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A man from Bellingham is $50,000 richer after purchasing a winning "$40 Million Mega Multiplier" Scratch ticket while at a local Haggen READ MORE
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Renton resident Karen Guilbeault is $50,000 richer after she stopped by Safeway READ MORE
Camano Island Resident to Celebrate 25th Wedding Anniversary in Hawaii after $70,000 Lottery Win
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A vacation to "the Aloha State" is in store for a man from Camano Island after a trip to the Stanwood ampm (26930 104th Drive NW, Stanwood, WA 98292) resulted in a $70,000 Scratch win. READ MORE
$75,000 Lottery Winner to Help Local 4-H Chapter
Washington - 01/27/2017
Gold Bar's Scott Kuver says he's made his passion into a career, and thanks to his recent $75,000 Lottery win, he's planning on helping students in the community explore their passions, too. READ MORE
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A Centralia resident received an incredible holiday surprise from a "Triple 777" Scratch ticket... READ MORE
Battleground Man Takes Morning Work Break, Returns with $1 Million Lottery Prize
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A man from Battleground stopped by Safeway (2615 NE 112th Ave, Vancouver, WA 98684) during his usual morning work break, when he decided to play a game of "Cash Spectacular" Scratch and won $1 million. READ MORE
Gold Bar Resident Plans to Stock Her Local Food Bank After $50,000 Scratch Win
Washington - 09/19/2016
Elizhava Lazella walked into the Gold Bar Market (109 Croft Ave W, Gold Bar, WA 98251) on Saturday, August 20 to pick up an ice cream sandwich when she decided to purchase a "Frogger" Scratch ticket. READ MORE
Washington Man Claims $25 Million Mega Millions Jackpot
Washington - 08/11/2016
On Wednesday, July 20, a Washington resident stepped forward as the winner of the $25 millionMega Millions jackpot. READ MORE
Vashon Island Lottery Winner Plans to Honor Late Husband
Washington - 07/08/2016
A Vashon Island woman is the latest Washington's Lottery grand prize winner after winning $75,000 playing Scratch. READ MORE
$50,000 Scratch Winner Plans to Use Prize to "Pay it Forward"
Washington - 06/04/2016
When a man from Camas realized he'd just won $50,000 playing "Cash Spectacular" Scratcher knew exactly how he wanted to spend his money. READ MORE
Gig Harbor Man Plans Surprise Trip for his kids After Winning $150,000 Hit 5 Jackpot
Washington - 05/09/2016
A man from Gig Harbor is excited to surprise his two boys with a trip to Disney World after winning a $150,000 Hit 5 jackpot. READ MORE
Father Daughter Duo From Bellingham Wins $50,000 Playing Scratch
Washington - 02/27/2016
A dad and daughter from Bellingham put their money together and won $50,000 playing "High Voltage" Scratch. READ MORE
Spokane Woman Claims $100,000 Powerball Prize, Plans to Take Family on Long Awaited Trip to Disney
Washington - 01/22/2016
A Spokane woman is excited to take her three young children to Disneyworld thanks to a $100,000 win from the historic Powerball drawing on Wednesday, Jan. 13. READ MORE
Vietnam War Veteran Wins $550,000 Playing Washington's Lottery
Washington - 12/26/2015
A Vietnam War Veteran from Nine Mile Falls received very happy news when he discovered he'd won $550,000 playing Washington's Lottery! READ MORE
Quilting Pays off for Spokane Woman, Wins $170,000 Hit 5 Jackpot
Washington - 11/20/2015
A Spokane woman, and avid quilter, has very unique ways to pick her numbers when playing Hit 5. READ MORE
Man Turns $60 Win into $500,000 Playing Washington's Lottery Scratch
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$50,000 Lottery Winner Planning Dream Getaway
Washington - 09/18/2015
Tamika Gunn of Auburn made a stop at her routine convenient store, Dollar Plus (3930 A St. SE) in Auburn on August 24, and walked out not knowing she held a "Neon 5s" Scratch ticket worth $50,000 in her hand. READ MORE
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Wes LaRocque of Mount Vernon got a call from his wife on July 2 sharing the news that they won $70,000 from a Washington's Lottery Hit 5 ticket. READ MORE
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Home of "New Stone Age" Tools, Blades & Points
Here are a few more of the special points which are available through our catalog or over this web site. This series of "new
Stone Age" blades and points is made from an especially colorful agate from eastern Oregon called
Paiute Agate
. It was
long used by the Paiute tribe and other native groups over time in eastern Oregon, Nevada and northern California, in the
region known as the Great Basin to make knives, spear and dart points, and then arrowheads in the last 1,500 years or so.
It is one of my favorite materials to work with, especially after it has been heat treated. This helps make a very smooth and
sharp implement, and enhances the natural colors of the stone.
We always ship every piece fully insured for its full value, to protect your interest and our own. This service is included in the
price specified either here on our web site or in our periodically produced "New Stone Age" catalogs.
You are welcome to place orders through PayPal. Just click the "Buy Now" button next to the point you desire. For several
reasons, I prefer that you order through PayPal. It offers you a secure transaction, purchase protection and simplifies my
business processes. Please note that for the time being, when you order through PayPal, each purchase is a separate
transaction. As my site gets larger, I hope to include a multiple-order shopping cart system with PayPal, but for now, each
order will be a separate PayPal transaction. However, when you do order more than one item within a short period of time
through PayPal, I will be able to combine shipping for you. Simply add a note to the orders about combining shipping, and I
will hold the shipment until you notify me that the ordering group is complete.
Paleo-Indian "Scottsbluff" Style Spear Point of Paiute Agate -- 2008 A.D.
Classically shaped and pressure flaked Paleo-Indian period
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Made of heat treated, colorful Paiute Agate from eastern Oregon. Made in 2008 A.D. 4-1/4" x
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Paleo-Indian "Scottsbluff" Style Dart Point of Paiute Agate -- 2007 A.D.
Classically shaped and pressure flaked Paleo-Indian period Scottsbluff style dart
point. Made of heat treated, colorful Paiute Agate from eastern Oregon. Made in 2007
A.D. 3-1/8" x 1".
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Paiute Agate "Scottsbluff" Spear Point -- 2007 A.D.
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display centerpiece for your modern made "New Stone Age" collection. Primary reduction and shaping of the
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pressure retouch for the final sharpening. Made of white Novaculite from Arkansas. Made in 2006 A.D.
6-1/8" long by 2-1/4" wide.
Paleo-Indian "Plainview" Style Lance Point of Paiute Agate -- 2008 A.D.
Classically shaped and pressure flaked Paleo-Indian period Plainview style lance point. Made
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Tanzanian Birding at its best
February/March 2010
Designing an extended birding safari is a pleasure and, during these months, extremely rewarding to lead. We had decided on some new locations and some old favorites, hoping to add new species to our lists and witness the movement of migrating birds moving northwards. We started at Lake Ndutu, then moved on to Lake Eyasi and Yeada Valley, to the Nou Forest , Tarangire National Park, Nyumba Ya Mungu and finally to Amani and the coast at Ushongo.
The rains of December and January had been plentiful so conditions were healthy, wetlands full of water, all habitats were brimming over with life forms enjoying the glut.
Some of the photographs I took of the Black and Little Terns can be viewed at tanzaniabird.net
Once again we took detailed notes of our sightings to add to the impressive data base at the Tanzania Bird Atlas
And here are a few more links for those of you that are interested in these places.
Here are a few sentences from my report to our bird group.
At Ndutu we witnessed over a hundred thousand white and Abdim's storks around the lake in the first week of March. It truly was breathtaking to witness such numbers at dawn and dusk each day.
At Eyasi we saw 4-5 thousand white pelicans but couldn't get close enough to photograph. Eyasi birding was excellent and varied. The numbers of grey headed gulls was impressive as well 3-400 in one spot.
- At Yeada we witnessed a flooded valley with a great variety and good numbers of waders, storks, ducks etc. (and 3 suspect common Pochard- flying away from me at high speed!) In Tarangire we witnessed 500+ fulvous in one spot at Silale, numbers of yellow billed storks at Silale but mainly along the flooded river in front of Oliver's camp. The valley in front of camp had flights of open billed stork and yellow billed egrets all day long. We estimated well over a thousand YBE and similar but less numbers of OBS. Each evening the YBE flew past camp in groups to the south, so we could count them. Each group numbered 30-50 birds and 25-30 groups were seen heading south each evening. We checked very carefully to ensure that all were YBE egrets and not cattle egrets.
- At Nyumba Ya Mungu we camped below the dam at a new site – the numbers of WB cormorants there was impressive! Thankfully they seemed not to like to roost directly above us but in all the trees close to us, with the hippos and bush babies it all made for some noisy moments during the night. Numbers could be in the tens of thousands but most likely 10—20,000. Locals commented that these birds do not roost here every year. Skimmers on the Lake were out in force but we only saw 500+ and not the 1000+ we saw here a few years ago- but we only covered a small percentage of the Lake. Good numbers of gull billed terns here and 100's of yellow wagtails.
- White headed mouse birds, East coast Batis, hunters and Tsavo sunbirds, northern brownbuls etc all add up to quite a list if you combine the river, the escarpment and the lake.. On a day drive west to Lake Ambussel (completely dry) we saw many hundreds of barn swallows coming over the Martin escarpment- 5 Oryx at the dry lake were a treat.
Birding from this location is varied with dry bush country, the river banks and the lake all adding up to a great list over our 4 days. It was very dry.
This Lemkuna village campsite (cross the dam and head south along the river a few kms- report to the village office) costs 50,000 t/sh per group per night + the cost of an askari 10,000 per night and can be booked through the village chairman Mr. Maitei on 0769-380851. We drove south on the River's western side to cross and join the main road at Hedaru; this old floodplain area was very dry and had many euro rollers moving through it. Amani was wonderful but mainly because we hired Martin Joho – Tel 0786 108086- His call knowledge helped us locate some wonderful forest birds, including The Long tailed Tailor Bird – a little gem which he called out for us.
We then moved onto the coast via the Kabuku road to Ushongo – the combo of these coastal thickets, the mainland beach and the Maziwe Island added many new species to our list.
And Ombeni saw the Ocean, witnessed a high and low tide and snorkeled, all for the first time in his life as well as seeing his first N Carmine Bee eaters and Little Terns! All in all a great birding trip but the sheer numbers of birds we saw in such varied habitats remains the trips overriding impression.
Here are a few photos – as always! Happy birding – Paul Oliver
A Little Tern in flight and only the 3rd record of Black tern in Tanzania (the arrow points to an immature bird)
The flooded Tarangire River in front of Oliver's Camp, a kopje top view of the Yeada Valley and our camp on the Ruvu River
Amani Nature Reserve, walking the coastal forest road Arsenal supporters at Amani
Perhaps the rarest bird in East Africa ( Long billed Tailorbird , a kingfisher at Eyasi and A Honey Buzzard at Yeada
Terns and crab plovers at Maziwe Island
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RICHARD C. ROWLAND: Stop bait-switch pension proposal
Having previously presided over the Bureau of Consumer Protection as Pennsylvania's attorney general, one would think that Gov. Tom Corbett would recognize and certainly not engage in efforts to promote a bait and switch on Pennsylvania's taxpayers. His latest public employees "reform" plan, however, is just that — a bait and switch that the Pennsylvania General Assembly must expose and reject when it returns to session next month.
For how many years now has the Legislature been holding hearings and racking up per diems to talk about the problems with the retirement systems? I think we all understand the problems by now. The state and public school districts have amassed a huge, $47 billion debt to the public employee retirement systems. The state and districts cannot afford the increases in contributions to the systems that the Legislature mandated in 2010, without raising taxes or cutting other necessary programs.
Gov. Corbett has been most vocal and quite effective in identifying the problems. He baited all of us with his estimates of what the unfunded liability translates to per household. He hooked us, when he described the legislatively mandated employer contribution rate increases as a "tapeworm" that threatens to gobble up most of the revenue surpluses expected in the state and local school budgets. But is Gov. Corbett really advocating solutions to the pension problems he articulated, or is he proposing a switch?
He is proposing a switch, a switch from the defined benefit pension plans that worked so well for nearly 100 years before Gov. Ridge and the legislators in 2001 messed them up by enacting a poorly disguised pension grab for themselves and, at the same time, prohibiting the retirement systems from properly increasing the employer contributions needed for investment to fund the promised benefits when the employees retire. He is proposing a switch to a plan that will cost the taxpayers much more and provide future employees much lower retirement benefits. Bear in mind, the average pension for current state and school retirees is only $24,500 per year.
The truth is that the switch advocated by Gov. Corbett will do nothing to solve the problems with the existing retirement systems, according to the actuaries employed by both retirement systems, as well as by the actuary employed by the bipartisan Public Employee Retirement Commission (PERC). In fact, the proposal advocated by the governor in SB 922 and HB 1352 will increase the amounts that state and local taxpayers contribute to provide retirement benefits for school employees hired in the future.
As far as the existing $47 billion debt in the existing systems goes, the systems' actuaries estimate that closing the systems will saddle Pennsylvania taxpayers with an additional $42 billion cost. Does this sound like a solution to the problems Gov. Corbett so effectively articulated?
To no one's surprise, the governor and the actuarial firm he hired to help promote his proposal disagree with the assessments made by the other three firms employed by the retirement systems and by PERC. The conclusions of Gov. Corbett's actuary, Milliman Associates, are similarly at odds with the conclusions reached by at least a dozen other actuarial firms across the country who have analyzed the impact of closing defined benefit pension plans and establishing defined contribution [401(k)] plans for new employees in their client states.
When the Legislature returns in September, Gov. Corbett will push the legislative leaders from his party to accept his word and the conclusions of his actuary and to ignore all others. He will push the leaders to pass either SB 922 or HB 1352 quickly, as he sought to do before the legislators recessed in June, before anyone really looks at the numbers or considers the implications of the proposal for Pennsylvania's taxpayers and the more than 750,000 public employees and retirees. He needs a legislative victory to enhance his re-election effort, most would agree.
Whether employed/retired from the public or private sectors, all citizens and taxpayers of this commonwealth need to demand that the General Assembly publicly scrutinize Gov. Corbett's proposal and resist pressure to pass it for purely political reasons. The legislators have known for many years that the debt to the retirement systems was growing and that the state and school districts contributions could not remain suppressed forever. They spent numerous hours in public hearings, over many years, at great expense to all of us, talking about the problem. Publicly, they need to spend a few hours carefully examining and discussing all proposed solutions.
If there is a difference in opinion among the actuaries, call all of them into public hearings and ask them to justify their reports. We urge our legislators not to repeat the mistake they or their predecessors made in 2001, when the legislators failed to hold any public hearings on what would become ACT 9 and rushed to pass that law before anyone had an opportunity to read the actuarial report.
Legislators must not enact major changes to the retirement systems based upon the word of any governor or any legislative leader. Remember the words of the former, and now imprisoned, House Majority Leader John Perzel when the legislators passed Act 9 of 2001? He said: "This will not cost the taxpayers a dime for at least 10 years." Have the current legislators learned anything from past mistakes?
Retired public employees have nothing to fear as nothing is being proposed that will affect their benefits, claims Gov. Corbett and the legislators promoting passage of SB 922 and HB 1352. We beg to differ. We are taxpayers, too, and knowledgeable enough to know that all taxpayers should fear what is being proposed in those bills.
Richard C. Rowland is executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees.


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Don't you mean the Mailman wants to buy mom?
Got this in an e mail and thought the members here might enjoy it....
Little Larry attended a horse auction with his father. He watched as his father moved from horse to horse, running his hands up and down the horse's legs and rump, and chest. After a few minutes, Larry asked, 'Dad, why are you doing that?' His father replied, 'Because when I'm buying horses, I have to make sure that they are healthy and in good shape before I buy. Larry, looking worried, said, 'Dad, I think the UPS guy wants to buy Mom ...'
Johnny V
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Member OGCA & GOA
Don't you mean the Mailman wants to buy mom?
Who cares upsman or mailman still funny
Thanks for sharing
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway." - The Duke
LOL , yea that was pretty funny. Thanks!


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Is there a place that can hold my bags before I check in or after I check out?
Our Bell Desk is happy to hold your luggage until you are able to check in or depart the hotel.
What is the minimum age for check-in?
You must be 21 years of age or older to check in.
Do you have handicapped-accessible rooms?
We are pleased to provide handicapped-accessible rooms.
Do you allow dogs?
We allow service animals only.
How many people are allowed to stay in the room?
A maximum of four people can stay in our Deluxe rooms.
Is there an additional charge for children?
Rooms are based on double occupancy regardless of age, which means there will be an additional charge when more than two individuals stay in one room, including children.
Do you provide cribs or rollaway beds, and is there a charge for these items?
Rollaway beds come with a $30 charge. Cribs are free of charge.
Do any of your suites come with two beds?
Each suite includes one king-size bed. Should you require two beds, you are welcome to order a rollaway bed, which is complimentary for suites.
Can we have connecting/adjoining rooms?
Room accommodations are based on availability at check-in, but it is rare that our guests do not receive the accommodations they are requesting. We will link the reservations together so that there is a better chance of getting your rooms near each other.
Why can't you guarantee the bed type and/or smoking preference if I'm reserving in advance?
Since we do not pre-assign our rooms and they are given out on a first-come, first-served basis, we are unable to guarantee a room type or smoking preference.
Can I be put on a waitlist if you are sold out?
Unfortunately, we do not have waitlists. You are welcome to check our website to see if the date(s) you are requesting have become available.
Can I book an air and hotel package with you?
We are happy to accommodate you by offering air and hotel packages that can be booked directly through our website. Book an Air and Hotel Package.
Do your rooms include a refrigerator?
Refrigerators are not standard in-room amenities; however, they are available upon request, subject to availability.
Do your rooms include coffee makers?
Coffee makers are not standard in-room amenities; however, they are available upon request, subject to availability.
What is your cancellation policy?
Standard reservations must be canceled at least 24 hours prior to arrival.
What is your deposit policy?
We require a deposit for the first night plus tax at the time the reservation is made. Please note that a $200 deposit is required on all suite reservations as well as complimentary reservations.
What is the deposit charged at check-in?
If you plan to order room service or to make any charges to your room, a deposit of $50 per day is required. If you do not plan to make any additional charges, no deposit is needed.
What are the extra charges on my credit card?
Per our hotel policy, a resort fee is added for each night's stay.
Can the resort fee be waived if we are not using any of the services?
Unfortunately, no.
What does the resort fee include?
• In-room high-speed wireless Internet
• Daily fitness center access
• Two complimentary bottles of water in-room per stay
• Buy-one, get-one-free signature cocktails, wine by the glass and craft beer in the Biscayne® Bar/Lounge from 5-7pm daily
• 2-for-1 tickets to Laugh Factory (excludes Fri-Sat)
• Free valet and self-parking
• Use of the pools and whirlpool spas (seasonal)
• Free local calls
• Free 800 toll-free calls
• Free printing of boarding pass
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Does your resort have a dress code?
We do require that you wear a shirt, bottoms and shoes to enter the casino/hotel. If you are a female guest, please note that bathing suit tops are not sufficient; a shirt must be worn as well.
Are firearms permitted at Tropicana Las Vegas?
For the courtesy and safety of other guests and our employees, firearms are not permitted on Tropicana Las Vegas property. If you wish to store your firearm while staying with us, please contact the Security Department prior to your arrival to arrange for secure storage. Pursuant to NRS 207.200, failure to adhere to our policy may result in your removal from the property.
Do you sell gift certificates?
We do. Gift certificates can be purchased at the Box Office.
Is your pool open year-round?
Our pool is seasonal and is typically open from April to October, depending on the weather.
Is your pool heated?
Yes, our pool is heated.
Do you allow pool flotation devices or tubes in your pool?
We do not provide pool tubes or flotation devices. However, guests are welcome to bring their own items to the pool.
Where can I reserve a cabana?
Our seasonal cabanas can be reserved online with our pool map or by calling 702.739.2588
Do you have Wi-Fi?
We do. As part of the resort fee you can connect up to three (3) devices. Additional devices will incur a $9.99 daily charge per device. To protect your personal information, we require re-authentication every 24 hours on our network.
How much bandwidth will I get?
You will get approximately 5MB, which is one of the fastest on the Strip!
Does your resort or FedEX Office offer computers for guest use?
We offer 24 hour access to computer rental, copying, printing and faxing.
Can I have a package shipped to the resort?
Guests are welcome to have items delivered to the resort. Please address them as below:
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Do you charge for parking?
Valet and self-parking are complimentary.
Where is the exercise room located?
The fitness center can be found within Glow®, a Mandara Spa, which is located near our Conference Center.
What equipment do you provide in the fitness center?
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I think a lot of buyers will just wait for bundles now if they're this often?
Perhaps it's time to add an indicator to the item page, showing when it was last available in a bundle. That way, a buyer can easily see if a file hasn't been bundled recently, and is thus likely to end up in a bundle soon, allowing them to wait for a bit and get it at a huge discount Kind of like the Macrumors buyersguide
We could have flashing red exclamation marks, warning buyers not to buy something right now, but instead to wait until they get another couple (quite identical) themes with it for free (as well as an animation of a bouncing frog!) Everybody's a winner!
Ok, please run 10 bundles per month.
But just curious when the entire marketplace search system going to be improved? It is a boring job for growth team isn't it? Bundles may not affect regular items but only when search system helps straightforward purchases.
Title says: Trying Something New – Mini Bundles
It is a shame that you guys never try even something obvious for search system but Bundles are the only innovation spot recently?
Once upon a time there was this thingie called "Bargain basement" (at least on AudioJungle, and on a few other marketplaces, I believe). The point was to let old and "buried" but quality files get exposure once again by putting them there and lowering the price. Imho, that was way better as it was promoting single files. Yes, they were way cheaper than regularly, but even so they sold individually and after they get removed from Bargain basement, they still got their download stats and everything, and some of those files kept selling afterwards as well.
Anyway, Bargain Basement was cancelled because it was not a success.
So how can these micro-bundles be success? Probably Envato gets bigger cut from bundles than with bargain basement. Plus, Bargain basement wasn't advertised much. (Many people were even unaware of it, because the link to it was also buried )
The way I see it now, all these bundles are very bad. Okay, you get your item bundled, you get "loads" of money for it and then what? Bundle ends, it's page gets removed, all the stats are gone, your item stays buried (if it was buried in the first place, as bundles tend to contain only the good-sellers, not the buried quality files anyway).
urbazon said
as bundles tend to contain only the good-sellers, not the buried quality files anyway
Did not know about this. I really hope it's not true.
nobody make bundles for potato or bread. what is selling is selling. those quests for bundles make me wonder if this market / platform wasn't reach its saturation point. or, maybe a bad management behind increase the costs and kill slowly something what was working ok.
What about Micro Bundles?
Half-of-Item Bundle!
I'm curious. The tiny bundle will have the same rules of no-support&no-updates?
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I'm curious. The tiny bundle will have the same rules of no-support&no-updates?
From item description:
Please note: Due to the exclusive nature of the Mini Bundle, the bundle items are purchased 'as-is', meaning that the items in this bundle are not eligible for item support or updates.
It's great to see how envato reacts to a 32 page long thread complaining about the bundle strategie: MORE BUNDLES!
It is getting ridiculous and if envato likes to make a bundle (excuse me, mini bundle, as they are called now) every day then we should give every author the option to make his own bundles like at audiojungle. This way we can ruin this marketplace ourselves and give all our files away for free.
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"Family annihilator" is a term used to refer to someone who commits familicide, the act of killing one's own family, usually immediate members, but instances of the perpetrator targeting other relatives, such as in-laws, are not unheard of. Reasons for familicide vary, and can include:
- Spite or revenge (for example, a former spouse killing their ex-partner and the children due to custody issues)
- A twisted act of mercy
- Mental illness or instability, such as severe depression caused by multiple real or imagined failures
- Eliminating witnesses during a robbery
Out of all forms of mass murder, familicide is regarded as the most common, and often ends with the perpetrator (who is almost always male) committing suicide.
On Criminal Minds, the term family annihilator is applied to both those who commit familicide (such as Norman Hill) and to serial/rampage killers who specifically target families (such as Karl Arnold and Jeremy Sayer).
On Criminal Minds Edit
- Karl Arnold ("The Fox"): A psychiatrist who targeted families he viewed as dysfunctional. He would stalk them for some time, then hold them captive while they were supposed to be on vacation, murdering them after a few days of acting as the head of the household and making it appear as a murder-suicide committed by the father (the children and mothers were stabbed to death, while the fathers were shot).
- Cally's Tribe ("The Tribe"): A group of eight people, led by "The Grandfather", who killed their victims via various Native American rituals. Roy Minton and his family were killed in their second massacre, as they viewed Roy as the opposing force in their mission.
- Vincent Stiles ("Ashes and Dust"): A serial arsonist who targeted businessmen he envied, and who he saw as successful versions of himself. He killed them and their families with kerosene fires, usually after trapping them in their homes.
- Gary and Ervin Robles ("Children of the Dark"): Team killers who were heavily abused by their foster family. Gary would kill the parents (whom he always saw as being abusive to their kids), usually via bludgeoning with an incidental object or stabbing with a knife, while Ervin would "euthanize" the children (who were forced to witness the deaths of their parents) with a chemical injection so that they wouldn't have to be placed in foster homes and be abused by their foster parents.
- Norman Hill ("Normal"): Hours after committing his first drive-by shooting, he, in a state of severe psychosis, murdered his wife and two teenage daughters with a sawed-off shotgun while they slept.
- Miranda Jakar ("Outfoxed"): Committed a number of murders in several countries, and began specifically targeting the families (killing mothers and sons through shooting, and daughters through oxygen deprivation) of soldiers stationed overseas after fleeing to Virginia, where annual military maneuvers caused her to experience post-traumatic stress disorder-induced psychotic episodes.
- John Vincent Bell ("The Fight"): Murdered father-daughter duos in a ritual, then killed the mothers, whom he informed of his victims' abductions, in order to eliminate any loose ends.
- Jeremy Sayer ("Safe Haven"): After being abandoned by his mother over state lines, he killed two (nearly three) families while making his way back to her. The mothers were the objects of his rage, and he would force them to watch as he killed their children (via strangulation) and husband (via stabbing) before murdering them (via bludgeoning) as well. Some time prior to his killing spree, Jeremy also attempted to kill his own family by putting rat poison in their Thanksgiving turkey, but his mother prevented it.
- Donald Sanderson ("25 to Life"): He was originally believed to be a family annihilator, due to being framed by James Stanworth and successfully convicted of the murder of his wife and daughter.
- Trevor Mills ("A Thin Line"): Influenced by Clark Preston (who previously paid two African-American men to attack his family, killing his father and sister and leaving his mother in a near-vegetative state) to kill families living in Southern California's Inland Empire as means of promoting Preston's mayoral election campaign. He did this by shooting each family member execution-style and then pin the murders on a minority he drugged, brought along to the crime scene, and also killed.
- Arthur Rykov ("Through the Looking Glass"): In his mission to show the worth of dysfunctional families, Arthur would stalk and abduct families of this example, expose their sins, and manipulate them into arguing with each other. His first familicide was successful in this way, and he attempted to do the same thing with a second family, but eventually failed to achieve this goal.
- Jerry Tidwell ("Beyond Borders"): As a teenager, Tidwell slaughtered his entire family due to the abuse he suffered from his father and the hatred he held against his stepmother and step-siblings for escaping the abuse. After being briefly institutionalized for the familicide, he began targeting other families, killing them in different countries while they were on vacation.
- Marc Clifford ("A Place at the Table"): The product of an affair between Frank Kingman and Cora Gilliam, Marc snapped upon finding out his true heritage. As a result, he killed Frank and his current family, then tried to kill his mother.
- Patrick Sorenson ("The Sandman"): Unlike the other family annihilators featured in the show, Patrick's familicide was unplanned, as he only intended to kill the fathers. In the familicide, he killed Jim Brewer by slashing his throat while he slept, then glued the eyes of Patrick's wife Lyla shut, essentially blinding her. He then held the son Kyle captive and let Lyla stumble around blindly, but this resulted in her accidental death. Afterwards, Patrick killed Kyle and dumped his body.
- Kyle Ecklund ("The Anti-Terrorism Squad"): Being a victim of constant bullying, Kyle snapped after one particularly harrowing incident and went after the families of the bullies who participated in the event. During the familicides, he would leave his tormentors alive, wanting them to feel the pain of being victimized just like he was.
- While training Jordan Todd, her temporary replacement, JJ presents her with two cases, one of them a familicide involving an on-the-run man who murdered his wife and twin daughters. Jordan correctly guesses that the family annihilator would have priority over the other case (a suspected serial killer) since the perpetrator may go on a spree, and go after more relatives and other innocent people. ("Memoriam")
Real World Edit
- John List: Shot his mother, wife, two sons, and daughter to death, claiming to have done so because he wanted to spare them "the shame" of having to live with a man who failed to support them in his role as patriarch (List had been recently fired, and had incurring massive debt).
- Ronald DeFeo, Jr.: Claiming that voices from inside the house told him to do it, he shot his father, mother, two brothers, and two sisters to death while they slept in their home, 112 Ocean Avenue, which later became infamous as the site of an apparent haunting dubbed "the Amityville Horror".
- Dipendra of Nepal: Nepali prince, and the perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, in which he murdered nine members of his family, and wounded five others, before attempting suicide by shooting himself in the head (dying three days later after falling into a coma).
- Ronald Simmons: Spree killer who began his rampage by wiping out fourteen members of his family through various means around Christmas. The victims included his wife, eight children (one of them the result of an incestuous relationship with a daughter), three grandchildren, a daughter-in-law, and a son-in-law.
- Ramon Salcido: Spree killer whose first six victims were members of his family: his wife, two of his three daughters, his mother-in-law, and two sister-in-laws. He also slashed the throat of his third daughter, but she survived.
Family Killers Edit
- Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer: During Rader's first known murders, he killed the entire Otero family: the father, Joseph Otero, the mother, Julie, and their children, Joseph Jr. and Josephine. All of them were either strangled, suffocated or, as with the daughter, hanged. It should be noted that, when he killed Shirley Vian Relford, he tied up her children and put them in a bathroom to get them out of the way, even leaving a few toys and blankets inside for them to make it as comfortable for them as possible.
- Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: In a way, Lake and Ng can be considered family annihilators as they would on occasion kill entire families, disposing of the men and children before raping, torturing and killing the women.
- Yang Xinhai, The Monster Killer: A prolific Chinese serial killer and rapist whose killings lasted from 1999 to 2003. He almost always killed entire families, breaking into their homes in the middle of the night with an assortment of makeshift weapons, such as shovels and meat cleavers.
- H.H. Holmes, The Beast of Chicago: An American serial killer who killed four members of the Pitezel family, killing the father (who was also his accomplice) first, then the daughters second and thrid, and finally the son fourth.
- Giuseppe Greco, Scarpuzzedda: A prolific Italian serial killer and hitman, who, after killing eight people at a pizza restaurant, killed all of their families with the help of his men two days later.
- Dick Hickock and Perry Smith: A killing team that killed the Clutter family after waking them up while trying to rob them. Each member of the family was tied up and shot to death, while the father had his throat slashed beforehand.
- John George Haigh: A British serial killer and con artist who killed the McSwann family by luring them to a workshop, bludgeoning them with a pipe, slashing their throats, and dissolving their bodies in vats of sulfuric acid. He killed the son William first, followed by the parents, Donald and Amy, ten months later.
- Howard Unruh: A schizophrenic American spree killer who killed three members of the Cohen family in a drugstore during his killing spree. He shot Dr. Maurice Cohen along with his wife Rose and his mother Minnie with the same firearm he used to kill the rest of his victims.
- Anatoly Onoprienko, The Beast of Ukraine: A Ukrainian serial/spree killer who was convicted of killing 52 people, between 1989 and 1996. 43 of them were killed in the last six months of his rampage. He would target entire families or groups of people, kill everyone, including possible witnesses, with a variety of weapons, including a hunting rifle, a double-barrelled shotgun, an axe and a hammer.
- John Linley Frazier, The Killer Prophet: Entered the home of eye surgeon Victor Ohta and killed him, his wife, children, and secretary with a .22 handgun in 1970. All of the victims were bound and blindfolded with colored scarves taken from the house. Frazier then set the house on fire and left a rambling note on Ohta's car. He claimed his motivation for the massacre was that "voices from God" had told him to "seek vengeance on those who rape the environment".


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I think im one of the few that prefer to watch movies at home, this is partly due to the lack of choice on screen (with the exception of a few months every year.) I'll watch anything expressive, with a good story, or just an old fashioned dark comedy.
My interest in the smaller flat screen is much the same. A few to mention include: Six Feet Under, Idiot Abroad, Grand Designs and Peep Show. (and yes, i will watch sports.)
I love making playlists/mix-tapes for different situations, usually my own amusement, and sharing them around. Spoon, Neil Young, Ride, Walkmen, Deerhunter and Mick Harvey are all favs, but ask me what band tops them all?
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Rogue Galaxy is a bland RPG experience that fails to use its "unique" outer space setting to breathe any life into a genre in dying need of it. Actually, it seems that Level-5 was too busy cribbing a tired plot from Dune and Star Wars when it should've taken inspiration from Knights of the Old Republic and Xenosaga. Those series already took us to the far reaches of the universe and the games they produced were actually compelling: solid, epic plots, complex worlds with inventive gadgetry, a pantheon of quirky, uniquely developed characters and, in the former's case, true character customization! This title opts instead for stale planet themes (Desert Land! Jungle Land! High-tech Land!), harebrained technology, and characters that can be described in five words or less.
Rogue Galaxy is sadly more akin to Star Ocean 3 (the granddaddy of tedious role-playing experiences). Sure, there are actually a generous handful of "planets" to jaunt through here, whereas Star Ocean 3 had the impudence to call itself 'sci-fi' then plop us on a "primitive" underdeveloped fantasyland for 90% of the game. However, Rogue Galaxy's worlds are just about as much fun to explore—which is to say they aren't, really. Most are extremely linear in design with sparingly few locales. Usually there is some matter of 'sprawling' city/village that is annoyingly populated with inaccessible paths (like private homes) you can never visit. These towns branch out into gigantically repetitive natural or manmade dungeons. Instead of creating a number of breathtaking landmarks on each and every planet (and making them feel like living, breathing worlds), the game opts for a few dungeons that cycle the same formula backdrops five or six times, guaranteeing you'll spend upwards of three to five hours in each.
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It's too bad, because many of these environments, and the characters that inhabit them, are rather interesting visually—at least for the first few minutes worth of screenshots. Level-5 clearly has some talented artists on the payroll, and they are the reigning masters of cel-shaded graphics, but their designs are exploited to the point of overkill this time around. Lacking a Final Fantasy budget to add more locales, they should've reduced the lengths of each dungeon. The overall hours logged would take a hit, but the gameplay experience might actually be memorable à la Tomb Raider: Legend, a title with notoriously short, but vividly sweet environments and gameplay.
Alas, this last point rides on the assumption that Rogue Galaxy tells a compelling story with dramatic characters, the other crucial aspect of a strong RPG.
Strike two.
Rogue Galaxy thinks that by setting its tired plot in the grandeur of space, we may be less liable to notice its banality. It begins with Jaster Rogue, a street smart orphan and wanton adventurer limited by the police-state curfews of the low-tech desert planet Rosa (sound familiar?). In come a pair of goofball space pirates: the stout and jovial weaponsmaster Simon and his naïve but well-mannered robot partner C-3P—err, Steve. In a crrrraaazy turn of fate, they mistake Jasper for the galaxy-famous hunter Desert Claw, recruiting the boy onto their advanced pirate ship so the captain Dorgengoa can exploit his mad skills in treasure-hunting. That is after they escape a colossal desert worm, pulled straight from Dune.
In classic J-RPG fashion, the epic save-the-known-universe stuff is stalled when the ship is besieged and crashes onto the jungle planet, Juraika. The crew may be savvy enough to make the repairs, but—big shocker here—not before they first must derive some oil from a rare plant that can only be found by exploring the far reaches of this new locale, resolving the planet's own immediate crisis and recruiting an Amazonian babe into the party. But wait, there's a twist! One of the space pirate crew is actually working for the bad guys!
These kinds of trite plot devices continue into the high-tech world of Zerard, home of the Galaxy Corporation, where the Space Pirates must return for a license renewal. On the plus side, it's on Zerard that the main plot finally begins to take form, as we begin to learn of the sinister Dayton Corporation through its president's right-hand-woman, the sneaky secretary Norma. The plot is mostly old hat, but it's the cast of dull characters that really pulls it down.
Jaster Rogue's big-dreaming, chosen hero is the oldest cliché in the book, followed closely by love-interest Kisala, the tough daughter of pirate captain Dorgengoa. The rest of the cast includes the hard-hitting warrior woman Lilika, brash and cynical sea pirate Zegram and Rogue Galaxy's answer to Jar Jar Binks: a whiny alien scholar named Jupis. Most only have one-note personalities at best and few have arcs of which to speak (beyond the old betrayal-and-redemption), yet somehow they all manage bucketloads of meaningless dialogue (particularly when spewing trivial comments about the weather every few seconds as you explore the monotonous dungeons). Some of the villains are marginally more interesting, but thanks to weak line deliveries from the majority of the cast, they're never as menacing or comical as they're supposed to be.
The voice actors in general won't make you want to sew your ears shut (see: Star Ocean), but you will still probably long for the age of subtitles. None of the characters are very interesting to begin with —- particularly after recently experiencing Final Fantasy XII -— and the talent behind the dialogue seems to have graduated from the Dobby the House Elf Academy of Voice Acting. Considering the dearth of quality vocal thespians in recent J-RPGs, I can almost understand Nintendo's continuing refusal to integrate them in Zelda.
In Rogue Galaxy's defense, it's not a complete disaster; it's just not Final Fantasy. The environments are huge, the item farming is addictive (in a MMORPG-lite sort of way) and completion-freaks will have a ball hunting down extra costumes and cooking up über-weapons with the Factory system. It's a shame when the mini-games and extra content trump the core aspects of a game, but it's a sad reality in a genre infamous for finding ways to artificially extend running time in order to boast of "more than 100 hours of gameplay" on the jacket.
The gameplay itself is a middling pastiche of other mechanics we've seen here and there, but it mostly works. Combat is a real-time hybrid of Star Ocean, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy. Basically, you run around the field button mashing either your short-range or long-range weapon (usefulness will vary based on the individual character and the enemies you are facing), while pausing occasionally to bring up a menu to use a restorative item or launch an elemental all-attack or party buff. Each of the eight characters fights with two different styles of weapons, and between them all, there is a surprising degree of variance (beyond visual design). Some ranged weapons fire a quick barrage of bullets, while Lilika's arrows are launched more slowly and can be charged for extra damage and Simon's guns unleash a continual burst of fire.
There are also special utility weapons that let you create jumpable platforms to access big enemy weak spots or ones that will momentarily freeze them or break their otherwise impenetrable barriers. Some of these are also unfortunately used on the field, which trigger special events if you use them at the ironically named "thinking circles", mini puzzles requiring the brain power of an average ape.
Characters learn new stuff via the customizable "Revelation Flow" system, which resembles the License Board from Final Fantasy XII, or the Sphere Grid from Final Fantasy X. The difference is that you must find, purchase or invent weird items and spend them to unlock each character's individual abilities. The characters all have an elemental preference (not that it seems to matter in most cases), a bevy of unique buffs, weapon power-ups and flashy "Burning Strikes," Rogue Galaxy's equivalent to Limit Breaks: multi-hit combos that resemble Tifa's button-coordinated punch-fests from Final Fantasy VII. The all-attack abilities are insanely overpowered, and simplistically designed (really, they're just palette swaps for each character) and I would've liked a little variety within those Burning Strikes, but the system is admittedly well-implemented, and rewards players right up until the end, especially if gamers take advantage of those scores of minigames.
Rogue Galaxy's sci-fi shtick might have stood out if it was released on the original PlayStation. The space-pirates swing on the age-old RPG formula was kind of fresh when Skies of Arcadia debuted on the short-lived Dreamcast. But since then, we've returned to the outer reaches of the galaxy with varying degrees of success, and Final Fantasy XII's Balthier and Fran now own the title of coolest airborne pirates. Rogue Galaxy is really just a mediocre, mildly entertaining entry in the overcooked lineup of PS2 RPGs. If you can settle for mediocre, feel free to take the plunge.
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Custom-engineered industrial products company MascoTech (NYSE: MSX) rose $1 5/8 to $19 today after agreeing to purchase TriMas Corp. (NYSE: TMS) for $34.50 a share in cash -- which covers the 63% of the outstanding shares that MascoTech doesn't already own. The aggregate purchase price of the deal is roughly $900 million. TriMas, a diversified proprietary products company, was up $3 9/16 to $34 3/16 on the news. MascoTech rose primarily as a result of the perceived improvement in its business mix. In a period where the big auto companies are pressuring suppliers to cut prices, MascoTech effectively made a pre-emptive move to protect its margins. MascoTech supplies engine and drivetrain components, and with the acquisition of TriMas, it will get revenue streams from products like industrial fasteners and gaskets that do not rely on the auto industry. In addition, TriMas sports operating margins that are roughly equivalent to MascoTech's gross margins of 18%. Assuming the combined entity can grow EPS at a weighted average of 12% in 1998 (off existing 1998 estimates), MascoTech would currently trade at 8.8 times a 1998 EPS estimate of $2.14.
Providing an antidote to the "Asian contagion" that's going around, specialty home furnishings retailer Pier 1 Imports (NYSE: PIR) gained $1 1/8 to $23 after recording Q3 EPS of $0.24 ($0.23 fully diluted), topping estimates for primary EPS of $0.20. Same-store sales rocketed up 16.1% for the quarter. On the demand side, the company benefits from strength in the new home market, as well as cheap overseas labor that helps it post 40% plus gross margins. After the market dive on October 28, Pier 1 emerged from the ashes announcing that it actually stood to benefit from devaluations in currencies in Southeast Asia. The company pays in local currencies to the workers who craft its handmade furniture, and sells the wares in over 700 retail locations, mostly in the U.S. Most of the company's high-margin furniture items are purchased from Italy, Malaysia, Chile, China, the Philippines and Indonesia. Since the company needs to order merchandise from four to twelve months in advance of delivery, Pier 1 may see additional currency-related benefits in 1998.
Spine-Tech Inc. (Nasdaq: SPYN), a leading supplier of fusion cage medical devices (implanted between spinal vertebrae to promote fusion), gained $4 1/8 to $37 3/8 today while a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee evaluated a competitor's product for approval -- the Novus LC interbody spinal fusion cage made by Sofamor Danek Group (NYSE: SDG). Through the course of the day Spine Tech marched ever higher while Sofamor Danek continued to fall. Analysts rationalized Sofamor's decline by stating that it had experienced "significant run-ups" over the last two weeks and was due for some "profit taking." This of course begged the question, why the heck was a company that stood to lose the most by a favorable FDA panel review of Novus LC gaining steadily throughout the day? Perhaps Sofamor Danek's product would fail to win FDA panel backing? As it turns out, the FDA panel gave it the thumbs down, a fact confirmed after market close. This means that someone today was betting that Sofamor's one year of follow-up data on the product was not enough to convince panelists of the product's efficacy (previous approvals for similar products required two years of data). Or perhaps something slightly more insidious was at work.
QUICK TAKES: HORIZON Pharmacies (AMEX: HZP) continued its acquisition binge today, moving higher $13/16 to $10 7/8 on news that it acquired Brookfield, Missouri-based Mart Super Drug, which rakes in $1.7 million in annual sales and fills an average of 180 prescriptions per day... Shares of Internet access via cable modem company @Home Corp. (Nasdaq: ATHM) rose $2 5/16 to $25 7/8 after USA Today reported that AT&T Corp (NYSE: T) may invest $1.25 billion in the company... Investment bankers Ryan, Beck & Co. (Nasdaq: RBCO) reported today that it expects fourth quarter earnings to be "significantly higher" than last year, which boosted the company $1/2 to $7 1/8... Lazard Freres & Co. initiated coverage on Intermedia Communications (Nasdaq: ICIX) with a "buy" recommendation, which raised shares of the integrated competitive local exchange carrier $2 3/4 to $55 1/2.
Access Beyond (Nasdaq: ACCB) rose $1/4 to $5 7/16 after the company announced that its AB4400 remote access server was named the top finisher in the CMP Network Computing Magazine roundup of remote access servers... Ag-biotech company Agritope, a planned spin-off from Epitope, Inc. (Nasdaq: EPTO), announced this morning that it has entered into a stock purchase plan and R&D agreement with Vilmorin & Cie (a majority-owned subsidiary of French Groupe Limagrain Holdings). Vilmorin will purchase 214,285 shares of Agritope preferred stock for $1.5 million and will provide proprietary seed varieties for use by Agritope. Epitope rose $5/16 to $5 5/8 on the news... Retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co. (NYSE: S) announced that this spring it will begin selling Maytag (NYSE: MYG) brand appliances. Maytag also announced that fourth quarter results will be better than the company originally expected, which moved the company up $1 1/8 to $36 3/4.
Expanding into the data communications business, telecommunications company Winstar Communications (Nasdaq: WCII) announced that it has signed a definitive pact to buy GoodNet, a tier 1 Internet backbone provider, from Telesoft Corp. (Nasdaq: TSFT), which gained $25/32 to $3 29/32 on the news... Vertex Pharamaceuticals (Nasdaq: VRTX) rose $1 1/4 to $27 3/8 after Cowen & Co. reiterated its "strong buy" recommendation on the developmental-stage drug company... Engineering and construction concern Fluor Corp. (NYSE: FLR) gained $15/16 to $36 1/16 after Salomon Smith Barney upgraded the company from "neutral" to "buy" and gave it a price target of $45.
Reebok (NYSE: RBK) fell $3 13/16 to $29 after the company released a terse statement saying it has reduced its outlook for full-year earnings expectations. Analysts had previously been expecting fiscal 1997 EPS of $2.50. Athletic shoe retailers declined on the news, with Woolworth Corp. (NYSE: Z), owner of Foot Locker, falling $7/8 to $20 15/16, and Finish Line Inc. (Nasdaq: FINL) stumbling $2 1/8 to $12 7/8. Competitor Nike (NYSE: NKE) lost $1 3/8 to $45 1/8 on the news, although its product line is more diverse than the basketball-oriented Reebok or Fila (NYSE: FLH), which also declined $1 1/4 to $22 15/16 today.
Air cargo company Federal Express (NYSE: FDX) fell $5 to $62 3/8 after the Wall Street Journal reported today that analysts expected the company to report flat year-over-year Q2 EPS of $0.90. However, last year's results were bolstered by credits for extraordinary income. Having reported EPS of $0.91 after the bell today, FedEx's results were 15% ahead of last year's EPS of $0.79 from continuing operations. This story is may be news to some investors, but not those who paid attention to the analysts' median earnings estimate, which has come down to $0.90 in recent weeks. Disregarding the high estimate of $1.10 a share reported to First Call, the mean, or average, estimate would be closer to $0.90 a share than the current $0.95 -- reflecting the company's guidance that its three-day delivery service carries lower margins than its overnight business due to its more commodity-like nature. Merger partner Caliber Systems (NYSE: CBB) lost $4 1/16 to $49 1/2 along with FedEx.
Programmable logic device (PLD) maker Lattice Semiconductor (Nasdaq: LSCC) lost $3 3/16 to $55 5/16 after the company said its sole Korean distributor has become insolvent, which may affect $3.5 million in orders for the company's products. For a company with a revenue run-rate of one-quarter of a billion dollars, $3.5 million is a relatively insignificant revenue loss. In addition, Lattice said there is no credit risk involved in the distributor's failure. PLD maker Altera (Nasdaq: ALTR) fell $3 5/16 to $32 9/16 amidst general weakness in semiconductor companies today. The weakness also claimed communications chip maker Level One Communications (Nasdaq: LEVL) for a $2 23/32 loss to $26 21/32 and dragged down DSP Communications (NYSE: DSP) $2 3/8 to $10 15/16. At midday, BA Robertson Stephens analyst Elias Moosa reiterated a "buy" rating on Level One, underscoring that firm's 1998 EPS estimate of $1.21.
Oil and gas drillers bounced around like small ketchs in a thunderstorm today. Offshore driller Marine Drilling (Nasdaq: MDCO) was pumped for a $2 3/16 loss to $22 3/16 in the rocky trading. Reading & Bates (NYSE: RB) closed down $2 to $40 5/8 after trading as low as $38 1/16. Merger partner Falcon Drilling (NYSE: FLC) lost $1 7/8 to $34 5/16. As of today's close, the combined company, to be known as R&B Falcon, sells at around 16.5 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), netting out any asset sales in earnings. Should the company create cash flow growth of 23% in the coming year and carry a smaller peak-cycle EBITDA multiple of 12 times cash flow, then shareholders are looking at a flat return in the coming year. Investors who believe that the company can attain that growth and carry a higher multiple at this time next year simply need to divide the cash flow multiple by the above 12 times forward cash flow at which the company is now selling to figure out a prospective shareholder return for the coming year. For instance, if an investor thinks the company can carry a multiple of 14 times cash flow, they're looking at a potential return of 17% over the next 12 months.
FirstPlus Financial Group (NYSE: FPFG) recovered a bit today after being off more than $4 intra-day as investors became concerned over a potential accounting change. FirstPlus fell $7 7/8 yesterday after it revealed in a routine 10-K filing that it might stop using "gain-on-sale" accounting to report earnings. When a financial company sells a package of securities that will generate income over a multiple year period, current accounting rules allow it to recognize the income all at once rather than as it earns the money. Green Tree Financial (NYSE: GNT), off $3 to $23 7/8 today on the resignation of the company President, recently highlighted the perils of "gain-on-sale" accounting when it was forced to write-down the value of some assets on its balance sheet because customers were refinancing their manufactured home loans. The concern is that if companies like FirstPlus, Green Tree and The Money Store (NYSE: MON) stop using "gain-on-sale" accounting, they will not be as profitable.
QUICK CUTS: Industrial chemicals and agricultural equipment company FMC Corp. (NYSE: FMC) fell $3 3/8 to $65 9/16 after announcing that it expects to report EPS of $0.45 to $0.55 from continuing operations in the fourth quarter, below estimates of $0.97... Following FedEx's fall, Airborne Freight Corp. (NYSE: ABF) lost $5 1/4 to $67 1/4 and air cargo company Atlas Air (NYSE: CGO) descended $2 1/8 to $25... As part of the general alarm sounded on athletic shoe company Reebok and retailer Finish Line today, athletic retailer Footstar Inc. (NYSE: FTS) was tripped up for a $1 1/8 loss to $29 7/16... In addition to oil and gas drillers moving around today, pipeline coating products company Tuboscope Inc. (NYSE: TBI) was flushed for a $3 7/16 loss to $19 3/16 on no news, as were drilling equipment suppliers Precision Drilling Corp. (NYSE: PDS), which slid $2 7/16 to $24 1/8, and National Oilwell (NYSE: NOI), which fell $2 13/16 to $31 5/8.
French electronics and semiconductor company SGS-Thompson (NYSE: STM) fell $6 1/4 to $55 1/4 as the French stock market declined 3.5% today... BankAmerica (NYSE: BAC) was taken down $3 3/4 to $74 3/4 as the accursed term "Asian contagion" rings in the ears of anyone on a trading desk with a TV nearby... Quantum Corp. (Nasdaq: QNTM) fell $3 7/8 to $19 15/16 after the data storage products company pre-announced Q3 EPS of $0.25 to $0.35, below lowered EPS expectations of $0.60. The company cited continued pricing weakness and "transition issues" for its DLTtape systems as the causes of the weak results.
PC graphics cards company Creative Technology (Nasdaq: CREAF) fell $2 to $18 after the company said Asian currency fluctuations will cap its earnings upside for the quarter and that it will be lucky to make second quarter earnings estimates of $0.78 a share... American Home Products (NYSE: AHP) fell $3 5/16 to $73 3/16 after a Wall Street Journal article said the company didn't report all of the problems related to the "fen-phen" diet pill combination that it distributed... Electronics contract manufacturer and distributor Kent Electronics (NYSE: KNT) fell $6 1/2 to $22 after Merrill Lynch lowered its rating on the company to "near-term neutral" from "near-term accumulate." Jabil Circuit (Nasdaq: JBIL) also took a hit on that news, losing $6 13/16 to $37 13/16... United Companies Financial (NYSE: UC) lost $3 to $16 1/2 after Robinson-Humphrey cut its rating on the mortgage lender to "short-term hold" based on the belief that loan growth is slowing, even with the refinancing market booming with a decline in interest rates.
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Asian Contagion Claims Another
Semiconductor capital equipment companies underwent a savage beating today as investors fled industry uncertainty. A profit warning from Kulicke & Soffa (Nasdaq: KLIC) as a result of continued economic turmoil in Korea initiated today's debacle. Investors are concerned that economic upheaval in East Asia and Japan could cause spending for semiconductor capital equipment to dry up. Imploding currencies, massive debt loads, and slowing economies throughout the region could all contribute to lower capital spending. Many investors figure that if major Korean manufacturers like Hyundai are choking right now, things will only get worse in the future.
Since the late October turmoil in Southeast Asia, semiconductor capital equipment manufacturers have been under pressure. The average semiconductor equipment manufacturer in the Motley Fool Semiconductor Capital Equipment Universe has dropped 14.0% so far this month. Even more shocking is the 38.6% haircut the average company in this group has seen since the fourth quarter began on October 1. Although as a whole these companies are still in positive territory for the year with a 24.1% average return, at this point these companies have underperformed the S&P 500's total return of 34.9%.
Kulicke & Soffa re-ignited tensions this morning when it reported that it would not make fiscal first quarter earnings estimates $0.38 per share. The largest manufacturer of wafer assembly equipment in the world said Hyundai and another unidentified Korean customer had pushed out orders for 110 wire bonders, reducing first quarter sales by approximately $9 million. Hyundai now wants 80 of the bonders in question to be delivered in February, although these orders could be further delayed. The other 30 bonders are pretty much toast, as the company that wanted to buy them could not get a letter of credit. In addition, Kulicke is also having some production problems with its 8060 wedge bonders, which will shave up to $5 million more off the quarterly total.
This is the first concrete sign from one of these companies that the Southeast Asian turmoil is more than hype. Although many took Oracle's warning earlier in the week as the watershed moment, for this particular industry the impact on Kulicke is much more relevant. In addition, Lattice Semiconductor (Nasdaq: LSCC) reported today that it had $3.5 million in revenues in potential jeopardy due to the insolvency of its South Korean distributor. As South Korea is the 11th largest economy in the world and constitutes about 10% of the sales of all semiconductor capital equipment, hairline fractures in the corporate infrastructure like this are a real economic event that creates some concern. Korea's most significant semiconductor export is memory chips. With the prices on memory chips still under siege and the Korean currency collapsing, it is not hard to see scenarios where companies like Samsung join Hyundai in pushing-out orders.
Investors who remember the last downturn in semiconductor capital equipment are seeing some eerie similarities. When Kulicke reported push-outs by Taiwanese customers and problems with its 8020 turbo gold ball bonder in late 1995, this was the first sign of trouble for the semiconductor capital equipment industry. Although at the time Kulicke declared the issues short-term problems and continued working on a secondary offering, it turned out they were actually an excellent leading indicator for a downturn in the cycle. In retrospect, Kulicke's emphasis on the secondary offering was seen by many investors as an uncanny call on the top for the equity value of the company. As Kulicke had a three million share secondary offering back in May and now it is having problems with another key piece of equipment, some believe history is repeating itself.
All of this fear has created the most attractive set of valuations on semiconductor capital equipment manufacturers in the last few months. With a variety of companies sporting solid balance sheets and starting to edge toward the low end of their historical valuation ranges, today's turmoil appears to offer investors the first compelling entry point since late 1996. On a relative basis the larger manufacturers have actually been hit harder, with Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT), KLA-Tencor (Nasdaq: KLAC), and the decently diversified Teradyne (NYSE: TER) all trading for around 2.0 times their enterprise value (price). The five-year lows in the price/sales for these three companies are between 0.7 to 1.0, while the five-year highs range between 5.0 to 5.5. Although they have not hit near absolute panic valuations, the South Korean problems would have to kick off a major slowdown across all semiconductor capital equipment product lines to justify some of today's prices.
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WINNIPEG — A Progressive Conservative MLA says it's "unfortunate" that improperly worded tickets are once again undermining public confidence in the photo radar program.
Steinbach MLA and Tory house leader Kelvin Goertzen said Wednesday his party supports the decision by authorities to issue refunds to drivers who received improperly worded tickets.
He said the province should also have paid refunds several years ago in a similar case, but did not.
"We've not taken the position that there shouldn't be a photo radar program, but we need a photo radar program that people have confidence in," Goertzen said.
In 2009, the province decided not to issue refunds to drivers ticketed in construction zones that had been incorrectly marked.
Nine speeding tickets were tossed in traffic court and the Crown stayed 875 cases that were outstanding, but the province refused to refund thousands of ticket fines that had already been paid.
"I do think it is the right decision to refund the tickets, and I'm disappointed that the same decision wasn't made (five) years ago ..." Goertzen said.
Other controversies surrounding photo radar have included the timing of amber lights and signage issues in general.
Justice Minister Andrew Swan was unavailable for comment Wednesday.
A provincial spokeswoman said only "a few hundred" of the nearly 2,600 affected tickets had been paid so far.
They will be refunded.
The total potential revenue to the city and province of all the improperly worded tickets was about $1.2 million, she said.
Revenues from photo radar speeding tickets are shared 50-50 by the two levels of government.
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Sympathy to the family. One man foot pursuits are coming under closer and closer scrutiny and regulation.
This is a discussion on Officer Killed -- Routine Stop within the Law Enforcement, Military & Homeland Security Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; RIP Prayers for and condolences to parents, brother and sister. http://fallenheroesusa.org/content/o...-o-w-11-08-10/ Officer Ryan Bonaminio E.O.W. 11-08-10 A manhunt is under way on Monday for a ...
Prayers for and condolences to parents, brother and sister.
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A manhunt is under way on Monday for a shooter who killed a police officer during a chase through a park in Riverside. The perimeter around Fairmount Park was shut down as police continue to comb the neighborhood.
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Sympathy to the family. One man foot pursuits are coming under closer and closer scrutiny and regulation.
"I do what I do." Cpl 'coach' Bowden, "Southern Comfort".
Prayers for the family and his fellow officers! I pray the catch the shooter, and he pays for what he's done!
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Condolences to the officer's family and co-workers.
With luck, this dirtbag offender will resist arrest...just enough.
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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Nothing is routine in law enforcement even if it seems that way. Condolences to the family.
"Violence is seldom the answer, but when it is the answer it is the only answer".
"A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves".
My prayers go out for the fallen Officer's family and department.
Any day at work can go from "normal" to deadly in an instant.
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Condolences to the officer's family and his fellow officers.
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Everyday there is less respect for the guys who wear a badge,It's time society woke up and actually started using the death penalty and not going thru 20 years of appeals
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Here is one that is near and dear to my heart.
He was on a routine stop. Young Thug thought it was going to be a takedown because he was just about always doing something illegal, and decided he wasn't goin down without a fight.
My condolences to family and friends of Officer Ryan Bonaminio
I hate when it goes like this.
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Don't ever think that the reason I'm peaceful is because I don't know how to be violent
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I just got an email alert that the police arrested this driver earlier this evening.....
He was on parole and has been charged with 1st deg murder
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If loose gun laws are good for criminals why do criminals support gun control?
Video is not that good. Now we have years of trials and appeals to deal with. I know our judicial system has proceedures that need to be followed to protect the rights of individuals but sometimes as in this instance ......... never mind I am just ranting to myself.
"Violence is seldom the answer, but when it is the answer it is the only answer".
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