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Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Pierre-Antoine Quillard
The Four Seasons: Spring
ca. 1725-1729
Oil on canvas
42.5 x 33.5 cm
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Although appreciated by his contemporaries, Pierre-Antoine Quillard was one of the French Rococo painters who quickly fell into obscurity. Only a few works can be assigned to him with certainty, and little is known about his life. According to the
Abécédario pittorico
by Père Orlandi (1753), he was a pupil of Watteau's. It is known that the influential Abbé de Fleury granted him a yearly allowance of 200
, and that he failed twice in the competition for the Prix de Rome; in 1723, he came second to Boucher, and one year later, to Carle Vanloo. In 1726, accompanying the Swiss natural scientist Charles Merveilleux, Quillard went to Portugal, where King João V made him court painter. During his few remaining years, Quillard primarily painted
fêtes galantes
and portraits, but also completed a few ceiling and altar decorations; in addition, he illustrated books written at the Academy of History founded by the king.
As is the case with almost all of Quillard's works, the date and provenance of the
Four Seasons
are not known. It is possible that they were painted before he left for Lisbon and that they originally hung in a
-probably in a dining room- belonging to a cultured art lover. Like the "Four Times of Day" and the "Four Ages of Man", the "Seasons" enjoyed wide-spread popularity as a theme in contemporary writing and painting in the first half of the 18
century. In the 17
century, these paintings were usually required to contain a metaphysical, sacred symbolism that alluded to the fleeting nature of human existence, as in Poussin's work, for example. However, in their pastoral landscapes and
fêtes galantes
, artists such as Watteau, Lancret, Pater and Boucher celebrated rural life and the "natural" itself. In this way, they created what is undoubtedly a highly artificial contrast of the city dweller, estranged from nature and bound by social conventions.
It is not just their oval format and warm, golden-brown tones harmonised by gentle accents of colour that unite Quillard's
Four Seasons
, but above all the continuous compositional scheme that links them together. In
, the spectator has a view of a stage-like landscape with figures dressed in the fashions of the day. Behind them are trees, behind which stretches a populated riverbank. In all of the paintings, the horizon runs along on the same level. Only
-a tea party set in an elegant interior- does not fit into the scheme. However, the placing and gestures of the figures, who also seem to be on a stage, correspond to the other paintings, and the mantelpiece is on the same line as the horizon in the landscapes.
The references to the various seasons can be easily deciphered: flower-picking in
, a cooling bath in
, the grape harvest and wine drinking in
, and the warm fireside tea party in
. However, all of this classic symbolism is subordinated to one theme that binds all of the paintings: love. In
, city dwellers have gathered together in a garden. The stages of courting were expressed through music, but above all through the language of flowers, which was known to all classes in the 18
century. A poem accompanying an engraving of Lancret's
says: "What toil, to coax the tender gifts of spring to bloom! But if they will be picked by the hand of my adored, then I have not wasted my time!). The amorous entertainment is accompanied by glances, restrained gestures and movements. In the foreground, a gallant gentleman woos his still hesitant neighbour by playing the guitar. Behind him, a peasant plucks a blossom from a rose bush, while a female figure, placed diagonally in the right-hand side of the composition, gathers flowers in a basket. The centre is occupied by a couple: a lady accepts two flowers form a gardener, thereby reciprocating his declaration of love.
The social inequality of the couple is the key, not only to the image, but to the whole cycle. It symbolises a love that transcends social boundaries, that is free from formal obligations and social conventions, obeying only feelings, only
. Nevertheless, there is something artificial about this yearning for natural love and the adoption of simple ways of life. This is because the gardener and the other "peasants" alike are actually costumed city inhabitants who played the "gallant villagers" in popular 18
-century masquerade games at their
châteaux de plaisance
East of Paris. In
, which is the compositional and thematic counterpart to Spring, the situation is similar. In the tradition of 17
-century Dutch genre painting, it shows a country family receiving a visit from a city dweller, wearing a jaunty hat. Here, love appears in another "natural" shape: music is also played, but the forms of communication are less refined than in
. Direct glances and gestures dominate; instead of seduction through flowers, we see the influence of wine. Four lines from an engraving for Lancret's
praise the enjoyment of wine and love: "The nectar of autumn inflames your boldness [...] Love harvests its grapes without witnesses." In
, the charms of the female body in all aspects are displayed before the observer's eyes. Quillard shows the women bathing in a pure genre scene; nevertheless, for the viewer, the reference to classical mythological themes such as
Diana and Acteon
Pan and Syrinx
was constantly present. Quillard achieved considerable success with the bathing theme, as can be seen in the Marquis d'Arcambal's catalogue: "Tilliard [sic]. Bathing women. The scene shows a charming landscape with beautiful stretches of water. On the right side, one sees several figures bathing; one in the water, others on the bank. One of them is undressing; this subjects is graceful, painted with a light brushstroke, of a tender contrast with pretty colouring." In
, the city dwellers are once again in their own surroundings. In the salon, one converses, takes tea using fine gestures, and ponders the summer's
amusements champêtres
, to which the "dessus de porte" also alludes. Only the extinguished candle on the mantelpiece and the Grim Reaper on the rich bronze clock hint at the fleeting nature of life.
Four Seasons
are an example of the popularity of the
goût de Watteau
during the first third of the 18
century and clearly echo well-known works of their time. The figure showing its back in Winter appears to be borrowed from Watteau's
Les Plaisirs du Bal
, while the bathing figure on the right side in
paraphrases Watteau's
Diana Leaving her Bath
, and the peasant raising his glass in
and the gardener in
quote Watteauesque flourishes. Yet, even though Quillard's contemporaries were already comparing him to Watteau, and works were still being wrongly ascribed to him as late as the early 20
century, he never attained Wateau's artistic refinement. His rather doll-like figures seem soulless, human beings and nature are not as closely related as they are in Watteau's
fêtes galantes
, and nature remains a stage for a
evinces a resemblance to the work of Pater, who painted over fifty versions of
. Contrastingly, Quillard's
recalls the
Four Seasons
painted by Lancret for Leriget de La Faye.
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But Big-Oil is going to grease my early retirement, so who knew?
Remember it took millions of year for nature to create oil and gold. The need for oil is greater then
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My point is BUY OIL STOCKS like COP and PSX
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Sentiment: Strong Buy
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Urban Legend
Two words for the idiots who made this "Scream" rip-off: shower scenes. Any horror film aficionado in his right mind knows that a tolerable horror film never fails to send its young, buxom heroine into the shower at whatever time seems least appropriate. Killer on the loose? Heat been turned off in your building in the dead of winter? An eerie silence permeating your entire dorm floor? Hell, get out of those duds, girl, and start soaping up those breasts!
Given that "Urban Legend" has about as many surprises as a porn film ("Oh look, somebody ejaculated!" simply becomes "Oh look, somebody's been decapitated!"), it's spit in the face of the horror film Gods that neither Natalie (Alicia Witt) nor Brenda (Rebecca Gayheart) nor Parker (Loretta Devine) takes a much-needed shower break during the entire ordeal.
I mean, as long as we're beating the crap out of every other horror film cliché we might as well hit that one too -- a few times, in fact. How else to survive a movie in which the killer's weapon of choice is an ax, for Christ's sake? How much creativity does it take to try another tool? Hoe? Hedge clippers? Garden weasel?
If I ever meet director Jamie Blanks my first question will be, "Are your lips permanently attached to Kevin Williamson's ass or can you take a break and talk to me for a second?" Replace all the talk of horror films in "Scream" with talk of urban legends and you have "Urban Legend" -- precisely. As if "I Know What You Did Last Summer" didn't already work hard enough to reinvent the reinvented wheel. Too bad there's no Oscar for redundancy. You could give it to Blanks. Twice.
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During her arraignment Monday, Macomb County Medical Examiner Eric J. Smith's office says Scrivo lied about her assets.
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Cause I know that loving me is a chore, it's a chore
But I won't stop loving you that's for sure, that's for sure
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A 25-year-old man is accused of threatening his neighbor with a hand grenade Friday night in Orange County, deputies said.
Timothy Lee Barre was charged with making a bomb threat and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
A neighbor told Barre several times to turn down the volume of his music at the Harbor Beach Condominiums, just south of Lake Fredrica along State Road 436, deputies said. The last time the neighbor asked, Barre allegedly flashed a hand grenade and threatened to throw it into the neighbor's apartment, deputies said.
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That creepy bastard who never got married and scares the shit out of other family members. He usually has a unibrow, 1970s style big glasses, a toupee, and is really short. Often seduces young children and makes movies of the experience in his basement. Also known as the black Sheep in some cases
When I was but a wee lad, my Weird Uncle Andre took me to a baseball game. Then he took me home and made a video of me naked with a monkey in his basement. I rather enjoyed it then, but now I'm as scared as hell of that sick bastard...well, at least I was before he got sent to prison and gangbanged.
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Now 30 young Kiberans have used the global positioning systems technology to pinpoint the location of the shanty town's landmarks such as roads and health clinics. They uploaded the resulting map onto the openstreetmap website, which anyone can update.
When parts of the shanty town were flooded in May, they quickly drew up a separate map showing which areas were under water.
Fires are another danger in shanty towns not only because of the lack of fire stations, but also the difficulty fire engines have navigating through the network of un-named streets on their way to an emergency.
"Major events like floods, fires, mostly are unnoticed to the outside world. Getting out information quickly and reliably could be the first step in getting the community the help they need," said Primoz Kovacic of Map Kibera, the organisation that trained the mapmakers.
"Without basic geographic knowledge - if you don't know how the resources are distributed like, for example, hospitals, and schools, how they are connected with roads - you cannot really talk about improving people's lives," he told Reuters news service this week.
Maps are essential to other organisations such as the Kenya Red Cross, which deals with 144 fires in Kibera each month. "There's not a single weekend that goes by (when) we are not called upon to take people to hospital, respond to a fire. In some of these areas that are very difficult to access, the corridors leading there make it very difficult to carry even stretchers," said Dr James Kisia, Deputy Secretary General of the Kenya Red Cross.
"The geography of some of these areas in not well-known to most of our workers. Often we need someone from the area to show us the place."
OpenStreetMap lets users view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Kibera's young mapmakers now hope to extend their project and draw global attention to the problems of their over-populated shanty town through the Voice of Kibera website where they post information about local events and issues through SMS messages.


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Education Endowment Fund: Investing dollars in our future
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In 1994, the Sacramento Chapter established an Education Endowment Fund (EEF) with $36,000 of chapter seed funds. The Fund has grown to include 38 individual and 13 corporate "Founders" who contributed $1,000 or $2,000, respectively. In addition, the fund has an open enrollment for "Sustaining Members." The Fund presently has five individual and five corporate Sustaining Members who contributed $1,000 or $2,000, respectively. The chapter has also made additional discretionary contributions to the Fund. For fourteen years the EEF has shown steady growth and our expectation is to see its principal top $200,000 in 2008. As the principal grows, only the earnings are used to fund the grant awards. To date the EEF has awarded $87,000 in grants.
Nine Trustees who are APWA members appointed by the Chapter Executive Committee govern the EEF. The EEF Trustees' mission is to encourage and promote the Fund's growth and development. The Fund is used to provide grants to universities located in the chapter area that will accomplish the following goals: (1) expose students to public works engineering; (2) provide the broadest benefit to the largest number of students; and (3) provide name recognition for APWA and the Sacramento Chapter.
In 2001, EEF Trustees awarded the first grant to California State University, Sacramento for creation of a Geosynthetics Laboratory. Additional grant recipients include:
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Supporting the EEF is an effective way for public works professionals to give back to the public works community in a practical way that will have a lasting, positive impact on our profession and our local communities. As the Fund grows, the opportunity for providing these greatly needed benefits also grows.
The Sacramento Chapter believes in the importance of giving back to our communities and for the last five years has successfully sponsored an annual National Public Works Week Dinner and Auction to benefit the EEF. This event, including both a live and silent auction, has unquestionably become one of the chapter's most anticipated events, with attendance surpassing 200, in 2007. The auction provides approximately $13,000 annually for the EEF.
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The big winter storms are hitting much of the northern United States early this year, and snow and ice always bring unique challenges to drivers of any age. But it can be particularly dangerous for teenage drivers who haven't been driving long enough to always know how to be safe on clean, dry roads, much less the mix of weather found in these colder months.
Anyone who has a teenager who has just started driving, or knows one, should be aware of these tips to help them drive safe this winter.
Take Your Teen's Car In For A Check-Up
First and foremost, make sure the vehicle you are giving your teenager to drive is safe. Take the car in for a check-up to make sure all systems are functioning properly. Makes sure parts such as hoses, plugs, belts and pumps—all things that can wear out over time—are in good condition. Check the battery to make sure it can hold a charge, even when the temperature drops. Make sure the fluids are topped off, and are correct for the winter months; depending on how cold it gets in your area, you will need coolants, windshield wiper fluids and oils that won't freeze. Make sure the windshield wipers are in good condition and ready to take on the heavy snow and sharp ice that will accumulate. Make sure the pressure in the tires is correct—air inflates and deflates as the temperatures change, so you will want to make sure the tires are inflated properly at all times. And finally, do a test of all the defrosters to make sure they are working properly. By giving your teenager a car you know is ready to tackle any weather it encounters, you are setting them up for safety.
Practice Makes Perfect, Or At Least Safer
Seriously, practice. Don't just hand the keys over to your teenage driver no matter what weather conditions are out there. The first time they have their license and snow falls is the perfect time to take them out for another driving lesson. Just like when you first taught them to drive, find an empty area, such as a parking lot, and set a course that allows them to feel how the car handles different with snow and ice on the ground. In this safe, controlled environment, let them try a bit of speed as they take a corner so they can feel how much more the vehicle will slide and lose traction in these conditions. Make sure they actually experience the differences, rather than just give them a lecture that will likely be forgotten as soon as they get behind the wheel.
Talk To Them And Make Sure They're Listening
Go over some of the basics with your teenager again. Don't just spout rules at them though. Take the time to explain why they are more important in wet, snowy, icy weather than at any other time (although they should be obeying them all the time!). Make sure they understand things such as a safe follow distance is imperative in winter weather, as traction—for them or others around them—could be lost at any time. They need to space to ensure they can safely react or stop if an incident occurs. And make sure they understand that there will be more incidents in these months that in the summer, when the roads are not nearly as slick. Other safety tips you will want to share include braking more slowly so the tires don't lock up and cause a skid, and don't cut anyone off, but especially large trucks, who won't be able to stop as fast on slick roads.
Make Sure They Keep It Clean
Teach them how to properly clean the snow and ice from their vehicle. They have likely seen Internet pictures of cars driving around with huge chunks of ice on their roofs and thought they were funny. However, teach your teenagers how dangerous it can be if that snow or ice starts to slide. It might take time to get all the snow off the car, but this is a crucial tip for ensuring they are safe for both themselves and the other cars around them. Make sure they know how to properly scrape ice from the windshield – and not just a small viewing hole, but a large enough area to give them full view of the road—that they know to clean all their lights and that they have gotten as much loose snow as possible off the vehicle before they start to drive. Also, they will want to make sure the tailpipe is clear before they turn the car on to avoid pumping carbon monoxide into the vehicle. This applies to both clearing it of falling snow, and making sure that when they back out, they have enough clearance from drifts to prevent snow from being jammed in.
Fill It Up And Keep It Full
Finally, make sure they have a full gas tank, and understand that they can't let the tank run to empty this time of year. Gasoline is heavy, and that extra weight will help keep the car more firmly planted on the road. Other supplies you might want to consider giving them to keep in the car at all times during the winter is a bag of sand or salt they can use to help them gain traction in an icy parking lot; and an emergency winter kit that includes a flare, emergency blanket, water bottle, etc., so if the worst happens, you know they can stay warm and hydrated. It's something you hope they never have to use, but it will give you, and them, peace of mind knowing it's there for the "just in case" moments.


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Schlieffen Plan
Battle strategy that attacked and defeated France in the west and then rushed East to fight Russia
Woodrow Wilson
President of the U.S. Wilson set up a series of peace agreements call the Fourteen Points. Went to congress to initiate war
Georges Clemenceau
He was the French representative at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He pushed for a revenge-based treaty at Versailles, hampering the 14 points.
Treaty of Versailles
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
League of Nations
an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations- formed becuase of the Treaty of Versailles
Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI. Willing to sacrifice everything
Communist Party
a political party that actively advocates a communist form of government. Bulsheviks were renamed the Communist party after Karl Marx
Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)


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The Intellectual World of CS Lewis
This work takes the form of eight scholarly essays exploring aspects of Lewis's thought, breaks new ground at many points, especially in highlighting the importance of visual imagery within Lewis's thought (essay 3). It also includes important discussions of Lewis's place as a theologian, and his identity as an Anglican writer and thinker. The eight essays are:
1. The Enigma of Autobiography: Critical Reflections on Surprised by Joy
2. The "New Look": Lewis's Philosophical Context at Oxford in the 1920s
3. A Gleam of Divine Truth: The Concept of Myth in Lewis's Thought
4. The Privileging of Vision: Lewis's Metaphors of Light, Sun, and Sight
5. Arrows of Joy: Lewis's Argument from Desire
6. Reason, Experience, and Imagination: Lewis's Apologetic Method
7. A "Mere Christian": Anglicanism and Lewis's Religious Identity
8. Outside the "Inner Ring": Lewis as a Theologian
"In the mass of recent writing about CS Lewis, this volume stands out as essential, and should be on everyone's reading list, whether that of the research scholar or general reader." Professor Paul Fiddes, Oxford University


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Rank 'Em! The Five Most Important M&A Deals of 2010
It's almost time to close the door on 2010, and Deal Journal has chosen to mark the occasion with a look at the most important deals of the year. These mergers, acquisitions, IPOs and stock offerings may not be the biggest, but that is a boringly objective metric. Rather, we made our picks by digging into admittedly subjective criteria: what deals helped spark an important trend, catapulted an obscure company or deal maker into sudden renown, or was just plain weird? What, in short, tickled our collective fancies?
And then bring on the quibbles! Readers, let us know about where you think we got it right, and where you're sure we dropped the ball. What were the deals that captivated you this year?
Announced: September (first offer in August)
Deal Value (on announcement date): $2.1 Billion
The data storage company, which was hardly a household name, became the target of a furious ping-pong match between tech giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard. After their bids soared 83% from Dell's first lob, H-P emerged from the scrum with its $2.1 billion prize – 240% more than 3Par's market value just before the initial offer.
The wild war between the two sometimes bickering giants had the technology and M&A worlds in rapt attention. The 3Par deal also encapsulated the rising demand for data storage. In the subsequent months, IBM bought Netezza for about $1.7 billion, and EMC agreed to scoop up Isilon Systems for about $2.25 billion. 3Par also proved tech companies are starting to get their grubby fingers in each other's business, with enterprise companies jumping into personal technology (see: Cisco) and consumer techies getting into business software and services (Dell, etc.).
Cnooc/Bridas Energy Holdings
Sinopec/Occidental Petroleum's Argentina unit
Sinopec/stake in Repsol's Brazilian offshore-oil unit
Cnooc-Bridas/Pan American Energy stake
March/$3.1 billion
December/$2.45 billion
September/$7.1 billion
November/$7.06 billion
The quartet of splashy energy deals –- and many others this year — cemented energy and China as the biggest 2010 deal themes, as the government tries to feed the growing domestic thirst for energy. The deals led by Cnooc, the Chinese state-owned oil company, and giant refiner Sinopec also showed that China and Brazil increasingly can bypass the U.S. and do deals with each other.
And whether in China, Latin America or anywhere else, the 2010 M&A roster was energy-rich. There were $306.5 billion worth of oil and gas M&A in 2010, according to preliminary data from Dealogic, or 11% of total global M&A deal value. That's the highest year volume on record for the oil and gas sector, Dealogic said.
AIA Group IPO
$20.5 Billion
If the U.S. government's bailout of the financial world was the story for 2008 and 2009, extricating taxpayers out of those investments was the obsession for 2010 (and perhaps for 2011). Although the rescue of Citigroup and General Motors perhaps drew more attention, saving the drowning insurer American International Group cost Uncle Sam $182 billion worth of water wings. The AIA Asian life insurance business was a crown jewel of AIG, and it was stuck in a takeover tug of war with the U.S. taxpayer coming out on top.
AIG first considered an IPO of the unit, then spiked that amid a $35.5 billion takeover offer in March from Prudential PLC. In what turned out to be a wildly successful gamble for AIG, and for U.S. taxpayers, the board turned down Prudential after it knocked down the offer price – twice – amid stiff opposition from Prudential's shareholders. Instead, AIA sold two-thirds of the company in a Hong Kong listing that raised $20.5 billion. The IPO had folks inside AIG and the Treasury Department feeling smug, since the offering valued AIA at $36 billion – higher than the first Prudential offer.
The rosier-than-expected AIA IPO arguably also cast a halo of confidence around AIG and its management, hopefully allowing the U.S. government to wriggle out of its 92% ownership in the company next year at a profit. Cross your fingers, America.
BHP Billiton-Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan
August (died in October)
$38.6 Billion
Two words: Brad Wall. The premier of Saskatchewan became the scourge of at least two continents, Europe and Australia, after he orchestrated the remarkable public opposition to BHP Billiton's $39 billion hostile takeover of a Canadian treasure we had never heard of, Potash Corp. Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP had everyone, including Deal Journal, scrambling to answer, what the heck is "potash?" (It's a mined substance critical to growing food.) And, where the heck is Saskatoon? (To arrive at the capital of Saskatchewan, population 250,000, start in the metropolis of Casper, Wyo., and drive 14 hours due north until your snow tires freeze.)
In the end, this deal had everything: Protectionist harrumphing, never-materialized rumored bids from the Chinese and the Russians, a secret white knight in the form of an ad hoc collection of First Nations members, and finally a surprise block by the Canadian government. It was also the third major BHP transaction that went down in flames, making the mining giant a sad sack on par with the Los Angeles Clippers. And more deeply, the BHP-Potash fracas left even the most capitalism-supporting Westerners to ponder an uncomfortable question: how supportive are we really of foreign takeovers?
General Motors IPO
$20 billion
The 2009 bankruptcy of the century-old U.S. auto maker was a low point in American business. And while the IPO of a government-backed, wobbly as a newborn foal GM wasn't quite the Phoenix rising from the ashes, it was a remarkable turnaround. Now onto the next open issues: Winning favor for its cars, shedding more debt, continuing to repair relations with its workers and perking up the stock price further to allow the government to wriggle entirely out of its investment.
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Apple-Next Computer
December 1996
$400 million
Yes, yes. We know this acquisition was made nearly 15 years ago.
But Apple's purchase of Next Software –- the computing company Steve Jobs set up after he was bounced from Apple -– started the Seer of Silicon Valley on a remarkable run of technology innovation, capped by the introduction of the iPad in 2010.
The tweener computing device helped cement Jobs's standing as one of the most lionized executives in the world. But just to end on a teeny note of iSkepticism: roughly 340 million computers will be shipped worldwide in 2010, according to iSuppli. Total sales of the iPad: 7.5 million, through Sept. 25.


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High pressure, with it's origins from northwest Canada will move over us tonight. We'll have calm and clear conditions as dew point temperatures stay in the 30s. It's likely our coldest night yet. The National Weather Service has issued a Frost Advisory. This also includes western Hampden county from Granville to Chester. Expect dry weather through Friday with plentiful sunshine, less chilly nights, and milder autumn-like days.
Our next period of rain will unfortunately fall on the weekend this time. However, most of it may sneak through Saturday night when most of us are asleep. We'll fine tune the timing of that next cold front in the coming days. Enjoy the fine outdoor weather.
Tonight: Starlit sky and chilly, lows 32-38.
Wednesday - Friday: A bit warmer each day. 99% Sunshine, comfy, Lows in the 40s, highs in the 70s.
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A Public Ban On Peanuts? Oh, Come On.Madeline Holler
I don't know why my first impulse, when it comes to peanut allergy discussions, is to roll my eyes. I also have a real Tea Party kind of reaction when it comes to designated peanut-free zones: I've got my rights! You can't tell me how to feed my child!
My reactions confuse me, because I'm typically very much one who is for taking care of others, doing my part, etc. and so forth. I think communities are only as strong as their weakest members so, you know, it behooves us all to pitch in and make adjustments and accommodate others. Anyway, I'd rather not have my son watch a friend get carted away on a stretcher during snacktime, so, I guess I can make a bigger effort to wipe his face clean in the morning (peanut butter toast junkie that he is).
Still, I read Lisa Conquet's piece up on Babble today with a familiar irritation — and not one in the back of my throat due to a swollen, allergy-stricken tongue. It was the same irritation I feel anytime there's talk of how a little sandwich is wrecking other people's lives.
Why? Why am I so protective of peanut butter?
Conquet writes about what she deals with every day in trying to keep her daughter from being exposed to not just peanuts and peanut butter, but the oil that remains even after hands have been washed and tables have been wiped. There's a constant risk of exposure — at the park, playdates and parties. The nut oils could be lurking anywhere (even her own pantry, as she found out). My family's dependence on peanut butter and nuts make family's like her miserable.
Even those trying to accommodate her daughter, as one mom did at a birthday party, aren't doing enough. There's almost always something there that forces Conquet to pack up and leave. All of which is really sad, but … still. I wasn't feeling it.
Then Coquet writes that her daughter survived babyhood and preschool (which was nut-free) and is now navigating the PB&J-smeared wilds of public school. And that's where my cold and peanut butter-filled heart broke a little. At lunch, her daughter sits at a regular desk that is pushed up at the head of table where her classmates sit. That works now, I guess. But I'm already cringing for the girl during the more self-conscious 2nd-grade year and beyond.
Coquet says a ban on peanuts in public places — much like smoking bans — would make her and her daughter's life much, much easier. And healthier and safer, too. Bans on smoking? Oh, I love those! Let's have even more of those! A ban on peanut butter, though? Actually, that desk makes me a little more willing to consider one.
Go on … how do you really feel about peanut allergies? Hype? Self-pity? Do you live in a peanut-free world?
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I have a Chrysler 300M with a stuck driver's window. The mechanical function is fine - when it works, it works fine. But heat seems to glue the window closed: When it's hot out, it sticks to the plastic liner and won't go down until the temperature drops. I live in Florida, so the temperature doesn't drop very often! Is there a grease, lubricant or cleaner I can use to fix this? I need that window to function. Help.
TOM: Have you considered a hammer?
RAY: It's not entirely clear to me that it's sticking. You might assume it's "getting stuck" in the up position. But the window motor could be dying.
TOM: It's not unusual for a window motor to fail intermittently when it's on the way out.
RAY: Unlike my brother, who tries to be consistent by failing all the time.
TOM: Your window switch, or window relay, also could be failing in extreme heat - remember, it's a lot hotter inside a parked car than it is outside. And when do you want to open the window? When you sit down in a hot car, and it's 150 degrees inside, and you sear your thighs on the "300M" logos on the seat cushions.
RAY: So the first question for you is: Can you hear or feel the motor trying to work when the window is stuck? When you hit the window switch, is the motor straining to lower the glass?
TOM: If it is, then the switch and the motor are fine and the window is, indeed, stuck somehow.
RAY: In that case, the first thing I'd try is some silicone spray. There's rubber weatherstripping in the door that the window slides into when it's closed. Hit the inside of that weatherstripping on all three sides of the door frame with some silicone spray. Cans of silicone spray often come with thin tubes that allow you to get that gunk into small spaces. That's what you want to use.
TOM: If a good shot of silicone doesn't get the window moving freely, then you have to suspect that the window regulator is sticking. That's the mechanical erector set inside the door that actually lifts and lowers the glass. If it's binding up, then you have to get someone to remove the door panel and replace it for you.
RAY: And if that doesn't fix it, you'll have to drive to a cold-weather climate and sell the car there. Good luck.
Is it possible for a 2013 Chevy Impala that has only 7,550 miles on it to malfunction mechanically without operator error? When I got the car back after loaning it out, here's what I found: (1) Check engine light comes on. (2) Vehicle is slightly jerking. (3) Check oil light comes on. (4) Check windshield washer fluid light comes on. (5) Oil, washer fluid and one other mystery fluid (for now) are all leaking. I asked if they ran over something or hit a bump in the road, and they say they did not. I think they did. So, is it possible that the vehicle could have all those lights on and be leaking fluids with only 7,550 miles without some kind of operator error?
RAY: No. Whoever you lent the car to ran over a buffalo. Or maybe a brontosaurus.
TOM: You don't say who had the car. My experience suggests it probably was a brother!
RAY: That would be my guess. In any case, at 7,550 miles, nothing should be leaking on this car, and none of the warning lights should be coming on.
TOM: So I'd suggest that you have the car towed to the dealer as soon as possible, and ask them to take a look at it. You really shouldn't even drive it there if the oil light is on.
RAY: My guess is that the service manager will come find you in the waiting room and say, "What the heck did you run over?"
TOM: And if you get confirmation from the dealer that there was an impact of some kind on the underside of the car, then you can call your insurance company and report that the car was in an accident. Which it was.
RAY: If you lend your car to somebody, your insurance policy still covers the car.
TOM: Then your insurance company can negotiate with the dealer about what can be repaired and what needs to be replaced.
RAY: And then you, personally, can negotiate with the knucklehead who borrowed your car about paying the deductible for you.
TOM: And, obviously, that person will have his or her borrowing privileges summarily revoked. Possibly along with Christmas-card privileges. Good luck. And sorry about what happened to your new car.
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WTI crude settled well above $101/bbl, cutting the premium of North Sea Brent to barely $3 and continuing to hit U.S. inland refiners that had thrived on ~$20 premiums for much of 2012. "Stay away from these stocks until we know in the next 3-4 weeks whether this trend is temporary," Oppenheimer's Fadel Gheit advises. Since May 1: HFC -16%, WNR -13%, CVI -8%, MPC -6%.
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On the surface, this obviously doesn't look good. But what is the real price these refiners and VLO for example are paying for the oil they are refining. At one time the spread was very significant. So the question is how much oil did HFC etc., contract for at that price? What if the WTI price was 70$ and the refiner(s) contracted to purchase their entire next year's needs at $80? That would likely lock in a $25 price below Brent. Wonder if they were that brilliant. Perhaps the latest WTI is really for new contracts or additional purchases if demand is up for certain products by certain refiners.
I wish I knew. The JPM analysts downgraded HFC/VLO/? forget the other. When the downgrade occurred these stocks were priced below their targets, and they have probably dropped another 2 points, yet the aalysts did not drop the target price (if my memory serves me right). I still think more oil is available to refiners than they can process, at least today. And where East Coast refiners were trying to get significant oil deliveries other than Brent priced oil, I have to think whatever advantage that was there is now likely evaporated with both suppliers registering about the same price
when delivery costs are included. I would suspect this would cause a widening in the spread again but considerably less than it had been. The final question is will there be a price war between Canadian Oil Sands/Bakken/other US producers, and Saudi Arabia/Nigeria/Venezue... al. should the former's production begin to meet needs previously met in part by the latter group?
Marathon Petroleum,Valero, and Phillips 66, which I think are the best refiners have been taken to the wood shed. Is that what they say when stocks go down. Marathon was a $90 stock in March. Now 70 and change. Am I jumping in. Not now. The season for the refiners are Oct- March. You can trade them if you are a good market timer, because they have high volatility. Not my cup of tea right now. Lately the best oil stocks to own are Cabot Oil and Gas and Noble Energy. They keep going up no matter what. However, what you can do in October is buy the etfs xop or ieo which has all the refiners in them. Which refiner do I like the best? Marathon, sold out at 81, and will re-enter at some point.
I feel fortunate to post on a Fadel Gheit commentary. The US is mainly producing light sweet crude oil, some of the sweetest in the world. Compared to the imported crude, much less processing. I'd have expected Gheit to have researched all these company's locked in contract prices before he even commented. He's stating it's only for the next few weeks to month to determine a clearer trend. Whenever he shows up on CNBC, I always listen. The US is cranking so much sweet crude, it likely will be selling soon on a separate index. Brent is for the worldwide, supertanker transportation costs included contract. The future for US crude and oversupply of NG is pretty exciting. We need a serious energy policy from DC. Currently, that might be asking too much, it seems.
Dog your right. Policy of grading Canadian drill bit as been delayed by corporations in both countries. Mostly because of future contract deliveries. This will allow refiniers forcasted profit from finish products at the consumer market. Consumer Prices will go up to cover the spread.
Think about it: The Fed's $84 billion a month buying mostly junk paper from the banks who return the favor by downgrading our largest, most environmentally aware refinery giant, Valero to underperform. this despite incredible profits and a stockholders dream! That translates into billions lost for stockholders and a kick in the nuts for Valero. Ditto for the entire sector!
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CROWLEY – The next four years will be very important for the state of Louisiana, according to John Kennedy, state treasurer.
Kennedy was on hand for the Rotary Club of Crowley's meeting this week to discuss the main issues facing the state over the next four years, mainly the expansion of Interstate 49 and education reform.
"I am a big believer in having a plan," he said. "Too often we don't have a plan in government. We don't think that far ahead."
Kennedy began speaking about I-49, which the state wants to expand both north and south. I-49 North funding is in place, according to Kennedy, they only need to finish the project.
I-49 South, however, is a different story.
"Now, we have to get serious about funding I-49 South," he said.
Kennedy believes I-49 is the most important infrastructure in the state of Louisiana and linking Lafayette to New Orleans, and thereby creating seemless travel from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, is key for Louisiana's future.
The question is how to fund the project, which would take about $5 billion. Kennedy knows we cannot rely on the federal government.
"The federal government, as we all know, has it's own problem starting with $15 trillion of debt," he said.
He also knows the state cannot fully support the project at this point.
"We need to continue to spend less so that we can invest more," said Kennedy. "But I would be lying if I stood here today and told you we had $5 billion to spend on this project.
"We can come up with some of that money, but we are not going to be able to come up with all of it."
That leaves "someone else" to foot the majority of the project's bill.
Thus, Kennedy has proposed setting up a public-private partnership between the state and private investment funds to have the funds in place to complete the project. He also knows the usage of funds is a necessary thing in this case.
"Remember, though, these are private sector investors," he said. "They expect their investments to be returned. There are no free lunches, folks."
Thus, Kennedy feels that tolls must be talked about frankly and realistically.
"I'm not a big fan of tolls," he said, "but there are times when tolls are appropriate."
Kennedy, also explained that he has no problem putting the tolls to a vote, but he wants the public to be well informed if there is a vote.
Private-public partnerships are nothing new to the world of infrastructure as they have been used throughout the world, including the U.S.
Kennedy then moved on to his other main topic, one of the hottest topics in the state right now, education reform.
As Kennedy points out, other than home environment, the single biggest factor in whether a child learns is teacher quality. All children can learn, but whether they learn is a different story.
"Kids only get a chance to be educated once," he said.
Kennedy has two main thoughts toward school reform. For starters, he has a resolution in Congress that would get the legislators to substitute teach for one full day to better understand what today's teachers are facing.
Secondly, he wants to pay teachers like the professionals they are, but wants them to understand that comes with sacrifices.
"If you look at the countries that are succeeding with their schools ... what you will find there is that teachers are treated like professionals," said Kennedy. "Their status is elevated.
"If I were king for the day, I'd go to our teachers and say I will make a deal with you. Starting teacher salary in Louisiana will be $60,000 a year, but in return, if you want to be a professional, no tenure."
Kennedy believes the state must find out what teachers can teach and which can't and make the necessary moves to ensure the state's future is good in education.
Earlier in the meeting, the Rotary Club of Crowley presented it's Vocational Award to Sylvia Habetz.


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Eco License
has been created by
, which is to say by the nature of a top predator. We don't care what we eat, so long as there's food. We don't care what happens to our prey, so long as there's food. We don't care about the rest of the ecosystem, so long as there's food. And if there's no food, heck, let's move some place where there's food. No such place? Ahhh! We're doomed!!!''
We need to evolve past our
as predators. Capitalism needs to transform to a system that rewards recyclers more than producers. Seriously, if you buy a product that contributes to the planet-trashing that's going on, that product is worth a lot less to you than one that won't contribute to your death and your children's deaths. Which is weird ... because if it's worth less you pay less for it, which encourages it. So it's more likely to happen.
Any industrial process whose results cannot be consumed by natural creatures must be taxed prohibitively. Now, of course, governments are too damn foolish to enact any such tax. Therefore we technologists will have to do it. What we need is to add
s to all our source code. Contagious environmentalism. The effect of these licenses is:
If you can prove your use of this software is NonCommercial
and EnvironmentallySound
then it's
Otherwise pay half (50%) of your gross profits directly to the SustainableSoftwareFoundation
. Or whatever it gets called.
What the SSF does with these profits is fund projects that repair the non-EnvironmentallySound
And heck let's get GNU to change their GPL to this effect right now.
Lawyers? Stallman? Front and center! -- Pete
Speaking to taxation: taxation is an impediment to trade. Moreover, trade channels goods to those who value them [the goods] most. If you accept the first two statements, you arrive at the conclusion that taxation is *bad*. Put more eloquently:
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle" --
Trade only reflects our values as predators - which are the same values as yeast in a vat. The husbanders and recyclers don't trade competitively because our predator nature doesn't think that far ahead - we don't value the consequences of our actions to our prey. How can a recycler compete with a despoiler unless the despoiler pays towards the environmental costs?
I never realized yeast were predators.
You've obviously never had an infection :)
I must remember to examine their spears the next time they go hunting.
Speaking to 'we don't value the consequences of our actions to our prey': we do not value the consequences of our actions to our prey because there is no incentive to do so.
There is certainly an incentive, just not one that has been expressed in economic terms. The appalling effects of denuding the Atlantic of fish, for example, never factored into the price of the fillet on your plate. And
, MediaMonopoly
, and lots of other unpleasant
s affect the values that dictate trade. In other words, markets don't magically stop people from being stupid en masse.
exists because there is no private ownership of the commons. Private ownership (coupled with transferability) provides direct incentive to care for the property in question; care and upkeep directly correlates with resale value. The reason we trash the commons is because there is no incentive to care for them in the first place.
This is a complete and total misunderstanding of
; however, explaining it is a huge essay in itself. Maybe I'll write it down someday. --
Strange, that my misunderstanding sounds like a reiteration of the first paragraph from
"It refers to a situation wherein a commons, that is, a shared or unowned resource, is used inefficiently (a lake being overfished to exhaustion, for example, or being used as a dump for toxic chemicals) because no one has any incentive to do otherwise."
Your (and pretty much every Libertarian out there) misunderstanding is that it is an argument for private ownership. It is not. The lesson of
is that given a shared resource, a form of government is required to prevent its misuse and overuse. In and of itself, it says nothing about what that form of government has to be. Yes, it can be private ownership. Private ownership is a government. Its called a dictatorship. Or possibly an oligarchy. There are many other forms of government in existence around the globe. You might even be living in one. --
So your solution to the tragedy is to eliminate the commons? Do we stop breathing then or pay for the air? By the breath? And is there a surcharge for farting?
Don't eliminate the commons, but charge admission.
You mean like taxes? -- Callum Lerwick
How often? Upon birth? Would there be a rebate upon death? I guess what I'm driving at is the idea that a commons should be neither a freeforall nor a chargeforall but some kind of LatticeOwnership
thing. I'm not trying to pick at you normatively here, but to get a clear idea of what you're suggesting - which is very interesting to me.
If, in recycling, the opportunity cost (disposal) for the individual costs less than the effort expended (recycling et al.), the individual will not recycle. That is to say, capitalism does not need a system that rewards recyclers. Instead, we need to define property rights such that recycled products have value that supersedes the opportunity cost - that is to say, we must define property rights that extend value to garbage.
Let's see how this would work in practice. Say the government, in its benevolence, granted you the rights to the contents of a large industrial landfill. Not to the land, nor the right to dump any more refuse in the landfill. Let's use round numbers and say the landfill contains one million tons of unsorted toxic waste - dioxins, heavy metals, benzene, maybe some low grade radioactives, medical waste, and just a whole lot of plastic junk and rusting metal. Think Newark. Of course the technology already exists to recycle all of this stuff - but it is very, very expensive in energy, reagents, and processing machines. Now, how do you use your boon to make sufficient money to pay the costs of recycling it?
Speaking to 'the government, in its benevolence, granted you the rights': Government governs through consent to be governed; it has rights because we grant those rights and not the other way around. When I disagree with government dictates, I ignore or violate those dictates. This statement indicates that our perspectives are grossly misaligned -- without axiomatic parity, how can we meaningfully discuss anything?
I dig that. Let me try reformulating. Let's say you own a factory that produces the pollutants mentioned. How do you deal with them - or how are you economically induced to deal with them - in such a way that they're recycled? Or - asking about your ideas not normpicking - that they're not produced in the first place?
Speaking to 'In other words, markets don't magically stop people from being stupid en masse': you are correct, but markets may and do provide incentive(s) that modify the choices people make. Properly constructed incentives (e.g., property rights) often coerce people into doing the '
' - whatever that happens to be.
This is mysterious to me. For example, read
about how the market has persuaded people to live in unmaintainable homes linked through a soon-to-be prohibitively expensive travel network for the purpose of selling them TVs and cheese doodles. Exactly how, ignoring the delusion of PreviousInvestment
, is American suburbia the "Right Thing"? Moreover, markets are notoriously prone to boom and bust behaviors - are these too the "Right Thing"? Was the
the "Right Thing"? I hope you'll forgive me for doubting the invisible hand of god in mass markets - but at best
. If we insist on trashing our prey, I doubt even the species ...
Speaking to 'the appalling effects of denuding the Atlantic of fish': you are correct, they never factored into the price of the filet on our plate. Define property rights and an incentive is created to care for the fish. How?
For example: Imagine you are a fisherman, but instead of taking whatever you can grab, you must buy territory in which to fish.
This is indeed the way fisherman have fished. Their territory is defined by their purchase of access to boats and docks.
Redefine territory because your definition is incomplete. If I were to reason by analogy, I would say this is equivalent to building a Makefile that incorrectly identifies dependencies in a source tree by omitting relationships between source files. This happens often and destroys the value of make as a tool.
Buying territory is your idea - how would it be defined so as to make dependent sense for us as predators? As for me I want to look at us as collaborators with the fish - we encourage them to thrive and they feed us. I don't see how to define territory in a way that does this - do you?
You fish this territory, but as you do, you realize the need to replenish the crop.
Even if one fisherman had realized this, fish do not stay confined to any one fisherman's territory. Evolution will generally give more agile fish the advantage. And the fishermen who ignore the need to replenish fish stocks find their operations much less costly, so can purchase more boats and docks - more territory - until natural market rewards for monopolization lead to vast ocean going fish extinction factories. Which they did.
That is why landowners build walls. Similar reasoning suggests the need for fences in the ocean once property rights are defined.
I regret that fish are naturally mobile creatures, and often their ranges are very large. A great white shark, for example, was recently tracked (
) ranging all the way from Africa to South Australia and back again. So the ocean walls would disrupt the fishes' ecosystems, destroying the fish.
While attempting to parcel the ocean, we ran into the problem of spillover: the fish move from one parcel to the next without barriers to contain them. We posited the existence of such barriers; it is suggested that with them ecosystems will die. We omit the obvious argument that the resources used to fence the ocean could likely be used to feed many more people than parceled section could create.
Since we cannot define useful property rights for the ocean, I seek alternative solutions. The obvious one is to outlaw fishing.
But this problem isn't constrained to fishing; its systemic. If illegalization is your alternative then, by increments, you'll be forced to outlaw human industry altogether. Isn't the obvious alternative instead to adjust our economic system to incentivize good husbandry?
What's more, you realize that if you ever want to sell your territory when you get out of the game, you'll need to make sure that it will be fish-able for the next Joe.
That would be true if the one-time fish territory purchase cost was greater than the value of the fish sold. Which it wasn't. Sure, the little fishermen are suffering for their poor financial choices. But the old fish extinction factory owners simply sold out when their spreadsheets said to sell, invested their profits in something else and wrote off the capital loss. In real and economic terms it was a loss to the consumers, not the despoiler.
Speaking to 'the little fishermen are suffering for their poor financial choice': if you assume that, you might as well assume all agents are idiots. I think a better working postulate is that people make choices based on the things they value. As fiscally unsound such choices may seem to us are irrelevant; saying so is normative and carries no meaning.
A man does not need to fish. A man can invest in many things, some of which would create a better return than fishing. Consequently a man whose capital investment yields a poor return has made a poor financial choice. I don't assume that man is an idiot; his choice most likely was made in the absence of adequate data. But a larger agent has more and better information about the availability of fish, and can afford to spend resource projecting same, so is enabled to make a better choice. I don't see how norms enter into this.
Speaking to 'a man whose capital investment yields a poor return has made a poor financial choice': this is at best a cultural assumption, at worse dead wrong. People choose often to make capital investments which yield 'poor returns'. Fortunately, one man's poor return is another man's gain. Choice, like trade, channels value; when people choose, they create value for themselves - though it ain't always money.
An example would help to resolve my confusion.
By defining property rights we turn fishers into farmers, and protect a resource by creating an incentive.
I'm afraid you'll need to try harder to make this case.
This is how markets work and this happens everywhere. Ever wonder why Government housing is crap? It's because *no one* has an incentive to care for the place. Rentals are only slightly better. Private homes are the best maintained, because there is a direct correlation between care/upkeep and resale value.
I'm not arguing against private property. I like private property and I agree it leads people to maintain their belongings. But the values traded in markets have nothing to do with private property - see
s for arguments on this.
I know of plenty of privately owned houses that are crap. --
And I am afraid those folks don't think of their homes as investments.
An, admittedly rather unpopular, housing alternative is offered by the formation of
I've seen a couple of these in my area. They appear to work fine. Unpopularity has to do with marketing.
I'm afraid you'll need to try harder to make this case.
Well, start with the
The above statements are positive ones; whether or not we choose to implement them, as a society, is a normative one. At the risk of sounding um, un-good, I believe the best way we can care for the world we live in is to define and protect property rights for all things. It creates a great framework that encourages care, development, and upkeep for which we and our children can benefit.
I rather agree with you, in principle if not in execution. If you're amenable I suggest we refactor these arguments over to
, where they'd be on point. -- Pete
Put em' where you want; this is the power of wiki. Personally, I'll keep the dollars while you swap the services.
Nope, it's part of a
is what's supposed to be on C2.
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Police and federal investigators were searching Friday night for two armed bandits suspected of killing a man and tying up his girlfriend and her 12-year-old son during a home invasion and robbery in a remote section of Hilltown Township, Bucks County.
Wearing masks and carrying handguns, the bandits entered the home Friday morning, police said. The dead man was identified as Joseph Canazaro, 48. The woman and the boy, who suffered minor injuries, were not identified.
The two - one about 5-foot-9, the other a shorter Asian man wearing a black jacket and cargo pants - spent at least a couple of hours in the house on Swartley Road before driving away with several guns in a black Lincoln pickup truck that belonged to one of the victims, police said.