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- Mansueto LibraryThe glass-domed Grand Reading Room at the University of Chicago opened on Monday to the delight of students looking for a sunny spot to study. Outfitted with Low-E, fritted glass, the energy efficient dome ensures that daylight gets in, but doesn't overheat the space. Joe and Rika Mansueto, alumni of the University of Chicago, donated $25 million to fund construction of the Helmut Jahn-designed facility. The library also features an underground automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) capable of storing 3.5 million books.1
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- Mansueto LibraryWhile many universities are moving away from a physical book collection towards a digital library, the University of Chicago wanted to maintain their collection and keep it on site.18
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Netflix: Hell Has No Fury Like Subscribers Scorned
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Wow, do people still pay for movies and music ?
Does the word 'torrent' not exist in american english or have the FBI blocked US access to the many sites at which one can obtain them for nothing ?
NFLX will have to dig very deep to regain subscriber trust. When asked why their monthly charge had gone from $8 to $17, NFLX CSR replied "We sent you an email..." So NFLX management assumed that subscribers would opt for a doubling of monthy fees over cutting service to preserve their monthly entertainment budget allowance. That was a huge gaffe on their part, and, in the face of AmazonPrime/KindleFire (even Blockbuster-back-from-the-dead) competition, a short term (longterm?) insurmountable obstacle to resetting growth for this has-been competitor.
I pulled the plug on the streaming Netflix this week myself. I can ususally find something to stream on Amazon Prime for about the same monthly cost and so far a better content selection than Netflixes streaming only offering. And Amazon's HD actually works for me, whereas Netflix HD never did.
The latest and greatest still costs more of course.
I think Netflix is a well managed profitable company. In my opinion the movie content companies would be better off working with Netflix with their content instead of inviting in the wolves like Amazon, Apple and Google. It may be a good buying opportunity at $75/share. Netflix is certainly better than Groupon and other bad cash flow companies.
I subscribed to NFLX for a total of 15 days. I subscribed to the streaming option. I didnt have a problem until i chose the movie slingblade on streaming. 20 minutes into the movie, The closing credits popped up.. What the fuck was that all about? This is a two hour movie. Im just sayin'
Does anyone here use something called "REDBOX"? I see one at the 7-11 near my house. People are lining up at the thing to rent movies (I think that's what it is). How do you like Red box, and can they be a better deal than Netflix for occassional movie renters (1 every other month, maybe)
Does no one proof read this shit...???
Spelling lessons would be an asset for the articles writer.
Words missed in most articles,and spelling errors in all articles,even in articles headlines.
Like the SLIVER article.
Protip: When one makes accusations of another's poor use of grammar, one should proof-read it first. Otherwise, all of those glaring errors might detract from the message. ;-)
I see by the add on my page,that "theTyler" is get bernanke bucks firom Netflix.
Netflix was never worth $298/share, regardless if there were plenty of suckers out there willing to pay that much.
The DOW was never worth 10,000 but that does not stop them from paying that much for equities!
This is commonly referred to as SCREWING THE POOCH.
A HUGE EGO is a terrible thing to have.
Everyone seems to be missing the ISPs on the comment board today... the Netflix or any streaming model is based on another companies delivery investment, streaming customers use something like 95% more bandwidth than non-streamers. So the Netflix business is partly based on bribing (aka lobbing) government to keep "net neutrality". I am sure non-streaming ISP customers would rather pay $10 per month for a modest plan 5 gb of data than a streamer w/ 200 gb of data per month.
That said, I use the hell out of streaming netfix... mainly for the kids, the movie and show selection is good enough to keep them entertained. But, I will switch in a new york minute if the ISPs want to double my internet fees... or if amazon prime can add a wii interface. Next, the ISPs re just going to launch better version of their own services and slow down the Netflix connection (followed by an epic court battle), but it could damage the company down to a pink sheet stock.
Bottom line, Netflix is a fairly simple business model in the internet age and will be commoditized more and more each day.
Reed has made more mental-midget moves in the last 3 months, looks like he is looking for a Czar appointment. Perhaps a replacement for Holder. Stupid is - Stupid does.
This CEO had his head where the sun don't shine.
Everyone I talked to said they should have expanded the online inventory.....but no...the CEO knows it all and destroys the company overnight with an obviously idiotic scheme.
Hey, and guess what?...he blames it on Occupy Wall Street and the Tea party...LMAO!!!!
If the Board doesn't replace him ASAP they are blind too. Of course, they get their quarterly check either way so No Worries, Mon.
I know Netflix is the whipping boy of ZH, but I don't own a single share of it (or any other stock for that matter) so I get that it's funny to watch it get pummelled like it did after so many "experts" touted it, because this whole market is such a farce. That said, I fucking love Netflix, even at 18$ a month. It's got about every documentary I could ever care to watch on stream, I've marathoned Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad, and Sons of Anarchy on stream over the last few months, and I have "Bad Teacher" arriving tonight. Doubling the price on a product overnight will always cause a shitstorm with customers, but at 18$ I, personnally, still think it's a good deal and have decided to keep my membership. Besides, where the fuck am I going to go, Blockbuster?
Funny and sad little note re netflix's implosion.. I tried to renew my netflix subscription about 4 months ago and I was not allowed to renew the dvd / streaming combo plan. When I asked customer service what the hell was going on, she told me they were trying to get their customers to focus on the streaming , and get out of the dvd part of their business. This conversation happened before it was made public or made it into the news. Besides being ripping pissed that i could not renew my subscription for the whole year ( I pay the year in advance with a gift card made out to myself), I started wondering what kind of shit management Netflix has if they do not even understand their own business and understand what aspects of the business that their customers value, mainly being the dvd by mail where you can get new and up to date movies without going to a store, and their streaming service where you can get out of date, older, b movies, and some tv shows. We liked the streaming only for the kiddy tv shows for our 6, 4, and 2 year olds. And the price was right. When those idiots finally announced their grand plan of offering two services and jacking thier prices by 60%, I went and got their financials and figured out what their value per share was, and guesstimated what would happen if they lost 1 or 2 million customers and had some of their institutional investors dump their holdings enmasse. I called my brother up and let him know what I thought, that Netfix was going to implode in the next few months and if he felt like doing a little gambling, he should buy some Netflix puts at 80 - 85. This was when Nflx was at $131. Me, well I am concentrating on Pm's and Miner's and did not have the free cash to make the move. No shit, the 85 puts I placed in my watchlist just hit for a 560% gain yesterday. Great, just great, and my brother did not buy the puts either.
Funny, when I was about to cancel I found out that Netflix had a DVD only option "One out at a time" that was actually cheaper than what I was paying - I switched to that and saved a couple of bucks a month. Works perfect for me. I can watch a movie on Saturday and Wednesday so I'm getting 8 movies a month for like $10.00
And another thing $240M in Net Income got reduced post the EPS call and the lossed for Intl were already telegraphed and anticipated by street to some extent so to say most of the adjustment to 2012 EPS was Intl is a complete farse. This mgt knew the amortization bubble was coming and sell side guys were warned many many times by myself the math did not add up and the CF confirmed eventually the EPS would have to catch up to lack of growth there. The lack of true work on the Street and media is astonashing.........
American consumers are the worst kind of customer. Whiny and spoiled rotten. Adding a few bucks membership fees is nothing compared to paying $3 each time your returned a Blockbuster disk late, or a VHS tape not rewound. I am guessing all of the subscribers who left the service are now renting from the red ghetto boxes available exclusively in your neigborhood WalMart? RedTube? Lol...
Agreed - see my post above. I still think 18$ a month to stream unlimited and get one out at a time is a steal.
Indeed, it is a steal. Those whining about this and that need a reality check...which awaits them as soon as they drop the subscription.
You need you head examined all of you...NFLX has $750M in A/P and $3.3B in off B/S obligations that is the core issue and where the acct gimmicks come from so wake start focusing on this cause in the end NFLX cant grow itself TO ANY SIZE sub wise enough to pay this off....
Netflix was always going to die. The minute Google get a content agreement signed, Netflix will die. The content owners aren't stupid enough to sign eternal exclusivity agreements and Google will simply price it at or near zero, using ad revenue to prop it up. Instant global audience too. Some if not all of the new Androids are capable of DLNA or video out. Youtube will be the back end platform and it will deliver whatever resolution you'd prefer to whatever device you're using.
Of course, the antitrust case will be epic.
Good analysis. Only disagree about anti-trust. Media is changing so fast, and the courts are still in the 19th century. THE LAW is all but irrelevant.
That depends on how much cooperation fedgov gets from arm-twisting Google for user info.
MS never had a true monopoly either, but since they didn't play ball with the feds, they were subjected to a slap-around accompanied by a shake-down. Also, it's an election year, so "all options will be on the table."
And there is a major problem with the whole Google/Yahoo business model of nearly free content supported by ads, the ads have become more numerous, more intrusive, and just plain crowding content off the screen in what appears to be a geometric progression to the point of being mostly ads with a sprinkling of content thrown in on occasion. I don't know about you all but I am fast reaching my saturation point with being advertised at. There are times when I seriously consider an ad free life, especially ads for bowel disorders cures and feminine hygiene products, why do they allow such disgusting ads at meal times? And those 2 minute long medical commercials, allowing those was a large and expensive error driving up medical care costs and driving up the wall me, especially those sleazy het impotence drug commercials, EWWWW. I can honestly say I have nearly never been motivated by advertizing to buy or use anything or patronize any merchant. I have gone out of my way to avoid those whose ads I feel are annoying or insulting.
So analysts are so quick to jump on a company citing loss of confidence in management but still believe Obama and this Congress will keep this muddling economy from going off the rails?
The streaming movie selection at Netflix is quite limited
If you like watching Gene Autry movies from the 1950's then Netflix might be the content provider for you
If you like watching the mindless crap that passes for TV programming then Netflix might be the content provider for you
If you are looking for a way to watch GOOD streaming movies or to have GOOD DVDs delivered to your home, Netflix is probably NOT the content provider for you
I went from 3 DVDs at a time to 1 DVD at a time when they started increasing prices and I just cancelled my membership entirely - I got tired of paying a premium to sift through 14,000 crappy online movies trying to find a movie worth watching
Still looking for a replacement provider ...
I quit Netflix not because I'm angry with Netflix. I'm furious with the movie industry in general. I watch BluRay movies on my computer and the movie industry doesn't want that so they keep sabotaging their content so it won't play on my computer. The last two out of three BluRay movies I rented wouldn't play and I figure that if the movie industry is so hellbent on screwing their honest, paying customers that I'll read books.
That is Sony, it used to be such a fine company but is now right down in the muck with lawyers and politicians as far as I am concerned. My PS3 quits working about every 6 months and I have to go to the Sony website and download their "updates" or the player will not work. Once you go to all this hassle with flash drives and labeling files and folders and then redoing your PS3 settings options you find that all the update did was not allow you to use fast forward on trailers and such. I will never update the firmware on my PS3 again and when it finally will not play anything off to Goodwill it goes.
I agree the new releases are limited (however, I did watch Tron: Legacy the other night on stream). But I stream the shit out of the documentaries and TV series. Since you read ZH, there are basically unlimited documentaries that ought to be right up your alley. Also have "Bad Teacher" arriving tonight to watch with the old lady, which I think just came out on DVD last week. So I think the whole package is worth the 18 clams. Definitley worth not having to stand in line with some mouth-breather, knuckle dragger with his 6 kids in a McDonalds parking lot to rent a video.
yes, true, but compare THE COST!
I am on $24 plan - 4 DVDs at a time. Each month I cycle through 20 CDs at least - that's $1.20 per CD, plus unlimited streaming. What the the alternatives? $3.50 per CD rental at Blockbuster?
When Dish took over Blockbuster I cancelled my membership because they did not know what they were doing, they changed the rental terms to a daily rental for 2.99 (1.99 for older movies) with reintroduction of late fees, and for six weeks the place was in chaos with not one new movie release, they said they were renegotiating all contracts.
I went back to Netflix which I had tried a few years ago, but I no sooner signed up for one DVD at a time when they spit out the streaming which I have no use for, and raised the price on the mailed DVDs, but also stopped allowing you to rent BluRay unless you paid a separate subscription for that in addition, and it was not like you could subscribe to BluRay only, to get BluRay you had to pay two separate subscriptions. And then I remembered why I hated using Netflix, very limited new releases, and one day to mail to them plus one to two days to get the next movie. I dumped them as fast as I dumped Blockbuster.
It did appear to me that the business model for movie rentals (movies in general) is busted and beyond repair, Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video gone out of business, Netflix in the process of making cumbersome rental prohibitively expensive, Blockbuster sold for pennies on the dollar and closing venues all over the place while raising prices, there is one lone independent vid store in this county of almost 300,000 and they are good but expensive, $4.99 for two day rentals. I recall thinking that the movie industry has to be behind this and it would be a good time to short anything in that business classification.
And there were other problems indicative of either excessive greed or else great financial distress in the industry, more commercials and previews on the rentals, and lately commercials and previews you cannot fast forward through or skip over, you just get an error message saying that operation not currently available on this disc. When Sony started placing 40 minutes worth of commercials (including about 10 for BluRay which is absurd because I rented a BluRay that I play on my BluRay player - I already have a player and rent those movies what the fuck do I have to be subjected to all those commercials for BluRay every film for?) that you cannot skip, I stopped renting BluRay, I wrote Sony and told them I have a 46" Bravia TV, Sony home theater system, and Sony PS3, I have bought thousands worth of their products and now they are just hell bent on pissing me off every time I rent a movie, of course they do not care one bit. Last Sony item I ever buy certainly. If I cannot control my own machines I will junk the lot of it and start over elsewhere, if all parties in the business force people to watch all those ads then I will quit watching movies entirely. I have only gone to 10 movies in the theater in 25 years since they banned smoking and ended intermissions (and started charging $5.50 for a small popcorn). I would go if they just had an intermission so one can grab a few puffs or go to the restroom, but I will not pay $7.50 to see a movie I have to walk out of in order to go take a leak. Or, just play the F'ing movie at the start time listed on the marquee and not make you sit through more than a half hour of bullshit turning a 130 minute movie into a three hour ordeal. At home I can hit the pause button and go pee or smoke or make a huge bag of popcorn for 70 cents, even go on a beer run.
Well, Blockbuster seems to be back on track, they now have a $14 movie pass that allows you to watch as many movies in a month as you want (one at a time) with no late fees. Part of the problem was that weekends you go in and the shelves are bare of anything remotely new, renters go in on Thursday and get weekend movies, but late fees were eating them up. No more late fees on the pass. I watch maybe 4 or 5 movies a week so it is not a bad deal.
Good writeup. I believe the digital streaming business model is also dead on arrival. There is no way to prevent piracy of digital content, in this day and age. All of this DRM, encryption hokus pokus is pure BS. I think studios are scared of this and are pulling back from online streaming. They may be right, as I do not see an online distribution vehicle out there which addresses some of the key monetization concerns...
PS. Don't get me started on those commercials. You can't skip them, and you can't jump to menu any more, you HAVE to watch? Such BS!
Some you can and some you can't, the skip and fast forward button does still work for a few but try this, the DVD MENU button skips over some of them. The only labels that I have found so far that you are forced to play all the trailers and commercials are from BluRay (Sony), most Disney productions, and recently Universal products are doing it too, they are off my list I don't rent from them any longer.
As to streaming content, my computer and cable modem are not connected to home theater/TV, they are in different rooms. The only way I could view such content is on my little computer screen in my office.
One of the problems with the concept of rentals is that a really good movie you really look forward to you go to the theater to see for the great sound and big screen. 95% or more of the movies available to rent you either had no interest in or already saw and do not want to pay anything to see again. The only valid reason for renting is to see movies at a lower price that you find utility in at that lower price, and on occasion the odd movie you do like enough to review. Example, I like Chris Evans but not enough to go see Captain America in the theater. Yesterday it came out at Blockbuster so I got it and watched it last evening. MAN am I glad I did not pay to see that movie in the theater! If you like looking at Chris Evans it was a good movie, but plot? Cinematography? Acting and casting? Pure turkey. And the ending, wow it stank the place up.
The new kid on the block is kiosk dispensers. Red Box, Blockbuster is trying them out, others too. I tried it once at WalMart I got one from a Red Box for a dollar, very limited selection, outdoors in the weather, waited in a line with people tapping toes behind me, and I do not trust the security of the whole situation. I went to return it the next day but realized you have to return it to exactly the same box you got it from and the Red Box at Safeway was not even a RED BOX machine. It was another company that uses the same system and red boxes. Never again.
Time to go back to books... but that is another story of how they cannot rape us for enough money to keep real books alive.
These have been around in the UK for years but not sure if they are available in the good ol' US of A:
Robo? Robo? are you there?
And the President of the company is still there. He must have to dirty pictures of Board members or something. This will definately go down as a case study in how to destroy a company virtually overnight. New Coke has nothing on this guy.
All upper management needs to be sent packing and the board dismissed.
Investors losing confidence is an understatement of the decade.
In all netflixs press releases and apologies, not one word to investors.
That tells me they knew there was a shit under the rug.
Netflix = $0, book it.
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Craig Curtis Sauer
Position: LB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 240 lbs.
Born: December 13, 1972 in Sartell, MN
High School: Sartell
College: Minnesota (school history) (Sauer college stats)
Drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the 6th round (188th overall) of the 1996 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 6 (8785th overall since 1950)
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Determining a single name to call the parent company is so problematic that even the MSU Comic Art Collection has given up, opting for Fox Features Syndicate "for the time being". At least two names are in the running: Fox Feature Syndicate (with the proviso that at least one comic went out under the pluralized name, Fox Features Syndicate) and Fox Publications. Logos for both appear below.
It is sometimes claimed that the difference between the two is time: one name generally appears before and during World War II; the other, after.
Since the overwhelming majority of Fox comics stories started on the inside front cover, the true number of pages of Fox comics was usually greater than their competitors'.


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Originally Posted by GWad
a lot has changed in 10 years - you can now get both
What hasn't changed in 10 years? I can buy a pound of popcorn for like $1. That'd get you what, 2 bags of microwave stuff?
Originally Posted by capitalcityguy
We actually gave up on microwave popcorn after the numerous articles kept coming out about the health hazards. I dont' know if those warnings are overblown or not, but now that we've switched to air popper, we realize we much prefer the taste.
Anyway, health concerns might be able to be avoided:
If there is any danger at all associated with microwave popcorn, it is most present when the bag is first opened and heated fumes escape. Breathing in these fumes will expose the consumer to the highest level of diacetyl possible at the consumer level. This may cause damage to the smallest air passages in the consumer's lungs or trigger a pre-existing asthma attack. Young children and those with compromised lung capacity may also have an adverse reaction after breathing in the first fumes of a hot bag of microwave popcorn.
Let me guess - organic and Whole Foods shopper too!!!
The Mini bags of Act II Butter lovers, 1:32 in my microwave at home and I get a perfect bag every time.
Originally Posted by 00clone
Not the advice you're looking for, but I haven't had microwave popcorn in like 10 years. I use a pan at home, and we have a popper at work. I'll take the taste of homemade over the convenience of microwave anyday.
Yes, you can't beat oil in a pan or kettle. It takes a few minutes and is so much better than other options. Short of really screwing up the oil amount you can't screw it up either.
Originally Posted by SC Cy
Iowa company and I'll take the Pepsi Challenge with this any day. Yumm!
What is this Pepsi Challenge you speak of?
Originally Posted by cyrocksmypants
Oddly sexy...
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Literally lol'd when I read this.
Originally Posted by heitclone
The Mini bags of Act II Butter lovers, 1:32 in my microwave at home and I get a perfect bag every time.
Mini bags? I don't like the sound of that...
No matter what, I could NEVER cheer for Dirt and Urine.
I just want to know if I'm the only person in the world who doesn't like popcorn of any kind? Never have, don't know why. I'll eat it if I'm absolutely starving and there's nothing else around.
Originally Posted by ruxCYtable
I just want to know if I'm the only person in the world who doesn't like popcorn of any kind? Never have, don't know why. I'll eat it if I'm absolutely starving and there's nothing else around.
I'm in this pool as well.
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IMF Statement on Banking Sector Developments in MongoliaPress Release No. 09/423
November 20, 2009
Mr. Takatoshi Kato, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement on Mongolia today:
"The Mongolian economy was hit hard by the global economic crisis earlier this year. The authorities' strong policy implementation, however, has helped to quickly stabilize market conditions. Nonetheless, the repercussions from the crisis have taken their toll on the banking system.
"I welcome and fully support the Bank of Mongolia's decision to appoint a receiver at Zoos Bank. This unfortunate but necessary action underscores the authorities' commitment to strengthening the banking system and ensuring financial market stability. The IMF remains committed to continued support of Mongolia in the context of the exceptional-access Stand-By Arrangement approved in April of this year (see Press Release No. 09/64)."


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Ironman - Hawaii
|Rear: 1080
|Front: 808
|Normal conditions at Kona are still quite windy, so we'd recommend sticking with the 808 in front. You'll experience less side force than with a tri-spoke, and you'll have the world's fastest non-disc, the 1080, for backup.
|Rear: 808
|Front: 404
|It's windy out there even on a "calm" day, so many riders stand to benefit from the conservative choice of a 404 front wheel that can still cut through the headwinds you'll face on the return leg.
|Rear: 808
|Front: 404
|As you traverse the desolate lava fields, the last thing you need to worry about is keeping a straight line. Combining an 808 rear with a 404 front will help you relax and efficient as the day heats up.
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|High winds on this course are nothing to take lightly, so smaller riders should consider the 58mm profile of the 404 as a rear wheel with the 44mm 303 up front. You'll still get plenty of speed at just a hair over 1200g.


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Recently I setup a JKO server running on my PC (not dedicated). I fwd'd the ports necessary so that a couple of friends could join in over my DSL connection (3Mbps down/384Kbps up). They were able to join without a problem. However, they constantly got a connection interrupted message and were dealing with severe lag. We were playing with the 2 of them, myself, and 7 bots.
I lowered the number of bots to 3 so that the game was than 3 vs 3 and that helped a little bit but they were still occasionally having that same problem. Does a dedicated server work better? I do have another PC I could run that on if that would help them. Are there any settings I can tweak to help those players coming in over the Net?
So you know, I have hosted an America's Army (AA) server with no problems. I've had 8 people on my LAN and up to 4 coming in over my DSL connection and no one had lag problems. This leads me to believe it's not my DSL connection but some setting or settings in the game. In my mind I imagine AA would require more resources in every way, including network/Internet, so JKO should run fine but I have seen this is not the case. Perhaps JKO, being older, is less efficient at running as a server over my DSL connection?
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Ronald Van Lee
Position: T-TE-G
Height: 6-3 Weight: 265 lbs.
Born: December 24, 1956 in Pine Bluff, AR
High School: John Tyler
College: Baylor (school history) (Lee college stats)
Drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the 3rd round (65th overall) of the 1979 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 45 (1851st overall since 1950)
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The UCLA Baseball team dropped the second game of its series with Arizona on Saturday night, falling to the Wildcats by a score of 3-2 at Hi Corbett Field.
Cody Hamlin earned the win for the Wildcats to move to 5-2 on the year. Hamlin threw a complete game, giving up two runs (one earned) on five hits while striking out three. Junior Grant Watson dropped to 4-4 with the loss, scattering eight hits over seven innings while allowing three runs and striking out six.
The Bruins grabbed the early lead in the top of the second with a run off of Hamlin. Senior Kevin Williams led off the frame with a walk before moving up to second on a sacrifice bunt by freshman Luke Persico. The next batter was junior Chris Keck, who looped a 1-2 pitch into left field for a single, scoring Williams and giving UCLA the lead.
Arizona came back in the bottom half of the inning though, scoring three to take a 3-1 lead. With two outs and runners on first and second, Riley Moore hit a one-hopper to first that took a tough bounce and got by senior Pat Gallagher down the right field line. Both runners scored on the play and Moore ended up at second with a double to give the Wildcats the lead. Zach Gibbons then singled in Moore on the next at-bat to make the score 3-1 in Arizona's favor.
The pitching took over from there as both Hamlin and Watson held the opposing team scoreless for the next four innings. UCLA then cut into Arizona's lead in the top of the seventh when with two outs and Persico on second, sophomore Trent Chatterton hit a chopper to second base. The ball skipped off of Arizona second baseman Trent Gilbert's glove and into center field, allowing Persico to come home and cutting the deficit to one.
Watson came back out for the seventh and did his job, holding the Wildcats scoreless. The Bruins then threatened in the eighth as junior Shane Zeile and sophomore Ty Moore hit back-to-back singles with two outs. However, Williams fouled out to shortstop in the next at-bat and the threat was ended. UCLA went down in order in the top of the ninth and Arizona went on to claim the 3-2 win.
Overall, Zeile led the Bruins at the plate with a 2-4 game while Persico and Keck added a run and a RBI respectively.
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Game Notes: Shane Zeile recorded his third straight multi-hit game and the fourth in his last six games overall…in three games this week Zeile is batting .429 with three runs scored and a .467 on-base percentage…Grant Watson has now thrown at least six innings in seven of his nine starts this season…Watson allowed just three hits past the second inning tonight…the loss snapped UCLA's six-game regular season win streak over Arizona…the Bruins have now laid down a successful sacrifice bunt in 12 of their last 13 games, bringing their season total to 49 sacrifice bunts.


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TYRONE, Ga. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It's football season and for players, that means long, exhausting practices, lots of contact, and sometimes injuries. But not all those injuries will happen because of a tackle or a hit. Since 1995, 39 football players -- mostly high schoolers -- have died from overheating. Hundreds more have suffered serious medical problems. Now, a new kind of football helmet could help players stay safe.
Summer or fall
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football players are at risk for heat injury. Cornerback Nick Day knows the warning signs.
"Oh, definitely I cramp up really bad," Day told Ivanhoe. "I don't get hydrated enough and I get lightheaded on the field sometimes."
The higher the temperature, the greater the danger.
"Up around 107 degrees, that is heat stroke," Beth Higbie, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist at Hothead Sports in Tyrone, Ga., explained. "That's possible death, so there's a real small window between about 103 degrees to 107 degrees where we really ry to, we want to keep those kids from getting to that point."
It's not just kids. Minnesota Vikings lineman Corey Stringer died from heat stroke during a 2001 training camp. At the high school level, heat kills as many as five players a year.
Designed by exercise physiologists, a new helmet has sensors inside that continuously measure each player's body temperature. The information is sent to a PDA, allowing coaches and trainers to monitor them in real-time and keep players safe. An alarm sounds if a player's in trouble.
"Once the alert goes off, you're able to check them [and] maybe pull them out before they get into that scenario, so you have prevented them going into a heat emergency," Preston Bazemore, a certified athletic trainer at Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Roswell, Ga., said.
One small sensor inside a football helmet is the technology that could save lives and keep players in the game.
The heat monitoring system from hothead technologies is believed to be the first of its kind. It costs about $99 per player. Several college football teams are test-driving the system during football season this year. Major helmet companies have placed 10,000 orders for the technology for this year, and hothead expects that 400,000 heat-sensing helmets will be going to football programs around the U.S. by 2011.
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Camping is only allowed in the Owl Canyon Campground typically. Typically they do not allow for back country. They charge about $6 a site for camping and the camping areas have a table and fire pit in addition to a kids area and views of beautiful cliffs and fossils. Hiking here is very scenic and there are abundant hiking trails for people of all skill levels to enjoy.


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Here is what I am trying to accomplish...if this can be accomplished with only batch...for now?
Instead of actually renaming the client here from the netdom statement, I want to INSERT the %strComputer% variable into an xml file or at least replace the text with that same variable. The xml file will be an unattend.xml file used for SysPrepping a Windows 7 client.
This is the section I would like to modify:
In essence, the insert_name statement would be for the new name to be inserted into the xml file vice the netdom.exe command.
The posted code works pretty darn good in my autorenaming process! The steps outlines how the script works.
Please pay attention to the for /f statements and the :insert_name label. Everything else can be disregarded.
- Retrieves the MAC address using WMIC
- Compares that MAC address to the pdqmac2pcname.txt file for a MAC address match or mismatch.
- When the MAC address matches, the name is piped to the netdom statement as the newname variable %strComputername%
- then the script will goto insert_name and
- If MAC address is found with a computer name, the script goes to the label kill_autologon to force computer to not autologon. This procedure prevents an improperly renamed computer from being joined to the domain under a SysPreped randomly generated name.
- If name is not found or MAC Address is not matched, the computer will not join the domain and
- computer reboots to login screen so that it can be manually renamed and joined to the domain.
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
FOR /F "skip=1 tokens=*" %%I IN ('WMIC Path Win32_NetworkAdapter Where "NetConnectionID='Local Area Connection'" Get MACAddress') DO IF NOT DEFINED MACAddress SET MACAddress=%%I
FOR /F "usebackq delims=, tokens=1,2" %%J IN (`type C:\rename_computer\pdqmac2pcname.txt`) DO IF %MACAddress% EQU %%J SET strComputername=%%K && GOTO insert_name
goto kill_autologon
C:\windows\system32\netdom.exe renamecomputer %COMPUTERNAME% /NewName:%strComputername% /FORCE
goto shutdown
reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoLogonCount /f
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoAdminLogon /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f
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text: Out of all the tequila joints in the Southwest, the judges for the Sante Awards picked Dallas' Blue Mesa Grill as numero uno. Surprised? Not me. They offer at least 100 (I quit counting at 40) tequilas and each month they feature a well-known tequila or one from a boutique distillery. Owners Jim and Liz "Baroness" Baron (left) are also dedicated locavores: starting in 2009, the fresh fruit for all of their cocktails will be sourced from Texas farms. Oh, did I forget to mention the complimentary quesadilla bar they feature during happy hours? Good times, we love free food.


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Tuesday and Wednesday will mark the return of more than 160 dogs seized from a Texas breeder in 2012, KATV News reported August 11.
This week, the Humane Society of Pulaski County, Arkansas prepares the dogs for their trip home.
Sandra Nance, a Texas breeder, has fought a two year battle to have her dogs returned after they were taken by Lonoke County officials near Austin in June 2012. Click here to learn more about the original arrest.
A petition was started on change.org, where the bio information tells of the living condition these dogs faced
"On June 28, 2012, 137 dogs were confiscated from the property of Sandra and Marcus Nance, after it was determined that the dogs were living in deplorable conditions that subjected them to heat extremes of nearly 110 degree temperatures, with no cool water or shade. Many of these same dogs were living in their own feces. Due to a pending investigation, further information about their living conditions is unknown, but it is typical that dogs living in a puppy mill live in crowded cages, and receive little to no veterinary care, socialization, or grooming. The heat the day they were confiscated was so unbearable that one of the animal control officers at the scene collapsed from heat exhaustion"
The Humane Society of Pulaski County was put in charge of caring for the 137 dogs, whose number grew to 180 (spay/neutered wasn't allowed, as the dogs were still considered Nance's property). Sandra Nance was originally convicted on five counts of animal cruelty, but her husband was found not guilty.
Both were acquitted of aggravated animal cruelty, a felony charge that implies the animals were tortured.
The case eventually came up on appeal and made its way to the Arkansas Supreme Court, which ruled earlier in 2014 that it didn't have jurisdiction in this case.
A Lonoke County judge ordered the animals to be returned to Nance by August 13, 2014, after Nance won the dogs back in a May appeal.
Jerry Sallings, attorney for Sandra Nance stated to KATV,
"After learning through this process that 21 of her dogs died there and others suffered avoidable injuries...she's very comforted to know the dogs will finally be freed."
Essentially, Sandra Nance was convicted for keeping her dogs in poor conditions and not providing them with veterinary care, but not of running a puppy mill. The prosecution brought in veterinarians who testified to the poor conditions in which the dogs were kept and to their deteriorated health from lack of proper medical care.
Nance's defense was she was able to provide for the dogs herself, without the need for a veterinarian.
Sandra Nance raised her puppies in kennels about 100 feet from her home and sold them at a store in Searcy. These included Airedale terriers, schnauzers, Chihuahuas as well as English bulldogs. Now all of these dogs are being returned to Nance.
This week, the Humane Society of Pulaski County has been busy preparing the dogs for their return to the breeder. They've been bathed, played with and loved on by the staff and volunteers, who have mixed opinions on the dogs going back.
Gene Mullins, volunteer for the Humane Society told reporters
"I've been sick to my stomach thinking of all the effort and time that has gone into these dogs...It's a court order and we're legally obligated to obey it."
Debbie Howell with the HSPC is unsettled by the court order to return the dogs. Usually when dogs leave the care of the Humane Society of Pulaski County, it's to go to a forever home. Returning these dogs to Nance has left everyone concerned with mixed feelings, especially when factoring in it's unknown what will happen to them once they go back.
Those who cared for these dogs can never experience the "closure" that comes with an adoption made through the HS.
What's best for the dogs should be top priority. Is returning these dogs to Sandra Nance a good decision? Please leave a comment.


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New Claim in Gambling Monks Scandal
An exiled monk who dropped a bombshell by releasing a video of eight senior monks smoking and drinking while playing poker in a hotel room detonated another explosive on Tuesday.
Seong-ho, whose real name is Jeong Han-young, told a morning radio show that two leaders at the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, including the head monk, went to a "room salon," or late-night drinking bar in southern Seoul, where he claimed the monks paid for sex.
Seong-ho didn't offer any evidence this time or say when the incident happened. In response, the Jogye order issued a statement saying the claim wasn't true and that it had filed a libel suit.
After finding out about the incident, Seong-ho said he held a one-man protest in front of Jogye Temple in Seoul for more than three months. He said he was later beaten up by some members of the order and hospitalized for three weeks.
While Seong-ho's latest claims are hard to verify, there's no dispute about the gambling incident, which prompted the head monk to make a public apology.
"Monks should be above worldly desires and serve as mentors to their followers. However, some have committed deeds that we feel too embarrassed to talk about," Ja-seung, the head of the order, said in a statement on Friday.
"The people involved in this (gambling incident) are under investigation, and we will strongly punish them when the truth is revealed," he said.
The video resulted in the disbanding of one of the five factions in the order and set off a painful soul-searching within the biggest Buddhist order in the country, which has more than 15 million followers.
On his way to the prosecutor's office this morning, Seong-ho told reporters "the footage is the sword of truth destined to punish management of the order, which deceives the public and its followers."
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How can I help my students become good test takers?
by Ruth Manna
Good teaching every day makes students good test takers. Setting high expectations, demanding quality work, and enforcing rules consistently all contribute to positive test results. A calm, well-organized classroom in which you and your students are fully engaged in learning leads to success on tests. Students who value practice and hard work take tests in stride.
Grades K–2: Students this age take few, if any, standardized tests, but they learn what it means to take a test. As you introduce students to spelling tests and short quizzes, they learn to listen and follow directions. They also learn that test taking has its own protocol. Here are test conditions with which young students will become familiar:
- Uncluttered, quiet room with lots of natural light
- Sharp pencils, erasers, grips, highlighters, numberlines, etc.
- Desks or tables separated from one another and facing forward
- Desktop dividers or study carrels
- Clean desktops
- Book for those who finish the test early
Grades 3–6: By third grade, students understand a test environment. Sample questions from previous tests, usually available online, familiarize students with the test format. Students in grades 3–6 are ready to learn specific test-taking techniques like:
- Answer all questions. Don't leave any responses blank.
- Use process of elimination to narrow choices.
- Respond using complete sentences.
- Reread the passage to answer comprehension questions.
- Watch the time. Don't spend too much time on any one question.
- Use a highlighter, if one is permitted.
- Show your work when solving math problems. Label your answers.
- Proofread your work. Ask yourself, "Does this answer make sense?"
Special education students: If you have students on individual education plans, be sure they receive the accommodations specified in their IEPs. They may be entitled to the following:
- Separate room
- Extended time
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Dukundumurimo cooperative in Rushaki sector in Gicumbi district have donated foodstuffs and other materials to the Tanzania evictees in Gicumbi district, a move that also helps evictees feel comfortable and welcome
Frank Kam, executive secretary of Rushaki sector said the move was aimed at showing love and care for Rwandans evicted from Tanzania in the mid of last year 2013.
According to Rushaki sector Executive Secretary: "There are two families in Rushaki sector; one comprised of six people and another one of one person who left his family in Tanzania. It's vital we show them love because they are also Rwandans".
During the event, Stanislas Kagenzi, vice mayor for economic affairs in Gicumbi district told evictees that the government will include them in Girinka, Ubudehe and other development programs.
Samuel Nshimiyimana, an evictee that came back with the wife and four children commends residents for the way they welcomed them in Rwanda and for the continuous help rendered.
Gicumbi district has received 38 households comprising of 112 members and are being resettled in all sectors of the district.


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Curiosity Killed The Cat
Trevor Farr
From: Trevor Farr
To: Positive Atheism <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: curiosity killed the cat
Date: Thursday, May 01, 1997 3:35 AM
I am a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, I am curious to know if you might be able the help me little. I am currently doing a paper fo my philosphy class. As a topic, i have chosen the argument over the existance of god. I have read papers both trying to prove and disprove his existance. I am currently using papers written by St. Anselm and St. Thomas Aquinas. I have found both these papers to be a pathetic atempt at proving what cannot be proven. I consider myself to be an agnostic leaning towards atheism and notices a slight shortage of paper trying to prove that god does not exist. The one I have found was just as bad as the ones i mentioned previously. It would be very much aprecciated if you could direct me to some others writtings.
It seems my teacher has spent too much time philsophizing and not enough time realizing he has a class to teach. So I am forced to seek this knowlege elswhere.
I thank you for your time and await you reply.
Trevor Farr
An atheist is simply someone who has no god belief. This includes infants and children who have not the intelligence to understand theology.
An agnostic who thinks there is a god but who says we cannot know or describe this entity, is a theistic agnostic or an agnostic theist. An agnostic who does not know if there is a god, or who says it is impossible to know if there is a god is an atheistic agnostic or an agnostic atheist -- based on the fact that he or she has no god belief.
Atheism is not necessarily the outright denial of the existence of a god or gods, it is simply the absense of a god belief. When somebody makes a claim, such as, "a god exists," the responsibility falls on that person to make his or her case. An atheist need not say anything in response to the claims of a theist, because the burden of proof lies on the one making the claim -- not on the one listening to the claim.
Challenge any theist to prove that magic færies do not exist. You cannot do this; one who claims that they do exist must show reason for their belief or the discussion comes to an end. The same holds for any claim that a god exists.
That's the best I can give you at this time.
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There have been growing tensions between North Korea and South Korea along with its staunchest ally, the United States, for a long time. Recent reports that Kim Jong Un had his uncle executed by 120 hungry dogs by NBC news on Jan. 3, 2014 have only served to intensify fears that another war could erupt in Korea at anytime. This is all part of the scenario of politics of fear and associated hysteria. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle was stripped naked, thrown into a cage, and eaten alive by a pack of ravenous dogs, according to a newspaper with close ties to China's ruling Communist Party.
North Korea's state-run news agency reported that Jang Song Thaek, who had been considered Kim's second-in-command, was executed last month after he was found guilty of attempting to overthrow the state. In this official North Korean account it was not specified how Jang was put to death. Than reports surfaced in the Hong Kong based pro-Beijing newspaper Wen Wei Po that Jang and his five closest aides were thrown into a cage with 120 hunting hounds which had been starved for five days. It was said Kim and his brother Kim Jong Chol supervised the one-hour bloody ordeal along with 300 other officials. The newspaper said that Jang and the other aides were completely eaten up.
There is reason to be skeptical about this story of executions by starved dogs in North Korea, reports TIME. The stubborn isolation of North Korea makes it almost impossible for reporters to independently verify this type of claim. There are very few foreign reporters who have access to the country. Among those who do, such as the Associated Press, they are kept on a tight leash by North Korea's intelligence community. Other reports have said some of Jang's associates were executed using antiaircraft guns while Jang himself was killed by more traditional methods.
State media in North Korea has painted a picture of Kim Jong Un's late uncle as being "worse than a dog". Jang was denounced as a "despicable political careerist and trickster" who was guilty of "thrice-cursed acts of treachery. ' Yet, the report about the executions in a dog cage may be a sign of the struggle between those in the Chinese Communist party who want to remain engaged with North Korea and those who would like to distance themselves from Kim's regime. It could be all propaganda coming from China of all places. This report may also have been an attempt to flare up tensions between North Korea and South Korea and the United States.
Executions always shake people up and some people across the United States have war fever in their eyes simply upon hearing this word coming out of North Korea. Yet, the United States has been executing a lot of people in recent years. In fact, Texas, where two contemporary American presidents, the Bushs, are from, stands in the forefront of executions in America. Are the trials any fairer in Texas and elsewhere than in North Korea? Well, not usually in a society where only big money can buy heavy duty legal defenses and where the poor guy usually takes a fall for the crimes of the wealthy and powerful.
Furthermore, big business, the psychiatrists, the courts, the lawmakers, and even the American presidents, including Obama, have been squeezing more and more decent people out of work and forcing them into poverty and homelessness. This often occurs in America's so called democratic society because these people did not give blind support to a corrupt and brutal system of rampant injustices.
In fact just cursing the American presidents over failed policies can get sane activists lifetime labels of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder by the nation's psychiatrists, who work for the government, in their private court rooms. These labels are associated with damaging stigmatization, drugging with poisons that cripple people, forced social isolation, beatings by the police and psychiatrists, incarcerations in mental hospitals and jails, both of which are actually concentration camps, blacklists, forced poverty, homelessness, rapes and murder.
Right at this moment the streets scenes of gangs of well armed human beings beating other people and their families forced into homelessness half to death, raping them , and knifing and shooting them, are no more unpleasant than scenes of human beings being eaten by starved dogs in a cage. And here in the United States we know for certain the forced homelessness, starvation, beatings, rapes and murders are really happening around the clock.
As a matter of fact lethal injections, gas chambers and electric chairs, which are the modern day mainstays of legalized American executions, are also not very pretty sights. And so even though it's really sad to hear of the executions in North Korea, and sadder to hear they may have been bloody affairs, the United States still does not have a morale high ground to stand on in dealing with such matters. It's simply a sad time for Koreans and Americans, and yet war is still not justified under these circumstances.


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Scot met and fell in love with his wife Manuela while stationed with the U.S. Army in Darmstadt, Germany. Prior to coming to Lincoln, Manuela was the Director of Great Kids Academy an early childhood education center for the community of South Bend, Indiana. Now Manuela is the office coordinator for the Physician Assistant Program at Union College and enjoys working with the students and faculty. When Manuela is not working or taking care of their three kids she enjoys classical music, visiting art galleries and catching up with friends.
Scot and Manuela have three wonderful kids, Angela, Mckayla and Christian who all enjoy life and eagerly want to explore God's creation.


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Have you ever given much thought to what life might be like without the humble zipper? For starters, your clothes would have a hard time staying put. In a stiff breeze, it's handy to have a jacket that zips up. Blue jeans probably wouldn't be as much fun to wear without zippers either!
If you go on a camping trip, zippers play an important role, too. Your suitcase or backpack might spill its contents everywhere if it wasn't zipped shut. You might also get cold at night if your sleeping bag didn't zip up nice and tight.
The first methods used to keep clothes fastened were buttons. Buttons worked well for the most part, but eventually clever inventors searched for even better ways to keep clothes closed.
The invention of the modern zipper was actually a long process that involved several different people. The inventor of the sewing machine, Elias Howe, received a patent in 1851 for an "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure." Although it was a good idea, he didn't market it, because he was too busy promoting the sewing machine.
Over 40 years later, Whitcomb Judson improved upon Howe's idea and began to market what he called a "Clasp Locker." He designed it to be a fastener for shoes. To produce his new device, he started the Universal Fastener Company. The product debuted at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, but it didn't have much success.
The modern zipper was eventually designed in 1913 by Gideon Sundback, who worked at the Universal Fastener Company in Hoboken, New Jersey. He received a patent for his "Separable Fastener" in 1917.
Sundback's design increased the number of fastening elements to 10 per inch and included two rows of interlocking teeth that would latch together with the help of a slider. His design was the first fastener to resemble what we now know as a zipper.
But Sundback didn't come up with the name! The name "zipper" was developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company. They used Sundback's device as a fastener on a new type of rubber boots they produced. They called the device a "zipper" and the name stuck!
Early on, zippers were mainly used on boots and pouches that held tobacco. It would be another 20 years before the fashion industry began to use zippers on clothing. One of the first uses on closing was replacing the buttons on men's trousers with zippers.
Today, zippers remain very popular and can be found on all sorts of clothing and other products. Take a look around you. How many zippers do you see and use on a daily basis?


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A Seahawks fan got a head tattoo to show just how loyal she is to the team. On Jan. 26, FOX Sports reported that Seahawks fan McKenzie Jane Brown got the team's 12th Man logo tattooed on the side of her shaved head. Brown has never been to a Seahawks game and with the Super Bowl coming up, she thought she would do something outrageous to try and win tickets. Sadly, she came in second place in a local contest.
"I always wanted to have a Seahawks tattoo, but I didn't want a logo to interrupt the other tattoos. That's why I felt the head would be perfect," explained Brown of the tattoo's placement. "I came in second, but nothing else changed. I may have a little bit of an itchy head, but I'm still loud and proud," she added.
The Seahawks fan will get another head tattoo if she can score tickets to Sunday's big game. A friend of Brown said that she would be willing to shave the other side of her head and get "Ellen's" name tattooed there if the talk show host (Ellen DeGeneres) gives her Super Bowl tickets.
"Her fight may not yet be over, either. A video on YouTube, purportedly from one of Brown's friends, documents the painstaking steps Brown went through on behalf of her team, and it claims Brown is willing to go even further if it means she could get Super Bowl tickets," FOX Sports reports. Check out the video above for more.
A Seahawks fan with a head tattoo should be at the game, don't you think?! Will Ellen seek out Brown and grant her wish?
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Portuguese Markets: Stay Cool or Panic?
Portugal's political uncertainty has morphed into political and financial confusion.
In early trade, Portuguese bond yields were down amid assurances from the country's president late Wednesday that he wouldn't call for early elections. But investors—and bonds—eventually caught up with the main news: President Aníbal Cavaco Silva didn't give his blessing to the current government either, and worse, said the solution lies on general elections later next year based on an agreement of all main parties to commit to austerity for years to come. That's a challenge to say the least.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho's government, meanwhile, is in some kind of limbo. Not only has Mr. Silva made clear it won't survive through the end of its term in 2015, he also didn't say whether he will approve a new cabinet reshuffle, key to keeping the ruling coalition stable.
"I'm yet to really understand the consequences of this mess," a trader of Portuguese bonds said.
Portuguese 10-year bond yields are currently trading at 6.77%, after opening lower at 6.66% from 6.69% at Wednesday's close, according to Tradeweb.
Analysts notes also reflected some confusion on whether markets should stay cool or panic. Rabobank said Mr. Silva approved the new cabinet layout, adding that despite the political uncertainty that remains, markets shouldn't worry about Greek-style haircuts for Portugal, which is still seen as a faithful follower of an austerity program imposed by the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.
Goldman Sachs, meanwhile, said political tension has mounted overnight, adding a solution for the crisis is now in the hands of the country's main opposition party, the Socialists, who Mr. Silva asked to join hands with the two center-right parties in power.
Socialist leader António José Seguro has repeatedly ruled out supporting the current government, saying it is taking austerity too far.
"Looking further ahead, the prospect of new elections at an economically sensitive moment next year could prove destabilizing for any new adjustment program," Goldman Sachs added.
So what happens now?
Mr. Silva said he will immediately begin talks with leaders of the three parties—including Mr. Passos Coelho's Social Democratic Party and the junior Democratic and Social Center Party. If the Socialists agree to join in, that is sorted.
If they don't, a very weakened Mr. Passos Coelho could again table an agreement with his junior coalition partner, which has basically given the Democratic and Social Center Party more powers in the government.
A gloomier possibility is that the current government, without the clear vote of confidence from Mr. Silva expected last night, gives up.
And while all this is being sorted, confusion reigns for the government. Since Mr. Silva didn't approve the cabinet reshuffling that would put Paulo Portas, from the Democratic and Social Center Party, in the post of deputy prime minister, he continues as foreign minister who has asked to leave but whose resignation hasn't been accepted.
Mr. Portas was largely responsible for triggering the political crisis last week, when he said he could no longer stay in the government following the choice of a new finance minister, who he felt would place excessive emphasis on austerity rather than growth.
The fresh political uncertainty will also raise questions on whether Portugal will, in the short term, fulfill commitments with lenders. Under the €78 billion ($102 billion) bailout program, the government was expected to table over the next weeks an extensive overhaul in the public sector meant to save €4.8 billion in spending through 2015. But lawmakers' minds are now elsewhere.