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I'm now hearing from the moguls that after November logged 30% lower DVD movie sales including blockbuster titles, the studios are bracing for end-of-year stats showing 2008's titles will finish down 10% to as much as 15% behind 2007. Of course, Dark Knight is selling gangbusters and breaking records…
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Since signing up with Netflix I've purchased less than 10 films on DVD since 05.
I know that for a lot of people in flyover land they're not buying DVDs to economize and generally see the purchase as a 'want' and not a 'need' but I have a backlog of titles I want to buy but can't in good conscience do so because I wanted to wait and see if SAG can get a better deal on home video and/or new media. I don't trust the business to pay the actors more unless and until they have something to that effect in writing and even then that is an iffy proposition because the WGA is still not getting paid the gains they're entitled to in new media (which means I've stopped watching streams on Hulu and network and cable channel websites and have yet to start downloading anything through iTunes)
I still plan on buying the DVDs once I know how the SAG-AMPTP thing is going to end but a second Christmas in a row of forgoing the purchases saddens me.
Maybe I'll just make a donation equivalent to the amount of money I would have spent buying DVDs to the Entertainment Assistance Program of the Actors Fund…that might not only make me feel better it could make a difference for so many of the people in the business who are still in trouble.
I curse the execs hiding behind the AMPTP for spoiling a second holiday season for everyone.
Everybody knows the DVD business is going down the tubes. Why buy DVD's when with a $99 Roku box and a $5 monthy Netflix fee, you can see thousands of DVD quality films… instantly.
That's why these AMPTPT/union fights are all about the internet.
I was in the DVD business from 1999 to the end of 2006 (manufacturing/distributing). I was one of those guys who disposed of nearly ALL of my disposable income on recorded media of some kind (VHS, records, CDs, laser discs, DVDs) for my entire adult life, until the advent of Bit Torrent, Netflix (and getting married!). Circa 2004 or so, I went from spending $5000 to $6000 a year on CDs and DVDs to spending around $100. This year, I've only spent money on blank discs. The DVD industry is facing uncontrollable bleeding and the bleeding will not be staunched. Using my own spending habits as a definitive study of ONE person, I sold my interest in the company and have watched as the indie distributors are going bust. How much longer will even the mighty Criterion Collection have life (and profitability) still in it? Not long, I think. If the studio model depends on DVD sales for fully HALF of domestic proceeds to simply break even, this is certainly going to result in a red river in the Hollywood accounting departments… and it's not going to be made up by increased iTunes downloads. So what is the answer? Considering how difficult it will be for the studios to wean themselves off the DVD income stream –HALF the profits? Try turning THAT barge around fast–I don't think there is one for the industry as we've known it. It can't be done– the industry is screwed unless it can start making features that cost WAY less than $500k. Even that might be too much as we move forward. It's not going to be pretty. Look what is happening to the magazine industry as well. Scary stuff.
Ditto…since signing up with Netflix, not a single DVD purchase. No reason to…
I'll give you 3 reasons for this from my own huge sample of one person (me).
1. Netflix
2. I've already purchased just about everything I want.
3. Most new films suck and aren't worth owning.
There you go.
To give you a more in depth analysis –
1. You don't need to buy obscure titles because everything is available on one of the online rental services.
2. I've already purchased all my favorite films on DVD. If I buy 6-10 more, I'm basically done. So the only things left to buy are new releases.
3. These days, you're lucky if you can find 2-3 new releases per year that are worth owning and watching more than once. So far this year, I've purchased one.
I think we can one more reason to "I own movies"'s otherwise stellar list:
4) The selection at stores SUCKS.
Seriously, have any of you stepped foot into a Walmart/Target/Best Buy lately?
Nothing but crap. Complete and utter crap.
A) Walmart (at least the one in Easton, PA) has a total of ONE half-isle dedicated to movies. The rest are the New Release racks and those huge cages where they dump all their $5 DVD's. NEXT.
B) Target has to have the most disgustingly disorganized DVD wall I've ever seen in my life. Whoever designed their layout should be taken out and shot. No wonder the shelves are always full. You can't find anything!
Target breaks their walls up into "Best-Sellers", "Drama", "Horror", etc., but you're lucky if you can find ANY movie released before 2005. And they seem to be in some half-assed semblance of alphabetical order. Not worth the time or effort.
C) Best Buy has the most comprehensive DVD section of the three, both in terms of selection and the amount of space dedicated to the product.
However they tend to over-do it with 7-8 copies of the same action/war movie that's not even a New Release.
I counted about 7 copies of "Running Scared" (?!) and at least 5 copies of "The Condemned" (?!?!?!?!) at the Best Buy in Northeast Philly. And this was relatively recently. Both of the above-mentioned films dropped in '06.
As for old movies, forget it. The only 70s-80s films you'll find are the blockbusters. The classics from 1960s-backwards are practically non-existant on the shelves. And their Criterion selection sucks.
Only Tower Records had a clue about selling DVDs. In fact, I remember towards the end was Tower's DVD selection was larger than their music choices!
But they did it right, and they had classics, grindhouse, foreign, Criterion, Oscar winners, indie gems, everything from A to Z.
Going to Tower made you feel proud to be a movie lover, and I certainly didn't mind spending a couple hours in the place sifting through their vast selection.
Going to Target or Walmart for films is just depressing. They treat films as just another product to sell. No art, no passion, no clue. Just whatever they can toss into the cage for $5, or whatever New Release the vendors send them.
But now I realize while Coppola keeps re-packaging The Godfather Trilogy every 4 fucking years.
How else would people be able to buy the film?!
P.S.–I realize that Netflix and Internet downloading factor heavily into this, but I think the points I made above are just as relevant.
I think if the big chains made the good product as accessible (but less expensive) as Tower did, sales wouldn't be in the shitter.
Sure, studios put more value into the sales of New Releases than "All The President's Men", but a sale of that DVD still counts as a sale, does it not?
Totally agree, Layne.
And as I sift through the $5 bargain bin at Wal-Mart, I have to ask myself, do I really need to own "The Wraith"?
Some pretty good points Layne, but I'd just like to offer up a counter-point to one of your arguments.
How many of those pre-1960 movies are on DVD at all? How many are even worth putting on DVD. Honestly, for as much as people complain that all new movies are crap, most older ones are crap too, but those fuzzy nostalgia goggles has everyone defending old stuff.
In my entire life I can count on 1 hand the number of black and white movies that were worth watching. The 3 that I can name off the top of my head are To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, and To Hell and Back.
A sale is not a sale when it comes to the margin for the greedy studios which is why new releases abound and deep catalog is nowhere in sight.
In my entire life I can count on 1 hand the number of black and white movies that were worth watching. The 3 that I can name off the top of my head are To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, and To Hell and Back.
You forgot _Casablanca_, _The 400 Blows_, _The Third Man_, _Dr. Strangelove_, and of course _Citizen Kane_..
"the industry is screwed unless it can start making features that cost WAY less than $500k. Even that might be too much as we move forward. It's not going to be pretty. Look what is happening to the magazine industry as well. Scary stuff."
We the smaller studios are already doing films for 500,000 or less It works out well. Example of two of ours 'Recon 7 Down" and "Roswell 1847"
Looks like the numbers are in. DVDs were down 7.6% vs last year. Not great, but not as gloomy as the "moguls" predicted.


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There isn't a single system in the world which will beat the odds. If there was one, lottery would be out of business. The only way to beat it is either by buying all the combinations or by being at the right place at the right time.
Horse racing isn't out of business.Casinos aren't out of business.Guess it also depends on your definition of "beat the odds"
So you mean we've just been wasting our time?????
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Yes, the odds are against you if you keep playing. But you have know when to hold up, know when to fold up, know when to run.
That is the mentality that "they" want us to have in order to keep the "fun" players as more than 98% of the crowd.
Many people win the lottery consistently, win at sports betting consistently, win at horse racing consistently, win at casino gambling consistently.
But that "many people" population is so incredibly small, compared to the population of people that loose, or, just play for fun, that the gambling "industry" will never die, but, rather continue to grow, and multiply. :)
It was worth millions a year, now, the gambling industry is worth billions a year....and growing.
:) And the winners, although less than 3%, continue to, year after year, take their piece of the pie.
Yeah, the lottery is probably one of the toughest forms of gambling to beat, but, it is beatable. Man, I think, horse racing is 3-4 times harder to beat than the lottery, and horse racing is very beatable.
Well said "Kenny"!
I'm a relatively new comer to the Lottery scene (since just this past December), and I've already gotten a piece of the pie in just about all the different lottery games I play regularly. And I must say, a lot of it has to do with the wonderful, helpful, never-tireing folks here on the Post!
I had many years of casinos work. There's a saying that any game can be beat if you have "deep enough poclets".
BUT, that's why there are house limits. Theorhetically a person with "deep enough pockets" could keep doubling up after a lss until they won, BUT, the house limit prevents that at a certain point, AND even if it didn't, who would bet $1,24, or $2,048, etc...to win $1?
Some people here have talked about playing all the combinations but even you you had the means ($$$$$$$) to do that, that ASSUMES a SOLO hit.
You don't have to beat the odds, you just have to win ONCE !!! BobP
Cashman is right.
We have been told of a few people who make more than $25,000 a year off the lottery, year after year.
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"Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, nine were taken by Jerusalem."
You might say that the lottery is a game of chance, I say that the lottery is a game of probabilities and statistics and knowledge beats it.
You need to rethink your words about the odds of the lottery. I personally have a system with 4 #' that come out at a pretty good rate. I know of a bunch of system that work. When the lottery people say the lottery can't be beat there saying that so no one will know that it is possable. The states would not try the hardest to make the draws random if it was not possable.
I mean why bother rotating balls and doing all that they do if they know there is no way to beat the randomness to it.
People beat the lottery odds everyday by winning. Do they break the house...NO but, as I have and many people here on LP and elsewhere have broken the bank in a day.
If you win then you beat the odds....that is all there is to it.
One other thing is with all the technology that the world has today if you think back to when the lottery was invented they didn'think about how this would effect the odds.
It's kind of like Y2K...everyone remembers that. The programmers back in the early days of computers never thought that we would hit the year 2000 when they designed the date format in programs.
Then bam we realized it. It's the same theory with the lottery. The lottery was not made to handle the minds and technology of what the people of yesterday and tommorrow brings. That is why they try so hard to make sure we have a challange each and everyday.
Eventually technology will surpass the ability of what we call radomness and someone will beat the odds on a periodict basis.
If I had the IBM super computer I would be there already...LOL
Good luck to everyone!!!
One thing is for certain, you never will beat the lottery if you do not play. But you do only have to beat it once.
i agree with you 100 percent.thats the way i view it myself....
It's not a question of "beating" the lottery. It's a matter of using short term trends to help reduce the odds against you.
If you are talking about Jackpot games, it will always take a lucky hit to catch a jackpot. But the P3 and P4 can be hit more easily, since they have the lowest odds against you in the first place, and those can be reduced more efficiently.
And since you basically say this is all useless, the question comes to mind....
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I has response journals due that week, and I got overwhelming responses from students. An athlete who had been pressured by his coach to lose weight. Students who had watched family members struggle with eating disorders, students who always considered themselves too thick or thin to be beautiful.
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Almost immediately following these discussions, Rush Limbaugh hit the news for some incredibly disparaging comments about Michelle Obama. In particular:
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I think my favorite Barack Obama quote ever is his musings about his wife in The Audacity of Hope: "Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this--she is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. She is also very beautiful, although not in a way that men find intimidating, or women find off-putting; it is the lived-in beauty of the mother and busy professional rather than the touched up image we see on the cover of glossy magazines. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of "You know I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife...wow!" I nod, knowing that if I ever had to run against her for public office, she would beat me without much difficulty."
The first time I read those words, I was in my early twenties, and not terribly long out of a disastrous relationship. I latched on to that quotation- as an indicator of the person I wanted to be, and the respect I wanted from any future partner. Four years later, I think it's becoming my reality.
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- paul bowman said...
Speaking of health issues, here's a mental health practice I've adopted rigorously and can recommend without qualification equally to young & old, male & female, humble & prosperous: never, ever let yourself hear or read anything Rush Limbaugh says. (With perhaps an exception here or there for quoted material in a blog post by a respected friend.) The data won't all be available for some time of course, but I'm very confident this single discipline will be shown in the end to have added years to my life. Only try a rough napkin calculation, for instance, of how much more often the Limbaugh-free subject should find occasion to smile, or how many fewer polysyllabic expletives or liters of perspiration her person can be expected to emit in a week, than one sustaining even brief & irregular Limbaugh exposure. If no one's made this the focus of a public health study yet, I'm sure it's long overdue.
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Such a good point Mr. Bowman!!
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We have never met, yet we share an extraordinary bond. We have both been in comas, experienced what was going on - and heard what was being said - around our beds while apparently dead to the world, and have lived to tell the tale.
Strangely, we were both going through the same experience at precisely the same time, exactly five years ago.
I read your story in the newspapers last week with both horror and recognition. You suffered much more than I. You were in your coma for six months after a diving accident in your early twenties, just after Christmas, 1990.
The doctors said there was no hope for you and were ready to switch off your life-support systems. At the last minute your mother threw herself across your body and begged them to keep you alive. They agreed, and you eventually woke up and began your recovery.
I went into my coma two weeks after you, after a simple operation went wrong, and it only lasted weeks, not months. But, it seems, we share some memories from when we were both, apparently, unconscious.
We both remember hearing broadcast news reports of the Gulf war. We both heard people talking to us, and tried to communicate back. And we both recalled anecdotes told us, and repeated them to amazed relatives when we woke.
You say you were "vaguely puzzled" in your coma by what you felt the nurses doing to you. I felt that, too. I spent much of the time either in total blackness or in a strange, white, humpy world, as if surrounded by rumpled sheets.
I could not see my body, but I could feel myself being pulled around on the bed. Every so often a voice would say "Geoff, we are going to take your blood pressure", and I would feel the tourniquet tightening on my arm. Or a nurse would tell me that she was going to give me an injection, and I would feel the needle going in. It was a bewildering, alien sensation of things being done to me by forces I could not see. If the nurses had not warned me of what they were doing, I think I would have been frightened, not puzzled.
I could also feel my wife, Judy's, hand in mine, our fingers entwined together. I could hear her telling me that I was being brave, that the children were all right, that their schools and my office were being supportive. I could not work out what she was doing in this strange new world, but her presence was enormously reassuring.
I consciously planned, in my "unconsciousness'', how to make contact with her. I got hold of the idea that I could break through if only I could say something to her or open my eyes. On one occasion she was washing me - and I planned to say "Thank you" when she finished. But just as she got to the last leg I heard her say: "Darling, I have got to go and get the children from school," and introduce the nurse who finished the job.
On another occasion, when I was being shaved, I heard a nurse say: "They often open their eyes when we do this," and remember thinking that that would get me into contact. But it never happened.
I remember being told what the doctors thought was wrong with me, and consciously setting out to fight it. I remember receiving a telegram from Prince Charles, and knowing what it said. When I awoke, I could recount in detail a story my wife had told me of how my son's godmother, a vegetarian who had pitched in to help at home, had brought herself to cook a chicken because she felt the family needed it.
I spent much of the time in an extraordinarily vivid dream, into which much of the real world penetrated. All the people who came to visit me wove themselves into it. I must have been able to take in visual information because my surroundings in the intensive care ward, and the view from its window, kept appearing in different contexts, though I had never seen them when conscious.
A great deal of the dream was about being paralysed and voiceless, which is how I was when I woke (I even dreamt that Mrs Thatcher had permanently lost her voice but that, being equally afflicted, I could not get the story out!). This was merciful because it prepared me, saving me from a horrifying shock; in fact I slid almost imperceptibly from the coma into reality and cannot, even now, put my finger on when I actually made the transition.
Did you, Mark, ever know you were near to death? I did, twice, and it was a surprisingly matter-of-fact, almost mundane, experience - not frightening at all. I remember feeling quite ready to die, if needs be, but that death would have to work a great deal harder if it wanted to get me. Each time it was Judy's presence that pulled me through.
On the second occasion I felt I had a choice to live or die, and having chosen life I, strangely, never doubted that I would eventually fully recover, even though I remained in danger for months afterwards. I was left with a sense of certainty that this life is not everything, almost an apprenticeship for something more important that follows.
My wife, like your parents, was told that there was no hope for me, but fortunately nobody ever suggested to her that I should be switched off. So I was fascinated to read that you, like me, find it hard to come to a firm view about other cases and cannot bring yourself to judge families, like the parents of Hillsborough victim, Tony Bland, who decided to let their dear ones go. Circumstances must differ in different cases, and I find myself tremendously reluctant to generalise.
Yet our stories - and yours far more than mine - do give doctors reason to pause. In the wake of publicity about your case, it has been reported that research by the London's Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability found that nearly a fifth of the patients studied who were thought to be in irreversible comas eventually woke: many, like us, had been aware of what had been going on around them and unable to communicate. It does seem, doesn't it, that a reappraisal is needed?
I do hope we can meet.
Yours, Geoffrey Lean.
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We left on Saturday morning and we slept at night in the house of another volunteer in Cluj. And on Sunday we went to visit the mine.
Inside is a spectacle. The rooms are so high that you can build a 10-storey building.And for not to vary, Romanians continue with their own lifestyle and have mounted inside the main room a sort of amusement park with basketball court, minigolf, bowling, ferris wheel (mostly for children), an amphitheater and a lake artificial salt with boats to be able to ride around the lake. Ah! I forgot, there is also a chapel, or something similar.Some things in the mine appear to outer space, so that reminded me of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
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Ottawa, Ontario – Two projects for transportation-related skills development and capacity were announced yesterday by Transport Minister Jean-C. Lapierre. The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation will receive $100,000 and the Western Transportation Advisory Council (WESTAC) will receive $50,000 to promote transportation careers among youth.
"World class, sustainable transportation systems, such as Canada's, require the vision and energy of an innovative sector, driven by a highly skilled workforce," said Minister Lapierre. "This funding demonstrates the Government of Canada's commitment to promoting transportation careers to potential workforce entrants."
The Transportation Skills Development funding was initiated to respond to several employment issues facing the transportation industry. At the same time as demand for transportation services is increasing, the workforce is aging, the number of new entrants into the transportation field is decreasing and there are shortages of skilled workers in certain areas. The funding will be distributed to projects that increase the visibility, understanding and attractiveness of transportation careers to young people, and increase awareness and understanding of such careers among youth, parents and teachers.


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- Fours
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- SE Marsh 9
- DA Warner 89
- RT Ponting 21
- DJ Hussey 19
- CL White 7
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- L Ronchi 11
- JR Hopes 13
- NW Bracken 1
- BW Hilfenhaus 0*
- SW Tait 1*
- M Ntini 2/40
- LL Tsotsobe 1/16
- JH Kallis 0/25
- DW Steyn 3/38
- J Botha 0/31
- JA Morkel 2/30
Ntini to Warner, 1 run, Warner's away! He jumps back and tucks a short of a length delivery off his hips behind square
Ntini to Warner, FOUR, Warner goes airborne! He stays in his crease and pulls a short ball from Ntini just over the head of the fielder at mid-on, the ball speeds to the boundary
Ntini to Warner, 1 run, played off the hips towards square leg again
Tsotsobe to Warner, no run, short of a length outside off stump, Warner slaps the ball towards cover
Tsotsobe to Warner, FOUR, too full, too straight, Warner leans across and flicks the ball towards the fine leg boundary, no sign of nerves from Warner
Tsotsobe to Warner, 1 run, this one stops on Warner, he checks his shot down the ground and plays it towards mid-on
Ntini to Warner, no run, short of a length on middle and off stump, the batsman jumps back and defends on the off side
Ntini to Warner, 1 run, Ntini fires in a full ball and Warne absolutely smashes it towards mid-on, Morkel (Albie) does superbly to dive to his right and cut off the boundary
Ntini to Warner, SIX, massive! Ntini drops short and Warne swivels and smashes the ball over deep midwicket, he clears the boundary by a few yards!
Ntini to Warner, SIX, Warner does it again! Ntini gives him another short one and Warner pulls again, he hits it squarer this time and clears the deep-square leg boundary by a yard or two
Ntini to Warner, FOUR, edged and four! Warner tries to blast down the ground but gets a thick outside edge past Boucher ... 18 runs off the over ... massive
Tsotsobe to Warner, no run, Tsotsobe hits a good length outside off and, would you believe it, Warner lets it go! That's the first time he's done that today
Tsotsobe to Warner, 3 runs, Warner backs away to make room but Tsotsobe follows him, Warner pushes out at it and gets an edge down to third man
Kallis to Warner, FOUR, super timing! Warner waits for the ball just outside off stump and brings his bat down in a flash to cut it through the gap at cover point
Kallis to Warner, no run, Kallis bowls a slower one and beats Warner's attempt at pulling
Kallis to Warner, FOUR, down the track and over midwicket! Warner steps out of a short of a length delivery and pulls into the wide open spaces at deep midwicket, Australia reach 50 ...
Kallis to Warner, 1 run, pushed off the front foot towards mid-on who is a little deep
Steyn to Warner, SIX, what a shot! That was bowled at 149.8 kmh and Warner merely turned around and helped the ball over the fine-leg boundary with an audacious paddle shot, fine leg was in the circle, Steyn can't believe it
Steyn to Warner, SIX, 52 off 19 balls! Warner gets there by charging and pulling the short ball high and far over deep midwicket, this guy has awesome hand-eye co-ordination, and terrific bat speed
Steyn to Warner, 1 run, played off the pads behind square for a single
Steyn to Warner, no run, Warner backs away and has to wait for a short ball to reach him before swatting it towards cover
Botha to Warner, 1 run, he stays in his crease and flicks a flat and fast delivery towards deep square leg
Botha to Warner, no run, Warner steps out but doesn't get to the pitch of the ball, he adjusts well and pushes towards cover
Botha to Warner, no run, defended back to the bowler, Botha gave only 5 runs off the over
Steyn to Warner, 1 run, slower ball from Steyn at 114 kmh, Warner waits for it and taps towards cover for a quick single
Steyn to Warner, FOUR, he can pull, can Warner! He lines up another short ball from Steyn and smashes it towards deep midwicket, the ball falls a few yards short of the boundary
Botha to Warner, SIX, that's many many rows back! Warner charges Botha, he doesn't get to the pitch but never mind that, he winds up and swings his bat hard to send the ball over the long-on boundary, there's a fielder on the fence too!
Botha to Warner, no run, played back to the bowler, Botha bowled a fast and full one
Botha to Warner, no run, a full toss but Warner is cramped for room and hits it to midwicket
Morkel to Warner, 1 run, Warner jumps back in his crease and plays the ball off his pads towards deep backward square
Morkel to Warner, 2 runs, 'Two, two,' yells Warner after tucking the ball towards midwicket, he gets them too, terrific running
Kallis to Warner, 2 runs, Warner tries to hit on the leg side but connects with the toe end of the bat and places the ball behind point
Kallis to Warner, no run, Warner misses the heave through midwicket and gets hit on the pad, Kallis appeals but he pitched outside leg
Kallis to Warner, SIX, wind up and whack! Warner gets under a short ball and pulls it so powerfully, that's the biggest six of the day, it's gone miles over square leg, Gilchrist reckons it's 20 rows back
Kallis to Warner, 2 runs, driven towards long-on for two more ...
Kallis to Warner, 2 runs, clipped off the pads towards wide long-on for two more
Morkel to Warner, no run, bowled full outside off stump, Warner drives it hard towards mid-off but doesn't get the single
Morkel to Warner, 1 run, Warner steps out and makes room but Morkel follows him, he pulls through midwicket
Botha to Warner, 1 run, Warner steps out and hits the full toss along the ground to long-off
Ntini to Warner, FOUR, full toss and Warner goes after it! He pulls the ball from outside off into the gap between long on and deep midwicket, super placement and he moves four runs closer to a 100, he needs 10 off 14 to break Gayle's record for the fastest Twenty20 international hundred
Ntini to Warner, 2 runs, Warner makes room by moving towards leg and smashes the ball over cover, he'll get two for this
Ntini to Warner, 1 run, Ntini bowls a full delivery outside off, Warner drives hard but doesn't get past Gibbs at cover
Ntini to Warner, OUT, Warner's gone! He won't get his hundred on debut but he's done enough to get a standing ovation from the massive MCG crowd. Warner tried to lift Ntini off his pads but didn't quite get the power or the placement, he lofted the ball towards deep midwicket where de Villiers settled under the ball
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May 19, 2017 - By Migdalia James
The stock of Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) reached all time low today, May, 19 and still has $38.44 target or 6.00 % below today's $40.89 share price. This indicates more downside for the $3.92B company. This technical setup was reported by Barchart.com. If the $38.44 PT is reached, the company will be worth $235.20M less.
Trading stocks at an all time low is not easy. Stock at an all time low usually experience even more downside due to very negative fundament. Even thought the pullback rate is high, shorting is not an easy job because the risk of being wrong is big and the risk-reward ratio is always worse than if trading lon only. About 2.06M shares traded or 18.39% up from the average. Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) has risen 6.00% since April 19, 2017 and is uptrending. It has by 0.00% the S&P500.
Among 18 analysts covering Mallinckrodt (NYSE:MNK), 15 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 3 Hold. Therefore 83% are positive. Mallinckrodt had 39 analyst reports since August 5, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. Goldman Sachs initiated the shares of MNK in report on Monday, June 6 with "Neutral" rating. The stock has "Outperform" rating by BMO Capital Markets on Wednesday, June 29. The stock of Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) earned "Buy" rating by Deutsche Bank on Wednesday, August 31. Mizuho maintained the shares of MNK in report on Wednesday, November 30 with "Buy" rating. On Friday, February 3 the stock rating was maintained by Mizuho with "Buy". Barclays Capital maintained the stock with "Overweight" rating in Tuesday, October 13 report. The rating was initiated by Raymond James with "Outperform" on Friday, November 18. The rating was initiated by Mizuho with "Neutral" on Friday, October 9. The firm has "Overweight" rating given on Thursday, December 3 by Morgan Stanley. The firm earned "Outperform" rating on Monday, March 28 by RBC Capital Markets.
Investors sentiment increased to 1.03 in 2016 Q4. Its up 0.12, from 0.91 in 2016Q3. It improved, as 62 investors sold Mallinckrodt PLC shares while 130 reduced holdings. 70 funds opened positions while 127 raised stakes. 92.55 million shares or 0.45% more from 92.14 million shares in 2016Q3 were reported.
First Eagle Investment Mgmt Ltd Liability Co reported 187 shares. Pub Sector Pension Investment Board holds 0.01% of its portfolio in Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) for 23,628 shares. Commercial Bank Of America De owns 753,720 shares for 0.01% of their portfolio. Manchester Mgmt Limited Liability invested 0% of its portfolio in Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK). Eaton Vance reported 0% of its portfolio in Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK). Huntington National Bank & Trust reported 0% in Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK). Stoneridge Invest Limited Liability Company owns 0.53% invested in Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) for 78,547 shares. Valley Natl Advisers accumulated 4 shares. Winslow Evans Crocker Inc reported 80 shares. Bluemountain Ltd Liability invested in 40,697 shares or 0.04% of the stock. Hsbc Public Limited holds 0% or 11,019 shares. Great West Life Assurance Can reported 79,828 shares. Commonwealth Retail Bank Of Aus has 0% invested in Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) for 416 shares. Ajo L P holds 0.04% of its portfolio in Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) for 186,643 shares. Moreover, Clinton Group Inc Inc has 0.13% invested in Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) for 43,124 shares.
Since February 10, 2017, it had 6 buys, and 0 sales for $273,286 activity. Harbaugh Matthew K bought $29,514 worth of stock. Shares for $49,680 were bought by Romano Steven J. on Friday, February 10. Another trade for 1,000 shares valued at $50,466 was bought by Trudeau Mark. Hicks Michael-Bryant bought $14,602 worth of stock or 290 shares. 2,000 shares valued at $108,676 were bought by Fischer Meredith B on Thursday, February 23. WATKINS IAN J bought $20,348 worth of stock.
More notable recent Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) news were published by: Seekingalpha.com which released: "Mallinckrodt Plc (MNK) Q1 2017 Results – Earnings Call Transcript" on May 08, 2017, also Seekingalpha.com with their article: "Avoid Mallinckrodt Into Earnings" published on May 05, 2017, Prnewswire.com published: "Mallinckrodt plc Reports Earnings Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2017" on May 08, 2017. More interesting news about Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE:MNK) were released by: Reuters.com and their article: "BRIEF-Mallinckrodt Plc reports Q1 sales $810.9 million" published on May 08, 2017 as well as Reuters.com's news article titled: "Jim Chanos slams Express Scripts and Mallinckrodt over high drug prices" with publication date: May 18, 2017.
Mallinckrodt public limited company develops, makes, markets and distributes branded and generic specialty pharmaceutical products and therapies. The company has market cap of $3.92 billion. The Firm focuses on various therapeutic areas, such as autoimmune and rare disease specialty areas, including neurology, rheumatology, nephrology, ophthalmology and pulmonology; immunotherapy and neonatal critical care respiratory therapies; analgesics and hemostasis products, and central nervous system drugs. It has a 44.31 P/E ratio. The Company's divisions include Specialty Brands and Specialty Generics.
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I love a good kitchen renovation! So today for my #oubstyle feature I have Shannon from Forty-Up, sharing her kitchen reno with us. Shannon is a friend of mine I met through a online blogging course. Shannon is a fashion and lifestyle blogger who also writes about her beautiful family and her travel adventures. Together these stories weave together into a mood board to show you how to make your dreams a reality.
Lets get into this kitchen reno!
Thanks for sharing your kitchen reno with us Shannon. I'm delighted to have you here. Tell us a bit about yourself and your home.
Thank you so much for having me! I'm a OUB fan! I'm Shannon, I write a little blog called Forty Up which is a bit of a mash up of all things beautiful & inspiring to enhance your own style. I am married to the wonderful Mr D & have 2 children, my daughter Oakley is 8 & my son Doyle is nearly 5.
My home is in a coastal Northern suburb of Perth, W.A. We've lived here for about 3 years & have been renovating steadily since even before we moved in!
Our home was built in 1947 & has only had one owner prior to us, which makes its history & feel very important to us. It was well out of our price range but we made an offer, up against a developer who wanted to knock it down & subdivide & offered A LOT more than us, but the owner of the property wanted a family to move in & love the house as much as they had, so we got it!
When we moved in, the previous, now very elderly owners left us a bunch of flowers, some champers & photos of them clearing the block & the building the home over the years. Very special!
We love the whole vintage vibe so we try to mesh current looks while staying true to the original aesthetic of the home.
That is so sweet of the previous owners to do that! Lets talk about the inspiration behind your kitchen design.
More space is the practical answer. The home was quite pokey, the kitchen separate to the dining & lounge, we just didn't have the space & with a growing family needed to have room to all be able to interact in the kitchen. We ended up knocking down the wall between the kitchen & dining to allow this to happen. Aesthetically, we have a favourite artwork in our dining area which we used as our colour scheme & design inspiration "Totem" by Lisa Lapointe.
Great colour choices! I love how you have used two colours for your cabinetry & I adore your bench top! Can you share with us the name of the bench tops and cupboards?
The benchtop is Bianco Carrara by QStone & the cupboards are by Laminex, Pearl Grey & Oyster White
What is your favourite part of the kitchen?
The big long centre bench! Not only does it have heaps of storage, my kids eat breakfast there, do homework there, lunchboxes packed, it's really made the kitchen the heart of our home. It's also perfect for Friday afternoon drinks & nibbles!
Is there anything your not happy with or had to compromise on?
To be honest, I compromised on the splashback tiles. I wanted either a geometric tile or a herringbone pattern. Mr D flatly refused anything geometric claiming it gave him a headache! And the herringbone when quoted was too expensive & too complicated for the space. So, we compromised on the subway tile, but I got my black, & they are a little bit different, not your traditional flat subway tile. But I love them now, they were a great choice.
I love the black tap – I am going to use one in my kitchen too. I am also considering a matte black sink – did you think about using one?
We chose the black tap simply because we couldn't find a mixer we liked, that matched the metal of the sink. We had already decided on the black tile so thought the black tap might work against that, & it did! It was risky but it paid off. We did look at the matching black sinks, they are amazing, but it came down to budget & we wanted to keep with the feel of the house & felt sticking to good old "retro" steel would suit it best. I think you should do it though – they are lovely!
Like you it will come down to budget! Thanks so much for being here Shannon and sharing your kitchen renovation with us!
If you want to see more from Shannon you can find her on her blog and follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
If you would like to have your home or room featured on OUB – use #oubstyle on your Instagram photos and I will contact you. Easy!!
I really love Shannons kitchen – particularly the tiles, tap and bench tops. What is your favourite part? Have you used a matte black sink or tap?
Fleur x
3 Comments
ElsaFebruary 18, 2016 at 11:39 am
What a sexy kitchen, love the tiled splash back & love love the black taps. Well done
Jo @ You had us at helloFebruary 18, 2016 at 12:24 pm
I love it!! I can't even remember the old kitchen – I guess we never hung out in there! Perfect place to sit and admire now though! Well done Shan & Mr D xx
Shan@FortyUpFebruary 18, 2016 at 5:30 pm


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