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A cheater named Mathew Martoma
Lied his way to a Stanford diploma.
His scam MBA
Was so artful a play
It deserves to be hanging in MOMA.
A cheater named Mathew Martoma
Lied his way to a Stanford diploma.
His scam MBA
Was so artful a play
It deserves to be hanging in MOMA.
Corrupted? Corrupted? Corrupted by the big bad hedgie!
Young Sidney who lived at the foot of the hill
Whose fame every virgin with envy doth fill…
How far the delicate lassie has fallen – caught in the clutches of SAC.
… you don't know what you're going to find.
… Mr. Martoma changed some of his first-year [Harvard] law school grades from B's to A's, including one in criminal law. He then sent the forged transcript to 23 judges when he applied for federal clerkships.
… After Harvard expelled him, Mr. Martoma, who at the time was known as Ajai Mathew Thomas, legally changed his name to Mathew Martoma in 2001, the same year he entered Stanford. It is not known what name Mr. Martoma used on his Stanford application.
Three years after graduating from Stanford [who knew Stanford had an eye for forgers?], Mr. Martoma landed a job as health care stock portfolio manager at SAC Capital. Jonathan Gasthalter, an SAC spokesman, has declined to comment about whether Mr. Cohen's hedge fund was aware of the Harvard incident when it hired Mr. Martoma.
Why not be honest and say We not only knew about it; it made him a shoo-in…
Details, in case you want to give it a go.
In late 1998, Martoma, a graduate of Duke, altered the transcript of his first-year law school grades: He gave himself A's in Civil Procedure, Contracts, and Criminal Law, rather than the B, B+, and B he'd earned, according to a Harvard Administrative Board report. He applied for clerkships with 23 judges using the altered transcripts. Weeks later, someone in the school's registrar's office discovered that the transcript had been changed. Martoma then withdrew the clerkship applications and told Harvard that the doctored transcripts had been sent out by mistake.
In a classic example of how the coverup is usually worse than the crime, Martoma appealed his dismissal from Harvard by arguing that he'd withdrawn the applications before he was caught and that the improper transcripts had been submitted accidentally. His efforts apparently involved creating a fake computer data forensics company, complete with a professional-looking marketing flyer, to corroborate the time stamps of his e-mails.
As we speak, a shooter (or shooters) at the Washington Navy Yard has killed or wounded several people, some of whom have been transported to GW Hospital. UD doesn't teach today, but she can imagine the scene outside the hospital, with police, reporters, families, onlookers, etc. And this is already an extremely busy Washington intersection, with the metro, law offices, and GW medical school buildings immediately adjacent.
UD hadn't planned on posting about the firing of GW's business school dean, but the story has gone from strange to bizarre to bizzzzzaro in the last few days, so here goes.
Handsome young hotshot Douglas Guthrie is hired away from NYU three years back to lead GW's way-ambitious b-school (it not long ago got an amazing new building, plus a big ol' budget…). Guthrie overspends his budget rather shockingly and is for this reason (or so the official story goes) fired.
It's very bad news for the b-school, which has lately seen lots of administrative turnover and disappointing national rankings.
It gradually becomes apparent that Guthrie has a story to tell, and he has really spilled it to The Hatchet, the school newspaper. The suggestion in the story (partly coming from Guthrie, partly from others) is that the overspend was a cover story, the real deal being charges against Guthrie of "making illegal financial deals in China and having sex with colleagues." These charges apparently came from the chair of the Faculty Senate executive committee, and Guthrie seems to be claiming that it was his lawyer's letter to the university, discussing the possibility of a slander lawsuit, that really prompted his firing.
As to whether Guthrie might have tried to profit personally from his overseas university work … who knows? There's plenty of precedent for it, with Harvard's Andrei Shleifer (his adventures in Russia cost the university $31 million in penalties) the most notorious case. But the explosive charge in the GW newspaper piece is this one: The executive committee chair apparently also charged that
Guthrie had been sharing profits with [university provost Steven] Lerman and other top administrators, according to [another faculty member's] complaint.
… went the headline way back in 1988, an earlier insider trading season. Having covered oodles of more recently imprisoned Wharton grads on this blog, my question is: Is the Wharton school criminogenic? Does it take nice boys (they're all boys) and make them naughty? Or is it (as UD suspects) simply notorious for being the go-to place to learn how to be a financial crook and to make, er, connections with other people along these lines? Just put WHARTON in my search engine for a sample of these amazing high-flyers! I'm thinking that if you're not planning to defraud at the very least a thousand investors, you're not going to bother applying to Wharton. I'm thinking that if you're not planning to steal in the tens of millions you're not going to bother with the application fee.
So – and I know – who's counting? – but so the latest Wharton guy is Courtney Dupree, also a product of scandal-city University of North Carolina. Once a mover/shaker in his "super-chic loft on Broad Street in Manhattan's financial district," he's now off to seven years in prison for an $18 million bank fraud. And The Legend of Wharton lives on.
Are you kidding me? That would be amazing.
Why should Chelyabinsk Oblast get all the fun.
One of UD's most commonly used categories on this blog is Beware the B-School Boys, in which UD attempts to help you see econ and MBA grads coming. (For details, click on the category's name at the end of this post.) Two recent instructive cases from Harvard are worth mentioning.
Florian Homm played a little basketball for Harvard when he was an undergrad there, but his big thing was business: econ undergrad; MBA grad. He seems always to have been a cultured crook, an intellectual Bernard Madoff who, after years of hiding from the law, has lately been captured. Bernie crafted crude Ponzis; Florian engaged in portfolio pumping, which takes a finer Italian hand.
As with nutty professor Paul Frampton, the New York Times writer covering Florian's demise cannot help getting giggly:
Given Mr. Homm's flair for drama, it was perhaps fitting that he was arrested at the Uffizi Gallery, famous for an exquisite collection that includes works by Michelangelo, Rubens, Tintoretto and Rembrandt…
But it is unclear why Mr. Homm, who is 201 centimeters, or 6 feet 7 inches, tall and something of a celebrity in Germany, would appear in a place where there are many German tourists and he was likely to be recognized.
The seduction of beauty! From Sozzo Tegliacci to the SEC in one shattering second!
But seriously, folks; there's something about a Harvard and high-style Euro charisma that makes investors unwary… And UD's a little worried that you'll still fall for Florian in his latest iteration:
"The pursuit of happiness is not correlated with the pursuit of money," [Homm said in a recent interview]… Mr. Homm insisted he was no longer the same person who once owned a stake in a Berlin brothel and lived in a $5 million residence on Majorca with a Russian table dancer. He said he prayed daily and was devoting his energy to charity work.
Okay so I want you to bring a smidgen of doubt to this self-description too, okay? Remember: Beware the B-School Boys.
Though he seems never to have taken any classes with him, Florian claims to have known and even worked with Harvard's notorious professor Michael Porter (Porter has said he does not remember Florian). Porter's now-bankrupt Monitor Group failed to register as a lobbying outfit, did fellatial obeisance to Muammar Gaddafi, and so on and so on. If you didn't put your money on Florian, maybe you're tempted to put it on Porter, who remains a Harvard professor, and is not being chased by the SEC. Maybe you're tempted to make him your business strategy consultant.
[Porter's] picture of CEO-superdeciders helps justify their huge compensation and the congratulatory press coverage, and yet [it] has little foundation in fact or logic. The strategy business … lasted so long in part because it supports and advances the pretensions of the C-suite.
Porter's strategy theory is to CEOs what ancient religions were to tribal chieftains. The ceremonies are ultimately about the divine right of the rulers to rule — a kind of covert form of political theory. [One observer says] it is "like a ritual rain dance. It has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think that it does." … [Monitor was] doomed from the outset. Its embarrassing debacle marked the beginning of the end of the era of business metaphysics and the exposure of the most over-valued idea on the planet: sustainable competitive advantage.
Go where the need is greatest, they say, and wealthy businessman Douglas Ginsburg became convinced that yet another fitness center on Georgetown University's campus – this one exclusively for the use of law students – would best serve humanity.
He gave millions of dollars toward its construction, and the whole deal was basically one of those love-fests – Georgetown was gonna plaster his picture on all the medicine balls or whatever; the school invited him to be on the Board of Visitors …
Sure, the university was aware that the SEC was somewhat, er, exercised about Ginsburg's insider trading; but what would universities, from Brown to the University of Michigan, do without insider traders on the faculty and the board of trustees? All that money has to come from somewhere…
So, I mean, they took the money and they built the dealie, but when Ginsburg actually got hammered by the SEC, Georgetown decided, on reflection, that it would rather the face of an insider trader not be hung, like one more religious icon, from the Jesuit school's walls.
This behavior shattered Ginsburg's innocence. In his lawsuit, he writes:
"Ginsburg was invited to join the Georgetown Board of Visitors, welcomed to university functions, invited on university trips and generally embraced by the university, all with the goal of extracting ever more money from him."
So! It had all been a nefarious tit for tat!
Now that the scales have fallen from Ginsburg's eyes, he has sued, not only to get his money back, but for the repair of his idealism.
… Henry Mintzberg [scroll down], the head of Tel Aviv University's undergraduate business program has urged students not to major in business.
"Study of academic disciplines prepares students to think scientifically in these fields and form the foundation for advanced studies in graduate degree programs," he said.
One student is outraged:
"Too bad he doesn't have the integrity not to head a department he doesn't believe in."
Do you have to insist on majors in order to believe in your department? UD says no. UD says it shows integrity to care about the quality of undergraduate education your business… minors?… are getting and steer them toward actual academic fields. (Wee UD herself found that the hard-bitten vocationalism of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism was not enough to keep the mind alive, and quickly transferred to the English department.)
Meanwhile, on the business ethics front, a New York judge has sentenced an insider trading to lecturing.
"To the extent possible, Mr. Fortuna can speak at his college and school of business and other institutions about his own situation and how [easy] it is for him and others to have committed this crime and the difficulties he's encountered as a result," [Sidney] Stein said yesterday as he imposed the sentence.
UD foresees an entire industry of MOOCs arising out of the synergy between large numbers of incarcerated insider traders and the need for business schools to deal with their profession's, er, ethics problems. The general title for these MOOCs would be INSIDER GATING, with subtitles specific to each incarceree's case.
This commenter, responding to a typically mushy article about teaching ethics in American business schools, says what UD always says about this subject. Either you scare b-school grads into good behavior, or forget it.
I mean, plenty of b-school grads are good people and will follow the law yadda yadda. Plenty aren't good people, however, and they won't follow the law. Are b-schools responsible for trying to change the not-good people into good people before they leave their business programs?
UD thinks it's sweet of them to try, sweet of them to rig up be-good courses. But it don't make no nevermind and you know it and I know it.
In line with this sensible commenter's comment, UD, she reminds you, has proposed the following:
1. Drop all business ethics courses.
2. Initiate a program of visiting lecturers drawn from convicted business fraudsters residing in local prisons.
UD thanks David for the link.
A recent study by a group of business school professors has intriguing implications for MBA programs throughout Illinois.
Because traditions and lines of bribery tend to be both clear and reliable in fully corrupt countries, it's far easier to do business in them than in only partially corrupt countries.
The authors of the study see no reason why this principle couldn't apply to American cities and states; and, a Chicago Tribune columnist points out, "Chicago just last year was deemed the nation's most corrupt city and Illinois the third-most corrupt state in a well-publicized analysis."
Rather than force their MBA students to take absurd ethics courses (UD's critique of these courses may be enjoyed by clicking on the category Beware the B-School Boys), business schools throughout Illinois might instead exploit their state's curious advantage by offering modules on the tradition and fine-tuning of graft.
… UD was entering a blue line train at Foggy Bottom, and a woman with lots of luggage sat down next to her. The woman apologized for taking up so much room with the luggage, and UD commiserated. "No fun dragging lots of stuff from one car to another."
The woman explained that she commuted twice a week to a lectureship at GW University's school of business. "I teach a class in business ethics."
Readers of the UD category Beware the B-School Boys know that UD has what to say about that.
In her shy, tongue-tied way, UD took advantage of the three minutes they had before they went their separate ways at Metro Center to tell this woman all about her area of specialization.
The woman was a good sport, and she came right back with a defense of the enterprise, and UD came back from the defense, etc., etc.
I swear it was all very amiable, with the woman (they exchanged names on the platform, but if you think UD remembers swiftly exchanged names on noisy platforms, you don't know UD) insisting that "in the long run" unethical behavior destroys shareholder value, and UD insisting that short-term profit seems to suit a lot of people perfectly well, thank you, and that for instance insider trading – both unethical and illegal – seems absolutely rampant — you might say even structural to the economy — and even after the feds finally drag in Steven Cohen it will continue to be a practice many business people defend and engage in…
UD's hastily attempted point (swaying train, unsteady luggage, crush of commuters) was that business schools are hopelessly up against a humongous cognitive dissonance between moral scrupulousness and the nature of competitive financial markets. She was not saying, she yet more hastily hastened, that free marketeering was the work of the devil. She merely pointed out that mild to extreme cheating was endemic to the project, and the business school that fails to take this into serious account runs the risk of having its ethics component be a laughingstock.
You see, the rhetoric of university business ethics courses always looks like this. This Globe and Mail article begins, as most on the subject do, with the rampant reality:
Over the past decade, a succession of high-profile corporate crimes has spurred business schools, globally, to infuse business ethics and leadership into course content.
Not just the last decade, of course; corporate misbehavior and crime has been massive for decades. And business schools have been offering tons of ethics courses through all of those decades. But, you know, check out this category, Beware the B-School Boys. Just read the latest entry in it, about the dean of Columbia University's business school.
Anyway, the Globe and Mail story goes on to announce that this new guy is really going to turn things around at Ryerson University…
Yet the language he offers his interviewer is dead jargon city. Leadership is a process, not a position… Let's talk codes of conduct…
Faithful UD readers know what she proposes. Toss the courses. Initiate a lecture series featuring business cheats who got caught. These guys are often articulate, charismatic… Incentivize them by taking a bit of time off of their sentences for each speech.
… how to do business.
If you want to make big money – say $1200 an hour – you can't be too scrupulous about how you do research, and you can't be too scrupulous about your clients.
As Matt Taibbi points out, Hubbard took $1200 an hour from the now-notorious Countrywide Financial Corp. to be an expert witness on their behalf in an insurer's lawsuit against them.
… Hubbard testified on behalf of Countrywide in the MBIA suit. He conducted an "analysis" that essentially concluded that Countrywide's loans weren't any worse than the loans produced by other mortgage originators, and that therefore the monstrous losses that investors in those loans suffered were due to other factors related to the economic crisis – and not caused by the serial misrepresentations and fraud in Countrywide's underwriting.
In other words, the Dean of the Columbia University business school testified that the fact that Countrywide claimed to have conducted thorough due diligence when in fact it was pressuring underwriters to approve 60 to 70 mortgage applications a day and failing to verify any income levels or other key information (to say nothing of the outright falsification of such data, which also went on on a mass scale) – he testified that these issues were irrelevant.
For that amount of money, you'd expect scrupulous research techniques.
So how did Hubbard manage to analyze Countrywide and conclude that mass fraud in its underwriting procedures wasn't problematic? Easy: He didn't look at the underwriting! All Hubbard did was take a group of Countrywide loans and compare them to a group of other loans from the same time period.
When that comparison revealed that Countrywide's loans failed at about the same rate as the non-Countrywide loans, he smartly concluded that fraud wasn't the problem and that macroeconomic factors must have been the cause.
Except for one thing: He left out the fact that about half of the loans in the "non-Countrywide" pool he selected for his analysis were originated by companies that were also being sued for underwriting fraud and other irregularities. What Hubbard did is compare a bunch of bad loans to a bunch of bad loans.
Taibbi concludes:
[T]his awesome ability to non-absorb information makes him qualified to be one of America's leading academics.
The Wharton School of Business. UD has lost count of how many graduates, just this year, have been indicted for incredibly high-level fraud.
[Craig] Toll … [is] charged with defrauding … investors out of $40 million, and scamming the federal government out of … $10 million [he was] given to help finance construction of a Haitian factory to build homes for hurricane victims.
Toll, 64, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
… [He is charged with] 23 counts of fraud and money laundering
Do you suppose anyone at Wharton notices how many of their graduates are criminals, or are under indictment? Or are, like Brown University's highest-profile trustee, getting buzzed by the SEC an awful lot?
Hell, maybe Wharton's proud of it. You have to figure there are tons more graduates out there successfully defrauding people.
See now here's a whole article about how exceptionally morally reflective Mathew Martoma was in college and graduate school.
One of his friends calls him "very smart and ethical," and wonders: "Did the situation and SAC push him over the edge?"
Brown University's highest-profile trustee, Steven Cohen, does run a strikingly … aggressive hedge fund, but if you allow people to blame Martoma's insider trading indictment (he's accused of the most lucrative insider trading in history) on his environment, you're allowing them to blame the bad behavior of everyone (and everyone here means everyone from a less wonderful, less gloriously privileged environment than Martoma's, which is to say everyone) on their environment. If you blame Martoma's downfall on the misfortune of his having been hired by the most powerful, prestigious hedge fund in the world, I mean boooohoooo. Fuggedaboutit.
This guy isn't your average impressionable morally middling guy. He's described by lots of people as keenly knowledgeable and sensitive in the moral realm. There's Dr. Rieux over there risking his life every day to save Oran from the plague, presiding stoically at the bedside of a child dying in appalling agony; and here's Martoma bringing to that novel acute insights on the capacity of human beings to empathize with and sacrifice for one another. How can a guy able to reason about morality at that level cheat and steal like a son of a bitch?
Er, is this really a problem for you? Do you really think there's a puzzle to work out here? Have you read Dr. Faustus, Notes from Underground, Hamlet, or almost any serious work of literature?
We can go back and forth, and I'm happy to go back and forth, about the utility of ethics courses in business school. Say we appoint David Petraeus to lecture in such courses, along with other people we think of as moral paragons. If we're lucky, the focus of his lectures will be the very complex vulnerabilities and blindnesses and compulsions that lie within all of us.
Not that understanding this, even on a very high level, will tend to make you, personally, more ethical. Ask Michael Martoma, and many other insider traders who share his excellent upbringing, his excellent education, and his exquisite moral reasoning, about that. If anything, the staggering good fortune these people have enjoyed all their lives, their easy entry into elite settings, their great wealth, even their great intellect, tends to make them feel removed from the common suffering humanity that Dr. Rieux found so compelling. These days, Americans are wealthy in ways unimaginable in the past. Steve Cohen's personal fortune is close to ten billion dollars, and Michael Martoma moved very much in Steve Cohen's world. The power, and the almost absolute removal from common human life, this sort of wealth — or a life lusting after this sort of wealth — yields, has — obviously — for many people — disastrous moral consequences. No business school is going to talk honestly about this, because no business school wants to be in the business of saying Come to study here, and we'll teach you all about limits.


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Ship Equip Broadband for Frontline Tankers
Ship Equip announced the signing of a major broadband communications contract with Frontline Management, world leader in the international seaborne transportation of crude oil. The agreement between Ship Equip and Frontline Management AS (NYSE:FRO) includes ships from Frontline, Golden Ocean and Knightsbridge Tankers. The Frontline group of companies, with majority owner John Fredriksen, is one of the world's largest tanker owner, controlling more than 100 ships. Ship Equip will provide Frontline vessels with its exclusive SEVSAT (Ship Equip VSAT) broadband communications solution, delivering high-speed data, email and voice communications. Several SEVSAT systems have already been installed on Frontline ships and are currently in operation, providing a wide range of critical communications at a fixed cost, such as Internet access, email and telephone lines (including pre-paid crew calling). "We have been engaged in dialogue with Frontline for some time," said Ship Equip Sales Director Knut Helge Drivenes after successfully negotiating the contract. "We reached an agreement where Ship Equip will provide our SEVSAT technology, expertise and know-how to ensure that the fleet owned by Frontline Management benefits from state-of-the-art, high-speed broadband communications at sea."
SEVSAT for Entire Varada Marine OSV Fleet
Ship Equip announced a contract with Varada Marine to install its SEVSAT (Ship Equip VSAT) maritime broadband solution on the company's entire fleet of Offshore Supply Vessels. Varada Marine, a company with its head office in Kristiansand, Norway, has announced an extensive new building program at ABG Shipyard Ltd in India. Deliveries of SEVSAT systems will commence in step with the new building program, with the first system already delivered to the yard.
St. Lawrence Seaway Draft
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Pettitt Joins MTN
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Ship Equip Opens Rotterdam office
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MHI System Enhances Stability, Reduces Risk
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Hansa Shipping Equips Four New Vessels With CleanBallast®
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Veka-Group Develops LNG Tankers
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Wagenbourg New Crane for Oil, Gas, Energy Sector
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Cruise Newbuilds Feature Seawater Lubrication
The Viking Star, a47, 800GTcruise ship, is one of three Viking Ocean Cruises' newbuilds to opt for Thordon COMPAC seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearings. Constructed at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, the 944-passenger Viking Star is the first of three new ships equipped with
Further Developed Gas Engines from Liebherr
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Innovative Enviroship Concept Wins Big
Earlier this year Rolls-Royce was bestowed the Heyerdahl Award for its Enviroship concept. Maritime Reporter & Engineering News recently caught up with Per Egil Vedlog, Design Manager, Rolls-Royce Marine AS, for his insights on the honor as well as the challenge in designing for the
Monjasa Buys Tanker from Eships
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Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Delivers Fourth PSV
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DSS Secures HOS Jones Act MPSV for Gulf ROV Work
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Skandi Constructor Set for Work in Gulf of Mexico in 2015
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OC Selects Siemens Blue Drive PLUSC Propulsion Solution
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Uniworld Again Chooses Merus Water Treatment
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Carnival Plans to Save 1 Billion Gallons of Fuel
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DSME Orders GTT Membranes for 2 LNGCs
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GONDAN Delivers PSV Designed with FORAN
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Newbuild Containership Enters CMA CGM Fleet
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MOL Launches Ship Management, Training Businesses
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DBR Delivers 42 Gensets to Damen
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A delightfully ornate French cross pendant from the late 1970s, with a combination of rhinestones in rare earth colors.
The pendant has been attached to a fresh black velvet ribbon, but can also be worn with a cord, or chain which makes it suitable for women or men.
The piece is fairly large and is made of copper which has been wrought into delicate volutes. The rhinestones have various cuts: emerald, marquise and round, and the colors are clear, milky white, beige and burnt orange.
The piece is good quality, with the extra patina that comes with time, and will be easy to match with a lot of outfits.
MEASUREMENTS: Length: 2". (Plus bale) Width: 1 3/8" (5 cm) by (3.5 cm)
Ribbon: 29". (74 cm)
CONDITION: In very good condition. Normal darkening of metal due to age. All stones present.
Will be shipped "Registered" from Paris, including insurance and signature at delivery.
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Martin Kelly from Kinnegar Drive was last seen by friends at a bar in south Belfast on New Year's Day 2006.
Mr Kelly, who is about 6ft 1in tall and of slim build with short dark hair, was wearing a black 'Guinness' T-shirt and blue jeans at the time.
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PSNI Detective Chief Inspector Colin Gillis, Crime Manager for south and east Belfast said: "Police remain committed and determined to discovering what happened to Martin and to bringing closure to his family.
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WASHINGTON – Thirty-six hours after the Obama administration banned importation of the classic brand of AK-47 assault rifles as part of sanctions against Russia, a Maryland dealer specializing in the weapon took stock of its inventory.
There was nothing left.
Laboring almost nonstop, workers at Atlantic Firearms in Bishopville, a Worcester County community on the Eastern Shore, had shipped hundreds of Russian-made AK-47s – an assault rifle prized by both consumers and despots – as buyers wiped out gun dealers' inventories around the country. The frenzy was brought on, in part, by a suspicion among some gun owners that the Russia-Ukraine conflict was a back-door excuse to ban guns many Democrats don't like. The gun community moved very, very quickly, said Blaine Bunting, president of Atlantic Firearms. I don't see this ban going away.
The AK-47 buying frenzy presents yet another example of the paradoxical consequence of trying to limit gun sales: booming demand. During the debate over the measure commonly called the Brady Bill in the 1990s, gun purchases skyrocketed. When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, sales soared again. When President Barack Obama tried to pass sweeping gun control laws after the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting, some dealers sold out of ammunition.
The great irony here is that the threat of regulation has the perverse effect of stimulating sales, and not just by a little, said Philip Cook, a Duke University gun researcher and author of The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know. The numbers are impressive. You have millions of extra sales.
For gun dealers, the threat of increased regulations is frequently seen as a form of economic stimulus. But the surge in sales troubles advocates of gun control, who fear some buyers will flip their purchases in private sales at gun shows or through online auction sites, where background checks aren't required.
This has for decades worried people on my end of the business, said Stephen Teret, a public health expert at Johns Hopkins University who studies firearms. This is a way for guns to move from the licit to illicit markets.
Gun control advocates struggle with the unintended consequences of restricting or banning weapons. It might mean a sudden increase of guns in the hands of people who didn't have those guns before, Teret said, but you may want to accept that short-term problem for a long-term gain by banning a high-powered gun.


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Move over Scott Walker (R-WIS), John Boehner (R-OH), Donald Trump, and the Tea Party, with a possible government shutdown hours away, let's give this kid a chance...How bad could he be?
Move over Scott Walker (R-WIS), John Boehner (R-OH), Donald Trump, and the Tea Party, with a possible government shutdown hours away, let's give this kid a chance...How bad could he be?
Let's get serious here for a minute folks. It is impossible to turn the TV on these days and not hear another story about a kid that has committed suicide's after being bullied at school. This year alone there have been numerous cases right here in local schools and it seems it's brought up, then swept under the rug
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I think that this is going to be interesting because of how much criticism mma has taken from the boxing industry. It also may lead to some very good boxers looking to cross over into mma. THe only thing is that if they do hybrid shows then the most boring parts of the show will be the boxing matches. I'm not sure how the fans of mma and boxing will mix well.
Affliction and Golden Boy Join Forces, Hybrid MMA-Boxing Shows Coming
Affliction MMA and boxing powerhouse Golden Boy Promotions announced their partnership at a Saturday night press conference in Las Vegas.
The two have agreed to put on four hybrid MMA-Boxing PPV events starting in 2009.
"Golden Boy Promotions is the top boxing promoter in the world, and we look forward to working with them on future projects….With our companies working together, it gives Affliction another vehicle to deliver our products to our core customers, as well as utilizing Golden Boy's promotional expertise to further our efforts in Mixed Martial Arts."
Affliction and Golden Boy hope to gain crossover appeal from fans, while sharing some of the production costs associated with the PPV.
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i think mma and boxing and two different sports so i'm not a fan of a dual show. i know its good for business. when i'm watching mma i don't think about boxing. i don't know how they are going to separate the fights. i hope the have ppv boxing and ppv mma shows separately but under the affliction/golden boy banner.
i dont think the two should mix…sounds like a bad idea
it dosn't bother me i like boxing, i just hope they due a good job and put on great cards.
It could work if they have some Big name boxers on the same card as big name mma fighters. A ppv that had Oscar and Fedor would be cool. But, the last time I watched a boxing ppv it was mayweather and oscar d-hoya. I watched d-hoya chase mayweather around for 12 rounds. It sucked. We wasted $50. On the other hand when you buy an mma ppv, you get 5 or 6 fights and probably 4 of them will not go to a decision. MMa fighters train for the finish. It seems like most boxers train for points. We'll see I guess.
I think it's a great idea. I love boxing, even if you hate it you have to admit that "forcing" boxing fans to watch MMA fights can only be good for the sport.
I think this will be a bad move for Affliction & MMa in general , simply because boxing has always been related with coruption and fixed fight, i dont think that MMa needs an image like this, plus this seems like a last resort from boxing promotions to drag in mma fans back to boxing . the only thing possitive could be the financial aspect of it. this is definitely a bad move.
I was a boxing fan…because there was no MMA readily available in the 90's and early 00's. I think if the boxing is good, it can work. If the boxers are not good exciting fighters then even a fairly boring MMA fight will make the boxing look bad. I think it can work, but possibly be a rocky endeavor.
boxing has nothing to do with mma. most mma fans don't even watch boxing. its like having a football/soccer combo just because they both play on large grass fields.
i dont know what this is all about yet. it might just be a label for individual boxing and mma events…i hope so. but both sports in one event is stupid in my opinion. it might sell more t's for affliction but i dont see how it helps out the sport of mma or boxing.
I don't watch boxing. It kind of bores the hell out of me. I can't get into it because it kind of seems like a waste. They have so many weapons but they only use their hands. When they clinch up, sometimes they do it when they are tired and they just get separated. "I'm not saying it is a shitty or easy sport though. I know damn well it is hard and very popular. It's just not for me. I do not think they should mix because they will lose a good amount of MMA fans if they have to sit through a boxing match.
did you see boxing in the olympics?? that was terrible. yeah i haven't really been into boxing since 2002. too me boxing seems more like a point sport so i like mma more where anything can happen…and fast.


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Simply Africa - Various
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Back to Africa [DVD]
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Africa - Down Low
Release Date: 2007-09-03, Audio CD, K-Town
Africa - Original Soundtrack
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Africa - Dennis Brown
Africa - Dennis Brown
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Nomination Classic South Africa Flag Charm
Nomination Classic South Africa Flag Charm
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Africa 2000 - Echobeatz
Africa 2000 - Echobeatz
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Haller-Lujah! Haller Wildlife Park. Mombasa, Kenya.
Advantages: An inexpensive way to get close up to some wildlife. Well laid out. Very good free guides.
Disadvantages: Not very disabled friendly but then I don't supose many jungle places could be.
...How did we get to Haller?
During our recent trip to Kenya we decided to pay a visit to an attraction that a lot of the other guests in our hotel had recommended. We walked down the hotel Drive and after a bit of haggling with a Tuk-Tuk driver paid over the princely sum of 500 Kenya Shillings. (approximately £4.25) This was to take us there and collect us at 5pm when the park shut...
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Lynx Africa
Advantages: Spicy fragrance, instant hit of freshness, easy application.
Disadvantages: Lacks staying power, expensive.
...grown older, and I now use more deodorant sticks than sprays. The Lynx brand is very well-known and is popular with young males. Some of the adverts are certainly aimed towards this target market, and Lynx have found a very profitable and proven method for attracting these individuals to use their products. Lynx isn't just available as a deodorant spray, and you can find shower gels and...
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Lynx Africa Body Spray
Advantages: Nice fragrance, decent packaging
Disadvantages: Not great value for money.
...working there to this day, all Lynx deodorants have been available at the more reasonable price of £1.99, compared to the usual £2.50 to £4 it usually is in the supermarkets. I really like the scent of most Lynx products, and I'm quite a picky bugger. Africa is one of the oldest scents that's still available and is still quite popular. I rather like Africa myself - I wouldn't say it's my favourite scent...
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WATCH LIVE: Josh Earnest to Deliver 12:45pm Press Briefing
White House press secretary Josh Earnest will deliver a briefing to the press corps around 12:45pm Wednesday afternoon.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest will deliver a briefing to the press corps around 12:45pm Wednesday afternoon.
At 1pm Wednesday afternoon, White House press secretary Josh Earnest will deliver a press briefing before the White House press corps.
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During today's White House press briefing with Josh Earnest and moments after initial reports that American journalist Steve Sotloff was beheaded by ISIS, TIME's Zeke Miller asked Earnest about the reports or for reaction, which the White House press secretary had yet to learn or see.
"This is something that the administration has obviously been watching very carefully since this threat against Mr. Sotloff's life was originally made a few weeks ago," said Earnest this afternoon. "Our thoughts and prayers, first and foremost, are with Mr. Sotloff and Mr. Sotloff's family, and those who worked with him. The United States, as you know, has dedicated significant time and resources to trying and rescue Mr. Sotloff." Read more
At 1pm Thursday afternoon, White House press secretary Josh Earnest will deliver a press briefing before the White House press corps.
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In a recent POLITICO piece, Edward-Isacc Dovere and Carrie Budoff Brown highlight Obama's recent habit of addressing press and answering questions from behind the podium:
"This never used to happen in the Obama White House, a place so obsessed with message control that the president could go months without talking with the press corps. However, in the past seven weeks, Obama has taken questions an average of once a week."
The change in protocol comes around the same time that White House press secretary Josh Earnest took over for Jay Carney after his June 20 departure.
"The shifting media strategy is part of a new White House effort to jolt its communications operation, especially as Obama fights weak poll numbers and wages an intense campaign to keep the Senate in Democratic control this November."
For the full story, click on over to POLITICO.
A video posted to The White House YouTube channel today highlights four Kansas City residents set to dine with President Barack Obama this evening.
"The President loves getting 10 letters a night, that he reads every night, where he can hear from everyday Americans about how they're affected by the policies that he's fighting to implement here in Washington," White House press secretary Josh Earnest says in the video. "The president's been traveling across the country meeting with these individual people who've written him letters. He's gonna do the same thing in Kansas City."
The video continues with Earnest calling individuals – including Becky, Victor, and Valerie – who have written to Obama letting them know that they're invited to dine with the president.
"Would you be willing to have dinner with the President on Tuesday night," asks Earnest, to which one woman replied, "Ohh yes, yes…That sounds like a blast."
ABC News reports that the President will dine with "a man who thanked Obama for student loan help he received, a single mother who described her challenges raising children and running a business, a teacher in a GED program and a woman who is active in her neighborhood association."
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On Sunday's "Reliable Sources," CNN host Brian Stelter sat down in the White House briefing room with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest to discuss a variety of issues including the Administration's 'transparency' and how he's settling into his new role in his first Sunday Show appearance.
On the topic of transparency, Earnest said, "If there's ever a day when the White House press corps sits back and says, 'You know, we're getting all the information that we need from the White House Press Office,' then everybody in the White House press corps would not be doing their jobs, right?"
For those who missed, click through for the full conversation, which also touched on whether he's dreaded any days he's had to speak at the podium, if the briefing should remain televised, and what his media diet entails. Read more
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Who's on the talk shows this weekend?
"Fox News Sunday" has Amb. Dennis Ross. Rick Santorum is headed to NBC's "Meet the Press." Attorney General Eric Holder is slated for ABC's "This Week." And CNN's "State of the Union" landed Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Donna Edwards (D-MD), Aaron Schock (R-IL), and Beto O'Rourke (D-TX).
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Jonathan Karl posed a question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest at today's press briefing on the topic of a 'Throwback Thursday' Tweet by @BarackObama referencing "when a woman—not her boss—made her own decisions about her health care."
"Does he even read the others?" asked Karl about ones not signed with his initials. "Does he know they're going out? Are they reviewed by senior people at the White House or is that just simply OFA doing something on his behalf?"


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Possible New Restrictions on Owning FirearmsSubmitted by chibri on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 22:11
There was a recent forum topic about the government restricting personal ownership of firearms for protection of your household - I think.
I'm trying to convert some friends, anyone have the link or info I'm looking for.
Go to Gun Owners of America
The Veterans Disarmament Act as it is known is really an expantion of existing gun laws. It allows for the dumping of raw medical data into the NICS background check system, which used to only carry criminal history records. It really expands the range of people who will be prohibited.
It is no longer just a "criminal" background check system but a medical background check system as well.
Right now, the only people who will be addressed by this legislation are people who have been recognized as "disabled" by the government in connection with a psychological disorder, particularly veterans and police officers who have been "disabled" by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Eventually, the elderly with Alzheimer's and the youth with ADD/ADHD will be targeted but only if they are declared to be "disabled" by the disorder. The IDEA program running in schools now WILL designate children as "disabled" by psychological evaluations conducted by school psychologists.
The qualifications for "disabled" status by the federal government are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and those who qualify are eligible to receive Social Security benefits, which veterans with PTSD typically do.
Right now, a simple diagnosis of a psycholigical disorder will not be enough to include you in the system.
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The nature of background screening has been expanded and the doors have been opened for future inclusion of people who meet increasingly relaxed standards of "disabled."
The fear is that the terminology is so vague that in time the system could include anyone who has ever been treated for any psychological disorder.
Gun Owners of America had to lobby aggressively to have a clause included in the bill that requires that people in the future be notified of the loss of their second amendment rights when they are given a disability status that designates them as a prohibited person. We should thank them for that effort, though people who have already been recognized as disabled have already been prohibited without notice.
I would recommend them too.
I would recommend them too. NRA has no integrity left.
Goose-Stepping Gun Grabbers
Isn't that just like the goose-stepping gun-grabbers? To deprive veterans, the most honorable people in the nation, of their Second Amendment Rights? This is just more fuel to the fire. We need to vote these criminals out of office.
By and large, politicians are the criminal class of any country. They lie, make deals, take bribes, and do whatever is necessary to secure the position they are after. They sell their souls.
There is a conspiracy to disarm the American people. It has been going on for over forty years. Criminal politicians have used the excuses of fighting crime, preventing accidents, reducing suicides, protecting the public from hazardous substances (ammunition), reducing domestic violence, and now protecting the public from veterans. We don't need the Second Amendment, our politicians tell us.
This is all the more reason to vote for Ron Paul. Dr. Paul is dedicated to protecting our civil rights, including the Second Amendment. The other candidates represent tyranny. Make your choice.
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Have them watch this video...
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The one about mental illness or treatment?
There was one posting on here about a new bill that passed that addressed background checks and mental illness, treatment etc that was very ambigious and wideranged and far as who qualified etc. This bill also addressed the Vets with PTSD (post tramatic stress disorder) and the fact that they would NOT be able to purchase guns any longer. I don't know if this is the post or restriction you are talking about but you may want to search Daily Paul forums if this is the one you are talking about.
The post really disturbed me because this is the first step in gun control and disarming our military veterans in case of Marshall Law. Hope this helps.
Martial Law
The Veterans DIsarmament Act???
Heres a link to some excellent info on the Gunowners of America site:
you better be buying guns now
It won't be long until they won't allow the public to buy guns, then they will limit how much ammo you can buy. So if Ron Paul isn't elected you really should give serious thought to stocking up.
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The mum of a 12-year-old girl badly injured when she was hit by a car has launched a drive to improve road safety in Cheam.
Nicky Hannigan's daughter Jade was left with a broken sternum and is still off school after she was knocked down by a car at the zebra crossing near her house in Malden Road on December 17.
Now Mrs Hannigan and her neighbours are calling on Sutton Council to improve safety measures in the road by cutting the speed limit, putting up signs telling drivers there are schools in the area and replacing the zebra crossing with a pelican crossing. More than 1,000 people have already signed several petitions calling for changes to be made.
Mrs Hannigan said: "Jade is a lot better now but she's still going to be off school for another two weeks. She broke her sternum and it's damaged the muscles in her chest so now every movement is painful for her.
"It happened at the zebra crossing which is right outside our house. Someone had stopped to let her cross and she doesn't remember what happened next but her friend who was with her said the driver coming the other way just didn't see her.
"When she was in hospital she just kept saying 'mummy, I was on the crossing, I did it right' because I've always told her to make sure she uses the crossing.
"That's why I want to see changes - we need a proper crossing with lights and more signs to say there are schools in the area.
"It's not just for Jade, that's happened now, it's to make sure the road is safe for everyone around here."
Petitions have been launched online, at nearby Cheam Fields School and are being delivered door to door. Among those backing the campaign is Malden Road mum Loredana Beasant. She said: "We want to get a pelican crossing put in and to get the speed limit reduced - it's a long stretch of road and in 10 years living here we've seen how fast people drive."
The campaign also has backing from Cheam Councillor Mary Burstow who said: "The problem is especially bad in the evening, when the road is quiet, some drivers think it is OK to just put your foot down and do 50mph.
"I want drivers to get the message, if you speed on the Malden Road, you will get caught! I would also like to see the zebra crossing to be upgraded to a pelican crossing. Drivers pay more attention to traffic lights."
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From the moment he strode into the Red Keep at the end of the Battle of Blackwater, Tywin Lannister has been the de factor ruler of Westeros, even if it was his grandsons sitting on the Iron Throne. Tywin is a commanding figure, often wise and pragmatic, but not a patient man.
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When I heard the new song "We Were Us" by Keith Urban with Miranda Lambert, I got really inspired. One of the lines in the song is "Low Beam Lights", and that's the name of this dance.
You need to use low center of gravity when you dance this. So make sure to keep your knees bent when you learn it.
This dance is a lot of fun, and maybe you have seen The Boot Scoot Troop dance it at the Jason Aldean concert in September of 2013.
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