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Released on 2013-02-13 00:00 GMT
|2010-11-17 14:52:03
By Kevin Casas-Zamora, Mario Arana, Patricio Grane, Mitchell Seligson
November 16, 2010
Originally published in the Dialogue's daily Latin America Advisor
Q: Earlier this month, a dispute over the border demarcation along the San
Juan River between Costa Rica and Nicaraguadegenerated as each country
made claims that its national sovereignty was being infringed upon. The
border has been a source of controversy for more than a century but
tensions flared anew after Nicaragua began a dredging project last month.
Will the dispute significantly affect business interests in Costa
Rica and Nicaragua? What are the prospects for future relations between
the two countries? How does the conflict bode for larger integration
efforts in Central America?
A: Kevin Casas-Zamora, senior fellow in the Latin America Initiative at
the Brookings Institution and former vice president of Costa Rica: "The
economic impact of this episode will depend on how long the conflict
persists. If a diplomatic solution is not reached soon, which from the
Costa Rican standpoint requires that Nicaraguan soldiers leave the
disputed area (as recommended by the OAS secretary general), political
pressure in Costa Rica will grow to adopt harsher measures against
Nicaragua, including trade-related ones. This could certainly affect the
burgeoning economic ties between both countries ($420 million in both
directions in 2009), which are overwhelmingly comprised of Costa Rican
exports and investments. Until now, President Laura Chinchilla of Costa
Rica has been reluctant to entertain any such option, mostly out of
pressure from the private sector and her own misgivings about the
potential effect on Costa Rica's relatively frail post-crisis recovery.
But that may change if the conflict becomes a burning political issue in
her country, as it is starting to happen. The effects of this episode on
the broader bilateral relationship will linger for a long time,
particularly if Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is re-elected in 2011.
At a minimum, it will accelerate a dangerous trend towards politicizing
the issue of Nicaraguan migration in Costa Rica. Despite the fact that
close to 12 percent of the population in Costa Rica is comprised of
Nicaraguan migrants, xenophobic discourses have remained largely outside
the country's political mainstream. That will almost certainly change now,
thereby preventing rational management of a plethora of mutually important
issues, including the development of the border region, a poor and
sparsely populated territory where neither of the two countries exerts
effective control. This animosity will further complicate integration
efforts in Central America that were only starting to recover after the
tensions created by last year's political crisis in Honduras. The Costa
Rican government will probably shy away from a robust Central American
agenda, one of its avowed foreign policy priorities under the Chinchilla
administration. Finally, the current conflict will prevent Costa Rica from
playing any constructive role if Ortega's eventual re-election were to be
contested by the opposition and gave way to another serious political
crisis in the region."
A: Mario Arana, executive director of the Nicaraguan Foundation for
Economic and Social Development: "Since the administration of Enrique
Bolanos, Nicaragua had decided to dredge the San Juan River to recover
navigation of the river at all times of the year. This would benefit both
countries as they could navigate to the Atlantic Ocean. With proper care,
this should not affect Costa Rica's Colorado River, which benefits from
Nicaraguan waters. This is something that both sides should work on and
discuss with balance and respect, as the countries should engage in a
serious effort to define their borders, which Costa Rica has been
reluctant to do so far. For now, there are no indications that commercial
interests are being affected or should be affected because of the
controversy, other than tourism (which mainly benefits Costa Rica) in the
vicinity of the conflict. The status of Nicaraguans working inCosta
Rica is probably the most important component of the relationship, where
consequences may be more difficult to predict. Nevertheless, the
integration of the region is suffering from political conflicts beyond the
Costa Rica-Nicaragua issue. For example, new artificial barriers are being
put in place affecting some sensitive trade of beef and dairy products by
some Central American countries. Also, political differences
about Honduras were already having an effect on working meetings of the
region. Although there is not a sense of a commercial crisis yet, the
region is suffering from a lack of commitment and leadership in terms of
the regional agenda, which could represent a setback to the steady
progress of regional integration. The cooperation and association
agreement with the European Union, CAFTA and other regional trade deals,
such as the one being negotiated with Canada, could be affected by
political differences that seem to be growing in Central America. From a
business point of view, an effort on the part of the presidents in favor
of integration would be a welcome development."
A: Patricio Grane, counsel at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington and former
counselor of the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the World Trade
Organization: "The latest territorial dispute between Costa
Rica and Nicaragua will not significantly affect business interests in the
two countries. From 1995 to 2009, bilateral trade increased from
approximately $105 million in 1995 to $484 million in 2008 despite the San
Juan River dispute developing into rancorous disagreement, including
through litigation decided largely in Costa Rica's favor at the
International Court of Justice. Unless Nicaragua's president undertakes
ill-advised trade measures (such as broadly raising tariffs or imposing a
ban on Costa Rican imports), there is no reason that this latest border
dispute will alter that upward trend in positive economic relations.
Moreover, the dispute has no meaningful impact on trading routes between
the two countries or on trade in the region generally. The prospects for
future relations between the two countries remain good and generally
unaffected by the latest border dispute. In addition to trade in goods,
there are other important socioeconomic ties between the two countries,
including strong cultural and regional ties. Among other connections,
Nicaraguans' remittances back home contribute to the income of an
estimated 13.6 percent Nicaraguan households. The border conflict
between Costa Rica and Nicaragua will not undermine the sustained
integration efforts in Central America. Economic integration is an
essential component of the regional integration effort of the Central
American Integration System (SICA). The Central American countries have
established a free-trade area covering 99 percent of all goods, and have
adopted several treaties to facilitate and promote trade within the region
(estimated at $5 billion in 2007). The five Central American countries are
also negotiating the creation of a customs union in the region."
A: Mitchell Seligson, centennial professor of political science
at Vanderbuilt University: "Border conflicts between Costa Ricaare nothing
new, dating back more than 150 years and transcending regimes and
political ideology. The initial conflict dates back to the 1850s, only
three decades after the independence of the Central American
region. U.S. adventurer William Walker, in an effort to gain control of
transportation routes across the ithmus and with the ultimate goal of
setting up a slave state in Central America, had taken control
of Nicaragua by 1856. In reaction, Costa Rica declared war and initially
defeated Walker's army in Rivas, Nicaragua, and did so again in December
of that year in the area around the San Juan River. The river not only
serves as a border between the two countries, it has been seen at least
since the 1850s as a crucial link in a potential trans-ithmus canal route
(connecting to Lake Nicaragua and from there to the Pacific coast) decades
before the Panama Canal was built. Tensions flared again in 1898 and 1909
as a result of internal partisan conflicts in Nicaragua. In 1948 and again
in 1955, Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica in the context of Costa Rica's civil
war of 1948. During the Sandinista Revolution, guerrillas
from Nicaragua based themselves in camps on the northern border of Costa
Rica, motivating Somoza to threaten, but not carry out, an
invasion. Venezuela sent elements of its air force to protect Costa
Rica from the threat from Somoza. After the rebel victory, disenchanted
Sandinista Eden Pastora, who is involved directly in the current dispute,
led the ARDE Contra organization from the San Juan River region, creating
further border tensions. Many other minor disputes have flared up over the
years, but the hostilities have each been limited in magnitude and
duration. It would not be unreasonable to predict that the current crisis
will also die down without provoking a larger conflict."
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My Father passed away and I am still going through all those stages they talk about. I did not log in during the time I was away. I live in CA, but my parents live in Utah, so I went there for 6 days f or the funeral. Tough, but will get through it! I drove up with my Sister (long drive). The first thing she said when I got in the car, was I am going to EAT whatever I want and I don't care what anyone thinks or says. She knows I am always trying to be healthy. She purchased a ton of chocolates and had them in the car in the front seat. Yes, I had a few and that was it. I watched it though! I know if you disregard taking care of yourself and gain too much weight in a week, I know I would go into a depression of the weight gain and then it's way too hard to take it off. I did good and I am proud of myself! Bumps in the road of life, some big and some small, but I have learned you cannot let yourself go over a bump in the road no matter how big or small. I got sick over the time gone as well, so that does not help, but logging in helps and I am trying to get back on track. To getting back on track! I still have my goal and have not forgotten about it. Everyday I log onto Sparks, reminds me of my goal and lifestyle changes.
This is so true! I think working out probably is the easiest in comparison to the cravings, emotional eating, and simply telling yourself you can stick to it! I have been struggling a bit with the kitchen part lately! My husband likes to watch Man vs. Food and Drive-in, diners and dives. I told him watching those shows just make you extremely hungry and they do make me personally hungry. Change the channel.
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FOLIO: Personalities -- The Blog People Page
Welcome to the ABM Spin ZoneBill Mickey
Much like Bobby McFerrin's chirpy ode to blissful ignorance, ABM recently attempted to put a happy spin on its analysis of its own BIN report.
Essentially, both print ad revenue and pages ended 2007 downãnot by a lot, 2 percent for revenue and 3.35 percent for pages, but down. And this after a flat 2006 in revenue and a slight decline in pages.
Now these kinds of things can be looked at from any number of angles. And no one, especially an association representing an entire industry, wants to be the bearer of bad news, much less voluntarily even touch a doomy outlook. For example, ABM notes that 13 of the 21 categories tracked showed increases in respective revenues. Fair enough. But then their analysis of the report takes it one step too far.
The computing, software, telecom category has been a freefall for the last three years, declining almost 30 percent in revenues since 2005ã17.59 percent alone in 2007, according to the BIN reports.
Yet here's what ABM had to say in its analysis of the 2007 report entitled "Business-to-Business Media Experiences a Robust 2007":
"In fact, ignoring the ãComputing, Software, Telecomm' category would result in an overall 0% change over 2006."
I love that! So why not just keep going with the other two top declining categories, business, advertising & marketing (-10.7 percent) and travel, business conventions & meetings (-6.95 percent)? I bet ignoring those as well would rocket 2007 to "robust" indeed.More...
Time Inc.ãs Environmental ImpactBill Mickey
When you're a $5 billion publisher like Time Inc., you can afford to hire someone like David Refkin as director of sustainable development. Indeed, the company has been studying the impact of its entire production process. At the MPA's 2008 Retail Conference in Tampa, Florida today, Refkin discussed Time Inc.'s efforts in environmental sustainability, offering up figures that give some insight into the company's impact:
- The company buys 500,000 tons of paper each year from 53 mills.
- 75 percent of the company's fiber meets certified sustainable forestry (CSF) standards, up 25 percent from 2002.
- The carbon footprint of producing one issue of Time is equal to 160 people flying an airplane around the globe.
Refkin also said that only one out of six magazines in the home get recycled, and that Time Inc. has partnered with Verso Paper to increase consumer awareness, spending $5 million on outdoor advertising and another $6 million in magazines to push recyclable messaging. To learn more about the publisher's efforts, keep an eye out for its sustainability report due out in April.More...
Meredith's Media-Neutral SellingBill Mickey
MIAMIãDuring his morning keynote, Meredith Publishing Group president Jack Griffin explained the company's approach to selling via its M360ô¤ group. "It's a group set up to be media neutral. We're not selling a particular asset, but creating solutions for our advertising customers."
It's an approach that focuses entirely on selling integrated packages, no longer simply selling customers on a single mediaãprint display advertising, for example. It's also one that other publishers are adopting. CMP has realigned its marketing services team to be customer-facing by region, creating customized packages that rarely come straight off a menu. "We have teams focused in the customer client regions, in the sales regions if you will, working with different customers to do that integration across different platformsãprint, online, events, or deeper into a specific platform," says Scott Vaughan, vice president of marketing and research.
"Customers don't necessarily say to you ãI want to advertise,'" added Elliot Kass, managing director, client content services. "They just say, ãThis is what I'm faced with and if you can help me figure out a way to solve this problem then I'm very interested.'"More...
Penton Begins Search for New CFOBill Mickey
Earlier this week, Eric Lundberg, Penton's CFO of a year, announced that he was returning to ALM. On Tuesday, Penton head John French passed along this note:
-----Original Message-----
From: French, John
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:07 AM
To: DL-Penton Global; DL-Prism Global
Subject: Eric Lundberg's Departure
Importance: High
Hello Everyone,
Today, I am announcing that Eric Lundberg, Chief Financial Officer, has decided to leave the company. Eric will be returning to ALM as Chief Financial Officer and senior vice president.
Eric joined Penton a little more than a year ago and his contributions have been significant. He led the company through a very challenging integration effort and much of our present and future success is due primarily to his leadership. Bringing two large organizations together was a complex undertaking and very few people would have been able to accomplish this with such tremendous success.
On a personal note, I have enjoyed working with Eric throughout this past year and greatly appreciate his hard work and dedication. We are working together during a brief transition period. We have already begun the search for a new Chief Financial Officer and will inform you when we have completed that process.
Please join me in wishing Eric well in all his future endeavors.
Are E-Media CompaniesãWith RevenueãMore Valuable?Bill Mickey
This post by FOLIO: editor Dylan Stableford on Glam Media and its CEO Samir Arora makes two insights into e-media M&A:
"If traditional publishers continue to miss the site network strategy, as Arora says, I'd expect that line of ãapproachers' to start looking like the runway at JFK, probably sooner than later. And when it does, it'll be a fun exercise in valuation."
Arora says he's already getting a significant amount of interest from tire-kickers and the supposition that the crowd of curious buyers will soon resemble a packed runway is dead on. Media bankers DeSilva + Phillips have already labeled 2007 as the "year of the digital niche acquisition," and this year is shaping up to be more of the same.
What's more, Arora is actually generating revenues. "Our internal goal has been to drive the revenue growth rate faster than any other media company on the Internet--traditional or nontraditional," Arora told me in our original interview.
Whether or not Glam's revenues are developing at a scale or speed buyers are looking for, that model is something both potential strategic and financial buyers will no doubt appreciate, given the smokey back room approach to early-stage e-media valuations.
With the credit markets as tight as they are these days, buyers may not be as willing to pay whatever it takes to win a bid. And in a deal for a property that has proven financials, a bidder pool would likely expand to include even the more conservative buyers who normally shy away from early-stage Internet companies that have no measurables to pin a valuation on beyond site traffic, demographics, an executive team still in their 20s, and a great idea.More...
FCC's Copps Worried About Big Media Private Equity DealsBill Mickey
Smart Money picked up a Dow Jones story reporting that Michael Copps, a Democrat and member of the Federal Communications Commission, is voicing a growing concern over the big private equity dealsãparticularly in media. Seems he's a bit skittish over the volume and size of these deals over the last year, especially in light of the subprime fallout and a grim economic outlook for the coming year.
"There's been a whole raft (of acquisitions) involving private equity in recent years and I think we need to ask questions about them," said Copps, who also believes that ownership structures are becoming unclear, which apparently makes it tougher for the FCC to crack down on companies when something goes wrong.
FCC chairman and Republican Kevin Martin so far is downplaying Copps' concerns.
Nevertheless, Copps is exposing what might be a tricky year for over-leveraged deals, and a situation that might work its way into all sorts of corners in the private equity deal landscape.More...
Former Hachette Digital Media Head Looking to InvestBill Mickey
Hachette Filipacchi Media's announcement this morning of its appointment of Todd Anderman as SVP, digital media seems to have elicited a number of queries into where the company's previous head of digital, Marta Wohrle, ended up. Wohrle joined the company a couple years ago to build out the digital media group, first as a consultant, then fulltime. She made our FOLIO: 40 last year for essentially creating Hachette's e-media business from scratch.
Turns out Wohrle has been busy developing her own sites, and plans to do some investing herself. Here, via Hachette spokeswoman Anne Janas, is what Worhle passed along:
"I am starting my own web content business: www.truthinaging.com. It is in Beta and next week I am launching truthinhaircare.com. I am also looking at investing in early stage digital content businesses with private equity backing."
Interestingly (strangely?) Wohrle describes herself as a "digital media amateur" in the About section of Truthinaging.com.
Guerrilla Cover TestingBill Mickey
I interviewed Kristy Kaus, Active Interest Media's research director, for a story I wrote in the January issue of FOLIO:. Kaus has been doing cover research for a number of AIM's enthusiast titles, and her program has provided a measurable boost in newsstand sales. The research is done via online surveys-a method that puts cover testing well in the realm of small to mid-sized enthusiast publishers that otherwise wouldn't spring for a full-on, focus-group or direct mail approach.
The testing is performed through a proprietary Web-based survey platform developed by Kaus, and can be executed with a 36-hour turnaround. If you're feeling skittish about using an online-based testing group, don't be. Kaus notes that readers are typically online anyway, and backtested her groups just to be sure their opinions matched performance. "We tested a past poor performer versus a past top performer. With every control on the online survey the top performer won. So that was enough to validate the program for us, that it's effective. And it gave us enough assurance that moving forward was a smart idea," Kaus told me.
I suppose it's a more guerrilla approach to cover testing, and perhaps not as hermetically sealed as a formal, live version, but Kaus' numbers speak for themselves: "For every test that I have done, the sellthrough has either stabilized with the same issue month the year prior or it has increased, and in some cases increased pretty substantially," says Kaus. Southwest Art jumped 12 percent in singlecopy sales, and Vegetarian Times increased 21 percent, for example.
Not too shabby.More...
2008: What the Bankers ThinkBill Mickey
If you haven't stopped by our massive (and growing) list of magazine predictions for 2008, do so. In the meantime, for those of you who are more financially inclined, I've pulled out the banker predictions and compiled them here.
Interestinglyãpredictably?ãthere's a mix of optimism and wariness for the year ahead. On the one hand, we're coming off an amazing run of M&A action fueled by the deep pockets of private equity. On the other, we're still smarting a bit form last summer's credit crunch and staring at a possible recession in 2008, which may stop the overly-leveraged dead in their tracks.
Here are the banker predictions. And click here to see the full, industry-wide list.
NAME: Reed Phillips
TITLE: Managing partner, desilva + phillips
2008 PREDICTION: Last year, I said I'd be watching with great interest the possible sale or break-up of the Tribune Company. Now, I think it is safe to predict that the company will be sold any day now. [EDITOR'S NOTE: Less than an hour after Reed sent this over, prediction #1 came true.] My prediction for 2008 is that by year-end valuations for newspapers, specifically, and print media, in general, will start to rebound.
NAME: Chris Shannon
TITLE: Managing director, Berkery Noyes
2008 PREDICTION: On the consumer side, M&A will be as busy as it was last year, as far as what's in the funnel. Strategic buyers will make a comeback and play larger role in 2008. Everyone out there that's either buying or selling it has to have a digital component. Next on the priority list for buyers is a mobile component. If you have a magazine to sell, the ones that have a Web site and even just the beginnings of a mobile product definitely have an advantage.
NAME: Larry Grimes
TITLE: President, W.B. Grimes & Company
2008 PREDICTION: More private equity firms will look to exit magazine publishing in 2008 but may find buyers slim to come by. Many will find their assets have depreciated substantially over the past 18 months, in large part due to mismanagement. The groups will recognize that the tuck-in acquisitions they have been avoiding for a couple years really do make sense and will start pursuing those smaller strategic deals as a way to boost both top and bottom line growth. Many of the publishers who have an eye on digital acquisitions will find the pickings are very slim and will realize growing digitally from within is their best approach. Video will become an increasingly important element of publishers' online strategy and especially for their advertisers. Online directories will continue their metamorphosis from simple listings to interactive and will include product offerings. Deal flow will be slow until the banks start lending again.
NAME: Scott Peters
TITLE: Managing Director, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.
2008 PREDICTION: Media M&A in the middle market will remain active and will equal the transaction volume of 2007. However, overall transaction value will decline as the debt-heavy, mega deals get sidelined as the credit markets continue to work through challenging issues.
NAME: Thomas Kemp
TITLE: Managing director, Veronis Suhler Stevenson
1. The conversion from print advertising in magazines to online will accelerate in a softening economy in most, but not all markets.
2. We will see some highly leveraged transactions of the past couple of years experience extremely challenging times, what the bankers called distressed credits. Think Ziff Davis type experiences.
3. Financially backed media businesses that become distressed will replace their CEO's. Some big name CEO's will get fired in 2008.
4. Several b-to-b media companies that have adopted successful on-line strategies and cultures will thrive as eMedia achieves scale of revenue and profit.
5. Focused, high quality, leading magazines will continue to grow and buck the trend of the digital revolution.
6. M&A market will continue to be strong for quality assets, particularly for the middle market properties, $50 - 100 million, although transaction multiples will come back to earth as a result of tighter credit markets.
7. The media world will not come to an end as we know it. That is, Google will is not the evil empire of the media industry.
Time Warnerãs Break-Up Man?Bill Mickey
The New York Times reports that Jeffrey Bewkes [right], who takes over as Time Warner CEO in January, has "quietly" hired Douglas Shapiro to head up investor relations. Shapiro was formerly an MD and research analyst for Banc of America Securities and joined Time Warner a month ago.
Coincidentally or not, a February report by Shapiro on Time Warner had a buy recommendation on the stock at $25 a share because "we think there is a chance it pursues a restructuring eventually, including possibly divesting publishing or AOL, or even a full breakup of the company into its four logical components." That would include Time Inc., presumably.
If Bewkes eventually does take Shapiro's advice, here's what a spun-off Time Inc. might look like.
PGA Deal ãA Fabulous Buy,ã Says ObserverBill Mickey
An e-mail from an "industry observer" on yesterday's purchase of Publishing Group of America by Bain Capital Partners and Shamrock Capital Growth Fund:
"I think this is potentially a fabulous buy for these two investor groups. PGA is a group that has successfully launched two huge winners. Controlled circ so the inserts are force fed. Originally designed as the "Parade Magazine" for the weekly and small daily newspaper industry. Good editorial products. And with their circ base, a strong buy for national advertisers-especially those who want to penetrate the rural and semi-suburban markets. This is not an Internet play and probably never will be. Makes me wonder why folks like Meredith have not tried to duplicate this by teaming up with the major newspaper companies, like Gannett, MediaNews, Gatehouse, etc. to produce special interest magazine inserts. These vehicles do not lend themselves to selling local ads but they do enhance the editorial quality of the local newspaper and do provide a higher level content than most local papers can afford to produce. I have not read what they paid. I would guess a pretty penny."
Dennis Turned Down ãHundreds of Millionsã for The WeekBill Mickey
Felix Dennis has a little more work to do yet on his weekly news compilation The Week. He tells David Carr that he'll be expanding the magazine into more markets and has fended off some significant offers. "Cross my heart and hope to die, I have already been offered hundreds of millions of dollars for it."
Even after selling off Maxim, Stuff and music magazine Blender to Quadrangle-backed Kent Brownridge in mid-2007, Dennis declined to sell his one remaining U.S. title, noting that he expects it to become a sizable franchise. "I will throw The Week onto no pile until it becomes a half a billion or billion-dollar franchise. The Week is my baby," he says.
The North American version of the magazine has a circulation of about 500,000; the British version is the original; and Carr writes that an eastern version of the magazine will soon be released, supported by a five-person edit team in Australia and one-man bureaus in Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand.
Just as The Week is Dennis' across-the-bow shot at the sagging newsweekly market, the magazine's lean staff structure is his answer to bulging mastheads. "The American magazine industry has been massively overstaffed for years and years. It is one of the most inefficient businesses in the history of the world. And you know what? The chickens are coming home to roost."


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Posted: Thursday, August 14th 2014 at 2:11pm
Berkshire Hathaway stock tops $200,000 a share
By The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The stock price of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway topped $200,000 for the first time Thursday.
Class A shares of Berkshire jumped past the milestone to an all-time trading high of $201,740 Thursday morning.
The shares have long been the most-expensive U.S. stock. Buffett has never split Berkshire's A shares, although he did create more affordable Class B shares in 1996 that now sell for just over $134.
Berkshire's Class A shares first garnered a six-figure stock price in October 2006 when they moved above $100,000.
Earlier this month, the Omaha-based company reported second-quarter profits of $6.4 billion, or $3,889 per Class A share.
Berkshire Hathaway has come a long way since Buffett's investment partnership started buying shares for $7 and $8 apiece in 1962. At that point, Berkshire was a New England textile company.
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SEATTLE (AP) - A judge set bail at $2 million Friday for a Las Vegas man arrested near the University of Washington in a truck that authorities say contained multiple weapons, maps to three Seattle campuses and a recording in which he said he planned to do something in the West to support protesters demanding reform in Brazil.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - There's a dangerous but basic equation behind the killer Yarnell Hill wildfire and other blazes raging across the West this summer: More heat, more drought, more fuel and more people in the way are adding up to increasingly ferocious fires.
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) - The mothers of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman listened Friday to the same 911 recording of someone screaming for help, and each said she was convinced the voice was that of her own son.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. employers are sending a message of confidence in the economy - hiring more workers, raising pay and making the job market appear strong enough for the Federal Reserve to slow its bond purchases as early as September.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE (AP) - A weapon designed to blast nuclear missiles out of the sky failed to hit its target over the Pacific Ocean during a test Friday, military officials said.
IND. TEEN FALLS FROM PARADE FLOAT, GETS RUN OVER: LEBANON, Ind. (AP) - Authorities say a teenage boy had his chest and abdomen run over when he fell from a float after a central Indiana city's Independence Day parade.
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - An erratic wildfire driven by ferocious and shifting winds curled around the location of a team of Arizona Hotshot firefighters, cutting off their access to a safety zone and creating a death trap that quickly consumed them, two fire officials confirmed Friday based on a map of how the tragedy unfolded compiled by The Associated Press.
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Nystrom, 27, offers pure grit and character. Former Michigan Wolverine. Working on confirmation through team and contract details, but hearing it's a 3-year deal.
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After a marathon day in which he fielded offers from several teams, center Matt Cullen has chosen to sign with his homestate Minnesota Wild. In a text: "Done deal, I'm comin' to Minny."
It's a three-year, $10.5 million deal ($3.5 million AAV), which is the top-end of my guesstimate on last blog. Modified no-trade.
It's the third time the Wild's pursued him in free agency, and this time he decided the time was right in his life that he could handle playing at home. With three young children and at 33 years old, he felt he was mature enough as a player and a person.
The former Moorhead High star and St. Cloud State forward scored 169 goals and 461 points in 880 games, is a strong-skating, two-way center. He's a quality penalty killer, can win faceoffs, contribute on the scoresheet (averaged 46 points the past five seasons) and play the point on the power play.
The Wild's also in on some other things, including an affordable defenseman. Whether that happens today or in the coming days as free agency continues, we will see.
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Larger Arenas:
Defeat 10 opponents in a row in Survival Mode to increase arena size on all stages.
School Girl Alice:
Defeat all opponents in the Time Attack Mode in less than 10 minutes to unlock Alice's School Girl costume.
No Guage Mode:
Beat the game with Yugo, level 4 or better.
No Guard Mode:
Beat the game with Gado, level 4 or better, to play your games without any defense at all!
No Lightning:
Beat the game with Long, Level 4 or better, to stop the lightning effects when doing certain moves
Unlimited Replays:
After beating an opponent (any round), hit the TRIANGLE button to view a replay. Every time you hit TRIANGLE you will see another replay
Big Head Mode:
Hold down L2 while selecting your character. The fighters should now have big heads.
Kids Mode:
Hold down R2 while selecting your character. The fighters should now be kids.
More Knockouts:
Hold down Select during the match's final blow. You should see a montage of replays.
Regenerating Life Bars:
Finish the game with Bakuryu on Level Four or above.
Small Fighters:
Go to the Character Select Screen. Hold R2 and choose your fighter with the Circle button.
Big Arms:
Beat the game without continuing on Level Four or above.
Afterimage Mode:
Beat the game with everybody to access afterimage mode. The game is the same, but your character will have a shadow behind him.
Bonus Options:
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Change Camera Angle:
Beat the game with Alice, level 4 or better. Now you can change the camera angle, but not during battle. You can only do this at the option screen.
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- Release Date: Sep 7, 2004
- ESRB: Everyone
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even though the government has dubbed the legislation intended to curb conversion of paddy land for commercial purposes 'unscientific', actual figures show that it was successful in arresting conversion of paddy land.
According to data available with the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, the decline in area under paddy cultivation in the state, which had been steadily sliding since the seventies, was arrested by 2008-09 after the legislation had been enacted.
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"The rate of conversion was rapid between 2007 and 2008," she said.
"Any amendment to the Act would be as good as toppling it. Not only could the Act arrest illegal conversions, the area under paddy also increased because of it. This is very crucial as far as food security is concerned," former revenue minister K P Rajendran, who was instrumental in bringing about the legislation, told TOI.
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On its last financial call Apple said it is planning to open 30-35 new retail stores in the next 12 months, with 75 percent of those stores located outside of the United States. Now recent job listings show that at least two of the new stores will be located in Brazil and Turkey -- countries which don't have any official Apple Stores.
The job listings were first noted by Brazilian website MacMagazine and later confirmed by The Next Web. Among the job listings are positions for Business Managers, Geniuses, Inventory Specialists and Store Leaders. The Next Web has also confirmed that at least one of the stores will be opening in Rio de Janeiro and the other in Istanbul. However, TNW points out that a position for a Market Leader in each country suggests that more stores could follow.
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Here's the original thread with a poll about my idea.
Here's the general Idea. Big world map, all players split up into 4 or 5 teams of 15 (3 teams of 5) we all get territories on the map, and play games against each other to take territories for our team.
Either set it up so that we go for world domination, or set up a certain number of rounds until the game ends.
See who conquered more land, whoever has the most, wins!
Now those are the BASICS, and if you follow the link up top, you'll find out a little more about my idea. Still ironing out the specifics, and I'll be working with a few people on the rules of the whole thing, but I think we can do this.
I'd like to get some prize support for this, but I don't really know how that works.
That would probably be impossible, keeping track of 20 people in the same game.
What I'm suggesting is a community-run event, either just for the hell of it, or for a small prize or something mentioned in the lore, idk. I'm not talking about a 1-day event, this would be played out over the course of about a month, and it would operate like the board game RISK, if you've ever played it.
I do however like the 'different gameplay' type of thing you're thinking of though. I would have 5 teams of 2, with respawning nexuses, 2 or 3 turrets for each base, no inhibitors, no super minions. Get points for dealing the most damage to enemy nexuses (to prevent KS'ing nexuses). But that's a different department altogether =-)
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This is a discussion on Road rage incident last week within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by msgt/ret ...a call to 911 would have warned the LEOs to a possible escalation if he continues his aggression... There was no ...
Road Rage is never a good thing to act on, or get involve with up close, we (CC) have to be smarter than that idiot, yes i know its hard keeping your cool at times, but some nitwit's road rage can ruin your whole day if you take it personal. It's better to egress, de-escalate, retreat, ignore. Be Tactically smart, be in control of your Emotions, and don't let a situation control your actions.
Probably illegal carry, never the less.
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Snider, at the very least you handled the initial aspect of it better than i would have most likely handled it. You only yelled in your car. I may have extended the international "You are number one" sign to him. Other than not calling 911 at least after the incident, I think you did fine.
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Oppose all China illegal activity in Philippine territory then you are really a true Filipino.
Renato Reyes He is a communist puppet enemy of Philippine Democracy.
Renato Reyes don't represent the Filipinos. He is a hired provocateur/instigat or communist.
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"Here's the deal people," and I'm only going to give you the short of it.
The Philippines can not protect themselves from China and if American assistance wasn't there the Philippines would be easily overthrown.
Now with that being said America knows the strategic position in the Philippines as so does China.
The difference between the two nations is America doesn't want to take over or conquer the Philippines and China does.
In closing could the Philippines really stand losing America as it's Allie,? No!
I think China should invade and take the Phillipines. I've lived there. Nothing worth saving. Trash
Its china who start then what can we do is to call uncle sam. Thanks uncle sam you are always there.
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February 19, 2014
Lost in the Trees are here, played WNYC Soundcheck, playing Bowery Ballroom tonight (win tix! +++ Moog Sound Lab video)
Lost in the Trees at Lincoln Center in 2013 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)
Indie folk band Lost in the Trees are currently in NYC. Their tour with All Tiny Creatures hits Bowery Ballroom TONIGHT (2/19) and they just finished performing/being interviewed on WNYC's Soundcheck. If you missed it, you can listen later when the archived link goes up later today.
Tickets for tonight's Bowery Ballroom show are still available, but if you'd like to go for free, we're also giving away a pair. Details on how to enter to win are below.
Lost in the Trees also just performed in the Moog Sound Lab, and you can check out that session, along with the updated list of tour dates and contest details, below...
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February 12, 2014
'Nothing Changes' upcoming schedule (Theologian, Damien Dubrovnik & more) ++ win tix to Pharmakon @ Baby's
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Pharmakon @ RBMA, May 2013 (more by PSquared Photography)
As discussed, noisy/experimental/industrial tour-de-force Theologian will be performing at the Nothing Changes party tonight (2/12) along with Nick Klein, who traffics in noise-laced experimental electro. The show at Home Sweet Home, as always, and starts at midnight.
The upcoming Nothing Changes schedule is rolling out, with forthcoming performances from upcoming tourmates Damien Dubrovnik and Helm (2/19), as well as Virile Games (2/26), who just released an EP, Wounded Laurel (a reissue of an earlier 2xcs), on Hospital Productions. You can see the Nothing Changes schedule through most of March below.
As mentioned, Dubrovnik and Helm are playing Baby's All Right on 2/18 with New York noise-maker Pharmakon. Tickets are still available but if you'd like to go for free, we're giving a pair away. Details below. For our readers in Austin, we're also giving away tickets to the Dubrovnik/Helm date on 2/17 there.
Nothing Changes schedule, Pharmakon dates, and giveaway details below...
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February 11, 2014
As mentioned, Yellow Ostrich are releasing their new album, Cosmos, on February 25 via Barsuk. We're got the premiere of a live video of the band performing the single "Shades" and you can watch that below.
While the band's tour hits NYC's Bowery Ballroom on April 4, Yellow Ostrich are playing a private NYC show on Wednesday (2/12) at Pianos, showcasing much of the new album. BrooklynVegan is presenting the show and, though it's invite-only, we are giving a few pairs away to lucky BV readers. The show is early -- the band's on at 7 PM -- and details on how to get tickets are below.
If you can't make the show, tickets for Yellow Ostrich's Bowery show in April are still available. They'll also be at SXSW too. Updated tour dates are listed, along with the live video and another Yellow Ostrich album track stream, below...
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Those Darlins share new song & live video; tour w/ Diarrhea Planet starts this week (updated dates + win tix to MHOW!)
Diarrhea Planet at Tomorrow Never Knows 2014 (more by Sara Pieper)
We mentioned back in December that two Nashville bands, Those Darlins and Diarrhea Planet, were planning to tour together this year. The dates have since been announced in full, and that tour kicks off this weekend, bringing the two bands to NYC on Sunday (2/16) at Music Hall of Williamsburg with Desert Sharks. Tickets for that show are still available, and we're also giving away a pair. Details on how to enter to win, along with the updated list of dates, below.
We just caught Diarrhea Planet in Chicago with Yuck and Pink Frost during Tomorrow Never Knows. You can check out more pics from that (like the one above) at BV Chicago. After the tour with Those Darlins, DP have a few festival appearances lined up, including Alabama's Hangout Fest and a return to NYC for Governors Ball in June.
Those Darlins, who also play Savannah Stopover and SXSW, recently released a new track from the sessions of their 2013 LP, Blur the Line, titled "Why Can't I." You can stream that song below, along with a recent video of the band playing "That Man" for Nashville Cream's "Live in the Morgue" series.
All dates are listed, along with streams and contest details, below...
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February 10, 2014
La Femme made a new video, add tour dates, including some w/ Trail of Dead ++ win tix to their Glasslands show
by Bill Pearis
As you may know, groovy French band La Femme are playing a BrooklynVegan-presented show at Glasslands on March 23. Future Punx (who just opened for Marked Men at Saint Vitus) open the show with one more band TBA, plus yours truly on DJ duty all night. Tickets for that show are still available but if you'd like to go for free, we're also giving a couple pairs away. Details below.
Right after that NYC show, La Femme will hook up with ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead as part of their "Source Tags & Codes" tour, including the 3/29 date at Bowery Ballroom. (They do not open the MHOW show.) Tickets are available for that one too, and all La Femme dates are listed below.
Meanwhile, La Femme just made a video for "Si Un Jour" from last year's fantastic Psycho Tropical Berlin (my #3 of 2013) and you can watch that below, along with a stream of the whole album.
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January 23, 2014
by Bill Pearis
We're about six weeks out from Metronomy's fourth album, Love Letters, which hits the public on March 11 via Elektra/Because. You may remember that the new album was made at London's famed Toe Rag Studios on analogue tape with little or no help from computers/sequencers. You really get a sense for what this could mean for the new album with its title track, which Metronomy just posted for streaming. Driven by a pounding piano line, it's more like something The Kinks would've done in 1971 or perhaps Bowie or ELO. You can stream it -- and watch the video for "I'm Aquarius" -- below.
Metronomy will be in NYC early next month for the BrooklynVegan presented show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on February 5, their only current North American date. That show is sold out but we're giving a pair away. Details below.
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January 10, 2014
Action Bronson at VICELAND at SXSW 2013 (more by Dylan Johnson)
As you may know, NYC rapper Action Bronson is about to take on two-sold out hometown shows at Irving Plaza TONIGHT (1/10) and Saturday (1/11) before kicking off a full US tour next week. Though both are sold out, if you didn't get tickets and would still like to go, we're giving away a pair to each night.
Details on how to enter to win, along with the list of dates and a video, below...
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January 8, 2014
Australia guitar pop combo Cloud Control have foolishly left the part of the world where it's summer right now to experience the polar vortex -- and to play some North American shows, including one in NYC at Baby's All Right on Saturday (1/11) to which tickets are still available. Additionally, if you'd like to go to the NYC show for free, we've got a pair of tickets to give away. Details below.
They're also headlining Brooklyn Bowl on Sunday (1/12) which is part of the "It's a School Night Series." Avers and Arms also play, and that's free with RSVP.
If you haven't checked out their melodically anthemic album Dream Cave, you can stream via Rdio and check out a couple videos below.
In anticipation of their tour, Cloud Control put together a mixtape for us and with songs by Talking Heads, Modern Lovers, Yo La Tengo and more, it would definitely make for good road soundtracking on the drive between gigs. You can stream it below.
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December 11, 2013
Arcade Fire's third Barclays Center show ticket updates (BrooklynVegan presale & a chance to win tix!)
Arcade Fire at ACL 2011 (more by Tim Griffin)
Last week, Arcade Fire added a third Barclays Center (8/24) show to their tour. Tickets for that show go on sale to the general public Friday (12/13) at 10 AM, but there's an exclusive BrooklynVegan presale on Thursday (12/12) from 9 AM to 10 PM.
Check back here at 8 AM on Thursday for the password. UPDATE: choose "Promotions & Special Offers" pulldown in "ticket type" and then use password "VeganFire3"
After the BV presale, a Live Nation presale begins at 10 AM. Tickets for Arcade Fire's other two Barclays Center dates (8/22 & 8/23) are still available.
Additionally, we've got a few pairs of tickets to giveaway to the third night (8/24), and details on how to enter to win those are below...
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December 6, 2013
Vampire Weekend at ACL 2013 (more by Tim Griffin)
As discussed, Vampire Weekend -- who, since we last spoke, have ended up on A.V. Club's and NME's best of 2013 lists -- have a few upcoming US dates this month, including a private 'Live From The Artist's Den' taping on December 10. Though it's private, we're giving away a pair of tickets, and details on how to enter to win are below.
And in case you missed it, we're also still running contests for TONIGHT'S (12/6) A$AP Ferg show, The Roots at Brooklyn Bowl (12/9), MGMT & Dinosaur Jr. at Barclays Center (12/13), The Breeders at Webster Hall (12/19-20), and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at Prospect Park (7/26). Click the links for more details on those contests.
Vampire Weekend contest details below...
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Racing Weight: The Myth Of Frequent Eating
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In this video "Racing Weight" author Matt Fitzgerald dispels the myth that eating frequently boosts your metabolism, but explains how consuming small meals throughout the day tends to reduce your appetite, thus allowing you to stay lean and perform well.
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Burlington Donor Center Events
October 2012
All Month Long
During the entire month of October, presenting donors will receive:
- A chance to win a seven day cruise for two departing from Boston to Bermuda on the Norwegian Dawn.
- A coupon for $5 off you next purchase at Freihofer's Bakery Outlet.
Halloween Special
- Wednesday, October 31 - Come in to give blood and receive a free movie pass to Essex Cinemas.
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Definitions for jointwormˈdʒɔɪntˌwɜrm
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word jointworm
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a chalcid larva that feeds within the stems of grasses, often forming a gall at a joint.
Category: Entomology
Ref: Also called strawworm. 2
Princeton's WordNet
strawworm, jointworm(noun)
larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains
The larva of a hymenopterous fly, found in gall-like swellings on wheatstalks, usually around the first joint.
Webster Dictionary
the larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop
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