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U.S. stock index futures are flat this morning after an eventful night in Asia that saw Japanese stocks soar as the Chinese market suffered its biggest pullback since September of last year.
Here, the TSX appears to be headed for a steady to slightly weaker opening, with major commodities taking a modest dip.
The Japan market got a boost as the government unveiled a $226.5-billion stimulus package, with plans to rebuild disaster-hit areas and beef up the military. It didn't come as a huge surprise given that recently elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had pledged big spending plans on the campaign trail. But it fed into a resurgence of market speculation of late that underdog Japan could turn out to be a major market winner in 2013 after years of underperformance.
In China, investors ditched stocks as the country's inflation data for December came in higher than expected. The consumer price index rose 2.5 per cent year-on-year in December after a 2 per cent rise in November. That pointed to the possibility that the Chinese central bank may have less room to ease monetary policy at a time when the economy is just starting to pick up steam again. The Shanghai composite index lost 1.7 per cent.
European stocks are mixed this morning. In news there overnight, Spanish annualized industrial production in November plummeted a worse-than-expected 7.2 per cent, while Moody's downgraded Cyprus - which is in bailout talks with the European Union - to a level that is only two notches above default.
Now, here's a closer look at what else you need to know this morning:
U.S. futures: S&P 500 unchanged; Dow -0.1 per cent; Nasdaq unchanged
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index -0.39 per cent
Shanghai composite index -1.78 per cent
Japan's Nikkei +1.40 per cent
London's FTSE 100 +0.16 per cent
Germany's DAX +0.18 per cent
France's CAC 40 -0.22 per cent
WTI (Nymex Feb) -0.64 per cent at $93.67 (U.S.) a barrel
Gold (Comex Feb) -0.55 per cent at $1,668.80 (U.S.) an ounce
Copper (Comex Mar) -0.80 per cent at $3.68 (U.S.) a pound
Canadian dollar down 0.0004, or 0.04 per cent, at $1.0168 (U.S.)
Statistics Canada said the trade deficit in November was $1.96-billion, as exports dropped 0.9 per cent and imports rose 2.7 per cent. The deficit was much larger than the $700-million that was forecast by economists.
The U.S. Commerce Department said the trade deficit jumped 15.8 per cent in November to $48.7-billion, well above the consensus estimate of $41.2 billion. That was the biggest since April and was pegged in part to demand for imported goods for the holidays and foreign automobile demand.
Wells Fargo & Co. reported net income of 91 cents a share in the fourth quarter, up from 73 cents a year ago, and beating consensus expectations by 2 cents. But shares in premarket trading are down 1 per cent.
Mobile operator Vodafone said today some of its customers were not receiving emails via their Blackberry phones and that it was working with the handset maker Research In Motion Ltd. to rectify the problem. It's not clear whether the problem rests with Vodafone or RIM, but RIM shares are down 2.6 per cent in the premarket.
The FAA has ordered a comprehensive review of the new Boeing 787 airliner after a fire and fuel leak earlier this week. Shares are down 1.5 per cent in the premarket.
Best Buy Co. said its nine-week holiday domestic revenue fell 1.2 per cent as same-store sales fell 1.4 per cent. It also cut its free cash flow forecast. But the company's U.S. sales performance was flat, which marks an improvement from recent quarters, and shares are up nearly 5 per cent in the premarket.
American Express Co. said late Thursday that it will slash roughly 5,400 jobs as it pre-released fourth-quarter earnings of $1.09 per share, ahead of analysts' consensus forecast of $1.06 per share. Shares are down 0.5 per cent in the premarket.
Chevron Corp. said late Thursday its fourth-quarter profit would be "notably higher" than the previous quarter as oil and gas output bounced back and it booked a $1.4-billion (U.S.) gain on an asset transaction. Shares are up 0.7 per cent in the premarket.
Why RIM skipped this year's big CES tech extravaganza in Las Vegas.
Bullish sentiment has hit the highest level since last February.
Hedge funds run by women beat the industry last year.
Three sectors to avoid this earnings season.
Why natural gas prices will stay depressed in 2013.
The major flu epidemic in the U.S. is threatening to slow the U.S. economy.
It's official: Gurus can't accurately predict markets.
Top 5 ETF picks for 2013 from Matt Hougan, president of ETF Analytics.
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Every time I say yes to doing something socially, I freak out a little bit before said social event.
Last weekend was no different. Angela invited a few friends to her cottage and I wanted to go so badly, but also, there's a part of me that always feels dread the closer that a social event gets. I used to be embarrassed or feel bad or worse: cancel because of these feelings, now I know that it's just a part of me and it doesn't mean I won't have a good time.
But I'd be lying if I said I was purely thrilled about leaving my family, missing my boy's hockey game, and getting together with women I met online. Killers anyone? Really, killers were the least of my worries. Here are my irrational fears laid out for you to laugh at and judge. Really, it's okay, I won't get my feelings hurt.
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1. Edie. My dearest longest, most kindred online friend was going too and although we've skpyped, texted, emailed, blogged to and about each other for years, we've only met in real life a few times and ever-so-briefly. What if Edie and I didn't hit it off in person the way we have in my mind? Does she know she's one of my bloggy BFFs?
darlene, angela, shannon, sheila, me, edie
2. Shannon. I've seen her stunning work online for years. She's one of the most talented designers around. When the magazine came to my house in January they left my house and went straight to Shannon's. I was really intimidated to meet her. Have I mentioned meeting new people is stressful to me?
3. Darlene. Darlene is the one in the group I've spent the most time with in person, after hanging out with her at Allume for a few years, phew, I wasn't even worried about her. Sorry Darlene, I already knew you were amazing.
4. Angela. I've known her online forever. Years ago I had a Nesting Place board of smart people to help me make decisions and she was a board member. She's been a friend for quite some time and when someone asks me my favorite artist or designer, I say her name. I've met her in real life on multiple occasions and was pretty sure I didn't need to hyperventilate about hanging out with her but I was still nervous because we've never hung out for an entire weekend. What if she thinks (realizes) I'm annoying?
5. Darlene's friend. Oh this one was the worst. An unknown, non-blogging person that was coming who I couldn't stalk online and learn about before hand. I was a wreck. Why, WHY did Darlene have to bring a friend, how could she do this to me?!
Clearly I am insane.
So here's how it played out.
1. Edie. Yep. We are just like I thought we'd be. Maybe better. Now I know why online dating sites work. I have a devoted, undying love for Edie.
2. Shannon. It always ALWAYS happens this way. The person I'm most afraid of, most intimidated to get to know, turns out to be the most endearing. I love this woman. Also, she brought us all gifts–handmade!
3. Darlene. Yep. She never disappoints, I was so smart not to worry about her.
4. Angela. No hyperventilating required–I was right! Full of grace and wisdom and the best taste of anyone on the planet.
5. Sheila. Turns out Darlene's friend has a name and is absolutely lovely. She reads Nesting Place! I was so happy that she didn't think we were a bunch of weirdos (when I say "we" I really mean "I".) Also, I was so, so very glad she came, it wouldn't have been as fun and meaningful without Sheila.
We all met at Angela's cottage, my favorite place on earth. Which is the one thing I wasn't worried about. Because the cottage holds nothing but relaxing memories for me, it was the main part about the weekend that put me at ease. I'm so glad I didn't let fear keep me from going. It would have been so easy to back out and stay home. But I needed this. I needed to laugh really hard, to drive in the car by myself for a few hours, to meet new people, to get to know long time friends better, to be in a quiet, beautiful place, to be inspired by words and thoughts and beautiful things.
I'm so glad I said yes and didn't back out.
wondering more about the cottage? not to worry, I wrote a series about my muse:
did you know you can go to the cottage too it's west of Asheville NC and has been featured in Cottages and Bungalows!
Caroline and I are bringing our husbands and are going again in late July and I cannot wait.
How to get along with an introvert via Don Miller
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TECHNOLOGY students from Bacup and Stacksteads who visited The University of Manchester carried out experiments using cutting-edge technology and spent time with engineers.
Year 9 Fearns Community Sports College pupils who were considered as having the potential to progress to higher education took part in the day. Sara Ashworth, the school's careers co-ordinator, said: "The school's approach to providing careers support and activities is all about offering pupils the opportunity to think in new and different ways.
"They try out new experiences, meet new people and have the opportunity to go out of school to learn and have fun in different environments. All these experiences will help them learn about themselves and the world and make informed choices about their future."


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The second half of Jean-Francois Richet's two-part biopic about notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine, Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 is more focused and intense than the first (Killer Instinct), although it has its own issues with pacing and storytelling efficiency. Covering about half as much time as Instinct, Public Enemy doesn't have to rush through events in typical biopic fashion. It moves fairly straightforwardly through the big moments in the final six years of Mesrine's life, a time in which he became a larger-than-life public personality and started peppering his criminal activity with not particularly well-reasoned political messages.
The Details
- Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
- Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric.
- Directed by Jean-Francois Richet
- Rated R. Opens Friday.
- Beyond the Weekly
- Mesrine: Killer Instinct
- IMDb: Mesrine: Killer Instinct
- Rotten Tomatoes: Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Vincent Cassel once again does an excellent job as Mesrine, and the man's charisma is even more important in this installment, as he draws in not only his associates and lovers, but also average fans who see him as a sort of noble vigilante. Richet and Cassel also make it clear, however, that much of Mesrine's political posturing was merely a cover for his own violent self-interest. Mesrine teams up with a genuine revolutionary (Gerard Lanvin) who eventually sees through his partner's hypocrisy, and Mathieu Amalric is compelling as a fellow criminal who gets fed up with Mesrine's ego. The problem is that these episodes don't necessarily flow smoothly, and while Public Enemy digs more deeply into each aspect of Mesrine's life, those various pieces feel disjointed.
Taken together, though, the two films are entertaining and engrossing; Public Enemy is as worthwhile for its exciting chases and taut moments of suspense as it is for its insight into the cult of celebrity criminals. Richet is overly ambitious and often pushes too hard, but in that sense he's perfect for chronicling Mesrine's life.


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A 28-year-old stuntwoman has been killed after she fell off her motorcycle on a Los Angeles freeway and was hit by another vehicle.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office said that April Stirton was riding her motorcycle west on U.S. Highway 101 Tuesday morning when she attempted to pass a tow truck.
California Highway Patrol Officer Jose Nunez says Stirton was traveling at about 55 mph when she lost control, fell off her bike and was struck by the back wheels of the tow truck. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Nunez says her motorcycle skidded over two lanes and got stuck under the rear wheels of another truck.
Stirton's online resume says Stirton performed stunts on television shows, including "CSI."
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July 4 2011
Watney jumps in Presidents Cup
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
The final pairing at the AT&T National on Sunday had a distinct Presidents Cup flavor.
Two players who are expected to play prominent roles on opposite sides in the biennial competition at Royal Melbourne in November -- America's Nick Watney and K.J. Choi of South Korea -- did battle down the stretch at Aronomink COuntry Club.
Watney ended up winning for the second time this season, beating Choi by two strokes in a spirited duel. Watney moved from fifth to third in the U.S. Team standings while Choi maintained his hold on No. 3 on the International side.
The Presidents Cup, where he will play for Fred Couples, will be the first international team competition for Watney, who now has four PGA TOUR victories. For his efforts on Sunday, the lanky Californian was also rewarded with the lead in the FedExCup standings.
Choi, who set the Aronomink course record in the second round only to see Watney eclipse it a day later, was bidding for the ninth win of his TOUR career. He beat another U.S. Team hopeful, eighth-ranked David Toms, in a playoff at TPC Sawgrass in May to win THE PLAYERS Championship.
Choi has played on two previous Presidents Cup teams but this would be his first since 2007. Greg Norman is the International Team captain.
The third member of the final draw at Aronomink, Rickie Fowler, couldn't keep pace with his two playing partners on Sunday. The exciting youngster from Oklahoma State ended up in a tie for 13th but still managed to move two spots to No. 21 as he tries to make his first U.S. Presidents Cup Team.
Two of the biggest movers on Sunday were Charles Howell III and fellow American Jeff Overton, who tied for third with Australian Adam Scott. Howell moved from 35th to 29th in the standings while Overton jumped four spots to No. 20.
Scott ranks a solid fourth in the International Team standings. He's an International mainstay after being a member of the last four times, and he'll be looking forward to competing for his childhood hero, Norman, for the second time, and the first before a home crowd.
Another Aussie veteran, Robert Allenby, inched his way closer to being one of the 10 automatic qualifiers when he tied for sixth at Aronomink. Allenby, who has played in five previous Presidents Cups, now ranks 11th.
Once the 10 automatic qualifiers are finalized at the end of the BMW Championship, which is the third event in the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup, each captain will complete his team with two picks. Those picks will be made on Monday, Sept. 26.
The Presidents Cup will be played Nov. 14-20 at Royal Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Australian Jason Day and American Matt Kuchar lead their respective standings.


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What Wilpon Knew
Believe it or not, most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading pleasure while tipping our caps to some of the most illuminating work being done elsewhere on the internet, we'll be yielding the stage once a week to the best and brightest baseball writers, researchers and thinkers from outside of the BP umbrella. If you'd like to nominate a guest contributor (including yourself), please drop us a line.
Howard Megdal is the Lead Writer for the LoHud Mets Blog and Writer At Large for Capital New York. He covers baseball, basketball, and soccer for these and numerous other publications. His new book, Wilpon's Folly, from which much of the following text was drawn, is available as an e-book at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. Follow the LoHud Mets Blog on Twitter @lohudmets. Follow Howard on Twitter @HowardMegdal.
When Bernie Madoff was arrested for financial fraud on December 11, 2008, there were astonishingly far-reaching consequences. Madoff was emblematic of the sudden recession that had struck a few months before; he was a man people wanted urgently to punish. But no one was more affected by his fall than his clients. Some of these folks clicked open their portfolios to discover that thousands or even millions of dollars they thought were there had never existed. Others had a different problem, one that would take longer to fully manifest itself: not only had they lost what money Madoff still had of theirs, but they also would soon owe their Madoff profits to Madoff's victims. Fred Wilpon, principal owner of the New York Mets, was one of these people.
In the final six years of Madoff's Ponzi scheme, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities brought in $17.3 billion in principal. Because Wilpon profited handsomely from the scheme, some have assumed—falsely—that Wilpon was somehow in on it. The truth is that Wilpon was among the many Madoff investors who profited, and so he is partially responsible for paying back those who lost money to him. What he knew or didn't know is a separate issue. And there are many other questions yet to be resolved. What was the nature of the relationship between Wilpon and Madoff? Exactly how much money does Wilpon have, and how much does he owe to Madoff's victims? Will the losses sustained in the process of resolving Madoff's debts force Wilpon to sell his beloved team?
Irving Picard, a bankruptcy trustee brought on by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (and paid by them) to recover as much of that $17.3 billion as he can from the people to whom it was paid out as "fictitious profits" from investments that never took place, is tasked with answering many of these questions. Picard is working to determine where all that money went and using existing law to recover it. To date, he's already recovered $9.067 billion for the victims, and lawsuits are moving forward to collect far more than that. The purpose of this book is to sort through Picard's findings, the lawsuits, and the facts, and to spell out what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars that Fred Wilpon made from his Madoff investments, the hundreds of millions Wilpon had with Madoff that he lost, and what effect both those losses and the legal proceedings will have on Wilpon and the New York Mets, the team he's owned since 1980.
It is a complex case. But contrary to conspiracy theories and rumor, Madoff's money–rather, the money that Madoff took and pretended to invest—didn't go to buy diamonds that he has stashed secretly all over the world or get buried in some secret account. Those who lost money with Madoff lost it to those who made money with Madoff. And in the overwhelming majority of those cases, even the trustee Picard acknowledges it happened without anyone's knowledge, save that of Madoff himself. Despite the innocence of the winners, the law in Ponzi schemes has been clear: those who profited need to make those who lost whole again.
Fred Wilpon was a "net winner" in the Ponzi scheme, as the phrase goes. So why would he be in financial trouble? The answer lies in Wilpon's impressively heavy reliance on money he made from Madoff, both as a source of funds for his businesses and as collateral for loans made against that money.
Note: in the months since the publication of Wilpon's Folly, a significant piece of additional information has come to light that comports with the evidence below. I have written about Noreen Harrington's testimony here; she brings together knowledge that Bernie Madoff's activities provided ample indications of fraud with a first-person account of telling her concerns to Saul Katz. She also has contemporary emails supporting these claims; the trustee is presenting these as evidence in a trial on March 19.
This section presents the summary of the other key evidence in the case and the standard it needs to meet. None of this evidence is conjecture; it has been presented with physical proof, examined by both sides, added in sworn depositions with cross-examination, and entered into the public record. (A fuller examination of the evidence, with complete sourcing, is available in the book.)
How a jury will respond to it is to be determined, but the evidence record they will consider is already in existence. Pretending otherwise is like pretending that a bottle of milk that's been pasteurized, packaged, sent to a store, and sold isn't really milk because no one's consumed it yet.
Known? No. Should Have Known.
Using 20-20 hindsight, it is tempting to argue that the Sterling partners (the company founded by Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz that owns the Mets, the sports network SNY, and other real estate interests) would have withdrawn their funds from Madoff if they had so much as suspected that he was running a Ponzi scheme. But this supposition bypasses a crucial detail: even if they did think he might be running a Ponzi scheme, they had no way of knowing that he'd be arrested for it. After all, if there had been reason to believe that such a thing would happen, Madoff himself might have shuttered his own business, or at least taken measures to protect himself.
And that is applying the facts of what we know now, since when we think of the case, we aren't merely thinking of a Ponzi scheme, but a different question: How could the Sterling partners have kept so much money in Bernie Madoff's hands, when he was running a Ponzi scheme that would come to an end on December 11, 2008? Of course, no one knew that as the 2000s dragged on. No one could.
Let's say you apply this logic to Bernie Madoff himself. Madoff actually knew he was running a Ponzi scheme, since he was the one running it. Given that he had to know that eventually he'd either run out of money or get caught, there's no logical reason he would have put his entire life and finances at risk. Therefore, Bernie Madoff couldn't have run the Ponzi scheme he ran.
Logic doesn't lead to Ponzi schemes, nor does it guide those who participate in them, nor to those who turn a blind eye to indications that they may be happening. Greed is the driver.
But even if the Sterling partners believed Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme—and that is neither suggested by the trustee, nor is it the level of proof he needs to reach—what they saw, over a period of 23 years, was an investment that somehow provided positive returns—always. In good markets, in bad markets—consistency, not huge profits, was what Bernie Madoff provided to Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz.
This represented a huge operating advantage to the businesses they ran. Not because they were making so much more money than various businesses were making one year or another year through investments, but because they were making a little more, and they were always making a little more. As a result, by the time the red flags really started flapping, all of their businesses were reliant on that steady income to operate effectively.
So the question isn't why they continued to invest with Bernie Madoff. The question is, just how many indications of fraud were they willing to ignore to keep investing with him? And, more important, does their willful ignorance meet the trustee's standard of inquiry notice, or the current judge's standard of willful blindness?
Again, the issue here isn't whether they received information that should have alerted them to this particular fraud, which was a Ponzi scheme. Certainly, they received plenty of that, from a trusted business partner urging them to buy one-of-a-kind fraud insurance to cover their Madoff accounts to a mini-Madoff Ponzi scheme that they exited prematurely due to the very same concerns that existed for Bernie Madoff's enterprise.
But these responses, or lack of response, constitute an incomplete record of the Sterling partners' thinking. Every other indication of fraud they failed to see, misread, or disregarded also impacts the court's standard. And it is the total set of actions that may ultimately be evaluated by a jury:
Consider these events in light of the issue that the compliance officer for Merrill Lynch, along with Peter Stamos and others, raised in connection with Bernie Madoff: a practice called front-running, which means making trades based on information about movement within the market before the movement actually occurs.
Here's how front-running would have worked in the Madoff case. Madoff's Ponzi scheme operation existed in the shadows of his well-known legitimate business. And that business consisted of executing trades for others. His ability to do so quickly, thanks to trading software whose use he helped pioneer, made it valuable for other traders to use him for this purpose. He'd get a small fee for each trade and made his money through the volume of trades he executed.
Because of his success and his large client base, Madoff received a substantial portion of the trade orders on Wall Street each day. This means that simply by checking his inbox, he could see—in fact, know with certainty—how some of the market's trends were shaping up. Merely by putting his own preferred money management clients, such as the Sterling partners, at the head of the line, he could make these clients function ahead of the market and thereby profit from the actions of the other trades he made. Not by a lot, mind you—but consistent, positive returns. Sound familiar?
That Madoff was front-running is the conclusion that most doubters of Madoff's methods reached. If it is the conclusion reached by Saul Katz—who certainly had the expertise to understand both how Madoff's front-running scheme could work and that the profits it would likely generate would match the ones he was getting as an investment client of Madoff's—then his continued confidence in Madoff starts to make a lot more sense.
If Madoff was making his returns for clients from front-running, and if this is what Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz believed, then they had little reason to worry about diversification; the advantage of getting ahead of the market at all times canceled out the risk normally reduced by having a position in a range of financial vehicles. And there was no danger that their money would disappear: if, or when, Madoff got busted for front-running, they'd at least get their initial investment back. In the meantime, they'd continue to profit.
As Arthur Friedman said, they liked their investment.
Wouldn't you?
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If Wilpon and Katz had squirreled away funds for their private gain I would feel more anger at them. Since they used these funds to help pay Reyes, Wright, Dickey etc. their salaries does this mean these players should also forfeit their "gains" to the Madoff losers? CONSISTANT profits even in down markets should have been a red flag and I feel no sorrow for the greedy Madoff losers.
Feb 21, 2012 06:59 AM
So was such 'front-running' illegal? If Wilpon and Katz are shown to have reasonably expected that's how they were getting their investment returns, does that then make them liable?
Feb 21, 2012 08:56 AM
Yes. Front Running is illegal. But unlike a Ponzi scheme like Madoff was running, the people involved in front running usually just pay a fine plus a penalty. It is entirely conceivable that Wilpon figured Madoff was front running, but that if he got caught, he'd just have to pay back the extra money he made and would still get to keep whatever they earned legitimately. And that their lawyers would be able to plead down the fine in exchange for settling.
Feb 21, 2012 20:55 PM
Not to sound like the 'defender of capitalism' but surfdent48 makes a good point. Since when can any authority come after your money if you did nothing illegal to earn it? I guess that's more a question for the SEC and other 'wiser' minds--no wonder it's a mess
Feb 21, 2012 10:51 AM
In a Ponzi scheme, "gains" are not earned, but taken from other people's accounts. The only way anyone gets money out of a Ponzi scheme is by being paid other people's money. So, the only equitable solution is to have every investor eat a piece of the overall loss.
Feb 21, 2012 12:24 PM
ok, in a Ponzi scheme, yes, that's an important distinction. so, the real question is: in what 'official' way has the Madoff account been given official 'Ponzi scheme' designation? For instance, we have procedures and protocol for creditors to be paid in other situations, such as bankruptcies. But in that case it's a debt that must be repaid. If you're a Madoff 'investor' and you filed tax returns and paid taxes on your earnings, and then spent the money, at what point can you consider it yours? Again, I'm not here to defend Mets ownership, not in the least. It's more that the previous point about paying Reyes and Wright etc. has got me intrigued. Can you imagine if you were --through your financial advisor--an unknowing Madoff investor, and you'd taken your 'earnings' and spent them on various enterprises, some of them perhaps humanitarian, only to have the Feds call you up and say 'hey give that money back'? If you had stock in Apple or Nike and it's revealed that they're exploiting workers all over the planet which would make your profits ill-gotten, do you have to worry that someone may come after those earnings as well? Yes, I understand it's not apples to apples.
Feb 21, 2012 15:31 PM
I don't know much about Fred Wilpon, but Saul Katz is as vile and loathsome as a human being can possibly be.
Feb 21, 2012 12:28 PM
Kind of geeky question, but I work in finance, does Wilpon and the others who revieved the illegal gains get a tax break for the capital gains tax they may have paid on their Madoff investments?
Feb 21, 2012 16:28 PM
Madoff's victims could file amended returns for the past 3 years (I think that's the limit) to get back any tax they paid on the phony gains Maddof reported to them. I don't know what recourse they may have for years prior to that.
Feb 21, 2012 20:12 PM
Imagine the day when Mets fans can read articles on their baseball team instead of the owner's finances? Maybe by 2015. Maybe.
Feb 21, 2012 17:59 PM
The Madoff investors could have achieved similar steady positive returns with stable value or stable return funds over the years too. It takes a massive effort to get those kinds of steady positive returns with insurance wraps providing the downside protection. Not very sexy I know but I suspect the Madoff returns were juiced enough for Wilpon and friends to turn blind eyes to what they may have suspected was happening. I also can't see why Wilpon would have to forfeit all of their returned assets to the other losing participants. I would think it would be a fixed % of returned investments for all rather than one group making the other one whole.
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Sydney, Aug 11 (ANI): England fast bowler Stuart Broad has admitted that he is happy for his rival Australian batsman Chris Rogers' milestone century in second day of the fourth Test at Durham.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Rogers' century, which made him the second oldest Australian to reach his first his maiden Test hundred, saved the tourists' bacon, which was then being cooked by Broad, who had taken four wickets on Saturday.
Paying tribute to Rogers' status in the game, Broad said that although it is tough for an England player to feel pleased for an Australian scoring a hundred in an Ashes Test, especially when he is bowling against him, there however, is no doubt that Rogers has been a great servant to both Australian and English cricket.
According to Broad, he played along with the Australian opener at Leicester, adding that by playing for a few counties and scoring 20,000-odd first-class runs, Rogers has offered a lot to the English game.
However, Broad also said that the pressure was evident on Rogers' face, especially when he was in the 90s, adding that as Rogers played very well to get that hundred, England will have to remove him early on Sunday to keep themselves in this game. (ANI)


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Animal Legal Defense Fund Settles Lawsuit Against Raleigh Animal Hoarder, Rescuing 100+ DogsPosted on December 13, 2007
Swift Settlement Protects Severely Neglected Toy Poodles and Birds Seized in October from AKC Champion Breeder
Raleigh, N.C.– The Animal Legal Defense Fund, Wake County,
and a county animal cruelty investigator filed a settlement in Wake
County District Court today against Janie Conyers, 77, of Raleigh, for keeping more than 100 dogs and several birds
in filthy conditions and depriving them of all veterinary care. Terms
of the settlement include Conyers' relinquishing custody of all
animals, never being allowed to own or work with animals in the future,
and allowing animal control officers to visit her home to make sure she
is in compliance with these terms. As Conyers ran a boarding and
breeding operation, ALDF is evaluating outside claims on ownership to
some of the animals, and some dogs have already been returned to their
rightful owners. Other dogs have been placed with local foster
The animals were seized from the home of the AKC champion breeder on
October 19, when animal control officers, a county cruelty
investigator, and a uniformed police officer responded to a report of
severe cruelty and neglect in what they suspected might be a hoarding
situation. Inside the home they found 106 dogs, primarily toy poodles
and other small breeds, and 9 birds living in horrific conditions. The
sworn testimony of all involved is that the dogs were covered in
excrement, many of the dogs dripping wet with urine. Broken jaws,
severe and extremely painful dental disease, corneal ulcers, cataracts,
and urine/fecal scalding were found in a large number of the animals.
The measured ammonia level in the house was ten times the USDA's
maximum recommended ammonia level for large swine operations.
Despite the clichéd image of animal hoarders
being simply eccentric old ladies, hoarding–defined as keeping far
more animals than one can care for, and denying the suffering of the
animals–is an extreme form of animal cruelty. In his sworn testimony,
the director of the Wake County Animal Control noted that upon entering
Conyers' home, he was hit with the stench of ammonia and feces and
immediately saw small dogs everywhere, "too many to count." He was
stunned to see that "[o]ne dog in particular was obviously blind and
could barely stand up. His tongue was hanging out of his mouth, and I
later learned that his jaw had almost disintegrated. He was caged by
himself in the basement, and sat in his cage, shaking. He had some
substance stuck to the underside of his fur; it was evident that he
could not stand up to use the bathroom and had consequently soiled
himself repeatedly." The lawsuit was filed under the state's Civil
Remedy for Protection for Animals statute (Chapter 19A), a North
Carolina law that allows a private citizen or organization to file suit
to stop animal cruelty.
"We can think of no greater holiday gift than knowing that these
animals will never be returned to the home where they suffered, hidden
away, in unspeakable misery," says ALDF Executive Director Stephen
Wells. "Because the rate of recidivism for animal hoarders is close to
100 percent, the fact that the settlement terms prohibit Janie Conyers
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OAKLAND — "Good Morning America" technology contributor and Yahoo! News "Upgrade Your Life" columnist Becky Worley lives a turned-on, turned-off life in the Oakland hills.
Up at 3:30 a.m. to chitchat via Skype with GMA hosts about rope-less jump ropes or how to "go green and get green" by selling your old cell phone for cash, the East Bay tech guru and mother of 5-year-old twins is devoted to the great outdoors.
"We don't silo ourselves in technology," she says, in an interview from the home she shares with her children and partner, Jane Mitchell. "We live here because we want to walk dogs, play in parks, watch Cal rugby games, paddle-board on water. Life is looking out and being out: not looking down at a computer."
Worley has been neatly packaged by the media in a sound bite as "the Martha Stewart of technology." But she's more like a geeky hardware gal, whose affinity and affection for nuts and bolts — in her case, Androids and apps — is unsurpassed.
Her "Upgrade" videos are shot in her Montclair home. Identifying a problem, she cheerily spins her all-American sports gal energy (she grew up in Hawaii; played rugby enough to have had a half-dozen knee surgeries) into practical, easy-to-follow steps toward a solution.
"It's like a cyber cooking show," she says. "I make people feel they'll be able to cook that amazing beef bourguignon."
She avoids the gizmo gargle of engineer-speak and translates trendy marketing lingo into language even a digital dinosaur can comprehend. But it's not just the Internet-challenged who flock to her advice column and public speaking engagements. At a recent Commonwealth Club event at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center, Les Baker, retired president of tech support company Western Data Group, was in the front row.
"It's the simplicity of the things she gives up that I like," the 60-something electrical engineer said. "You can do them, even without a degree."
Worley says that's her purpose. And making it personal is everything. "Technology with people is awesome. Alone, it's isolating."
Worley says the rate of technological change is "outrageous," but she's grateful because jobs like hers didn't even exist just 10 years ago.
"Twenty-five years after computers were modernized, we now think of them as appliances," she says. "We have high expectations for ease of use, but patience for difficulty has gone down. People need someone who can tell them how to use the technology."
Her favorite new "accessible-everywhere" toys are low-energy Bluetooth accessories. She likes a key fob that can run for a year on a button battery and will force a smartphone to emit a signal.
"You'll never lose your keys again," she promises.
Passwords are a huge topic, and Worley has advice about padding. Long passwords using common terms like "dog" and loaded with repeating symbols like ")*)*)" or ":{_:{_" are the toughest for hackers to crack and easiest for consumers to remember, she says.
She's thumbs-down on using Windows 8 without a touch-enabled screen. ("It's like coating yourself with honey and inviting ants over," she warns). Nor is she a fan of 3-D printing for the home user, $20,000 4-K TV's, cell phone carriers with "ridiculously expensive" data plans and parents who use an iPad like it's a surrogate.
"Barriers and boundaries are crucial," she says. "I'm not down for taking on work as my god. I have to remind myself a lot: When I'm playing, just go play. Stop looking at your phone."
But to survive in the digital world, where job interviews, bill payments, family archiving, home security, commercial transactions and education are increasingly online, Worley recommends practicing like an athlete."Mastering social media is critical. Not just being efficient as a lurker, but as a contributor. Start as a utility player. Find a helpful hint that makes your life better and share it," she suggests.
Following her own advice, she says she's keeping her eye on wearable computing devices, like glasses and watches, and eye-tracking technology that allows your eye (instead of a mouse) to move a cursor.
"It made manipulating so much easier and typing on my phone so much faster. Like voice recognition, it's the beginning of bringing mobile gadgets forward."
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WARSAW (Dec. 22)
Charges of widespread terrorism accompanying a nation-wide anti-Jewish boycott were placed before the Minister of Interior today by a delegation representing the Jewish Small Traders' Association.
The delegation, declaring pickets patrolling in front of Jewish stores provoke fights, warned that serious excesses were brewing.
Deputy Emil Sommerstein at the same time submitted a memorandum to the Minister in which he charged that uniformed Endeks pompously station themselves before Jewish shops, force their closing and ignore the police.
Nationalist students in Lwow, hotbed of the student anti-Semitic movement, are participating in the picketing, Mr. Sommerstein charged, and are molesting persons entering Jewish stores. He said students are driving trucks flaunting boycott posters through the city streets.
Meanwhile, Jews complained to police in Wilno of a pre-Christmas boycott drive being waged against them and were told that "the boycott is legal." Boycott propaganda was also being spread in Warsaw and various parts of Silesia.
Three Jews were injured, many were beaten and twenty Jewish wagons were demolished at a fair in Ciechanowiec near Bialystok.
A number of Jewish stalls were demolished and windows of Jews' houses broken today by Endeks in Reoznice near Lodz.
Nationalist deputies, in violent anti-Semitic speeches last night in the Sejm (lower Parliamentary house), criticized the Government for keeping Jews in the diplomatic service, even those long since converted, and demanded elimination of Jews from commerce and industry.
In reply, Deputy Leib Minzberg asked Premier Skladkowski whether the Government intended to end anti-Jewish attacks. He charged that the law restricting kosher slaughtering, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, deprives 20,000 Jews of their livelihood.
"First the Jews are ousted from their livelihoods and then it is argued that the Jews become a burden," he asserted.
Premier Skladkowski responded that the Government sought to secure peace for everybody, including the Jews, that rioters could not remain unpunished and were being combatted by the police and the courts.
Trial of 31 Naras, members of the outlawed anti-Semitic National Radical Party, on charges of anti-Jewish excesses at Vishomki last August, opened today in a Lomza court.


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Check out a preview of stuff you'll find this fall at Macy's
Reason #847 I love being a Deal Diva:
We get sneak peeks of a lot of cool clothes, shoes and other fashion items.
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We don't keep it to ourselves ;P
And so, dear readers, I bring you this: Macy's lookbook for fall 2012, hot off the presses -- er, email.
Click here for the full thing.
Trust me, you might want to grab a cup of coffee while you browse.
There's everything - career frocks for women, maroon corduroys for your guy (I'm not kidding), Madonna's Material Girl line for the tween in your life, and lots of shoes and accessories too.
Granted, we'll probably have to wait until most of this stuff goes on sale before we get our paws on it, but it's nice to look anyway.
But other things, like this adorable blue Style&Co blazer ($59) may be worth the splurge.
In any case, here are some of my other faves from the lookbook. Check it out and let us know yours!
These SCREAM me, right? Check out the details on the heel. Thank you Rachel Roy. Too bad they're $110.
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Saugus High School senior Jeriann Lynds was one of the few who received it.
"It's a huge accomplishment," Lynds said. "Hardly any girls actually receive it."
She has been in the Girl Scouts for 13 years, which shows tremendous commitment. However, the Girl Scout Gold Award is not simply handed out.
In order to win this impressive award, she had to create and carry out a community project. This project would demonstrate her ability to use leadership and organizational skills while working under pressure. She would have to present her project in front of a judging committee. They would decide whether she deserved it.
Lynds decided to be thoughtful and redecorated the children's area of the Domestic Violence Center. She painted the walls, installed new tile, and displayed art for the children to look at.
"My troop has been donating to the Domestic Violence Center for as long as I can remember," said Lynds. "I just felt like I had a close connection."
Along with redecorating, she also put together more than 40 backpacks filled with school supplies. This project took a total of 75 hours, which was above and beyond the required limit.
"This was a rewarding experience," Lynds said. "This along with everything that I have learned in the Girl Scouts will stay with me forever and will shape me as a person."
Lynds will continue her life knowing she made a difference in the lives of many young, less-fortunate children.
Her achievement can be seen as an inspiration to those who also want to help the community. The legacy of her project and her legendary Gold Award will remain in the Domestic Violence Center for years to come.


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Members of the Western U Lions Club donated more than 100 books to Pomona Unified's Madison Elementary School.
Students enrolled in the programs at Western University of Health Sciences colleges donated the new and gently used books during the past month, according to a statement from the club.
WesternU Lions President Thomas Wong and Membership Chairwoman Daryl Lipsun recently delivered the books to Madison School Principal Carmen Mejico.
Also present to deliver the books were WesternU Lions Guiding Lions Gil and Barbara Smith, the statement said.
The books will be an important resource for students particularly those who are English language learners working to building up their reading skills, Mejico said in the statement.
The school is working with various organizations including the university and the Lions Club to support a literacy program for students in grades 1 through 3, the statement said.
In addition to literacy projects, the club carries out health-related projects throughout the year, the statement said.


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A law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Target on behalf of two community banks in response to the retailer's massive data breach in late 2013.
The lawsuit is the latest salvo in the battle between retailers and banks over which should be on the hook for such data breaches.
In a letter to Congress last month, the National Retail Federation pointed a finger at banks, saying banks need to adopt more card-secure technology. In a statement today, the NRF said retailers are willing to do their part, but banks and card companies must also "take major steps to shore up the current fraud-prone payments system."
"Rather than resort to blame and shame, the parties should work together to ensure that the data breach is remedied and steps are taken to prevent and mitigate future breaches," NRF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Mallory Duncan said in a statement.
Meanwhile, banks argue that retailers should cover more of the cost of the breaches. In a document on data breaches, the American Bankers Association said, "When a retailer speaks of its customers having 'zero liability' from fraudulent transactions, it is because our nation's banks are providing that relief, not the retailer that suffered the breach."
Both groups are expected to air their views during congressional hearings about data breaches this week.
The class-action lawsuit, filed Jan. 29 by the Provost Umphrey Law Firm on behalf of the Community Bank of Texas and FNBT.com, argues that "the security breach was the direct and foreseeable result of Target's failure to implement and maintain reasonable and industry-standard security measures to protect its customers' credit card, debit card, and personal information."
This lawsuit is not the first filed against Target over the data breach. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that about 70 class-action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of affected consumers. And Putnam, Conn.-based Putnam Bank also filed its own suit against the retailer.
Expect this story to continue to play out further in the coming weeks. In the meantime, Bankrate reporter Janna Herron has tips for consumers to be vigilant about their finances so they can protect themselves from data breaches.
Who should foot the bill for the data breaches? Do you even care, as long as it's not you?
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As we mentioned before, it's just sad that they were put in this position when Nvidia stopped selling them the K1. Apparently according to JXD, Nvidia stopped selling the K1 all together.I just hope JXD can re-group and be able to provide a new great product . Maybe a WIN competitor


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The Chairman of Ghana's biggest opposition party has told his critics that daring his authority amounts to daring the party's National Council.
Paul Afoko was reacting to internal criticisms that he and the General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong, are unilaterally appointing and dismissing party appointees without proper consultation.
The allegations followed a directive from the chief scribe to the acting Communications Director, Perry Okudzeto, to proceed on his two-year accumulated leave, as well as Agyepong's alleged unilateral appointment of new Deputy Communication Directors.
Some stalwarts of the NPP – first Vice Chairman Freddie Blay, party elder Dr Kwame Amoako-Tuffuor, National Executive Committee Member F.F. Antoh, Northern Regional Chairman Daniel Bugri Naabu, and some others – have all raised concerns about Agyepong's "one-man show."
But Afoko told journalists at a press conference on Tuesday that the compulsory leave directive was not borne out of malice.
According to him, all officials of the party will, henceforth, be asked to go on a 15-day compulsory leave as part of the party's quest to professionalise its administrative processes.
He said a lot of the criticisms against him and Agyepong are grounded in misinformation and miscommunication.
The press conference was disrupted by gun-wielding irate youth, some of whom also had machetes and other crude weapons on them.


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Best of Youtube: Drinking beer and smoking cigarettes with Jon Lajoie
Drinking beer and smoking cigarettes
Jon Lajoie is one of Canada's most famous Youtube stars. He's known for his crass (and usually hilarious) songs, like Show Me Your Genitals, Michael Jackson is Dead and F*** everything. He also stars as Taco in FX's The League and was on Radio Canada's L'auberge du Chien Noir way back in 2003.
This week Lajoie released an anthem we can get behind. It stars an awesome aging everyman who barbeques, reads Playboy and gets wasted during the day. To this we say: screw Shark Week, let's live every day like it's the Super Bowl.
BBC tracks down notorious web troll
The trolls on canada.com write some pretty offensive stuff. Just this week we deleted a slew of racist slander some shady commenter left on a 2006 story and learned a whole new way to spell the most offensive thing you can call a gay man.
So we were happy to see the BBC hunt down one of Britain's most notorious trolls. The film crew didn't get much of a response out of Nimrod Severn but it did confront the vicious troll on the offensive things he's written online.
This is a rare point for the anti-trolling team, which leaves the score as follows: 1up for the BBC, billions of trolls to go.
iPhone survives a slapshot
Last month G-Form dropped an iPad from space in a super sturdy case. This week a G-Form iPhone case accomplished an even more dangerous feat. It survived a slap shot in a hockey rink.
Watch as the iPhone gets hurtled into the net. G-Form claims the shot was 128 kilometres per hour but we won't lie, we'd be more impressed if came from centre ice.
The video carries no disclaimer, so please try this at home. And when you do, send us the clip.
This baby rules at table tennis
Last fall Susan Sarandon brought her boozey ping pong club to Canada with the opening of the Toronto chapter of Spin. But the cocktail guzzling pong sharks who hang out there have nothing on this baby table tennis pro.
We expect to see baby Jamie take the gold at a future summer Olympics. Or at least win a very serious tournament at Spin.
Baby bulldogs learn to walk
This video is one of the cutest pieces of baby animal propaganda we've seen in weeks. These puppies are so small they look almost like teacup piglets. Note: this is a direct hint. Please buy us a teacup piglet. It's exactly what our office needs.


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VIDEO: Sneak Peek - Trailer for GREY'S ANATOMY Season 9
ABC has released a trailer for the ninth season of its medical drama GREY'S ANATOMY. The series airs Thursdays, 9:00-10:00 p.m., ET/PT on the ABC network. Check out the trailer below!
In season nine, the doctors of Seattle Grace are faced with the aftermath of last season's plane crash, as the fates of Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), Derek (Patrick Dempsey), Cristina (Sandra Oh), Mark (Eric Dane) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) all hang in the balance.
Before the crash, their paths seemed set: Having passed their boards Meredith, Cristina, Alex (Justin Chambers) and Jackson (Jesse Williams) all planned on taking positions at different hospitals, leaving Seattle Grace behind. Meanwhile April's (Sarah Drew) career as a doctor seemed to be over when she failed her exam and was fired. Meredith and Derek were focused on being new parents to baby Zola and were debating whether to move into their dream house or start over in Boston. Cristina and Owen's marriage was still on the rocks, and Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona were happily settling into motherhood. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) had decided to give love another chance with her new fiancé, Ben (Jason George), and Richard Webber (James Pickens, Jr.) found comfort in the arms of Jackson's mother, Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen).
The plane crash changed everything. Now, with their futures unknown, the doctors of Seattle Grace must learn to adapt to changes, cope with losses and move forward with their relationships and careers. Seattle Grace is a place where life isn't lived in the black and white, but in the shades of grey.
"Grey's Anatomy" stars Ellen Pompeo as MerEdith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres, Eric Dane as Mark Sloan, Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt, Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery and Sarah Drew as April Kepner.
"Grey's Anatomy" was created and is executive produced by Shonda Rhimes ("Scandal", "Private Practice", "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge"). Betsy Beers ("Scandal", "Private Practice", "Casanova"), Mark Gordon ("Saving Private Ryan"), Rob Corn ("Chicago Hope"), Tony Phelan and Joan Rater ("Law& Order: Trial by Jury") are executive producers. "Grey's Anatomy" is an ABC Studios production, and is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HTV format, with 5.1-channel surround sound.


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text: Politics 5 February 2013 Europe wobbles… Italy, Spain and Cyprus all strike fear into the hearts of economists. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML The Eurozone is heating up again, as the realisation dawns that previous settlements were merely uneasy hiatuses. The immediate problem is Cyprus, which finds itself on the verge of default due to contamination from Greece. The country, a small island nation in the Mediterranean, has close historical and financial links with crisis-stricken Athens, and was forced to seek aid from the EU last year. Last month, the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Filder received confirmation in Davos from Olli Rehn, the EU's economics commissioner, a rescue program for the country will require "substantially reducing government and bank debt" — in other words, a default. Such a default will be problematic, because Cyprus, more so than most troubled Eurozone countries to date, operates as an off-shore banker for many of the world's super-rich — particularly, in this case, Russians. The country is likely to find itself stuck between two unpalatable options: either safeguarding its banking sector from losses by imposing huge burdens on its populace, or risking a run on the banks from overseas as foreign depositors try to get their money out. There had been hope that the country may be able to get a bailout from the EU without causing too much damage to its domestic banking operation, but over the weekend, that became less likely. The SPD, the German opposition party, pushed for the country to be forced to consolidate its banks before any bailout would be agreed. According to Reuters, Merkel needs the support of the SPD to pass any bailout through the Bundestag (and of course, the EU needs the support of Germany before any bailout can go ahead) so this objection carries real weight. The Cypriot problem is nasty, but largely internal; the country is too small to have any real contagion effects. The same cannot be said of Italy and Spain, both of which are sources of increased uncertainty. In Italy, Silvio's back! The former prime minister — who, if he were anyone else, would surely be the "disgraced" former prime minister — is running for office on a platform of tax cuts (€4bn of them) over austerity. His coalition is in second place right now to the centre-left grouping, but its standing is improving — and the markets appear to be getting jumpy at that fact. Berlusconi is being hampered by the fact that he no longer controls Italian media in the way he used to, but even so, a win for him is still alarmingly possible. (Regardless of the effect of deficit-funded tax-cuts on national economies, Berlusconi is unlikely to plough a viable economic course for Italy). And in Spain, prime minister Mariano Rajoy has been accused of running an illegal slush fund. Yesterday afternoon, Rajoy issued a not-entirely-convincing rebuttal, telling a joint press conference with Angela Merkel that: I repeat what I said Saturday: everything that has been said about me and my colleagues in the party is untrue, except for some things that have been published by some media outlets. Merkel, "visibly upset", was also asked about the corruption allegations, and emphasised that "what is important is the relationship between the two governments". Whatever happens to Rajoy, Berloscuni, and even Cyprus, the flurry of attention and fear generated by what ought to be business as usual for politics (except, maybe, the Cyprus problem) demonstrates how uneasy the situation in Europe remains. While we haven't heard a huge amount about the crisis recently, as the big minds in economics get distracted by talk of robots (not that the potential problems there aren't huge either), the situation is by no means fixed. The continent remains in much the same straits as Britain, but with the added straightjacket of a unified currency and intransigent Germany dampening hope. › Morning Call: pick of the papers Photograph: Getty Images Alex Hern is a technology reporter for the Guardian. He was formerly staff writer at the New Statesman. You should follow Alex on Twitter. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles Just like Ukip, Marine Le Pen's National Front is slowly sliding into irrelevance "If not evolution then revolution": temperature rises in Catalonia as independence vote looms Germany's political stability could be threatened by automation Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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- - myspace for tojo!!! (http://www.menstennisforums.com/411-thomas-johansson-message-board/78084-myspace-tojo.html)
myspace for tojo!!!
So we (well a few of us) have decided that having a myspace for tojo is such a brill idea and we wanna get started...
Here's some of the tasks that we can divide among ourselves:
1. Make up an e-mail address and password (Siobhan? please :) ) and let the rest of us know.
2. Only after we have an e-mail address can we start signing up on myspace. Then we can research what music he likes, his hobbies etc (this can also be asked directly to tojo when some of us meet him in England or recalling the answers if we've asked him before or from his previous interviews or blog)
3. Have fun designing the layout. I can see there'll be lots of polls coming up :tape:
Lastly we add him as a friend.
Then Siobhan or whoever meets him can let him know about it and he can alter his profile etc as he likes.
Post what you think!
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Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah love it :yeah: We've got about...2 weeks to do it, coz Im sure I'll see him at Nottingham on the 20th! Shall we go go go with it?
Ok...email addy as in hotmail addy to sign up right? I was thinking maybe:
email@example.com however thinking about it, thats a bit obvious for other people to guess it i think AND when i signed up for a new email addy last year it gave me a hotmail.co.uk one without letting me chose a .com one so will that be ok do you think??
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just read the grass thread about it...yahoo would be better as it would be .com but yahoo mail is confusing isnt it? do you think he'd get it, or would hotmail be better?
a username for any email could be...TJJohansson or Tojotennis or SverigeTojo
all i can think of at the mo
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I guess either would be fine, and even with the .co.uk it should be fine, because he could change the address at a later date, and it wouldn't have to br visible to other myspace users.
LOL at your yahoo mail comments. I seriously still have problems finding the 'sign out' button at times!!! Also regarding the hotmail thing... 'MSN'. Not much chance of it happening, but it gives him an opportunity! :lol:
PS. Love the avatar! He's such a character!!!
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D's looking lovely in the pic Siob! :)
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:haha: Thanks you two :D :hearts:
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Siobhan, is there a reason why TJJohansson has double J? just wondering...
yeah about the email address, we just need it to sign up. he can change it to anything he wants later, so it's fine if it has co.uk. i reckon hotmail. yahoo IS confusing! another suggestion may be firstname.lastname@example.com. I bet it hasn't been taken up yet and it's obvious what it's for (just in case he has another e-mail address). And I agree with Kristen, remind him of MSN!
Thanks heaps! :)
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yeah T J Johansson as in TOJO but without the O's ;)
which one should i pic: email@example.com OR email@example.com ??
Let me know what you think as soon as poss girls :D
Re: myspace for tojo!!!
tojo@... would be nice IMHO
or toker@.... :D
Re: myspace for tojo!!!
i like this one:
but toker@... would be good too if it wasn't already taken.
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Siobhan who is that in your avatar?
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I've made a poll of all the usernames we've come up with. The domain shall be @hotmail.co.uk since it seems to be the easiest to navigate. So please vote, as many times as you like :)
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I voted for Toker :)
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Andrew Kennaugh :inlove:
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I was cocky. I'd nearly finished cooking school, I could make a genoise and a decent hollandaise. But, in much the way an amateur juggler who has mastered the basic three-ball cascade assumes she's ready for four, I was overconfident. In juggling, difficulty increases exponentially as you add objects. Maybe the same holds true in cooking, especially if one of the objects is duck confit.
I undertook cassoulet, that most beloved and controversial of meaty French bean stews. It took days, soaking beans, slowly simmering duck in its own fat, chopping, skimming and monitoring. Eventually, I opened the door to my dinner guests, feeling shaky and disheveled, all of my worldly possessions gleaming in a thin coating of duck fat.
Eighteen years later and I'm wiser. This time, I'll cheat. Thank goodness for the Internet, an all-inclusive cassoulet kit and overnight mail.
In The Cooking of Southwest France, cookbook author Paula Wolfert wrote, "Cassoulet is one of those dishes over which there is endless drama. Like bouillabaisse in Marseilles, paella in Spain, chili in Texas, it is a dish for which there are innumerable recipes and about which discussions quickly turn fierce."
Prosper Montagne, the author of the first Larousse Gastronomique, allowed that there were only three authentic recipes for this hearty winter dish from the Languedoc region in southwest France. Toulouse's version packs in mutton, duck confit, a local sausage and breast of pork; the town of Castelnaudary's dish instead features bacon skin, fresh pork, sausages and pork shank. That from Carcassonne has red partridge and sometimes mutton leg.
The basic idea is white kidney-shaped beans called tarbais, simmered for hours in an earthen dish called a "cassole" with a pile of different meats so the beans get creamy, the broth rich beyond belief and the top browned and crusty.
D'Artagnan, the New Jersey-based fine food company, has been offering a cassoulet kit for 15 years, according to Lily Hodge, director of public relations. It costs $83.99 plus shipping and feeds 12 and saves the headache of looking for specialty ingredients. Even in a bad economy, the price seemed reasonable for a dinner party. And it did feed 12, maybe more.
Plus Martha Stewart approves: Not long ago she had D'Artagnan founder Ariane Daguin on the her show to walk viewers through the process.
It's not an "add water, and presto" situation. There's still work to be done, but the hard parts (the pesky confit, the tracking down of exotic ingredients) are taken care of. A huge Styrofoam container, unpacked onto my kitchen counter, yielded numerous Cryovaced component parts (the beans and the meats) with details like parsley, onions and carrots left to my local grocer. An overnight bean soak, a bit of meat searing and parboiling, then the whole thing was assembled. A drizzle of molten duck fat over the top (queasy-making, but essential), then oven time. Two hours and 20 minutes later, I was opening the door to guests, my house fragrant, this cheater's brow sweat-free.
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A petition to have Piers Morgan deported back to the UK has gone viral and has gathered 65,000 signatures as of Boxing Day. While Jezza may be having a big cup of schadenfreude at Morgan's expense, he would prefer to punish America by keeping Piers Morgan from being sent back to England like he was a bad Christmas gift;
From Jezza's twitter;
Americans. It took us 40 years to get rid of Piers Morgan. Pleasse don't send him back.
I completely understand, Mr Clarkson. How about we throw him in Boston Harbor and call it even? Perhaps we can compromise and send him halfway back, like to the Titanic wreck site?
Clarkson and Morgan have been publicly feuding for years, to the point where Clarkson publicly decked Morgan twice.
The insults have been traded back and forth with regularity, with Clarkson possessing a talent for insults as brilliant as his friend Simon Cowell's. Take for instance this dig while test driving the BMW 1M Coupe on Top Gear;
" Just when you'd think it couldn't get any better, you can push a button and the whole car shimmies. It's like a little shiver of excitement, the kind of feeling you would get if someone suddenly gave you permission to set fire to Piers Morgan."
And these from Clarkson's tweets;
Piers Morgan says I couldn't go on his CNN show because staff there have never heard of me. Another reason is: I'd rather eat my own head.


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Game Trailers: God of War: Ascension (Multiplayer Trailer)
By Staff | 12/12/2012
It's coming next year, but Sony is set to unleash the God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta to PS Plus members on January 8, so here's a look at what it's all about.
The multiplayer beta will feature the yet-to-be-seen "Favor of the Gods mode," which a press release says is a "Team Favor of the Gods without the teams," where players earn a variety of points via bonus kills and ultimately skillful executions using the Spear of Olympus.
Gamers will also gets a chance to play through the tutorial level that includes battle allegiances with both Zeus and Ares, as well as experience some player customization options and upgrades in the final game.
God of War: Ascension launches on March 12th, exclusively for PS3. Pre-order at Amazon.com.