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For several weeks now, I've noticed an increase in hard sell advertising in my Sunday newspaper, the websites I frequent, and the few TV shows I take the time to watch.
One gold coin commercial in particular has drawn my attention, or should I say disapproval, that has been running on CNBC for several weeks now. Normally, I dismiss such rubbish by tuning it out or hitting the mute button, but the outlandish claims made by the United States Rare Coin & Bullion Reserve is, in my opinion, probably the worst sales pitch ever.
To set the stage, we have the proverbial spokesperson (i.e. salesman) running his fingers through a large pile of gold coins in front of an open gold vault with a few armed security guards standing about. In my mind, it almost seems like the wishful conclusion of Geraldo Rivera's lame attempt to find Al Capone's secret vault back in the 1980s.
Also going by the name of "U.S. Gov't Gold", the United States Rare Coin & Bullion Reserve consistently pushes in their advertisement that gold prices will skyrocket to $2,000 per ounce and that you should get in now while prices are cheap.
They also go to the extreme of saying the $50,000 in gold coins the salesman is lavishly fondling would appreciate to $166,000 if gold hits $2,000 per ounce.
Come again? This guy is pitching us a product that he claims is going to triple in value?
Why in the world would anyone sell something that's going to triple in value? Something mighty strange is going on here.
Of course, it's not U.S. Gov't Gold that is endorsing the $2,000 per ounce target price, but a group of unidentified experts. How convenient! I suppose this undocumented detail would allow for a satisfactory scapegoat if gold prices drop below the prices at which their customers purchased their gold coins.
Not to leave out potential advertising space, their website also gets into the mix by hyping ten Orwell-like reasons you should buy their gold coins. Such as "the threat of terrorism", "potential conflicts with Iran" or "the war in Iraq" are additional reasons why you should their product right now.
Sounds like the sky is falling doesn't it?
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What strikes me as odd is that the U.S. Gov't Gold is in no way related to the U.S. Mint or the U.S. Government. Which I would presume is a strategy to look as authentic as possible so that any unsuspecting person would buy immediately from them, after falling for their hard sell tactics, and not think any different.
It also appears that the United States Rare Coin & Bullion Reserve has seen the wrath of the San Francisco Gate with some scathing insights. Nothing like having a court ruling for overpricing coins going against you, or getting banned from serving in a public company by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to ruin your business reputation.
Say goodbye to the hard sell scare tactics
Like everything that trades on the open market, gold has been a highly volatile commodity considering the uncertainty in the U.S. economy, and the overall global economy as well.
However, the U.S. Dollar value of gold only reached a high of $1,000 per ounce (an all time high) but soon retreated back to the low $700 per ounce range.
No one has a crystal ball, but would you trust a salesman – particularly a questionable coin salesman – making you a bet that you could triple your money? Probably not!
It's better to buy the coins directly from the U.S. Mint and ignore shady salesman in their entirety.
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When something that seems to good to be true, it probably is.
So when you see such advertising as this, with someone promising grand returns on your money or prices that are so low you must buy now, it's best to step back and think about your purchase. By doing some quick investigative research on your own with a quick Google search, five minutes of semi-diligent research could save you tons of time in post-purchase headaches.
As for this example, I'm sure that some time in the future – maybe 1 year, maybe 50 years – gold will be at $2,000 like the United States Rare Coin & Bullion Reserve claims. But it doesn't mean you should rush out and buy the next hot item because everyone is buying it. More often that not, you're probably buying at the highest price only to watch it depreciate in value soon thereafter.
Yea, it really annoys me as well. Thanks for the information. I was just looking on Google to find contact info for that firm when I found your article.
@ Mike
Thanks for commenting. U.S. Gov't Gold has recently edited their newest CNBC commercial to blatantly say…
"It's time to take your money out of the stock market, and put your money into gold."
I'm sure they mean buy their overpriced gold coins instead of buying a gold ETF (symbol GLD) or something similar.
I'm surprised CNBC lets them continue saying such things, but I suppose their advertising dollars are welcome in a down economy.
I just bought 10 of their coins that they advertised on CNBC. I totally agree about their commercial though. They make used car salesmen look honest. However, the price of $99 for a 1/10 ounce coin is now a very good price considering the price of gold. The total for 10 of them was $1021 with shipping. If you check the price of one of these on ebay you'll see they're going for about $120. So you could buy them from this lousy sales pitch and resell them on ebay for a quick profit of $179 if you turn them around right away.
@ Dave
Nice catch and thanks for the heads up!
These guys were advertising gold coins for $87 each several weeks ago, but apparently they rotate their commercials based on price from what I've observed thus far (yes, I watch too much CNBC).
I bought the Gold ETF (NYSE: GLD) a few days ago, so you're definitely correct that their outdated prices will bring in a tidy profit when a lag arises b/n gold price spikes and their advertising campaign.
Plus, American Eagle gold coins are at a premium now since the US Mint can't make enough to satisfy demand. I would hate to buy from these guys, but if the profit is there, got to take it.
Have you seen anything related in Silver or Platinum?
I haven't seen anything related in silver or platinum. I'm in the gold ETF too, but this turns out to be a decent deal despite their shady commercial that probably hurts them more than helps. Once you get past that it can be a good deal right now. Yes, their prices do fluctuate with the market.
I think the commercial is bait and switch deal. When I said I wanted the $99 deal that I saw on CNBC and placed my order for 10 after he took all my info he asked if I was going to make a necklace out of them or if I was going to hold them as an investment. I said hold them and literally laughed at the idea of making a necklace from tehm and asked why I would want to make a necklace out of them. He said that's what most people do (???) with them and that if you wanted a good way to hold and invest in gold I should buy the one ounce eagle coins that's sealed inside of a plastic holder. I said ok, how much are you selling those for? It was over $1500 and he tried to tell me even if the price of gold falls these can still go up in value. Ok, maybe, but that's not gold investing that's numismatic coin investing and I'm not into that. I said no thanks. I'll take the $99 deal.
I found an old SF Chronicle article on these coins from 2004 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/14/BUG7H7KR5U1.DTL&type=business). The coins were priced at $44 each and gold was around $400 an ounce. I wish I'd have bought gold then as opposed to my brokers advice to stay in the market! I do agree that the 'used car salesman' approach used by these guys really stinks. But, in light of what gold has done versus the market they are not really wrong in their claims. Better to buy directly from the US Mint (http://www.usmint.gov)
Good tips all around Dave. Thanks for the news on the possible bait and switch. I'm sure there is a shady moneymaking deal in there somewhere, so you may have found it.
Plus, it still astounds me why they would advertise gold going up and wanting to sell off their inventory.
Unless, they were convinced that gold was headed lower or you had a more lucrative profit margin on other products… like that sealed one ounce eagle coin. Talk about a price markup!
@ Don
Agreed. They have been correct, but even though I am holding the Gold ETF, I don't want gold rocketing to $2000/ounce like they claim in their latest ads.
I also agree its better to buy the US Mint or a more reputable (perhaps more ethical?) source if I were going to buy physical gold. Plus, it really ticks me off that so many companies are painting themselves as government entities when they're nothing of the kind.
I actually linked back to that SF Gate article because it was so well done. The author, David Lazarus, did a lot of leg work examining this company's shady past. He now writes for the LA Times, so I tend to follow the better investigative reporters.
The current US mint price for a 1/10 ounce is $129.50. I think their $99 price is a promotional price and I don't really care that the $99 place is shady as long as they actually send me what I paid for. I looked and can't find them for less than $99 right now anywhere including ebay.
They're making their money on volume not on holding their gold inventory.
The guy who wrote this article is a real choad… lol… We will be laughing at him when gold hits 2000 an oz as a result of the worldwide economic situation. Buy rare gold coins and buy bullion; you need both.. Apparently the fellow who wrote the article has never really studied taking physical possession of gold; your a fool if you tie yourself to GLD/ETF.
Your comment suggests you have an agenda pushing gold coins and gold bullion.
What are your affiliations?
I must say, it is ironic that a fearmonger is named Jim Jones. Will you also be advising us to buy cyanide capsules as well?
Thanks for the great reading, we buy gold bullion in a recession. I will pass this on to our ira clients to read
Good article! I wish that I'd come by it before dealing with them. (i.e. USRC&BR) In April of 2006, I was mislead into purchasing two $10 Gold Eagles from them. I was ignorant, and only had a small amount of money to invest… And by the time I got off of the phone with them, I just KNEW that I had made a good little investment. I was too gullible, and their words (and promises) made me a believer. I paid $370 a piece for these "First Strike" collectors coins, only to recently discover that the value is ACTUALLY no more than the weight of the coins! It angers me no end, and yet I'm old enough to know that the "BUYER BEWARE". As the old saying goes, "a fool and his money are soon parted". For your own sakes though, do be wary.
It appears that "Jim Jones" must be an affiliate or representitive of USRC&BR!
@ Christopher D
It's certainly possible. I asked "Jim Jones" both publicly on the blog, and privately reached out to him via email, to disclose any prior affiliations and he has yet to comment.
It is not uncommon (and highly frowned upon) for companies with questionable ethics to leave comments that support their own cause. For example, Amazon has had several instances where they have employees leave great reviews about their products. I'm not saying that this is the case with USCBR, but you never know since Jim Jones hasn't responded.
All that aside, I'm sorry you had a bad experience with these gents. I've heard both good and bad experiences, but as another commenter mentioned, they do try to upsell you on other types of gold coins once you call them to place an order.
I think the big thing is to do your research prior to making a purchase with any company on the web, or that will try to sell you something directly through a TV infomercial. Here' s a long list of things you can do to protect yourself or prevent being a gullible consumer ever again.
Hope it helps and thanks for adding to the discussion!
Just wanted to leave a quick thanks to Matt SF. I appreciate your feedback. Have a great Christmas!
Same to you Chris! Feel free to checkout the blog for other posts related to gold.
Every now and then, I put together something decent! ; )
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When they say that it is easy to come to Haiti and see only poverty, we have come together with President Bill Clinton but we have seen opportunity.
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Creating a vision for your life begins the same way. When was the last time you really stopped to notice yourself? What do you look like? What do you spend the most time thinking about? What do you value the most? How do you work? What motivates you? What is the state of your relationships?
Step 3 in casting your vision is creating an umbrella statement for why you are building a personal vision statement. These may look like, "I want to live a healthy, joyful, connected life," or, "While climbing the corporate ladder, I want to balance my professional and personal life," or "I want to raise happy, healthy, kind children."
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David Wong has an article on Cracked titled "5 Ways You're Accidentally Making Everyone Hate You." The last item, "You Assumed That Because You Were OK With a Situation, Everybody Was" contains a pretty excellent explanation of why Christians shouldn't be mystified when atheists get all worked up about church-state separation:
Let me use myself as an example again, so it doesn't come off like I'm accusing anyone:
After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default — there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when in college I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a "miracle." "No," they'd say, "it was actually the result of three months of excruciating rehab, incredibly expensive doctors, and a loving and supportive family who worked extra jobs to pay for it all." I sneered and thought of them as overly sensitive PC hippie atheists, because I never considered how I would feel if, say, a Scientologist insisted that the ghost of L. Ron Hubbard wrote my books for me and that I owed all of my success to him. Enjoy your eternal hellfire, Zooey!
Now check the headlines — any controversy having to do with gay marriage, or school prayer, or any social hot-button issue involves the group who's in control acting just like I did — baffled that any other groups are dissatisfied with the "normal" way of doing things ("Oh, so now we can't keep the TEN COMMANDMENTS monument in the COURTHOUSE? But it's ALWAYS BEEN THERE!"). And in many cases, the baffled people don't feel any more malice than the guy did when he left the toilet seat up. My favorite blog in the world gives some great examples where opponents of desegregation or gay marriage have always insisted that they don't hate the group whose rights they're opposing. In many cases, they mean it honestly — "I'm not angry at anyone, I just want to leave things the way they are. Which incidentally involves me having all of the power."
Okay, so that applies to a lot of things, but my mind immediately went to church/state separation, for a couple reasons. I have a very clear memory of my nice, liberal, Congregationalist mother reading a news story about the FFRF trying to get some purely symbolic religious display and using as an object lesson on how you shouldn't behave. And I guess I took that lesson to heart, because I've had a hard time getting comfortable with some of the things the FFRF does, even if I understands the principles behind what they're doing.
One thing to note about Wong's article is that it starts off sounding like, "don't do these 5 things," but by #2 in the countdown, he seems to be making a case for why it's impossible to avoid sometimes pissing people off. Which he's probably right about. But it's at least worth being aware of. So at minimum, Christians need to stop being mystified when atheists get all worked up about things like church-state separation.


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After my short, yet amazing time in Barcelona, I will be travelling to the incredible city of Rome, Italy! I decided that after flying around from place to place so much, that I would treat myself to a short 20 hour Meditteranean cruise from Barcelona to Rome. For a one way ticket with a single bed cabin, it will cost €70. I will be staying in Rome for 2 nights and 3 days at the Hotel Metropolis for a total cost of $378.
Rome is the capital of Italy with around 3.5 people living in the metropolitan area. Rome is one of the oldest occupied cities in Europe and has so many things to offer that make it a huge tourist destination all year round.
During my first day, it is an absolute must that I go to The Colosseum. This historic monument brings in countless visitors every year to admire its beuaty and the history behind it. Learning and being in the place of past gladiators, slaves, prisoners and animals will be quite the experience. I will also go for a walk through the famous Gardens of the Villa Borghese. This central public park has a very peaceful feel to it as you get to see natures beauty.
During my second day, I will go to Vatican City and see St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums. St. Peter's Basilica is an old church but also the largest church in the world. The Pope does a number of services every year at this church to crowds of up 80,000 people sometimes. The Vatican Museums displays tons of collections that contain famous works. With some of the most well known sculptures and masterpieces from around the world, there is tons to admire.
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> Hi all,
> I have installed Fred's workaround and it seems to be working fine.
> Any ideas what could cause the original problem?
I'm afraid not. I looked at tcpdumps made when the pptp connection was
"in trouble", but I couldn't find specific problems (other than: this
should not be happening). So I decided to change tactics and see whether
changing some configuration paramters would make any difference.
The reasons for picking these two options were:
1) These are options that are set for incoming (vpn) pptp connections.
Apparently they are necessary to fix packets loss problems when
making an pptp vpn connection from Windows XP. I simply thought: if it
works in that situation it might also work in this situation (although
I have to admit that the problems are different).
2) They looked like they could be related to problems I had seen.
(see below)
> Fred: what exactly does your hotfix do, what changes in the trafic due
> to your changes?
This is what the manual says about the two options I added:
This option causes mpd to adjust outgoing TCP data so that the requested
segment size is not greater than the amount allowed by the interface MTU.
This is necessary in many setups to avoid problems caused by routers that drop
ICMP Datagram Too Big messages. Without these messages, the originating
machine sends data, it passes the rogue router then hits a machine that has an
MTU that is not big enough for the data. Because the IP Don't Fragment option
is set, this machine sends an ICMP Datagram Too Big message back to the
originator and drops the packet. The rogue router drops the ICMP message and
the originator never gets to discover that it must reduce the fragment size or
drop the IP Don't Fragment option from its outgoing data.
I picked this one because in one case I saw a lot of fragmentation occurring
from modem -> m0n0wall. However, when I think it over, that doesn't make
any sense because this option is about outgoing (m0n0wall->modem) data.
Fred Wright said this about it:
> I doubt that the first one would have anything to do with *this*
> symptom, since if the MSS is a problem then you'd mainly have connections
> that don't work at all.
So my guess is that this option is not the "cure". It probably only doesn't
hurt either.
Enable delayed ACK's. This can improve throughput on reliable links.
Default is on.
I'm afraid I picked this one for the wrong reasons as well :-(
What is saw in some tcpdumps was TCP outgoing acks being lost (or not being
sent anyway). So I thought: ack problem, option related to acks -> try it.
However, this option affects GRE level acks, so it's on a different level.
When this option is enabled (the default), GRE level acks will be piggybacked
to data packets going to the modem. The GRE module will wait for data packets
to become available for some time and will eventually send the acks on its
own if that doesn't happen within some time. I also had a peek at the source
code and noticed that when data _is_ available, but the send window is full,
the data packet is discarded but no ack is sent either (it will be sent
eventually when the ack timeout occurs).
When this option is disabled (what I did), GRE level acks are sent immediately,
without being piggybacked to data packets.
I don't have a clue why this is better, but at least it's simpler. I could
simply be a bug in the delayed-ack code that has to deal with all kinds of
interesting race conditions that simply are not present when acks are sent
immediately. Or it could be a bad interaction between the GRE module and
whatever KPN is using (it seems that this problem occurs mostly in Holland).
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Janet Napolitano, who left the post in August to become president of the University of California system, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Snowden's leaks have hurt the United States. She rejected calls made in editorials by The New York Times and London's Guardian newspapers that Snowden, now living under temporary asylum in Russia, be granted clemency.
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Christian Sprenger and Alicia Coutts are having a rough time in Glasgow due to injury and illness, but both have declared they feel more positive after encouraging heats at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
Sprenger has had a dispiriting meeting, coming in as 100 breaststroke world champion and looking towards a showdown with Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh and eventual gold medallist Adam Peaty.
However, after flopping in the 200 breaststroke final, he did not make the final of his pet event. At the time, a shattered Sprenger said he was at a loss to explain what felt like a complete disintegration of his stroke but revealed that he also had a should injury that had been causing pain.
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He said he wanted to impress in the 50 breaststroke to show selectors he was worthy of keeping his place on the 4x100 medley relay. He was fifth fastest qualifier for the semi-finals in 27.57 behind Peaty (27.00) and Van der Burgh (27.39).
"I was curious how I would go today," Sprenger said. "I had the day off yesterday and it put me in a better position mentally and physically.
"Putting that time on the board makes me feel a lot better about myself.
"After the 200 I put my shoulder in a bad position and I have been trying to recover since. I am just trying to do the best I can while I am here.
"The physios can't do much more and the whole team has been great. It has been about me wrapping my head around what's going on since the shoulder started to flare up.
"It started to break me a bit mentally. I feel like I can still turn it around."
Coutts fell ill with a bacterial bowel infection shortly before leaving Australia for the per-Games training camp in Manchester, and it appears that it has yet to clear, despite two doses of antibiotics.
The 26-year-old, who was Australia's best performer at the London Olympic Games and Delhi Commonwealth Games, finished fourth in the 100 butterfly, an event in which she is an Olympic bronze medallist and twice world titles silver medallist, and faded badly in the closing stages of her leg in the 4x200 freestyle relay that won gold on Saturday night.
She said still had also still been suffering bad stomach pains. Medical staff believe she is still suffering from the infection, which she is believed to have contracted from contact with animals. She works part-time at the RSPCA and has 11 pets at home.
However, she said she was feeling more optimistic after her 200 individual medley heat, where she qualified second fastest for the final.
"(Coach) John (Fowlie) spoke to me before the race and said just go out there and swim the race that you'd be proud of so I tried to go out there and think about the things I normally do when I race," Coutts said.
"He said win, lose or draw tonight just go out there and put your best effort in so that's what I'm trying to do.
"I was happy with the swim this morning. I wasn't really sure how I was feeling it felt pretty good and I'm optimistic for tonight."
"It's given me a bit of confidence back that I lost earlier in the week."
"I've still been getting really bad tummy pains and nothing seems to be relieving it so (the team doctor) said it's still lingering on and I should get some tests done when we get back to the AIS but I'm not letting it get to me.
"As Cate Campbell said to me everyone has their off meets and unfortunately for me this has been one of them so far but hopefully I can made it a positive one tonight."
Meanwhile, Cate Campbell said she was feeing confident in the 100 freestyle despite being pipped for the 50 freestyle gold by Francesca Halshall on Saturday night. Campbell finished in 24 seconds, which is just 0.01 behind her personal best in the one-lap dash final, cruised through her 100 freestyle heat, posting the fastest qualifying time of 53.20, followed by Emma McKeon in 54.19 and Bronte Campbell (54.42).
"I like to race in cruise control, that's when I race my best so I'll give maybe a little bit more juice tonight and hopefully save something (for the Monday night final)," Cate Campbell said.
"There was a glide into the turn and a glide into the wall but it was a heat swim, I did what I had to do and that's what my job was this morning."
However, despite taking it easy, the time was still impressive for a heat.
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2UE's general manager, Ian Sheppard, says the decision to network is not about saving money but rather taking the opportunity to put better programs to air and reach a wider audience. "Dr Feelgood is of a calibre we might not be able to invest in on weekends if we were just going to put the program on in Sydney," he says. "Sharina already has a top-rating program on Sunday nights so it makes sense to make her show available to other stations in the network. We will not compromise on programming, but if we can find a way to put in as good, or better, programming and save money at the same time, obviously we're going to do it."
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Quotable: Megan Fox Doesn't Ho Around
"I've only been with two men my entire life. My childhood sweetheart and Brian [Austin Green]. I can never have sex with someone that I don't love, ever. The idea makes me sick. I've never even come close to having a one-night stand."
– Megan Fox in Harper's Bazaar UK proves she is NOT just like US! [NY Daily News]


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SSPD officer working to help rescue equines in Louisiana
|Faith Huffman | News-Telegram News Editor
Sept. 2, 2005 -- Louisiana's residents aren't the only ones getting a Texas-sized helping hand following Hurricane Katrina. A massive effort is being undertaken by Habitat for Horses/Lone Start Equine Rescue to provide relief for equines Louisiana residents were forced to leave behind while fleeing their homes.
A large number of those horses, mules and donkeys are now in danger of starvation, injury and death if relief efforts are not immediately taken. Estimates range from several hundred to several thousand horses that are lost, injured or in danger, according to Sulphur Springs Police Sgt. Kim Simpson, who is a member of the equine rescue group and is coordinating a drive locally to support the rescue effort.
Habitat for Horses/Lone Star Equine Rescue is a nonprofit organization with approximately 1,000 members who provide equine rescue services to law enforcement agencies throughout Texas, an active adoption program and equine education center and equine-assisted services to youth and adults.
A number of these volunteers from Texas and Oklahoma are slated to gather at a central staging area, then proceed from there to designated sites in Louisiana. From that point, trained rescue volunteers will proceed to any location where horses have been spotted and attempt to extricate and transport them to safety, where they will receive medical care from the Louisiana State Veterinary Office, according to Simpson.
Once the animals are rescued and safe, efforts will be made to contact the owners. If contact cannot be made the animals will be transported to another location for recovery.
The operation is an all-volunteer effort funded by donations from individuals, companies and organizations around the country. Help in the form or individuals experienced with equine and donations of money and supplies are still needed for the effort.
The most predominant needs are large quantities of hay and feed, medical supplies such as bandages and antiseptic, trailers, temporary equine fencing, tarps, buckets, new lead ropes and halters. Donations of supplies may be made by calling Rose Westover, emergency evacuation coordinator for Habitat for Horses/Lone Star Equine Rescue Inc., at 713-467-3444 or 713-5941177, or by e-mail: email@example.com
�I will be accepting donations for about a week, but our first trip to Louisiana may be as early as Saturday morning, Sept. 3,� Simpson said. �It would also be nice if they [donors] would give their names so we know where the items come from.�
Locally, Simpson will be accepting and picking up the following donated items: halters, lead ropes, dog collars, leashes, large and small pet carriers, food and water bowls, feed and water buckets, dog food, cat food, horse feed, bottles or jugs of water, fly spray, white towels and wash clothes, any bandage supplies, vet wrap, medical tape, wound medications, diapers, leather gloves of all sizes, rubber gloves of all sizes, rubber boots of all sizes, wire cutters, trash bags of all sizes, tarps, lightweight cattle panels, and scissors.
Simpson may be contacted at 903-348-1224 to pick up donations, or items may be dropped off at Sulphur Springs Police Department on South Davis Street.
Financial donations may also be made online at: http://www.lser.org/diasterrelief.htm or http://www.habitatforhorses.org/getinvovled/donatenow.html
Donations can also be mailed to Habitat for Horses/Lone Star Equine Rescue, P.O. Box 213, Hitchcock, TX 77563. For more information about HFH/LSER contact Jerry Finch, president, at 409-935-0277.
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Best Starting Point: East Trail
Best Starting Character: Rebel Soldier
Move forward and keep an eye on your radar. It is often difficult to pick up the enemy through the dense foliage. Move to the Camp checkpoint, wasting the opposition as you go. Grabbing the Camp will give you a good starting point should you fall. Forge ahead to the Shield Bunker, and try to keep a team with you. If you have a Jedi Hero, more's the better. Keep moving all the way inside the Bunker. Using grenades, destroy the command post inside. Lob grenades and fall back until you hear that the shield bunker has been destroyed. Upon completing this mission, you will conquer the galaxy.
Best Starting Point: Camp
Best Starting Character: Stormtrooper
This is your opportunity to kill Ewoks, and lots of them. Start at the Camp and put down the charging Rebels. Keep an eye on the Bunker by looking at the map throughout the battle, because you definitely do not want that to fall, or the level will be over. When you start, scramble to control some of the enemy's far posts and beware the Ewoks. You often cannot see them in the brush, so fire whenever your target reticule appears red.
Getting into an AT-ST will also greatly help your cause. Be cautious about log-smashing traps, because if you wander into one of those, you will automatically lose a life. Stay in the AT-ST as long as possible and take out as many enemy forces and Ewoks as you can early on. Once you've softened the map, go and take some of the far points to swing the numbers to your advantage.
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Tip: How to revive a wet cellphone
Question: Help! My brand new cellphone is all wet because I dropped it in the toilet. What can I do to dry the phone out?
Answer: Fortunately, you can rescue a wet cellphone, but you have to act quickly. First, remove the battery, pat it dry and set it aside. Pat the cellphone dry and remove the sim card, if your phone has one. In some cases, such as your unfortunate toilet scenario, you will need to remove contaminants that were in the water. To do that, immerse the phone in distilled water or alcohol. I prefer alcohol, since it evaporates quickly and cleanly. Hardware stores have denatured alcohol, which is used to clean electronic parts. That's best. If you buy rubbing alcohol, be sure it is 91 percent. The lower the percentage, the more water is used as filler. You don't want to add any more water than needed! Then — remember, you are doing this all very quickly — immerse your wet cell phone in a container of uncooked rice overnight — or longer, if you can do without your phone that long. An alternative is to place the wet cellphone in an airtight bag with silica packs, which you can find at camera stores.
Q. I've made a New Year's resolution to lose some weight, and I wonder if you know of any websites or software that can help me change my food habits.
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A. There are a lot of great dieting tips out there when you know the right places to look. NutriMirror.com helps you pinpoint your personal nutrition needs. It catalogs the nutritional information for thousands of food items. You can keep track of diet and exercise so you can see how they balance out. The Daily Plate at LivingStrong.com has an extensive food list to help you track your diet, including fast food and restaurant menus. Additionally, it provides recipes so you can make your own healthy meals. SparkPeople.com gives you a customized diet and exercise plan. That includes specific meals and exercises for each day of the week. Detailed reports allow you to track your progress. Check out my site at http://www.komando.com/news for even more good options. Whatever choices you make, be sure to stick to your new routine. Good luck and enjoy your new, thinner life!
Q. I've been put in charge of raising money for a mission trip at my church. I'd like to use modern technology to do it instead of the old-fashioned phone list. Do you have any suggestions?
A. A great site for collecting money is Chipin.com. You can create a new account for collecting contributions in just seconds. All you do is enter why you're collecting, a dollar-amount goal, a deadline and how you want to collect payment. You're done! Chipin will create a custom Web link for you. You can share the link on social media sites or e-mail it to friends. There is also a widget you can embed in a website that shows your existing contributions. People can contribute through PayPal. Note that PayPal may take a small cut, depending on how the money is contributed.
Q. I recently read that computer hackers can spy on you through your webcam. That freaked me out. I have a webcam built into my laptop. Could a hacker see anything I've previously done in front of the camera? Also, can you suggest software to protect against hackers?
A. Webcams work only when they've been turned on, and most webcams have lights to indicate when they're active. If the light isn't on, you have nothing to worry about.
Additionally, webcams don't record anything on their own. Unless a recording is made, what is past is past. For example, a hacker can't dig up previous video chat footage. A hacker would have to find a recording you made. Even in cases where hackers have taken over webcams, it requires a specialized virus. Good security software and common sense should keep you safe.
Q. I'm looking at establishing a good exercise routine for the new year. Are there any good apps out there that can help me?
A. Exercise is a valuable and important component of any health program. You can get in shape faster, lose more weight and keep it off if you have a great exercise routine. These apps can help. You can find the right exercises with GymGoal ABC. The app allows you to search through a large database of exercise information. You can choose the perfect combination of exercises to achieve the results you want. Body Fitness offers more than 320 exercise ideas broken down by category. Each has a detailed description and illustration. If you're walking to get in shape, WalkMeter can help. The app logs your walking time, distance and route using GPS. It helps you select new paths to walk to keep your scenery fresh! For those and other fitness apps, go to my site at http://www.komando.com/news. You're sure to find the perfect app for you!
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Laura Strasser: 14% lamp
Laura Strasser's porcelain pendant light, 14%, uses the normally bothersome characteristic of the porcelain's firing process: the shrinking of 14%, to inform it's appearance.
Her bunch of pendant lights is composed of nine lampshades – each shade a reproduction of the previous one, which is in turn produced from a cast of the preceding one. Through such a sequence, the shades become continually 14% smaller and the '14%' brandmark less distinct.
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BAMC Pair Plead Guilty to Fraud
Two former BAMC employees, including a physician, pled guilty in federal court in San Antonio to ripping off taxpayers to the tune of some $8 million in rigged contracts, 1200WOAI news reports.
Dr. Heidi Webster, 50, and Peter Fenti, 43, pled gulty to intent to defraud the United states, commit bribery, commit wire fraud, and commit money laundering.
"These defendants treated the American taxpayers like their own personal ATM's," U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman said.
The feds said the pair took advantage of prime contract'r non competitive bidding at BAMC to rig contracts for MRI equipment.
"This prosecution should send a message to would be thieves that we are keeping a close watch on government contracting and when we detect fraud, we will respond with the full force of criminal law,"Pitman said.
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According to figures released today by the regional Canary Islands government pertaining to the first three months of 2007, there has been a 61% decline in the number of illegal immigrants arriving in the archipelago by sea from north Africa.
So far this year a total of 1,525 have been intercepted compared to 3,914 over the same period last year.
Last month only 303 arrived, significantly down on the last March when 2,120 successfully completed the perilious sea crossing.
It should be remembered, however, that 2006 saw an all-time record of illegal immigrant numbers with an annual total of 31,245 compared to 4,700 in 2005.


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Miley Cyrus Voted Worst Celebrity Influence
The people have spoken—and what they have said is that Miley Cyrus makes for a lousy role model.
The Hannah Montana star has been voted Worst Celebrity Influence of 2009 in a new online poll conducted by AOL's JSYK.com (Just So You Know), beating out such celebs as Britney Spears and speech-stopping rapper Kanye West.
Cyrus garnered 42 percent of the votes in the poll. And given that the Web site is aimed at 9-to-15-year-olds, it seems that a good portion of her target audience does not approve of her shenanigans.
No specific reasons were given for the dubious honor, but in a year during which she was accused of racism and roundly criticized for pole dancing at the Teen Choice Awards, it's not hard to guess.
The good news for Miley is that, with some serious competition coming up fast, she'll probably be knocked out of the top spot next year.
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The rest of the hulking, goateed and sometimes scary Detroit cop seems to be another actor. Dustin Hoffman, according to Liotta, saw the film early at a private screening and never realized he was watching Liotta.
Recalls Liotta's wife, Michelle Grace, one of the film's producers: "We went to the Sundance Film Festival, and after the movie, people would just flip out. They would say, 'How long ago was this movie shot?' Nobody could believe the transformation."
Liotta, paired with Jason Patric as an undercover narcotics officer, wanted to play his bruising, overpowering yet driven rogue cop as an overweight man because the character had never gotten over the death of his wife.
"He didn't care anymore because his wife was gone," Liotta says. "He wasn't the kind of person who was going to kill himself, but the only thing he replaced the love of his wife with was work. That's a lot of fast food, that's a lot of junk food, a lot of sitting in cars watching and waiting for bad guys. And I didn't think he was the kind of guy that went home at the end of the day and made a salad."
Still, it's better to eat than be eaten, as Liotta's character was in Hannibal.
So how did Liotta do it?
Says Grace: "He was so happy to eat whatever he wanted."
The only minus: A lot of people simply assume Liotta went to seed. But the fact is, he once again looks as trim as he did when his sister used to mockingly call him "rail." Only with muscles now.
So how did he do that? He went on a diet and exercised.
"You can lose weight pretty fast," Liotta says. "You just have to be disciplined about what you eat and work out diligently. Within a month, month and a half, I was down to fighting weight."
The trouble was letting go of all the fatty foods he got to eat for Narc.
"Luckily, my vanity was stronger than my taste buds. As much as you miss eating certain things, you just train yourself to eat less."
Liotta was glad to leave the character and his look behind.
So was Grace, except for one thing: "I loved the goatee. And I beg him constantly to get it back."


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Licensing Issues
What is unclear, however, is whether Sun will take any steps to alter MySQL's license terms. Licensing and project governance have played key roles in MySQL's success, and as a result, MySQL's license policy is somewhat more restrictive than the one that Sun has used for the rest of its software portfolio.
Although all MySQL code is available under the Gnu GPL (General Public License), the product is developed primarily by full-time employees of MySQL. Furthermore, the MySQL company requests that community developers sign over copyright to their code contributions to the company before those changes become part of the main MySQL code base. This allows the MySQL company to offer a separate, commercial version of its database for enterprise customers who don't want to be bound by the terms of the GPL. Initially, this license structure was used mainly to allow companies to embed the MySQL database into their own products, but the MySQL company was criticized last year for making it more difficult for non-paying customers to download the enterprise version of the database.
By comparison, Sun has been freer with its own code, foregoing separate, commercial versions of its products in favor of a subscription-based enterprise support scheme. PostgreSQL is arguably even more free; it is governed in a much more distributed, community-based fashion than MySQL, and its permissive license even allows proprietary derivatives, such as EnterpriseDB.
Name Recognition Factor
Ironically, however, MySQL's stringent intellectual property policy may be precisely what makes it so appealing to Sun. Red Hat Database and Sun's own version of PostgreSQL were merely different retoolings of an existing open source software product, one that customers could just as easily download from elsewhere. To the enterprise IT community at large, however, there's really only one MySQL -- and from now on, that name will be indelibly associated with Sun. Remember, for all Sun's talk about open source, this is a company that banks so heavily on its trademarks that it had its stock ticker symbol changed to JAVA.
Ah, but there's the rub. Sun open-sourced the Java platform in 2006, and while the move has been widely hailed by developers, not everyone in the business community was as thrilled with the idea of Sun giving away its crown jewels. As former Sun vice president Larry Singer put it, "We [at Sun] were spending all of our time and attention ... on things that were important from an intellectual standpoint, important from an innovative standpoint, [but it was] hard to understand how they were going to drive revenue for the company."
So far, MySQL has built a solid business selling open source database software. Whether Sun has the strategic acumen to take that success to the next level, however, remains to be seen. But stay tuned; after all, $1 billion gives Sun a hell of an incentive.
This story, "MySQL: Sun's Billion-Dollar Baby" was originally published by InfoWorld.


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Winner of the 2012 Toronto Emerging Composer Award (Canadian Music Centre) and the Canadian Federation of University Women Elizabeth Massey Award, Emilie Cecilia LeBel is a Canadian composer currently living in Toronto where she works in the music community in various capacities: composing, teaching, curating, and organizing. Her artistic work receives regular performances across Canada, as well the United States, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.
Emilie composes for acoustic instruments and electronic media to create both discrete and mixed compositions, and also creates intermedia projects that incorporate electronics, video, photography, and acoustic instruments to create immersive experiences. Her composition work is currently concerned with connections between visual and sonic worlds that engage with notions of memory, nostalgia, and place.
Emilie's work has been performed by Quatuor Bozzini, the Gryphon Trio, Luciane Cardassi, Terri Hron, Ronelle Schaufele, Nathan Petitpas, Phoebe MacRae, Rachel Iwaasa, Jenny Cohen, Rachel Desoer, Véronique Mathieu, Stephanie Chua, Carol Gimbel, Wesley Shen, the University of Toronto Opera Division, and the University of Toronto Concert Orchestra, amongst others. She has participated in a variety of workshops and residencies, including Le Centre d'arts Orford Sound Art Workshop, the Scotia Festival of Music, New Adventures in Sound Art's Sound Travels Festival, Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art, The Banff Centre, the Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop, Quatuor Bozzini Composers' Kitchen, Arraymusic Young Composers' Workshop, the Leighton Artist Colony, and the Vancouver International Song Institute Art Song Lab. Most recently, she participated in the 2013 Soundstreams Canada Emerging Composer Workshop, the Montréal Contemporary Music Lab, and Continuum's Gaudeamus: Deconstructed and Reconstructed Workshop. Her compositions have been performed at workshops with the Esprit Orchestra, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, and Trio 7090. Emilie is part of the Blue Moss Ensemble with fellow composers Anna Höstman and Mitch Renaud.
Emilie is an Associate Composer at the Canadian Music Centre. She holds an Honours Diploma in audio engineering and music production, a Specialized Honours BFA in music, and an MA in composition. In 2013, she completed her Doctorate in composition at The University of Toronto. Her thesis, under the guidance of Gary Kulesha, was an orchestral work exploring the variances of light in the photographs of Josef Sudek. Her research, under the guidance of Robin Elliott, focused on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Canadian composers, exploring the role of the CBC in the development of contemporary Canadian art music. In 2014, with the support form the Ontario Arts Council (Chalmers Grant) and the Canada Council for the Arts, she is undertaking private studies with Juliet Palmer, Christopher Butterfield, and Michael Finnissy. Previous composition teachers have included David Mott and William Westcott. Many organizations have supported Emilie's work through grants and scholarships, including the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, The Banff Centre, the Canadian Music Centre, York University, and the University of Toronto.
Since 2011, Emilie has served as Chair of the Organizing and Review Committee for the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium. She also serves on the boards of New Music Art Projects, and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. As an arts-educator she has taught in a variety of settings from after-school community programs, to universities, and music schools. Most recently, she taught electronic music at University of Toronto Scarborough, and digital audio at McMaster University.


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Thread: Benz driver Bruno Spengler loses 2011 DTM drivers title to Tomczyk of Audi, Mercedes falls further behind with 1 race left
Benz driver Bruno Spengler loses 2011 DTM drivers title to Tomczyk of Audi, Mercedes falls further behind with 1 race left
Unfortunately for Mercedes driver Bruno Spengler, Audi driver Martin Tomczyk was able to wrap up the driver's championship before the final race of the season. Mercedes was very gracious in their post race comments showing incredible class. Audi has been dominating the last few races (Including the past race at Valencia with a 1-2-3-4-5-6 finish) but the Mercedes Benz Bank AMG team still has a shot to win overall in the final race at Hockenheim on the 23rd since they are only trailing Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline by 5 points.
Valencia results:
Norbert Haug, head of motorsport Mercedes-Benz: "First of all, congratulations to Martin and the Audi team. At the end of the day, I am a sportsman, one should be able to lose as well. Today, I am one hundred percent behind my team. They have all been working very hard. Unfortunately, we have lost 20 points to Martin in the last races. I want to take the opportunity to say thank you to all those who have contributed to make the DTM survive in the past years: Audi, Mercedes-Benz, the DMSB and the ITR. Now, I am looking forward to the final round at Hockenheim and BMW's arrival next year."


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Los Angeles: First In The Family Humanist Scholarship Ceremony
Saturday, July 13, 4:00–6:00 PM
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You are cordially invited to the ceremonial of the awardees for the First in the Family Humanist Scholarship program.
The members of Black Skeptics Los Angeles would like to express their deepest gratitude for all the support received from those around the world. Contributions from the humanist community helped them exceed the initial goal in providing four $1,000 scholarships to foster care, homeless, undocumented and LGBTQ students within LAUSD.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email email@example.com, or contact Nicome Taylor at 310-462-3374.
Please RSVP by June 30, 2013.
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Academy For Positive Learning
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What are Multiple Intelligences (MI)? MI is the theory that there are eight different methods of demonstrating intellectual ability in the child. Each of these intelligences is predominant either individually or in conjunction with another in the learner. At the Academy for Positive Learning we assess each child's intelligence by using Dr. Spencer Kagan's methods for MI Approaches to Assessment in all grades. We then implement the learning style that will bring out the best performance of each child. The emphasis on the Multiple Intelligences (MI) approach to education is profoundly important and unique at the Academy. We will identify progress and remedial needs, as well as improve a student's success on standardized tests. In addition to MI, we will also focus on Gifted, ESE, ESOL (ELL) and Bilingual Education in a multi-age setting. Cooperative Learning will be used to structure classrooms, staff relations and staff meetings.
- Como una escuela multicultural, todos los documentos escolares que necesitan ser traducidos al español, portugués o criolla nos pueden llamar para obtener un documento traducido.
- Como uma escola Multicultural, quaisquer documentos escolares que precisam ser traduzidos para espanhol, crioulo ou Português pode chamar-nos para um documento traduzido.
- Comme une école multiculturelle, tous les documents scolaires qui doivent être traduit en espagnol, en créole ou en portugais peuvent nous appeler pour un document traduit.
*Per the Department of Justice Agreement, all schools are required to reference the languages available for translation regarding school documents on their website.
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Lauren Conrad covers the March 2013 issue of Lucky magazine.
The fashionista spoke about her lovely locks. "It's not perfect, to be honest. I mean, I have my hairstylist, who's been working on my hair for years, help with cut and color and all that, but for the most part I just kind of let it do what it's going to do. I wash it every two or three days and don't style it myself much."
Conrad reflected about becoming a mom one day. "I want kids, but not in the immediate future. All of my friends in their early 30s who just started having kids say, 'Give it a few years.'"
For now, she's thankful for the present joy she has in her life. "Making the New York Times bestseller list was something that I was really proud of, but I also think that the friendships I've maintained almost rank over that. I think it's rare to have a wonderful group of friends in this town."
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Together with Christ Jesus He also raised us up and seated us in the heavens, so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift— not from works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:4-9