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Seamstress clue unravelled $9m Wall Street fraud
EVER since Michael Douglas famously declared that "Greed is good" in the 1987 movie Wall Street, the character he played, Gordon Gekko, has been the face of insider trading on Wall Street.
But it was $US2 million ($2.75 million) in profits made by a 63-year-old retired seamstress in Croatia that tipped off the Securities and Exchange Commission about an ambitious and unusually creative insider-trading ring, investigators say.
That lead culminated in the arrests on Tuesday of two junior employees at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.
The seamstress, Sonja Anticevic, made more than $US2 million - a 17-fold return - on a two day-investment in options in Reebok International after the company announced it would be acquired by Adidas-Salomon and the stock surged 30 per cent last August.
Regulators say it was her nephew, David Pajcin, a 29-year-old former Goldman Sachs bond research analyst, who made the trades. They said he was working with Stanislav Shpigelman, 23, an analyst in Merrill Lynch's mergers and acquisitions department, and Eugene Plotkin, a 26-year-old Harvard graduate who worked in Goldman Sachs's bond research department until he was suspended on Tuesday.
The three engaged in a scheme that Michael Garcia, the US attorney in Manhattan, described as "one of the most extensive insider-trading cases in this district in decades". Bail for Shpigelman and Plotkin was set at $US3 million each; both remained in custody late on Tuesday. Pajcin was released on bail in November.
Insider trading has long been a scourge of Wall Street. Prosecutors say the efforts by Plotkin, Pajcin and Shpigelman were notable for their brashness and far-reaching nature. One scheme was old-fashioned: Plotkin and Pajcin, who met as young bond researchers at Goldman, recruited Shpigelman to feed them information about deals Merrill Lynch was working on.
The three also placed online ads and later recruited two employees who worked at a printing plant in Wisconsin, where Business Week magazine is printed, according to investigators.
According to the charges against two employees there, Juan Renteria, 20, and Nickolaus Shuster, 24, stole advance copies of the magazine and gave Plotkin and Pajcin the names of stocks mentioned in the Inside Wall Street column, information which, if favourable, often sent the stock prices rising. Renteria was arrested on Tuesday; Shuster had been charged earlier.
The defendants netted $US6.4 million by trading on information about deals including Adidas-Salomon's acquisition of Reebok International and Procter & Gamble's purchase of Gillette, the complaints say. The defendants made $US345,000 on the less profitable Business Week scheme, the SEC said.
Mark Schonfeld, director for the SEC's north-east regional office, said the defendants contemplated other innovative ways to obtain insider information, including using exotic dancers to try and glean information from investment bankers.
A dancer, Monika Vujovic, 23, of New York, allowed the defendants to set up an account for her in which illegal trades were made, according to the SEC complaint, which charges her. Her lawyer, Mel Sachs, said he was confident the accusations against his client would be favourably resolved in court.
Plotkin and Pajcin met when the two worked together at Goldman Sachs in 2000. Pajcin left the firm five months after he started. In 2004, the two started to plot ways to obtain inside information, the complaint says.
Plotkin met Shpigelman when Shpigelman was trying to get a job on Wall Street. In July 2004, Shpigelman became an analyst in Merrill's mergers and acquisitions department.
Shpigelman seemed aware that information about deals was secret, according to an email message cited in the SEC complaint. In response to a question about whether the deal he had mentioned was public, he wrote, "Yes, the offer is public. I would not be telling you, especially via email, unless I wanted to chill with Martha in Connecticut for a little while," referring to Martha Stewart, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in an insider-trading investigation.
"He's an intelligent person with a depth of character that makes you wonder about these charges," said Martin Schmukler, a lawyer for Plotkin. A lawyer for Shpigelman, Katherine Pringle, did not return calls for comment.
Youth may have fuelled the plotters' fearlessness. The three originally traded in their own accounts but later opened accounts in other people's names, simultaneously setting up a network of people around the world with whom they shared inside information in return for 50 per cent of their profit. The SEC named 13 people of those people in its civil complaint, including Mikhail Plotkin, Eugene Plotkin's father.
Even after the SEC filed a complaint against Pajcin in August 2005, Plotkin continued to trade on illegal information from the Business Week printing plant. Both Pajcin and Plotkin also destroyed their computers and cell phones, but continued to talk about how to evade law enforcement efforts, according to the SEC complaint. When after fleeing to the Dominican Republic and Cuba Pajcin returned to give a deposition in the United States, perhaps in an attempt to get his bank accounts unfrozen, he lied about his participation in both schemes, the SEC complaint says. He was arrested soon afterwards and charged with illegal insider trading.
Pajcin's lawyer, Paul Lieber, did not return a call for comment.
The case was first uncovered by the SEC last year. Immediately after Adidas-Salomon announced it had a deal to acquire Reebok, sending Reebok's stock up 30 per cent, the market surveillance department in Washington detected an unusual volume of trading in Reebok call options, which allow an investor to lock in a price to buy the stock. Within 24 hours, investigators traced the origin of the trading as far away as Croatia and Anticevic. "Ms Anticevic, it seemed, was either the most successful investor in the history of Wall Street or part of something more nefarious," said Schonfeld of the SEC.
Jonathan Kaye, a lawyer for Anticevic, denied any insider trading took place. "This was done with research done from her nephew," he said.
The investigation led to Anticevic's nephew, Pajcin, revealing the expansive efforts by Pajcin and Plotkin to find information and trade on it. Pajcin is co-operating with regulators.
"These allegations, if true, represent a serious breach of trust and violation of Merrill Lynch's fundamental principles," said a Merrill Lynch spokesman, Mark Herr. "We do not tolerate or condone insider trading."
A Goldman Sachs spokesman said the firm would continue to co-operate with the investigation. Neither firm is a target of investigators.
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The Book of Guys: Stories (original 1994; edition 1994)
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I like Keillor's radio show for the most part, but this is the second book of his I've tried and I haven't enjoyed either one. I quit reading this one because I found the stories depressing, no humor, and rather foul. Your mileage may vary.
The story of Dionysus rambled on about a god hitting middle age. I suppose that was meant to be funny, but it fell flat for me. Then the story of a boy who had leprosy. No. Just no. Somewhere I'm missing the point to his writing, but nothing in these stories makes me care enough to find it.
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor is surely best known for his multifaceted role with "Prairie Home Companion," the long-running NPR show. Material created for the show—for example, the letters from Lake Woebegone—has been collected into books. [The Book of Guys] is a 1993 collection of short stories written primarily for The New Yorker.
A bought a jacket-less hardcover edition at a library sale, figuring it was cheap and would be good light reading. I alternated reading chapters in [The Red and the Black] and [The House of Mirth] with stories in this book. Between meal snacks, so to speak. Ease to read, no heavy intellectual lifting, many chuckles.
My mind's ear heard many of these stories being read/performed on PHC. "Lonesome Shorty" is one:
The summer before last, I was headed for Billings on my horse Old Dan, driving two hundred head of the ripest-smelling longhorns you ever rode downwind of, when suddenly here come some tumbleweeds tumbling along with a newspaper stuck inside—I had been without news for weeks so I leaned down and snatched it up and read it trotting along, though the front page was missing and all there was was columnists and the Lifestyle section, so bouncing along in a cloud of manure I read an article entitled "43 Fabulous Salads to Freshen Up Your Summertime Table" which made me wonder if my extreme lonesomeness might not be the result of diet. Maybe I'm plumb loco, but a cowboy doesn't get much fiber and he eats way too much beef. You herd cattle all day, you come to despise them, and pretty soon, by jingo, you have gone and shot one, and then you must eat it, whilst all those cattle tromping around on the greens takes away your taste for salads, just like when you arrive at a creek and see that cattle have tromped in the water and drunk from it and crapped in it, it seems to turn a man toward whiskey.
I thought to myself, Shorty, you've got to get out of this cowboy life. I mentioned this to my partner, old Eugene, and he squinted at me and said, "Eeyup."
There's some verse, such as "Casey at the Bat (Road Game)", with Casey playing for the visiting team. For those of us who remember when George H. W. Bush was president, Keillor imagines him dealing with an invasion of Chicago by "hordes of Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Hloths, Wendells, and Vandals." He has fun bringing Greek gods up to date in "Zeus the Lutheran" and "The Mid-life Crisis of Dionysus."
…He heard the unmistakable clip-clomp-clomp of the sensible shoes of the Muse of maturity, Gladys, clambering up the steps, clipboard in hand, knapsack on her back, wearing a frumpy brown dress with sweat stains under the arms. She blew a hard tweet on her whistle and cried, "Climb off that girl, Gramps, and put down the beverage. And brace yourself for a major news item," and then she broke it to him hard. He was fifty. Fifty years old.
Dionysus sat up—"What?" he said, letting go of the supple young woman. "Fifty. Ha! I'm immortal! Ageless! You can look it up!"
This book is a great example of why I have a non-sexual crush on Garrison Keillor. He's a wonderful writer!
I did not enjoy this. You know the scene in Roxane with Steve Martin, where he comes up with twenty jokes about big noses? That is what this feels like, without the laughs. Someone came up to Garrison Keillor with a list of off the wall categories and said "Write a story about guys, one for each topic." Some of the stories are clever, but mostly, it just portrays guys as oafs. As an oaf of a guy, I can appreciate the humor in that, but it got old fast. I enjoy many of Garrison Keillor's works, and think that he is a great storyteller, but I did not really enjoy this.
Not a bad light read but somehow these stories are neither silly enough nor serious enough to get more than an occasional smile and three stars out of me.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 067084943X, Hardcover)A loosely affiliated collection of pieces culled from Harper's and the New Yorker, The Book of Guys supplies Garrison Keillor's brand of pathos-inspired belly laughs in great measure. Since Keillor is not only, by all appearances, a mensch but also the possessor of an extremely amiable voice in his writing (and who can say, with him, where his prose voice ends and the aural one begins?), you tend to forget the darker elements of his work. In fact, those are the things that make his writing so amusing.
The Book of Guys parades a collection of Joe Nobodies, average guys like Garry Keillor, "sixteen, six foot two, with the metabolism of a wolverine." But these are guys with a darker side: longings, misgivings, psychoses. There's Lonesome Shorty, the cowboy who lusts for town life, but as soon as he settles down, the trail calls him again. Or the mayor of Zenith, who has everything a man could want, his life darkened solely by a senseless vendetta carried out by the editor of the local newspaper. "I have spent thirty minutes [writing this letter to the Editor] and my wife, her black hair tumbling over her bare shoulders touched with freckles under the pale-blue gossamer negligee hanging light as a leaf on her pale breasts and bold etcetera..." But Keillor's guys are too preoccupied with everyday angst to take hold of their good fortune. "In a minute, dear," says the mayor, continuing his screed.
The Book of Guys doesn't give one much faith in the future of male-dom, but it is funny. And don't let the paucity of competition fool you; Keillor's a humorist par excellence, a fine, thoughtful, and witty writer. --Michael Gerber
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In this collection of stories you'll meet a bunch of memorable guys including Lonesome Shorty, a cowpoke torn between the proud life in the saddle and the comforts of warm apartments and women; Buddy the teen-age leper in Sioux Falls; Earl Grey the great tea inventor and former Republican child; Casey at the bat in Mudville again; Dionysus the god of wine; and Roy Bradley, boy broadcaster. Brilliantly funny, touching, and acute, The book of guys reveals the perilous situation of guys today.… (more)
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Somewhere, a dog howled.
Would you stop if we explain
Response Group settings?
It's a conspiracy, that's what it is.
That's right: a conspiracy. As it turns out, the entire world – or at least the animal world – is out to get the author of today's haiku.
For three weeks the author of today's haiku experienced the … joy … of cat-sitting a cat. To be honest, the cat was actually a pretty decent little cat, except for her somewhat-annoying habit getting up at 4:30 every morning and, in the process, waking up everyone else in the house as well. The cat has now been returned to its rightful owners, but the conspiracy lives on. Now the dogs have gotten involved.
As it turns out, the people who live next door to the author of today's haiku have three gigantic dogs. (Or maybe it's two gigantic dogs and a medium-sized hippopotamus; to be honest, it's kind of hard to tell.) For the most part these dogs seem pretty laid-back, and pretty much oblivious to the world. For example, one afternoon the three dogs were outside when the author of today's haiku went out to work in the yard. He was working right in front of the dogs for about half an hour or so before one of them suddenly realized, "Oh, shoot, there's someone out here with us. I think I'm supposed to bark or something!" and immediately started barking at him. But then, having done his duty for 10 seconds or so, he immediately laid down and went to sleep.
Which, come to think of it, sounds an awful lot like the typical work day for the author of today's haiku.
At any rate, the people next door have been out of town for a few days, and they left the dogs in the care of a dog sitter. However, this isn't a live-in dog sitter; instead, it's just someone who comes by periodically to check in on the dogs. Unfortunately, the dog sitter doesn't come by at 2:00 in the morning, or 5:00 in the morning, which turns out to be right about the time these three gigantic dogs (or two gigantic dogs and a medium-sized hippopotamus) start barking.
And then continue barking for a good half hour to 45 minutes.
Wait, scratch the word good from that last sentence: And then continue barking for a half hour to 45 minutes.
Note. In case you're wondering, the loudest animal in the world is – and we kid you not – the Tiger Pistol Shrimp, which is capable of making a sound that exceeds 200 decibels; that's louder than a jet engine, which checks in at around 140 decibels. And yes, that's what we said, too. But you can look it up for yourself. The loudest land animal is the howler monkey, whose screeching can be heard as far as 10 miles away.
But we think that the dogs next door can give the howler monkey a run for its money.
So what did the author of today's haiku do to deserve all of this? Well, he's not sure. If the people in the world organized a conspiracy against him well, that he could understand: he's probably offended several million people this year alone. But animals? What did he ever do to animals?
Note. Well, he did step on an ant the other day, and his wife is always making him kill spiders. But who hasn't stepped on an ant or killed a spider during his or her lifetime?
But it doesn't really matter who's at fault here. All that really matters is that the author of today's haiku is willing to make a deal: if the dogs next door are willing to stop barking, then he's willing to explain to them what the CsRgsConfiguration cmdlets are for.
Note. And yes, he is willing to discuss all three cmdlets: Get-CsRgsConfiguration, Move-CsRgsConfiguration, and Set-CsRgsConfiguration.
As you might have guessed, the CsRgsConfiguration cmdlets provide a way for you to manage configuration settings for each instance of the Response Group application running in your organization. As it turns out, that only means three settings you need to worry about:
· AgentRingbackGracePeriod – If an agent declines a call, the AgentRingbackGracePeriod represents the amount of time (in seconds) that can elapse before the call returns to the same agent.
· DefaulltMusicOnHoldFile – The music that, by default, will be played any time a caller is placed on hold.
· DisableCallContext – Indicates whether each agent is able to see the call context (information such as caller wait time as well as workflow questions and answers) whenever a call is received.
So does that mean that the CsRgsConfiguration cmdlets are really easy and straightforward to use? Yes it does.
Except for the tricky parts.
Let's start with the Get-CsRgsConfiguration cmdlet. As you probably know, you can have multiple instances of the Response Group application running in your organization; for example, you could have one instance for each of your Application servers. With that in mind, you might think you could use a command like this to return information about each of those instances:
Unfortunately, however, that command won't return anything; instead, you'll be prompted to enter the instance Identity. In fact, you always have to specify an Identity when using Get-CsRgsConfiguration. To return information about a single instance, you need to use a command like this one:
Get-CsRgsConfiguration -Identity "service:ApplicationServer:atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com"
And what if you want to return information about all your instances? Well, that's fine; you just have to use this approach:
Get-CsService -ApplicationServer | Where-Object {$_.Applications -contains "urn:application:RGS"} | ForEach-Object {Get-CsRgsConfiguration -Identity $_.Identity}
Please don't start barking; we're going to explain how this command works. As you can see, we start out by using the Get-CsService cmdlet to return a collection of all our Application servers. (Why? Because the Response Group application can only be run on an Application server.) We then pipe this collection to the Where-Object cmdlet, which looks for any Application servers that have an application name urn:application:RGS. That, needless to say, means that the Application server is running the Response Group application. Any relevant Application servers are then piped to the ForEach-Object cmdlet, which – at long last – uses Get-CsRgsConfiguration to return setting information for each instance of the Response Group application.
You have to take a similar approach when using the Set-CsRgsConfiguration cmdlet. For example, suppose you want to set the ringback period to 30 seconds for a particular instance of the Response Group application. That's reasonably easy:
Set-CsRgsConfiguration -Identity "service:ApplicationServer:atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com" -AgentRingbackGracePeriod 30
So what happens if you want to set the ringback period for all your response Group instances to 30 seconds? You got it: you'll have to first look for all the Application servers running the urn:application:RGS application. In other words:
Get-CsService -ApplicationServer | Where-Object {$_.Applications -contains "urn:application:RGS"} | ForEach-Object {Set-CsRgsConfiguration -Identity $_.Identity -AgentRingbackGracePeriod 30}
Is that the easiest thing in the world to do? Well, no, not really. But it works. And, fortunately, you won't need to modify your Response Group applications on a daily basis anyway.
We hear some growling out there, but don't worry: we haven't forgotten about the Move-CsRgsConfiguration cmdlet. The Move-CsRgsConfiguration cmdlet has only one purpose in life: it moves your Response Group application from Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to Microsoft Lync Server 2010. If you aren't running the Response Group application of Office Communications Server 2007 R2, or if you aren't ready to move that application to Lync Server, well, then you don't have much use for the Move-CsRgsConfiguration cmdlet.
If you do need to make this migration, then the first thing you have to do is install the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Backward Compatibility interfaces package; this application is installed by running OCSWMIBC.msi. (The file OCSWMIBC.msi can be found in the installation package in the Setup folder.) If you don't do that, migration will fail and you'll get this error message:
Move-CsRgsConfiguration : WMI provider is not installed. Install it using OCSWMIBC installer.
Assuming that you have installed the Backward Compatibility interfaces package, you can migrate the response Group application using one simple command, where the Source parameter specifies the 2007 R2 pool where the Response Group application is currently installed and the Destination parameter represents the Lync Server pool where the application is to be moved to:
Move-CsRgsConfiguration -Source atl-ocsrgs-001.litwareinc.com -Destination redmond-lyncrgs-001.litwareinc.com
Move-CsRgsConfiguration will move all the configuration settings, audio files, and contact objects from Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server. After that, all calls to a Response Group phone number will be handled by Lync Server, meaning that calls will no longer be handled by the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 version of the service.
One important note. If Office Communications Server is running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 then you must also install the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Native Client on the computer where you will be running the Move-CsRgsConfiguration cmdlet. If the Native Client is not installed you will receive the error message "Cannot access WMI settings" when you call Move-CsRgsConfiguration.
Oh: and the migration attempt will fail.
That's all we have time for today. For all the cats, dogs, hippopotamuses, howler monkeys, and Tiger Pistol Shrimp who are reading today's haiku, well, the author has done his part. Truce?


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Elgar Scores!
Sir Edward Elgar is famous for his classical scores – including the march that most Americans have graduated grammar school and high school to – but he is also reputed to be the first to write a soccer chant, or "terrace chant" as it's known in England. So the relationship between classical music and soccer goes back almost 100 years.
(Elgar was a fan of Wolverhampton Wanderers, or Wolves as they're called; the same team that Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant supports today.)
Today, classical music fans have multiple works about soccer to choose from. One is Jocelyn Pook's opera "Ingerland." Though I should say right up front that to call "Ingerland" a soccer opera actually misses the point: it's an opera about the psychology and sociology of soccer. Why some of us live and breath the game. How the emotions of the individual are amplified by the crowd. The sense of belonging that fans get when they're at a match together. The almost religious fervor, the chanting, the ecstasy of an important win. And, yes, the racist and homophobic taunts hurled at opponents. The baffled stares of the non-believers. And the dismissive complaints of those who actively dislike the game.
Music is about emotion. So is being a fan, of whatever sport. Not that I'm equating the two: music makes me feel good. Soccer, unless you're a fan of Manchester United or Brazil, usually ends in heartbreak.
Oops… Netherlands 2 – Brazil 1. Guess heartbreak comes to Brazil occasionally too.
Anyway, if you're surprised about this century-old relationship between classical music and soccer, how about the month-old relationship between classical music and the latest tech toys? Yesterday the superstar pianist Lang Lang came in and played our piano – AND his iPad. It's a pretty funny-looking performance, and you can find the video here.


text: I have a 2011 WRX 4-Door with stock suspension (at the moment), rolled rear fenders, and 18x9 Avant Garde m310 wheels +30 offset wrapped in 245/40/18 Falken 452. I was doing some work under the car when I noticed that the inner inch of each front tire was severely worn compared to the rest of the tires. These tires have about 6,000 miles on them, and 4,000 miles on them since the last alignment where the technician said he had experience with these. But it looks like he messed it up somehow, and no, I don't have the alignment print out nor did I ever see it. Is this the result of a screwed up camber? Help!


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Improper Installation of Steel Composite Tub
We have a Crane San Marcos Armorplus tub, which is Crane's answer to an Americast steel/composite type tub product.
After installation (and they had already started tiling the walls) my husband and I noticed that when you stand in the tub that there is a loud creaking and moaning and noticable flex. Since they hadn't tiled the floor yet we ran a 3 foot metal ruler through the gap under the tub and were able to go all the way to the wall for the full length of the tub--was not set in a mortar bed; tub only supported at ends.
We had a huge argument with contractor who wanted to spray in foam to "fix" the problem. We insisted the tub be pulled out and reinstalled in a mortar bed. He finally agreed.
Now they are pulling out the tub and the tile guy is giving advice to the very young-looking plumbers that they should use "Structalite" instead of a sand mortar (which is what I've read should be used.) Help! What is structalite and is it up to the task of tub setting?? I need an answer fast, if possible, because we are surrounded by fast moving burly contractors now!
I couldn't get a definitive answer on the Structalite question so we insisted on mortar, instead, since I know that is what is normally used. Structalite might work, but I worried about it's lasting properties. It dries hard, but does it crack or crumble after being stood on day in, day out? Also, how does it react to moisture or condensation? These questions being unanswered made me think mortar was a safer bet. Only after it sets will we know if it solved our squeaking tub problem.
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Asking questions during the interview
While answering questions is a significant portion of the interview, your ability to ask effective questions is just as important.
Selling yourself through questions
Your questions provide an opportunity to position yourself favorably in their eyes. You can do this by asking questions that encourage employers to envision you as an important member of their team. There is a strategy to asking questions that can play an integral part in your success as an interviewee.
A great question to ask is, "If selected for this internship, what will I need to accomplish to receive an outstanding review?" This question makes the interviewer envision you in the company and as a top performer. You actually make that person "see" you as great in order to answer the question.
Asking effective questions can also help you learn about hard to research aspects of the organization. It is difficult to learn about an organization's culture from corporate literature, external research or the company's website. Ask questions that elicit information on culture and full time offers to help you assess if this is the right internship for you.
If you want to know about the culture, you could ask:
- Who is the most successful intern you've hired and what characteristics did that person possess that made him/her a great contributor?
- Tell me about some of the employees that have the longest tenure here and what, in your opinion, has made them so loyal to the company?
- Who in the organization would you say best personifies the culture of the company and why?
- How would you describe the company's management style and culture?
- How many interns do you traditionally hire into full time positions?
Notice these are all very positive questions designed to offer insight about corporate culture and who the powerful people in the organization are and why. It is great information to know so that you can observe and learn from them if offered a position.
Do's and don'ts when asking questions
- Ask for a business card
- Ask "How do you go about..." questions
- Ask what the next steps in the selection process are and the best way to follow up
- Ask if there is anything you can do to improve your candidacy
- Ask positive, future-focused questions that incorporate you into the company
- Ask yes/no questions
- Ask negative questions
- Ask about salary
- Ask questions you know nothing about
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To the Editor:
The headline of the article ''Dr. Spock Yields to the World Wide Web'' (April 22) is on the mark, but not in the way it implies. The article notes that the icons of child rearing are falling by the wayside and asks, where can a new parent find authoritative and unimpeachable advice? While Circuits' answer is ''on the Web,'' my response is that you can get the facts on the Internet but not necessarily with the respect, kindness and love that Dr. Spock showed his readers for 53 years. These ingredients are often missing from the Internet -- but not for long, because Dr. Spock will soon be available on the Web.
Camden, Maine, April 26, 1999
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Von Schamann brilliant in Ducks 5-0 shutout win
Duke von Schamann hurled 7 innings of scoreless baseball on Friday.
READING, PA – Akron right-hander Duke von Schamann rode to the rescue for the RubberDucks Friday night, serving up seven shutout innings in a 5-0 victory over the Reading Fightin Phils at First Energy Stadium.
Von Schamann teamed with lefty Elvis Araujo to blank the Fightins on three harmless singles. The win snapped Akron'seight-game losing streak, and helped the RubberDucks gain a game on first-place Richmond, who lost at Erie, 2-0. Third place Bowie also lost, falling 3-1 versus Altoona. Thus, Akron is 6 ½ games out of first, but now holds a 3 ½ game leadover the Baysox with 35 games left in the regular season.
A starting pitching performace like von Schamann delivered Friday was exactly what the team, and the right-hander himself, needed. While he halted Akron's eight-game skid, von Schamann also snapped a personal, six-game losingstreak. He had not experienced a win since a June 9th victory against Binghamton. On Friday, he was practically unhittable, keeping the Reading hitters off balance with a combination of off-speed pitches and impeccable location withhis fastball. Of his 85 pitches, 65 were strikes.
In two starts against the Fightins this season, von Schamann (4-6) has tossed 14 2/3 scoreless innings. That dominance continued Friday when he walked none and fanned three. He retired 12 of the final 13 batters he faced, including the finaleight in a row. Araujo completed the whitewash with two scoreless innings, including a 1-2-3 ninth.
The RubberDucks (58-49) got all the offense they would need in the first inning on Bryan LaHair's RBI double off Reading starter Adam Loewen (1-4). LaHair added an RBI single in the 3rd, and the RubberDucks doubled the lead to 4-0 in the sixth on RBI's by Tony Wolters and Jake Lowery. Justin Toole capped the scoring with a RBI double in the ninth, his second such hit of the series.
After going 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position Thursday, the RubberDucks were a far more opportunistic, 3-for-9 on Friday. Another positive development for Akron was the return of shortstop Erik Gonzalez to the lineup. Gonzalez missedthe last two games with a sore right hip, but played Friday and went 1-for-5, with a single and run scored.
The RubberDucks and Fightins (43-60) will play game three of the series on Saturday evening at 6:35. RHP Joe Colon(8-5, 2.50) is scheduled to start for Akron, while the Fightins have tabbed LHP Hoby Milner (5-5, 4.79). The game will bebroadcast on WARF 1350 AM and www.AkronRubberDucks.com.
The Akron RubberDucks are the Double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. The 2014 season is the 18th since moving toCanal Park and the first as the RubberDucks. For more information, including official team merchandise, go towww.AkronRubberDucks.com or call 330-253-5151. Fans may also follow the team on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AkronRubberDucks and Twitter at @AkronRubberDuck.


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I have a brick planter that sticks out into my driveway (see picture). My driveway isn't very wide and I have to back all the way down it. I know sooner or later either my girlfriend or myself will back into the edge and damage a car. Also, when the snow builds up in the wintertime I want to be able to mark the edge of it for the snowblower. Right now there's a warning reflector in the dirt but there's about 6 inches beyond it that stick out. How can I attach one of those orange driveway marker things on the edge of the brick?
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There is a belief among us who are actors and stand-up comedians that the ultimate goal is to become so good at our craft that the entertainment industry can no longer ignore us. When this point is reached, the result is that we become widely accepted as employable by the industry and it becomes easier to get regular auditions, effective representation and work. As a man who is affecting our news media and culture, Andrew Breitbart has now reached this level.
Proof that Breitbart can no longer be ignored are everywhere this week I found more evidence to back up this thesis on a freeway off ramp in Santa Monica.
I have been a follower of street art propaganda for years. I wrote a piece about it for BigHollywood.com HERE:
Street level propaganda serves an important battle front in the culture war. At this level the marketing is binary. It is straight from the producer of the message to the receiver. It is gritty and authentic and no one looking not be well versed in the left's astro-turfing tactics and agenda thinks that the media complex could possibly have any involvement in the message. In this case, it is precisely the opposite.
While this piece can hardly be called "art" because the piece does not seem to have the hand of an artist in its visual elements, it does have a message that the mainstream cultural messengers want all of us to believe which is that the gadfly Breitbart is not one to be trusted. The wording draws on the memory of the Nazis to scare Westside liberals and Jews of the long term ramifications of Breitbart's work.
Of course like Soviets, the purveyors of this message are using all the techniques of the communists and Alinskyites: calling the enemy out by name to isolate and intimidate, writing in the text that the enemy is doing what they themselves do, ridicule, consistently and constantly attacking the enemy with twisting words and crudely marketing their message at the street fighter level to appear "authentic" and "grungy." The implication of course is that Breitbart does not reveal information our society needs to be informed of, it's that Breitbart "selectively edits" and that nothing from Breitbart's "house of lies" can be trusted and if those of us do as Breitbart does, which is lie repeatedly, we will become the scourge that Breitbart is. In Los Angeles, this means entrance to nightclubs will be denied, prime tables in fine dining establishments will be relocated to areas near kitchens and bathrooms and the invitation one receives to trendy cocktail parties will be revoked. In totality the message that is conveyed in the piece is not a warning to Breitbart, it is Breitbart's head on a stick posted as a warning to the rest of us.
If Andrew Breitbart was not such a threat the forces of leftism that posted this piece of propagandist vandalism would not have. They would not have taken their time, resources, energy, minimum wage street teams, wheat paste, printing presses or money to single out Breitbart by name with the clear intent of making his reputation questionable to someone either unaware of who he is or persuadable to their side.
In honor of Breitbart, I wrote this piece while listening to the Joy Division and not my usual Screaming Trees.
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Mike Leitner was once a very reputed 125cc rider (Jim Beam Team as far as I remember) in the good old times of the Morbidelli / MBA twins. It was then said that his bikes were always very well prepped. A pity this aspect of his career, and the positive impact that his career as a rider may have on his present duties alongside Pedrosa has not been addressed in this interview.


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Much like in the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," tech marketers must find the right balance between too many and too few messages. Common pitfalls include standardizing on a one-message-fits-all philosophy to having so many messages that sales and marketing are unable to deliver them to the right people, at the right time, and in the right context. That's where Guiding Principle Number Five fits in.
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For almost all technology solutions, it's necessary to have variances in messaging to reflect the different roles or titles, geographies, size companies, different industries, etc., that tech marketers are targeting. The good news for tech marketers is that Forrester Tech Marketing Navigator data shows that by focusing on the top three shared messages that are relevant across multiple segments and the two messages that are uniquely relevant to a specific segment/target, tech marketers can achieve the Goldilocks' "just right" quotient for messaging.


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With Joy in our heart and with praise to the name of our God, we like to welcome all the children of God to the 64th Annual Convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, 2016, with the theme: AMEN
Amen as we all know is one of the names of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Revelations 3:14. You re therefore coming into this convention to encounter the Amen!
You will encounter Him in genuine salvation as it is His desire to have all men saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (1Tim.2:4). Nothing sets free like the truth (Jn.8:32), and we re believing God for you that the freedom you may have been searching for all about will finally become yours during this convention
You will encounter the Amen in healing and deliverance. When Jesus saves, He also heals and delivers
10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." 13 Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God Luke 13:10-13. Read More…


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The St. Cloud State Basketball team signed 4 players to national letters of intent Thursday. Three of the 4 are from Wisconsin. The players are 6'3 guard Jordan Poydras from De Pere, Wisconsin, 6'2 guard Tyson Kalien from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 6'5 forward Seth Mortag from Brookfield, Wisconsin and transfer guard Preston McCourt from Dakota County Tech College in Eagan.


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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0684841207, Hardcover)In this new collection fans and critics -- who can never get enough of David Mamet's iconoclastic insight and barbed observation of human behavior -- will discover an added dimension: as the author turns fifty, he shares not only his reflections on the nature of creativity and the challenge of aging but also his most intimate interests and obsessions.
From his longtime mania for poker and its labyrinthine psychology to sharp sallies on moviemaking gibberish and the meaning of macho, Jaffsie and John Henry is knit together by Mamet's unique perspective and inimitably spare wit. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a writer whose essays "deliver wit, insight, and truculence in small, mixed doses", the selections leapfrog from Oscar Wilde to the tower of Babel, the Committee on Un-American Activities, and Jewish scripture. Police corruption, the art of acting, and single-malt scotch are all grist for the mill of Mamet's quicksilver mind. He reminisces about his first car, muses on the Lindbergh trial, laments the loss of the art of knife-making, and lambastes Hollywood culture. As ever, Mamet "walks a line between provocation and enticement that always compels attention" (Newsday).
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