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Skip to comments.Kerry Gaining Ground (Bush 45%, Kerry 42%)
Posted on 01/27/2004 11:51:52 AM PST by Momaw Nadon
January 27, 2004--Senator John Kerry has pulled to within three points of George W. Bush in the Rasmussen Reports national tracking poll. Yesterday, Kerry trailed by five points.
Kerry is the most competitive of all Democrats in a general election match-up with the President. He is also the top choice among all Democrats to win the party's Presidential nomination.
Senator John Edwards trails the President by just five points, 45% to 40%.
Before the Iowa caucuses, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and retired General Wesley Clark were the most competitive Democrats. Both now trail Bush by double digit margins.
Survey results show that a generic Democrat polls better than any individual candidate at this point in time.
These results are from a national telephone survey of 1,500 Likely Voters conducted by Rasmussen Reports over the past three nights. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points, with a 95% level of confidence.
Survey data showing the race between President Bush and a generic Democrat is updated daily on this site by noon.
(The Arkansas hillbillies thought that too.)
How can you be living with yourself? America is in grievous trouble and these two have come forward to save us out of nothing but their love for those whom a whimsical god hath fortunately placed beneath them. Support this effort, my good man. Put Ketchup on everything, wash it down with Scotch Whiskey. Funds will pour into the Kerry-Kennedy War Chest and America will be saved.
Most people think Clinton was impeached for having sex.
His surname was changed from Kohn when his family came from Austria, and his mom's side is blueblood Brahmin.
With all the hype about polls, they are notoriously wrong. Rasmussen is a big time Leftie himself and a Dem pundit.
Wait till the Pubbies launch their ads as well as start counter punching the DUm's lies.
The idea of such false information getting out to the lukewarm voters out there who would otherwise stay home because they think plenty of Pubbies will show up and win without needing their vote, this may have the opposite effect. They may become extremely motivated and get out to the pols because they don't want a repeat of last election.
So true! Things will be different later won't they?
Nice try at changing it from dumb to "ignorant" and people to "democrats". It didn't work, but nice try.
Is Sean Hannity thinks that people in general are dumb and he or some group or Republicans are smart, then he is an elitist too. But I don't think you will hear him say that.
Heaven help the country if you and Sean Hannity are examples of the smart ones.
Cite statistics please.
Surely now you have that wrong. Is this not the same Celtic Kerry boyo who has been prancing around the Bay State lo these many years doing every thing but a Galway Reel and tearfully singing "Mother McCree?" In fact, I claim the Massachusetts voters actually think Kerry IS a Kennedy!
It's dark in those MA voting booths, and as the typical Boston voter bends over, all he can read is the K and the Y. This has allowed the Kennedys and the Kerry to slip into office, along with Barney Frank.
Now that's funny!
Regretably, I think that is possible regardless of which party is in power.
However, please understand that Bush is barely on the radar right now. Kerry will wrap up the nomination in early March. He will also be out of money. That's when the carpet bombing in selected swing states will begin.
Right now the media loves Kerry because he sounds good, is a known Senate liberal, and goes to the same parties they do. I'm surprised Bush is holding at this level. This will change as Bush gets out there and gets his base up and running.
By mid-May, we should be fighting in Pakistan. Not wagging the dog, mind you; it appears that now is as good a time as any to wrap up the Mystery Sheik and send him and his buddies to meet the 72 virgins. Bin Laden presumed that we would be preoccupied with the Ba'athist rebels to come after him.
What if it turns out that he thought poorly?
Be Seeing You,
Never sell your opponent short. If I remember right GW won the last election by a narrow margin. Both in the electoral college and the popular vote. Regards
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New Berlin - Sorting through a chorus of public comments, city officials are considering whether to allow 48 outdoor concerts this summer at the Quaker Steak and Lube restaurant.
This week, the Planning Commission acted as a sounding board for people who had something to say, both for and against, about the prospect of a second consecutive year of music at the automotive-themed eatery at 4900 S. Moorland Road. Quaker Steak wants the concerts to accompany its Wednesday Bike Night and its Thursday Car Cruise every week from May through mid-September.
Neighbors are mostly against the idea, saying last summer's concerts, which also included music on Friday nights, there were too numerous and too loud.
Those speaking in favor of the concerts, which accompany car and motorcycle shows, said the events are an entertainment asset and are no louder than other events in the city.
Quaker Steak had city staff approval to hold the concerts last year, but because there were complaints the Plan Commission now must decide whether to give conditional-use permit approval for them. The Plan Commission will consider the matter March 4.
Measuring sound
To ensure a reasonable amount of tranquility, some neighbors want the city, before granting permission for the concerts, to set a decibel level that could not be exceeded.
Quaker Steak owner Scott Acker supports the idea of a decibel limit, saying he helped the Middleton Quaker Steak and Lube work with neighbors, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the city to come up with an acceptable sound limit.
"If there's a rule to follow, that's good for both sides," Acker said.
In fact, the city is examining just that, even exploring how other communities approach the problem, said Jessica Titel, New Berlin associate planner.
Whether a Quaker Steak's conditional-use permit for the concerts will be delayed until that issue is settled is up to the Plan Commission.
Sound emanations
Because of last year's complaints, Acker said he will buy a sound system for the bands to use instead of their own. The speakers will be pointed at the freeway and away from homes.
He acknowledged that occasionally the wind could still blow the sound toward homes, adding that he would also try to control the volume.
But some neighbors don't want a repeat of last summer.
"It's awful," said John Fillar, who lives on Armour Avenue nearby.
Fillar said he likes to listen to the radio outside, but last summer his radio had to compete with the live music emanating from the restaurant.
Similarly, Carol Ann Bankar of Scot Drive, three blocks north of the restaurant, said she couldn't even use her patio.
But James Gradel of Pheasant Run Drive questioned how loud the music could be so far away.
"I go there with friends," he said, noting that they sit at tables in front of the bands and are able to talk to each other.
No matter how soft the music is when it reaches homes, it will still be a distraction for two evenings a week all summer, one Mayflower Drive resident said.
Drawing power
Vivian Jorgensen, who said she isn't bothered by the twice-a-week concerts that she can hear at her Deerwood Drive residence, noted that Quaker Steak provides jobs and the concerts showcase the city by drawing nonresidents.
"You can't satisfy everyone," she said.
Mel Laycock of Quimby Avenue, about three blocks from the restaurant, was among those who said he appreciates the available entertainment nearby.
"It's somewhere for us to go and have fun with friends," Laycock said.
Gregg Kluck of Muskego said the events help surrounding businesses and help the car cruise nights that used to be held in Greenfield.
"It's been an awesome thing to have Quaker Steak," he said.
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+ The Aggies extended their winning streak to seven with today's win over Rice. It is A&M's longest win streak since winning 10 straight after losing the season-opener in 1998.
+ Texas A&M defeated Rice for the 16th straight time. The Aggies now lead the all-time series with Rice, 51-27-2.
+ The Aggies, which have three more non-conference games vs. schools from state of Texas, haven't lost to a Texas non-conference team since 1954. Texas Tech, then of the Border Conference, beat the Aggies, 41-7, in Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut game in Aggieland.
+ The Aggies improved to 61-5 against non-conference foes at Kyle Field since 1985.
+ The Aggies are 27-3 in their last 30 home openers.
+ It was the first season-opening win of head coach Kevin Sumlin's career at Texas A&M. Overall, Sumlin is 5-1 in season-openers at Houston (2008-11) and A&M (2012- ).
+ Texas A&M generated more than 400 total yards for the 15th straight game, which is a school record.
+ The Aggies scored 50-plus points in a season-opener for the first time since topping Sam Houston State, 59-6, at Kyle Field (9/6/1997).
First-time starters
+ The Aggies had 10 players making their starting debuts --- five on offense and five on defense. New starters on offense were: OL Mike Matthews, OL Germain Ifedi, WR Sabian Holmes, WR Derel Walker, QB Matt Joeckel. On defense, the first-time starters were DT Hardreck Walker, DE Tyrell Taylor, LB Tommy Sanders, CB Alex Sezer Jr. and DB Clay Honeycutt.
+ The Aggies failed to score first for the first time since the 2011 Missouri game, which was a span of 18 games.
+ The Aggies punted on their first offensive drive of the game, which stopped a streak of 10 games with a TD on the opening drive.
+ True freshman WR Ricky Seals-Jones made his first career receiving TD a memorable one by ripping off a 71-yard catch and run.
+ Sophomore punter Drew Kaser's 76-yard punt in the third quarter was the sixth-longest punt in school history. In his first action since game two of 2011, Kaser averaged 62.7 yards on three punts.
+ Making his first-ever start at quarterback was junior Matt Joeckel, whose twin brother, Luke, was a surprise visitor to the game. Luke was the No. 2 overall selection by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2013 NFL Draft. He played the entire first half for the suspended Johnny Manziel, and completed 14-of-19 passes for 190 yards and a touchdown.
+ Sophomore transfer RB Tra Carson (from Oregon) scored a pair of touchdowns in his first game in the maroon and white.
+ Johnny Manziel needed less than a half to record his seventh career three-TD passing day. It also marked his 10th career game with multiple TD passes. He was 6-for-8 for 94 yards and 3 TDs in the air and rushed six times for 19 yards on the ground.
+ Clay Honeycutt, who entered the contest with two career tackles in eight games, logged seven tackles and his first career INT.
+ Tramain Jacobs tallied his second career INT for the Aggies' other takeaway.
+ Sophomore WR Mike Evans led the Aggies with six catches for 84 yards with two touchdowns. It was the 14th straight game with at least four catches, which is every game of his career.
+ With his fourth and final tackle of the game, senior Toney Hurd Jr. logged the 100th tackle of his career.
Family matters
+ The Aggies had a pair of brothers starting on the offensive line in senior All-American Jake Matthews and sophomore Mike Matthews.
+ At times, Texas A&M had a pair of twin brothers on its defensive front. Junior Tyrell Taylor started at defensive end and redshirt freshman Tyrone Taylor saw early action.
+ Junior Clay Honeycutt, who posted the first start of his career, is the son of former letterman Lynn Honeycutt (1978-79).
Maroon Debuts
Four-year transfers
RB Tra Carson
Junior college transfers
TE Cameron Clear
LB Tommy Sanders
Redshirt freshmen
OL Germain Ifedi
DE Tyrone Taylor
True freshmen
DL Jay Arnold
LB Darian Claiborne
DB Noel Ellis
DB Tavares Garner
DL Isaiah Golden
WR LaQuvionte Gonzales
DL Daeshon Hall
LB Jordan Mastrogiovanni
WR Ricky Seals-Jones
DB Alex Sezer Jr.
WR Jeremy Tabuyo
DT Hardreck Walker
LB Shaan Washington
DB Jonathan Wiggins
WR Ja'Quay Williams
Captains, 12th Man
+ Game captains for the Aggies were: Ben Malena, Jake Matthews and Toney Hurd Jr. The trio won the toss and took the ball.
+ Making his 12th Man debut was Sam Moeller, a sophomore defensive back from Antonio Prep in San Antonio, Texas.
+ Suspended for the first half of today's game were QB Johnny Manziel and DB Deshazor Everett. Suspended for the entire game were: DL Kirby Ennis, DB Floyd Raven, LB Steven Jenkins, DB De'Vante Harris, WR Edward Pope and DL Gavin Stansbury.
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I enjoyed all the RE titles in the main series, each in their own way.
RE6 has the best Gameplay controls of the bunch, in fact I feel that it has the best 3rd Person Action controls of all games I played period.
I'm loving RE:R for the way the story is presented. Raid Mode is amazing fun & plan on playing it for a long time.
I also highly enjoy Mercs, played it a lot in RE4, loved playing it Co-op in RE5, and RE6 is slightly modified version but still fun to play, especially with the updated controls.
The only problem I have with RE6 is that all the DLC was Multiplayer & I just can't get into it. They should of just made more Campaign content and a ton of Maps for Mercs. Or made Mercs 4P, which I was hoping for over anything Multiplayer.
The only problem I have with RE:R is the Dodge technique & Sprinting, both of which are amazing in RE6. The "B" button should of been a Dodge button & Clicking in the LS should give us a Sprint move, not unlimited, but a quick boost.
I have Pros & Cons for all the RE titles I play, but I still enjoy them all & RE is one of a few franchise I have played for over 15 years & completely enjoy every time I buy a new title.
Right there with you pal,
I loved the more serious attitude they took to the story. It was different and I liked how each character had grown a bit darker. Hell if its resident evil I like it, Period. With that being said I like RE 6 for an acceleration of the action. It took away from the horror element which is what the franchise built itself on. Not really a good idea there, but the developers were not afraid to take the game in a new direction. If only they had contributed to longer stories and perhaps some dry humor between the devouring and death, It would have been better.
The parts where people died in terribly stupid ways... yeah that dragged the story down. But the desperation in ch 1 of Leons story was great. If only you had stayed there for a greater chunk of the game I think the game would have had more to offer.
By far though the 3rd person controls were my favorite. especially the stamina system, where you became exhausted as time went on.
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In support of a major initiative to bring attention to the study of roll playing musical instruments, the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound and Department of Music have acquired the Denis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls, a collection of over 7500 rolls and ten players. The Condon Collection has long been known as one of the most important collections of reproducing pianos and piano rolls in private hands. Leading figures in the field of rolls and players are working along with Stanford faculty and staff on the project. The initiative will include roll preservation through scanning and digitization, restoration of instruments for playback, item level cataloging to allow for content discovery, and research into under-represented or rare systems and rolls. Plans for the collection include making streaming audio files of the recordings available to the public at large.
On display in the Music Library are a variety of facsimiles of musical manuscripts. Items range from a meticulous reproduction of the 15th-century Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu, a heart-shaped collection of courtly love songs worked with gilt and fine hand illustrations, to a very convincing replica of the notebook page upon which Kurt Cobain penned lyrics for the iconic song Smells Like Teen Spirit.
The Archive of Recorded Sound (ARS) recently took an active role in two courses during the spring semester, one in the Stanford Music Department and the other in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, to encourage students to deposit their final projects into the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR). The purpose of working with these courses was primarily to introduce students to the SDR and its many benefits, and to walk them through the process of using the SDR's self-deposit tool. This instruction was backed up by customized online screencasts that guided students through the deposit process for the particular sets of materials within their projects. The rate of deposit for both courses was extremely high as the professors in each case elected to make the deposit of final projects into the SDR a mandatory part of the courses' requirements.
The Brompton's Book of Violin and Bow Makers, by Jon Dilworth, is a biographical dictionary of violin (and viola, viola, 'cello and bass) makers as well as bow makers in Europe and the United States. Jon Dilworth, violin maker and connoisseur, spent many years collecting this information in part through his association with Amati Instruments Limited, in the form of note cards, photographs, and digital files. The work builds upon the corpus of knowledge of lutherie (the art and craft of making fine stringed instruments) established by earlier seminal works such as Henley's Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers, Vannes' Dictionnaire universel des luthiers, and Lütgendorff's Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.
The Archive of Recorded Sound is delighted to announce that the Richard Maxfield Collection (ARS.0074) can now be listened to online, via the collection's finding aid on the Online Archive of California. This collection features nine distinct works by electronic music composer Richard Maxfield, composed between 1959-1964, four of which are believed to be previously unpublished (Dromenom, Electronic Symphony, Suite from Peripateia, and Wind). Additionally, as Maxfield frequently produced unique edits of his work for each performance, many of the open tape reels that form this collection include alternative edits to those previously published, such as the tapes for Amazing Grace which feature three different versions of the work.
The Archive of Recorded Sound recently processed a number of important additions to the Blanche Thebom Collection (ARS.0059), courtesy of Phyllis Villec, a close friend of Thebom's for many years. These additions include a substantial number of programs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and personal documents spanning the mezzo-soprano's career.
One of the remarkable things about large digitization projects is that not just formal events are preserved but also informal events are preserved for future access. As a matter of process the Stanford Media Preservation Lab takes part in the preservation of media that captures these special informal events. Recently while working on a portion of the Allen Ginsberg papers many recordings were digitized but (at least) two recordings were re-formatted that informally capture his friendships with other important 20th century figures.
Die Schoepfung [The Creation]. German and English.
Vienna : [Joseph Haydn], 1800.
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Letter from Haydn to Burney, September 14, 1799
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There are two important items in the Memorial Library of Music related to Haydn's Creation: a letter written by Haydn to his English friend Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814), who helped Haydn arrange for the initial sale of the English-language edition of the full score; and one of the earliest copies of that score, which bears Haydn's personal stamp on the title page. Burney is best known for his A General History of Music, (4 vols., 1776-89), a monumental publication that set a new standard for works on music history and historiography.


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A wreath with a banner saying Never Forget was placed at the trailhead in Rancho Bernardo Community Park in honor of Chelsea King and Amber Dubois Friday. The wreath was place by the San Diego Sheriff's Department on the anniversary of the date King was abducted and murdered at the site.
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A note was wrapped around a post near the trailhead at Rancho Bernardo Community Park in honor of Chelsey King, who was abducted and murdered there a year ago.
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Mary Wolford an Aztec alumna gets her photo taken with Zuma the Aztec feline mascot at Horton Plaza after the rally.
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Nine-month-old AJ Sacco right is nestled comfortably on his mother Kyra Sacco's back while she plays trombone in the Aztec pep band at the rally on Horton Plaza. (It was the first time the Aztec alumna tried playing with her son on her back.
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SDSU students stand in line at the Viejas Arena Friday waiting their turn to receive student tickets to Saturday's Aztecs-BYU game. Some had been in line since Wednesday.
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Alex Kunkel, an English teacher at Clairemont High School, listens to speakers during a rally Tuesday before a meeting of the San Diego Unified School District board to discuss possible layoffs of teachers, counselors, nurses, librarians and others.
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A San Diego City firefighter brought in a hose to extinguish a fire underneath the I-15 near the Qualcomm Stadium on Thursday February 17.
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Snow lovers headed to the snow found it on Mount Laguna where in some spots it was knee deep near Desert View campground. Liam Myers, 6, left, watches his brother Finn Myers, 3, head down a hill on Mount Laguna. Both are from Rancho Bernardo.
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Pitching coach Darren Balsley (from left) and pitchers Craig Italiano and Colt Hynes walk over a makeshift bridge.
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited the Imperial San Dunes Recreation Area to promote outdoor use of federal land.
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Snow blankets Palomar Observatory, which is located about 5,570 feet above sea level in northern San Diego County.
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People and fish participate in the 24th annual San Diego Koi Show.
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Barbara Alexander, middle, and others sample some Texas Barbecue from West Coast Barbecue & Catering at the Successful Aging Expo at the Town & Country Resort & Convention Center.
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Travelers walk past a concessions stand at San Diego International Airport. HMS Host has held a prime contract to operate concessions for more than 40 years. Now that the contract is expiring, airport officials are planning to revamp concessions by offering leases to as many as 14 different companies.
— John Gastaldo
A motorist fills up Monday morning in Tijuana. David Maung / SanDiegoRed
Fathom, a 28-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, returns to a patrol boat in San Diego Bay after tagging a swimmer who led a mock attack on the destroyer Dewey.
— John Gastaldo
A San Diego Gas and Electric technician wearing special protective clothing and using a breathing apparatus uses a jackhammer to clear the area around the portion around a natural gas line that was broken by construction crews working in a trench on Ulric Street near Morley Street in Linda Vista at about 1 p.m., so repairs could be made.
— Howard Lipin
The results of an explosion during a clothes dryer installation in a home in Julian.
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San Diego State University Students Stephen Lawrance, seated at left, Amanda Causey, center, and Angela Hacche, right, hang out in their place in line Wednesday to receive student tickets to the Aztecs basketball game against BYU on Saturday. Student tickets won't be released until 4 p.m. Friday.
— James Gregg
Guests take a picture at the Nordstrom Designer Preview at Landmark Aviation on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011.
— K.C. Alfred
The zany Aztecs student section, nicknamed The Show, has rocked Viejas Arena this season.
— Earnie Grafton
Could this mural in Oceanside be a genuine Banksy?
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1555?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12595214#action_12595214 ] Jukka Zitting commented on JCR-1555: ------------------------------------ How about if we only added the method to QValueFactoryImpl in spi-commons? An SPI implementation (that AFAIUI is the main use case behind this request) can use the implementation classes directly. > Add support for boolean values to QValue > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: JCR-1555 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1555 > Project: Jackrabbit > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: jackrabbit-spi, jackrabbit-spi-commons > Reporter: Michael Dürig > Priority: Minor > Attachments: JCR-1555(2).patch, JCR-1555.patch > > > I suggest to add support for reading and writing boolean values to QValue and QValueFactory. I find it strange that there is such support for the other data types but booleans must be constructed via strings. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Ex-JPMorgan Workers, Tax Borders, Swipe Fees: Compliance
Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Two former JPMorgan Chase & Co. employees were charged by U.S. prosecutors with attempting to conceal trading losses at the largest U.S. bank last year as part of a probe of its $6.2 billion loss on derivatives bets.
Javier Martin-Artajo, a former executive who oversaw the trading strategy at the bank's chief investment office in London, and Julien Grout, a trader who worked for him, were charged with conspiracy, wire fraud and making false filings in complaints unsealed yesterday in Manhattan federal court. The two men engaged in a scheme to falsify securities filings between March 2012 and May 2012, according to the government.
Bruno Iksil, the Frenchman at the center of the case who became known as the "London whale" because his portfolio was so large, signed a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. in June, the government said yesterday. He pledged to cooperate with prosecutors as part of the deal.
Martin-Artajo was Iksil's supervisor while Grout assisted him in valuing his trading book. JPMorgan ousted all three last year and sought to recoup some of their pay.
JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon characterized the $6.2 billion loss as "the stupidest and most-embarrassing situation I have ever been a part of." First disclosed in May 2012, the bad bets led to an earnings restatement, a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing and probes by the Securities and Exchange Commission and U.K. Financial Conduct Authority.
Dimon, 57, pushed out senior executives including former Chief Investment Officer Ina Drew, who oversaw the London unit where the loss took place. The bank said it clawed back more than $100 million in pay from employees who were involved with, or oversaw, the trade.
Martin-Artajo, 49, and Grout, 35, are charged with four counts, including conspiracy to falsify books and records, commit wire fraud and falsify securities filings; falsifying books and records; wire fraud; and making false filings to the SEC.
They face as long as 20 years in prison if convicted on the most serious counts.
Joe Evangelisti, a spokesman for the bank in New York, declined to comment.
Prosecutors in the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said Martin-Artajo and Grout manipulated and inflated the value of the position marks in the Synthetic Credit Portfolio, or SCP, which the government said had been very profitable for the bank's chief investment office, or CIO.
Attorneys for Martin-Artajo and Iksil declined to comment on the charges. Grout's lawyers didn't respond to a request for comment.
The SEC has filed a parallel civil suit in Manhattan federal court seeking disgorgement of ill-gotten gains and unspecified financial penalties. In the civil suit, U.S. regulators signaled they will hold JPMorgan accountable for violating securities laws when it disclosed inaccurate information to investors because of allegedly deceitful accounting by traders in London.
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Neither Martin-Artajo nor Grout is in the U.S.
Edward Little, a partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York who represents Grout, said in an Aug. 12 interview that his client was living in France and isn't a fugitive.
Martin-Artajo was on vacation, and had received no communication telling him he shouldn't travel, his attorneys at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in London said in an Aug. 13 statement.
Unless the defendants surrender to authorities, the U.S. will probably have to seek extradition. U.S. prosecutors urged Martin-Artajo and Grout to surrender. Martin-Artajo, a Spanish citizen, and Grout, a French citizen, should "do the right thing," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a press conference yesterday.
The cases are U.S. v, Grout, 13-MAG-01976, and U.S. v. Martin-Artajo, 13-MAG-01975, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Company Profits Without Borders Spurs Government Scrutiny
Policy makers around the world are stepping up efforts to tighten rules because a growing slice of corporate profits isn't taxed in any country.
Multinational companies can legally structure transactions so they don't pay tax anywhere, creating "stateless income" that is coming under attack as countries seek to fill budget gaps. The Obama administration, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and tax officials from other countries want to reach a consensus on how to combat the issue, with more than a dozen proposals being weighed, Bloomberg BNA reported.
The heightened scrutiny offers a chance to take action. The largest U.S.-based companies expanded their untaxed offshore stockpiles by $183 billion last year, or 14 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In the U.S., Senator Carl Levin held hearings taking U.S. technology companies to task for structures that let them pay little or no tax on billions in profits. Representative Dave Camp is leading a tax rewrite that he says will fix the system. Camp has signaled potential support for a 15 percent tax on intangibles as one way to limit base erosion, one of three options he has suggested in a discussion draft of a new tax system.
Stateless income is one driver behind a plan to stop profit shifting unveiled in July by the OECD, which calls on countries to take action in more than a dozen areas over the next two years. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew hailed the plan. Leaders of the wealthiest economies, the Group of Eight nations, have agreed to tackle tax evasion by multinational companies anew.
The OECD plans to look at rules requiring taxpayers to disclose aggressive tax planning arrangements. The plan calls for scrutiny of facets of the digital economy that may be vulnerable to tax manipulation and a variety of changes to transfer pricing guidelines and a focus on "harmful tax practices."
Compliance Action
JPMorgan Said to Expect Multiple Fines as Whale Traders Charged
JPMorgan Chase & Co. expects to be fined by authorities in the U.S. and U.K. over last year's $6.2 billion trading loss, which led to criminal charges against two former employees, said a person familiar with the matter.
The Securities and Exchange Commission signaled in a complaint filed yesterday against Javier Martin-Artajo, 49, and Julien Grout, 35, that the New York-based bank will be held accountable for providing inaccurate information to investors after the two men "fraudulently" mismarked their trades to conceal losses.
"JPMorgan failed to furnish to the commission, in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the commission, such financial reports as the commission has prescribed," the SEC wrote in its complaint.
SEC spokesman John Nester didn't return a call seeking comment.
The bank also expects to be fined by the Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority, said the person, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.
The bank, which doesn't disclose how much it has set aside for legal expenses, said in a filing last week that it could face as much as $6.8 billion in legal losses beyond the reserve. The company's second-quarter litigation expense more than doubled to $678 million from a year earlier.
Litigation costs could total $3.8 billion in the second half of this year, estimates Charles Peabody, an analyst with Portales Partners in New York.
JPMorgan violated securities rules that require companies to report accurate financial statements, among other infractions, the SEC said in its suit against the former traders. U.S. prosecutors charged Martin-Artajo and Grout, who worked with Iksil in JPMorgan's chief investment office in London, with conspiracy, wire fraud, making false filings and falsifying books and records.
Their "scheme" caused the bank to release inaccurate earnings information to investors in April and May 2012, the SEC said in its suit. In July 2012, JPMorgan restated first-quarter results after an internal investigation revealed that values on the derivatives portfolio weren't consistent with accounting rules. Attorneys for Martin-Artajo and Grout declined to comment.
When asked at a news conference yesterday about what penalties or accusations JPMorgan could face, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara declined to comment. Dennis Holden, a CFTC spokesman, said he couldn't immediately comment.
Alpine Ex-Managers Investigated on Alleged Bankruptcy Fraud
Former managers of Alpine Bau GmbH, the builder that in June filed for Austria's biggest postwar insolvency, are being investigated on allegations of false accounting and bankruptcy fraud, prosecutors said.
Authorities are probing five executives from several Alpine units, Erich Mayer, a spokesman for the white-collar crime department at Vienna's prosecutors office, said by phone yesterday. The investigation follows a complaint by lawyer Eric Breiteneder, who represents holders of Alpine bonds, he said.
Alpine Bau, owned by Spain's Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA, filed for insolvency on June 19 with liabilities of 2.56 billion euros ($3.4 billion). Lawyers are looking at ways to reduce the damage done to the holders of bonds issued by Alpine Holding GmbH, Alpine Bau's parent that also filed for insolvency. The notes have a combined face value of 290 million euros.
If proven guilty, the people investigated face as long as 10 years in jail, Mayer said. He declined to identify the individuals being probed.
FCC, based in Madrid, declined to comment on the probe.
SEC Confronts Filing Backlog as Investors Await Berkshire Report
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it's working to post a backlog of corporate filings on a day when investors await quarterly reports on holdings by investment firms including Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
The SEC's system for receiving documents from companies "remained up and running and able to accept filings throughout the day, in Washington, said
John Nester, an SEC spokesman said yesterday that the SEC's system remained ''up and running'' and able to accept filings throughout the day, ''but dissemination of the filings stopped at 3:43 p.m.'' The dissemination service was restored the backlog was being processed, he said yesterday, without elaborating on what caused the delay.
Institutional money managers overseeing $100 million or more of equities listed on U.S. exchanges must file a Form 13F within 45 days of the end of a quarter. The forms list the number of shares held in each company and the market value of the stake on the period's final trading day. Managers also are required to include information on some convertible debt securities and exchange-traded options.
Yesterday was the deadline for second-quarter filings. While the SEC released 13Fs from firms including Daniel Loeb's Third Point LLC and George Soros's Soros Fund Management LLC minutes before 6 p.m. in New York, the report by Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire, led by Warren Buffett, wasn't posted as of 8 p.m. last night.
Europe Banks Shape Up Five Years After Lehman as ECB Taking Over
Europe's biggest banks are stepping up efforts to boost capital and trim assets as pressure from regulators and investors increases, half a decade after the global financial crisis began.
Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest banks, plans to shrink its balance sheet after turning to shareholders for funds in April, while Barclays Plc, Britain's No. 2 bank, will sell shares to increase capital and cut assets. France's BNP Paribas SA and Germany's Commerzbank AG for the first time published figures on equity as a share of total assets, after regulators focused attention on the measure.
While the Federal Reserve forced the biggest U.S. banks to clean up their balance sheets eight months after the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., European regulators tolerated lower capital levels to keep loans flowing during the sovereign-debt crisis.
U.S. commercial bank assets shrank by 10 percent in 2009 and 2010, while euro-area assets have fallen only 5 percent from peak levels, according to an Ernst & Young LLP report in July.
One reason European banks are showing greater zeal in fortifying their balance sheets is the prospect of tougher oversight from the European Central Bank, which takes charge of euro-area banking supervision next year. The ECB will start reviewing the assets of the biggest lenders in coming months, a process that may accelerate capital raisings as European banks still need to trim balance sheets by as much as 1.5 trillion euros ($2 trillion), Ernst & Young estimated.
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Tribal Online Lenders Ask Banks to Resist Regulatory Pressure
An association of online lenders operated by Native American tribes called on banks to resist pressure from New York State to cut them off from the nation's primary payment system.
The Native American Financial Services Association said the state's regulators are violating the tribes' sovereign immunity when they ask banks to prevent them from making and collecting on short-term, high-cost loans via the Internet, according to a letter written by Barry Brandon, the group's executive director, to more than 100 banks.
The banks include Capital One Financial Corp., Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., PNC Financial Services Group and U.S. Bancorp.
Benjamin Lawsky, the New York superintendent of financial services, on Aug. 6 ordered a group of 35 online lenders, including at least four tribal companies, to cease offering loans in New York. He also sent a letter to 117 banks requesting their assistance to ''choke off" the lenders from the automated clearing house system, the bank-supported network that handles electronic bank account debits.
The doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity limits state interference in Native American governments' actions. Brandon said tribal lending operations are legal, and that New York is "doing an end-run" around the doctrine by pressuring banks and third-party payment processors to sever ties with the tribes.
Brandon also wrote that tribes are considering "the next legal steps" to take regarding the New York actions.
The Department of Justice and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have been pressuring banks to reconsider their relationships with online lenders.
Fed Given Week by Judge to Respond on New Swipe-Fee Rules
The U.S. Federal Reserve was given a week to tell a federal judge its position on immediately rewriting regulations setting debit-card swipe fees in the wake of a court finding the current rule unlawful.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington yesterday ordered Fed General Counsel Scott Alvarez to appear in his courtroom on Aug. 21 after a lawyer for the Fed said it hadn't made any decisions on how to replace the current rule, or whether to appeal the judge's ruling.
Earlier in the hearing, Leon laid out a timeline that would put a final interim rule in place by the end of the month. An interim final rule takes effect immediately before any public comments are accepted.
Yesterday's hearing comes two weeks after retailers battling banks over debit-card transaction costs were handed a victory by Leon in Washington, who said merchants were overcharged billions of dollars under an unlawful swipe fee set by the Fed.
The decision, unless overturned on appeal, will force regulators to revisit rules that bankers said would cost them 45 percent of their swipe-fee revenue.
The case is NACS v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 11-cv-02075, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).
Comings and Goings
Yellen Beats Summers as Likely Fed Chairman in Economist Poll
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen is the most qualified and most likely candidate to run the central bank, according to the majority of private economists in a Bloomberg News survey that showed Lawrence Summers trailing by wide margins in both categories.
Sixty-five percent said Yellen probably will be President Barack Obama's selection to replace Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, while 53 percent said she would do the best job, according to an Aug. 9-13 poll of 63 economists. Twenty-five percent said Summers, Obama's former top economic adviser, would be the nominee, while 10 percent said he would be best. Six percent said former Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn is most likely choice.
The survey results contrast with odds offered by bookmaker Paddy Power Plc, which show Summers is the favorite. Economists are focusing more on leadership continuity than on the political connections underpinning Summers's chances, according to Mark Calabria, an economist and the director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute in Washington.
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The government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac likely will help ease mortgage rates for home buyers, say economists, home builders and housing experts. But it won't cure the housing market's biggest ailments: falling home prices and rising foreclosures.
"This is another marginal step in the right direction," says Richard DeKaser, an economist at National City Corp., a large Cleveland bank. "But it doesn't resolve the glut of homes on the market or remove pressure on prices."
The housing market is stuck in a vicious cycle. It started with an oversupply of homes that eventually caused prices to plummet. Falling prices led to waves of foreclosures, as homeowners ran into problems refinancing their mortgages or selling their houses. Banks are reluctant to lend when home values keep sinking and defaults are rising, curbing housing demand further and fueling more price drops and defaults.
Investors and economists feared that a collapse of Fannie and Freddie would greatly exacerbate the downward spiral by essentially freezing the mortgage market. "The government's move takes that serious disruption to the financial market off the table," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com.
Mr. Zandi says that while the takeover of the mortgage giants won't immediately stop the home-price slide, it should limit price declines to 5% to 10% over the next year, rather than the doomsday scenario of additional declines of 15% to 20% that some economists were predicting if Fannie and Freddie failed or pulled back dramatically.
"That's a big plus and means the financial system has gone a long way in writing down what it needs to," says Mr. Zandi, who until recently was among the housing market's biggest bears.
The most immediate change could come in the form of lower mortgage interest rates. They have remained relatively high -- above 6% -- for much of the past year amid credit-market troubles.
Among its many steps to shore up the mortgage market, Treasury is planning to buy Fannie- and Freddie-issued mortgage-backed securities from the market under a new program to help reduce the gap, or "spread," between yields on these securities and Treasury bonds. That should help lower interest rates on new home loans, making them more affordable for borrowers.
The higher spread means that investors perceive more risk in Fannie and Freddie's securities and therefore are demanding a higher premium in order to buy those securities. The cost of that higher premium can get passed along to the individual home buyer in the form of higher mortgage rates.
In early August, spreads on 30-year mortgage securities rose to 2.5 percentage points above Treasurys, close to their highs in March when worries about a marketwide meltdown were rampant. A year ago that spread was 1.6 percentage points, according to data from FTN Financial. Despite several rate cuts by the Federal Reserve in the past year, the interest rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose to 6.48% in August 2008 from 5.76% in January, according to Freddie data.
Lower mortgage rates may spur some new housing demand, but they won't likely alleviate buyers' concerns about home prices. "The takeover of Fannie and Freddie helps, but I don't think there will be a direct impact on stabilizing house prices," says Larry Sorsby, chief financial officer of Hovnanian Enterprises, HOV -1.60 % a Red Bank, N.J., home builder, which reported its eighth consecutive quarterly loss last week.
Even amid Fannie and Freddie's recent turmoil, Mr. Sorsby says, most of his company's buyers who have decent credit scores, a job and a 5% down payment have been able to obtain mortgages, but the more marginal buyers -- a large segment of the potential home-buying public -- remain shut out of the market.
Mr. Sorsby and some economists doubt the newly bolstered mortgage companies will expand mortgage availability by loosening credit standards for subprime buyers.
Nor are lower mortgage rates expected to relieve many homeowners seeking to refinance their loans before their current rates reset at higher levels. Often, their biggest obstacle to refinancing is that their houses are worth less than their loan amounts or their credit profile is shoddy. The Federal Housing Administration is seeking to refinance such "underwater" borrowers facing resets, but its FHASecure program is aimed at families with strong credit histories, which could leave out many subprime borrowers.
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The best thing we can say about this incredibly mundane daytime moisturizer with sunscreen is that the UVA range is more than covered because it contains avobenzone and ecamsule, also known as Mexoryl SX. L'Oreal continues to hold the patent on Mexoryl, which is why only their brands (of which La Roche-Posay is one) can use it. The base formula is as bland as all of the company's other sunscreens with Mexoryl SX, but this is an OK option for normal to slightly dry or slightly oily skin.
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As federal agencies prepare to update their transparency plans again in April, many of them still have not implemented last year's White House recommendations under the Open Government Directive.
A watchdog group's study shows that only about a third of the agencies appear to have complied with White House transparency recommendations issued in March 2011, which advised agencies to publish staff directories, their reports to Congress and congressional testimony online. Nearly a year later, only 9 out of 29 federal agencies have followed those recommendations, according to the study by OpentheGovernment.org watchdog group.
Agencies fully in compliance with the White House guidance on those three types of documents were the Agency for International Development, Commerce Department, Environmental Protection Agency, General Services Administration, NASA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Management and Budget, State and Treasury, the watchdog group said.
"We urge the Administration to begin making sure agencies are following through on the Administration's commitments, and to direct agencies to make easily available more information that helps people understand what the government is doing and why," OpentheGovernment.org said in a statement.
Amy Bennett, assistant director for the organization, said her organization also has recommended a list of core public documents that agencies should release for greater accountability, which it calls the "Openness Floor." The list includes things like visitor logs, available data sets and notices of upcoming proposed regulations.
"We believe there are core items that all agencies should disclose to ensure consistent transparency, accountability, and informed participation across the government," the Openness Floor states.
However, the Openness Floor recommendations are strictly voluntary for agencies, and it is not clear whether any watchdogs will be auditing whether they are adopted. While Bennett's organization audited how well federal agencies complied with their objectives in the first open government plans in 2010, that will not be possible this year due to limited staff capacity, she said.
Her group is encouraging federal agencies to comply with the White House guidance and to review all their previous open government plans as well to determine how well they performed on their stated objectives.
"The next round of revisions to the open government plans should include reviews of Plan One, with a discussion on 'What did you do? What did you not do? What were the lessons learned?'" Bennett said.
Meanwhile, several federal agencies have announced they are revising and updating their open government plans once again, with public comments due in April.
For example, the Social Security Administration has set up an online public forum allowing the public to present and vote on ideas for open government. To date, 43 proposals have been submitted, with hot topics including an idea for SSA to collaborate with the IRS to identify fraud and another idea that SSA executives should pay more visits to field offices.
The Health and Human Services Department is offering an online survey available to the public on ideas for improving transparency, due by April 9.
Under the administration's Open Government Directive released in December 2009, agencies developed open government plans in April 2010. Many of the agencies updated those plans in mid-2010 and again in 2011 and are now preparing for a third round of updates.
On the other hand, some agencies appear not to be actively soliciting comment to update their open government plans at this time. For example, the Veterans Affairs Department's Open Government Web page has not been refreshed since October 2011.
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People taking "welfare" or "social security" checks should be open to public scrutiny because they are living off of the public's taxes. All taxpayers should have the right to know where their money is going. If it is going to provide security, that should be known as well - though it is reasonable to expect that many of the details may need to be withheld in order to provide decent security. However, "welfare" or "social security" checks are NOT security issues other than preventing them from getting into the wrong hands.
There is openness and there is OPENNESS...there are some things in a government or in a private organization that simply are not OPEN to or subject to vote or conjecture- and remember when we OPEN 1 window to the PUBLIC- we are opening it TO ALL OUR ENEMIES TO ACCESS...every window is a portal to access and "worm" their way into our computers and networks...why PAPER should not be so quickly cast aside...nor the USPS Mail system. Information may still be exchanged and feedback provided...without opening our government up to sabotage or mischief. If this "openness" were to INTERFERE with the issuance of say "welfare" or "social security" checks...then the "public" will be screaming for "security" often times BOTH openness and security cannot coexist at a level of equilibrium. It is time to use more logical thought process rather than emotional whiplashes to bring about changes in all things.
I sure would like to see more open Gevernment at the top. Then I could reasonbly expect the agencies below to not only be more open, but to have that openess be of much use to the public.
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After entering my username and password, when I click "OK", it takes so much time to log in. After that, the system is running fine. Only at the point where I log in, it takes such a long time.
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Most startups go after one vertical or service. When I joined Thumbtack, they were 20 people and they were already serving nine hundred and some service categories across the US. It wasn't another SF thing. It wasn't the textbook approach of get one market right and then scale, they figured out a way to let the demand guide the company where it needed to go. The engineering team is absolutely incredible. They realized early on that growth has to be product and data driven.
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Let's assume that a hacker has already infected an X number of PCs , each one of them is online. How will he actually perform this attack? Just send ping requests or use his very precious tool to do it(Having the risk of it being revealed) ? I do not understand the actual way
one possible way (UDP-Flood/Reflection/Amplification-Attack):
the attacker might use the zombies to invoke amplification/reflection-attacks like the ones performed some days ago link1 / link2; the attack was (probably) a ntp reflection attack
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the same applies for dns-amplification-attacks or any other UDP-based floods
picture taken from Secureworks-Blog DNS Amplification Variation Used in Recent DDoS Attacks


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This can be a great area for strong skiers who like trees and glades who understand that a mom&pop-sized area can't afford a lot of luxury. Unfortunately the managment of this area is very poor. They could do a much better job with the funds they have. One of many examples is that if you're looking for good groomed runs you've come to the wrong place. The experienced groomer operators have long since departed. That and management meddling leaves you with marginal grooming in every regard. Instead of spending the grooming money they have to do a good quality job on fewer runs they wreck many more runs for advanced skiers by making 2 or 3 passes down the middle so that they can say "xx runs groomed to perfection." With a couple of exceptions the runs that are groomed are typically a mess with a lot of flaws, especially ridges. They did a much better job in the old days when they still had a couple of experienced groomers who weren't micro managed by people who don't get it. I wish management would listen but talk to any of the staff and you'll find out quickly that isn't likely. I could go on but you get the idea. Sigh......
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Is there a possible problem with the El Paso deal?
KMP just announced it will close in May. They have to sell some pipelines to get approval. That was expected. El Paso shareholder approved the deal earlier in the week. The last risk was the regulators and now that appears gone.
<< The last risk was the regulators and now that appears gone.>>Can we be sure of that? They could well come up with other objectives if, say for example, Obama sees any risk to his political future as he did with the pipeline project.Also, if they sell all those assets, does that not dilute the value of the merger in the first place?
Just started buyin' boys. Anytime I can get 10% plus on a downdraft from old high, I'm in.dune
Not from the EP side, I don't believe!I had posted this announcement on the board the day it was released.http://articles.boston.com/2012-02-25/business/31098710_1_gas-assets-houston-pipeline-el-pasoSalty
And there you go...http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/15/elpaso-kindermorgan-idUSL2E8EF20O20120315?feedType=RSS&feedName=marketsNews&rpc=43
a little of this for a lot of that. Doesn't seem like much of an issue. There was some noise last week about a federal judge getting all bent out of shape due to Goldman's conflicts in the deal. Anything come of that? At 81, I'm having a garage sale at my house to buy some more.
More details follow. Not a done deal??? Regulatory Steps to Close Acquisition Near Completion HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) today announced it has reached a verbal tentative agreement with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff to divest certain Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) assets in order to receive regulatory approval for its proposed acquisition of El Paso Corporation (NYSE: EP), which was announced in October of 2011. Subject to final FTC management and Commission approval, Kinder Morgan has agreed to sell Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission, Trailblazer Pipeline Company, its Casper-Douglas natural gas processing and West Frenchie Draw treating facilities in Wyoming, and the company's 50 percent interest in the Rockies Express Pipeline. "We would prefer to retain all of these assets, but as we anticipated when the transaction was announced, we must sell certain assets in the Rockies to obtain FTC approval," Chairman and CEO Richard D. Kinder said. "The amount of divestitures is reasonably consistent with our original financial model. We are very excited about the 43,000 miles of El Paso natural gas pipelines that we will be adding to our Kinder Morgan portfolio. In addition, we anticipate significant interest in the Kinder Morgan assets that will be sold, particularly the Rockies Express Pipeline, which was the largest natural gas pipeline to be built in the United States when it was fully completed in 2009. We are nearing the final stages in the regulatory process, and we look forward to becoming the largest midstream and the fourth largest energy company in North America when the acquisition is completed, which is expected to occur in mid to late May."