduciary responsibility of their senior leadership team and their board of directors to run their company as if they are going to always run their company.
At the moment, we are aware of the plans and we have had some preliminary meetings where we get to see some of the design work, etcetera, but our influence is minimal. We don't own them yet. We have to continue through the process of regulatory approval in each of the jurisdictions, shareholder approval by Ameristar shareholders. We both have unanimous board approval at this point. We need Ameristar shareholder approval and we need FTC review which is always, publicly traded companies will always be in that CD process. And then we need the jurisdictions, the regulatory body between the jurisdictions to approve ultimately the transaction.
We still expect to close sometime between late second quarter and the end of the third quarter, so sometime between June and September is when we expect to close. A lot of it has to do with the timing of getting on each one of these various board agendas and the like.
So at the moment we don't own it. So Ameristar continues to build it and build it to their specifications. There will probably be minimal physical change as far as location, number of hotel room, height of tower, width of building, location of pool — those things by the time you get to June or July, August or September when we expect to close this deal, it will be pretty set. Frankly, they are pretty set now, based on driving piles.
Will we paint a wall yellow instead of red or blue instead of orange? Those are things when you get into those design details where you start picking out the curtains and the drapes and the carpet, those are things that we will likely have influence on, but the physical structure of the facility, I don't know that we are going to have a lot of influence on.
One of the things that Ameristar changed was that there was going to be the concept of a certain number of rooms, but there was also going to be some kind of arena and they talked about it had been their experience that people came to their casinos, went to the shows and then didn't go into the casino, so they removed the arena but replaced it with additional rooms.
Iafrate: That's true.
They went from something like 450 rooms to 700 rooms.
Iafrate: They went from 400 and 400-and-change to 700, 700 is the current number.
Would Pinnacle revert back?
Iafrate: Hotel rooms are critically important. We're happy with the 700 hotel rooms.
As far as entertainment goes, it's early but I would tell you, look at the entertainment lineup at L'Auberge. We are the premier entertainment destination on the (Gulf) Coast. We run headliner acts on a monthly basis. We run the Party by the Pool series, we have the entertainment in Jack Daniels, there's always the piano lounge in Ember. I don't think we're starved for entertainment in Lake Charles. L'Auberge, clearly, we've even done an event at the Civic Center. L'Auberge clearly is the premier entertainment provider for the Lake Charles area and Southwest Louisiana for that matter.
I know that some of this is controlled by Ameristar, but what is your time lime? If you had your druthers, how quickly would you like to see basically the facility up and running?
Iafrate: The current timeline, I don't remember the exact date, it's mid-'14, it's summer of 14. There is a specific date, I don't remember what it is. It's in the conditions of Ameristar's license. I think it's July 1st. We just use summer of '14 as the language.
There's a lot of work to do between now and July of 2014. Not being directly in control of the project until a minimum of June and as late as September, I'm not sure we're in a position to be able to comment on the construction schedule. That would be an Ameristar question. Once we are in control of it, I'm sure we would be able to comment on the construction schedule.
Obviously, I want to open as soon as possible, but we have a history of not opening things in phases. We open when complete. Baton Rouge is an example. We could have opened the casino first and then finished the hotel. But our preference is to open the full resort simultaneously.
Is that also somewhat of a challenge that this is going to be partially constructed and then basically they are going to hand you the baton?
Iafrate: The general contractor doesn't change. The general contractor is building to plans. They are going to keep building to plans. They're just going to get a check from somebody else, right? Yates Construction continues to be the GC and run the job.
Currently, the Ameristar construction team, led by Jack Mohn, is overseeing the project. We don't expect any of that to change between now and when we take over the project. Heck, it might not change from now until the project opens. It's just too early. Jack and his team are doing an incredible job and they're quality guys, professional, great to work with. I wouldn't be surprised if that team was at the grand opening ceremony in 2014.
Are there any hurdles you have to clear with the state Gaming Regulatory Board?
Iafrate: Ultimately, the Louisiana Gaming Control Board would have to approve the transaction, as will every other jurisdiction that there is an Ameristar. Missouri will.. Nevada. Any jurisdiction that they are in — Indiana, Mississippi, even the jurisdictions that we already do business in like Indiana, Louisiana, there are others, Missouri, even the place where we already do business, the transition still have to be approved because it is a transfer of the license.
But you envision something seamless as opposed to if you were going to come in at this point and, say the Ameristar deal was going much quicker and you were going to make some changes to these plans, those would all have to be approved by the Gaming Board, would they not?
Iafrate: It depends. If we change the size of the hotel room or the color of the carpet, the Gaming Board has not interest in that whatsoever. If we change — certain aspects of the facility that are considered conditions of the license, if we were to modify or change any of those conditions, then ultimately, we would need Gaming Control approval. It's like today there is a condition that there will be an 18-hole golf course, there's a condition that there will be 700 hotel rooms, those type of things if you wished to change any of those, even if we wanted to make the bigger, even if we wanted to go to 900 hotel rooms, that's an interesting question. I know if I wanted to go down, I would, but if I went up I'm not sure that the Gaming Control board has interest in that.
Your workforce. When the new casino and resort is open, will they be interchangeable or will they two separate workforces?
Iafrate: It's pretty early in that planning process. I think it depends on the position. Granted, there won't be two entirely separate accounting teams. Will I need extra accountants to handle a whole another property? Probably. Will I need two completely separate human resources teams? Probably not. But given the fact that I'm going to come close to doubling the team member count, will I need additional personnel in human resources? Probably.
And then when you get down to the actual at the door, on the floor, line level-type positions, you have to be duplicative. I need a dealer at both places, I need a slot attendant at both places, I need restaurant, I need chefs. It's really in those administrative functions and some of those senior level positions, that probably don't need to be duplicative. But as you work your way down the organization, I'm going to need two of everything.
You mentioned restaurants. Is it too early to talk about what kind of brands or restaurants you would have in the new facility?
Kerry Andersen: That's all anybody really wants to know.
Iafrate: Ameristar has done a great job of putting a food and beverage package together. Although I'm aware of their food and beverage package, I don't think it would be appropriate for me to spill the beans on all the great work that they've done.
Generally, you'll see the items that are pretty typical with a casino. There will be a great buffet. There will be a wonderful 24-hour cafe experience. There will be fine dining experience. There are many restaurants planned for this facilities that are pretty exciting.
In line with it coming out on Sunday, the public has a perception that Texas is going to determine a lot of things. This is not just about Lake Charles, this is nationwide. Why don't you explain your position in Texas because the company has made an investment there?
Iafrate: Yeah, we have. This resort that is about to be created here, will there be an impact of Texas legalizes gaming? It depends on what form of gaming is legalized and where. It is kind of hard to answer that question directly.
Are they going do resorts in specific locations? Are they going to do slots at racetracks? Of they just going to do VLTs? Are they going to do anything? Who knows?
This resort, having 1,700 hotel rooms, over 3,000 slot machines, 150 table games, great restaurants, 36 holes of golf, pro tennis facilities, two fantastic resort pools, a beach, you start to put all of this together on 500-plus acres with great access, this becomes a pretty special destination that even with Texas gaming, this thing takes a hit, but still is a pretty spectacular place that I think we're going to be enjoy for many, many years. Our next generation is going to enjoy this thing, regardless of what happens in Texas.
Now, we took a stand in Texas. We bought, it's an interesting structure. We basically are going to be the manager, we bought a 75-and-a- half percent ownership interest in a management group that holds the license and manages the racetrack at Retama Park. Now, the interesting piece of this structure is Retama Park itself, the physical assets, the building, the dirt, etcetera, is owned by a public-private corporation. It's kind of unique to Texas. It's owned by the City of Selma. It's called the Retama Development Corporation. The Retama Development Corporation is this public-private corporation owned by the city of Selma that has a public board, meeting are open. That corporation, Retama Development Corporation, technically owns Retama Park. We manage Retama Park and own 75-and-a-half percent of the management group. There's 140-some-odd partners that own the other 24-and-a-half percent. We own almost all the outstanding debt of the Retama Development Corporation. We hold the paper for the physical assets. It's a pretty interesting structure that we are retaining at the moment.
It would depend on what happens in Texas. The greatest possible scenario for Texas is that they would have one physical casino and it's at Retama Park (laughter) and they have table games, slots, poker and bingo and Jai-Alai, wherever else you want to have. That's probably not going to happen.
Ultimately, as a company we believe, we're in the gaming distribution business. We provide gaming entertainment across multiple jurisdictions and as a result of that, we support legalization or expanding game in Texas. As to what that looks like, our support would vary depending on what it looks like. If Texas wants to put resort casinos or even racinos out there and they want to have a 95 percent tax rate, we're not interested. I still have to run a business. So, it just depends. Broadly speaking, we're in support of expanded gaming in Texas but as to how much we support that, it really depends on what version and where and how and etcetera.
We do think there are three Class I racetracks in Texas. There's the one at Retama Park. There's one in Houston, Sam Houston, Penn Gaming owns I believe 50 percent of that and the Horowitz family owns the other 50 percent. And then there's Lone Star Park in Dallas which is owned by Global Gaming which is the domestic business arm of the Chickasaw Nation, which owns WinStar Casino in Oklahoma. Those are the three Class I tracks.
There are believe 15 licenses or so in total in Texas, including in smaller markets, including dog tracks. There are other horse racing facilities and there's dog facilities, not just at that Class I level. Those Class I tracks, the restrictions on them to get that license, they had to be in an population center with greater than 2 million people when those licenses were issued. There are even licenses in Texas that are dormant. The Austin Jockey Club is an example. It holds the license, but they don't operate a facility. They pay a fee to maintain their license without operating an actual track. ...
It's early in the game, but what are the talks from your vantage point on branding? What's new the new casino going to be named? When is your office going to take over the PR (public relations) aspect of that facility? Where is that at right now?
Iafrate: It would be ultimately, because we are both publicly traded companies, we won't take over any direct operation of their facilities anywhere until the deal closes. That's the bottom line. They have to continue to operate. Ameristar has to continue to operate as a if they are a stand-alone company. We have to continue to operate as if Ameristar is a stand-alone company.
Now we can plan through an integration planning process, we can spend time planning. We are putting a group of folks together on the Ameristar side and on the Pinnacle side. These folks are going to spend their time between now and the consummation of the deal planning. What do we do the second that the deal closes? And the reason that you do that now is that you don't want to wait six months. We're expecting in six to nine months we're going to close the transaction. We want to have a plan ready so that the second it closes, break out the plan and start executing. We won't have direct control until that time and there is work being done on the brand. I don't know. It's too early. Can I sit here and say it will be called Ameristar? No. Can I tell you what the alternatives are? It's just too early.
Do you think the lawsuit that has been filed in Las Vegas is going to hinder this process?
Iafrate: I think that — I'm going to misquote these statistics but I'll back off of the statistics a little bit and I will be directionally correct — I think somewhere 90-plus percent of any publicly traded company, anytime there is a publicly traded company that is involved in a merger or acquisition 90-percent-plus percent of those transactions result in a lawsuit. And somewhere close to zero result in any substantial action. I think it's less than 5 percent actually result any form of action. It's a process. It's just a process. I don't think it would — no one appears to be alarmed by it. Everybody expected it. It's just part of the process.
Going back to what you said before in explaining in how you already had a cooperative agreement with Ameristar, that has to help as you move forward as oppose to another situation where you could be ...
Iafrate: An uncooperative agreement?
Well, you might be fighting tooth and nail so to speak.
Iafrate: Yeah. The gaming space is such a highly regulated space, it's not easy, frankly probably darn near impossible, to have a hostile takeover in a gaming company. It really has to be a process that is welcomed by both parties to ever consummate. Frankly, I think the decision is that when Ameristar senior executives and Pinnacle senior executives and both Ameristar and Pinnacle's boards have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders. And they believe and have voted as such that our two companies are better together than we are apart. And that releases a tremendous amount of value for the Ameristar shareholders and then on a go forward basis, creates a tremendous amount of value for the Pinnacle shareholders. It's a great transaction. It's exciting.
It is technically, I want to cover this, though, because we've been saying this. It is technically, by definition, an acquisition. Pinnacle is acquiring all of Ameristar's outstanding stock and assuming all of Ameristar's debt. But we are not treating it — technically it's an acquisition, but practically we're treating it as a merger.
Ameristar is a fantastic company. Great properties. No. 1 or No. 2 in every one of their markets. We expect to learn a lot from Ameristar's operators and to be able take the things that Ameristar does great and make them part of our new combined company and take the things that Pinnacle does great and make them part of our new combined company. And then have a new Pinnacle on a go-forward basis that starts the second that the deal closes.
I don't know L'Auberge's impact on the Baton Rouge market has been, but you've got Beau Rivage in Mississippi and there are lot of people that live in New Orleans and in Baton Rouge that have preferred in the past to go there rather than staying in Louisiana. You might have that same deal if Texas ever legalizes. At Beau Rivage, you have a pretty fine facility.
Iafrate: We're really proud of the Baton Rouge team and our property. We opened September first and December numbers (aren't out yet), we have not seen December market numbers yet, but the first three months of operation, September, October and November, our facility grew that market by approximately 60 percent which really has been our point in Baton Rouge all along. We have said that the Baton Rouge market is much bigger than the two boats that get reported at the Belle and the Hollywood. We've always said that the market is much bigger than what is reported than the Baton Rouge market.
You take those two boats — what are those guys doing? — 12, 13 million (dollars) a month, call it 15 million combined. Then you have to throw in Paragon which doesn't report up in Marksville. That place is probably doing 12 (million). Call it 25 million a month between those three facilities. You go down to New Orleans and you are throwing a another, call it 10 or 15 million in New Orleans per business. I'd call it 15 million. Now you have a 40 million market in Baton Rouge and then you take another 5 to 10 million that is going to Harrah's in New Orleans and kind of staying in those properties.
The Baton Rouge market is not a 15 million market. It's a 45 to 50 million dollar (a month) market. Over the last three months, we've been able play that out. We're not going 13 to 14 million a month split three ways. We're now doing 22, 23, 25 million split three ways with us getting the vast majority of that.
We have been excited about the performance of that property. Similarly in Lake Charles, the Houston market is very under-penetrated and it was under-penetrated when we canceled Sugar Cane Bay. We didn't cancel Sugar Cane Bay because we didn't think the business wasn't there. We thought that it was too much of a risk to put that type of additional exposure in Lake Charles, given the profile of our company at the time. The profile of Pinnacle is in a completely different place than it was in 2010 and the Ameristar transaction, given all the other assets that come along — the other seven facilities — that come along with this deal. If you sit and think about it and you take out a map of the United States and put all of the locations of both Pinnacle properties and Ameristar properties, you go ''Oh, I get it.'' ...
What ground have we not covered?
Iafrate: I think ultimately the message is exciting. It's exciting for Lake Charles, for Calcasieu Parish, for Southwest Louisiana and Louisiana as a whole. This is north of a 500 million dollar investment. It's going to create somewhere and I don't know exactly how many jobs — but somewhere in 16, 17, 1,800 new additional jobs. It's a little less than L'Auberge because of the hotel size. We have a thousand rooms versus 700. It's an easy 1,600 new jobs for Lake Charles. Great careers. High-paying jobs.
Pinnacle and L'Auberge's team, I think, we have proven our commitment to provide a great place for our team members to work, to have long, rewarding careers. An incredible place for our guests to come and have wonderful experiences.
I think the thing we are most proud of is we are dedicated to making sure Lake Charles is a better place to everyone to live. You see our civic volunteer commitment throughout the community is something that we are very, very proud of. We think that adding another 1,600 people that can do cancer walks and those families, it is just another great deal for us and great benefit for Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Southwest Louisiana and the state of Louisiana.
Andersen: It's an opportunity for our existing team members who live here and are from here to move up within the company and advance into management positions and that's very exciting. ...
Iafrate: It's going to be a special place. We're excited. You've seen the designs and the presentation. It's cool. It really is cool. It kind of has a Hotel Del Coronado, Tommy Bahama vibe going. It's a neat place.
So do you think it will appeal to someone who may not like the decor of L'Auberge?
Andersen: The Texas lodge.
Iafrate: We have that Texas hill country. L'Auberge's more of a comfortable elegance kind of feel where currently the Ameristar project is more of a island, Tommy Bahama kind of vibe.
It might appeal to a younger clientele?
Iafrate: I don't know. I think the demographic at L'Auberge is such that we have something for everybody. If you look at the complements of things, we have Jack Daniels, the Glow Bar, Ember, Party by the Pool, Match Box 20, then Tony Bennett.
Andersen: Then Englebert (Humperdinck)
Iafrate: You look at how we program L'Auberge, there is something for everybody all the way from a 5-year-old hanging out in the Lazy River and the Arcade or the Ice Cream shop, all up to the 105-year-old, there's all kind of stuff going on.
Everyone sees our gaming revenue numbers because they are reported every month. This is the second year, 2012, was the second year in a row that L'Auberge Lake Charles was the top No. 1 revenue producing casino in the state of Louisiana. If you think about a number of years ago, people thought that it was a no-brainer that we would be the No. 1 riverboat in the state of Louisiana, but everybody excluded — there's that one little land-based casino down at the end of Canal Street in New Orleans that is substantially bigger than us. They have over 2,000 slot machines, they're land-based, they are not bound by the 30,000-square-foot restriction and they are in the city that has a heckuva lot of tourism compared to Lake Charles. It has four time the population of Lake Charles. A national destination. Airlift in and out, on and on and on.
We've beaten them two years in a row. We're not the No. 1 riverboat in the state of Louisiana, we're the No. 1 casino from a revenue standpoint in the state of Louisiana. And we're very proud of that. Our team members here in Lake Charles and the community should be very proud of that, that everybody has done very hard work at that.
(There was) a story a couple of weeks ago that shows that the Lake Charles market, which is y'all, supersedes Reno (Nevada). Most people would think that you go to Reno, you're going to have action. We're over Reno, we're over New Orleans, we're over Shreveport, we're 13th or 14th in the nation according to the American Gaming Association. How does that make you feel from a business standpoint and from a legacy standpoint that your product rivals some of the biggest stuff, especially Reno, which has that tradition of being in the casino gaming market?
Iafrate: We're proud of our facility here. We're proud of our team, more than 2,000 dedicated team members here. We don't measure ourselves against other markets and other facilities. We just try to be the premier resort destination in Southwest Louisiana and we try to attract people from all over the place. It's exciting. It feels good and you can be proud when you look at the scoreboard to be in that No. 1 spot, but you've got to focus on every day being better than you were yesterday and making sure we have the best service professionals in the business and we are providing magical, memorable moments to our guests and we're doing the right thing in the community to make sure it's the great place for everybody to live. We keep executing on those things, the rest of it kind of works out, right?
... We publish every month the gaming revenue numbers. What we don't publish are the non-gaming revenues, the revenue we generate in our shows in or in our restaurants or in our retail shapes. That category of revenue, that non-gaming revenue, has been a huge driver of our success here in Lake Charles. We have created among the highest quality retail experience in the region. We have incredible food and beverage facilities, great nightlife entertainment. I'm as proud of the non-gaming stuff as I am of the gaming operations here in Lake Charles.
I hear all the time all the time from people, ''I don't gamble, but I love going to Ember.'' I can't wait to go watch a game at Jack Daniels.'' Or ''The pool was fantastic, or the pool, or the barber shop.'' Right? It is a fully integrated resort destination. It's not all about gaming at L'Auberge. That's the piece that we get very excited about.
Posted By: FinePrint On: 2/11/2013
Title: Quote: "although we're in the gambling business"
Quote: "although we're in the gambling business" . Someone should tell this guy that GAMBLING is illegal in Louisiana, according to the the Constitution. That's why it's called GAMING , to get around the law. A little Edwin Edwards magic fron the old days!
Posted By: a voter On: 1/22/2013
Title: curious
I don't remember Pinnacle telling the voters of Calcasieu parish they did not have the financing to build Sugar Cane Bay when they were BEGGING us to vote "YES!", does anyone else? Did the Gaming Control Board know that Pinnacle didn't have the money??!!! REALLY??!!!