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A great call to Rush Limbaugh yesterday:
CALLER: This is Sean in San Diego, and I believe those workers at McDonald's and Burger King deserve some more money. The shareholders are getting rich. I watch every day on MarketWatch, and the CEO is getting rich. They're making their profits. They can afford to pair their workers a bit more money. They're not asking for much. They haven't had a raise in 25 years.
RUSH: Really? In 1988, people at McDonald's were making $7.25 an hour?
CALLER: I'm not exactly sure of that, but –
RUSH: Well, that would be important.
CALLER: They're not being paid fairly, Rush.
RUSH: They're not making what?
CALLER: They're not making enough money to even buy themselves a dinner and pay their rent.
RUSH: Well, then why don't they go get a job that does pay that?
CALLER: Maybe 'cause they can't.
RUSH: Why can't they?
CALLER: Probably no other jobs out there in this bad economy.
RUSH: Why? Why aren't there any jobs out there?
CALLER: The Democrats have destroyed this economy. We all know that.
RUSH: Okay. Well, the minimum wage, by the way, back 25 years ago was $3.35 an hour, just to get the number out there. It was not what they're making today. I'll get the inflation calculator out and take a look at it. They're asking for double their current wages. Sean, why doesn't the McDonald's franchise just pay it? You know, why not just give them more money?
CALLER: Oh, that's simple. Greed.
RUSH: Greed? Or is it competition?
CALLER: Why should they if they don't have to and nobody's making them? Government sets the minimum wage, and they don't want to do it.
RUSH: Well, okay. Let's take a look McDonald's, and let's say the McDonald's gives their employees a raise. Let's just say $10 dollars an hour. Would that be enough?
CALLER: No. I don't think so.
RUSH: Okay.
First of all, does Rush sound mean to you? A bully, a blowhard? The caller has just declared Democrat politics to be the ruin of the country, yet denounces greedy capitalism and wants to set wage levels. No wonder Rush is being patient: he's talking to a functioning imbecile.
RUSH: How about this? How about McDonald's raises everybody to $20 an hour? Would that be enough? Would that be okay?
CALLER: I think that would probably help a lot of people.
RUSH: What about $25 an hour?
CALLER: Managers should probably get at least that. They probably already do.
RUSH: Okay, then what about $30 an hour?
CALLER: If that's the fair market rate.
RUSH: Well, no, that's what $7.25 is.
CALLER: I don't believe that.
RUSH: Yeah, that's why it's $7.25. It's the fair market rate. It's $7.25 not because it's temporary. That's the fair market rate. Let's pay 'em $50 an hour, how about that?
CALLER: $15 an hour.
RUSH: No, $50.
RUSH: Five-oh, $50 an hour. How about that?
CALLER: Yeah. That should be the new fair market rate.
RUSH: Right on. Right? Well, let's keep going, how about $75 an hour, let's pay 'em $75 an hour.
CALLER: Where you going with this?
RUSH: Well, I want to know whether you agree with $75. I'm not going anywhere with it. If $50 is good, $60 would be better, right?
CALLER: Well, yeah.
RUSH: What about $75 an hour?
CALLER: Where you going with this, though? I don't understand.
No he doesn't poor fellow, so Rush explains.
CALLER: I think the workers wanted $15 an hour, and that's what seems fair to me, not 50.
RUSH: Okay, but if $15 is fair, how about $20? And you agreed, and then he said how about $30.
CALLER: Certain workers, yeah. The management style.
RUSH: Okay, so you want to equal what management's making? You want no delineation?
CALLER: No, I think the entry-level should be $15.
RUSH: That's what I asked, "How about $20?" Why shouldn't the entry-level be $20? If $15 is good, $20 would be better. Why shouldn't the entry-level be $20 an hour? The point, Sean, is that you just said that $7.25 isn't the market price, and it is. That $7.25 an hour is what it requires for McDonald's to be fully staffed. There are people who will work for that, and therefore that sets the wage scale. Now, $10 would be better.
Yeah, you can keep raising it, but at some point, everybody who believes in a minimum wage will say, "No, wait a minute. That's too much," and at that point, you have demonstrated that that there's no market relationship. You're just talking emotion. You're just talking "fairness." You're just talking being nice, and that's not how the market works. People aren't paid a wage because they're being nice to, or because it's fair. In the market, the market rules. You can control it all you want, you could add arbitrary numbers on it all you want, and all you're doing is delaying the inevitable.
The market will always win and will always rule, because it is the market.
Sean was done by then, but not Rush:
RUSH: Teachable moment, market economics. As much as Obama wants to socialize everything and make everybody equal in terms of their outcomes, it hasn't happened yesterday, and he's never going to be able to fully do it. If you are a Millennial, if you're a teenager, I don't care who you are, there are certain facts of life that have not changed and aren't going to change no matter how much you want them to.
If you want a "living wage," if you don't like what fast food restaurants pay, then do something else. It's just that simple. Go to a trade school. Go to another business. Start your own business. Maybe the work that you are capable of isn't yet worth $15 an hour at a fast-food restaurant. Maybe the consumer doesn't want to pay $10 for a Big Mac so that people working at McDonald's make $15 an hour. It's not just a one-way strata.
Now, to those of you who, like Sean from San Diego, are sympathetic to this demand for the minimum wage at Mickey D's to go from $7.15 or $7.25 an hour to $15, let me ask you this: When you buy a meal, do you make sure that you're paying a fair price for it?
When you walk in there, do you ask the employee, "Look, am I paying enough here so that you can get a livable wage? When you go in and buy a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder with cheese or a double Quarter Pounder with cheese, do you look at the price is and say, "Are you sure that this costs enough that you can make a livable wage?" Or do you just get a little upset when you think it's a little too expensive?
When you buy a meal and you pay a fair price for it, are you doing this to ensure that the employees get health care? When you walk into Mickey D's and you buy a Big Mac, do you ask them, "By the way, is this thing costing enough so that you get health care here? By the way, is this Big Mac costing enough so that you get a pension here?" Do you think any of that when you go buy a Big Mac? No. You want it to be as cheap as it can be. That's why you're there.
Meanwhile, what about the other side of this? The increased cost to the consumer. Many of the people who go to these stores and restaurants are looking for bargains. They themselves are on limited or fixed incomes. They have large families, or they're unemployed. These people are consumers, too. They have weekly budgets, too.
Rush returned to the theme today:
RUSH: … Instead of asking for the minimum wage to go up because it's compassionate or makes you feel good, why don't you go in and demand that a Big Mac only costs half what it costs now? 'Cause it's just too expensive. You can't afford it. Why don't you do that? Or why don't you, as I say, agree to pay double what it costs? But any time you want to go into any business and arbitrarily set the value of something in that business, you're going to affect everything else that happens.
But everything else, price-wise, is attacked by the market, which includes all kinds of factors. Competition, shipping costs, traveling costs, refrigeration, costs. It's just so involved that you can't arbitrarily set the price of anything without totally throwing everything out of whack, including the price of labor. But when you go in and think you're making a really compassionate statement, you really feel good about yourself, 'cause you think the people that work there are underpaid, and you want 'em to get paid more?
Well, you have a role in that, and your role is higher prices.
And if you're unwilling to pay higher prices, then shut up.
James Taranto addressed the issue in his column today too:
Tyree Johnson said he's worked at McDonald's for 21 years, but is still earning minimum wage–$8.25 an hour in Illinois for workers 18 and older; and $7.75 for those under the age of 18, or older employees on the job less than 90 days.
"Every time I ask for a raise, they tell me 'You shouldn't have joined that union, we're not giving you no raise,' " he said.
Why stay at a job for 21 years at minimum wage?
"With the help of this union, I'm going to overcome this," he said.
[H]ere's a first-person story from Willietta Dukes in London's Guardian, titled "Why I'm on Strike Today: I Can't Support Myself on $7.85 at Burger King":
I've worked at fast-food restaurants in North Carolina for the past 15 years. I've spent more hours at Church's Chicken, McDonald's and now Burger King than I can remember. I work hard–I never miss a shift and always arrive on time. But today, I'm going on strike.
I make $7.85 at Burger King as a guest ambassador and team leader, where I train new employees on restaurant regulations and perform the manager's duties in their absence. Before Burger King, I worked at Church's for 12 years, starting at $6.30 and ending at just a little more than $8 an hour.
I've never walked off a job before. I don't consider myself an activist, and I've never been involved with politics. I'm a mother with two sons, and like any mom knows, raising two teenage boys is tough. Raising them as a single mother, on less than $8 an hour, is nearly impossible, though.
So here we have two people who have worked at or near minimum wage for 36 years between them and are claiming, as the slogan has it: "We can't survive . . ." That is true only in the sense that, as Paul Newman observed in "Hud": "Happens to everybody. Nobody gets out of life alive."
Never would I claim that it's easy to live off $8 an hour. Never would I try to raise two kids on $8 an hour. But Rush is right: they have jobs because they're willing to work for $8 an hour. If it's the only jobs they can get, are they lucky or cursed?
The Seans of the country are easily led—by Rush or Obama—into absurd positions. But they can vote only for Obama (and not even him anymore). Alas for Willietta and Tyree, the Seans of the country—and probably the Williettas and Tyrees—did vote for Obama. Asking for double their wages now is like trying to wring blood from a stone. And I'm more sorry than you can imagine that they're too dumb—sorry, "low-information"—to know it.

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WASHINGTON - Rodney Mc Intyre, 45, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 40 years in prison on a charge of first degree murder while armed in the slaying last year of his 17-year-old daughter, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
Mc Intyre pled guilty in July 2011 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He was sentenced this morning by the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz, who said that Mc Intyre's conduct "was the product of a depraved heart in the truest sense of the legal meaning of the term."
According to a statement of facts presented at the plea hearing, and signed by the defendant, the victim, Ebony Franklin, was raised by her mother in Maryland. In 2008, after her father's release from prison, where he had served time for threats in a domestic violence case, Ebony reinitiated contact with him. She was then 15.
On Friday, November 26, 2010, Ebony was to meet Mc Intyre in the Columbia Heights area of Northwest Washington to shop for Christmas presents. After that meeting, she was to return to her mother's home to complete her chores. Once those chores were completed, Ebony planned to spend the weekend with her father, as well as visit her boyfriend.
Upon arriving in the District on November 26, Ebony met with her father near Meyer Elementary School, where Mc Intyre worked for an after-school program. At the school, in the 2500 block of 11th Street NW, Mc Intyre stabbed the victim at least 15 times, causing her death.
At some point after the murder, Mc Intyre disposed of his daughter's body by placing it in a trash can. He then covered the body with trash and wheeled the can to the rear of a building in the 1000 block of Fairmont Street NW. Ebony's body was discovered three days later.
Between May 2008 and the time of her murder, Mc Intyre engaged in sexual intercourse with his daughter on multiple occasions. Before the body was discovered, he attempted to conceal his daughter's disappearance and murder. He used her cellphone to send multiple text messages, including some directed to her stepfather that asked if her mother was upset that she had not come home. On the morning of November 28, 2010, Mc Intyre used the cellphone to send a text message to the victim's mother, saying, among other things, "Remember.the.bitch.told.on.my.man.now.yoo.get.her.out.the.trash."
The defendant also visited local police stations over the weekend to report that Ebony was missing. He was arrested for the murder in May and has been in custody ever since.
"It is difficult to imagine a crime more horrific than a father murdering his own daughter," said U.S. Attorney Machen. "We want to extend our deepest condolences to Ebony's mother. We hope that the justice meted out today brings some comfort to all those who loved Ebony and have suffered this terrible loss."
In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Machen praised those who worked on the case from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the U.S. Attorney's Office, including Detectives Thomas Braxton and Lee Littlejohn, Paralegal Specialist Alesha Matthews Yette, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Ballantine, who prosecuted the case.


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Author: Catherynne M. Valente
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Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. The new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much older than September. Only September can retrieve a talisman the Marquess wants from the enchanted woods, and if she doesn't... then the Marquess will make life impossible for the inhabitants of Fairyland.
Ever since I saw the title of this story, I've been dying to read it. The fact that it was by Feiwel & Friends - the same publishing division that put out Lisa Mantchev's Theatre Illuminata series - just increased my curiousity.
And you know what? I'm beginning to think that Feiwel & Friends can do no wrong.
Just like the Theatre Illuminata series, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making is a fabulous fantasy romp with an overarching world and characters we think we already know. (Only think. Nobody is ever as they seem in Fairyland!)
September was absolutely adorable and did everything a 12 year old is expected to do on a journey like this; Ell the Wyverary was perfect and I wish he were real; the Marquess was a right little brat; all of the characters were interesting and intriguing and I loved them. I'm curious to see if the next book in the series picks up where this left off.
And the world is fabulously adorable. I love the rules and the laws and how magic works and how it sticks to the traditional 'iron hurts fey' without dwelling on it for too long. I love the alive furniture and the libraries and the Witches and how you have to lose your heart or your way or your mind or your life.
But most importantly, I love the narrator. Because it's not September, it's not the Wyverary, it's not a neutral third party. It's a mildly hilarious and interested spectator of all things, and I loved her. Him. It.
Overall Rating & Final Comments: 10/10. A perfect modern-day fairy tale, with a fantastic narrator, interesting characters and creative world.
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A few days ago, there was a giant launch event for Skylanders Spyro's Adventure here in New York City. New York Knicks superstar Amar'e Stoudemire was the guest of honor. Amar'e does tons of work with kids and he even played finished Super Mario Bros. as a kid. So I listened when he sat down and told me, "This game is cool because it's both a toy and a game. If your friend has a 3DS and you have an Xbox (360) you can still play it together."
SKYLANDERS: SPYRO'S ADVENTURE Activision for 3DS, Xbox 360, PC, PS3, Wii. Rated E10+ for Cartoon Violence. Gameplay: 8.7 Graphics: 8.8 Sound: 8.5 Replay Value: 8.8 Overall Score: 8.8 Pros: A deep world, action figures store your powers, action figures work on other consoles. Cons: No online play, a few camera angle issues, dialog can be corny. |
Combining a toy with a game is a good idea that might put new life into the Spyro series. That's why I gave it a Boys' Life E3 award back in June. But now that it's out, is Skylanders all it's cracked up to be?
Let's find out. When you start with the console version of Skylanders, you'll get a couple of movies telling you about this magical land that floats high in the air. You're introduced to Master Eon, the wise old Skylander with a British accent who looks after The Core, the power source for this bright and happy country. Well, it used to be bright and happy.
When a hooded evil creep called Kaos brought his dark cloud over the land, Spyro and his gang tried to fight off his minions. And they did well. So Kaos went to Plan C and blew up The Core. Now, it's up to you to restore calm to this peaceable kingdom.
The story can be exciting and funny, full of tornadoes and weird monsters like Chompers. But it's corny, too. Some of the things the characters say are just too dorky. And they sometime repeat themselves, yammering on about how you're going to save them constantly.
Still, there's so much to the story and game, you block this out as you play and level up. Skylanders isn't really a platformer. It's an action adventure with some role playing game elements. So as you get more powerful, you'll get some kooky things, too, like a pot that's a hat. And your weapons will get stronger, too.
If you're really into exploring, the game will take a longer time to complete. So the replay value is high. But as you search the nooks and crannies, the camera angles sometimes block your vision. This doesn't happen as you move through the main story. Mainly, it happens when you get obsessive and go hunting for hidden treasure chests and goodies that aren't easily seen.
But the big bell and whistle for Skylanders is that the game comes with three action figures. Each one has some intricate features. For instance, the three-inch Dark Spyro has red eyes with black pupils, white fangs and silver horns and wings.
Each of them has special abilities. For instance, the blue, fish-like Gill Grunt shoots water and can go into special areas like rushing waterfalls that are forbidden to those without water powers.
Also included is a Portal of Power that lights up. Plug it into the console. Boot up the game. Put your action figure on the platform. With a magical whoosh and some bright colors onscreen, Spyro is in your game. Over 30 other action figures can work with the game, too, if you choose to collect them all. It's pretty darn cool.
Additionally, if you have the action figures that come with the 3DS, you can take them to your pal's house, even if he has another format like the Xbox 360. All of the powers you've accumulated from playing the game on the 3DS are transferred as you play on the Xbox. These are smart toys that remember!
So how's the game itself? At first, you think things will be easy. Shoot a few Chompers, collect the booty in treasure chests, move some turtles around to reach protected areas, and level up. But that's just early on. As you go through the game, it gets harder. I was actually stymied for a while at a pretty difficult puzzle that asked me to move a bunch of square stones in exactly the right way to get to a portal. And if that's in the first few levels, you know it's going to get more challenging (in a good way).
Here's a special note on the 3DS version. The game looks impressive in 3D as the towns in the sky come to life. The game doesn't have the deep beginning and dialog to the story that's on the console and PC versions. But the upside is, it gets you into the game more quickly. I also noticed that you have more powers right away, like the ability to jump and double jump.
Finally, the 3DS platform is powered by batteries, unlike the other versions which use the energy from the console. But some powerful batteries are included. (Yet why they added a screw on the bottom to put in the batteries, I'll never know. It should just have been a latch. You have to find a screwdriver before you can play!)
Overall, this is a fine reboot to the Spyro series. The characters have so much personality and the world is so lovingly created, I bet there might be a TV show or movie based on the game sometime in the not-so-distant future. It's a game that everyone can pick up and play. But it's also one that takes some thinking to master. I'm not going to say it's the perfect holiday gift, but it will be a really good present to have. And the 30 action figures? Some of you are going to want to collect all of them. I know you'll be sending in questions about how to get past certain areas in Skylanders soon. Rest assured that my thinking cap is already on!
if you die 30 times (with all characters) you have to restart all levels!I know this because it happened to me;(..
I died about that much and it dident happen to me!!! Are you pulling something on us?
kitfisto trigger happy is my favorite too!!! (:
Skylanders is the best game ever!everyone has to get it.my fave characters are drobot and cynder.
get the darklight cript adventure pack ITS SO AWSOME!!!!! because it comes with ghost roster,a bounes level,the one and only time twister hour glass and healing elixer!!!!!!!!
You know, wind/sky and land/earth should be the most powerful.
9the game is SKYLANDERS, right?
Really it does sound cool, but trust me, their are only a few good characters that can kick butt. {Note: don`t get drobot!}.
Do not throw a bomb into the hole next to the train in chapter 20. It will cause a glitch and you can't play anymore because of it.
Everything else I said is right though.
about to beat the game
why cant u get all upgrades for a skylander
Sorry i ment for that to be a peroid.
I think wii is better>
I have is and its awsome!!!!! So far I have Staump smash,Boomer,Spyro,Trigger happy,Chop chop,Eruptor,Voodood,Gill grunt,Bash and Ghost roster. thats ten in all!!!
where is the island you use the speciel ship on
its awesome…im getting a pack of charicters for my brother for christmas(the charicters are wrecking ball,stealth elf,and sonic boom)
(i was previously known as Awesomedude) I do not have it but i have seen the commercials and it seems epic and pure awesomeness
Dude the 3ds version is totally the best it comes with dark spyro and igniter and stealth elf
True but the wii has a better game and storyline
This game looks pure awesome. before i put it on my wish list though, i'm going to find out more about hr entire spyro series, as i know nothing about it. One more thing on my schedule, i guess!
bummed it's not for wii :(
Actually, there is a version for the Wii. :)
You are right. I saw someone else's post and got mixed up. my bad.
Don't hav game but looks awsome and epic!!!
I think this game is TOTAL AWESOMENESS!!!
I so want it looks so cool I just can't wait until I get the money
I love spyro, I'll seriously consider this game.
srsly guys i have finished all levels and all of my characters are level 10 (max) with all upgrades so if you need any help then ask. o and btw you can give nicknames but they already come with names. for wii click the – button then go to the hats and nicknames part then change :P enjoy skylands and post me which characters you got.
i have it it is SO much fun.I am stuck on the level where you have to get the skeleton key.SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!
I need it now
If you get it you will love it i got it for christmas so much fun
Best game ever!!! I have it for wii and it rocks! You can give nicknames hats and special quests from cali. There are a bunch of skylanders. I'm at the level with chaos but I haven't tried it yet. Happy gaming in Skylands!!
I want it for the WII and gill grunt
you want the same thing i want
xbox version has better graphics
i want the game my faveret is trigger happy he is cool the pistols are gold his saying (no gold no glory) yes i want it it looks cool but is 3ds or wii better!
so which is better 3ds or wii
Wii is best
did I get this
wii is definitely best.
how is it better on wii more than xbox
well…I want it for christmas and i think i am going to get it because i only have 6 or 7 things on my christmas list. This is one of them. My friend has it and told me it was epic
me too awsome i want it what is you foveret guy pedro on tuseday i like trigger happy;)
Is this a game for someone who likes shoot em up, adventure, action, and adventure games.
Its more for people who like action/adventure RPG, but there may be a few shooting elements in the game.
skylanders is an awesome game i cant wait to get it for christmas but i can tell when you first pick up the controler you will be hocked
i wish they had it for Wii
They do have it for the Wii
they do have it for wii
they do have it for the Wii
it is an awsome game but yif you want to beat the game you need to get all the different elements . you dont need each charecter but you need one for each element . yes this game comes for the wii
they do have it for wii
can't wait to get the ps3 version
not bad, but compared to MW3…
Still wondering if this game is worth it.
I am getting it for chistmas
me too!
ME Tooo!
i wonder if the skylanders have names at first or if you have to name them
Skylanders have names
can you tell me the tree-man's name?
How do you give Skylanders Nicknames?
you cant… they come with names on the package
you don't.
yes you can i switched terifians name
You go to the part where the fairy upgrades you and you select the 'change nickname' option, triggerhappyisawesome!
If you have it for WII,XBOX,PS3 and PC
you look at your skylanders stats then scrool to the end the go down one (or not) then think of a name!
i dont have the game yet but i am saveing up to get it but to the ones who do what is your ratetings on the graphics
best graphics on xbox
It look awesome.
please replay and say if it is good our not.
I cant get pass Kaos!
I cant either
Well i have now
I just made it to kaos lair how hard is kaos hard?
so awsome!!!!!!
Uh….. Come On! Why is everything on systems I don't have!?!?
what system do you have… they have it for wii xbox ps3
and 3ds
me too
seems like afun game
Seems like a great comeback for the series since the pervious games were a bit of a disapointment. Looks like a lot of fun!
I now want to buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
me 2 i want the pc version


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I heard that a similar Wiki already exist, PS3Tutorials ?
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The owners have 2 boys, 2 other dogs and 2 cats, the Dad has a long commute, the Mom has gone back to work and there just wasnt any time to properly spend on a puppy. The dog is twice saved. She was part of a litter that the breeder was going to have put down because of ring worms and this couple grabbed her and said well take this one. Then she just got to be too much for them with mom going back to work so they placed an ad in Craigs List. My daughter asked me to go with her to check it out so we all piled in the mini-van and went for a little ride. During our conversation with the owners I asked what is her name? The wife said Bailey. I looked at my daughter and laughed out loud.
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FF Telestrator: Round One - Game 4
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
The Penguins blew a lead in the third period of a playoff game.
They allowed six total goals.
Marc-Andre Fleury allowed a behind-the-net backbreaker to Kyle Okposo that changed the tide of the game.
The Penguins mismanagement of the puck was egregious at best.
They also took terribly undisciplined penalties en route to the loss.
Wait, don't stop to check your calendar. You are not Marty McFly. You have not been transported back to April of 2012.
To quote Doc from back to the future: Great Scott! These problems are surfacing again.
We addressed the breakout in our last telestrator. We showed a diagram of the stretch pass the Penguins loved and how the Islanders were able to prevent it.
For a quick reminder:
While the stretch pass was used when appropriate last night, the structure and approach of the breakout changed drastically.
Let's take a look at what direction the Penguins went and how they managed to garner more space for themselves in the neutral zone.
I kind of liken this to what's called an "Over" Strategy. The idea behind this breakout is the Islanders are flooding the ice on the puck carrying defenseman's side. So the Center provides puck support in the middle and bursts through the neutral zone with speed.
Here's the breakout in action:
Orpik is going to make a play to Kunitz along the wall. This is sort of a step one. If Orpik can skate it, or if Kunitz can skate it, Crosby heads up the wall for puck support.
But, like we said, the Islanders are flooding the strong side of the ice. Kunitz is covered so he's going to move the puck to Crosby, who has speed coming out of the zone.
Kunitz gets pressured, the Islanders are fast on the puck.
He's already postured for a touch pass to Crosby, who has a ton of open space.
Crosby gets pressured, he returns the favor with a drop pass to Kunitz. All they've done here is kept the Islanders guessing, provided puck support, and gained the zone with speed.
When the puck finally enters the zone, Kunitz is lost in the shuffle, gets a clean shot off, and Dupuis gets the deflection.
The breakout wasn't the problem. It was the turnovers that haunted the Penguins. Continued gross mismanagement with the puck has been a recurring theme in this series, as it was last year.
And the worst part of all is that no one seems immune to the contagion of the turnover. From Malkin on down, the Penguins are gifting the Islanders way too many scoring chances.
This is a play that I hope Dan Bylsma repeatedly shows in the video room today. It's time to have a frank discussion about Malkin's puck management.
This is a selfish play by Evgeni Malkin, especially considering he's got a future hall of famer a simple bank pass away here.
The smart move is to use the boards to your advantage here. Iginla is coming up the ice with speed. A simple backhand bank pass off the boards is enough to spring Iginla one on one against the Isles defense.
Instead, Malkin looks for Neal. And to get it to Neal, he has to pass it through Brad Boyes. He elevates the pass to the point that it nearly lands in Boyes' lap.
I often use the phrase "live to fight another day."
This is what I mean by that.
When you're on the road, the simple play is the right play. Not every single rush up ice is going to result in a scoring opportunity. If the homerun play isn't there, you have to do what Crosby & Co. did in the prior stills. You have to methodically work the puck up ice.
Malkin turns the puck over to Boyes. John Tavares is on the ice. This is a case of a greedy play that can't happen when the most foreboding line of the opposition is on the ice. It's downright inexcusable.
The worst part is the reverse in flow now has the Penguins defense standing flat footed and out of position.
I'm going to say this in all capital letters because I cannot drive this point home enough.
In this instance, Orpik and Martin both fell to the ice to block the shot and prevent the pass. They ended up recovering. But Malkin heads straight back into the zone to make a run at Tavares and ends up neutralizing his own goaltender in the process.
General rules that prevent turnovers:
1. Let the puck dictate the direction you go.
2. Regroup, support. Don't force the puck into traffic.
The Pittsburgh Penguins problem is that they have a hard time making the safe play. They want to go North, but they can't do it the right way. This Malkin play is a key example of that.
The Penguins can win this series. And I still think they will. But in order to do so, they have to stop making things so complicated on themselves. They need to be aware of where they're sending the puck and win each individual battle on the ice.
It's a three game series. The team that stays out of the box and reduces offensive chances wins.
It's all on the Penguins now.
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How startups can deal with competition from a strategy and Marketing standpoint. Peur de la compétition. There are lots of good reasons to abondon a project Having a little competition is not one of them. Forget about your competitors just focus on your customers. Great Entrepreneurs focus on their mission rather than their competitors. I've noticed a tendency of some early stage tech companies to be excessively distracted by what their competitors are doing, or what they think they are doing. Understanding the landscape and differentiating your product – or approach to the market - is of course essential and there could be a number of areas of head-on competition. Competing for key words on Google as key distribution channels are examples of these. Laurent Pantanacce: Excellente phrase de Gille... Indifference is the true Startup Competitor. Last weekend I was at SxSW to give a talk on Startup Pivots at the Lean Startup event held there.
It was an excellent event put on by Eric Ries and Dave McClure. All the stars of the game were there; I was honored to be included. I have been trying to decrease the number of startup events that I speak at and attend this year so I can focus all my energy on Performable. Despite this I couldn't turn down the opportunity to share tacos and margaritas with my friends down in Austin. While I was there I experienced something that has happened to me many times before. You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone. Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.


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Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 251384, 10 pages
Research Article
Testing Two Tools for Multimodal Navigation
1The Interactive Institute, Acusticum 4, 941 28 Piteå, Sweden
2University of Oulu, PL 8000, Oulun Yliopisto, 90014 Oulu, Finland
3University of Lapland, P.O. Box 122, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
Received 27 December 2011; Accepted 18 May 2012
Academic Editor: Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
Copyright © 2012 Mats Liljedahl et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Poached Egg with Tuscan Hash: Paleo Lunches and Breakfasts on the Go
Here's a great recipe from my book, Paleo Lunches and Breakfasts on the Go. See below on how to enter to win a copy! I'll notify the winner on Feb 25th.
This combination is really amazing. It's sweet tasting from the sundried tomatoes and sweet potatoes, and rich from the pork and herbs. Fresh basil brightens it up and gives it a fresh taste. It's a great breakfast to power you through the morning without needing to refuel. I really like making a double batch of this and reheating as needed through the week for breakfast. You can poach the egg at home the traditional way, but I also offer a way to enjoy a warm, runny egg over some incredible hash right at your office. This classic dish works well for breakfast or for lunch!
Makes about 1.5 quarts
1 TBS bacon fat 1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 Japanese sweet potato, roasted, peeled and diced
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 tsp dried rosemary
1 tsp dried thyme
1lb pastured pork or lamb
3 TBS sundried tomatoes, minced
3 TBS fresh basil, sliced
In a large skillet, melt the bacon fat. Add the onion and sauté for about three minutes. Add the garlic, sweet potato and dried herbs and sauté for five minutes. Now, add the ground meat and cook until done, about seven minutes. Add the sundried tomatoes for another three minutes and incorporate well. Remove from heat and add the fresh basil. To make the poached egg at your office, all you need is a microwave safe bowl, some water and an egg. A glass pyrex dish works well for this. Crack the eggs into the water and pierce the yolks once with a fork. Microwave on high for approximately 90 seconds. All microwaves are different, so depending on how powerful yours is, the timing might be slightly shorter or longer. With a slotted spoon, remove the eggs and serve over the warm hash.
What's your favorite lunch?
Would love to win this for my sister, recently diagnosed with chronic disease and told to go grain free and dairy free. She's overwhelmed, mostly with her on the go meals, this would be so helpful!
I found you through Emily Deans. I've been looking for something for breakfast that's new and different and less wheat filled. This looks good.
My favorite paleo lunch is pretty simple. Some salad greens, some protein and some fat from a homemade dressing or some avocado. I would love this book to expand to some more exciting lunches!
My favorite paleo lunch is a simple almost grab-and-go kind: smoked salmon, avocado, and a nori wrap. Throw some more veg in the lunch for sides and maybe an orange and that's a wrap! Need more ideas though for variety, so this book would be MIGHTY handy!
Mmm this looks and sounds delicious! I was looking for the perfect Tuscan themed dish to surprise my boyfriend with the 2 week Tuscany villa rental that I just booked for us. I absolutely hate rosemary, so if I don't use it does it change the entire taste of the dish?


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Mayor Mufi Hannemann and the Department of Parks and Recreation are sponsoring a free youth basketball clinic this Friday, August 17, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, at the Manoa Valley District Park Gym.
Players should bring their own basketballs and water. Registration begins at 9:45 a.m. Questions may be directed to the Department of Parks and Recreation, at 692-5725.
The clinic will feature five top coaches:
À Bruce OÆNeil, former University of Hawaii menÆs basketball coach and founder-CEO of the U.S. Basketball Academy;
À Bob Nash, current UH menÆs hoops coach;
À Bob Gaillard, former head basketball coach for the University of San Francisco;
À Wang Fei, former head coach of the Chinese national basketball team; and
À Sun Jun, coach of the Jilin Northern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association professional league.
Mayor Hannemann said, ôIÆm very grateful that Bruce OÆNeil, coaches Nash and Gaillard, and their counterparts from China are willing to share their time and talents at this youth clinic. ItÆs not often that our young people have an opportunity to be coached by those at the professional level, and I know theyÆll gain a lot from the experience.ö
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Heart and valve surgery upgraded in Northwest Indiana
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The new Heart and Valve Institute at St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart combines university-quality treatment with the quality of care of a community hospital.
"This is an opportunity to bring university-quality care into the northern part of Indiana," said Dr. Bradford Blakeman, a cardio thoracic and peripheral surgeon, and director of the institute.
Blakeman said the institute will bring cutting-edge technology and surgical care in the area of heart and valve surgery to the region, creating the ability for specialists there to perform procedures that in the past were only tackled at university hospitals in Chicago and Indianapolis.
The thing that makes community hospitals unique, Blakeman said, is the level of care and compassion they provide to the patients. That, he said, is often missing in the university medical setting.
The combination brings together the best of both worlds and brings a whole new level of heart and valve care — which includes coronary bypass surgeries and treatment for congenital birth defects — to the region for the convenience of local residents.
"I don't think there would be any reason people would need to leave the area," Blakeman said.
Familiar physician
Blakeman is not new to the area. He brought his heart and valve surgical practice to Community Hospital in Munster from Loyola University 15 years ago. When Community Healthcare System decided to expand its heart and valve care services, the new institute at St. Mary's was born.
Using the latest in valve technology and surgical expertise, the institute will be able to evaluate patients and provide them with the heart valve that will best suit their individual health needs.
Valve disease affects a large number of people and the institute will enable people to receive local care for valve diseases of all kinds. Conditions such as arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, can be repaired with valve surgery, said Blakeman, whose area of expertise is valve disease. While most heart surgeons conduct 15 to 20 valve surgeries a year, Blakeman said he completes 15 to 20 in a month.
"That creates an opportunity for an incredible volume of learning and expertise that hasn't probably been available to Northwest Indiana until now," Blakeman said.
A variety of valves
The institute will bring all of the available types of valves to the region, increasing the options patients have for their care.
"We've always believed not every valve is right for every patient," Blakeman said.
Having access to the different varieties of tissue and mechanical valves on the market will allow doctors to consider all factors such as disease process, age and other medical problems, when making a choice on the best valve for a particular patient.
"We have the experience to know generally what's best for the patient. We have experience with all types of valves out there," Blakeman said.
Advances in tissue valves, both human and animal, have made the valves more desirable than their mechanical counterparts. While 90 percent of valve replacements 10 years ago were primarily mechanical, that is no longer the case. Tissue valves now have a greater longevity — more than double that of a decade ago — which has changed the whole spectrum of valve surgery and made them more popular among surgeons and patients.
"Now there's a better longevity with tissue valves," Blakeman said.


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It's appalling that I haven't been to a Star Trek Convention, isn't it? You can say so. It's completely pathetic. But, you know, I'm a bit of a pup yet and I haven't previously been able to afford the event. You have to do it right, I discovered.
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Chaz Spicer's Three-Point Play Lifts Aggies To 80-79 Win Vs. Boise State
Jan. 18, 2007 LOGAN, Utah - Chaz Spicer's three-point play with seven seconds left in the game lifted Utah State to an 80-79 win against Boise State here Thursday night. The Aggies improved to 14-5 overall and 3-2 in WAC play, while Boise State fell to 8-8 and 2-3. Spicer scored 20 points to match his career high, while Jaycee Carroll scored 19 points and Durrall Peterson scored 18 for Utah State. Coby Karl and Reggie Larry each scored 17 points for Boise State. Spicer also added a team-best eight rebounds as he reached double-figure points for the first time in four games. Utah State led 16-15 at the 12:28 mark in the first half and did not lead again in the game until Spicer's final second heroics. After trailing by as many as seven points early in the second half, Utah State managed to tie the game at 47 apiece after a Jaycee Carroll layup at the 15:27 mark. However, Boise State pushed its margin to as many as 13 at 73-60 and led 75-64 with 4:35 remaining. However, the Broncos would not score another field goal after Reggie Larry's jumper put them up 77-68 with 3:44 left. BSU led 79-70 with 2:03 remaining before the Aggies finished the game on a 10-0 run. Boise State dominated the boards in the first half, out-rebounding the Aggies 24-17, including grabbing 10 offensive rebounds. The visitors struggled shooting from the outside in the first period, making just three of 14 three-point attempts. However, the visitors heated up in the second half, making seven of nine from behind the arc. The Aggies, who ended up matching Boise State in rebounding for the game at 34 apiece, had a season low eight turnovers in the game. Both team sshot well from the floor as USU hit 50.0 percent and Boise State made 51.7 percent. USU improved to 9-0 at home this season and has now won 10 straight games in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. Utah State will travel to San Jose State on Saturday for a 4 p.m. mountain time tipoff. The Aggies have played four straight home games and will play its first road game since Jan. 6.


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Sun May 05, 2013 1:23 am
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Mon May 06, 2013 1:29 am
Birdofterror wrote:I would raise a toast
Birdofterror wrote:if they were to show themselves, it wouldn't be an overcomplicated clusterfuck like this bomb's appearance was, no offense BR.
Birdofterror wrote:By the way what happened to Naga?
Wed May 08, 2013 9:09 pm
Havoc751 wrote:
I also have to wonder if Bleed "wrote himself into a corner" in any since of the word.
Okay this is gonna be a little hard to explain *deep breath*
As we know, Jack came from medieval Japan, but he was sent into the future. This being the original Jack witch I will refer to as Jack A. Now Jack found his way back in time somehow, and ended up living in Megaville. We shall call this Jack, Jack B. Now if you look at the Older and Wiser page, you can clearly see Jack B. Now my question is did this story progress far enough into the future, that we hit the point in time that Jack A arrives? Did both of these Jack's exist in the same time period at any point?
Birdofterror wrote:if they were to show themselves, it wouldn't be an overcomplicated clusterfuck like this bomb's appearance was, no offense BR.
Havoc751 wrote:I'm not so sure they'll be making their reappearance until after this whole "time bomb" thing is said and done.
It seems a little late in the game to add them now.
You know I've been thinking about him a little bit. Naga showed up right after the bomb on the moon, when off. I don't think this is a coincidence. What if he's somehow associated with time anomalies? If this is true, than I think there's a chance that he might show up after this bomb goes off.
Also with this time bomb thing; Do you think we'll get to see an alternative future for the city of Megaville (one different from the GT future)? I'm hoping we will.
Blood Lord wrote:[There isn't nor hasn't been motivation from [The Rowdyruff Boys] like that.
Thu May 09, 2013 1:54 am
BeeAre wrote:I wrote:I also have to wonder if Bleed "wrote himself into a corner" in any since of the word.
in my humble opinion: Yes.
BeeAre wrote:There will not be a second Jack, except in brief blink-periods, to showcase the distortion of spacetime.
BeeAre wrote:None taken, but keep in mind that this story was a clusterfuck way before I started working on it.
BeeAre wrote:I wrote:You know I've been thinking about him a little bit. Naga showed up right after the bomb on the moon, when off. I don't think this is a coincidence. What if he's somehow associated with time anomalies? If this is true, than I think there's a chance that he might show up after this bomb goes off.
Heh. HEH.
BeeAre wrote:I wrote:Also with this time bomb thing; Do you think we'll get to see an alternative future for the city of Megaville (one different from the GT future)? I'm hoping we will.
*shakes magic 8-ball*
Hmm: outcome seems favorable!
BeeAre wrote:I wrote:I'm not so sure they'll be making their reappearance until after this whole "time bomb" thing is said and done.
It seems a little late in the game to add them now.
Nah, they'll show up.
BeeAre wrote:Unrelated to the RrB, here's a fun visual metaphor to puzzle over: two water balloons. but with sand. This is not a boob joke. :B
Thu May 09, 2013 4:37 am
Well, water is very weak by itself as ammunition, but sand and soil are very dense. If you were to fill a balloon with sand and chuck it at someone, I don't think it would pop like a water balloon.BeeAre wrote:Unrelated to the RrB, here's a fun visual metaphor to puzzle over: two water balloons. but with sand. This is not a boob joke. :B
Sun May 19, 2013 10:29 pm
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Mon May 20, 2013 2:33 am
Havoc751 wrote:-he was the one who killed Blossom.
Mon May 20, 2013 9:10 pm
Tue May 21, 2013 1:17 am
Blood Lord wrote:I believe you mean Mimi.
Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:08 am
Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:31 am
Sun Aug 25, 2013 1:45 am
Blood Lord wrote:*blows dust off of the thread.
Blood Lord wrote:These hallowed grounds have been too empty as of late. Much great discussion has been brought on during these last pages, feel free to continue and expound on them here.
Birdofterror wrote:As to your revival topic- Minnie's body and the soul grafting process, I'm curious as to whether or not the body is even alive. It's really just a matter of binding her soul to a body, right? Who says it "has" to be her body? Why not put her in an artificial body? It must suck (and stink) to be stuck in a zombie.
Birdofterror wrote:mostly to gripe about how long this certain part of the story has been going on. Mostly the whole "primal" Mimi thing. It was cute at first, then it was a dry humor, now it's kind of...
Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:18 am
Mon Aug 26, 2013 1:45 am
Cerulean wrote:Maybe the reason that she had to return to a body dealt with the possibility of her soul becoming forfeited to Walker/Him? Grim is death personified, however, that doesn't mean that he has any reign over the souls that do form after someone dies does it?
Cerulean wrote:So if (as you said), she were to either remain outside of her body for an extended amount of time, or if she were to be placed under too much duress from constant body swapping, then I would imagine her soul would become tainted.
Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:10 am
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Oh, well good on ya. Everything works out in the end!Cerulean wrote:I was the one who made (and posted) the charts c:
I'm pretty sure it was confirmed that Chi is the child of Blossom and Aku. Normalish conception, normalish birth. Once again, no real links. Statements are kinda old.Cerulean wrote:One of the other popular theories (involving Chi's creation) revolved around Blossom's body/soul/essence being combined with Aku-matter to make Chi.
Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:27 am
Blood Lord wrote:We've had in confirmed by BR that there is a relationship between Chi and Blossom. You can interpret that as being a literal off spring of Blossom and Aku, or that Chi was created from shards of Blossom's soul. Both cases make an assumption on the reproductive capabilities of Aku.
Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:03 pm
Wed Aug 28, 2013 2:22 am
Birdofterror wrote:As for the deal with Blossom and the demon lords, it's sort of been implied that she had sex with Aku willingly and under good terms, and it was also implied that she had sex with Him "willingly" and under bad terms. I don't have direct links as these were usually tossed around. A lot of people took it at face value and said "that's the truth."
Cerulean wrote:Not to mention that Blossom choosing to remain with Mimi over Chi (who is somehow biologically related to Blossom) seems a bit out of character (why choose one daughter over the other?). Then again this theory pretty much relies on Blossom being the one who betrayed everyone in Megaville.
Cerulean wrote:We'd also have to have a definition of what they consider to be "betrayal" to fully understand the terms of Megaville's destruction in GT. Is it simply someone betraying the heroes (their weaknesses for example) to the villains? Or did Blossom (just an example) betray the heroes by teaming up with a villain to somehow save (or whatever the terms of the deal were) the town (or whatever it was that she needed help with)? I think that it would have been ironic if the downfall of Megaville was actually the result of the Heroes own doing. Something along the lines of:
*Blossom and Him enter the scene
*Heroes presume Him is up to no good and attack
*Blossom and/or Him defend against the onslaught
*A catastrophic event occurs (let's say this is what she needed help with) while the Heroes are fighting
*The Catastrophe combined with the Heroes vs. Him fight destroys Megaville (and kills a good portion of the heroes) anyway
*Blossom still has to uphold her side of the deal because he did technically come to help as she requested (Monkey's Paw scenario)
*Blossom becomes pregnant
Cerulean wrote:His success/failure in killing Aku is what I believe could have contributed to the Time Squad not existing. If Aku were to survive, then I doubt that he would risk the possibility of humans unlocking the mysteries of time travel. After all, Aku is capable of sending whomever he wishes to whichever point in time that he pleases. If humans were to somehow grasp the concept of time travel, and Jack were to discover it, then he (Jack) could simply go back to the second after he was forced to come to the distant future, and kill Aku while he was at his weakest. It gets confusing, however, when you think about why Jack wouldn't want to kill Aku (if he found a way back to the past). Mercy? Or was it due to outside interference? Or did Aku simply force Jack to go to GT Megaville before the final blow was struck? That's all I have so far. At the very least, it could explain why Clockwork exists in GT timeline, but the Time Squad doesn't exist.
Blood Lord wrote:Correct. It is most likely that we will never get the answers we seek.
But one can be hopeful with NEK as the editor.
Birdofterror wrote:I really like the concept of it, as it implies that Megaville and the heroes within it do not rise to power in either timeline without Jack, proving that he's either the most important character, or he's simply the key to the future through the Butterfly Effect.
Cerulean wrote:On the one hand, we could consider Aku-Blossom pairing happening in the GT timeline. Something happens, then deal is made with Him by Blossom. The thing that complicates this, however, is Aku's behavior towards Him presently. I don't sense any hostility from Aku towards Him (although this could just mean that Aku wasn't as into Blossom as she was him (or that he is a good actor (or that he wasn't involved with her in the first place)))).
Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:19 am
Well I don't really keep links, so sorry.Havoc wrote:As far as what sex was "under good terms" and what was " under bad terms, I'm gonna need more than just what's been implied. I'm wondering if Aku was included as part of the deal Blossom made with Him.
Well, as far as the timeline goes, Jack is present in both timelines. In GT you can see him in the mosaic of heroes. In PPGD, you can see him everywhere.Havoc wrote:How so?
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Whale of a Trade Revealed at Biggest U.S. Bank With Best Control
"We are dead I tell you," Bruno Iksil, a London-based trader at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), messaged an associate on March 23, 2012. "It is hopeless now."
Iksil, a Frenchman who would soon become known as the London Whale because of the size of his trades, had lost $44 million on corporate-credit bets three days earlier and was down more than $500 million for the year, Bloomberg Markets will report in its July issue. He and junior trader Julien Grout, under pressure from their manager, had tried to hide the extent of losses that would swell to more than $6.2 billion, the bank's biggest trading blunder ever.
"They are going to destroy us," Iksil wrote to Grout that Friday in one of hundreds of e-mails, instant messages, transcripts of recorded conversations and other documents released in March by the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations after a nine-month probe.
In a 301-page report and at a hearing, the panel accused the largest and most profitable U.S. bank of hiding losses, deceiving regulators and misinforming investors.
The report, the bank's own 129-page account and interviews with traders and current and former executives offer evidence of a widening spiral of panic as the losses became known beyond a small circle of traders and the extent of the damage reached top management, including Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon.
Dimon's Reputation The saga of the London Whale provoked doubts about Dimon's reputation as one of Wall Street's savviest CEOs, even as JPMorgan reported a third consecutive year of record profit in January and Dimon survived a shareholder vote in May that could have forced him to give up his role as chairman.
A brash critic of regulation who sailed through the 2008 financial crisis without a loss, Dimon was seen as a manager who scrutinized every aspect of the bank's business. He's considered indispensable by some of JPMorgan's most influential shareholders, including billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Home Depot Inc. co-founder Kenneth Langone, who called him "probably the finest CEO across any business in America."
What the documents show is that Dimon presided over a company whose traders amassed growing positions in complex derivatives and whose executives offered rosy forecasts, withheld information from regulators and ignored risk limits that were breached 330 times in the first four months of 2012.
The records reveal how little has changed to prevent even the best-managed banks from speculating their way into trouble five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and three years after passage of the Dodd-Frank Act.
'Reasonable Cause' The Senate panel, led by Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, referred its report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department on April 12.
"There is reasonable cause to believe a violation of the law may have occurred," Levin says. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the SEC are scrutinizing public statements, calls with investors and the April 13, 2012, earnings presentation by Dimon and then-Chief Financial Officer Douglas Braunstein, according to five people with knowledge of the probes.
The criminal investigation is focusing on, among other issues, whether traders painted the tape, a form of market manipulation that allows them to inflate the value of their positions, three of the people say.
Spokesmen for the Justice Department, the SEC and the FBI's New York field office declined to comment.
'Misleading Disclosures' "The Senate report arms the SEC and gives them a road map by which they could pursue the bank for failure to supervise its traders, maintaining inadequate risk controls and making misleading disclosures," says John Coffee, a securities law professor at Columbia University Law School.
Joe Evangelisti, head of communications at the New York-based bank, wrote in an e-mail response to questions that statements made by Dimon and Braunstein "reflected what they believed at the time and were based on fact finding and analysis by a number of people investigating the situation. In hindsight, the information they received was wrong."
After Bloomberg News first reported on April 5, 2012, that Iksil's book had grown so large it was distorting markets, executives downplayed losses that by then had eclipsed $1 billion. Dimon, 57, dismissed the matter on an earnings call eight days later as "a complete tempest in a teapot."
Dimon apologized for that remark and what he called in a letter to shareholders "the stupidest and most-embarrassing situation I have ever been a part of."
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Died | May 29, 1998 | (aged 23)
Orlando Anderson Tekbiti | |
Born | August 13, 1974 |
Died | May 29, 1998 | (aged 23)
Orlando Tive "Baby Lane" Anderson Tikbiti (August 13, 1974 – May 29, 1998) was an alleged affiliate of the South Side Compton Crips and was a person of interest in the brief investigation of the murder of acclaimed American rapper Tupac Shakur by Compton and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Departments. Specifically Detective Tim Brennan of Compton filed an affidavit naming him as a suspect, although fans and others have speculated as to Anderson's involvement since the incident.[1] He was never charged with the murder.
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On the night of September 7, 1996 Anderson and Shakur's entourage were involved in a scuffle at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas just three hours before Shakur's shooting. These events led to public speculation, but after two days of questioning Anderson in detention the Las Vegas homicide detective Lt. Larry Spinosa told the media, "At this point, Orlando Anderson is not a suspect in the shooting of Tupac Shakur.".[2][3] Later in the investigation, Anderson was named a suspect. [4] Stories circulated on the street that Anderson had bragged about shooting the rapper, which he denied in an interview for VIBE magazine later.[5] Anderson was caught up in a round up of suspects in Compton almost a month after the shooting, with 21 other alleged gang members. Anderson was detained and questioned, but not charged.[6] However, the raid was only tangentially connected to the Tupac shooting as Compton police admitted they were investigating local shootings and not the one in Las Vegas.[7] Though both jurisdictions investigated a possible connection between Anderson and the shooting on the Las Vegas Strip they were unable to link him directly to the crime, and no criminal charges were ever filed.
A year later, Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Anderson in response to a lawsuit Anderson filed against Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Tupac's estate and others in the Death Row organization. Anderson's lawsuit was in regards to injuries resulting from the scuffle that evening in 1996 - Anderson claimed to have suffered both emotional and physical pain and that he was beaten badly during the altercation. Afeni Shakur's lawsuit was filed just four days after Anderson's lawsuit was filed.[8] The Associated Press reported in 2000 that Shakur's estate and Anderson's estate settled the competing lawsuits hours before the death of Orlando Anderson.[9] - although only his lawyer offered a dollar figure attached to the settlement which he claimed would have netted Anderson $78,000.
In the aforementioned VIBE interview with Sanyika Shakur, (a.k.a. "Monster" Kody Scott), and in his first remarks to the media, Anderson professed to being a fan and an admirer of Tupac Shakur and his music. He said he was cleared by Las Vegas police after two days of questioning.[10] The interviewer also remarked on the striking physical resemblance between Anderson and Shakur.
In October 2011, former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who was once the lead investigator in the murder of Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace, came out with a book which alleges that Sean "Diddy" Combs commissioned Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis to take out Tupac Shakur, along with Knight, for one million dollars. Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis is the uncle of Orlando Anderson and detective Kading claims that Orlando was present in the vehicle which pulled up next to the BMW which Tupac was shot in.[11][12]
On May 29, 1998, Orlando Anderson[13] and associates Michael Stone and Jerry Stone were involved in a shootout outside of Cigs Record Store in Compton, California.[14] They later died at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital (formerly King/Drew Medical Center) in Los Angeles, California. Michael Reed Dorrough was wounded at the time and later arrested in connection with the shooting. To date, no one has been charged with Anderson's murder.