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Dave Richards: Check out Free Comic Book Day in Erie
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday. Right, I had you at free. Free is always good. Free is never not good. When free also involves comic books, however, that's an occasion that'd make even Bane crack a smile.
About 60 titles will be available at comic book stores globally, if not intergalactically. More than 4 million will be distributed.
Locally, both Books Galore (5546 Peach St.) and Above & Beyond Comics (1126 W. 26th St.) will go above and beyond the call of duty to offer comic book fans a galore of fun options.
At both locations, bringing a nonperishable food item will net you an extra comic. At Books Galore, which collected 500 pounds of food for Second Harvest Food Bank in 2013, you can score a third comic by arriving in a superhero, sci-fi or fantasy-based character costume.
Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Captain America and Morpheus have shown up before. The store also features costumed greeters (as does Above & Beyond).
Books Galore club members, including those who join Saturday, also get an extra comic. The store will also feature live music by Matt "Broke" Boland in the early afternoon, an ice cream truck with shaved-ice samples and face-painting for children.
Above & Beyond plans door prizes and raffles, plus free snacks such as pizza and doughnuts. Also, whichever school district is best represented will receive $300 worth of trade paperbacks and novels for its library.
Coveted comic book titles for 2014? Plenty. For kids, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rocket Raccoon, Hello Kitty, the Smurfs, Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck, and Archie Digest will be available.
Doug Phillips, of Books Galore, and William Kitelinger, of Above & Beyond, agree Guardians of the Galaxy will be in high demand because the Marvel movie based on the comic will be out in August and is already creating a buzz.
They also believe DC Comics' "Futures End," the kickoff of a new series, will be a popular choice. It features Justice League characters, including the Dark Knight, Superman, Aquaman and more, fighting cyborgs in the future.
An Archaia anthology with Mouse Guard, Farscape, Bolivar and more will be released in hardcover form. The company also issued a hardback in 2012.
"It's bigger than the standard comic book; they actually gave out a little novel," Kitelinger said. "It's really high quality. I think it will be real big."
So will the lines. Above & Beyond opens at 8 a.m., Books Galore at 10 a.m.
"It's always our craziest day of the year," Phillips said. "Last year we had a line out the door from 10 to 4."
People wait patiently. Free is free. Free is heroic. Not even a Godzilla sighting would keep people away from Free Comic Book Day.
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Lima Climate Conf Developing nations disappointed
Staff Reporter Experts at a discussion in the city on Wednesday said the outcome of the 20th Conference of Parties (COP 20) held recently in Lima, Peru have disappointed Bangladesh and other developing countries as it failed to deal adequately with adaptation, losses and damage caused by climate change. They said there is no scope for further frustration on the next climate deal to be held in December 2015 in Paris, France. Three organizations -- ActionAid Bangladesh, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)- jointly arranged the discussion on the outcomes of Lima COP20 and duties of Bangladesh for the next conference' at Daily Star Bhaban in the city. Chaired by BCAS Executive Director Dr Atiq Rahman, the event was addressed by ICCCAD director and lead author of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report on Adaptation Dr Saleemul Huq, ActionAid Bangladesh Country Director Farah Kabir and BCAS fellow Golam Rabbani. They said civil society organizations in Bangladesh must engage in a dialogue with other civil society organisations across the world and convey the message that Bangladesh will not accept any unjust and inequitable deal, rather Bangladesh will hold accountable the people of the rich countries for not putting pressure on their governments. They said it is important for the Bangladesh media to connect with the international media to share stories of sufferings and resilience on the issue. Speaking at the event, Dr. Atiq Rahman said there must not be any scope for further disappointment on climate deal in Paris. "We've been expecting that the world leaders will understand the urgency and will listen to the demand of the people living in poverty across the world. But, since Copenhagen, we are being denied of an equitable deal." Dr Saleemul Huq said the Lima decision is a major disappointment as it fails to deal adequately with adaptation and also loss and damage, which the vulnerable developing had asked for. "COP21 in Paris in December 2015 is the last chance for the leaders of the world to show that they are able and willing to tackle a problem of global significance for the people and planet," he added. Farah Kabir said gender equality should be one of the key principles in all the negotiations, policy and intervention in 2015. The keynote paper presented in the event said Lima outcome is heartbreaking for the most vulnerable countries (MVCs) because the finance allocation for adaptation support to MVCs in the next years (pre 2020) has not been clarified. It noted that mitigation commitment from developed and major economies still falls short to achieve 1.5 ° C goal. The Lima outcome also dropped the reference to loss and damage which is very disappointing from the MVC point of view. The USD 10-billion green climate fund over four years is insignificant. Not providing a roadmap to scale up the amount to USD 100 billion by 2020 indicates a lack of commitment, clear thinking and action from developed countries, according to the keynote paper.

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Things to do in Union County on Tuesday, April 15
• The VIA of Cranford will hold its Spring Fling on April 15 at noon, at the Echo Lake Country Club, Springfield Avenue in Westfield. Send a check for $35 to Jackie Ellis, 22 Herning Ave., Cranford NJ 07016. For more information, call 908-272-5866.
• On April 15, Douglas Scholenberger, VP of Public Relations at Verizon will speak at the Westfield Rotary Club. The Westfield Rotary Club meets Tuesdays at noon at the Westfield YMCA.
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Schlessel and Berney's company acquires 'Drive'
Revving up quickly, FilmDistrict has added Ryan Gosling-Carey Mulligan actioner "Drive" to its slate only days after announcing it is teaming with TriStar Pictures for the release of Bethany Hamilton biopic "Soul Surfer."
Peter Schlessel and Bob Berney's new company closed a deal Wednesday for North American rights to "Drive," currently shooting in Los Angeles.
FilmDistrict will market and distribute the pic and is eyeing a fall 2011 release.
"Soul Surfer," which will target families and faith-based auds, opens nationwide on April 15.
Both projects speak to FilmDistrict's goal of turning out titles with wide commercial appeal.
Schlessel is known for his business acumen and eye for movies, including "District 9," which he acquired when heading up Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. He also spearheaded Sony Worldwide's
acquisition of "Soul Surfer" earlier this year.
Berney is equally respected for his marketing expertise, having released "The Passion of the Christ" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, "Drive" is a joint production of OddLot Entertainment and Bold Films, with Marc Platt producing.
Pic, based on the James Sallis novel, is about a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver in Los Angeles' criminal underworld. Having fallen in love with a beautiful neighbor (Mulligan), he agrees to help her ex-con husband and becomes embroiled in a heist gone terribly wrong.
Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Ron Perlman and Christina Hendricks also star. Hossein Amini penned the adapted script.
"The strength of Amini's riveting script and Refn's exceptional directorial skills have attracted an amazing cast," Schlessel said.
Deal was negotiated by Schlessel and WME's Graham Taylor.
Brian O'Shea's Affinity Intl. is repping foreign rights. Domestic deal with FilmDistrict will come in handy for O'Shea as he shops the project at the American Film Market.
Producers are Platt, Gigi Pritzker, Michel Litvak, Adam Siegel and John Palermo. David Lancaster, Gary Michael Walters, Bill Lischak and Linda McDonough exec produce.


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The Avenger
Police Say Luke Woodham, Accused of Killing Three in Pearl, Miss., May Have Been Part of a Plot That Was Larger, Stranger and Even More Deadly
In fact, the bloodshed was just the beginning. On the morning of Oct. 1, Luke Woodham, a 16-year-old sophomore, entered Pearl High School with a .30-30 hunting rifle and opened fire, police say, killing two students and wounding seven others. His 11-minute rampage was terrible enough. But police investigators claim that since then they have uncovered evidence that Woodham did not act alone. They say that six other Pearl-area teenagers—mostly good students on the social fringes—were involved in what seems a feverish plot to rid themselves of their enemies and win the respect they felt they deserved.
Allegedly known as the Kroth, perhaps a name culled from satanic verses, the group, according to police, was under the control of Grant Boyette, an 18-year-old former student at Pearl High. As authorities tell it, Boyette was a "self-proclaimed satanist," admired Adolf Hitler and fancied himself "the father," with Luke Woodham as his pawn. At a preliminary hearing last week, criminal investigator Greg Eklund alleged that "[Boyette] was the one that called the shots."
The notion of a dime-store führer inspiring apostles of terror, along with prosecution allegations that the group practiced satanism as a cult, has continued to send ripples of apprehension through the community and beyond. One neighboring school district canceled a pep rally out of fear that kids would be shot by members of the group who have yet to be arrested—though police have not suggested that there are any. Said one Pearl-area resident, Ricky Blailock, father of a 15-year-old daughter, to the Los Angeles Times: "It's the grip of evil is what it is."
Whatever else it was, Woodham's murderous foray that Wednesday morning at Pearl High was surpassingly brutal. The teenager arrived at the school around 7:55 a.m., wearing a baggy overcoat. As he strolled into the school's commons area, where students gather each morning to socialize, he walked up to sophomore Christina Menefee, 16, pulled a hunting rifle from beneath his coat and shot her fatally in the neck.
Methodically he began moving through the commons, shooting his victims as students and teachers hid or fled screaming. One of those hit was Lydia Dew, 17, killed with a bullet in the back. "He was so cool and calm. I saw him shoot a kid, and he ejected the shell," says assistant principal Joel Myrick. "He was walking along, thumbing fresh rounds into the side port of the rifle."
As swiftly and inexplicably as it began, the rampage was over. Woodham turned and headed back outside while Myrick, 36, a commander in the Army reserves, sprinted to his own truck and retrieved the .45 automatic he kept there. Spotting Woodham near the parking lot, he shouted for him to stop. Instead, Woodham got into his car and tried to drive away, but he lost control and came to a stop as Myrick raced up to him. "I could see him sitting there, holding on to the steering wheel, his knuckles white, those glasses on him," recalls Myrick. Putting the muzzle of his handgun to Woodham's neck, he ordered him out and held him until police arrived. "I kept asking him why, why, why," says Myrick. "He said, 'Mr. Myrick, the world has wronged me.' " Later, when authorities went to Woodham's home, they found his mother, Mary Ann Woodham, 50, dead. She had been repeatedly stabbed with a knife.
At first, for want of a better explanation, authorities were inclined to regard the killing spree as the work of a spurned would-be boyfriend, since, a year before, Christina Menefee had gone out a few times with Woodham. A bright, popular girl who excelled at math and biology and took part in Junior Naval ROTC, Christina apparently felt kindly toward Woodham, a solid A and B student who was frequently the target of taunting and ridicule from other classmates for his pudginess and shy, introverted manner. "Christy was always for the underdog," says her father, Bob, who retired from the Navy in 1989 and now works repairing restaurant equipment. "Luke was not a real popular kid, I guess." Adds Christina's stepmother, Annette: "It seemed to me the more the other girls said they disliked him, the more Christy started leaning toward him."
In any case, the couple dated only briefly, though Woodham was plainly infatuated. A year ago, Christina broke off the relationship, telling him she wanted to see other boys. She took care, though, to let him down gently, and afterward there was no hint of trouble.
The murder of Woodham's mother was even more puzzling. Mary Ann, who had been divorced for five years and worked as a receptionist at a food company, seemed a concerned if over-protective parent. The Menefees recall that when Luke came to see Christina, he always brought his mother, which they thought was just Southern custom. Luke seemed to suffer his mother's presence with only occasional hints of impatience. Once, when he and Christy were sitting together on the family love seat, says Bob Menefee, Mary Ann asked, " 'Do you think y'all sitting close enough?' " Luke took Christy's hand and replied, " 'We're doing just fine, Mom,' " says Menefee. "It kind of struck me as a little bit of animosity possibly, but nothing you could put your finger on."
Within a day of the killings, stories began to circulate in town of a "hit list" of kids from prominent families whom Woodham had allegedly targeted. Police denied that there was any formal list, and it appears that Lydia Dew, who came from a modest background, was herself the object of teasing from students. But Mayor Foster confirms that his son Kyle, who had gotten into a shoving match with Woodham recently, had been singled out for killing. "I wasn't really picking on him," says Kyle, a tight end on the Pearl football team. "He would pick with me, and I'd pick back at him." By a stroke of good fortune, Kyle was late for school the day of the murders.
It is unclear exactly what led police to Boyette, a first-year student at nearby Hinds Community College, but on Oct. 7 authorities rounded up him, Wesley Brownell, 17, Donald Brooks II, 17, Allen Shaw; 18, and Justin Sledge, 16, charging all of them with conspiracy to commit murder. Another teen, Lucas Thompson, 16, was arrested and held as a juvenile in connection with the killings. According to investigators, the seven youths had been talking about an attack on the school since the beginning of the year, often meeting at Woodham's home to discuss their plans.
Their motto, said investigator Eklund at the preliminary hearing, was, "We cannot move forward until all our enemies are gone," but their goal was power and money. To that end, he said, they hatched a scheme to set fires at the school using homemade napalm and to cut the phone lines. Their alleged intention was to stage the assault on the school, then escape to Louisiana and Mexico and finally make their way to Cuba. As for claims that Boyette had been fascinated with satanism since 1993, Pearl Police Chief Bill Slade is mum on whether his investigation has been able to confirm that the friends were part of a cult.
Some, however, exhibited unusually fervent religious beliefs, as well as a taste for half-baked philosophy and mythology. Boyette, for one, comes from a deeply spiritual family; his father, Marshall, who works in the computer field, and his mother, Lark, an elementary school teacher, were founding members of a local Baptist church. Boyette himself often wore a dress shirt and tie to school, explaining to friends it was the "Christian" way to dress.
Lea Ann Dew, 18, Lydia's sister, recalls that when Boyette would come into the cafeteria, usually with a buddy. Rick Brown, other students would fall silent, knowing the two were about to launch into a prayer. Even in Bible Belt Pearl, such devotion in the lunchroom was considered unusual. "They always sat at the end of the table," says Lea Ann. "Rick would mumble a few words—Praise God, stuff like that—and then everyone in the room would go back to eating."
Boyette and fellow defendant Justin Sledge reportedly took a particular interest in the works of the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who devoted much effort to exploring the moral gray area between right and wrong. But, according to Brown, Boyette's real hero was Hitler. "Grant liked Adolf Hitler a whole lot and admired his tactics," Brown told the preliminary hearing, testifying against his friend. "[He liked] the way he could influence people."
As a patsy to be influenced, Wood-ham would seem to have been made to order. Shortly before his own arrest, Sledge tried to explain his friend's feelings of resentment, especially at the way athletic and social achievement counted for more at school than academics, which Woodham saw as his strength. "[Woodham] was tired of society dealing the thinkers, the learners a bad hand," Sledge told a Jackson television station, and "watching Johnny football player get the glory when in actuality he does nothing."
What's more, police say they have uncovered a manuscript, ostensibly written by Woodham, that expresses ferocious anger and talks openly about taking revenge on those he believed had slighted him. "I killed because people like me are mistreated every day," he is said to explain in one page of the document (which prosecutors are terming a "manifesto") that was given by Sledge to reporters. "I did this to show society—'Push us and we will push back.' I suffered all my life. No one ever truly loved me. No one ever truly cared about me."
At the preliminary hearing, investigator Eklund testified that Boyette had goaded Woodham into becoming the trigger man for the plot. Referring to Christina Menefee, said Eklund, Boyette had advised Woodham that "he should just kill her and be done with her so he'd never have to see her again." Eklund also maintained that Boyette had carefully prepared Woodham for the murders. The investigator cited a passage from the "manifesto" in which Woodham described, in sickening detail, the torture and killing of his own dog Sparkle.
"On Saturday of last week, I made my first kill," read Eklund. "The victim was a loved one, my dear dog Sparkle." The document tells how Woodham and an accomplice, whom Eklund testified he had reason to believe was Boyette, first beat Sparkle savagely with clubs, then stuffed her in several plastic garbage bags. "I will never forget the howl she made," read Eklund. "It sounded almost human. We laughed and hit her more." Then they doused the sack with lighter fluid and set it on fire before hurling it into a pond. The sight of the sinking bag, said the author, was "true beauty."
Lawyers for Boyette argued at the hearing that there is no evidence linking him directly to any crimes. In all likelihood, they will maintain that anything he may have said about acts of violence was mere grandiose chatter. The attorneys also produced witnesses who testified to his good character. "What I saw was a kid very smart, very shy, very obedient," said Billy Baker, who had been Boyette's Sunday school teacher at Crossgates Baptist Church. "He was more a follower-type person than a leader."
Certainly, if police accounts are to be believed, he badly misjudged his own presumed followers' commitment to violence. In the past week, three of the five other defendants arrested in connection with the plot have had their bail drastically reduced or have been released on their own recognizance. (At midweek, Thompson was still in a juvenile facility.) Police now say the three are cooperating with the investigation. Only Boyette, Sledge and Woodham, who are being held without bond, are still behind bars.
If convicted, they could face life in prison. Meanwhile, the people of Pearl are trying to sift fact from rumor and hoping to master their fears. "I don't think, as a community, we'll start healing until this case is closed and police come out and say, 'This is what happened, and this is why it happened,' " says Mayor Foster. "At that point there is some closure for it." He pauses a moment, then adds quietly, "We won't ever get over it."
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band's first appearance in the United States, "Classical Mystery Tour" is a tribute to The Beatles, with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and conductor Martin Herman, making two stops at local theaters this weekend.
Songs will include "Yesterday," "I Am the Walrus" and "Penny Lane."
8 p.m. tonight at NJPAC (Prudential Hall), One Center St., Newark. Tickets $20 to $88; Call (800) 255-3476 or visit njsymphony.org.
3 p.m. Sunday at State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick; tickets $20 to $88. Call (732) 246-7469 or visit statetheatrenj.org.
— Amy Kuperinsky
Jazz singer and winner of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition Cyrille Aimee performs at William Paterson University this Sunday as part of the Jazz Room Series.
New to jazz? She'll be a guest for an informal discussion about the music starting at 3 p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing Arts. The concert begins at 4 p.m., 300 Pompton Rd., Wayne. Tickets are $15, $12 seniors, $8 students, free for William Paterson students. Additional $3 charge on the day of the show, call (973) 720-2371 or visit wpunj.edu
— Ronni Reich
'I Heart Maplewood'
Maplewood Village, one of the state's most charming business districts, will host I Heart Maplewood Village today.
It's a day of Valentine's fun, with the chance to win more than $300 in gift certificates from village merchants. Twenty two of them will hide hand-painted hearts on their premises; find the heart and record its hiding spot on the sheet you can find online.
When you find at least 10 hearts, drop off your entry at Coda Kitchen & Bar. The drawing will be held at 5 p.m. at Coda.
For more information and an entry sheet, visit maplewoodvillagenj.com.
— Peter Genovese
The Tony-winning musical "Memphis," which was inspired by legendary DJ Dewey Phillips, will play at the State Theatre in New Brunswick at 11 Livingston Ave. today at 3 and 8 p.m. The musical follows a mixed-race couple struggling to survive during the early Civil Rights era in Memphis. It was written by Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan and Teaneck-born Joe DiPietro.
Tickets are $35 to $75. Visit newbrunswicktheater.com or call (732) 246-7469.
— Janelle Griffith
Blind Boys of Alabama
Gospel greats the Blind Boys of Alabama come to Union County on Sunday.
The winners of multiple Grammys, also members of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, started playing in the 1940s.
3 p.m. at Kean University's Enlow Hall, 215 North Ave., Hillside. Tickets $35 to $45; call (908) 737-7469 or visit enlowhall.kean.edu/seasontickets.
— Amy Kuperinsky
In a new program called "Egg-zibit: The Art, Science and Culture of Eggs," the Morris Museum examines "the mysteries and marvels of the egg".
There's decorated eggs, egg puppets and carved eggs — 75 eggs altogether. Learn about egg nutrition and animals that hatch from eggs, then take an egg quiz.
In the spirit of egg art, the museum invited students and artists, including Advanced Placement art students from Morris Hills Regional High School, to adorn wooden eggs that will be showcased all over Morristown.
On Feb. 21, at 10 a.m., there will be a "tot tour" of the exhibit, for children ages 2 to 5. Attractions in coming weeks (date to be announced) will include a Ukrainian egg-decorating ("pysanky") demo with the Somerset Ukrainian Cultural Center and a family festival day on April 5.
The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday; adults $10, children $7. The exhibit runs through April 20; 6 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown.
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LANSING, MI -- High school football concludes today, so naturally it's time to turn our attention to hoops.
That's right: It's basketball season in the Capital area, the same region that brought you Earvin "Magic" Johnson, the Vincent brothers and, more recently, the Valentine dynasty.
We'll be covering basketball just like we did football, and a regular Game of the Week poll will be the centerpiece of that coverage. You heard right: You, the readers, will once again be telling us where to go on Friday nights.
The popular statewide Game of the Week polls will remain, but we're adding 10 new regional polls, just like we did for football.
And remember: Game of the Week is more than just a title.
We'll write a preview about the winning game and the vote, and every MLive.com Game of the Week will be staffed with two reporters to provide live coverage, a live chat, a preview, a game story, stats and more.
Upgrades to our phone apps will let you join those chats from the court this winter, and we hope you'll share on-the-spot information from other games as well as your comments about the Game of the Week.
Here are the links to the apps: iPhone and Android.
There may be rare instances when we might overrule the vote if there are technical or facility challenges, or we sense a scam of some sort.
So here we go, for the first time this season. You have five choices for our inaugural MLive.com Lansing Game of the Week in basketball -- two of the options are girls games. All three Lansing city high schools, each of whom own impressive history, are in contention.
The first Game of the Week is played on Friday, Dec. 7, so you have some extra time to vote this time around. The poll closes next Saturday at noon.
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OP, thanks for the detailed response to my question, I got it via email notification even if it doesn't show up on the thread. My oh my it's a complicated affair full of smoke and mirrors eh? I'm similarly astounded by the deceit and gullibility, the more so the more I learn about this 'business'. Borderline criminal it would often seem. Your explanation of the situation seems pretty plausible, and it's good to hear a well thought out take on things. I must say, I do find the behind the scenes operation of the financial world a fascinating subject.
I will spend a bit of time on stockchartsdotkom, thanks for the pointer. I'm still a fundamental/value investor at heart and I don't mind holding stocks I invest in for years until value outs. You can claim that fundamentals aren't linked to SP but I don't believe that for my time frame. Step back, forget the technicals and in the long term a company that makes money and has a future will see it's SP rise eventually, regardless of short term sentiment/manipulation. I'm sure you can make more money trading the ups and downs with your expertise, but I don't have the time or knowledge currently. You must have spent a lot of time on this in your life to develop such an understanding of the game!! Kudos to you for that. My purpose in learning more about TA is to help me with entry and exit strategy to maximise returns.
I'm guessing that today isn't the retest, as it doesn't look like getting close enough (so far) to 6.55, but I will be watching for it.
You can credit the shorts who got short on the rumour day all you want, I still think they're twits for posting their one liners. Can I ask you, do you think that their negative posts affect the SP to their benefit? I can only imagine that is their purpose in posting the drivel on here, to try and affect sentiment some way which will help their position? Maybe I'm wrong but surely what's posted on here has zero affect on the price action of a multi million dollar corporation? But why else do they post? I'm curious to hear your thoughts on that.
In real life or on internet forums, I don't have any time for people who won't/can't back up what they say. It's like having a room full of toddlers shouting for toys.
I would contend they post as they do for an alternate purpose, to get a rise out of other posters. They post things that will get people mad or emotional which results in additional dumb replies back. They know they are frustrating people and that is what motivates them. It's like the guy who gets upset when people pick on him. Once they see they got him upset then the taunters become more and more relentless to see how worked up the person gets. The "so-called shorts", and I really don't believe they are short, are posting as they do because they know there are a lot of empotional and hurt people who have seen their money disappear as the stock drops. Ignore them and their posts will disappear because their motivation for making the posts will also disappear.
I agree with you that if the company continues to grow and make money then the stock price will reflect that at some future point no matter how much manipulation or short term movement there is currently. There is an added risk, however, if the company makes changes because of stock price performance which negatively impacts the business long term.
We will never know if onepoint truly profits far greater on technicals then a good long-term investor profits from their investments. I have used a strategy for a long time that gives me the returns I desire with the risk tolerance I can accept. I have never met a technical trader who has performed better with the same or less risk tolerance that I desire. Certainly I am open to learning different techniques and trying them out on paper trading systems. I appreciate that he shared some resources in a former post. If it can be incorporated into my strategy, or perhaps entirely change my perspective, to make better returns then I will be grateful.
Thanks for your thoughts Corey. Getting a rise out of people may be their primary objective I suppose. I find that a bit hard to believe but then maybe that's because that sort of behaviour is so far removed from my own mindset. Anyway, agreed that it's best to ignore them, unfortunately it doesn't seem to make their posts disappear (Yahoo probably does a better job of that!!!)! I couldn't really care if they're long or short but shame on them if that really is their motivation.
The risk of the company changing strategy due to declining SP is certainly a valid one. Here's a question, do you think a company is best ignoring it's share price/stock market performance and concentrate on day to day business, or should it acknowledge SP issues and try and tackle them? SKUL certainly seems to be taking the former option to date! Who knows, necessity being the mother of invention, perhaps the SP troubles may provide more incentive/drive to management to keep the company going full steam ahead and eventually prove the shorts wrong. Or maybe that's the job of all these free bar parties I keep hearing about!
From my experience, OP has been nothing but helpful to anyone that's asked so props to him for that. As for strategy, you hit the nail on the head when you say, as long as you get your desired return, for a risk level acceptable to you, that's what's important. Long/Short/TA/Value/Growth is all much of a muchness, whatever floats your boat as they say.
I think they might be trying to get off the ground now...
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Modern art merged with movie art last night at New York's Guggenheim Museum, where director and star Ed Harris unveiled his pet project "Pollack," a screen bio of colorful but troubled abstract painter Jackson Pollack, before -- what else? -- an arty crowd. Among the recognizable faces were Harris's costar in the flick, Marcia Gay Harden, Victoria's Secret model Stephanie Seymour and Broadway's current "The Music Man," Craig Bierko -- recently named by PEOPLE as the Sexiest Guy on the Great White Way. Asked how that has affected his life, Bierko told PEOPLE last night, "I can't say a single bad thing has happened from it, other than the teasing." For Harris ("Apollo 13") and his new movie, however, part of how his life had to change was gaining 30 pounds in order to play Pollack for the latter part of the movie. Even harder, the actor, who turns 50 next week, told PEOPLE, was having to learn how to paint convincingly for the camera. "I just spent a lot of time, when I had the time, exploring different techniques," he said. "You go through some kind of slow metamorphosis where you think you can actually create something." The paintings done by Harris in the film certainly LOOK like the genuine article. "You can actually fool yourself," Harris admitted.


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perception that virtualization can trigger performance issues.
"Having worked with virtualization, I can say that performance
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"I say `almost' because there are a few applications that
(are) not suitable for virtualization," solgae1784 added, noting
that in such cases "you will see `near native' performance due to
overhead - even if the overhead is supposedly very small."
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machines. "Be warned that newer CPUs are much better for
virtualization than the older CPUs," according to solgae1784.
"The bottom line is, if you're going for virtualization, you may
need to buy new servers. Make sure you do your homework to see if the
initial investment will pay off in the long run. Then again, your
servers may be due for a hardware refresh anyways."
quote: VMware calls this FT, or fault tolerance, and it is much more complicated than VMotion. The CPU instructions are mirrored on each VM. If the primary VM fails the secondary picks up at the point the first left off. It's more responsive than traditional clustering, but also more wasteful as it "runs" on the secondary host.
quote: Says who? With quad cores and quad sockets you can get 16 cores in a server. That's enough to run 48 single CPU VMs, 24 dual CPU VMs, and four quad CPU VMs with no performance penalty. The typical dual socket quad core server runs 16-20 VMs on average, with a mixture of single and dual core VMs. One client runs 300 VMs on 16 blades in a single chassis, with clusters spread across four blade chassis.
quote: WTF are you talking about? SAS drives are standard in all servers, and have replaced SCSI drives in SANs, as well. FC is slowly loosing market share to SAS. And there is no enterprise SATA drive that compares to SAS, not in terms of performance or reliability.
quote: WHAT?!? Ask any storage administrator and he or she will tell you a SAN is THE highest performing storage solution to date, and easier to manage than internal storage. Any bottleneck is the result of poor planning or tight wallets. A key point is that a SAN can support FC, iSCSI or NFS, and some do all simultaneously. In other words, you will always use a SAN, or suffer the consequences of poor performance and limited data mobility.
quote: That all depends on the company. Anyway, I was presenting an example. Lord 666 figured out that you need to calculate your IOPS before virtualizing.
quote: Maybe, maybe not. A business that starts with 5 physical servers that cost $3K each will need at least two virtual host platforms at $10K that can run at least 5 VMs. Then you need shared storage, so you go with a low end SAN. The client doesn't have a SAN, having used local storage all this time, so you pick out something that runs $15K (they go as low as $3K, but you're sacrificing storage and performance.) We haven't even bought virtualization software yet, and we're already spending $10K more to build the infrastructure.
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Before European hostilities, the United States was so dependent on Germany for synthetic drugs that the dependence was considered a necessity; this was strikingly manifested by the precipitous rise in prices immediately after the embargo was declared against Germany. Since then the shortage of German-made synthetics has caused two important results: 1. The physician can do without most of the German drugs, because the pre-war demand had been stimulated artificially. 2. Those few synthetics, which were in great need, are being rapidly replaced by the American-made drugs.1 In connection with the second result, the Chemical Laboratory of the American Medical Association has endeavored to contribute its services.
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TUPELO – Film buffs and friends of Mantachie native Casey Spradling honored their friend at the Link Centre on Sunday. Spradling, 31, collapsed and died July 18, while in Jackson working on the film, "The Hollars."
Casey Dillard and Glenn Payne met Spradling about five years ago through working with West of Shake Rag, Tupelo's improv comedy troupe. They said his personality and drive enabled him to be successful at what he loved.
"We were filming a movie and using him as part of the crew, and it became apparent very quickly that he was someone you wanted to have around. He was such a creative person, a storyteller, whether he was producing something or just having a conversation with you," Dillard said.
Looking around at Spradling's photography that lined the walls, Payne agreed.
Payne said Spradling's work ethic gained him a reputation that led to work for ESPN, the Food Network, American Idol, and more. Spradling also took part in over two dozen films.
"He was one of the hardest workers I've ever met," he said. "He could mix and mingle with anyone."
After reminiscing over food provided by local restaurants, a live auction was held to benefit the Casey Spradling Memorial Endowment Fund, to provide awards and grants for filmmakers, as well as the Casey Spradling Memorial Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarships for filmmakers.
Following the auction, friends and relatives of Spradling shared their memories, while a slideshow of Spradling's films and YouTube videos were displayed in the Link Centre's Black Box theater throughout the event.
Contributions to the endowment and scholarship unds should be written to the CREATE Foundation Inc., at P.O. Box 1053, Tupelo, MS 38802, and should be specifically noted to go to either the scholarship or endowment fund.


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The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer
The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer
1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God�s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne.
4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God�s people, went up before God from the angel�s hand.
5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
The Trumpets
The Trumpets
6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned�up.
8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water�
11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: �Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!�
2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.
6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
8 Their hair was like women�s hair, and their teeth were like lions� teeth.
9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God.
14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, �Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.�
15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood�idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
The Angel and the Little Scroll
The Angel and the Little Scroll
1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.
2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,
3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke.
4 And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, �Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.�
5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven.
6 And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, �There will be no more delay!
7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.�
8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: �Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.�
9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, �Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but �in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.�[b] �
10 I took the little scroll from the angel�s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.
11 Then I was told, �You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.�
Top 10 sermons on Revelation 8
- Go Into Your Room, Close The Door And Pray
- The Revelation Of Jesus Christ – Chapter 8
- Terrible Trumpets (Part 1)
- Invasion From Hell [End Times / Tribulation]
- Silence in Heaven
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Some recent BlueMauMau pundits have gone so far as to theorize that our motives have to do with a takeover of the company. This is pure balderdash. It is clear that Quiznos' plans are to take the company public and launch an IPO. Those who will benefit most include the 50 or so companies that hold stock in the current privately-held Quiznos Corporation, and private equity firms, such as Mr. Brenneman's. The TSFA has no financial stake in this future chain of events.
There are no hidden agendas by the TSFA, although in order to divert attention from the facts, we have been accused by Quiznos of possessing them.
The TSFA board is not self-serving. We are all volunteer franchisees, working without compensation, much to Quiznos' chagrin. Our goal has always been to secure the rights of all the franchisees in the system and to make sure that the franchisees are making a decent profit based on our individual investments, plain and simple. We also expect to have a voice in the current and future direction of this chain, since without franchisees, this chain is nothing but a concept (the corporation only owns approximately 2 stores out of nearly 5000). Our TSFA President and his wife alone have combined over two decades worth of experience with Quiznos. Mr. Brenneman has a few scant months.
Unfortunately, a professional relationship was impossible to establish with the previous management team, despite our best efforts. Instead, our complaints were met with legal responses in what appeared to be an effort to silence us. We have yet to establish a professional relationship with the current management team.
It is always difficult to reason with unreasonable people, and this was the case in the past. Before the TSFA publicized the problems in this chain, we attempted to communicate with corporate via numerous letters and emails over the years, to create a dialogue to resolve issues. All of these attempts were ignored. The TSFA sent a letter to JPMorgan as well, once they purchased a major share of the chain. Quiznos responded with numerous lawsuits against several TSFA Board Members and TSFA members. The response to speaking out in the past was to get slapped with a lawsuit, regardless of the validity of your claims. Legal action on our part, by its very nature and expense, was a last-resort-effort to fix the problems in the chain and to give restitution to franchisees that were casualties of the previous management team.
We believe that Mr. Brenneman has made some limited progress in making the obvious changes that the TSFA has been advocating for years. Unfortunately, so far, it is much too little, and for many facing bankruptcy, much too late. Mr. Brenneman has also improved communications with franchisees in small ways; something the previous management team had failed to do at all. However, the corporation still fails to recognize the TSFA as the only independent U.S. franchisee representation, despite the significant number of franchisees we represent and the fact that we continue to grow.
Communications are still ad hoc across the Quiznos system. We encounter franchisees almost daily with issues for which they can't get a response from Quiznos. There is no permanent and reliable communications system in place. Many franchisees fear that the short-term changes, just represent "putting lipstick on a pig", for the benefit of an eventual IPO.


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Southern Railway announced cancellation of some trains in its Palakkad division to carryout maintenance work.
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Daniel Kristall backed his Leeds Maccabi 2nds side to finish their season on a high.
Leeds Maccabi 2nds rocketed up the table into fifth spot after collecting back-to-back wins.
This second-half comeback victory was sealed thanks to braces from Richard Black and Mark Korn before Jonny Goldstone weighed in.
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More Business of Being Born – The First Episodearianne
You may or may not have heard that Ricki Lake is coming out with a followup to her documentary The Business of Being Born. It's called More Business of Being Born, and instead of a feature length film it will be 4 one hour episodes containing various interviews and insights into natural birth.
I was able to see the first episode –
it's a lengthy interview with the midwife of all midwives Ina May Gaskin and some of the other midwives on The Farm (the sustainable living community where they practice). The interview shows interesting photo and video history of The Farm's first years, as it's commune days in the 70's. The episode is not just about natural birth or home birth, but asks deeper questions such as why the induction rate in the U.S. is so high, how the maternal mortality rate is out of control for our industrialized nation and what is causing mothers to die, and also shares some insight from the midwives as far as their theories on autism. I found it to be engaging and inspiring and I couldn't help but wish it was longer!
I really enjoyed this peek inside The Farm and Ina May herself, it was fun to see her true hippie side but also the researcher she is at heart. I would love to know what you think when you watch the episode – the full DVD set isn't available for purchase until early November, but the first episode is available to rent online at their website for a limited time (just until Sept. 12th). Click below to rent and watch! (Click here to see when the next episodes will be available to rent)


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Possibly the least-admirable of all American universities. Located in a barren wasteland in the middle of America originally intended to be used as a gigantic landfill, students rally around a fictional bird.
Hey! Mizzou just stomped KU again!
The Antlers piss off KU fans a lot.
The Antlers piss off KU fans a lot.
από B-C 9 Σεπτέμβριος 2006
ku is the worst school in the world....their sports teams suck...and mizzou is better
ku will lose to mizzou 24 to 14 this football season
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Internet slang for a noobish and foolish internet user who messes things up on daily basis. They can usually be seen spamming or ruining conversion on forums
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A friend
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Ku means your a bitch ass nigga or a pussy.
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Fire crews were called to a house fire in Midwest City on Thursday.
The fire was reported at 2328 N. Towry Dr. at about 3 p.m.
Fire officials said there were dogs and cats inside the home. There have been no reports of injuries.
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LONG BRANCH &mdash A Long Branch man admitted that killed his girlfriend in their home last year by strangling her, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press.
Noel Montes Lopez, 34, of Westbourne Avenue admitted to killing his 33-year-old girlfriend, Yesenia Hernandez Osorio, after the two got into a heated argument, the report said.
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Preview of the Year 2012 – Part III: Spirits
By Euromonitor International | 31 January 2012
The spirits category is up next in this, the third part of just-drinks' first management briefing of 2012. Here, Spiros Malandrakis and Jeremy Cunnington, alcoholics drinks analysts at Euromonitor International, ponder the future for the stronger stuff.
David versus Goliath
While mainstream brands can - and will - flex their financial muscle in a flurry of diversification initiatives, promotional activities and special discounts, small batch varietals will make waves that will be disproportionally greater than their respective size.
Following in the footsteps of the surging, irreverent and ground-breaking craft beer segment, micro-distilleries will gain momentum and secure strong sales amidst the general gloom overshadowing the majority of Western markets. Craftsmanship, heritage and a convincing narrative will also be increasingly highlighted in revamped mainstream brands.
A Flavour of Controversy
Products like Tennessee Honey and Red Stag have infused the spirits category with much more than subtly sweet and accessible flavours. They have provided an irreverent take on traditionally conservative product positioning, while expanding consumer appeal beyond a typically loyal yet inevitably stagnant core consumer following.
Quirky, experimental and increasingly more premium minded takes on the tried and tested proposition for flavour sophistication stand to subversively infect more key categories beyond vodka, the usual suspect. Spiced rum, Bourbon and gin can all spearhead the offensive.
Beam Inc - The Centre of Attention?
2012 is likely to be a busy year in the world of spirits. How busy will depend on what happens to Beam Inc now that it is a separate entity listed on the stock market and highly vulnerable to takeover. If a takeover and break-up of the company does occur, it will not happen until the latter part of 2012 at the earliest as the two companies that would most likely initiate the acquisition, Diageo and Pernod Ricard, will not be ready until then.
There is, however, a very good chance that any such acquisition would not happen until at least 2013. Pernod Ricard is the company most likely to acquire Beam's two major brands, Jim Beam and Sauza Tequila. Diageo is likely to come to some arrangement with Grupo Cuervo regarding tequila, while it is unlikely to acquire Jim Beam as the company would face anti-trust issues in Australia and the brand would not help it with its goal of developing its emerging market revenues. Thus, Pernod Ricard, with its still very high level of debt, may gamble and decide to wait until 2013 to pay down more of its debt, particularly if the economic climate continues to remain uncertain.
Whenever the break-up of Beam happens, there will be a plethora of international and local companies looking to pick up unwanted brands. The main international companies are likely to be Bacardi, Campari, William Grant & Sons, Brown-Forman and Rémy Cointreau. At a local level, companies such as Sazerac in North America and Varma in Spain could be beneficiaries.
Plenty Going on, if Beam Remains Independent
Even if nothing happens to Beam in 2012, there could still be plenty of other corporate activity. Mergers and acquisitions will be limited as companies prepare their positions for when a move for Beam Inc is made, but companies will be making continued efforts to push into emerging markets to reduce their reliance on struggling Western markets, with both Bacardi and Diageo making further moves in India and Pernod Ricard in Latin America.
One possible exception to the limit on acquisitions could be the resolution of the relationship between Diageo and Grupo Cuervo. Diageo's distribution deal with the world's largest tequila producer ends in June 2013 and negotiations have been ongoing, with Diageo at the very least wanting an equity stake in Grupo Cuervo. With Diageo able to use the leverage of its possible acquisition of Sauza Tequila, one would expect at least a deal similar to that struck with Nolet Spirits for Ketel One (a 50:50 joint venture).
Another possible exception to the waiting could be Rémy Cointreau which mentioned in its half-year results in November 2011 that it was looking for acquisitions of up to €800 million.
Regional Acquisitions
On a more regional level, there could be activity with Roust Inc acquiring Eastern Europe's biggest and the world's eighth largest spirits producer by volume, CEDC, which despite its size has been struggling recently. Roust bought a 10% stake in the troubled company in November 2011 and has submitted a plan to CEDC to take up to a 30% stake in the company, which at the time of writing was being considered by the Polish-based company.
In addition to this, French-based Belvédère, which is still in huge financial difficulty, is likely to sell off some of its brands in order to repay creditors. Those most likely to go are its French-focused brands, led by William Peel blended Scotch. These brands would most likely appeal to those emerging market companies looking to expand into higher-value mature markets and also gain more premium brands.
The category to watch is Irish whiskey and its three major brands, Pernod's Jameson, William Grant's Tullamore Dew and Diageo's Bushmills. Beam's acquisition of Cooley Distillery at the end of 2011 will not have any impact on these three major brands due to the Irish company's minor share in the category and the time it will take Beam to get to grips with the acquisition.
Historically, the category has been driven by the Jameson brand, but with William Grant owning Tullamore Dew and Diageo making Bushmills one of its key strategic brands, Pernod Ricard could face some tougher competition. William Grant has already started pushing Tullamore Dew in key markets via its Irish True campaign in 2011. It will be interesting to see what Diageo does with Bushmills in 2012. We can also then perhaps begin to answer the question as to whether there is more to the Irish whiskey category than just Jameson.
Click here for part two and here for part four of this management briefing. The contents page can be found here.
Sectors: Spirits
Companies: Sazerac Co, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Ricard, Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Bacardi Ltd, William Grant & Sons, Cointreau, Central European Distribution Corporation, Campari, Brown-Forman, Jameson, Cooley Distillery
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Love of all things pumpkin thrives
I love Halloween.
Well, more specifically, I love pumpkins. Plump and round and a beautiful orange, their arrival at harvest festivals, grocery stores and garden centers makes me positively giddy.
I love pumpkin food, pumpkin beer, mini-pumpkins, carved pumpkins, sugar pumpkins, pumpkin candy, decorative clusters of pumpkins and pumpkin farms. I kind of like the trendy white and green pumpkins and, like Linus, I believe in the Great Pumpkin.
I even like the word "pumpkin." It just bounces around cheerfully while I'm saying it. It's hard to be grouchy when you're saying the word "pumpkin."
If my husband understood my obsession, I'd probably load up my trunk a couple of times and stick pumpkins in every nook and cranny outside the house. But he doesn't, so I only have six this year.
My love for pumpkins might simply be positive association from liking Halloween as a kid. But it feels deeper than that. I'm drawn to pumpkins like some people collect shoes or office supplies.
Maybe I feel like a kindred spirit, considering their plumpness. I especially like the big ones. It's all I can do not to hug them in public.
Other parts of Halloween, including gingersnaps, apple cider, roast winter squash and turning leaves, make me happy, too. Halloween is a low-pressure, low-cost, high-fun reason to get together with friends and family and scream with laughter.
In contrast, sometime around Nov. 1, the pressure to get ready for the big holidays intensifies every day. My calendar starts filling up with obligations, silly friends start bragging about being done with their Christmas shopping, recipes pile up in my kitchen basket, and reams of gift catalogs pack my mailbox. Soon after the costumes come off, I start to feel like I'm already running behind -- and my mood is not improved by the slow disappearance of pumpkins.
I like to keep my pumpkins whole so they last a week or two longer than the carved ones. But soon, the ground will freeze, snow will fly, and my precious orange orbs will start sagging a little, and make their way to the compost pile.
Then, too quickly, they'll be replaced by mini-Christmas lights, evergreen boughs, red ribbons and carols sung over the speakers at the mall.
Halloween-themed clothing will go on sale, pushed out of the way by sweaters with jingle bells. Mums will have finished blooming and been planted, in hopes that they'll come back next year. Artificial Christmas trees will take over retail floor space. Christmas-themed movies will push out the horror films at Tinseltown.
Now, I'm no Grinch. Thanksgiving -- the meaning and the food -- is not lost on me, and I buy into all of the Jesus and Santa stuff at Christmas.
In fact, there's only one way those holidays could be improved: Just nestle a pumpkin or two on the mantel.
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>THANKSGIVING DAY PARADES CBS, NBC (Thursday, Nov. 22, 9 a.m. ET)
NBC covers the Macy's parade in New York with Bryant (Today) Gumbel, Pat (Wheel of Fortune) Sajak and Stepfanie (Hunter) Kramer. CBS covers parades in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toronto and Hawaii with Larry Hagman and Linda Gray.
ARTHUR ABC (Thursday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m. ET)
A rerun of the tipsy comedy about love and money.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN NBC (Friday, Nov. 23, 9 p.m. ET)
COVER UP CBS (Saturday, Nov. 24, 10 p.m. ET)
Antony (Samson and Delilah) Hamilton replaces the late Jon-Erik Hexum. Not even Sir Laurence Olivier could make this turkey look good.
THE VEGAS STRIP WAR NBC (Sunday, Nov. 25, 8 p.m. ET)
Rock Hudson opens a casino.
JOHNNY CARSON PRESENTS THE TONIGHT SHOW COMEDIANS NBC (Sunday, Nov. 25, 10 p.m. ET)
Carson yuks with Bill Cosby, Joan Rivers, Steve Martin, Steven Wright, Rodney Dangerfield, George Carlin and more.
REARVIEW MIRROR NBC (Monday, Nov. 26, 9 p.m. ET)
To quote the network: "Lee Remick stars as a woman terrorized by a relentless, crazed escaped convict." Oh, joy.
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Death row inmate gets support from ex-accomplice
PHILADELPHIA -- An accomplice who feels he was shafted after cutting a deal with Philadelphia prosecutors nearly 30 years ago tried Monday to save the life of the man against whom he testified.
Terrance "Terry" Williams, 46, is set to be the first person executed in Pennsylvania in 50 years who has not given up his appeals.
A divided state pardons board rejected his bid for clemency last week but may revisit his case before the scheduled Oct. 3 execution.
Williams is on death row for killing 56-year-old Amos Norwood three months after turning 18 -- and five months after killing another older man.
Williams now says both victims had sexually abused him. And his lawyers say prosecutors knew that before trial, yet failed to disclose the information to Williams' trial lawyer or the jury.
"The arbitrary and capricious nature of the death penalty is exemplified, to me, by this case," said Marc Bookman, executive director of The Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, a nonprofit death penalty resource center in Philadelphia. "No one would say that this guy should be the first guy executed (in recent years), that he's the worst of the worst."
In court Monday, accomplice Marc Draper, a policeman's son, told Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina that a detective coerced him into lying about the motive for Norwood's death. He said he agreed to play up the robbery motive -- he and Williams had stolen $20 and two credit cards after fatally beating Norwood at a cemetery -- and avoid the sex angle.
"I was a sheep, to do anything that they wanted me to do. And I regret that. I'm almost embarrassed to say that, that I was so gullible," Draper said.
Williams had sex with several older men for money or gifts, Draper said. The defense claims that Norwood, a church deacon, began having sex with Williams when the boy was 13. And they say prosecutors knew about the relationship and had at least one other molestation complaint about Norwood that was not disclosed.
Draper is serving life without parole after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. He said he was promised a parole hearing after 15 years if he cooperated, only to learn that in Pennsylvania, a life sentence means life.
On cross-examination, Draper got tangled up at times explaining his changing story. But even without his testimony, Sarmina could stay the execution if she finds prosecutors withheld evidence.
There are 200 people on death row in Pennsylvania, but only three people have been executed since 1976.


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February 5th, 2013 | Photography, Weather
Temperatures fell overnight and many woke this morning to a layer of snow of varying depths around the country. This is a collection of atmospheric photographs taken by social media users and showing snowy scenes across Ireland.
January 25th, 2013 | Environment, Weather
Chicago firefighters fight a massive blaze in an ice-encrusted warehouse amid temperatures as low as -45C due to freezing winds
January 7th, 2013 | Environment, Society, Weather, World
Cold weather in northern India has killed more than 100 homeless people in the past week
January 3rd, 2013 | Weather, World
It is winter time in Ireland, at least in theory, but a look at images of the experience in other parts of the world puts that in perspective
November 9th, 2012 | Environment, Weather, World
Recovery efforts are continuing apace on the eastern seaboard of the US as millions of residents struggle in the wake of devastating Hurricane Sandy and a follow-up snowstorm on November 7th.
June 8th, 2012 | Ireland, Weather
So much for summer…We asked readers to submit their photos of the recent woeful weather conditions around the country. Here's a selection of reader shots and some from Irish Times photographers. If you wish to add yours, send them to firstname.lastname@example.com
May 11th, 2012 | Weather, World
Photographs from around the globe show the effects that extreme weather and seasons have on people's lives.
May 8th, 2012 | Weather, World
A 'supermoon' graced the skies overnight on May 5th thanks to the phenomenon known as perigee, the point at which the satellite's orbit is closest to Earth. At this stage, it is around 356,400km away – compared to an average distance of around 384,000km. As a result, the Moon appears up to 14 per cent larger and 30 per cent brighter than when it is farthest from the Earth.


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Assistant Professor (AOS: Social and Political Philosophy)
Stanford University in California
|October 01, 2014
|Date Posted
|August 1, 2014
|Tenured, tenure track
|Employment Type
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA. Rank: Assistant Professor, tenure track, commencing Autumn Quarter, 2015. AOS: Social and political philosophy, broadly construed. AOC: Open. Four courses per year, including courses contributing to the Universitys Ethical Reasoning requirement; graduate and undergraduate advising; usual non-teaching duties. Ph.D. prior to appointment is required. Applicants should submit a cover letter, a C.V., three confidential letters of recommendation and a writing sample through Interfolio via the following URL:
Deadline for receipt of applications: October 1, 2014.
Candidates who apply to this position will automatically be considered for a second position associated with Stanfords Program in Ethics in Society.
See http://apply.interfolio.com/25456
Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. It welcomes nominations of, and applications from, women and members of minority groups, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the universitys research and teaching missions.
How To Apply
You can apply for this position online at http://apply.interfolio.com/25479