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Ernst & Young settles with N.Y. for $10 million over Lehman auditing by Reuters @FortuneMagazine April 15, 2015, 5:31 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Ernst & Young will pay $10 million to settle a New York lawsuit accusing the accounting firm of helping Lehman Brothers deceive investors in the years leading up to its 2008 collapse, the New York attorney general said on Wednesday. The 2010 lawsuit claimed Ernst & Young's auditing facilitated a "massive accounting fraud" and sought $150 million in fees that the firm earned from Lehman between 2001 and 2008, plus investor damages and equitable relief. While the $10 million was much smaller than what the attorney general's office had sought, Ernst & Young agreed to pay $99 million in damages to investors in a class action settlement approved a year ago. The case was the only action by a law enforcement authority in connection with Lehman's 2008 collapse, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement. "If auditors' reports…provide cover for their clients by helping to hide material information, that harms the investing public, our economy and our country," Schneiderman said. Nearly all the $10 million will go to investors in Lehman securities, the office said. The case was the last significant lawsuit against Ernst & Young over Lehman, according to a spokeswoman for the accounting firm. "After many years of costly litigation, we are pleased to put this matter behind us, with no findings of wrongdoing by EY or any of its professionals," the firm said in a statement. According to the complaint, Ernst approved the "surreptitious" removal of tens of billions of dollars of debt from Lehman's balance sheet to make the investment bank appear less indebted at the close of financial quarters. Lehman filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008, helping to trigger the global financial crisis. Once the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, Lehman held large quantities of risky subprime mortgage securities. The complaint alleged that, for more than seven years before Lehman's bankruptcy, the bank made use of transactions known as "Repo 105s," short-term financing that temporarily moved as much as $50 billion from its balance sheet. The lawsuit followed a report about the transactions by former federal prosecutor Anton R. Valukas, who served as a bankruptcy court examiner for Lehman. The attorney general's office took more than a dozen depositions in the case and elicited information that also helped the earlier class action, the office said. Ernst & Young last month agreed in principle to settle lawsuits filed by New Jersey and California municipalities over their losses from the Lehman collapse. A year ago, an arbitration panel found no basis for a Lehman malpractice claim against Ernst, ruling that any wrongdoing linked to the accounting maneuver was "overwhelmingly attributable to Lehman." "Lehman's audited financial statements clearly portrayed Lehman as what it was – a highly leveraged entity operating in a risky and volatile industry; and Lehman's bankruptcy was not caused by any accounting issues," Ernst & Young said in a statement after the class action settlement. In 2012, the trial judge in the New York case ruled that the state had no authority to obtain the accounting fees because they were not paid by consumers or the state. But an appeals court reversed him last year, saying that a forced repayment could deter wrongdoing, an important decision for future cases. The attorney general's case also was the first against the auditor of a public company under New York's Martin Act, the powerful securities fraud statute Schneiderman used last year to sue Barclays BCS over high-speed trading in its "dark pool" trading platform. Lehman ended its three-year Chapter 11 in 2011 with a liquidation plan slated to repay creditors about $65 billion, or an average of about 21 cents on the dollar for allowed claims. Watch more business news from Fortune:
Could a 40-year-old bank collapse have saved the U.S. economy? by Reuters @FortuneMagazine October 8, 2014, 8:37 AM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com. By Sam Frizell, TIME When Franklin National Bank collapsed 40 years ago on Oct. 8, 1974, it was more of a beginning than an end. A lurid tale of the bank's downfall emerged over the next decade, involving mafia connections, ambitious Wall Street wannabes à la Jordan Belfort and a principal investor with a suspicious bullet wound in his leg. More importantly, the bank's demise was the first notable instance in which federal regulators helped a major bank wind down its operations in order to prevent global economic damage. Franklin began as a humble Long Island bank with big-league aspirations. In the 1960s, the bank made questionable financial decisions to expand its operations and bum-rush the Manhattan banking scene. Franklin's overzealous bankers bought a luxurious, too-large office on Park Avenue and sold a controlling stake in the firm to a shady Milan-based international financier, Michele Sindona. The Sindona story reads like an American Hustle-style, stranger-than-fiction tale. In 1974, high-risk loans, ill-advised foreign currency transactions, and swings in foreign exchange rates caused Franklin to hemorrhage cash. The company lost $63 million in the first five months of 1974, more than any other bank in American history until that point. Not long after, the U.S. charged Sindona with illegally transferring $40 million from banks he controlled in Italy to buy Franklin National, and then siphoning $15 million from it. In August of 1979, just before his trial was about to begin, Sindona — who had ties to the Vatican and likely the Mafia — disappeared under mysterious circumstances; his family and lawyers got letters that "supposedly proved that he had been abducted by Italian leftist radicals," according to TIME's coverage of the episode. When he finally emerged after nearly three months — in a payphone booth near Times Square — he had what he said was a bullet wound in his leg. (Sindona claimed he was kidnapped by Italian terrorists but his defense later admitted it was a hoax, and Italian magistrates said that a secret Masonic lodge helped Sindona fake his own kidnapping.) He was sentenced to serve a 25-year prison sentence and died in prison by cyanide poisoning in 1986. But the bigger story about Franklin National was the boring one. The bank, which was the 20th-largest in the U.S., was the first major financial institution whose wind-down was orchestrated by federal regulators. In 1974, the biggest questions federal authorities faced were how much it would damage the global economy if Franklin collapsed, and whether regulators should get involved. Sound familiar? It should: A similar crisis occurred in 2008 when the collapse of the largest American financial institutions seriously damaged the global economy. Much like Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan Chase JPM and Goldman Sachs GS , Franklin National was deeply enmeshed in the global economy. In both 1974 and 2008, federal regulators were in a position to take decisive action, but they responded in very different ways. In 1974, as Franklin began to collapse, the Federal Reserve's strategy was to lend it money in order to buy time for a bigger strategy, according to Joan Spero, author of The Failure of the Franklin National Bank: Challenge to the International. The Fed loaned Franklin a total of $1.75 billion, the largest bailout ever offered to a member bank at the time. Later, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation stepped in to help arrange a bank takeover. The FDIC set up negotiations with 16 banks, and a firm called European-American ultimately purchased Franklin for $125 million. The bottom line is that regulators helped to avoid an economic hit by lending Franklin money, and then smoothly transitioning the bank into a subsidiary of a functional institution. "The entire financial world," Arthur Burns, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told TIME shortly after, "can breathe more easily, not only in this country but abroad." A very different scenario emerged in September 2008. The United States was on the cusp of the worst recession since the 1930s, and Lehman Brothers, the nation's fourth-biggest bank, was in trouble. Granted, the problem was much more serious in 2008 than in 1974, and the stakes were higher — as would have been the size of the required bailout. The Fed ultimately allowed Lehman brothers to go bankrupt, and the economy seized up. (A sale to Barclays did look possible at the last minute, but it didn't work out.) A litany of criticshave suggested that the Fed should have orchestrated a Franklin National Bank-like wind-down for Lehman, and thereby could have prevented an international catastrophe. "For the equilibrium of the world financial system, this was a genuine error," Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister at the time, said in the days after Lehman's bankruptcy, reports the New York Times. Indeed, what followed in the U.S. was the worst recession since the Great Depression. Still, federal regulators tend to come under a lot of fire when things go wrong — no matter what they do, which is kind of the point. Even in 1974, TIME criticized federal authorities for not being proactive enough with Franklin National Bank, despite its orderly purchase by European-American. In its story published in October of that year, TIME said federal authorities should have scrutinized Franklin and others more closely: Faced with the failure of more than 50 federally insured banks in the past decade, the FDIC and other regulatory agencies need to keep a much closer watch not only on the roughly 150 banks on the FDIC'S "problem" list but also on virtually every bank in the nation. That way ailing banks will stand a better chance of being helped long before they reach a Franklin finale. In other words, TIME's message to federal authorities was: Be vigilant and act quickly. It's a mantra we could learn something from today.
Bush vs. Einhorn: How Athenahealth's CEO met his short-seller by Reuters @FortuneMagazine May 28, 2014, 6:58 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons FORTUNE — With a few swipes on his iPhone, Jonathan Bush, the animated CEO of Athenahealth and cousin of former president George W., zooms in on a chart of his company's stock price displayed on the screen. He doesn't normally bother to check the share price of Athena ATHN , he says, but it's been an unusually volatile week: prominent hedge fund manager David Einhorn has publicly announced that he's shorting the stock, on the eve of the release of Bush's first book, "Where does it hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care." Now, as the chart comes into focus, Bush points to where the line drops so sharply that it looks like a cliff. "See that hole?" he says, "I call that hole 'David.'" Bush had only learned the name of the Greenlight Capital founder a few days earlier, when he was home in bed. Suddenly, his phone started blowing up with text messages; Bush, who says he typically gets about two texts a day, received 32. On stage at Lincoln Center in Manhattan—the same stage on which the New York Philharmonic perform—Einhorn was giving one of his notorious market-moving presentations at the annual Sohn Investment Conference, laying out his reasons for betting against Athenahealth. The company's shares promptly shed nearly 15%, or $20 each, in the next two days of trading. (The stock has since rebounded almost 17%, but was still down nearly 1% from its price before the May 5 presentation, and more than 4% so far this year, as of market close on May 27.) MORE: How to run the U.S. health care system like a business While making his case against Athenahealth, Einhorn mocked the cloud-based health records company (for example, its decision to keep the "A" in Athena lower-case in company documents) as well as Bush himself: Video clips of the CEO comparing his company to Facebook FB , OpenTable OPEN , Salesforce.com CRM , and Airbnb in his signature fast-talking, evangelical manner played in the background as Einhorn spoke. At the time, Bush contends, he didn't have a clue who Einhorn was. Indeed, while visiting Fortune's New York office recently, he claimed to have already forgotten the hedgie's name. "We just got a huge short from what's his name," Bush said, adding that he originally "thought it was the Scarsdale Diet guy" who had shorted the stock. After Googling Einhorn, Bush went to his staff the next day and asked if they had a copy of the investor's Sohn presentation. They didn't. So Bush emailed Einhorn and asked to see it. He also requested something short-sellers rarely provide the companies they bet against: a personal explanation to the CEO. Within hours, Einhorn had sent the PowerPoint (which is now linked on Greenlight's homepage) to Bush's Yahoo email account, and soon they were on the phone. (Technically it was an online conference via WebEx, Cisco's virtual meeting program. And Einhorn's team had some difficulty setting it up, Bush recounts, grumbling: "This company is evaluating a web company and it can't even load WebEx?") In the 45-minute call, Einhorn took Bush through his slides–and though the hedge fund manager didn't back down or apologize, Bush says he came out with respect for his adversary, and that he is stronger for the experience. "He earned his lightning stick," says Bush, noting Einhorn's famous bet against Lehman Brothers before it collapsed. "He made a fortune; we got a scab." MORE: Valeant boosts bid to buy Botox-maker Allergan In an exclusive statement provided to Fortune, Einhorn's Greenlight Capital defended its short position. "Athenahealth shares are in bubble territory in part because its CEO is highly promotional. The presentation used the CEO's own words to undermine the investment community's bull case," a spokesman says. "The company has failed to provide any rebuttal to the substance of the presentation." Ironically, Bush even seems somewhat flattered that Einhorn used Athenahealth to exemplify what the investor called a bubble in "cool kid stocks." Bush is aware that his eccentric manner can make him an easy target. ("On blogs, people are seriously thinking of having me committed," he admits.) And he doesn't blame Einhorn for picking on him. "Oh, come on, it's so much fun," he says, taking some jabs of his own at the money managers at the Sohn Conference: "This is school pride day for hedge fund geeks." Nor has the incident soured Bush against hedge fund activism, which he doesn't think is "that bad." He even supports famed activist Nelson Peltz in his crusade to split up PepsiCo PEP : "The problem with PepsiCo is that he's right," Bush says. After all, Bush has lately established some investor cred of his own. Athenahealth owned 8% of Castlight Health CSLT —the two companies share a co-founder—which had a very successful IPO in March, a triumph that has led Bush to invest in more companies. "We bought an airplane and we made enough on that to buy a bunch of airplanes," Bush says. His More Disruption Please program for entrepreneurs now counts more than 300 member companies—those that Athenahealth believes have a viable product, and may eventually invest in. Besides Castlight, Athena has also funded Vitals, a doctor directory site. Bush adds that he would also appreciate some company in the world of healthcare technology, because while Athena isn't the only one in the industry, it's "the only one who can afford an office in Washington." That won't be true for long, if he gets his way. The purpose of his new book is to encourage entrepreneurs to start more health technology companies. Update: An earlier version of this story included stock performance figures through May 23. Numbers have been changed to reflect closing prices as of publication.
Jamie Dimon to shareholders: 'I'm going nowhere' by Reuters @FortuneMagazine May 20, 2014, 10:38 AM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons FORTUNE — Jamie Dimon is in for the long haul at J.P. Morgan Chase. The CEO of the largest U.S. bank recently told a group of shareholders he wants to stay on at J.P Morgan for as many as five more years, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. "I'm going nowhere," Dimon reportedly told attendees at a April 23 event in Boston, adding that the bank's board has the final say over the length of his tenure. Dimon has served as CEO of the largest U.S. bank for the past eight years. Adding another five years would rank his tenure among those of the longest-serving Wall Street CEOs, joining the likes of Dick Fuld, who ran Lehman Brothers for almost 14 years until the firm collapsed in 2008, and Jimmy Cayne, who ran Bear Sterns for nearly 15 years. Cayne also ended his run in 2008 in the midst of the subprime meltdown. MORE: Target fires head of Canadian operations Dimon's latest revelation reverses his tone from a year ago when he hinted he would leave the bank if shareholders decide to separate his roles of chairman and chief executive. Dimon has spent the past year actively meeting with investors and activist groups, which seems to have paid off. This year's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday is expected to be significantly quieter than last year, and for the first time in five years there will be no vote on whether Dimon's dual role should be split. The muted tone among shareholders comes in the wake of a rough year for Dimon, who faced a series of regulatory challenges at the bank that ended in $20 billion worth of fines. Earnings also disappointed this past quarter: J.P. Morgan reported an 8% drop in revenue from the year prior. A J.P. Morgan spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
Lehman: stress test for bankruptcy laws by Reuters @FortuneMagazine September 15, 2008, 6:16 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons With this morning's Chapter 11 filing by Lehman Brothers' parent company LEH , we're about to find out whether the bankruptcy laws cushion the impact of a behemoth investment bank's insolvency on our financial system — as intended — or if those laws, instead, inadvertently exacerbate the problem. The rules have never been tested as they're about to be. "I think it's a really scary time right now," says Ed Morrison, a professor and bankruptcy expert at Columbia Law School. In essence, Morrison explains, bankruptcy laws have evolved since 1978 in ways that actually leave investment banks like Lehman Brothers less protected than most debtors would be from hordes of creditors "descending on [it] and tearing it apart," as Morrison puts it. But those laws have been written specifically for the purpose of limiting systemic harm from a collapse like Lehman's, and averting financial meltdown. Whether they really work that way in practice is what no one really knows. First, the basic facts: Lehman Brothers' holding company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but none of the U.S. subsidiaries have. As a practical matter, its brokerage-dealer subsidiaries, asset management unit, and investment management division are all supposed to continue operating as normal. All U.S. divisions still remain under control of management, and the expectation is that Lehman will try to sell the most attractive operating divisions while liquidating the rest. (Individual investors who have accounts with Lehman's broker-dealer subsidiaries are supposed to be protected, as their assets are not available to Lehman's creditors, and their accounts are further protected by the federal Securities Investor Protection Corporation.) Here's what makes the bankruptcy of an investment bank unusual. An ordinary bankruptcy petitioner, like an airline or a steel mill, gets immediate protection from its biggest creditors by the operation of law: as soon as it files for bankruptcy, an "automatic stay" takes effect which prevents those creditors from going forward with lawsuits and seizing the debtor's assets. Metaphorical runs on the bank are prevented, and management gets time to organize its affairs in a way that will, theoretically, maximize value for all creditors, and maybe even allow the company to reemerge in sound health. With a financial institution, however, the automatic stay offers no protection against many of its most important creditors. In a trend that began in 1978 and was greatly expanded in amendments passed in 2005, most financial contracts — including securities contracts, swaps, repurchase agreements, commodities contracts, and forward trades — are unaffected by automatic stays. Worse still, as soon as Lehman's parent corporation goes into bankruptcy, that event (under the contractual language governing most of these) triggers default, allowing the counterparty — the bank or other institution that entered into the deal with Lehman — to immediately accelerate or cancel the contract and seize whatever collateral may cover it. Why? The thinking, Morrison explains, was that if an investment bank like Lehman ever failed, all its counterparties (like, say, a Bank of America) could extricate themselves immediately from Lehman's troubles rather than getting mired in a bankruptcy proceeding. "They won't be locked in and dragged down with Lehman," Morrison says. The laws will — theoretically — minimize risk of market meltdown. Now comes the downside potential. The risk is that lots of these commercial counterparties will choose to terminate their financial contracts with Lehman — say, for instance, credit default swaps — all at once, and then try to rehedge themselves all at once, causing the market to seize up. "This was one of the big fears that led to the federal government decision to orchestrate a bailout of Long Term Capital Management in the 1990s," he says. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) held a special trading session yesterday — on a Sunday — in an effort to "mitigate counterparty credit risk" stemming from the events going on at Lehman, according to a press release the group issued. But it's far from clear if these kinds of efforts will do the trick. "The lesson of all this," says Morrison, "is that once a major institution has hit major distress, there's nothing bankruptcy law can do. It's too late. What's needed is either federal intervention, or federal oversight earlier in the process" to prevent the faulty decisions that led to insolvency.
Dot-com deja vu in the subprime mess by Reuters @FortuneMagazine June 28, 2007, 1:15 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons I shuddered when I read the Wall Street Journal's backward-looking but fascinating look at Lehman Brothers' (LEH) role in the subprime mortgage debacle on Wednesday. Here's a snippet: Critics say Wall Street firms helped create the mess by throwing so much money at the market that lenders had a growing incentive to push through shaky loans and mislead borrowers. It reminded me EXACTLY of what happened in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s. When I got here, a decade ago this month, I met all the bankers, who told me all about their high standards. If Goldman Sachs (GS) (or insert your other bulge-bracket investment bank here) was going to take a company public, you better believe it would be a high-quality, thoroughly vetted company, they said. Then, when their lesser competitors started taking companies public that the biggies previously wouldn't have touched, Goldman and Morgan Stanley (MS) and Deutsche Bank and yes, Lehman, jumped right into the game. Standards? Hah. There was money to be made off commissions on IPOs. Reputation? Did I mention there was money to be made? You get that same feeling reading the Journal's piece on Lehman, which included, by the way, vigorous defenses by Lehman of its behavior. Fees were fat from assembling packages of subprime loans, and if the loans went bad it was going to be someone else's problem. The fact that that someone else is the client of the investment bank doesn't seem to have registered.


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A presentation by the Auditor's Office about embezzlement during the Culver administration was nothing more than a "political show" by majority Republicans, according to the ranking Democrat on the House Labor Committee.
"There was no need, no purpose for it," Rep. Bruce Hunter, D-Des Moines, said after the committee heard from auditors about their recommendations that Iowa Workforce Development procedures be strengthened to prevent thefts similar to one in 2009 when a former employee embezzled more than $43,000.
"As far as I could see, the department had a problem and corrected it," Hunter said, adding that that IWD began strengthening its security measures even before receiving the auditor's recommendations.
Hunter believed that the GOP-controlled committee was making political hay of the embezzlement that occurred while Democrat Gov. Chet Culver was in office and his appointee, Michael Mauro, was overseeing Workforce Development.
But Chairman Greg Forristall, R-Macedonia, said Hunter drew the wrong conclusion.
"The conclusion I drew was that this was an isolated incident and both administrations were making efforts to be good stewards" of state resources," Forristall said.
The Auditor's Office became involved after a Workforce investigation in 2010 found improper disbursements issued by a former adviser, Linda Pippen, 43, of Fairfax. She was convicted in federal court for embezzling from a federally funded program and aggravated identity theft in December 2011.
Deputy State Auditor Tami Kusian said no irregularities involving other employees were discovered and no legislative action was needed in response to the Pippen case.
Hunter was put out by what he saw as a Republican attempt to tarnish the Culver administration.
"What bothers me about your presentation is all the information about the previous administration being uncooperative and all the 'Kum Bah Ya' about the Branstad administration," he said.
"Kum Bah Ya" is a spiritual song from the 1930s that today is used cynically to suggest a naively optimistic view of the human nature.
"It's all 'Culver administration is bad, Branstad administration is good,'" Hunter said.

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Black creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.
Wither (This creature deals damage in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it is put into a graveyard, you may return that card to play under your control.
When Ravenous Rats comes into play, target opponent discards a card.
{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
When Skinrender enters the battlefield, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature.
Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.
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Because of the repeat questions, I wrote up a quick guide to do a full wipe and clean install the rom. A full wipe must be done for major updates (jb to kk). If I violate any terms / conditions, let me know and I'll delete this immediately. My int...
After lucking out the first time with art (owing to the innumerable number of Titanium backup 'hangs' caused by some app incompatibilities), i decided to give it another try since fusionjack has been working on it. Yes, I miss Xposed installer ter...
This is a quick step-by-step for a clean install (all previous data on phone will be wiped) so you must make a backup before anything. If you want to upgrade from a previous Dorimanx rom, this is not for you (Instructions are available on Post1 an...
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Columbus charter schools win awards; innovation underway
July 22, 2014
- Battelle has granted KIPP: Columbus $300,000 to develop a STEM teaching fellowship program. The program will pair new teachers at KIPP with mentor educators, who will provide support in STEM instruction. Congratulations!
- Congratulations also to United Schools Network's Kathryn Anstaett, the founding director of Columbus Collegiate Academy–West (a charter school that Fordham authorizes). She has received the 2014 Excellent Schools Network's Instructional Leadership Award.
- The second round winners of Ohio's Straight-A Fund innovation grants are to be finalized on July 28. Some of those winners are already putting their projects into action, including this interesting DigiLit project in Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools to bring STEM education to special-needs students.


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- 3. You will see a project search page. On that page is a search box. Adjust the pull-down menu until you see the word Contains. Then type Horrigan in the box and click SEARCH. (WARNING: Searching for Hourihane does not appear to work!)
You also have the option on clicking on "H" in the alphabetized index of projects and looking for Hourihane.- 4. Click the link of the project called O'Hourihane.
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Stuck in your cubicle? Dreading work tomorrow? Wish you could go out, have fun, spend money, not work and still get paid? Then you (and every other person in this world) want to trade places with Andrew Smith. His job is Chief Funster for New South Wales in Australia. As in his job is to have fun. Seriously.
Smith, who's from California, won a contest for the position and the role requires him to have 802,000 moments of fun in six months (that's one for every square kilometer in NSW). So far, he's done more than 480,000. Express.co.uk says that includes:
Skydiving, driving with Top Gear star The Stig, hanging out with skateboard legend Tony Hawk and abseiling down the spectacular Blue Mountains in Australia...
...187 high fives on the Sydney Harbor; mingling with 18,000 Elvii (the plural of Elvis) at the Parkes Elvis Festival; slipping down a 91-meter-long typhoon waterslide; and being chased by a massive pig at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
He started his fun journey in December and it runs through June. Once he finishes, he'll score nearly six figures for having a fun time in a country that loves having fun. There's more things on his schedule like climbing the Sydney Harbor Bridge and swimming with dolphins and so forth. You know, the usual work responsibilities. Check out some of his exploits below.


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Director: Diana DeVoe
Company: The Candy Shop
Hypnotiq, Sinnamon Love, Sydnee Capri, John E Depth, Caren Caan, Divine, Ace (I), Tyler Knight, Rock (II)
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
The action is go from the very first frame of each scene in this all-black anal opus. And although a little pre-scene tease is often helpful, director Diana Devoe substitutes it with a good deal of sexual imagination.
Hypnotiq starts off her scene tied and spread, waiting for John E. Depth to stuff his huge rod in her. Sinnamon Love plays Domme to Tyler Knight and covers his face with her big round ass. Divine gets dildos and cocks stuffed inside of her, and Caren Caan is tied and wrapped like she?s the victim of a kidnapping.
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Makes some sense of the AT-SPI API
The tree API handles various things for you:
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The most important class is Node. Each Node is an element of the desktop UI. There is a tree of nodes, starting at 'root', with applications as its children, with the top-level windows and dialogs as their children. The various widgets that make up the UI appear as descendents in this tree. All of these elements (root, the applications, the windows, and the widgets) are represented as instances of Node in a tree (provided that the program of interest is correctly exporting its user-interface to the accessibility system). The Node class is a mixin for Accessible and the various Accessible interfaces.
The Action class represents an action that the accessibility layer exports as performable on a specific node, such as clicking on it. It's a wrapper around Accessibility.Action.
We often want to look for a node, based on some criteria, and this is provided by the Predicate class.
Dogtail implements a high-level searching system, for finding a node (or nodes) satisfying whatever criteria you are interested in. It does this with a 'backoff and retry' algorithm. This fixes most timing problems e.g. when a dialog is in the process of opening but hasn't yet done so.
If a search fails, it waits 'config.searchBackoffDuration' seconds, and then tries again, repeatedly. After several failed attempts (determined by config.searchWarningThreshold) it will start sending warnings about the search to the debug log. If it still can't succeed after 'config.searchCutoffCount' attempts, it raises an exception containing details of the search. You can see all of this process in the debug log by setting 'config.debugSearching' to True
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Over the weekend, during a screening of Black Swan in Latvia, a disgruntled man -- who has both a law degree and a Police Academy certicate -- become so incensed with another man who was eating his popcorn too loudly, that he pulled out a gun and shot him dead while the closing credits were playing. Yet, as horrible as it was, the event only ranks as number three among The 10 Most Horrific Incidents of Off-Screen Movie Violence.
My Bloody Valentine: In 2009, after a screening of My Bloody Valentine, a security guard stabbed a 16-year-old boy in the stomach for refusing to leave the movie theater.
Benjamin Button: On Christmas Day 2008, a Philadelphia man shot another man because his family was being too loud during a screening of the Brad Pitt flick. He was charged with attempted murder.
The Signal: In 2008, two men were stabbed in a movie theater screening the independent film, The Signal. The film, weirdly, was paused during the investigation. After the film resumed, a stabbing immediately occurred onscreen.
Notorious: During a screening of Notorious in 2009, one man shot another in the abdomen twice during an altercation.
The Watchmen: In 2009, a 24-year-old Oregon man shot and killed himself during a screening of The Watchmen.
X-Men: During a screening of The X-Men in 2006, a 24-year-old Baltimore man ordered everyone on to the floor and then shot the man nearest him, killing him (the shooter was later found not criminal responsible due to mental illness).
Shutter Island: Early last year, after a man complained to a woman about talking on her cell phone during a screening, the woman's two male friends left, returned, and stabbed the complaining man in the neck with a meat thermometer.
Black Swan: 27-year-old Latvian man shoots a 42-year-old to death for munching on popcorn too loudly.
The Warriors: In 1979, The Warriors and its promotional materials was linked to three gang-related killings -- two in California and one in Boston -- as well as a series of movie-related brawls between gang members during screenings.
Severance: This one didn't take place in a movie theater, nor was it directly tied to the release of a film, but it's so brutal, it's merits top spot. After seeing the Danny Dyer British horror movie, a British teenager and his two friends murdered an ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend by tying him up, pouring gasoline down his throat, and setting him on fire.
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"Since the end of Ramadan, we've seen a slight improvement in sales, however, in anticipation of Gitex Shoppers later this month, it's not uncommon to see sales slowdown again," Ashish Panjabi, COO of Jacky's Electronics told 'Emirates24|7'.
Agrees Nadeem Khanzadah, Head of Retail, Jumbo Electronics. He believes that post Eid and the period before Gitex season is not a happening one for the electronic industry.
"Seasonal trends drive sales in the UAE. During the Eid week, we witness a good spike up as consumers buy goods for themselves and their loved ones. Sales normalise post-Eid until Gitex Shopper, which is our biggest annual platform to connect directly with our customers, offer them the latest products and most exciting deals and reach out to customers beyond our store network," he told this website.
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Chaotic motion refers to complicated trajectories in dynamical systems. It occurs even in deterministic systems governed by simple differential equations and its presence has been experimentally verified for many systems in several disciplines. A technique due to Melnikov provides an analytical tool for measuring chaos caused by horseshoes in certain systems. The phenomenon of Arnold diffusion is another type of complicated behavior. Since 1964, it has been playing an important role for Hamiltonian systems in physics. We present a tutorial treatment of this work and its place in dynamical systems theory, with an emphasis on results that can be checked in specific systems. A generalization of the Melnikov technique has been recently developed to treatn-degree of freedom Hamiltonian systems whenn > 3. We extend the Melnikov technique to certain non-Hamiltonian systems of ordinary differential equations. The extension is made with a view to applications in the physical sciences and engineering.
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For those who are still highly interested in this game like me, there's some very good news! Quote: "On February 11, 2009, confirmation from Steel Monkeys that 2 Days to Vegas is still in development was received by IGN." Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Days_To_Vegas Not the best source, but reliable imo. And the IGN link: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/953/953360p1.html Xbox 360 & PC release date: Q4 2009. Still a long time to wait but at least it didn't get cancelled. I think we can expect some updates in the next few months. Hope you like the good news! | |
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Montgomery, Jonathan (2012) The compleat lawyer - medical law as practical reasoning: doctrine, empiricism and engagement. [in special issue: Across the Spectrum of Medical Law: a Special Issue in Honour of Margaret Brazier] Medical Law Review, 20, (1), Winter Issue, 8-28. (doi:10.1093/medlaw/fwr034).
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As a leader, what can you do to find the clarity your followers require? Marcus Buckingham has identified three approaches that will help.
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Many leaders are massively inquisitive; they delight in ambiguity. But your job is to distill the world's complexity into a vivid path to the future. If you're not clear in your own mind, you won't be clear to the people who are trying to follow you. You can't lead unless you can conclude. And you can't conclude if you don't make time to think.
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As a leader, you must practice over and over what to say to describe where you're taking people. After you've found the right words, stick with them — in emails, in meetings, in speeches. Doug Degn, head of Wal-Mart's general merchandise, uses seven words to describe his customers: "the people who live paycheck to paycheck."
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COLUMBIA — An MU employee was arrested Tuesday in Centralia after police say she attacked an officer with a gold bowling pin and her neighbor with a plant holder.
Angel Anderson, an administrative associate in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at MU, is accused of trespassing, assault, armed criminal action, assaulting a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and possession of a synthetic cannabis.
The incident began when a neighbor called police with a noise complaint and the officer walked into a violent scene at 205 Sunset Lane, according to the probable cause statement written by the officer.
While Anderson was on her neighbor's property, she attempted to attack him with a solid-iron plant holder, according to the statement. The plant holder was described as half an inch thick with two large hooks, and the officer wrote that it was capable of causing serious injury or death.
Anderson threw the plant holder at her neighbor "in the manner as a person would throw a spear with the intent of impaling someone," according to the statement. The plant holder struck the neighbor in the leg, but he avoided severe injury. She was also yelling obscenities and death threats, according to the statement.
Anderson, 41, appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Centralia Police Chief Larry Dudgeon said.
When Anderson went back into her house, the officer tried to talk to her, and she refused. According to the statement, she yelled that she didn't care if he was the police, she would shoot him through the door if he didn't get off the porch.
The officer then drew his weapon, ordering Anderson to put down hers and open her door, according to the statement. He threatened to kick down the door and enter the home, and she burst through the door "wildly," holding a bowling pin over her head. The officer ordered her to put down the pin, but she came closer. According to the statement, he holstered his weapon and backed away, then she lunged forward and swung the bowling pin, barely missing his head.
"I was very aware of a breeze as the bowling pin passed by my face," he wrote.
The officer then tackled her to the ground and wrestled her into custody for two minutes, according to the statement.
Anderson was arrested and brought to Boone County Jail but was released after posting a $125,000 bond.
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Put 240g of dairy milk chocolate, white chocolate and bitter chocolate in glass bowl with 240g of butter.
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Melt over a pot of water, creating a gentle heat which stops the chocolate from splitting.
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When the mixture is soft, melted and smooth leave it on top of the pot to keep it a warm temperature and put to one side.
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In a mixing bowl put 1.5 cups of castor sugar and 3 fresh eggs.
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Cream these together so they are light and fluffy. We use castor sugar in order to get it to combine with the eggs.
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Pour a bit of the chocolate mix into the egg mix and stir. Then add the rest of the chocolate. This method lets you get both mixtures to be of the same consistency.
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Next incorporate some sifted flour. Use 1/2 cup of self raising flour and 1.5 cups of regular flour. Mix this in with the chocolate and egg mixture. Make sure the flour is completely incorporated. If not when you bake the brownies and cut them you'll have unpleasant pockets of flour.
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Roughly chop up 170g of white chocolate, brown chocolate and bitter chocolate and mix through the mixture.
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Line a patty tin using grease proof paper and butter. Pour the mixture in making sure it goes right to the edges of the tin. Give the tin a few taps to take the air bubbles out and level the mixture.
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Then cook in the oven at 180 deg'C for about 30 minutes.
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Let it cool to help structure the cake a bit and firm out the brownies. Then cut it into equal portions.
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One way of doing this is to cut the cake in half and then half again and so on.
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Then dust the brownies with icing sugar, put on a plate with fresh strawberries and ideally eat about 15 minutes after they come out of the oven.
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New Stories For Newtown Deadline Approaching
Monday, October 20, 2014For young people in Newtown, a chance to have their poetry, short stories, and/or art published is here.
The New Stories For Newtown: Words and Images contest has a deadline approaching. Entries are due by October 31, and according to C.H. Booth Library staff, they are looking for as many student entries as possible before that time.
NMS Seventh Graders Visit Booth Library
Thursday, September 25, 2014Between Tuesday, September 9, and Wednesday, September 10, seventh grade students in three clusters had the opportunity to visit C.H. Booth Library.
According to Language Arts teacher Kristin Norden, the students left from Newtown Middle School to visit the library by 7:30 each day, and workshops centered around having the students familiarize themselves with using the library's resources, like research tools, downloading eBooks, and applying for interlibrary loans.
New Stories For Newtown Contest Still Open For Submissions Through October
Friday, September 5, 2014Entries for the "New Stories for Newtown: Words and Images" contest are due by October 31, and, according C.H. Booth Library staff and committee members, more entries are being sought.
New Stories for Newtown began last year when Ross MacDonald, a Newtown resident and children's author and illustrator, suggested the idea to C.H. Booth Library Children's Librarian Lana Bennison.
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Friday, August 1, 2014Laurie and Jim Borst rubbed the sleep out of their eyes and looked again last Friday morning. Sure enough, there was a black bear ambling across their Beechwood Drive yard. Laurie was able to snap a photo of the bear, which she guessed weighed about 150 pounds, before it disappeared into the woods. It was surprising, she said, how quickly the bear was moving. You might want to take a peek outside, if you live in that Sandy Hook neighborhood, before putting any small pets out to enjoy the morning or evening air.
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Saturday, June 14, 2014Authors and illustrators offered different activities and presentations at Reed Intermediate School on Saturday, June 7, for the 2nd Annual New Stories For Newtown event.
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'New Stories For Newtown' Program Returning
Thursday, May 29, 2014Thanks to funding through the Books Heal Hearts program at C.H. Booth Library, said Children's Librarian Lana Bennison, she and committee members Ross MacDonald, Janice Bernard, Yvonne Cech, Kim Weber, and Georgia Monaghan are able to present two days of well-known author and illustrators to students and residents of Newtown.
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H.R. 6003 (112th): Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Terrorism Act of 2012
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To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prevent terrorism, including terrorism associated with homegrown violent extremism and domestic violent extremism, and for other purposes.
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Referred to Committee
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*** The Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Staples are teaming up with teen actor Jake T. Austin, for the "Staples for Students" national school supply drive, to help kids get the tools they need to build great futures.
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COLUMBIA — Paying closer attention to students who have poor attendance and problems with discipline early-on, as well as building stronger relationships with students and their families, are key strategies for preventing dropouts, school district administrators said Thursday.
Columbia Public Schools' dropout rate was a topic of discussion at Thursday morning's school board meeting. Board members and administrators discussed seven key principles for preventing dropouts that were developed by the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network at Clemson University.
Douglass High School Principal Eryca Neville said students who drop out usually are those who struggle with credit deficiencies, discipline referrals, poor attendance and grades. The best way to tackle the problem, she said, is to pay closer attention to incoming ninth-graders, which includes looking further into their academic performance in the eighth grade.
School board vice president James Whitt, however, said intervention really should begin in elementary school. West Boulevard Elementary School Principal Susan Emory agreed.
"Building relationships with the students and their families is critical," Emory said. She also emphasized how important it is each school approaches the problem the same way. She advocated consulting more with parents, making more home visits and paying more attention to students' attendance.
While the district's dropout rate has improved overall during the past several years, it did rise a bit in 2012 to 3.3 percent, up from 3.1 percent in 2011. The statewide dropout rate was 3.1 percent in both years.
Emory said that broadly speaking there are two types of students that do not graduate from high school:
- Students who are perfectly capable of succeeding in school but have parents who dropped out and therefore don't see graduating as very important.
- Students who have trouble learning. These students often fall behind and have multiple absences that compound the problem.
Whitt said transition reports that faculty create when students move from elementary to middle school are important to ensure strong transitions.
The district also is beginning to take a closer look at mental health issues. Most dropouts' families have low incomes, which increases the odds that they might have mental health challenges, Emory said.
When students with untreated mental health issues enter high school, their coping strategies change from when they were in elementary school, often resulting in drug use, Hickman High School Principal Tracey Conrad said.
Conrad examined the academic history of dropouts going all the way back to kindergarten and found a lot of the students started with a 95 percent attendance record.
"When you think about a kindergarten student, that's not very good attendance, because the parents can actually put them in cars and make them go," Conrad said.
Conrad added that there are few surprises when it comes to students who drop out.
"I went through every single dropout this year, and there was rarely a case where I was stunned," she said. "We definitely see trends.
When students get into the eighth or ninth grade, they start making more of their own decisions, and attendance tends to go down, Conrad said. Students who experience life events such as a death in the family, a pregnancy or the pressure to take on a part-time job also tend to drop out.
In other action, the school board reviewed the proposed budget for fiscal 2013-14, which begins July 1. The board is scheduled to approve the budget at its next meeting on Thursday morning.
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The Rangers finished off the sweep of the Boston Red Sox on the road last night with a 6-3 win. Derek Holland pitched through a two run homer in the second inning and blanked the Red Sox the rest of the way. The Rangers offense continued to rake as it seems that Mike Napoli is getting his timing back as he hit his fourth home run in three games. Youk is feeling Nap's presence.
"The guy seems like he hits .700 against us lifetime," Youkilis said.
Ron Washington was impressed with the Rangers starters.
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- The Rangers start a four game series with a tough Detroit team tonight on the road. It will be Yu Darvish vs Adam Wilk
- Sources are indicating that Pudge Rodriguez will retire as a Texas Ranger on Monday at the Ballpark in Arlington. More on this because Pudge is worth way more than a quick hit.
- Michael Young sat out yesterdays game again with a stiff back. Ron Washington says it's no big deal and he should be in the lineup tonight.
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Napoli's batting line against the BoSox – .302/.383/.716 for a 1.099 OPS.
Highest for Napoli against any opposing team in which he has more than 100 PAs.
Lower that threshold to 50 PAs and Nap Nap dominates the Angels to the tune of .356/.433/.763 for a 1.196 OPS.
Bring it CJ!