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In Reply to: RE: Customer situation, what would you do? posted by Gordon Rankin on April 07, 2011 at 10:51:50
A lot of UK hi-fi buyers are like that. The UK is filled with barrack-room lawyers, rights without responsibility types who feel it's their moral duty to complain about everything.
Unfortunately, the kind of people who do this in the UK really, really know how to make trouble in a passive-aggressive kind of manner. The latest one is the guy who didn't get the refund he wanted on his MP3-ripping player, so he took the company to the Advertising Standards Authority because it 'misleadingly implies it's acceptable to copy CDs' (copying music - even if you retain the disc - is notionally copyright theft in the UK). So now the company needs to find new advertising and the hi-fi industry in the UK can't talk about ripping music anymore.
The other problem is some of them don't back down even if they get the answer they want. If you give in to this guy's demands, the best you get is that he goes away. More likely, he'll just start a hate campaign, anyway. Fortunately, he's pretty far from home and you don't sell into the UK, so he's not got that much firepower.
Tell him to get stuffed.
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... what with being French and all, but this is a huge load of arse!!!!! Absolutely ridiculous.
In any case, Gordon, your customer is a looney, and it's got nothing to do with where he's from.
What part is ridiculous?
Do you mean the ASA ruling - no, that's happened (see link).
Do you mean that the UK people aren't all about rights, not about responsibilities - we might have to agree to disagree. But you don't live in the UK and I do. We get this all the time.
I DO live in the UK.
Generalizing this behavior as a typical British one is what I do not agree with.
Gordon's client is obviously an idiot, and I've seen them all over the world.
I judge countries by the number of lawyers in the population, on the simple basis that more lawyers=more litigation.
The US is still ahead of everyone else, with one lawyer for every 320 people. The UK has one lawyer per 694 people. France has 2461 people per lawyer and Japan has 8195 people per lawyer.
South Park wouldn't have had Tom Cruise say "'I'll sue you in England" if the UK wasn't the birth-place of 'libel tourism'.
Finally, I see your point and raise you Grumbletext. Says it all, really.
> with barrack-room lawyers, rights without responsibility types who feel it's their moral duty to complain about everything. <
Wow, sounds like the ACLU.....
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UK residents think that if they complain long enough + loud enough that not only right will be on their side; but that you will LISTEN + COMPLY to whatever beef they have
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The chaplain at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain confirmed to Fox News the nativity scene was cancelled – but referred any further comments to the NSA's public information officer.
The "Live Nativity" was a long-standing tradition at NSA Bahrain that featured the children of military personnel dressed as shepherds, wise men, along with Mary and Joseph. It was part of a larger festival that included a tree lighting, Christmas music and photographs with Santa Claus and a camel.
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The days here in Taiji seem to be getting progresA trainer at Dolphin Base ignores Misty'spleas to playsively worse in terms of the increased dolphin killings and their tragic suffering, with frustration and sorrow intensifying as well. Once again today, striped dolphins were driven into the Cove; this time a group of 15 or so. Striped dolphins will spend the majority of their lives in the open ocean, rarely seeing land and it is typically this dolphin species that aggressively panics during the drive and once netted in the killing cove. This type of dolphin ruthlessly fights the driving process and it takes the hunters hours to push them into the Cove. Once netted into the Cove, they go wild with fear and desperation, more often than not becoming entangled in the nets.
Today was no exception. Driving these dolphins into the Cove was a task of great proportion and it took all twelve banger boats and three skiffs to get the job done. Once netted in the Cove, several dolphins found themselves struggling to break free of the nets. The Cove Guardians watched as one dolphin's teeth got stuck in the net and it thrashed about in terror. A hunter in a skiff approached this dolphin and proceeded to slap at it, shooing it away much like an irritated parent could to their child.
Eventually, the fight left this particular dolphin and it simply began to float, still alive but exhausted. Only to be subsequently grabbed by its tail and forced upside down into the water by a hunter that was, from what it looked like, attempting to drown it.
Misty interacts with another dolphinin the next tankMuch conversation is circulating on the Internet asking why we are only documenting the dolphin slaughter. Given these hunts are perfectly legal in Japan and part of their so-called culture, and we would promptly be removed by the local authorities if we were to intervene, however, we are here to document the daily atrocities until legislative change can come about.
It is true that the public is becoming frustrated by the fact that the same scenario plays out in Taiji nearly every single day during the hunting season. Magnify that frustration by the largest number you can fathom, and that's how frustrated the Cove Guardians feel. Being here every single day, witnessing horror every single day, and feeling unimaginably helpless every single day is a burden that cannot be described. But we are here, away from our loved ones and our lives, doing the best we can for the sake of these sentient beings. And what we are doing is making a difference. With the support and encouragement of people around the world, we are all making a difference. I want to thank every single person that reads the Cove Guardian updates on Sea Shepherd's website and follows our Facebook pages. Together we will stop this.
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Thank you to the citizens of Japan who are weighing these issues and beginning to take a stand to solve them. Thank you to everyone who is on the frontlines of this war. This is a war to save ourselves from ourselves. Without your calling and writing Japanese embassies and your own governments, there will be no change. Keep it up! Every time dolphins are pushed into the Cove, let them have it. Every time there is blood in the water, let them have it. Make good consumer choices. Inform everyone you know about the tragedy here and how it is linked to the captive dolphin trade. All who patronize a dolphin show have blood on their hands.
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The American Idol finalist hit the ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Hollywood last night, where he and Ke$ha helped celebrate Dr. Luke and Max Martin, who were named songwriters of the year for ubiquitous hits like California Gurls (Katy Perry), Tik Tok (Ke$ha), Dynamite (Taio Cruz), Party in the USA (Miley Cyrus) and Whataya Want from Me (Lambert).
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UV/EB for Wood – Introduction to Technology and Materials
Ronald Obie, Wood Coatings Research Group
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Our premises was originally built in 1914, when it housed The Bank of Nova Scotia.
It was purchased in the early 1930's by the late J. W. Hiscock (grandfather of the present owner) as the centre of his Labrador fish business. It remained as an office for the company of J. W. Hiscock Sons Limited until the early 1970's when the office was moved to their new fish plant on the water front.
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Sunday was a day of sorrow: Joe Kubert passed away at age 85.
Like most comicbook readers of my generation, I "met" Joe as a lad, long distance, through Joe's energetic, distinctive comics creations and co-creations: collaborative work with diverse peers on the likes of THE FLASH (Joe inked the seminal Silver Age Flash rebirth in SHOWCASE), HAWKMAN, CAVE CARSON, and "The War That Time Forgot"; his fruitful collaborations with writer/editor Bob Kanigher on series like SGT. ROCK, ENEMY ACE, and so many more; his solo efforts as writer/editor on TOR and FIREHAIR and his adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs' TARZAN novels, and more.
To my eyes, Joe's comics seemed forever alive and vital, bursting with vigor and life, and yet soaked in shadows and the threat of mortality, inked with dinosaur blood and oil and ink.
In the summer of 1976, I met Joe in the flesh—at my interview at the Baker Mansion in Dover, NJ in hopes of making the cut to be part of the first-ever class at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc.—and first met his eye and felt his knuckle-cruncher handshake. My life changed the second I met Joe; and a second later, when my father met Joe, life got even better.
My father had never really believed one could make a living drawing: yet here was Joe, raising a huge family as a lifelong working cartoonist. My father had served in four branches of the service and didn't consider cartooning a masculine preoccupation; Joe had served in the military, and was in every way a man's man. With their first handshake, their first words, everything I'd ever wanted to do with and in my life was suddenly OK with my father—and from that moment on, my Dad was totally supportive and in my camp.
Joe, and the school, opened countless doors for me and other aspiring cartoonists and storytellers—and Joe always taught by his own example. In this, Joe not only launched the school (with his beloved wife Muriel, who was the the backbone of the day-to-day operations) and taught classes, but he continued to edit and draw comics, and later graphic novels, along with myriad projects that flowed across his desk and through his studio (including various school work programs, which students like myself cut our professional teeth with) too numerous to mention.
I last saw Joe two years ago. We talked on the phone between then and now; he was ever attentive, ever supportive, and forever "paying forward" the gift of storytelling, of making comics and making art.
It's a debt I know I could never repay, and now that Joe's gone, I never will—except by following Joe's example. As James Sturm wrote to me this morning, "Know you are carrying his banner everyday you walk into a classroom."
As Joe taught me—as ever by example—you repay the generation that gave you everything by doing the same for the next generation.
Like everyone at the Joe Kubert School and the Center for Cartoon Studies, I do my best to live up to Joe's example by sharing all I know with the next generation of cartoonists.
As Joe proved every day to anyone who was lucky enough to be in his circle, it's the least we can do.
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Steve Doocy Addresses "Silver Spoon" Misquote, But Doesn't Mention What He Got Wrong
After misquoting [1] President Obama in an interview with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney last week, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy this morning addressed the fabrication, stating that he "did some paraphrasing that seemed to misquote the president." From today's Fox & Friends:
DOOCY: Last week, President Obama talked about not being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. That was interpreted as a big dig at Mitt Romney. When I was interviewing Governor Romney on this show, I asked him about it. However, I did some paraphrasing that seemed to misquote the president. So to be clear, the president's exact quote was, "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth." And I hope that clears up any confusion.
In the original segment, Doocy said to Romney: "Speaking of rhetoric, [President Obama] had some fiery rhetoric pointed at you yesterday. He said, 'Unlike some people, I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.'" But as several outlets pointed out, Obama never said "unlike some people," which would have undermined Doocy's claim that the comment was "fiery rhetoric pointed at" Romney.
During his clarification this morning, Doocy did not explain what part of the quote was fabricated and that including the phrase "unlike some people" may have contributed to Obama's comment being "interpreted as a big dig at Mitt Romney." As Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple wrote [2] of Doocy's misquote: "Romney gobbled it all up, saying, among other things, 'I know the president likes to attack fellow Americans.'"
Doocy's misquote of Obama also spread to the mainstream media. A Washington Post blog post [3] and a New York Post editorial [4] each included Doocy's misquote. Both outlets later issued corrections.
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Every camera has default settings that seem to have been designed for beginning photographers who are handholding the camera. When teaching workshops I frequently dive into the menus on student's cameras to change those settings (with their permission of course) to ones more suitable for landscape photographers working on a tripod. And the students usually tell me they wished they'd known about those settings sooner.
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Just after announcing Apple's iPad 2 at a media keynote today, Steve Jobs went on to talk about some of the accessories that will be available for Apple's second-generation iPad, including a dock connector that enables HDMI output, and new magnetic covers available in 10 colors.
The HDMI accessory plugs into the iPad 2's dock connector and provides a mirrored output of the device's display at 1080p. No setup or configuration is required – you simply plug it in and you're ready to go – and it supports rotation. Steve says it'll work with all apps and it'll be great for teachers, lecturers, businessmen and presenters. The HDMI connector is also home to a regular 30-pin connector, so you can also charge your device whilst outputting to your TV, and will cost $39.
Instead of a new case for the iPad 2, Apple has instead developed 'covers', available in 10 colors – 5 of which are made from polyurethane, and 5 from leather – these covers are magnetic and simply stick to the side of your device to protect its screen. Steve said that Apple's old iPad cases covered up the device's beautiful design, so these ones just protect its screen with a microfibre cloth lining the inside. When you want to use your device, you simply peel back the cover and fold it around the back turning it into a stand. The cover automatically wakes your device when you open it, and puts it to sleep when you close it. These covers start at $39 for the polyurethane options, or $69 if you'd prefer leather.


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by Murray N. Rothbard LewRockwell.com At the end of World War II an all-powerful United States succeeded in imposing on the Western world its major economic war aim: the Bretton Woods international monetary system, establishing fixed exchange rates and the dollar as the base of world currencies. That system was thought to be engraved... »
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I live in Williamsburg and have been driving to an Aveda salon in Richmond. I love it, but Richmond doesn't always fit in my schedule. I took a gamble and went to this Aveda salon instead and was thrilled with the results! I have never had so many compliments on my (usually unruly and disastrous) hair! Thanks Lakeisha for taming my mane!
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The salon itself is attractive & upscale with a nice and attentive staff. However, they have a treasure in colorist Jake who recently moved from here from Chicago. He is fantastic-very skilled and especially with color correction or make-overs. I've lived in several of the largest cities in the US with access to some of the top salons in the country and he is one of the best colorist hands down. At the very least get a consultation with him for some expert advice. The salon also has a wonderful skin and waxing expert in Beah. She's very skilled and gentle, Everyone I've referred raves about her.
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I went for a spa pedicure. While Tara was doing my pedicure she told me the following things: They do not have any trained nail techs...the people doing nails are hair stylists. Their limited polish colors are old and thick. She tried hard, but things did not turn out well. My polish would not dry because it was old and thick and because she didn't clean my nails properly after the paraffin mask. She did not paint my nails close to the cuticle line and therefore they looked like they are a week old right from the start. I will not return and will make sure all my friends and relatives know not to go there. What a disappointment!
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Waving signs reading "No hate in our state" and carrying rainbow flags, a crowd of at least 2,000 people including Democratic elected officials rallied the same day that business-rating website Angie's List put on hold its plans to expand its Indianapolis operation, citing the new law.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed overwhelmingly by both chambers of the Republican led-state legislature and signed into law on Thursday by Indiana Governor Mike Pence.
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A new Swedish government has taken office. A new European Commission is about to. It seemed to me a good time to set out some thoughts on some of the big priorities facing the UK, Sweden and our EU partners over the coming months. Here's a translation of the article I wrote for Saturday's Dagens industry, Debatt: Så kan Löfven hjälpa oss, describing what I see as the shared priorities.
For all EU countries, modernising our economies to create high quality, high value employment for the future is a shared challenge. Britain has seen employment growing rapidly in the last few years, but other European countries, not least those in the Eurozone have struggled.
Over the next 15 years Europe's share of global output is forecast to halve. This is partly about the emerging markets growing. But it also reflects the lack of underlying competitiveness in Europe.
So the challenge is how to create a more competitive EU, which will deliver prosperity for its citizens. For the UK, this means making more out of the EU's Single Market, the heart of Europe's success over the last thirty years, but whose potential is still not fully realised.
The single market remains incomplete in services, energy and digital – the very sectors that are the engines of a modern economy – it is only half the success it could be.
The UK's priorities, where we want to work closely with Sweden, are therefore to advance services liberalisation, to reform the digital single market, increase innovation, advance free trade, improve regulation, deepen the single market in financial services, develop a more integrated energy market and deliver on our climate change ambitions. Taking each in turn:
Services: we want the new Commission to prioritise advancing the single market in high-value services sectors, such as construction and professional business services, by breaking down the remaining barriers. The services sector accounts for 70% of EU GDP and over 90% of new jobs, but it makes up just over 20% of intra-EU trade. This has to change. Existing legislation should be redesigned to accommodate and encourage new ways of doing business and new proposals should be future-proofed to retain the flexibility to respond to future technological changes. Completing the Digital Single Market could alone add 4% to EU GDP by 2020.
Innovation: is key to sustaining growth for developed economies. Our companies cannot compete with the rest of the world on price alone. This requires a pro-innovation mindset, including better regulation, competitive product markets, and access to finance. In 2011 more than 70% of the world's knowledge creation was taking place outside the EU and only 17% of the world-leading innovators in ICT come from the EU, compared to 52% from the US alone.
Trade: as consumers we benefit from free trade within the Single Market. We need to free up the EU's external trade. Therefore we want the next Commission to pursue an ambitious trade agenda. We're confident Cecilia Malmström will do that. An ambitious TTIP could bring annual benefits to the EU economy of €119 billion, or an extra €545 for every family of four in the EU.
Regulation: getting the right balance on regulation, encouraging growth, while protecting consumers, is more crucial than ever. Cutting unnecessary bureaucratic burdens is vital to developing the competitiveness of our businesses. We need a regulatory framework that promotes innovation, skilled jobs and access to world markets. A 25% reduction in EU administrative burdens on businesses could lead to an increase of 1.4% in EU GDP.
Financial Services: over the last five years the EU has undertaken a comprehensive reform of this sector, but but further work is necessary to deepen and strengthen the internal market and to ensure the sector provides financing for jobs and growth in a stable environment. The Commission should take action to improve capital markets so companies have access to the funding necessary to invest and grow.
Energy and climate: Consumers and businesses require affordable, secure and sustainable energy. By completing the internal energy market we could unlock substantial benefits for the EU. A recent report estimates the value of an integrated EU market to be as much as €40 billion a year by 2030 in electricity, and in gas as much as €30 billion a year. Europe needs to move towards greater energy security and independence.
Above all, it also needs to offer global leadership towards getting an international climate agreement: a greenhouse gas reduction target of at least 40% could also result in gas imports falling by almost 10% from 2010 levels by 2030. Good for Europe's economy and a crucial contribution to tackling the greatest global challenge of all: uncontrolled climate change.


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Let's put it like this...I'm going to miss my guns in Heaven, that's the only time your scenario will come true!!!
This is a discussion on How many would still carry? within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; How many people would still carry if the world was a perfect place and there were no such things as bad guys and crime?...
How many people would still carry if the world was a perfect place and there were no such things as bad guys and crime?
Let's put it like this...I'm going to miss my guns in Heaven, that's the only time your scenario will come true!!!
Proud NRA member
I said "yes" because the only world that could ever be crime-free is a world where everyone carries 24/7.
The Ethics of Liberty
The Survival Podcast
How long have we watered the Tree of Deceit with the blood of patriots?
I don't carry just for the two-legged critters, and a crime-free world won't change the occasional need to shoot a four-legged critter.
CP Lincoln
The only 'polite' world we will have is when everyone IS armed.
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
Certified Glock Armorer
NRA Life Member
I would carry because it would be cool to have some on the spot target practice!
Ccccccc what? Ccccccccccc Hawks!
If there was no chance of crime, and no chance of being attacked by dogs, or other animals. I guess I'd have to say no, as there would be no need then. But, that's not possible so the gun is always on me or within reach.
Better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
I voted yes. It's hard to break a good habit.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
I wouldn't.
Carry is a drag, literally.
Holster, gun, spare magazine if not two, magazine holster, knife, OC/CS, planning my clothing and body motions as related to a given outing & situation amongst the public, being and staying 'aware' of my surroundings, ongoing study and analysis of multiple state & local gun, carry, and civilian defense laws, constant ongoing training, continuing education as related to defensive handgun/shotgun/rifle skill$, maintaining membership$ at multiple indoor and outdoor ranges, hunting down and purchasing ammunition which is no longer Budweiser priced, quarterly 'discussions' with my wife about why do I "walk around wearing a gun", having to tell my kids and deal with crying when I say no we can't stop at some random K-12 school to play in their playground...because daddy is carrying and it's unlawful to posses on or about school grounds.
I could continue but you get where I'm going.
Carry and the responsibility that comes with it is a drag.
If such a hypothetical world were truly existent and sustainable, which it isn't not even in comics and fairy tales (!), then yes I would trade in my weapons and all my gear tomorrow and be done with the aggravation.
I wouldn't miss them either. I'd not mind spending my time,money, and brain power/overhead on something other than sharpening my claws and postulating from which direction would I predate myself if I were a predator.
To me and my mind guns are little more than tools.
Tools as a means to a stop or survive crime against my person end.
- Janq doesn't read comics nor ever believed in fairy tales
"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
"A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman." - Florida Div. of Licensing
The question is so ludicrous that I didn't bother to vote...
"It's a big gun when I carry it, it is also a big gun when I take it out Clint Smith


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Cindy's Frame
Could it be that the War in Iraq will be stopped by one woman walking down a road in Texas?
As of today, it certainly seems so.
Yesterday afternoon, Cindy Sheehan, mother of a fallen soldier, marched toward the President's vacation home in Texas. Asked by reporters what she hoped to achieve, Cindy replied:
"I want to ask the president, why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?"
(The full Reuters article is here)
Sheehan, who comes from a small town in rural California, told reporters that she blames the President for the recent death of her son Casey (Army Specialist, killed in Iraq, April 4, 2004). Following a peaceful rally in Dallas, she decided to come to Texas to speak directly to the President at his vacation home.
But Cindy never got the meeting she was after.
Instead, Cindy and a few other mothers who had also lost their sons in Iraq were hustled into a closed session with a handful of low-level officials. Rather than speaking to the President as she had hoped, Cindy was presented with the oft-repeated White House talking points about the war:
"We mourn the loss of every life and Americans deeply appreciate those who have made the supreme sacrifice. The way to honor that sacrifice is to complete the mission so that their lives were not lost in vain."
Not to be deterred, Cindy thanked the President's assistants for their time, walked back out in the heat of the Texas summer, and vowed to stage a roadside vigil until the President answered her questions.
News of Cindy's plans had spread through the Internet prior to her actual march, and the President's staff was prepared for the events. But yesterday the story hit the news wires and and ricocheted around the world.
And so, the world joins all Americans as they look anxiously at the stand-off in Central Texas. The stakes are high. The sides are clear:
A mother cries out in anguish.
The President hides in silence.
© 2005 Jeffrey Feldman
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Georgie Porgie Puddin and pie
Started a War and watched men die
When a Mom just wanted her say
Georgie Porgie ran away!
There was a crooked man
Who had a crooked smile
He appointed a crooked advisor
Who had a crooked style
He bought some crooked fat cats
To pounce upon any mouse
Who tried to expose a crooked White House!
A wise old owl sat in an oak,
The more he heard, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard;
Why can't George be like that wise old bird?
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Shorting Stocks
The Fool FAQ
Many times on the Fool boards I've seen references to `selling a stock short' or `taking a short position.' Will someone tell me plainly what shorting is?
An investor who sells stock short borrows shares from a brokerage house and sells them to another buyer. Proceeds from the sale go into the shorter's account. He must buy those shares back (cover) at some point in time and return them to the lender.
Thus, if you sell short 1000 shares of Gardner's Gondolas at $20 a share, your account gets credited with $20,000. If the boats start sinking---since David Gardner, founder and CEO of VENI, knows nothing about their design---and the stock follows suit, tumbling to new lows, then you will start thinking about "covering" your short there for a very nice profit. Here's the record of transactions if the stock falls to $8.
Borrowed and Sold Short 1000 shares at $20: +$20,000
Bought back and returned 1000 shares at $8: -$8,000
Profit: + $12,000
But what happens if as the stock is falling, Tom Gardner, boatsmen extraordinaire, takes over the company at his brother's behest, and the holes and leaks are covered. As the stock begins to takes off, from $14 to $19 to $26 to $37, you finally decide that you'd better swallow hard and close out the transaction. You do so, buying back shares of TOMY (new ticker symbol) at $37.
Here's the record of transaction:
Borrowed and sold short 1000 shares at $20: +$20,000
Bought back and returned 1000 shares at $37: -$37,000
Loss: -$17,000
Ouch. So you see, in the second scenario, when I, your nemesis, took over the company, you lost $17,000...which you'll have to come up with. There's the danger....you have to be able to buy back the shares that you initially borrowed and sold. Whether the price is higher or lower, you're going to need to buy back the shares at some point in time.
To learn more about short selling, try reading the following books: "Tools of the Bear: How Any Investor Can Make Money When Stocks Go Down" - Charles J. Caes; "Financial Shenanigans: How To Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud" - Howard M. Shilit; "When Stocks Crash Nicely: The Finer Art of Short Selling" - Kathry F. Staley; "Selling Short: Risks, Rewards and Strategies for Short Selling Stocks, Options and Futures" - Joseph A. Walker. None of these are perfect in their coverage of short selling but each has its strengths.
Shorting, unlike puts, seems to have an unlimited downside potential, correct? That is, hypothetically, the stock can rise to infinity. Puts, besides the time limit, have a limited downside. Why then, for a short term short, would anyone short instead of purchasing puts?
Theoretically, yes. In reality, no. Because in our number system we count upwards and don't stop, we opine that because numbers go on forever, so can a stock price. But when we think about this objectively, it seems kind of silly, no? Obviously a stock price, which at SOME point reflects actual value in a business, cannot go on to infinity.
Yes, puts do have a limited downside. However, options have an expiration date, which means that they are "time-wasting assets". They also have a "strike price" which means that you need to pick a price and then have the stock below it on expiration date. Finally, you have to pay a premium for an option and if you are not "in the money" more than the premium, by expiration day, you still lose. So, with options, not only do you have to be worried about the direction of the stock, you need to be correct about the magnitude of the move and the time in which it will happen. And even then, even if you successfully manage all 3 of these things, you can still lose money if you don't cover the premium. Not very Foolish. With shorting, you only really need to be concerned about direction. As for limiting liability, you can do that yourself by putting in a buy stop at a price where the loss is "too much" for you.
What is short interest? Does it have anything to do with short attention spans?
Pardon? Short interest? Oh yes! Ahem, short interest is simply the total number of shares of a company that have been sold short. The Fool believes that the best shorts are those with low short interest. They present the maximum chance for price depreciation as few short sales have occurred, driving down the price. Also, low short interest stocks are less susceptible to short squeezes (see below). Short interest figures are available towards the end of each month in financial publications like Barron's and the Investor's Business Daily.
The significance of short interest is relative. If a company has 100 million shares outstanding and trades 6 million shares a day, a short interest of 3 million shares is probably not significant (depending on how many shares are closely held). But a short interest of 3 million for a company with 10 million shares outstanding trading only 100,000 shares a day is quite high.
I've heard the term 'days to cover' thrown around quite a bit. Does 'days to cover' have anything to do with short interest?
Yes, it does! Days to cover is a function of how many shares of a particular company have been sold short. It is calculated by dividing the number of shares sold short by the average daily trading volume.
Look at Ichabod's Noggins (Nasdaq:HEAD). One million shares of this issue have been sold short (we can find this number, called the short interest, in such publications as Barrons and the IBD). It has an average trading volume of 25,000. The days to cover is 1,000,000/25,000, or 40 days.
When you short a stock, you want the days to cover to be low, say around 7 days or so. This will make the shares less subject to a short squeeze, the nightmare of shorters in which someone starts buying up the shares and driving up the share price. This induces shorters to buy back their shares, which also drives up the price! A short days to cover means the short interest can be eliminated quickly, preventing a short squeeze from working very well.
Also, a lengthy days to cover means that many people have already sold short the stock, making a further decline less likely.
What effect does a large short coverage have (generally) on the stock`s price? Generally, heavy buying increases the price while selling decreases it. Assuming the stocks price has been steady, or climbing, and many shorters attempt to cover their losses, how will this affect the price?
What you are referring to, in investment parlance, is a "short squeeze." When a number of short sellers all try to "cover" their short at the same time, that does indeed drive the stock up.
Our approach when shorting is therefore to avoid in general stocks that already have a fairly hefty amount of existing short sales. We try to set ourselves up so we'll never get squeezed.
I'll point out that short squeezes can be the result of better than expected earnings or some other fundamental aspects of a company's operation. They can also be the result of direct manipulation. That is, profit-seeking individuals with large amounts of cash at their disposal can look on a large short position in a stock as an invitation to start buying, driving up the share prices, thus forcing short-sellers to cover. This in turn drives up the price, and before you know it, the share price has soared!
OK, I understand the potential benefits and risks of shorting, except for one thing. If the stock I've shorted pays a dividend, am I liable for that dividend?
Yes. If you are short as of the ex-dividend date, you are liable to pay the dividend to the person whose shares you have borrowed to make your short sale. I must say, however, that if you are correct in your judgment to sell the issue short, your profits achieved thereby will certainly outweigh the small dollar amount of the dividend payout.
What happens if the stock I've shorted splits?
MF Swagman replies:
Let's say we're speaking of a two-for-one split. In that case, all that happens is that you must cover your short position with twice as many shares as you opened it. If you shorted 100 shares, you must cover with 200. Don't forget, though, that the magnitude of your investment hasn't changed, for while you now have twice as many shares, each one is only worth half as much as before! So, while your original cost basis for the 100 shares may have $36, now, with 200 shares, it is only $18.
This is a very foolish question, I'm sure, but if I sell short I am essentially borrowing the shares from someone else through my broker. Assuming that the lender does NOT need the shares prematurely, what determines how long I can stay short? (pun intended) How long do I have before I am forced to cover my position? Is there any regulation? Is it simply dependent on when/if the broker needs them? Could I possibly stay short for an indefinite period?
As far as I know, there is no pre-determined limit to how long you can keep your short position open. Technically, you could be forced to cover at any time, but typically, having the shares you have borrowed called back is unusual. At least so state all the Schwab representatives of whom I have asked this question.


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Students explore delicate balance of wine chemistry
Already deeply involved in their summer student-faculty research project, George Williams, Eric Liggins and Kyle Hunter are beginning to understand the precision testing that means the difference between a rich bodied Cabernet Sauvignon and something just short of kitchen vinegar.
Kyle Hunter, Eric Liggins, Professor Steve Robertson, and George Williams.
"Today, tomorrow…yesterday, it's literally that critical," says Williams, a senior Biochemistry major from Glen Burnie, Md., now in his second year of studying the fine points of viticulture. "You have to know when to harvest, when to stop the fermentation process by frequently testing the grapes and wine frequently for values that determine the flavor."
The team's ultimate goal is to develop a program at McDaniel that allows local vintners to send in their wine samples and receive results inexpensively in one to three days, according to Liggins, a junior from Woodlawn, Md., who's planning to apply his Biochemistry major to pharmacy school. Existing commercial testing programs range from $15 to $100 per sample and take as long as a month to get results.
The students are perfecting their gas chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to create a standard and begin testing for acidity, sulfites, ethanol and other variables that influence the quality of the wine. They will test wine from local vintners as well as fermenting their own two crocks of wine prepared from juice concentrated in New Zealand. Local orthodontist and winemaker who also is a McDaniel alumnus, Bob Scott gave the wine researchers a funding gift to purchase testing equipment.
Hunter, a sophomore Chemistry major and the junior member of the team, is learning his way around wine chemistry. He keeps the group's work statistically valid. Since Hunter is minoring in Forensic Science, he's not planning to make a career in the vineyards.
Sophomore Kyle Hunter with Professor Steve Robertson.
Under the mentoring of McDaniel lab instructor Steve Robertson, the team now talks comfortably about brix or sugar content, the hazards of too much sulfite, stopping fermentation with potassium sorbate, the dreaded mildew-y smell/taste that comes from trichloroanisole or TCA and the fine details of exactly when to harvest different varieties of grapes.
Robertson, who taught chemistry at Seneca Valley High School for 30 years and came to McDaniel to coach track, has long been interested in wine chemistry.
"There's a beauty to grape growing, to producing wine that is a result of the interaction of leaf, sun and soil," he says, explaining that wine production has an agricultural relationship with science. Robertson found an eager student in Williams and the two of them spent the summer of 2010 introducing themselves to wine chemistry.
Williams plans to continue with the research, turning his interest in the chemistry of viticulture into a capstone project or ambitiously two projects during his senior year. The first involves detecting the flavonoids in the grapes to predict exactly when they should be harvested. Traditionally vintners look at acidity, sugar content and other values to decide when to pick the grapes, but Williams will work with Scott's grape cultivars at his Bellendene Vineyard to predict optimum harvest time based on the flavonoid anthocyanin.
Senior George Williams.
If time allows, Williams would also like to tackle the complex TCA problem to try to determine where the odor and taste that resembles wet newspapers comes from. There seems to be some question about whether the chemical causing cork taint really comes solely from corks or there are other influences such as whether the juice is fermented in oak barrels or not.
Detectable by humans at minute levels – one part per billion or a drop in an Olympic-size swimming pool – TCA costs the wine industry about $1 billion a year and affects 3-5 percent of corked wine, Robertson says. Williams is interested in using NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) technology to develop a less expensive TCA detection alternative as compared to the typical commercial cost of $120 per sample.
For now, the chemists are concentrating on their own vintage fermenting in their Eaton Hall lab.
Junior Eric Liggins.


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Thank you, Canada
Oct 7, 2009 3:19pm
By Michael Kaiser, NCSA Executive Director
Canada recently announced it is using October as a platform for Cyber Security Awareness Month activities.
As we all know, cyber security knows no boundaries. In a global network of computers, each computer and network needs to be secured and each user has to take responsibility for securing their part of cyber space.
Canada's efforts as well as those of other countries are critical to ensuring every computer user employs basic security practices and secure online behavior. Like the United States, the Canadian awareness activities are a public private partnership. The government is working closely with The Retail Council of Canada to get the word out to as many Canadians as possible. It is great that Canada and the US are in alignment on awareness activities. It broadens everyone's reach and reinforces the secuirty messages.
The theme for National Cyber Security Awareness Month is Our Shared Responsibility. We are thrilled to be sharing it with Canada.
SSO (Stay Safe Online),Michael


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Milt Sparks SS2 for my 1911 carry
I'm not a big fan of IWB carry, but when the situation dictates it, my favorite holster is a Galco V-Hawk
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None of the above.
I have 2 Milt Sparks VM2 holdters that I love!
Before I became a holster maker these 3 in no particular order are my all time favorite holster makers
1- Del Fatti Leather
2- Brigade Gun Leather
3- Milt Sparks
All 3 makers have had a huge influence on my career.
My problem with most of the IWB holsters is that they use metal belt clips. I would not use metal belt clips on my dark brown shark skin gun belt or any dress belt.
I will not take a chance of scratching my belts.
I naturally prefer one that I made myself. :image035: Attachment 68023
Fist #2, can be worn iwb or owb
Stickyholster for my CZ 75 P-07 Duty
Sticky or Remora....love em both..fast easy on off...comfortable, stay put, easy access...what could be better?????????
Don't even see Sticky in the poll list....


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I have the same problem in my passenger side headlight and turn signal covers....all fogged and with water droplets.....used to go away after a day or 2 now its hanging around for over a week with no end in sight....someone mentioned on another thread to remove the back cover for a night or 2 and drive around ......I might try that but I would really like to know whats causing the problem in the first place !!
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I was having the same issue for a week, there a few threads on here that deal with the same issue. So I thought I'd have to reseal the headlight housing or even buy a new headlight housing back plate but it turns out that if you remove the back on the headlight housing and drive around (this will clear the condensation out) and put the back plate back on you shouldn't have this issue again.
I basically used this approach and have been issue free since October. If it continues try replacing the back plate cover on the headlight unit first before removing the headlight and resealing with caulking.
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Chris Tanev is not a remarkable hockey player, as his game features no flash. The defenceman can easily go unnoticed. He didn't score a goal until his 63rd game in the NHL. The story of his rapid rise, however, is indeed remarkable.
He's 23. Tanev, 6 foot 2, 185 pounds, came into his size late, after he had finished high school, and never played major junior. He went undrafted. After one year at the Rochester Institute of Technology, he was signed as a free agent by the Vancouver Canucks – and a year later played the last three games of the Stanley Cup final. Even as the Canucks were mauled by the Boston Bruins in the last two matches, giving up nine goals, Tanev – at 21 – was rock steady, on the ice for just a single goal.
Tuesday night in Vancouver, it was much the same, even as Vancouver lost. Against the visiting San Jose Sharks, the Canucks fell down 2-0, tied it up, but lost 3-2 in a shootout. Their record slides to 11-6-5, though Vancouver maintains a three-point lead in the feeble Northwest Division. But even as Vancouver went down, Tanev was as usual a pillar, the Canucks ceding no goals while he was on the ice.
Captain Henrik Sedin rued Vancouver's oh-for-six power play. The Canucks not only didn't score, they ceded a short-handed goal. For the season, the Canucks have the 20th-ranked power play in the NHL, compared with fourth last year, and first the year before. The power play began to fall apart about this time last year -- and the team has never been able to figure out how to resuscitate it.
"If your power play is minus-one, it's tough to win games," said Sedin in the locker room. "Our power play should have come through for us."
Even though the power play failed to click, Tanev's work was on quiet display from the start. On his first shift, as San Jose centre Tim Kennedy pushed toward the Vancouver zone, Tanev, skating low and backward, delivered a swift poke-check to diffuse the play and help send his team on the attack. Later, midway through the third, a sliding Tanev blocked a pass down low near the Vancouver net, quashing a promising play with the game tied.
The poke-check is Tanev's most potent defensive weapon. It's a tool the Toronto-born player honed through his teenage years, always smaller than the other boys growing up, such as during his time in Junior A playing for the Markham Waxers. That's when he caught the eye of Dave Gagner, who was coaching in the OHL before he joined the Canucks as director of player development in 2008.
"I couldn't push people off the puck. It's something I grew up doing. I had to," said Tanev in an interview before the Tuesday night game. It remains true: the NHL features many opponents bigger than Tanev is – even though he can well handle bigger players in front of the net. "I'm still not as strong as a lot of these guys, so it's something I have to focus on, always having my stick in a good place."
On Tuesday, the Canucks were down early, as former Montreal Canadien and current reclamation project Scott Gomez scored from the high slot, his first of the year. Then, in the second, San Jose grinder Adam Burish scored his first of the year, on a short-handed breakaway. Vancouver banged back – including an impressive Jannik Hansen goal to tie – but lost in the shootout.
Beyond Tanev's solid defensive play, he displayed toughness Tuesday. In the first, after defensive partner Alex Edler turned over the puck in the Canucks zone, Tanev went to block a shot and took it on the right knee. He hobbled off the ice, to the dressing room, but was back quickly thereafter.
Most of all, for Canucks coach Alain Vigneault, Tanev is reliable – which was often easily contrasted with the erratic play of Edler on Tuesday.
"You're not going to get any surprises," said Vigneault of Tanev recently. "You're going to a guy that makes a good first pass, doesn't get beat one-on-one, might not overpower anybody but has got a good stick. And once he gets the puck, it's out. So because there's no surprises, you're confident with what he can do on the ice."
This is Tanev's first complete season with the Canucks, having joined the club full-time last winter after his last stint in the minors. He's become one of the team's primary D-man. He started the year on the third D pairing with Keith Ballard but has played games with Dan Hamhuis and Edler, as he is something the Canucks lack, a natural right-side defender, especially with Kevin Bieksa missing his second consecutive game with a groin injury.
Unfortunately for the Canucks, they may also be without Ballard. After two games as a healthy scratch, following a stretch of poor play, Ballard returned to the ice Tuesday night and played fairly well. However, in the third period the rearguard suffered a charley horse, likely on a hit from Vancouver native Bracken Kearns, who at 31 was playing in just his sixth NHL game ever. Kearns's father Denny was a Canucks defenceman through the 1970s and Kearns had been a career minor leaguer before booking his first five games with the Florida Panthers last year. Tuesday night was his first with the Sharks.
Tanev is hardly perfect. He basically doesn't score, or even book assists. He has seven points in 76 NHL games, four of them – one goal – coming this year. Also, of Vancouver's six main D-men, Tanev has played the weakest opposing players, according to behindthenet.com. But with the likes of Edler, the Canucks have offensive threats on defence. Tanev fits in well as a defensive stalwart.Report Typo/Error
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