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Vanuatu is 185th member of WIPO
The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization [ WIPO]and former Head of Australian IP Bureau Francis Gurry officially welcomed the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Ham Lini into the WIPO Head-Quarters in Geneva, and officially welcomed the Republic of Vanuatu as the 185th member into the WIPO membership last week.
While welcoming the Deputy Prime Minister, the Head of the Intellectual Property Organization said "I am very pleased and encouraged by Vanuatu's commitment and strong support to accede to the WIPO Conventions which will no doubt provide excellent opportunities and scope to strengthen, improve and enhance Vanuatu's participation in the entire WIPO and Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIP) framework and Agreements".
He extended his words of congratulations also to the Prime Minister, Sato Kilman and the Deputy Prime Minister Ham Lini for their determination, tenacity and the effective leadership they have both taken in ensuring Vanuatu's accession to both the WTO and the WIPO Conventions.
He said given WIPO's mandate to intensify and improve its presence and visibility in the Asia- Pacific economies, Vanuatu's membership this time around will be a stepping –stone for WIPO's future technical assistance programs into the Region.
The Director General of WIPO also confirmed to the Deputy Prime Minister that as part of the Organization's support and commitment to the Government of Vanuatu, the following activities will be implemented in Port Vila in 2012.
• A Technical visit of Vanuatu Trade and Legal Officials to work closely and meaningfully with WIPO Secretariat to review, up-date and improve the current WIPO/TRIP'S Agreements and Acts as passed by the Parliament in 2003
• A technical Mission from WIPO to attach to the State Law Office with a view to establish a Focal Point and provide in–house training and capacity building for Ni Vanuatu Lawyers [ both public and private]
• Support from WIPO Secretariat to establish and develop a permanent Intellectual Property [ IP ] Bureau in Vanuatu to assist technically in the implementation, administering and enforcement of all TRIP'S / WIPO laws and regulations and
• Training of Ni Vanuatu Officials under the annual WIPO Technical Assistance Program with a view to specialize in modern and contemporary WIPO/ WTO Laws and Rules.
In conclusion, the Deputy Prime Minister thanked WIPO for all the proposed technical assistance for 2012 and re -assured the Director General of Vanuatu's long term commitment and support in all WIPO activities – particularly in the Pacific region.
The Deputy Prime Minister was in Geneva to attend the 8th WTO Ministerial Conference and to oversee Vanuatu's membership into the World Trade Body. He was accompanied by the 1st Political Advisor in the Ministry of Trade Clifford Bic and Principal Trade Officer in the Department of External Trade Timothy Sisi. The delegation was due back in Capital yesterday.


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Via Ken Rosenthal: one of his sources says that Fukudome is considering staying in Japan, and is weighing offers from multiple Japanese teams.
He has met with the Chunichi Dragons, his current team, as well as the Tokyo Giants. He hasn't, so far as I know, talked to any MLB club. His decision will be known "after Thanksgiving," again from Rosenthal's source.
I'm not saying it won't happen, but it looks as though Fukudome is hardly a done deal for us. (Which people have been cautioning for a while now anyway.)
My personal fear is that whiffing on Fukudome would lead Hendry & Co. to pull a Juan Pierre and do something really stupid just to show that they did something. Ugh.


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Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones SA (NYSE:BLX)
Q3 2007 Earnings Call
October 22, 2007 11:00 a.m. ET
Melanie Carpenter - Managing Partner, i-advize Corporate Communications
Jaime Rivera - CEO
Carlos Yap - CFO
Juan Partida - JP Morgan
Titolo Barlow - Deutsche Bank
Anurag Bhagwanji
Good morning, and welcome to the Bladex's Conference Call. My name is Melissa, and I'll be your conference operator. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks there will be a question-and-answer period. At this time, it is my pleasure to turn the floor over to Ms. Melanie Carpenter of i-advize Corporate Communications. Ms. Carpenter, you may begin.
Melanie Carpenter
Thank you. Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bladex's third quarter 2007 conference call. This is October 22 of 2007. This call is for investors only and if you remember the media is invited to listen-only, but remember, if you have any questions just follow-up with i-advize after the call.
Joining us today from Panama City, is Mr. Jaime Rivera, the CEO of Bladex and Mr. Carlos Yap, the CFO of Bladex. Their comments are based on the earnings release that we issued this morning. A copy of the long version is available on the website at blx.com in the investor relations section. But if you have any question today please call i-advize in New York at 212-406-3692.
Any comment that management makes today may include forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. It's based on information and data that's currently available. However, the actual performance may differ due to various factors, and they are cited in the Safe Harbor statement and the press release, so please refer to that for guidance. And with that, I will turn it over to Mr. Jaime Rivera for the presentation. Please go ahead Jaime?
Jaime Rivera
Thank you, Melanie. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome once more to our quarterly conference call and thank you, once more for allocating your valuable time to listening about our company.
In regards to the purpose of our call, we would like to change it somewhat this time, particularly as it comes to the distribution or allocation of time. Well, it's because of the events that have taken place or the so-called turbulence that has taken place in the market recently, I would like to spend some time concentrating or focusing a good portion of our comments on the conference on telling you about how the environment have behaved in Latin America and how that so-called turbulence has impacted our business. And we would like to do that because I hope we will convince you that the impact of the turbulence, that is being experienced in another parts of the world. Its quiet different and in fact, it's at the same level as for Bladex.
As usual, following my comments, Mr. Carlos Yap will take us through some of the details behind the figures for the quarter and then we will follow it up with your questions and answer whatever details you are interested in about the quarter.
So to the point then, let me start by stating the obvious and I would like to make it very clear because from what I understand and, in fact, I know there were many questions about this. Bladex does not have, never had, and is never going to have any exposure to US mortgage or subprime type of risk. Whatever is going on in the market has no bearing on the activities of Bladex. This is not the type of risk we take. We have known, we never will have any of this risk on our books.
So, having made that point clear, I thought I would step back a bit and go from painting a general picture of our market to slowly concentrate and focus on the details of each of our industry line as they relate or not to what's going on in the market.
Let me start by talking about macro-economy there, the macro-economy in Latin America. As regardless of what's going on in the market, countries in the region are doing relative well and you know this and it's well known, inflation while on the up tick in most countries, and at least throughout the world are still under control. Inflation therefore, is down, the fiscal accounts reasonably healthy. They are ample and growing in reserves of foreign exchange, which is quite a change, a dramatic change if you compare it to the situation from years ago when Central Banks were concerned about low levels of reserves. Banco's has turned it now just the opposite, which is of course, having [another impacted strength], I mean their current. Growth for the whole remains healthy. The people that know about these things tell us that growth for this year will slow somewhat in the last quarter and that for next year will slow even a bit further. And to tell you frankly, I haven't felt it, I haven't seen in the street, and our business hasn't felt it either, even if growth is also down, there is a lot of cushion too, built in just to allow our business to continue growing. Trade flows continue unabated.
Latin America continued selling its product. They are in demand in the US and in the European Union and especially in Asia. And Latin Americans continue buying as consumer credit in general has improved and purchasing power of the population has improved as well.
For macro-economy, it is something that we keep an eye on. But it's not something that I think is going to be determinant for the bank in the near future.
The second macro issue pertains to politics. And politics in Latin America, I guess this is like everywhere. Rather like everywhere, the best I can say about politics is that in the region, as in the rest of the world, they are no worse than usual. Call it, stable and again not an issue. This is an environment that we can work with. It is not something that constitutes a primary concern for us.
So then, with that macro view out of the way, let me concentrate on something a bit more particular and that is to comment on our markets and particularly about the market segment, we work with. There are two main market segments we work with, the financial industry mainly banks and the corporations. Let me comment on each. The banks in the region are doing very well. For the most part, they are isolated from what's going on in other parts of the world.
The credit portfolio remained strong. Credit demand particularly on the consumer side is increasing. Price remained high. Credit quality remained stable. In general, they were capitalized, well regulated. The situations of the bank were stable and most likely better than it was a year ago.
Importantly, liquidity in the region which has been a concern in other parts of the world has been less of a concern in Latin America because of a couple of reasons. Firstly, in the last decade, have seen the emergence of a fairly solid market of [fiber institutions, pension funds and the like], which provide additional liquidity in local currency.
Secondly, most banks are supported by funding in their retail branches and in the foremost either dollars, many of the banking systems in Latin America have a large realization percentage or in local currencies that are strong and that people have confidence in.
So therefore, again, bank is not an issue. I would not be surprised if a couple of them will have negative news to report on the trading operations during August, but nothing that will cause more than of a temporary stumble life on business as we go on further.
So, the second segment that we work with is corporations. And in the year ago, let's talk first about exporters. Exporters as I alluded before are benefiting from continued demand for the products that the region produces. Prices remained in general very high. Some of them are at historical peak. Profitability has become somewhat of an issue because of the strengthening local currencies has made their local currency cash flow more limited. But yes, they are so strongly capitalized and the margins are so wide that the companies are perfectly able to withstand its strength in their local currency.
Importantly as well, because most countries are suffering the same effect, the relative competitiveness of companies, say in Chile and companies in Peru are remaining largely unchanged. Everyone is facing the same problem that is an appreciating local currency. Again, very wide margins on sales are keeping them profitable and well-capitalized.
The other segment of the industry in Latin America that caters to the local market is doing very well as well. Couple of reasons, firstly, a couple of the major countries in the region particularly Brazil, have done a very good job improving the purchasing power of their people. Higher purchasing power has been translated well into purchases. And as a result, companies catered to local markets are doing well as well. These results are being fueled by extending and expanding credit penetration in the market.
Banking penetration in Latin America in general with couple of exceptions Panama and Chile probably, is still very low. So, there is still a lot of room for banks to expand. They are doing that and as they do that, they've fueled the purchasing power on the part of the public and as a result, companies have catered to the local markets that are doing well. So, the corporations in general, not an issue as well, credit quality, demand for credit is remaining stable and healthy.
So, within this picture what issues that I see as potential sources of trouble, trouble that could impact us. Firstly, I am worried about oil prices, I guess almost all of the oil prices are heading in only one direction and this might have a negative impact for those countries in the regions that produce no oil. The Congress of course will do what it takes for the countries that are oil exporters and this will become an issue and it might slow the growth in some of these countries down a bit.
Fortunately, the countries which are most at risk, are those in Central America in particular are befitting or starting to benefit strongly from inflows that followed from the Free Trade Agreement that has been signed, which to an extent, although not fully, are mitigating the impact of higher energy prices. But this might be an issue, noting that will spell a day and night difference for our business but it could be an issue.
The second thought of concern, certainly from my point of view is the possibility of slowdown that many people keep talking about in the United States and in the European Union and Asia. If this does in fact happen, and I quite frankly, I don't know about the United States and I don't know about the European Union but given what I saw in Asia just a month and a half ago, I just don't see that happening. But if I am in entirely wrong and things do slow down then economic growth in the region might fall from say 5%, 5.25% to 4%, 4.5%, still strong enough to support our business. I would be worried because slower growth from -- for the region would represent a loss of market share internationally. But that is a subject for another, more geopolitical type of debate.
Regarding the opportunities that business brought about for us and those are the threats but, well there are opportunities. Well a couple of things have gone our way, capital market -- local capital markets have been under strong pressure although they are coming back and some of the providers -- foreign providers of credit have withdrawn. What this has meant is there has been a relative decrease in competition and which has resulted in a general improvement in the pricing of our loans, something that we started to feel in earnest only during the second part of August. Apart from that perspective though this is, a welcome change particularly in -- because as I just said in our portfolio our quality remains very strong.
So now we have spoken about the region, we have spoken about industries and we have spoken about some of the opportunities and some of the threats. Let me be a bit -- even a bit more specific, and tell you about the impact of all of this on each of our business lines. And I'll do so and from the perspective that we manage the business. We manage the business thinking of three different books. We have a loan book. We have a securities book that is in essence is available for [statement portfolio] and we have an asset management book. Each of these has behaved differently as to regards to what's being happening in the market.
The loan book, and keep in mind by the nature the loan book is the slowest to react to changes in the direction of the winds. Still we're facing growing credit demands following again as a result of continued growth in [trade growth] and lesser competition. And therefore, margins have been improving. Importantly, I want to emphasize that credit quality remains strong in my opinion not only does credit quality remain strong it's probably stronger than it was a year before. We're having other than continuous credit demands or solid credit demand and improving margins. Our leasing operation has been growing quite nicely.
Remember, not too long ago we had no leasing operations, we now have over a $100 million in these type of assets and it's growing fairly quickly, and we're working on with this initiative that we announced last quarter having to do with establishing a factoring network in Latin America which we think will start playing a role in our intermediation activities next year. So from a point of view of our loan book, I would say that the wind is out on our back and the best part about it is that, we're capturing the wind with more sales. We now have a larger foothold, we have more clients. We can employ our resources and make use of higher margins and increased credit demand across a wider number of clients.
The loan book will grow therefore we'll grow particularly in terms of a profitability more so than CSI, more so than we've been doing so far. We're now being very stringent about pricing and keeping an eye on loan rate and in the end return on equity.
Regarding the associated sustainability of all of this that is, I believe that the question how long will prices continue to rise and how long will bank credit demand continue to improve, something I wouldn't dare. I don't have enough information to provide with yet.
I believe that towards the end of this quarter, we will have a better idea of whether we will be able to actually reprice the entire portfolio, if these things holds on, if these trend holds on for another couple or even three quarters, our whole portfolio, most of our short-term portfolio will have reprice at substantially higher spread which will make a big difference in our results for next year.
The second, we deal with, we managed the securities book which is available for sale portfolio. In the years where we applied the skill that result a very high of what we do and what we know how to do. We reengage credit risk and to benefit from overreaction from the part of the market side. It's been the case. It's always the case that because of our different circumstances the market react by dropping the prices of credit that we believe are in fact very solid and given the volatility of last couple of months, this type of behavior has become even more pronounced. I think I read somewhere that the market is behaving like and I have got lesson and actually I think it is.
It's actually behaving like, we are saying or joking around here. It's actually behaving like adolescence after it has invested some amount of highly illegal substances. And as a result, the market has become very erratic, something, shown very good credit. We have got and achieved and when the adolescence market realizes that we have made a mistake and all then comes back because it always comes back, we sell and realize the gain. To this extent, the volatility in the market, actually works in our favor and of course, just as there is a case with the loan book, I expect the securities activity of the bank has to grow our loan with the loan book.
And the third book that we manage is the proprietary asset management book, and here is where we bring what we know about the Latin America on a macro basis to there, of course relating to things like country risk, currency risk et cetera. We make calls based on our feeling, on our knowledge of trends in the country on a macro level. Something that again, we believe we are very well positioned to do because we know the region quite well. It becomes exciting lately, you can imagine it was an exciting quarter not clearly because the correlation between Latin America and market risk and market risk in the US strengthen and it made more difficult for us to make best on Latin America and market risk without having at the same time, take on some US market risk where we know we have very little to add.
And as a result, we did what we thought was a prudent thing to do, we decreased the amount of our possessions, which still did okay, it's a good business. We always knew it was going to be volatile; it's been profitable now for four quarters in a row and it provides a good complement to our loan book which is volatile and slower to react to market changes. Again, the three lines, loan book, the available for sale book and proprietary asset management operation make use of the core competency of the bank, our ability to gauge risk and trends in the region.
The asset management operation will also grow. It will grow not only because our net asset value is growing, and this is important, we have now received regulatory approval to take this to third party. So, when we do so, we plan to do so shortly, we hope to leverage that intellectual capital into management fees or third party management fees which will help the bottom-line of the bank.
So again, three books will grow. The environment, as it exists today, is actually playing in our favor. It's a good picture overall and my concerns within the picture I just described are two. The number one concern that I have is that, as I just mentioned, I am not sure yet as to how fast, how high and how long will the repricing of our loan books continue. I'll have a better idea about it and will be able to give you guidance from the subject by the end of this month. What I can tell you is that as of yesterday, that trend, that is continued improvement in pricing remain in place.
And my second concern is not so much a concern perhaps it is our frustration. I'm frustrated at the inability of the market to discriminate Bladex from other financial stocks. If you take a look at our the behavior of our stock price and compare it to the behavior of financials in general the correlation has been very close when in fact the dynamics of our business are very different to the dynamics of 99% of the other players in the financial index. While the reasons, why the other financials are under pressure might be good, none of them apply to Bladex, which makes us into a good investment opportunity and my frustration is that we haven't yet been recognized as such and this is one of the reason why I'm spending this time laying these stocks out for you.
For you to think about it, verify that what I'm saying is actually a fact and if so feel good about the investment. I'm going to repeat this result and expand on our situation on November the 12th, when we have scheduled a Bladex Day and a conference at the New York Stock Exchange. I hope you'll accompany us because we'll be able to go much deeper into both the structural and strategic elements of what we're doing. So, again, in the current environment I explained to Bladex's strength, and I'm looking forward to continuation of what has been a solid and steady progress over the last couple of years.
With that ladies and gentlemen, I'll turn the conversation over to Carlos for him to give you the details of the number third quarter and then again we'll be happy to take up your questions. Thanks a lot. Carlos, please.
Carlos Yap
Thank you Jaime and good morning everyone. Let me briefly walk you through the financial results that were contained in this morning's press release, which reflected a strong performance from our business area.
Interest income for the third quarter was $17.6 million, up 5% from the previous quarter and have increased 32% year-over-year. This 5% quarterly increase was driven by higher volumes and increased lending margins from the Commercial Division.
The average loan portfolio grew 3% as a result of increase in trade demand and expanded client-based particularly in the corporate sector. This strategy of focusing on growing corporate lending has generated positive results in the last two years. The average loan portfolio grew 25% during the last year.
Lending margins increased 6 basis points as a result of increase in trade demand, coupled with macro-volatility and less competition. Also, this increase reflects the change in mix of the portfolio as corporate lending yields better spreads than lending to banks.
On the other side of the balance sheet borrowings margins declined 1 basis point, mostly due to the 5% increase in the profits, which is our chief resource of funding.
The net interest margin declined 5 basis points to 1.65% have increased, mainly margins were offset by the current cost of higher cash balances as part of our plan to strengthen liquidity at the time of market turbulence.
Going forward, there are several factors that should affect net interest margins. Higher lending spreads or loan disbursement in the latter part of the third quarter will have a positive effect on the following quarters as Jaime stated.
How sustainable these current higher lending spreads levels are will depend on market conditions.
Liquidity levels which had an impact on the net interest margin during this quarter would also depends on market conditions. Where we can lower them then the net interest margin will benefit. On the other hand, factors that would have a negative effect on the net interest margin going forward are higher leveraging of the balance sheets require more borrowing, and in this scenario, it's lower interest rates because this would generate lower deals on the cash balances.
The declining fees income issues reflect mostly our decision to reduce our net asset productivity in riskier markets, which also had an impact in lower provisions. We expect to offset this decline in the letters of credit fees by year-end and when we hope to benefit from the more stable market environment and [efficient loan] increase in credit flows.
In terms of treasury revenues, after a very strong second quarter, trading gains and gains available for sale securities declined to more than the life levels of about $5 million for the quarter.
Operating expenses for the third quarter were $8.7 million, or 36% of operating use compared to 45% a year ago. The bank efficiency ratio of 36% continues improved and is well below the average of the industry of 50% to 60%
Operating expenses for the quarter declined $1.6 million driven by $1.4 million reduction in the variable compensation provision related to the asset management activities and in line with this performance during the quarter.
In addition, legal expenses increased as the bank continues to invest in business initiatives in the commercial division.
On a year-to-date basis, operating expenses increased $6.5 million of which $2.7 million correspond to the deferred valuable compensation related to the asset management activities. The risk is related to salary expenses associated with the development of the corporate business and treasury activity, additional performance variable compensation and stock-based compensation expenses, as well as depreciation expenses related investment in new technological platform and legal expenses related to new business initiatives.
In order to further align the interest of the board, restricted stocks allocated to the board will increase at 100% and their cash compensation also increased 30% based on any independent market survey. Going forward, inflation is becoming an issue not only in Panama and New York, but also in Mexico, Brazil and in Argentina where the local is currency strengthening, which will impact our cost base a lot dramatically.
As a result of these mentioned factors, operating income from the commercial division rose 7% on a sequential quarterly basis, as operating revenues grew 4% and expenses declined 1%. Year-to-date operating income from the commercial division was $30.8 million up 23% from a year ago.
Operating income for the Treasury Division declined from $16.1 million to a more normalized level of $4.5 million driving the bank consolidated operating income for the quarter to $15.2 million from $26.1 million in the previous quarter.
On a year-to-date basis, operating income reached $55 million, up 120% from a year ago which again reflects a bulk in client base diversification strategy established two years ago. The bank has achieved these operating earnings with a more diversified revenue base. A year ago, net interest income represented 94% of total operating revenues compared to 63% during this year.
Provisions for loan losses for the second quarter were $3.4 million driven by 2% growth in the loan portfolio. The bank reverse provisions for losses on off-balance sheet credits for $3 million, back to earnings reflecting changes in the country mix of contingencies. The net effect was an increasing result of $0.4 million for the quarter compared to $1.4 million reversal in the second quarter.
As a result, net income amounted to $15 million or 10% internal equity for the third quarter and 13% year-to-date.
Operating income year-to-date was 12.3% compared to almost half 5.8% a year ago. This profitability levels were achieved by maintaining a strong capitalization of 21.6% Tier 1 capital ratio, still strong but lower than the 27% a year ago. We intend to continue using capital as we grow our books and profits.
Now let's turn briefly to our balance sheet. We ended up with $4.5 billion in total assets, a 4% increase over the previous quarter and up 26% from a year ago mostly driven by the growth in our loan portfolio. During the quarter, the bank strengthened its liquidity position. It consists mostly of cash and deposit with high quality banks outside the region and representing 7% of total assets and 22% of total deposits.
In addition, every month mature around $450 million in loans, which provide additional liquidity, as our portfolio continues to be short-term in nature. 70% of our commercial portfolio matures within one year and duration of this portfolio is 0.3 years. If risk levels continue improving, we may see maintaining of payments going forward.
As mentioned, deposits increased 5% during the quarter and 31% from a year ago, this increase in deposits mostly come from Central Banks, our shareholders.
In terms of asset quality, the bank had no credits in non-accruing or past-due status of September 30, 2007, as it has been the case in the last three quarters.
That concludes my financial update. Let me now turn it over Jaime.
Jaime Rivera
Thank you, Carlos. Ladies and gentlemen, we will be glad to take up any questions you might have.
Question-and-Answer Session
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). We will pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Thank you, your first question is coming from Juan Partida with JP Morgan.
Juan Partida - JP Morgan
Hi, good morning Jaime and Carlos. My question is related to the composition of your loan portfolio on a geographical basis. We saw that during this quarter the exposure to Brazil increased substantially well that of Peru and Mexico declined -- I am sorry -- yes, and Mexico declined. So, I wanted to see if this was a part of the strategy, or that's just the places where you saw that demand, you could elaborate a little bit on that? Thank you.
Jaime Rivera
Juan, good morning. No strategy at all. In fact, in both, Peru and Mexico our strategy to grow and I think you will see a significant growth in both markets in the coming quarters. The reason why the balance has decreased in both cases were the same and we had clients, one large exposure in Peru with a client where the pricing was very low, we are being strict, even more careful about the way we price our assets. We did not agree on pricing and we simply refused to renew the operation. We are replacing that asset with some other.
And in Mexico, the exact same thing happened. We had a subsidiary of one of the major state companies who had a substantial maturity. We did not agree on pricing and we thought we have and in fact, we do better uses for those capital and we again refused to renew it.
In Brazil, on the other hand, most of the renewal of that payment for negotiations agreed to meet our higher pricing standards and that's why you saw Brazil grow in relative terms more than either Peru or Mexico. If that quarter is to go by anything, I don't think it represents a trend at all.
Juan Partida - JP Morgan
Okay, thank you very much. That's usual, just in the other category which increased a lot, can you give us an idea what countries are included there, it went from 5 to 104?
Jaime Rivera
That represent -- it's actually other means the United States at the end of arguing the quarter and starting the quarter before we have been using insurance coverage to manage the portfolio and most of that insurance coverage represents US. We have been doing some transactions where the structure calls for litigation of risks and the cheapest things we have -- the cheapest way we have found to do that is through short-term insurance. People know us they give us very good rates and of course that will -- that shift is the risk for U.S.
Juan Partida - JP Morgan
I see, thank you.
Jaime Rivera
Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question is coming from [Titolo Barlow] with Deutsche Bank.
Titolo Barlow - Deutsche Bank
Hi good morning. Just two question under the last quarter's conference call you mentioned your normalized level of trading gains of around $3 million and a little bit high this quarter, but just kind of want get us through that just still a normalized level that you expect going forward? And then the second question, even the decline in fee income is that also you know what the current expectations are going forward on that? Thank you.
Jaime Rivera
I will stick to the $3 million -- to the $3 million figure, this year of course we've been substantially above that. It's a volatile business. Our own market is placed on $3 million, third quarter. If it turns out that as time proceeds and we achieve -- become more confident in our ability to upgrade higher level say $5 million, we will let you know, but just to let to know we are using $3 million in our budget. We aim of course to consistently -- consistently beat that figure, but for your projections if you want to be conservative use $3 million.
The fee income again we're currently taking steps to increase our -- fair activity in some of the markets we drew from during August. Christmas is coming demand is increasing, so with new products we are already coming back to the levels of the second quarter, first and second quarter in the fourth quarter. Fees will improve next year and they will do so steadily and markedly to the extent that we deploy the third party asset management operations successfully and we have a [variation] to believe that we'll be able to so. It's certainly based upon the level of interest that has being generated on solicited interest that has been generated from people in the market.
Titolo Barlow - Deutsche Bank
It was very helpful. Thank you.
Jaime Rivera
Sure, Titolo.
(Operator Instructions). Your next question is coming from [Anurag Bhagwanji with Porto Orlin]. Please, go ahead.
Anurag Bhagwanji
Good morning, Jaime. Good morning, Carlos.
Jaime Rivera
Anurag Bhagwanji
Congratulations on the good numbers. My question was, you mentioned asset management side of the business. Can you talk about what are the assets under management currently? And how do you see that growing?
Jaime Rivera
Our net asset value is in the order of $120 million, that's our proprietary book. We only see it growing to the profits. The major growth is going to come from again investments by third party institutions or individuals, and I think that by the end of the fourth quarter we'll able to give you a better idea of how our large our book will grow. But clearly our investment, our proprietary investments, the level of funds we placed with our New York operation, will remain where it is, $120 million plus accrued profit.
Anurag Bhagwanji
Okay. Thanks a lot Jaime and looking forward to meeting you in New York on the12th of November.
Jaime Rivera
Thank you Anurag and please give my regards to Alice please.
Anurag Bhagwanji
Will do.
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). There appear to be no further questions. I would like to turn the floor back over to management for any closing remarks.
Jaime Rivera
Well, ladies and gentlemen again, I believe this quarter has once more proved of the soundness of our business model and our ability to upgrade on the strong, stable conditions which we did for a good year and a half and on the very unstable conditions which we did during last quarter, we have continued and steadily improved along all indicators, financial indicators and upgrading indicators.
We are moving in the direction that we promised you we would. Nearly three years ago when we announced what we were going to do, most of the activities that or business lines that we told you we're going to deploy. We have deployed. The numbers that we told you we are going to achieve are being sort of achieved. We have doubled ROE our levels in one year, basically from our low base. Apart from this standard we intent to continue with this pace as this will turn out to be an even better investment than it has turned out to be so far.
I know a number of you have been with us for sometime and have done well with return capital, with increased dividend and price have improved accordingly. So, I want to thank you for your confidence and let you know that from my perspective, since I took this job the current environment at present itself is the one that most benefits the company, and again unlike even a year and a half ago, we now have many much sails out there with which to catch the wind.
So, hope to see you all on November, the 12th in New York. If you can't make it then we will be providing a web conference so you can listen to it. We intend to go deeper into what we've done and our strategy from hereon as we complete the 2010 strategic plan and in the meantime, as usual again, I thank you again and wish you all success within what is for all of us an exciting market.
Thank you very much to all.
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Not much changes in the 12 miles between the staked-off sections of Upland and Marion, Ind. The scenery seems the same, many faces will be familiar in both locations and each is sometimes defined by the academic institution residing there.
But the contrasts between those two colleges are as stark as their red and purple colors.
Those differences may be harder to spot in their evangelical mission statements, but when it comes to athletics, Indiana Wesleyan and Taylor universities have no intentions of turning the other cheek.
"Obviously you hate to lose, but especially to Taylor, it's just way worse," said IWU tennis player Kyle Johnson (jr). "Especially going to Taylor. I hate going to Upland."
That disdain extends from the players' bench to the coaches' desks.
"Nobody can wear purple on Taylor day," said volleyball coach Candace Moats. "Even in the [athletic] office, if you have purple on during someone going and playing Taylor, you get razzed for it. We're all aware of when the Taylor matches happen for each sport."
This particular rivalry is not only good for some highly competitive matches, but program unity as well.
"Everybody joins together. At that time, we're not an individual team, when anyone has a Taylor game, it's like everybody's got the mindset, 'We are going to go beat Taylor, even though it might just be volleyball.'" Moats added. "It's a cohesive thing that draws us all together and makes us a united force."
That united IWU force enjoys a current streak of success against its county rival. Since the start of the 2007 academic year, the Wildcats are 94-55-1 in head-to-head sporting events against the Trojans, including streaks of 11-0 by the women's tennis team, 7-1 in women's soccer and 13-2 from the women's basketball team. The men's cross country team leads the way on men's side with a 6-1 mark since 2007. Of these sports, the Trojans only hold the advantage in baseball during that span.
But what makes these two schools such bitter rivals?
"Being close to them; there's just something about them, maybe it's the purple or something," Johnson said.
"When you look at the two institutions that are so like-minded; we're in the same league," Moats said. "It's 'who owns Grant County?'"
Others, like IWU men's basketball coach Greg Tonagel, say much of the intensity is situational.
"I think it has more to do with where they're at in the league," Tonagel said after the Wildcats' most recent win over Taylor Jan. 14. "It's so early in the league right now, it's still intense, but I think if both teams are at the top or both teams are in the middle it probably means a little bit more."
Either way, it's hard for the Wildcats to escape the feeling of a larger target on their backs when they play the school just up Route 15.
"I feel like everybody when we play them brings their a-game," Johnson said. "It's that way across the conference, everybody wants to beat us, especially Taylor really enjoys beating us, but hopefully we enjoy beating them more."


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2008 Summer Volume 8 No. 1
Peak Performance is a Mental Attitude
By Mike Cooper
"Racing, regardless of what people say, is a mental sport. If you believe you can win and you're in a car that can win, you more than likely will win. If you have a negative attitude, typically you won't get very good results."
—Jamie McMurray, NASCAR Driver
Auto racing is the most popular sport in the world in terms of television viewership. It's fast, exciting, and dangerous. It is often said that the race is won long before it starts—in the planning, preparation, research, and training.
However, the fastest cars with the best team don't always end up in the winner's circle. It takes a great team leader and a great driver.
Like racing, the success of a portable sanitation company starts in the planning, preparation, research, and training stages. However, peak performance comes at the individual level; if you own the company, you're the leader and the driver all in one.
When racecar drivers are balanced on that fine line between gaining an edge and courting disaster, it's their self-confidence that gives them the courage to continue without letting up.
As you prepare for the upcoming peak season, your company is like a racing crew and you are in the driver's seat. There is a lot to do before the race starts. You may bid on new contracts, train new employees, fix old equipment and order new equipment, look into new ways your company can serve customers, and talk to your accountant to get your books in order.
However, in all that preparation don't forget the mental game. Your self-confidence will enable you to steer your company to victory.
The Mental Game
With all your pre-season preparation, are you doing anything to prepare yourself mentally? As the season approaches do you feel confident, strong, and ready to take on whatever challenges you will face? Or are you feeling worried about what might go wrong?
Obviously, you need to consider the challenges ahead. A racecar driver can be the most confident driver on the track, but if he isn't prepared to do what needs to be done to maintain traction on a tight corner, he isn't in control.
Going into 2009, everyone has uncertainties. The economy is not doing so well, home building is slumping, gas prices keep going up, and competition is increasing.
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The Panthers dropped the ball again on Sunday after a dominating first half, letting the Seahawks score 31 unanswered points against us. We can clearly see, from this game alone, every single glaring mistake that has been our downfall the entire year. The worst part is that it's not getting better. We've been doing this for 14 weeks now and we haven't really seen any improvements from Week 1 to Week 12.
After the jump, we'll look at 5 steps to get us back on track this season...
Step 1: Blowing up the Offensive Line
It's just inexcusable. We have the 2nd worst pass protection in the NFL, 2nd only to maybe the Chicago Bears and the Martz offense system (which is going to get Cutler killed someday). We give up 1 sack every 11 pass attempts (a 9.1% sack-rating, adjusted for number of passes). Only Chicago is worse, giving up 10.1%. That's simply inexcusable. The worst part is, we've been bottom-feeding in this statistic for the entire year. Travelle Wharton and Jeff Otah being hurt isn't an excuse, but it certainly doesn't help matters. Gary Williams, Geoff Schwartz, and Mackenzey Bernadaeu simply are not NFL-starting caliber players. That jail-break play where Seattle rushed 3 (or 4?) lineman and all 3 of them got into the backfield was simply pathetic. Clausen was sacked within seconds of the snap.
Step 2: Improved Quarterback Play
Don't get me started. Really just don't. I don't want to hear about how Clausen can be the future because quite frankly I don't care. You're absolutely kidding yourself if you think Clausen's performance is in any way acceptable at this point. 3 Weeks into the year? Yeah sure, I can sympathize with the guy being thrown behind a shoddy line with an inept offense and rookie WRs. It's Week 14 now and it's time for Clausen to man up. We've said this for two weeks in a row now... He'll take 2 steps forward, and then 3 steps back or vice versa. Sunday was more of the 3 step back variety. In Week 10 against the Bucs, he set the bar for himself with a decent, albeit not stellar, game. That performance then became the bar and he has not raised it since then.
Like I said, I really don't care if Clausen is our franchise QB or not. Whoever is under center, whether it's him, Luck, or some schmoe off the street, needs to step up to the plate and play up to expectations. He simply hasn't done that since then.
Step 3: Tackling Defensive Tackle
So, when we released Ma'ake Kemoeatu and Damione Lewis, we had the answers behind them right? I mean, we traded for Tank Tyler and Louis Leonard, both who ended up on IR last year, and they were going to come back strong and step into the role these two very serviceable veterans had filled for years. Right? Well, no not quite. Tank and Louis were cut before the season even started and that alone should have been the harbinger of bad things to come. This was a big gamble we took, relying on a myriad of the who's-who of defensive tackles to plug up the middle that we had never really seen play before. This position needs to be addressed immediately. Either through Free Agency if we want to "win now" or through the draft if we think we can get by for now.
When you let a team, that is the worst in the NFL, double their season average against you... That's just wrong inexcusable.
Step 4: Parlaying Overabundant Wealth
Jon Beason, James Anderson, Thomas Davis, Jason Williams, Dan Connor, Jamar Williams, Eric Norwood... All seven of these players are either starting-caliber or future starters and we simply don't need that much talent on our roster at the linebacker position. I would wager to say that no other team in the NFL has as many playmakers at linebacker than we do, so we need to figure out how we are going to let this situation play out. The whole "Let's move to a 3-4 Defense" idea doesn't seem like a good idea to me. We've seen what happens this year when you take a Pro-Bowl MLB in Jon Beason and move him outside of his position. He suddenly becomes only good when he was excellent. Now imagine doing that for every single linebacker we have, and you'll start to understand why we shouldn't make that change.
Here's the problem though... Of all those seven players mentioned, only two of them are Free Agents, and Thomas Davis is going to be resigned this off season. Sadly, that leaves James Anderson as the only Free Agent in an already over-stacked Linebacker corps. So we can resign Anderson and trade someone else or we can let Anderson walk into free agency and use our wealth at the position to absorb this hit.
Running backs are in the exact same position. The emergence of Mike Goodson has made some people question whether or not we need to retain DeAngelo Williams. Ya know... Just the guy who only holds about every major rushing record on the team. But, I found myself being hypocritical by thinking that we could let Anderson walk but not Williams. So in the end, the same path applies. We can allow Williams to walk into Free Agency, or we can resign him and then trade someone else. One thing no one seems to think about is possibly trading Jonathon Stewart if Williams is resigned...
On the whole, what would make us a better team? I think you're crazy if you believe that resigning Anderson and DeAngelo wouldn't make us better. Think about it this way... If you resign them, you retain your starters and are able to turn unused wealth into draft picks. If you let them leave, you simply replace them with starters already on your team. To me, the option is obvious: you get more with the former than the latter.
Step 5: Self-evident Coaching Correction
We made one huge mistake this year and you can be the judge on which is worse: either letting John Fox stay or starting a rebuilding process in his last season. John Fox will not be back next year. You know it. I know it. The front office knows it. The players know it. If we were going to rebuild, we needed to start at the top with the head coach. Because of the unique situation brought about by the uncapped season, I believe this was the perfect year to cut away the dead-weight money we had tied up. But starting a youth movement without a head coach has gotten us into a situation where the coach has placed blame for this situation on the front office and said things of our two young quarterbacks like, "Neither one of them played good." Furthermore, I don't believe John Fox knows how to develop a quarterback. That glaring flaw is self-evident by the way quarterbacks have regressed since the departure of Mike McCoy. Jake Delhomme went from one of the NFL's best QBs in 2005, to one of it's worst in 2009. Matt Moore struggled to really get anything going this year and he may never play the game the same again now. Clausen faced the same problems and he's a rookie to boot, which just compounds the issue.
John Fox is a good coach. He's respected by everyone in the league. He will at least leave here with a .500 record. He took us from 1-15 to the Super Bowl and 2 other play off appearances. But he was not the man for this job. His teams from year to year have been nothing if not inconsistent, winning games everyone thought they had no chance in and losing games they should have dominated. And he's all but lead us back to where we were when he started: 1-15.
Can't say if a new coach would have prevented it, but I certainly don't think it would have hurt. Plus, the next coach won't have the Davidson-handicap.


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Author and comedian Harmon Leon has made a career out of going undercover in disguise and infiltrating extremist subcultures.
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LEESVILLE, La. - The Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office arrested a Leesville woman who is accused of driving off in a sheriff's office cruiser early Sunday morning.
According to reports from the sheriff's office, deputies responded to a call at a home on South Third Street at 2 a.m.
A deputy was talking with some people when Christina Lord, 39, of Leesville, came out of the home and took off with the deputy's car.
Louisiana State Police found the patrol car heading south on Highway 171 a short time later and arrested Lord for criminal mischief.
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I use Drakkar, the girls seem to like it, and it's easy. What colognes have you guys had success or feedback from HB's about?
I use Drakkar, the girls seem to like it, and it's easy. What colognes have you guys had success or feedback from HB's about?
Oddly enough, Aspen has been the number one compliment getter. It makes no sense, that stuff is dirt cheap and I buy it from a drug store.
For good stuff, I use DKNY for work and everyday experiences (very subtle woodsy smell) and Armani Black for the night club. I'm still practicing, but the cologne is not nearly as important as your game. If you smell like a bowl full of sex but still walk up and say, "Uh........Boobs.", it's not going to help.
Smelling good and looking good is definitely a VERY important part of pick up, but it's not nearly as important as your tactics.
I have found that Very Sexy for men is the best. I get it a Victoria's Secret. I always get complements on it.
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I've gotten many compliments on Very Sexy as well. However, for my normal "everyday" cologne, I use Aramis - Life.
Try using the new Armani- CODE- I believe, ANYWAY, ...You can use the old Armani-"GIO"- BUT i was once told by a HB-9.5, that alot of NERDS, well, she said "WEIRDOS" are using it. She also said "If she smelt that cologne on someone, she figure he was a "Lonely" guy trying to pick up woman."...I was thinking.."shit, that is a little bit too harsh"...but i just smiled and replied with..."Hmmm, really".So, to get back with your comment...go with what you want...Armani-CODE...I get compliments using it....won't hurt to try it.Originally Posted by silverback
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I followed recommendation from David D's stuff, He had recommended
Dolce-and-Gabanna and Mark Jacobs. Me and a group of mates went the purfume section of Myers and were trying the stuff out. I had asked a few gilrs oppinions and the said Mark Jacobs was good. Dolce and gabbana is also good.... Cept the girls don't really like it... but the guys do.... So if you get this one, u might wanna watch your back.
ICEBERG gets some nice results.
My vision would turn ur world upside down, tear a sun 2 ur illusions and send the santuary that is ur own ignorance crashing down around u....Now ask urself....Are u really ready to see that vision?
Chanel Allure sport for men
ive had women say it smells really good
i got into a car with some guys i knwo and a friend woman that i do not liek
we dont really talk because we have an understanding
the first thing she says is mmmm who smells so good?
i ran out of that so im goign on a sample of keneth cole signature it smells pretty good but no compliments yet
Very Sexy is good... def. remember buying it...
walking into the store, getting terrorized by every single clerk asking if i need help. "Are you buying a gift for you gf?" ..."no bitch, i am buying a cologne..." lol Picking a cologne, standing in a looong line...being self consious ...some old ladie aproaches me..asks if i want to apply for a store credit card...i say thank you... standing in line...obviously displaying cologne......thinking,.... it was so tempting to checkout blonde picking through bra collection... damnit: "don't want to look like pervert"
getting checked out...clerk puts my cologne in a pink wrap paper and places it in a large bright pink bag.... ask her if bag has to be pink? she says yes, it's brand recognition....
....continue shopping at the malll carrying gay looking bag....gay guys started checking me out.... decided to put bag in the car for a good measure.......fun time!
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The best results that I have had with women smelling my neck and burring their head deeper was with "Giorgio BeverlyHills Wings" and "Perry Elis 360"


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Though I have been critical of Doc, i would at least like to acknowledge a couple of nice adjustments made in the last two games. Posting up Rondo has been mostly effective--and gives the team another option. Doc has also used the baseline pick and roll more (I emphasized this play in past post)- Wilcox got two dunks,ray got a jumper, and Garnett got fouled in the 5 or 6 times we ran it. Rondo's shot looked OK --even his misses were on target for the most part (just a bit short or long).
Now the bad news.
1. What does JO do to warrant extra minutes against a team with no real post threat? Nice charges taken-- but a non factor at both ends otherwise.
2. One play at the 6:42 mark of the 3rd quarter sums up our fate. A 4 on 2, PP runs to the block, RA runs to the 3 pt line, and Wilcox to the other block. Rondo throws to allen (of course), immediately cutting our chance to score to 42%. On a four on two, most teams would get a foul, a dunk or lob. Nope. Then after RA misses, RR rebounds- hits PP on baseline, where most SF would dunk, power it in, or get fouled. Nope. We miss weakly, Bulls rebound and eventually score on (you guessed it) a transition basket.
3. AGAIN, we get close in the 4th quarter- and then can't score for about three minutes--- a 10-0 run puts Bulls in charge. All jumpers, Rondo no factor. I don't feel the need to further relive this reoccurring nightmare that Celtic fans have endured on a frighteningly regular basis.
4. Why does it seem like every set we have has two guys at the elbow (effectively blocking any lane for Rondo)- while RA and PP are square dancing in the lane so they can come off a screen? Meanwhile Rondo has to pound the ball for 10 seconds because there is nowhere he could go anyway. Westbrook, Rose, etc always seem to have a lane to attack-- and spacing is such that the key is left open. The bulls sent two guys to the corner, then drove from the top. Whichever help guy collapsed, the ball would go to the corner for a wide open shot, or dumped low for a high percentage shot. Please correct me if I'm wrong about these sets. I would love to see an open post continuity of some sort, to allow a drive to the middle with several options ensuing (score, dish, lob, offensive board).
5. How can MIKE JAMES- he of the ten day contract- function as if he has been with the Bulls forever? If we were to add a point guard, I am led to believe that we could not incorporate him into our "complicated systems" for at least 10 days (thus requiring an additional 10 day contract (lol)). But seriously, are we making the game too complicated?
6. Why do we refer to lack of practice as an excuse as if (1) other teams are somehow in a different situation (2) that OUR practices are so holy and intricate that it requires much more time than any system in the league. (3) that we shouldn't actually have an ADVANTAGE because the Big 4 have run the same stuff since 2008. Please, no more of this garbage.
i'm really torn about watching these guys finish out the season with honor -- or sending some away for audition pieces (athletic) to see what they and Rondo can accomplish in a simplified transition offense. if nothing else- it might tell us which direction to go in the off-season. Sorry for the rant--- you may not agree, but these are the things I see.


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From Horned Headdresses to Eco Taxidermy
By: Meghan Young - Published: Oct 19, 2009
I'm sure everyone needs some horniness in their lives. Get your head out of the gutter people! I'm referring to actual horns. You know, think bulls, moose, deers, etc. Horns can add a certain rustic flair to your home, wardrobe or even hairdo. Check out this cluster filled with horny inventions and you'll understand what I mean.


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Decatur – Ten teens are accused of taking up residence in a Forsyth home while the owners were gone.
Macon County Sheriff, Tom Schneider says, last Monday someone called after seeing suspicious activity. When deputies went to investigate they found teenagers staying a house who did not live there.
Deputies say they caused damage and stole more than 10 thousand dollars worth of items, including firearms.
Schneider says some of the missing items have still not been found, "we were not successful in the recovery of the actual firearms but we were successful in the recovery of several of the bb guns. So it strengthens the case in reference to the firearms from that we received and, unfortunately it's disheartening that these are weapons that are back out on the streets."
The vehicle was found later in Decatur. 17 year old Ahquavious Bradford is the only one being charged as an adult as of now. He is charged with residential burglary, and being held at the Macon County jail on a 25 thousand dollars bond.
Evangelist Franklin Graham prayed on a sidewalk outside the Pentagon Thursday after his invitation to a prayer service inside was withdrawn because of comments that insulted people of other religions. More>>
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When you fall in love with a fandom, you expect to read the book, and if you are lucky you will one day get to watch what you fell for come across the silver screen. I can tell you when my heart fell for Ethan Wate. I was lying in bed with strep throat, when my friend walked a book into me. I couldn't sleep anymore, so I opened it up and started to read. Who would have known that day would end up changing my life?
I waited and waited, sometimes thinking that seeing Ethan and Lena on the big screen would never come. Hearing about what seemed like a million other fandoms start filming and all I knew was I wanted this one. So when the announcement came for Viola Davis to play Amma, I may have jumped out of my chair, and ran across my house, just because I was excited.
I knew that there was CasterGirls.com, but I knew that I wanted to start a site to show my love for the books. Starting this site, I didn't expect anything. I just knew that I wanted to have a place where people who loved the books as much as I did, could read about what was going on.
So imagine my surprise, when one day I see an email pop up on my phone, and it's from Warner Brothers. I may have reenacted the run across my house with excitement.
"We'd like to invite you to visit the set of Beautiful Creatures…"
I am not going to lie, I cried.
Time seemed to slow down as I waited for the day to go to New Orleans. It was like a kid waiting for Christmas. I knew what I was getting, so I thought. I didn't even come close to being prepared for what was about to happen.
I can close my eyes and see it, just like it was yesterday. Thinking about it that sense of excitement fills me up, and I get nervous. Though it will be awhile before I can tell you exactly what happened, I can tell you one short story.
Elena, from CasterGirls.com, was with me on the trip. We were brought into a sound stage, where silence echoed. There was no air conditioning while the camera was rolling. We were brought to sit in video village (a place where everyone goes to watch what they are filming). You could see the set, and I am telling you, that is an amazing story in itself.
Dave, the set publicist, gave us headsets so that we could hear what the actors were saying as they filmed. Elena and I looked at each other, smiling like kids in a candy store. Silence filled the room, and we turned up the volume on our headsets.
"Lena," we heard ring into our ears. We both looked at each other, looked at the screen, and then looked at each other again.
"Oh My God," we both said at the same time, "That. Is. Ethan."
What happened next? Well, though I would love to tell you, I can't. I can say that what happened to Elena and I, will live with us forever. What Alcon and Warner Bros. did for us, the way that they treated us, the way the cast welcomed us, I don't know if I will ever be able to convey properly.
The trip to the Beautiful Creatures set was one of the best days of my life. I can't wait to share it all with you!


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The Library of Congress will "pay tribute to the African-American experience" (as the Library notes) in its February film series with screenings of Roots, the landmark miniseries that chronicles an African American family from 1750, through the post-Civil War South.
The FREE screenings (which are open to the public) will be shown in the plush Packard Campus theater in Culpeper, Va., during Black History Month.
Series schedule follows:
Thursday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m. "Roots": Parts 1 & 2;
Thursday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m. "Roots": Parts 3, 4 & 5;
Thursday, Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. "Roots": Parts 6 & 7;
Thursday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m. "Roots": Part 8
For further information on the theater and film series, visit www.loc.gov/avconservation/theater/.
urbanauteur | February 1, 2012 9:15 PM
Roots will remain relevent under certain conditions, stopping the tide of retrenchment in [All] education, like in good ole` boy Texas, where these so-call educators are systematically [ERASING(author-percival everett was`nt lying afterall) our collective History-Slavery,Contributions to Society etc.. Mark Twain/text books are being perform by a exorcism b/c of his nigger reference in his books-huck finn etc..] these reactionary's are hell bent on perserving the union and its western canon's omnipresence or should i say? keeping OUR Gas Masks ready for this continued BUSH/REAGON/OBAMA era Miasma?
Donella | February 1, 2012 1:57 PM
This is a classic and has become the definitive movie on the North American slave experience. No wonder it continues to remain relevant amid later movies on slavery.


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LEBANON, IN (WAVE) - A renowned forensic scientist testified Thursday that investigators' own expectations and biases about blood evidence in the David Camm case likely affected their work and helped twice convict Camm of murder.
"I'm not saying the nonscientists in their case don't believe what they're testifying to," Dr. Robert Charles Shaler said. "I'm seeing no evidence of fraud here. But scientific knowledge is critical to understanding bloodstain pattern analysis. You really should understand the principles behind it.
After Camm's first two convictions for killing his wife and two kids in their Georgetown garage was overturned, Camm is on trial a third time for the killings in Boone County.
Shaler's experience includes overseeing several sections of the New York City Medical Examiner's office, including the division which identified victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He helped develop the forensic science program for Penn State University, writing the textbook for it. He also served as an author and member of the peer review committee for a scathing report from the National Academy of Science decrying what it considered a lack of scientific research and procedures in crime scene investigations.
"The problem [in the Camm case] is that the number of blood stains is minimal," he said, referring to several blood dots on Camm's t-shirt that prosecutors maintain is gunshot spatter from the head wound of Camm's 5-year-old daughter Jill. "Most looked at only three stains of the eight. And ambiguity allows people to opine as they feel."
Had all investigators employed true scientific methods, they would have conducted experiments designed to disprove their initial theories, Shaler told jurors.
"The timeframe is a perfect example: How much of the blood had dried when he [Camm] said he found his family," Shaler explained. "There has to be tacky [partially dried] blood in any area where he was. If I don't see fresh blood on his shirt, then I'm on my way to disproving [that Camm is guilty]."
Scientific methods also require that the experiments attempt to match what investigators found at the scene, Shaler continued. That means using the same type T-shirt Camm wore the night of the murders, a 50-50 polyester cotton blend.
But such requirements could cast doubt on the findings of a key defense witness — blood-pattern analyst Barie Goetz. Goetz used all-cotton T-shirts and a doll's synthetic hair soaked with blood to try to determine whether he could create stains similar to Camm's in the way Camm claimed he had acquired them — his shirt touching beaded blood in his daughter's hair as he was removing his son Bradley from the back seat of his wife's sport utility vehicle.
Last week, Goetz told jurors he couldn't replicate the precise stain pattern, but he incorporated other evidence concerning the site and size of the stains to conclude that Camm couldn't have been the shooter.
On Wednesday, fellow analyst Bart Epstein testified that he used different methods in his own experiments, but that his results not only supported Goetz's conclusions, they fully validated Camm's account of the events.
Prosecutors will cross-examine Shaler this afternoon.
Earlier, jurors heard from Jeff and Martin Dickey, brothers who were part of the group playing pickup basketball with Camm at Georgetown Community Church on Sept. 28, 2000, the night of the murders.
Jeff Dickey told jurors he remembered little of his testimony from Camm's earlier trials. But he confirmed other players' accounts that Camm sat out at least one game, and that he didn't know whether Camm had left the gym or returned prior to the games ending at 9:30 p.m.
Prosecutors have alleged that Camm used his break in the action to sneak home, kill his family, and then returned to the games to establish an alibi.
Jeff Dickey told jurors he was certain he saw Camm on the sidelines for several minutes.
"I make a note of things like that. I got hurt once by an errant ball," he said.
Brother Martin Dickey was more certain of the time Camm arrived, and that he noticed nothing out of the ordinary.
"He [Camm] was happy go-lucky," Dickey told jurors.
He also confirmed defense allegations that prosecutors used misinformation during their initial interrogations.
"Didn't they [prosecutors] tell you that you had told them you saw Camm wearing a gray sweatshirt," defense counsel Stacey Uliana asked.
"I never said he wore a sweatshirt," Dickey said.
DNA testing tied the sweatshirt to serial felon Charles Darnell Boney only after Camm's first conviction was overturned. Boney was convicted of the Camm family murders, and has been serving a 225-year sentence since 2006.
Dickey also claimed that prosecutors tried to suggest that he knew Camm could cover the distance from the church gym to his house in about two or three minutes.
"They [prosecutors] said, 'You know you can do it in five minutes," Dickey said. "I told them, I guess if you were going fast, you could do it in 2 or 3."
At the time, Martin Dickey worked at the same place as Camm, a waterproofing company owned by Camm's uncle, Sam Lockhart.
"I'm trying to be as truthful as I can," Dickey told jurors.
"You would not lie for David Camm, would you, " Uliana asked.
"No reason to," Dickey said.
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Producer: Mark Ronson
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The fifteenth entry in our exclusive freestyle series comes courtesy of No Good People, the East Coast foursome who brought us Where You're From back in March of '08. On the brand new, previously-unreleased No Good freestyle, Stress, Dr. Sean Strange, Raida, and O-Doub spit over Mark Ronson's beat from Amy Winehouse's You Know I'm No Good. With debut LP The Greatest Thing Ever on the horizon, NGP are currently preparing to release their latest single to radio. In addition, the group are working on a brand new mixtape, which will drop sometime in the next month.
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Tell Me Something I Don't Know: Social media ad spending during the 2012 presidential election is expected to be double that of 2008.
During the presidential race of 2012 be on the look out for an increased online and social media presence from all candidates. President Obama's campaign is already on track to spend $35 million in online advertising alone this cycle. Compare that to the $16 million online spend in 2008 and you have quite the large increase.
Though online media spend is only a small fraction of what candidates spend on advertising overall, the upward trend will only continue as more and more political campaigns become well versed in the social sphere.


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Joe West on the "strikezone"
Joe West as quoted in the Washington Examiner last year: "[..]A batter can't hit a pitch above his hands, so how can that be a strike? The rule book zone isn't that well understood." (Emphasis mine) Hold onto your caps kiddos, this is going to be one hell of a series.


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JEFFERSONVILLE, IN (WAVE) - Jeffersonville's City Council president said he expected members to delay a vote on Mayor Mike Moore's plan to hire new police officers.
Moore, who is concerned that the city's police force is understaffed, has proposed adding 25 officers over the next five years to patrol throughout the city. Recently, he and council members have paid for new surveillance cameras and a temporary contract with off-duty officers to provide security.
Council President Dennis Julius conceded that the city should add some officers, but said Moore's plan wasn't comprehensive because it only relied only on hiring and not new technology.
"A true leader tells you what they need, but they also have a plan to get there," Julius said. "That's part of our problem."
Julius said he expects the council will table the measure at a meeting on Monday because a majority of members want more time to consider it.
Moore said delaying a vote on the proposal would be a mistake.
"The time to think about it has passed," he said. "I'm going to be really troubled if we go in Monday night and make a formal presentation and they want to table it. "
Moore said Jeffersonville Police has 73 sworn police officers. State and FBI standards suggest the city, with a population of 47,000, should have 94 officers.
Julius and Moore disagreed on the cost of each new officer's salary and benefits, with Moore expecting the city would spend $90,000 for each new hire and Julius suggesting the number was around $121,000.
The two also sparred over whether the city had the funding to pay for additional hiring. Moore said Jeffersonville is sitting on a $9 million surplus.
"This will not cause any tax increase," he said. "It's nice to have the surplus, but if there's one thing people want in their city, it's to feel safe."
Julius suggested the surplus was much smaller, as the city pays its bills and unexpected expenses, such as a new fire truck.
The new officers would patrol the entire city, not just downtown, where Jeffersonville officials concentrated their attention as the Indiana ramp to the Big Four Bridge opened last month.
Moore said he wasn't aware of the surveillance cameras solving any crimes, but said he was confident their presence had deterred some criminals.
Louisville also added surveillance cameras on Waterfront Park and spent $600,000 in overtime costs to patrol downtown after mob violence March 22.
"I think some of this is a knee-jerk reaction to what's happening in Louisville." Julius said. "They say it's not, but it's awful coincidental."
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There are a few documents who provide some hints what may have happened thousands of years ago:
The Ark as history ("..'Make thee an ark of gopher wood: Rooms shalt thou make in the Ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with bitumen'..")
Physics and the Bible: The Terrible Flood of Noah ("..The 104th Psalm is a beautiful hymn about creation that complements the information given to us in Genesis and elsewhere in the Bible. Here, as in other Scriptures...")
The Flood Of Noah And The Flood Of Gilgamesh ("..The Epic of Gilgamesh has been of interest to Christians ever since its discovery in the mid-nineteenth century in the ruins of the great library at Nineveh, with its account of a universal flood with significant parallels to the Flood of Noah's day..")
What is the Purpose of the Ark, Fossils, and the Flood? ("..Why did God send the Flood? The people of that time were ignoring God and seeking their own pleasures. The purpose of the Flood was to destroy all civilization and start over again...")
The Morality of Noah's Ark Story ("..Noah's Ark is back in the news. The Guardian newspaper (in the UK) reported on the 14th April 1997 that "archaeologists are slugging it out in an Australian court over the final resting place of the ark...")
Noah's Ark ("..A true story based on the Holy Bible, Genesis 6-9 ("..After Adam and Eve sinned against God they were thrown out of the garden of Eden. Then they began to have children and all of their children were just like them--disobedient sinners. A few of them however..")
Noah's Ark - Truth or Myth? (".. For various reasons, many people today find the story of Noah's Ark quite difficult to believe...")
The Flood Story ("..a translated version of the story of Noah's Ark.." - Genesis 6-8)
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There are many information about ark research on the net. but it seems that nobody has found this ark yet, even while claimed so. Why?...:
Before the legend of NOAH - Flood Stories Predating the Noah Story (".. According to an inscribed clay tablet discovered in Nippur, Iraq by an American expedition 1883 - 1886; A man and his family survived a catastrophic flood by receiving advanced warning from God, probably before 1800 BC..." - Article)
...The Bible's account of Noah, the ark, and the Genesis flood states that the ark came to rest on the "mountains of rrt" where "rrt" has been translated "Urartu" or later "Ararat" during Armenian times. At the beginning of the Christian era...
Has Noah's Ark Been Found? ("..For two or three years I have been regularly confronted with the double question, "Has Noah's ark been found, and if so, why aren't Adventist archaeologists in the forefront of proclaiming this discovery?" This article is the first of a two part series to answer these questions...")
Has Noah's ark been found in Turkey? ("..Noah's ark is not entombed in ice on Mt. Ararat as claimed by some. However..")
Ten Logical Reasons For The Ark Of Noah Being In Iran ("..Around the beginning of the Christian era, readers of Genesis would probably understand the word "Ararat" in terms of the geography of their day rather than that of the Genesis narrator..")
The Search for Noah's Ark ("..In the spring of 1974, the world stood amazed at the revelation that U.S. satellites had photographed an object in the ice cap of Mt. Ararat. While some wondered at the discovery, a few staunch explorers realized the impact of the government's findings..." - Detailed. Nice done)
Archaeologists, Geologists and Geophysicists Discover Noah's Ark or Geological Formation? ("..Not too long ago, explorers claimed that they had found Noah's ark atop Mount Ararat in Turkey. Yet, two years ago, what some believe to be Noah's ark was found not on Mount Ararat but on a remote site about 20 miles away, near the border of Turkey and Iran...")
Ancient Mysteries ("..IS Noah's Ark a fact or a fiction? Are there credible evidences to substantiate the biblical claims that Noah's ark is a historic reality and not a myth? Whether Noah's ark is a fact or fiction -- the unexplainable thing is that every culture and civilization in the past and in the present have been immensely influenced by the story of Noah's ark...")
Facts On Noah's Ark (Detailed...)
Noah's Ark? Or elaborate fraud? - Tennessee adventurers document astonishing find ("..Within recent months a great interest has been resurrected in Noah's Ark; first it was all the jewelry and associated products hitting the shelves of the stores with pictures and images depicting the Ark...")
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