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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Moody's Investors Service (MCO - Get Report) and Standard & Poor's parent McGraw-Hill (MHP) shares were rising on Monday after both firms and Morgan Stanley (MS - Get Report) settled civil fraud lawsuits related to two failed investment vehicles.
The settlement's are a significant development for the firms as they try to expunge litigation tied to pre-crisis bond ratings, however, the prospect of federal and state fraud lawsuits remains a significant legal risk, according to some analysts.
Late on Friday, Moody's, S&P and Morgan Stanley settled investor lawsuits brought forward by Abu Dhabi Commerical Bank and King County, Washington surrounding two structured investment vehicles called Cheyne and Rhinebridge.
The suits, filed in 2008 and 2009, claimed that Moody's and S&P inflated ratings for the SIV's, while Morgan Stanley conveyed ratings it knew were inaccurate. Abu Dhabi's lawsuit had been set to go to trial on May 6. The settlement is crucial for Moody's and S&P because, after years of legal back and forth, the plaintiffs' only remaining litigation surrounded claims of civil fraud. Had Abu Dhabi or King County proven Moody's and S&P's bond ratings were fraudulent, it might have led to a potentially crippling flurry of litigation from other investors. Shares in Moody's rose over 8% in Monday trading to $59.69, while McGraw-Hill shares rose nearly 3% to $53.45. Morgan Stanley shares gained nearly 4% to $22.21. The settlement may also come as a blow for some investors betting on the eventual demise of ratings agencies such as David Einhorn of hedge fund Greenlight Capital. Einhorn said in a February earnings call Moody's was the firm's worst performing short position in 2012. "Our biggest loser on the short side last year was Moody's," Einhorn said in February, on a quarterly conference call for Greenlight Re (GLRE), an insurer affiliated with the hedge fund. Prior to that, Einhorn's most recent direct reference to the trade came in response to an audience question at an October investor conference. "It's a matter of time before they all disappear," Einhorn said of the rating agencies, at the Value Investing Congress. Einhorn said earlier in 2013 Greenlight Capital had shorted shares of McGraw-Hill, after the Department of Justice brought a fraud lawsuit against Standard & Poor's in February. When asked if Friday's settlement impacted short positions in Moody's and McGraw-Hill, Jonathan Gasthalter, a Greenlight Capital spokesperson, declined to comment. Warren Buffett-run Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A - Get Report) remains Moody's largest shareholder, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Moody's shares have gained over 40% in the last 12-months to new five-year highs. "McGraw-Hill has settled the Abu Dhabi and King County cases without any admission of liability or wrongdoing," Jason Feuchtwanger, a company spokesperson, said in an e-mail. "The terms of the settlement are confidential," Feuchtwanger added. "We are pleased to have settled these cases," Mark Lake, a Morgan Stanley spokesperson said, of the investor lawsuits claiming negligence. Moody's didn't immediately return an e-mail seeking comment. Moody's and McGraw-Hill may not be in the clear yet, according to Mark Palmer an analyst at BTIG Research, who has long said litigation poses a serious risk to the financial position of both firms. Palmer highlights a $5 billion civil fraud charge brought by the DoJ against McGraw-Hill as a significant risk for all rating agencies, even after settlements surrounding investor litigation. Reports from the Wall Street Journal and Reuters indicate the DoJ may look at similar charges against Moody's, while New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has begun a probe on pre-crisis mortgage backed security bond ratings. "Prior to Feb. 4, the most acute legal risk facingCheck Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Meeting in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, CAR President Francois Bozize and representatives from Uganda, Congo, and South Sudan worked to find a regional solution to the Lord's Resistance Army. The meeting took place on October 13 and 14 under the auspices of the African Union.
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The Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs spent the past few seasons rounding out the bottom of NL Central.
Their poor play is spread over two divisions now.In the first interleague matchup between these former division rivals, Dallas Keuchel will seek to help Houston beat the Cubs on Friday at Wrigley Field.The Astros (28-46) are in last place in the AL West and own the league's worst record but head into Chicago having won six of eight. They earned all but one of those wins on a seven-game homestand and took two of three from another former NL Central opponent, Milwaukee, to begin this week.Former Cubs slugger Carlos Pena helped his team finish off that series with a 7-4 victory Thursday by hitting a three-run homer in the 10th inning."What a great homestand. I thought we were in every single game. This is a lot of momentum moving forward," said Pena, who hit a team-best 28 homers for Chicago in 2011.Pena will face his former club and former Tampa Bay teammate Matt Garza (1-1, 4.98 ERA) for the first time Friday. The two played together from 2008-10 and were members of an AL championship team in the first of those seasons.Keuchel (4-3, 4.23) will try to help Pena finish on the winning side of that reunion while improving on a 3-1 record and a 2.13 ERA in his last four starts. The left-hander bounced back from his only defeat over that stretch by beating the other Chicago team Sunday.Keuchel gave up two runs over 6 1/3 innings in a 5-4 victory over the White Sox."All you can ask of your guys is consistency, and no doubt that Dallas has given us that more than anybody in the rotation, even when we've been pitching so good lately," manager Bo Porter told the team's website. "He's figured out how to get guys out with all of his pitches."Keuchel did not get a decision in his only start against the Cubs on Sept. 10, allowing one run over four innings in a 4-1 home defeat.Chicago (29-42), which is tied with the Brewers for last in the division, edged Houston in the season series 8-7 for the second straight year in 2012 but has won 11 of 15 meetings at Wrigley Field. The Cubs, though, enter having dropped four of five and are 2-7 at Wrigley this month.They scored one run for the second straight game Thursday, falling 6-1 in St. Louis. Welington Castillo had three of the team's five hits while Starlin Castro's average for the month dropped to .127 (9 for 71)."I'm working hard every day, I know I can get out of this," Castro said. "When I get out of this, I'll be good for the rest of the season."Garza allowed two runs over 5 1/3 innings to beat the Astros at home last June after going 0-3 with a 4.64 ERA in his first five matchups with them.He is coming off a solid showing, tossing seven scoreless innings against the New York Mets on Sunday after getting tagged for a career-worst nine runs in five innings in a loss to Cincinnati five days earlier.The right-hander, though, did not get a win Sunday as reliever Carlos Marmol's struggles continued in a 4-3 defeat.Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
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Following the disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad in 2009, the world looked on as tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets in protest, only to be repressed by force, arrested, or worse. Though there is far less coverage of Iran now—few foreign correspondents are allowed into the country—repression has continued and even intensified since these events, with widespread arrests, purges of university faculty, closure of publications, and a clampdown on political activity. Still, supporters of the Green Movement have not been entirely silenced, as Zahra's Paradise, a powerful new graphic novel set in contemporary Iran, makes clear.


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ABC News' David Chalian reports: The new procedures and guidelines put in place by Defense Secretary Gates aimed at providing "common decency," according to Gates, to gays who serve in the military doesn't go far enough according to an outspoken critic of the policy that has been in place since the beginning of the Clinton administration. "As far as when we consider the numbers of people that get kicked out, you know, the majority of people that get kicked out, they don't get kicked out for these reasons. They get kicked out because they just refuse to lie anymore about who they are," said Lt. Dan Choi who is challenging his dismissal letter from the Army after he made his sexuality public. "And so the bottom line is no, it does not actually repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell and the only way that we're going to see any kind of substantive progress or momentum is if the President takes real leadership and shows resolve," Choi added on ABC News' "Top Line." Lt. Choi, who recently handcuffed himself to the White House fence in protest of DADT, challenged President Obama to repeal the law in the current Defense Department authorization bill. "He has the Defense authorization bill. He can include repeal language when he sends that to the Senate and that will allow for the Senate to, for those opponents of Don't Ask Don't Tell's repeal, they would have to come up with 60 votes to strip that out of the bill. So that's the only way the president can really add momentum. It is on his desk right now and so the ball is in his court." As the review process with an eventual goal of full Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal ordered by President Obama is underway, Lt. Choi says the military will discover what other agencies and foreign service organizations have discovered. "They will see that in Australia or in Canada or in Israel or even in our own services at home in the secret service or the CIA or the FBI they got rid of their discriminatory policies and what you look at right now is we are now hiring people and keeping them on our teams because of the talent that the can provide. So they'll certainly find that if you follow all of the other organizations and militaries around the world that there really is nothing that's holding us back as to how we should implement the reverse of discrimination," Choi said. You can watch our entire interview with Lt. Choi HERE. We also chatted with the Washington Post's political sage Dan Balz about the McCain and Palin reunion and the political fallout from the enactment of the health care reform bill. Be sure to watch our entire segment with Dan HERE.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A United Nations staff member was shot dead in Abyei, the territory disputed between Sudan and South Sudan, U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
Abyei's peacekeeping mission (UNISFA) said one of its national staff, a Ngok Dinka from South Sudan, was killed on Tuesday.
Sudan and South Sudan split apart last year under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war but failed to resolve a number of contested issues including the exact position of their shared border.
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A UNISFA officer said its staff member was shot "during the violence that occurred while UNISFA troops were trying to control Ngok Dinka demonstrators who attempted to damage the Abyei town mosque".
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Some 2 million people died in Sudan's civil war, which was fueled by disputes of religion, ethnicity and oil.
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Which one do you guys think is better ? "...rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." /G\
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And before I'm corrected, I meant Daniel Defense, not defensive "...rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." /G\
Daniel Defense is on a whole other level than Stag. I'm sure Stag puts out a fine rifle, but it's not a Daniel Defense. -Fred
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"As an American, I was not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials"...Newt Gingrich The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.
Give me my DD anyday and twice on sunday
I love my Daniel Defense V2 upper, and the warranty work they preformed was excellent as well. overall great product and product support. USA made and manufactured also.
My first thought when I read the title of this thread was, "oh sh*t, I'm glad this isn't the other forum." lol DD is the better AR.
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TULSA, Okla.- -- MPSI Systems Inc. (Pink Sheets:MPSM) today announced the formation of a Technology Advisory Board ("TAB") comprised of experts in retail modeling, numerical analysis, simulation and pattern recognition, among other skills. Jim Auten, MPSI's president and CEO named as charter members Dr. Frederick T. Seibel, Dr. Francis C. Wimberly, and Dr. David Izraelevitz.According to Mr. Auten, the mission of the Technology Advisory Board includes (a) identification of enhancement opportunities with respect to MPSI's present software product suite, (b) development of new products for diversified application of MPSI's retail expertise, (c) management and/or team participation in consultative projects in the retail and governmental sectors, and (d) mentoring to MPSI's technical staff.
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Dr. Wimberly has worked in the area of scientific computing for over 25 years. He has taught courses in artificial intelligence, expert systems, data communications, numerical analysis and computer programming. He has extensive experience in both the government and private sectors. His private sector work includes projects in the packaged goods, automotive, airlines, consulting and telecommunications industries. Dr. Wimberly is currently working as a Research Scientist for a NASA-funded project utilizing numerical analysis and statistical tools.
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The Technology Advisory Board will be officially commissioned at its first meeting in January 2005. "MPSI brand value has always been grounded in leading-edge technology and an unwavering focus on customer services. The addition of the skills and perspectives of these new TAB members will enhance MPSI's ability to remain on the forefront of convenience retail consulting," said Mr. Auten.
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For now, my sis and I haven't finalize what we WILL watch of the Fall Anime, but we will definitely dropped Star Driver, and Bakuman.
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For now, my sis and I haven't finalize what we WILL watch of the Fall Anime, but we will definitely dropped Star Driver, and Bakuman.
For those who watch these two, you can say your opinion at the other thread [How good is/are this/these?]
Err, people are welcome to discuss those series here (although dedicated threads would be better). The other thread is for asking about series which you wish to know about (probably with a view to watching them).
I'm disappointed nobody is talking about Togainu no Chi. Looks like a great series.
bakuman I'll be watching for sure. I'm already reading the manga so I know it'll be good.
Not sure about the other stuff yet, since I've yet to start watching anything else.
I kid about Togainu no Faggu
I'm watching Togainu no Chi. First impression on the first episode? Mmmm.....It's like watching Kotetsu Sangokushi - some proportion on the character design suck a bit - but I'm going to watch the anime, anyway since I've been waiting for it for a long time and since I've know of the game.
I watched that last night, I wasn't too impressed to be honest. It wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't as good as it could have been.
I really really liked Ore no Imouto, I was half expecting it to be some moeshit (and to be fair, the possibility is still there), but instead the two main characters were really well fleshed out. The brother sister relationship felt very real and the way Kirino was tentative about entering the otaku community was very convincing. I also really like how Kyousuke is very down to earth, and his dry wit is very funny. The animation quality is also superb and the voice acting (at least of the two main characters) feels very natural.
I 'm really not keen on Star Driver after watching the second episode. The show is just a load of nonsense that is trying too hard to be the next Gurren Lagan, i'll give it until the next episode, but I think I'll end up dropping this.
Star Driver = FABULOUS(Shit(Gurren Lagan + Cliché))
SRWOG - The Inspector is big disappointment, the previous series was good because it wasn't terribly drawn out like Gundam is, it had a fast paced story (and a lot of variety) and didn't take itself too seriously in the beginning which allowed the viewer to settle down and get to know the characters before everything kicked off.
This series (after just two episodes) seems to be bordering the fantastic and ridiculous. We're two episodes in and already we've encountered legendary magical super robots. The show assumes you know everything from the last series and so skips of most of the plot development in favour of explosive battles (which is fair, but leaves the show lacking in exposition). I would like to say the animation is high quality, but the show suffers from what I call boobism. It's incredibly annoying when most of the women are depicted as bouncing boobies on legs (an exaggeration) and the way said tits bounce, twitch and wobble despite no external force being applied; which is a shame because the characters would be very likable otherwise. The ED credits also seems to be used just as an excuse for gratuitous fanservice and it really lowers the tone of the show.
I want to like this show, but Japan's obsession with overuse of fanservice makes it very difficult for what would otherwise be a fairly decent show. Its one saving grace is that the problems aren't as bad as they were in HOTD.
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru makes me imagine Natsu no Arashi. The storyline portrayal and the gag is quite similar. The main character is even from Natsu no Arashi (who voiced the reverse trap character named Jin).
Anyone watching Milky Holmes? I heard it was a 'moe' version of Sherlock Holmes, not that I'm interested in watching it. Too kiddies for me.
Hmm so I'm the only one who was impressed with Soredemo Machi? I like the animation style that Shaft did with it and the slapstick jokes; A maid cafe that has no idea what a maid cafe should be, A closet-maid fan teacher and the relationships of the characters (who likes who). I specially like how the teacher figured out about their part-time job. xD
I saw it and I didn't like it. Just as you said, it was pretty childish.
LOL! Best Summary for this series!Originally Posted by 98abaile
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you mean Jun, the problem is that I keep thinking of the voice as a girly boy's (Jun's) voice even though I know the charaters and the VA are female. Same VA as P-Ko in Arakawa Under The Bridge.
lol, thanks. If you expand the brackets, it reads as: FABULOUSLY shit Gurren Lagan with FABULOUSLY shit clichés.
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Aug 17, 2012, 11:26 AM | |
Man Capt, when it rain it pours. Sory to hear and the best of luck.
I ran accross the plans for the woodie canard that I scratch built for slope. Just did not mount a slimmer motor on her. The canard name is a little amusing; http://www.myhobbystore.co.uk/produc.../rm244--dranac |
Aug 17, 2012, 07:35 PM | |
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If you can swing it, and if you can take care of it, renting a house is sometimes nicer than living in a multi unit apartment.
I've been lucky with my landlords, for the most part. But I've never lived any place that was more than 6 or 8 units. In a place that small if you always pay the rent, and don't mess things up, they notice. Get a place with an extra bedroom to build in, if you can! |
Aug 17, 2012, 10:06 PM | |
Hi and thanks for the support folks!
Last weekend I even went 'hogwild' and spent 10 bucks for the lottery- wouldn't ya know- the lottery subject came on Late night news, and I did it wrong- ahh well- i guess I shouldn't expect a house for 10 bucks! I did see, though, that what I figured as mid 100's is going for 90, so I did conclude buying is best! just gotta hit that win! Katie, my vote was a tie dyed type as you have done, but wife said no anyway, the shape of everything else is fine- when I explained to her, as she watched me fuss and fiddle and walk away from that c word, that when I had put sarah's own written name on the C, she thought I was doing the bird as a one of. WOW, the whole world over here fell into a sink hole and imploded from the shock of it all! I did what I did with the C mostly as a learning curve for myself. I will say, no, i did not have any fun- Shrederman , Mark Miller and all really get my support, as just a build log by itself is a large task, and retracing from PDF/ sketches etc, only multiply the complexities by a Whole Lots! I did try an Oly 650 backwards, but the front end MUST have a foil up there. I had tried 3 times with flat plate type elevator/ canards, and they just don't work- for sailplanes. I was diggin' about, getting some links back up and running into this here Lion machine, and got here, and will add another in moments. some folks swear by the Canard CG Calculator, but 'Kubiak' and I have found a 12 % average of bad math-- for sailplanes, again! Jared! that looks like a clean , basic bird and good taste in the oven! more torments later! Johnny http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...509074&page=32 edit--- http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=629872 |
Aug 18, 2012, 12:37 AM | |
Thanks kids!
A rocket launched 'gentle' Lady! I'd love to see this! Sean: Which one? I'm also going to electrify the Lightning- the squared plank- compared to Bill's rounded one-He's a member, ( Canardly fly), but I kant get him to participate! His Tiger Mac is for Macfoil and solitaire! the presently active- 8yrs now- blue/yellow wing is a Butterfly 2 with 9" tip break, a bit sluggish, but very sensitive to thermal infos. Sig Riser, with a set of ribs taking her out to 132" is in box waiting, and Sarah- her own thing, I was surprised that 2 M's fit on the 48" fuse the way it does- original Counselor was 100", did inverted flat spins! Did have a good week workwise! the troll! |
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Aug 18, 2012, 02:32 AM | |
That you, Cap'n? You got wood chips in yer hair.
I don't think I kept the napkin I drew it on, it was ripping too much. But the build would involve somehow hiding an Al tube in the fuse. I planned on using micro servos and a teensy battery way up front to keep the motor at the CG. It can be done, but with my loss of access to a machine shop, making the long taper on the tube, and making it accurate, will be very difficult. |
Aug 18, 2012, 10:40 AM | |
Phenomenal Idea Steve!
Katie! i'm supposed to be a machinist, but I canardly kut straight! After I put some coffe in my belly, I'm gonna fly some Radian! I do know if there isn't at least one cat/dog hair trapped in a covering job, it ain't flyin' right! |
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Aug 18, 2012, 01:12 PM | |
Katie, I just found this on Facebook, kewl aerotow bipe!
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...00075168_n.jpg Al |
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Broken Records: The Final Days of Bleecker Bob's Golden Oldies
In March 2012, Bleecker Bob's 2,000-square-foot storefront was listed on realtor Point NYC's website as a "great retail space on street level" with "very high traffic." The asking price was $17,000 a month. Weidner says the store had been paying $10,500 a month. "The landlord wanted more money and for us to sign into a long-term lease," he says. "I just couldn't do that."
"They want to get what they can get, because it's New York City," says the store's assistant manager, a stocky man in his mid-40s with tufts of black hair on the top of his head and chin. Displaying classic New York prudence, he says his name is simply "Ski" and won't offer much more other than he considers himself the "Ghost of Christmas Present." "This guy [the landlord] thinks the West Village is hopping, and it's not quite as hopping as it used to be years ago. The music industry, the record industry, the CD industry, it's all going down. All these things together make it difficult. To sign a new lease for $15,000 or $20,000 is just ridiculous. We're doing what we can."
For now, it's business as usual, with the exception of the shop's gate, which is broken and would cost too much to repair before they vacate the space. To make up for it, someone has taped a piece of red paper, saying, "We are open, come in," to the front door. One former employee, Javier Medina, who quit last year to pursue a degree in history, says he thinks the store could qualify as a historical landmark, because of its legacy and because it is likely the longest-running record store in New York City. "The same could be said of [West Fourth Street club] the Bottom Line, though," he says one night in early April. "Bruce Springsteen was offering to pay the place's back rent to keep it as a musical landmark. Bruce Springsteen! You think you might be able to do something like that, but he couldn't."
As of March 2013, the Chicago-based franchise Forever Yogurt had signed a lease on 118 West Third Street, as well as two other spots in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. The lease, which went for $13,000 a month, according to DeSalvo, was set to take effect on April 1, though Forever Yogurt hoped to open its location on June 1. "We could technically be gone any time after April 1," Ski says on March 7. "It kind of depends on them."
For much of the next month, the store's closing date would change several times, depending on who you'd ask. With Plotnik incapacitated, the decision rested with Weidner and Jennifer Kitzer, Plotnik's girlfriend, who goes by "J.K." The 44-year-old J.K., who has long amber-blonde hair, a Queens accent, and a sharp wit, had met Plotnik in 1998 when a friend of hers dragged her into the store. "I said something like, 'Can my friend see that record?'" she recalls when I meet her in mid-March. "Bob said, 'No. You have mosquito bites for boobies.' I was very flat-chested. I was like, 'Yeah? Well, you're an old man.'" Somehow roused by this discourse, she pursued him for a while after that, calling him up and asking him out. Eventually, they went on a date at Patsy's Pizzeria in Harlem and she fell for him.
"I adore him," she says. "He's very, very smart, which is something I don't think people know. He had that New York character. He was right in your face. He's also very, very sweet and very generous. I really only knew him about five years when he was healthy. I've learned more about him through his illness than I did in his health, because he still seemed to shine through, even fighting all the disability that came onto him." After Plotnik moved to a nursing home on Manhattan's Upper West Side, J.K. relocated to an apartment nearby so she could visit him.
After the store announced last year that it might be closing, Kitzer was overwhelmed by people's responses. "Some people will say, 'Eff you, drop dead,'" she said Monday, March 18. "But people really do have a connection. Even if they weren't the biggest record buyers, it was just a place to go. It was a part of their daily routine. I think, to New Yorkers, in particular, because we're losing so much of the city, it's just one more dagger. Now that we're going, they don't really want to see us go, and I feel like we're disappointing all of them. I just keep apologizing to them. This is not a moneymaker; it's a labor of love."
Indeed, the store's closure has disappointed its Greenwich Village neighbors. Over the past decade, they've seen the look and feel of their neighborhood change immensely as long-time shops have closed down. One storefront near the subway stop at West Third Street and Sixth Avenue often comes up in discussions; in the past few years, it has changed variously from a sushi to a Thai restaurant, and currently it's being converted into a 7-Eleven. Another common gripe from neighbors is about how a cramped storefront that once was a coffee shop was going for $9-10,000 a month.
"That spot across the street has been everything," says Savannah Alvarez, a 27-year-old brunette who offers palm and tarot readings at Village Psychic, a business that has resided for about two decades next to Bleecker Bob's on West Third. "It's been a sushi store, a diner, a breakfast place, a bagel shop that never opened up. If you go down to Bleecker Street, they have hundreds of the same things. You know how many times they've opened frozen-yogurt places? They all close down."
"We've got a 7-Eleven across the street and the Coffee Bean whatever over there," says Lina Batyuk, the redheaded general manager of nearby Caffe Reggio, a coffee shop that opened in 1927 and owns its building. "It's not a small-business neighborhood anymore. I feel like we're losing the identity of the Village."
"It's becoming more like Midtown," says Hap Pardo, a booker at the long-running Village venue Cafe Wha?, referencing the area of New York that is most associated with Times Square, Rockefeller Center, and tourism. "Nobody really goes to hang out in Midtown to walk by that crappy pizza spot or the Subway sandwich joint, but that's what's coming to this neighborhood. It's unfortunate."
Bleecker Bob's closure isn't just a sign of the times for the Village as a whole, though, it's one more music shop in a city known for music closing down. A unique quality New York City has that's unlike most American communities is large concentrations, or "districts," of shops selling the same thing. Midtown has the Diamond District, where jewelry shops line 47th Street and all you have to do is cross the street for an appraisal. A little bit further west resides Music Row, a concentrated strip of musical instrument stores.
Traditionally, downtown Manhattan has had the city's largest concentration of record stores, and even though it still does, it's less populated. Tower Records declared bankruptcy in 2006 and closed its titanic East Village outpost. Indie store Rocks in Your Head, which opened in the late '70s, departed Soho for Williamsburg that same year, but didn't last long. Three years later, Virgin Megastore closed its Union Square location. Punk haven St. Mark's Place might have been the closest thing New York had to a Record Store District, but the impressive Mondo Kim's downsized and moved to First Avenue, Sounds is only open on weekends, Norman's Sound & Vision relocated to Brooklyn, and on and on. At the time of this writing, Bleecker Street Records, across Sixth Avenue from Bleecker Bob's, is due to close soon, too.
"The landlord wants top dollar," says Kevin Farley, 39, a buyer at nearby Generation Records who started working at its sister store, Bleecker Street Records, 11 years ago. "They don't want Old New York anymore. They want the Gap. Bleecker Bob's is Old New York. You walk in and the guy tells you that what you're getting is lame. I love that, but a lot of people don't love it. I think they became known for that and embraced that. It helped get them on Seinfeld, but I think it drove a lot of people away. It's unfortunate, because it's an institution, and record stores have been dropping like flies."
"I think every record store these days is in jeopardy of being priced out of its neighborhood," says Josh Madell, co-owner of Other Music, an indie-centric East Village record store. "To me, one of the biggest things about that store is maybe they were focused on music that wasn't as popular now as when it started. That was a great punk store, and in the punk era, it was the only place to get a lot of stuff. It would be disingenuous to say I'm going to miss Bleecker Bob's. I literally probably haven't been there since I was in high school. But I hate to see what was a very cool store disappear."
At the shop, the employees began advertising its closing sale on March 14, offering 30 percent off vinyl and a few dollars off CDs. At the same time, Ski had been attempting to negotiate for space in the back of Forever Yogurt, where Bob's could still exist, but it never panned out. With the restaurant needing about six weeks to set up for its opening, J.K. estimated the store would close April 13.
Unsurprisingly, business was up at the store, but that's not unique to the sale.
"The past year or two has probably been the best business we've done in quite a while," DeSalvo says late one Sunday night. "I think that's because of more vinyl interest. And the landlord has not been unreasonable. But it just doesn't make any sense to pay that much money to stay here. We'd be working for him, basically, and we couldn't do it. We can't really pay what we're paying now, let alone what we'd pay with the increase."
As DeSalvo and Ski have sought out new real estate, each prospective landlord has given them the same problems. "We found tons of places we could move into that not only could we afford but we'd be making more money than we are now," DeSalvo says. "Nobody would give us a lease. We've been in business 46 years and they don't care. 'Do you have a guarantor? Do you have this or that paper?' The demise, if you want to blame it on somebody, is due to the landlords in the East Village [who are asking for too much in order to sign a lease]. Our current landlord would really prefer to have us here than have somebody new move in. But the people on the east side are out of their minds. I understand if somebody is starting a business who never had a business before, but that's not our situation. The East Village landlords didn't seem to give a damn."
When I stop by the store on April 1, the day the new lease begins, J.K. looks frazzled. Ski explains later that the store would be closing April 4 because the landlord was mad at them for staying; the Forever Yogurt people were claiming that if Bleecker Bob's was still there, they would not pay rent. As we talk, a man comes in and Ski shakes his head at him, saying they couldn't talk because J.K. was still there. The man, Ski says, was someone working on finding a new place for the store.
I return on Wednesday, April 3, and the employee behind the counter is T.J. Foley, a tall, lanky, middle-aged Irishman who has worked at Bleecker Bob's for the past 13 years. "I expected to come here on Monday morning and see padlocks on the door with big muscly guys saying, 'You can't come in. That's paid for,'" he says. "We could be closed any day now."
Of all of Bob's employees, Foley was the one most openly upset about the closure, and more specifically, about losing his job. "I've been looking for another job for the last year and a half," he says, as the Beatles' "Drive My Car" beep-beeps in the background. "I think Ski wanted to have a going-away party. My view on that was, we're all going to be unemployed. I don't want to celebrate the fact that a fine institution like this is going down the tubes and is beaten by a corporation. It's not something to celebrate. It's something to bitch about and whine about. But what can you do unfortunately?"
He puts on Self Conscious Over You by the Irish punk group the Outcasts. "Mostly, where my head is at now is, 'What the hell am I going to do after this?'" he says. Foley gestures at a pinned-up photo of a baby. "That's my little girl up there. She's five." For now, he bides his time, waiting to find out when the store is actually closing.


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City's anti-smoking activists signal intent to finish the job
The walls continue to close in on smokers throughout the nation, - Corpus Christi included. Now local anti-smoking forces are girding for another push here.
Members of the group Smoke Free Rights Now had already succeeded in persuading the City Council to ban smoking in most public places in January 2005 - and won approval in a citywide referendum by an overwhelming 71 percent to 29 percent margin.
Last week, they served notice of their intent to finish the job, calling on the City Council to extend that ban to cover venues that were exempted in the first go-round - bars, bowling alleys and bingo halls.
Already, it's clear that this initiative is going to touch off a battle royal between the partisans on either side of the great divide. The anti-ban forces, headed up by a group called Citizens for Choice and Common Sense - with heavy backing from bar owners - have served notice that they will not go gentle into that good night of smokelessness.
Parties with ties to all three of the targeted venues will make plausible-sounding cases, based largely but not exclusively on libertarian philosophy, for their exemptions to be preserved. Ultimately, though, the case for extending the ban is unassailable. This is not an attempt to make smokers' lives miserable; neither is the object to hurt the businesses targeted. The issue is public health. Exposure to second-hand smoke is a genuine threat to city residents.
Scant days ago, U.S. Surgeon-General Richard Carmona threw his weight behind a study finding the only way to protect people from second-hand smoke is to ban indoor smoking. Period. Those who work in, or patronize, bars, bowling alleys and bingo emporiums are as much entitled to protection as those who frequent other venues.
However inconvenient that may be to smokers, there's no getting around it. The city should go forward with the comprehensive ban.
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Jack Z. Smith Special Projects Reporter Fort Worth Business Press
The Tarrant Regional Water District board voted 4-1 on Tuesday to exercise its power of eminent domain in order to route a massive pipeline through an East Texas property controlled by Monty Bennett, a wealthy Dallas businessman who is suing the district in an effort to keep the pipeline off the property. The lone dissenting vote came from Mary Kelleher, the only successful challenger to three incumbent board members in a heated 2013 election in which Bennett contributed more than $100,000 to an Austin-based political action committee that in turn provided campaign funding for John Basham, a water board candidate who ran on the same slate with candidates Kelleher and Timothy Nold.
In casting her "no" vote Tuesday, Kelleher said, "I don't like using eminent domain unless it's absolutely necessary, and in this case I'm not sure it's absolutely necessary." She later added, "Excuse me for not being comfortable with the board and with Mr. Oliver," a reference to district General Manager Jim Oliver, with whom she has had a contentious working relationship. The board voted 4-1 to employ eminent domain to acquire easements on six property parcels, including the Bennett property, that the district wants for the huge $2.3 billion Integrated Pipeline Project in which the TRWD is partnering with Dallas Water Utilities to boost the volume of water that can be supplied to the Dallas-Fort Worth area from East Texas. Kelleher voted against eminent domain on all six parcels, which are located in Henderson, Navarro and Ellis counties. TRWD Real Property Director Steve Christian said the district had been unable, in negotiations with Bennett, to acquire two parcels totaling 11.6 acres in Henderson County, southeast of Dallas, where Bennett owns a large ranch. The TRWD technically listed the property owner as the Lazy W District No. 1, the name of a municipal utility district associated with Bennett. The parcel was consistently referred to in the board meeting as the Bennett property. Christian said that "in the two years we've been negotiating" with Bennett, he "has not been willing to talk to us about anything but getting the easement off his property" by rerouting the pipeline around the desired parcel. Board member Jim Lane, in backing eminent domain to acquire the 11.6 acres, said Bennett made it clear back in 2011 that he would remain opposed to the district securing an easement. Lane, sitting across the board table from Kelleher, told her, "I appreciate your being the loyal opposition...you're a champion for Mr. Bennett, and that's OK, but it's in the best interests" of the public to obtain the easement and move forward on the pipeline project that will buttress future water supplies.
With the board action taken, the TRWD is expected to initiate condemnation proceedings for the 11.6 acres in a court in Henderson County. A judge will then select three special commissioners who will assess how much compensation the district should provide for the parcel. Either side can appeal the decision of the special commissioners. If the TRWD secures the easement, a right-of-way approximately 150 feet wide would be created for the pipeline and excavation undertaken to bury it. The top of the huge pipe, which would be nine feet in diameter, would be about four feet below the surface. TRWD officials said that the pipeline route chosen was the best in terms of cost and minimizing impact on property owners and "structures" such as homes or buildings. Rerouting the project could result in substantial time delays for re-design and significant increases in cost, they said. Jody Puckett, director of Dallas Water Utilities, the partner with TRWD in the Integrated Pipeline Project, told the TRWD board she opposes rerouting the pipeline.
"The route has been vetted...and revetted" from both cost and engineering standpoints, Puckett said. The pipeline project needs to proceed because "we need the water," she said. Bennett has a lawsuit pending in Tarrant County in which he is attempting to stop the TRWD from running the pipeline through the East Texas property. He contends that the district has operated in a secretive fashion in violation of state open meetings laws, a charge that the TRWD denies. Bennett, according to previous media reports and a Texas Ethics Commission finance report issued in May 2013, contributed more than $100,000 to HillCo Partners, an Austin-based political action committee that gave money to John Basham, one of the unsuccessful challengers to TRWD board incumbents in 2013. Basham's campaign was coordinated with the campaigns of Kelleher and Timothy Nold, with Kelleher the only challenger winning election to the board. Bennett is chairman and CEO of Ashford Hospitality Trust, a Dallas-based real estate investment trust that owns hotels. Efforts by the Business Press to solicit comments from Bennett, through Ashford and a law firm that has represented him, were unsuccessful.
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