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Rugby World Cup 2015
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What a boring game, this is a great example on how union is so gooseberry fool sometimes.
Far too close considering SA didn't even get a try.
Also I was raging when we kept kicking it over to them.
Far too close considering SA didn't even get a try.
Also I was raging when we kept kicking it over to them.
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This is well worth a read about the AB's demolition of France in the quarters.
This is well worth a read about the AB's demolition of France in the quarters.
The All Blacks quarterfinal victory over the French was the most dominant in Rugby World Cup finals history, a 62-13 hammering that left the world in awe. All it took, says Scotty Stevenson, was a re-imagining of rugby's geometric boundaries.
The Springboks need only to watch the opening ninety seconds of the All Blacks in their quarterfinal against France. Then they can turn off the tape. In terms of analysis jobs, this one is as easy as it gets, for that opening 90 seconds – a geometric blitzkrieg that left the French exposed and retreating – was the ultimate portent for what was to come.
What was to come, namely the greatest shellacking ever handed out in the Rugby World Cup finals match, may well have come sooner had Dan Carter put just a little extra into his opening through kick for Nehe Milner-Skudder. It was about the only time the All Blacks failed to execute their game plan in 80 minutes of rugby.
Every rugby field has one uniform dimension: each is 100 metres long. Conventional rugby wisdom tells us that the best place to be on that field is in the opposition red zone, otherwise known as the 22. From there pressure can be brought to bear on the opposing team, penalties can be won, phases can be built, and tries can be scored. That's what conventional wisdom says.
Conventional wisdom, however, does not apply to this All Blacks side. They are the game's great professors of size and shape. They, unlike every other team at this tournament, have created rugby's new red zone, and all they had to do was rotate a rugby field 90 degrees.
Carter's early through kick for Milner-Skudder was a mis-kick. Had it been hit with just a little more power, the opening try of the game would have been scored before the French had touched the ball. Everything about that early attack pointed at New Zealand's fervour for the five metre line, the dashed line that runs parallel to the touch, the one that is always – always – stacked with All Blacks.
Forget the 22. That five metres on each side of the field is New Zealand rugby's real red zone.
The first of the All Blacks' fully constructed tries was proof positive that you can never afford to give them this space. Where most teams see the danger of the touchline (the All Blacks did not run into touch once in the match), the All Blacks see the beauty of the set up. When Carter's opening dropped goal attempt was charged down, that is where the All Blacks went – to the edge. Julian Savea, tracking back, swooped on the ball and immediately searched for the left side tramlines where Dane Coles – arguably one of the most potent wingers in this world cup – had stationed himself.
Coles, sensing the cover, turned late infield for the 15-metre line, creating enough of a short side that France was forced to put defenders in place. It was all a ruse. From the breakdown it was one pass to Whitelock and one quick ruck to hold the line. That was enough. The ball went from Aaron Smith, to Carter, to Conrad Smith, to Nonu and finally to Milner-Skudder, who caught the last pass two metres from the right hand touch line, stepped off his right and, after leaving what was left of the defence clutching at Welsh air, scored.
All up it took just two phases for the All Blacks to work their way from one edge of the field to the other. That first constructed try was not just a study in speed, execution and passing under pressure, it was a seminal geometry lecture in the possibilities of a rugby field's dimensions.
While every field in the game is 100 metres long, each can differ in width. It is a subtle distinction in most cases – there is technically just 2 metres of leeway with a 68 metre minimum and a 70 metre maximum – but a distinction that is worth noting for an extra metre may be all it takes to beat a man, or to ensure one can stop an attack. What never varies is that dashed line. It is always five metres from the edge of the field, and it has become far more important to the All Blacks than the touch line.
Within thirty minutes, the All Blacks had scored three tries. Their third was again a masterclass in width. Kieran Read picked off the French line out and the New Zealanders immediately looked for the left hand edge. Conrad Smith, understanding the need for circumspection took the tackle on the 15-metre line and the All Blacks populated the blind. Savea, Read, and Coles all set up for a short side incursion which duly came but only one break down was required before the ball was immediately shifted to the right. Ben Smith took the next tackle on the right hand 15 and back they came, out to the left. When Carter punctured France's split defence, Julian Savea was on hand to take the offload, on hand inside the five-metre line, with no one in front of him.
The French hit back, in many ways providing the counterpoint to the All Blacks attacking philosophy. What the All Blacks had managed to do three times already – that is, cross the French line – had taken less than four phases of attack. Louis Picamoles' try – France's only try of the game – took France 14 phases and never once shifted the All Blacks to the far side of the field. The resulting try was a victory for ball retention, ironically created by the loosest pass of the movement.
Unshaken, the All Blacks stuck to the plan, with only minor variations. Now Carter (who had dropped back to collect a French clearing kick, and who communicated his plan in advance to Ben Smith) kicked high for the chase. Ben Smith regathered a contestable ball and once again the All Blacks headed left. Nonu stayed close to hold the defence while Savea and Smith occupied the the five metres of space inside the left hand touchline. Savea needed no assistance. The bus proceeded to flatten three Frenchmen and the All Blacks were in again
If the All Blacks are great on attack within the five metre line, they are masterful on defence. Brodie Rettalick's opening charge-down try was the result of France's Freddie Michalak having no wide option of his own. Ben Smith's charge down in the second half, which but for the vagaries of rugby's other variable dimension, the in-goal, may well have ended in another five points, was another case of a Black wall which spread to the extremities of the pitch. In short, The French rarely had anywhere to go.
When the French did get out of their own half, as they did from the resulting 22-metre kick, the All Blacks again ran for the edge. Ben Smith took the final pass of the first phase of counter attack millimetres from the right hand touch line, and set play on the five-metre line eight metres out from the French goal, a position that conventional wisdom would tell us is merely a couple of pick and go plays from an almost certain try.
And here's the thing: every other side in world rugby would be impelled by the false logic of proximity to take the shortest possible route to score.
Not the All Blacks. With just eight metres to go to the line, the All Blacks played for width once more and within 15 seconds of Ben Smith being tackled on the five metre line on the right hand side, the New Zealanders had passed the ball for a combined total of close to 100 metres to send Jerome Kaino over for the try, three metres in from the left hand touch.
When the French did try to attack with width they were shut down. When they were shut down out wide they played into the hands of the All Blacks defence by taking the five metre lines out of their attacking repertoire. In one of the least talked about periods of the game, the All Blacks stopped France behind the gain line on three consecutive plays for width, forced them into a narrow attack, and eventually stripped the ball from French winger Noa Naikataci, on phase number six, on the 15-metre line.
The man who stripped the ball was not Naikataci's opposite, Julian Savea. It was hooker Dane Coles. Where was Savea? He was standing inside the left hand five metre line, where he took the pass from Dan Carter and sprinted 50 metres for his third try of the match.
The All Blacks scored three times more before full-time, completing the rout with a try to Kieran Read and a double to Tawera Kerr-Barlow. Scarily, they changed the plan once Sonny Bill Williams came into the game. They didn't have to bother going wide when a tired French defence put down the welcome mat outside the doorway to channel one. Read and Faumuina combined down this track for Read's try and Williams, never one to require a second invitation, waltzed right down the hallway too. Nonu was there with him, and he in turn fed TKB for his first.
The final try could well have been for Savea as the All Blacks again tracked down the left. Kieran Read obviously decided three tries was more than enough for one man and found Joe Moody on the inside instead. Moody, remarkbly, threw an out the back pass for Kerr-Barlow which would have been considered quite miraculous had it not been for everything else the crowd had witnesses in the preceding 70-odd minutes.
There will be talk this week of rugby's great battle of wills: the expressiveness of the All Blacks against the power game of the Springboks. That will be the talk of course. But it's not expressiveness from the All Blacks that makes them so hard to defend. It's a willingness to use the full width of a rugby field, however wide that field may be.
Commentator Grant Nisbett, after the first of Tawera Kerr-Barlow's tries, said "This is a rugby lesson."
Indeed, it was that. And it was something else. It was, in fact, the very definition of geometry: a study in the relative position of figures, and the properties of space.
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Did I just hear one of the commentators say "Hyper Bowl" instead of hi-per-bo-lee?
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Having watched the majority of the tournament, I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to bother watching tomorrow. These were the only two teams I didn't want to see in the final. Neither of them are easy to root for either.
One man should not have this much power in this game. Luckily I'm not an ordinary man.
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Drumstick wrote:Having watched the majority of the tournament, I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to bother watching tomorrow. These were the only two teams I didn't want to see in the final. Neither of them are easy to root for either.
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Drumstick wrote:Having watched the majority of the tournament, I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to bother watching tomorrow. These were the only two teams I didn't want to see in the final. Neither of them are easy to root for either.
In the same boat re watching most of it but I'm definitely going to watch it - could be a cracker. On the one hand I'd like to see Dan Carter get his World Cup and on the other I'd like to see the Australians destroy the All Blacks dream.
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KK wrote:Did I just hear one of the commentators say "Hyper Bowl" instead of hi-per-bo-lee?
Yeah, he did. Everyone knows the Hyperbowl is tonight
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Great final. Well done Australia for coming back but New Zealand were just too good.
Commiserations Manny but you came up against a better team.
Commiserations Manny but you came up against a better team.
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Made history etc etc. We almost destroyed them, but they did come back for a while.
Be very interested to see what our team looks like in 2019.
Be very interested to see what our team looks like in 2019.
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Sorry Manny you must be gutted. However the best team did win out in the end. Played NZ. Great final, very nearly classic.
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A slew of Iranians who live in Canada argue they are being treated unfairly by Toronto-Dominion Bank.
In the past few weeks, people of Iranian descent – regardless of whether they are Canadian citizens or just residents of Canada – have had their personal banking accounts and mortgages with TD cut off with very little explanation. In some cases, they simply received a letter that said the bank can "no longer continue to support your current accounts and/or services, or offer you any new accounts and/or services."
TD has since told a number of media outlets that the bank is simply complying with the federal Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations that prohibit the provision of any financial or financial-related service to or for the benefit of a person who is in Iran, or is a national of Iran who does not ordinarily reside in Canada.
Yet these measures are meant to crack down on people affiliated with the Iranian regime or its nuclear program, and many of the Iranians living here who have been affected say TD is going too far.
CBC Radio's The Current has reported on the issue, and TD released a statement to the show that said its "decisions to end customer relationships are not undertaken lightly."
"We took additional steps to reach out by phone and by registered mail to those who might be impacted by the regulations in question in order to verify the information," the bank added. "In cases where we didn't hear from a customer to confirm their information, we were required to meet the regulations and so we ended the relationship."
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Five members from Andover Triathlon Club competed in the No Limits Fitness Durrington Triathlon on June 8.
This was the second Durrington Triathlon and comprised of a 400m swim in Durrington Swimming Pool, followed by a scenic 11 mile cycle through the picturesque villages of Wiltshire finishing with a three mile run heading out onto the Salisbury Plain.
The event was well organised and sponsored by Heritage of Salisbury VW and supported a local charity, Lucy's Day Out.
Sarah Fox was first over the line for the club finishing in a fantastic 1:12:29, 31st overall and third in her age group.
Rupert Griffiths was next in 1:13:26, 37th overall and first in his age category and Jan Taplin finished in 1:15:48, 49th overall and first in her age category.
Ash Jackson finished in 1:18:17, Philippa Sumner 1:21:17 and finally Mike Donnelly smiled his way around finishing in 1:39:58.
Club spokesman Donnelly said: "This was a fantastic local event with people from a wide range of abilities.
'I would recommend this event to anyone novice triathletes".
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17 January 2000NAIAS Sets Record With 12th Annual Charity Preview
DETROIT, Jan. 14 -- The North American International Auto Show 2000 Charity Preview set another record this year by raising $5.25 million for children's charities in the Detroit area. All of this was accomplished in one night -- tonight -- making it one of the nation's top single-night fundraisers. "Each year, I am amazed at the goodwill that is shown for these charities," said Russ Shelton, senior co-chair of the NAIAS. "The NAIAS is recognized as a world-class show, on par with Frankfurt, Geneva, and Tokyo, and the generosity of our Charity Preview guests is world-class as well." The black tie event is the first opportunity for the public to see the North American International Auto Show. Tickets for the event are $300 per person, and all of the 17,500 tickets were sold. The $5,250,000 will benefit eleven children's charities in the Detroit area, which include Barat Child and Family Services, Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan, Boys Hope-Girls Hope of Detroit, The Children's Center, Children's Services of Northeast Guidance Center, The Detroit Institute for Children, Easter Seal Society of Southeast Michigan, Judson Center, March of Dimes, Detroit Police Athletic League and the newly created Detroit Auto Dealers Association (DADA) Charitable Foundation. The DADA Charitable Foundation further extended the benefit of Charity Preview by granting money to programs at another five charities in the Detroit Area. The Charity Preview opening ceremonies were held on the concourse of Cobo Center this evening. The DADA Executive Committee presented a check to the eleven children representing the charities of Detroit. The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) is sponsored by the NAIAS LLC, an association of the Detroit auto dealers.


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By Kim Steele
Harker Heights Herald
It took an abortion clinic moving into Killeen to galvanize local activists into forming a pro-life organization here.
Central Texas Voices for Life, headquartered at St. Paul Chong Hasang Parish in Harker Heights, took root in 2004 after an advertisement for the Killeen Women's Health Center appeared in a new telephone book. The ad said the health center would be opening to provide local abortions.
"That got a lot of people stirred up," said Linda Busti, prayer coordinator for CTVL. "So we got more than 3,000 signatures voicing opposition to the opening and took out a full-page ad in the newspaper. We knew we didn't want the clinic here and had to do something. It was hot on everyone's mind."
A campaign began to petition the Killeen City Council to create a city ordinance banning abortion facilities. The activists - four Knights of Columbus councils, numerous churches, the Killeen Ministerial Alliance, KPLE television station and others - gathered the required 1,800 signatures but the effort failed.
The loss led to the formation of CTVL, a community service organization dedicated to protecting and preserving human life from conception to natural death. The 75-member group uses a mix of prayer, service and education, and public awareness to push its message of supporting life.
"I've always had a pro-life heart," said Busti, a member since CTVL began. "When I heard the abortion clinic was coming, I knew I had to be proactive for a culture of life. Our organization's motto is 'Committed for Life,' and I'm definitely a lifer."
Busti said CTVL uses a variety of methods to accomplish its goals, starting with prayer. Members pray the Rosary for Life before each morning Mass, recite the Rosary for the Unborn and offer a Holy Hour of Prayer for Life each Thursday evening. Also, volunteers pray each Wednesday morning near the clinic.
And each September, they also participate in 40 Days for Life, an international lawful and peaceful prolife campaign seeking to end abortion through prayer and fasting. CTVL members sign up to pray for an hour from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily outside of the Killeen clinic during campaign.
"We believe a baby is a human from Day 1," said CTVL Chairman Dennis DeWine. "And we're all committed to fighting abortion, because it's an insidious evil. Some days, we are a voice in the wilderness. That's why prayer is so vital for us. Only God can change this situation and stop abortions."
For the organization's service and education goals, some CTVL members serve as volunteers at local pregnancy centers. Also, members distribute prolife materials and show educational videos on life issues to local interested groups and churches, including youth groups.
Last year, CTVL organized its first Spiritual Adoption Campaign, called "We're Having a Baby," in St. Paul Chong Hasang Parish. The organization distributed a pink or blue "Gift of Life Bag" to each person that contained a 12-week-old baby model, as well as two prayer cards.
The educational campaign taught about the development of a child in the womb from conception to birth, Each month, CTVL shared the growth process of the "child" - during the first month alone, the heart, brain, spinal column and nervous system were almost complete.
When the "child" was ready to be born, the parish celebrated with a baby shower, giving $4,000 in cash and items to Hope Pregnancy Center in Killeen and the Gabriel Project, a Catholic-based pregnancy help outreach in Houston. CTVL is interested in presenting the program in other area churches.
"We're not against people who are pro-choice," said Busti. "We're just trying to get the message out about life. Once people are educated about abortion, they do see. I can't tell you how many women have changed their minds after learning about the life growing inside them."
The organization's third goal of public awareness is accomplished by renting billboards for prolife messages, wearing prolife pins, sporting bumper stickers, writing letters to area newspapers, and holding signs during non-violent prayer vigils each Wednesday morning during abortions at the Killeen clinic.
Also, group members will be marking the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Sunday, Jan. 22, with a prayer life chain along W.S. Young Drive in Killeen. Roe v. Wade was the controversial landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on Jan. 22, 1973, that made abortion legal in the United States.
About 150 participants in the prayer life chain will meet at 1:30 p.m. in either the Hobby Lobby parking lot or the Killeen Mall parking lot between Blockbuster and Sears to pick up signs. At 2 p.m., they will line the north and south sides of W.S. Young Drive near U.S. Highway 190 for an hour.
DeWine, who is chief executive officer of ERA Colonial Real Estate in Harker Heights, said he got involved with CTVL in 2009 when he was invited to a meeting. When they asked him to be chairman of the group, DeWine quickly said no because of his work responsibilities.
DeWine said he was very supportive of CTVL, but didn't believe he was qualified to lead an organization that had been active for five years and whose members had more experience than him. But his decision bothered him for two weeks, and he finally decided to assume the office.
"Abortion is like slavery," said DeWine. "At one time, it was OK to cater to selfish desires and own other people because of the color of their skin. The prejudice had been there for a long time, and there was a lot of animosity toward the people who were fighting slavery. It's the same now with abortion."
For Busti, the reason for participating in CTVL is even more personal.
"As a mother and grandmother, when I look in my offspring's eyes, it weighs heavy on my heart to know they wouldn't be here if they had been aborted," said Busti. "Life is a God-given gift, and God has a plan for each person. I want to be a part of this mission to help women in crisis choose life."
Contact Kim Steele at email@example.com or (254) 501-7567.
If you go
What: Central Texas Voices for Life prayer life chain
When: Meet at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, for 2 p.m. prayer life chain
Where: Hobby Lobby parking lot or the Killeen Mall parking lot between Blockbuster and Sears near W.S. Young Drive.
More information: Visit centexvoicesforlife.org, email email@example.com or call (254) 681-6812.


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"Fifty Shades" Star Jamie Dornan & Wife Welcome A Baby Girl [Update]
- "Fifty Shades Of Grey" star Jamie Dornan is a new daddy! His wife Amelia Warner recently gave birth to
a baby boybaby girl. [Update: People has confirmed the couple welcomes a baby girl, not a boy.] Mazel tov! [US Weekly, People]
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- Brace yourself: Crazy Charlie Sheen chopped up a wedding memento from his nuptials to ex-wife Denise Richards and posted them on Twitter. Why? Supposedly because he's angry about not being invited to celebrate Christmas with their children. Hmm, wonder why that could be. [US Weekly]
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- Actress Laverne Cox from "Orange Is The New Black" is working on a documentary called "Free CeCe" about a trans woman of color who is currently in prison after defending herself and her friends from a physical attack. [Persephone Magazine]
- Celebrating the year in Kanye West. [NYMag.com]
- Prince William and Kate Middleton's $400,000 Bentley is bulletproof, features TV, wi-fi, and a champagne cooler (of course). [E! Online]
- Justin Timberlake helped a guy propose at one of his concerts in Louisville. [People]
- Tinley Park, Illinois, won't allow the camera crew for "16 & Pregnant" to film in any of their city buildings, including their high school. [Chicago Tribune]
- Victoria's Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio says she's "a little bit" of a feminist. [Los Angeles Times]
- You know you want to read author Mary Gaitskill's interview with Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth. [Interview Magazine]
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Industry supports fly in, fly out operations
Reporter: Mick O'Donnell
KERRY O'BRIEN: As the energy and mining industries boom, and in the shadow of tough new industrial relations laws, employers in some of Australia's remote regions are desperate to attract skilled workers. Increasingly they're flying those workers in, often thousands of kilometres, and then flying them back home for leave breaks in the capital cities. The fly in, fly out phenomenon is most extreme in Western Australia, where now only half the state's mine workers are drawn from homes close to the workplace. Politicians bemoan the paradox that bush towns continue to decline, even in the midst of a boom, but industry claims there's no easy solution. Mick O'Donnell reports.


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Computer engineering is the design, development and integration of computer programs and technology into devices and systems that improve how we interact with our world every day.
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2008 was a busy year.... elementalproject.com was born which allowed me the pleasure of travel and many stunning subjects. Places where one can meet Mother Nature. Sometimes I found her and other times she found me.
These are my favourite images from locations and environments that pushed me and equipment to the limit during 2008. From my back yard in rural south Leicestershire, UK to the magical Norwegian Arctic circle, the dusty plains of USA, the scorching heat of Arizona and the eye of an Atlantic Hurricane. Thrills, adventure, excitement, achievement and lots of hard work.
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- Publish Date Feb 01, 2009
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Mark Humpage is a modern day adventurer and seasoned Storm Chaser with a passion for elemental photography. Mark is an ambassador for Olympus as their top-pro elemental photograher and shoots with the Olymus E3 system, designed for Extreme. Mark has worked with many major clients including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and exhibited at Tate Modern and Olympus Inheritance exhibitions. Many of his spectacular weather photographs have been published around the world and he has written articles for newspapers and magazines about nature and the elements. Mark also loves writing - providing reportage, reviews and photojournalism for the media.
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So here's "my newspaper story":http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080910/SPORTS01/809100346/-1/SPORTS on Brendan Shanahan's return appearance at the MSG Training Center, and his hope of rejoining the Rangers for season No. 3.
Larry Brooks at "the Post":http://www.nypost.com/seven/09102008/sports/rangers/shanny_in_wait_mode_128388.htm and Andrew Gross at "the Record":http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/hockey/other_nhl/view/2008_09_10_Brendan_Shanahan_hoping_to_remain_with_Rangers/srvc=sports&position=also also chimed in with stories on the matter, and it's worth noting that we all have slightly different takes on the Rangers cap situation.
A couple of thoughts on this: One, it doesn't help that the NHL doesn't allow teams to disclose their cap situation (in part, the theory goes, because it would expose those teams trying to operate on the cheap, even though we all know who those teams are); and it also doesn't help that I am an admitted mathematical idiot (which is why my wife, who I used to sit next to in math class in high school, balances the checkbook in our family).
But there's also room for interpretation based on what the Rangers do with their roster. For instance, the $715,357 in cap space I've been quoting includes Thomas Pock's $667,500, but it's more likely that Pock starts the season in Hartford and the Rangers only carry six defensemen. And that number also includes Dan Fritsche $875,000, who is also a question mark for the opening-night roster.
Of course, while Shanahan and others told me yesterday that the contract number isn't a huge obstacle, there are other considerations. For instance, if the Rangers really do want to clear both cap and roster space for Shanahan so he actually has a prominent role this season, the team might want to explore trading other forwards (I don't know who, so don't ask). And yes, that's where Mats Sundin comes in, because even if the Rangers aren't necessarily interested in the Swedish center, other teams are, and they're not ready to commit to other moves until they know where Sundin stands.
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- Ryan Seacrest makes Julianne Hough wear tuxedos now. [TooFab]
- Taylor Lautner is only interested in llama vagina. [Dlisted]
- Gwyneth Paltrow realizing her coffee wasn't made from beans hand-delivered from Colombia this very morn. [Lainey Gossip]
- Aly Michalka tanned her cleavage. Give her her cookie. [Hollywood Tuna]
- Johnny Depp's Lone Ranger movie is back on but sans werewolves. IS THERE NO GOD?!? [FilmDrunk]
- Adrianne Curry is still being Adrianne Curry. [DrunkenStepfather: Site is NSFW]
- Deena Cortese sings now. Oh, good. [BuzzFeed]
- Justin Timberlake prefers this over any other vagina at the drop of a hat. [Popoholic]
- Kourtney Kardashian bought her 21-month-old son a snake. Why not? [The Fab Life]
- Braless Celebrities: A retrospective in empowering women and looking at their nips. [theCHIVE]
- Hilary Swank is sorry she made a bunch of money wishing a crazy Czechnyan president Happy Birthday. [Starpulse]
- Christopher Columbus vs. Captain Kirk. [Heavy]
- January Jones continues to barely look like she had a baby out of spite just last month. [PopSugar]
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Kanye delivers the Auto-Tuned song in a haunting set with image of lynching tree as a backdrop, just before Taylor Swift wins Best Female Video.
Footage from the star-studded MTV Video Music Awards was pouring on the internet as the show just wrapped up. One of the videos featured Kanye West delivering his song "Blood on the Leaves" off latest album "Yeezus" in Auto-Tune heavily-laced vocals.
Kanye was introduced by 30 Seconds to Mars' frontman Jared Leto. The lights were dimmed as the MC stood tall in front of a backdrop of lynching tree to give him the effect of a haunting set. "Best performance of the night @kanyewest !!!!!!!!!" tweeted baby mama Kim Kardashian.
The song samples Nina Simone's 1965 rendition of "Strange Fruit" that, according to MTV News' Gil Kaufman, "brought the story of lynchings of black Americans to a startling poignancy" which Kanye later twisted into "a modern fable about race, identity and materialism." Image of the lynching tree will be on the single's upcoming music video directed by London-born film director Steve McQueen.
Kanye took the stage just before the Best Female Video win was announced by Daft Punk along with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. The G.O.O.D Music rapper infamously cut off Taylor Swift's acceptance speech when she won the award four years ago, but there was no repeat of such rude interruption when she took home the title this year.
Wearing a deep-plunging navy dress, Taylor threw shade at her ex that night, "I also want to thank the person who inspired this song, who knows exactly who he is, because I got one of these. Thank you so much!" It's unclear whom she called out, but one of her former flames, Harry Styles of One Direction, was in attendance.


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Freescale Permanently Closing Sendai Plant
Freescale Semiconductor announced Wednesday that it will not reopen a facility in Sendai, Japan, which suffered damage during the 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11.
Freescale, a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, designs and manufactures embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, and networking markets. The Sendai facility, located about 80 miles west of the earthquake epicenter, produced microcontrollers, analog integrated circuit (complex chips used for computer and electrical engineering), and sensors products.
The earthquake and resulting tsunamis caused devasting damage to coastal Japan and caused other technology-related production facilities to temporarily close, too, though many will resume business when it's safe to do so.
Freescale's facility suffered extensive equipment and infrastructure damage, as did the entire region, which has been hampered by ongoing safety concerns, infrastructure damage, and disruptions in basic services, which affects even the most basic operations, like employees' ability to physically reach their place of business.
A company representive told PCMag that "aftershocks, natural gas and wastewater disruptions, and a number of chemical and gas safety issues stemming from equipment damage" are among the concerns. On the day of the earthquake, all the employees were safely evacuated.
"In this time of devastating loss for many of our Sendai employees, we want to do what we can to help and to return some sense of stability to their lives," said Rich Beyer, Freescale's chairman and CEO. Employees will continue to receive their salaries for an extended period, coupled with an eventual severance package, he said.
In 2009, Freescale said it would close the plant at the end of 2011, so the company had already built up some buffer inventory (not stored in Sendai) and had transferred some of the production of its goods to other Freescale locations, including outposts in Texas and Arizona, and in some cases, to partners.
The chip maker said it is continuing to assess the impact of the natural disaster on the entire supply chain, and will take several measures to minimize the effect on its customers, including tapping into the buffer inventories earlier than originally expected.


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The British magazine Evo had the chance to get behind the wheel of the new Lamborghini Aventador and test it around Vallelunga track near Rome. And taken under consideration everything you know about the car, ot should not surprise you that the magazine considers the "new Lamborghini Aventador is a real game changer."
The Aventador is powered by a 6.5-liter V12 engine with an AWD layout that produces 700 HP 8,250 rpm and 509 lb-ft at 5,500 rpm. It is the first all-new Lamborghini developed engine since the Countach. This engine will be able to get from 0-60 mph in just 2.9 seconds while blasting off a top speed of 217 mph.
According to Evo, the Avetador is a real fun on the test track unlike other Lamborghinis who have never been the friendliest supercar to drive on track.


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'Glee' Recap: It's 'Makeover' Time!
With the presidential election year in full swing, 'Glee' embraces the red, white and blue with a run for senior class president by Brittany (Heather Morris) and Blaine (Darren Criss). Joined by Artie (Kevin McHale) and Sam (Chord Overstreet) respectively, political jokes abound and a few cast members get a perception altering makeover.


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wikiHow to Care for Your Hamster
Unsure of how to keep your Syrian hamster safe and happy? Here are some tips to help you in many aspects of hamster care.
1Give them space. Syrian hamsters want to live by themselves. They are solitary animals and upon meeting other hamsters may fight with each other which can cause severe injury or in some cases, death.
2Give them a bed area. In the wild, hamsters live in burrows so they like having somewhere under cover to sleep. You can buy plenty of cute ones from pet shops, or simply cut a doorway into a small cardboard box, such as a tissue box or shoe box. Put plenty of bedding into it - the cotton bedding often sold for hamsters can be dangerous as they can't digest it if they eat it, so unscented toilet paper ripped up is an easily available alternative.
3Know their sleep schedule. Hamsters are nocturnal which means that they sleep in the day and are active in the night. If you wake them up too often they can become unhealthy and overly tired. As with humans, this is okay once or twice. If you get into a schedule of usually waking them up with food at a regular time after dark (say, at about 10pm) they should get used to it.
4Handle them with care. Hamsters aren't toys and if they do not wish to be held, ensure to give them some space and put them down. You can hold them once in a while and train them to become tame, which requires a lot of time spent with your hamster and a lot of patience.
5Give your Syrian hamsters enough room. Even though they are small they still like to have some space - it is recommended that they have at least minimum 30cm x 60cm of total floor space. They are active and curious and like to explore, so the bigger the better. You could get them a wired cage from a pet store, or you can also use a tank as long as the lid is well-ventilated, or make your own - a popular basis for DIY cages is a large plastic bin, available cheaply in many shops.
6Get a running wheel for your hamster. When you do get a wheel, you will need to get one with a closed running surface so they can't catch their toes. Make sure this is big enough for your hamster - if they have to arch their back to avoid the central hub of the wheel, it can cause them health problems. Generally aim for wheels recommended for the next animal size up to be sure.
7Give them something to chew on. Hamsters are rodents, which means their teeth are continuously growing and need to be worn down on something. You can get wooden chews from pet shops for this, or use clean twigs of any hamster-safe wood.
8Give your hamster food. There are many hamster foods, and as long as it is a complete food you can feed them on that with occasional treats. Before you feed anything to your hamster, look it up to make sure it is safe - even things that are good for humans can be bad for hamsters.
9Never give them a bath in water! Give them a little container of pet sand (not chinchilla dust!) or child-safe playground sand. They should roll around in it. Use it at once a week or if they get really dirty.
10Don't breed them if you are not capable of having little baby hamsters. This means either being prepared to house them all separately yourself or knowing beforehand you have enough homes lined up for them to go to.
11Take them to the vet when they are sick. Even though they are small they are just like any other animal, and it is your responsibility to make sure they are not in pain or ill for long. If your hamster has e.g. diarrhea, seems unusually lethargic, has partly closed eyes or ears or any discharge, this means they need to see a vet as soon as possible.
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How do I prevent hamsters from biting?wikiHow ContributorTry to be calm and gentle when interacting with your hamsters. Biting is usually a defensive response to stress.
Do hamsters need to be bathed?wikiHow ContributorNot usually. There are some helpful guidelines in this article about giving your hamster a bath on wikiHow.
What if my hamster bites me?wikiHow ContributorTreat your injuries, if any, and don'tbe upset with your pet. Sometimes hamsters can be a bit moody, especially when you wake them up, and can tend to bite.
When do I feed the hamster?wikiHow ContributorYou should put food in a hamster's cage about once or twice every day. This may vary depending on your hamster's feeding habits.
Do I need to take my hamster to the vet even if they are not sick?wikiHow ContributorYou don't have to, but it is advisable as some symptoms can be hidden. Just take your hamster for a check up once in a while.
How long does a hamster live?wikiHow ContributorIt depends on the species of hamster. Golden/teddy bear hamsters can be known to live about 3 - 5 years, while dwarfs usually live 2 - 3 years. However, hamsters could live longer or shorter than this depending on the circumstances.
What can you bathe a hamster with?wikiHow ContributorDust, mainly. You can find chinchilla dust at your local pet store. Getting water on hamster fur is very bad for hamsters.
Can I dunk my hamster in water?wikiHow ContributorNo! And avoid bathing your hamster if possible. Your hamster will bathe itself, and trying to bathe them can be harmful.
Can you wash your hamster in a hot bath?No. Check out this article for how to bathe your hamster: http://www.wikihow.com/Give-Your-Hamster-a-Bath.
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- Never grab at your hamster if you can help it, as the grabbing motion is the same as predators like hawks use in the wild. Instead, try to get them used to your scent first by feeding them treats by hand, then put food on your hand and encourage them to sit on your hand while they eat. After that, just tempt them with food or stroking whenever you want to pick them up out of their cage, and they should come right to you.
- Clean the hamster's cage regularly. If not cleaned out at least once a week, your hamster can become sick. If you spot-clean every day (just take out any visible toilet areas), you will reduce your overall workload. When fully cleaning out, try to save some of the clean bedding and substrate to mix in with the new stuff to keep it smelling like your hamster, which will reduce stress for them.
- Hamsters enjoy playing with toys and things they can chew, such as cardboard toilet roll tubes.
- Avoid cages with wire floors - not only may your hamster get their feet caught and broken, but they can develop sores on their feet from walking on nothing but iron bars all day.
- Read up on some common hamster health problems (such as wet tail) ahead of time so that you know what to look out for and when to take your hamster to a vet.
- If you are buying a wire cage, make sure there is a 1 centimeter or less gap between all the bars for a Syrian hamster, and less for dwarf hamsters, otherwise they may be able to squeeze through - there are many recorded instances of this happening.
- You can make cages from almost anything that is safe and secure - as long as your hamster can't get out or chew through it, and it is well-ventilated with enough space, you can convert almost anything e.g. large plastic bins, IKEA furniture, even fish tanks.
- You can make toys for them easily and cheaply with a plastic pot such as a yogurt pot, non-scented toilet paper and water. Wet the pot and paste on the toilet paper in layers until it is quite thickly on and wet through. Then, when you've dried it and cut a door out of the front, your hamster can crawl inside, rip up the paper and use it for its nest.
- Some hamsters enjoy burrowing - in the wild Syrian hamsters can live in burrows that are up to 10 meters deep! Give them some deep sawdust so that they can burrow around in it if they want.
- Make sure they always have water available.
- Hamster wheels with spokes can lead to them getting their feet caught and injured, even breaking their legs. Never use a spoked wheel.
- The cotton bedding often sold as hamster bedding can cause health problems as they often end up ingesting some as they make their bed, and it cannot pass through the digestive tract, and may cause blockages. Cheap, unscented toilet paper works just as well and will pass through without harming your hamster. Rip it up a little, and your hamster will do the rest.
- If your hamster seems unusually lethargic or has any other symptom of a health problem, such as diarrhea or an injury, take them straight to a vet. Hamsters are small, so illnesses affect them quickly.
- Don't overfeed them, as they will just stash away most of it in the cage, and make sure you clear away anything they do stash before it gets moldy.
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- A cage or well-ventilated tank (60cmx30cm minimum floorspace, preferably more)
- A hamster house/bed area
- A traditional or 'flying saucer'-style running wheel (30cm recommended minimum diameter)
- Things to chew on
- Hamster toys
- Bedding (not cotton) and substrate (e.g. sawdust, paper-based, etc.)
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Ok so me and this guy have been texting non-stop, for a week and then all of a sudden on Friday he just stopped responding, I now haven't heard from him since then. We have lots in common and both admitted we were really starting to like each other. So my question is why did he just all of a sudden cut of communication?
Why hasn't he texted me?
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He probably busy or something. But if you really want to know how he is, why don't you text or call him up. who initiate the text first most of time? If is you then you should give him chance to contact you too. If you haven't hear from him in a while then you should freak out. Just wait and be patient.00|00|0
I have texted him already a little earlier tonight and he still hasn't called or texted
Well then you just have to wait because you don't want to freak him out and make him think you a clingy type. Patient is the name of the game. Good luck!
wow that is my problem right now. hung out two times and he was really nice and very well mannered. id be the one to text him and he would drag to text back. I made the effort to take the train an hour away just to see him the second time. clearly I liked him. he seemed he liked me when in person and he flirted very good. but after that night at the movies he has stopped texting. I kinda think its because I didn't kiss him. if so that really bugs because man he was so perfect and didn't seem like that kind of guy. ill just have to wait and see. I have yet to text him. if he wants me he'll have to make the move this time.
[he is probably weirdish around you now because of the fact that yous both know each other have mutaul feelings. this has happend to me aswell. next tiem you see him act yourself, before you found out. itll relieve his nerves.]
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Godfrey II (c. 1110 – 13 June 1142) was the count of Louvain, landgrave of Brabant by inheritance from 23 January 1139. He was the son of Godfrey I and Ida of Chiny. He was also the duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VII), and as such also margrave of Antwerp, by appointment in 1139 after the death of Duke Waleran.
He was first associated with his father in 1136, when he first carried the ducal title. This was confirmed by Conrad III of Germany, who had married the sister of Godfrey's wife. Waleran left a son, Henry II of Limburg, who asserted his father's ducal rights. Godfrey and Henry entered into a war in which the latter was decisively and quickly destroyed. Godfrey did not long enjoy his victory. He was killed by a disease of the liver two years thence. He was buried in St. Peter's Church in Louvain.
He married Luitgarde, daughter of Berengar II of Sulzbach and sister of Gertrude von Sulzbach, wife of Conrad III of Germany, and Bertha, wife of Manuel I Comnenus, the emperor of Byzantium. He was succeeded by his son Godfrey III in both the counties and the duchy.


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Kennedy Middle School to hold farewell event
Kennedy Middle School at 1660 Palmetto St. in Clearwater will host a farewell open house from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The school invites alumni, school employees and the community to tour the historic building. Kennedy Middle School will close in June and in the fall will become the new home to Coachman Fundamental Middle School. A stroll down memory lane will include student displays, a memorial to staff and students, and a "Who am I" teacher wall. Face painting, games, nail art and strolling entertainers also will be included. A performance by the chorus and band will also be held. For additional information, call secretary Linda Glenn at (727) 298-1609.
Legal advice to be offered free today
In conjunction with Law Week, the Clearwater Bar Association is providing free legal advice as a community service through its annual LawLine program from 6 to 8 p.m. today. Individuals can call the numbers below during that time to speak with an attorney concerning a basic legal question.
• (727) 446-8568: General disputes, business law, contracts, small claims and real estate.
• (727) 461-4869: Landlord/tenant, bankruptcy.
• (727) 461-4880: Probate, wills and estate planning.
• (727) 447-7407: Family law, guardianship.
• (727) 461-0063: Elder law, Medicaid/Medicare.
At other times, contact the Clearwater Bar Association's Lawyer Referral Service at (727) 461-4880 to receive a referral and a half-hour consultation with an attorney for $40. A low fee panel also may be available upon request.
Man who was shot faces new charges
Six additional charges have been filed against Jeffrey Lee, a 19-year-old who was shot by police last week at a Clearwater McDonald's in what authorities called a drug sting. Initially, Lee, who lives in Clearwater, faced five charges, notably two aggravated assault counts on an officer. He now also faces charges of trafficking in cocaine (one count), sale of cocaine (two counts) and possession of cocaine (three counts), Clearwater police spokeswoman Elizabeth Watts said. His bail is $205,000. According to Watts, he remains hospitalized at an undisclosed location.
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The second event in the city of Tarpon Springs' Sustainability Series will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The program, "Florida Is Going Long for Green,'' will be presented by Joseph Malki, an environmental and green marketing specialist. It will be held at the Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum, 100 Beekman Lane. For information, call Rene Vincent at (727) 942-5611.


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Nick Clooney Arrested
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Nick Clooney Arrested, Civil disobedience has never been quite so handsome. Hollywood hunk turned human rights activist George Clooney got himself cuffed in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington Friday morning, where he, dad Nick and other activists were protesting alleged atrocities by the government's regime.
The father-son team and Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) smiled as uniformed U.S. Secret Service police — responsible for local law enforcement outside embassies — politely restrained and led them off. Secret Service spokesman Max Milien said that Clooney, Moran, and activists including Ben Chavis and Martin Luther King III were charged with disorderly crossing of a police line — a misdemeanor — then transferred to the city's Metro Police Department for processing.
Fresh from a visit to the war-ravaged African nation, Clooney testified this week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the actions of Sudanese President President Omar al-Bashir.
Hussein faces 41 counts of crimes against humanity for atrocities committed in Sudan's Darfur region. Today, Clooney testified, Hussein blocks food aid from starving citizens and deliberately attacks civilians in the country's conflict with South Sudan. Celebrity cynics take note: last summer's arrest of movie mermaid and eco-activist Daryl Hannah outside the White House drew attention to the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, which has become election-year hot potato for the Obama Administration.
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When I was in university, a cool guy who was an activist/folk singer asked me out on a picnic. He picked me up, and we drove slowly through an affluent neighbourhood, stopping in front of a very grand house. "Let's eat in the backyard," he said. "Is this your parents' home?" I asked, confused. "No," he replied," I don't know who owns it, but the land belongs to all of us, doesn't it? So we have every right to eat on it."
I spent the whole time nervously looking around, waiting for the cops to arrive, and was as relieved to be dropped back at my apartment as he no doubt was to say goodbye to a date who had not yet cast off the rules of the bourgeoisie.
This memory popped unbidden into my head when I read about the Occupy Wall Street movement, a series of protests that are coming to Toronto and Vancouver this weekend. It started small last month, with a couple of hundred protesters in Manhattan, gathering in Zuccotti Park near the financial district, coming together to form a "leaderless," nonviolent community, sleeping over and attempting to draw attention, with no set of specific demands, to many of America's ills, economic, environmental and political.
At one point protesters paraded on the Upper East Side, past the homes of the rich and famous. Were they imagining their own picnics on property that did not belong to them? More likely they were protesting the ongoing picnic that some of the most wealthy financiers have been enjoying at the rest of society's expense.
In fact the real question about the exciting, disturbing, sometimes baffling and definitely growing Occupy Wall Street movement is not, what do they actually want, but what took them so long?
Conditions have been ripe in the U.S. for some kind of pro-democracy movement that focuses on the growing gap between the tiny percentage of people who keep getting richer – what the demonstrators call the 1 per cent– and the so-called 99 per cent.
That's supposedly the rest of the populace (although we know the numbers are more nuanced) stymied by a staggering unemployment rate, a politically bankrupt congress that can't pass a jobs bill ("No Jobs Bill and No Ideas" ran a recent gloomy headline in The New York Times), the shameful fact that the financial masters who presided over this financialmess are still in many cases benefiting from it, and an economic prognosis that offers up not glittering futures for the young, but more of the same.
As filmmaker Michael Moore, looking pleased as punch that his exhortations in his film Capitalism: A Love Story have given rise to some street action, said in an interview after he visited the demonstrators: "There's a shared feeling among people there that this economic system that we have is unfair, and it's unjust, and it's not democratic. We don't have a say in how this economy is structured and run. That's at the core of everything else. That's why the group is not saying one thing."
Trying to understand Occupy Wall Street is keeping commentators overcaffeinated. New York Times columnist David Brooks loftily declared that the Occupy movement "may look radical, but its members' ideas are less radical than those you might hear at your average Rotary Club." Really? Which chapter?
And historian Niall Ferguson, while dismissing the "leftist positions" taken up by the demonstrators as "eerily reminiscent of the ones their parents adopted in 1968," framed the whole thing on the Daily Beast website as a generational issue – a financial crisis caused by the baby boomers who are about to dump a massive amount of IOUs on the next generation. So why don't the demonstrators just forget about Wall Street and "occupy the Tea Party" he suggests and "wrest it from the grumpy old men who currently run it." (Maybe because they believe in diametrically opposed things like public health care and the wealthy paying their fair share of taxes?)
Nobody knows where the Occupy Wall Street movement is going. (The title is symbolic, and changes with each location.) But because everyone is in knots over the current economic situation, it's a movement people should have time and sympathy for. Yet many of us are scared of even good change because we don't want to lose what we've got. In other words, "I'm with you so long as you don't think it's my house or office you're going to occupy." While a lot of relatively affluent people are also outraged by boundless executive compensation, they have worked hard to get what they've got, thank you very much, and are struggling to keep it.
How can the Occupy movement not touch a chord? Put plainly, there is something completely screwy about a society in which, to take a current Canadian example, airline attendants, some of whom barely make $50,000 a year, are being challenged on their legitimate right to strike while, as Toronto Life magazine recently reports in its hot-off-the-press Who Earns What issue, certain fund managers in Toronto raked in salaries up to $34-million last year. Is what they are doing so exponentially more valuable than everyone else?
The real value of the Occupy movement is that it could help mark an end to the apathy and loneliness of people who feel economically disenfranchised.
There is also the challenge of how to keep the movement focused and peaceful. Nightmare visions of the June 2010 G20 magnum-force police pushback or even, God forbid, Kent State are easy to conjure when you think of rolling demonstrations and each city stepping up its own law-and-order agenda.
It may peter out as the weather gets cold, it may self-destruct because of its unwieldy structure, it may dissipate out of frustration, cynicism and despair.
But whatever happens as this good-natured but persistent street-level pressure for change manifests itself in Toronto and Vancouver this weekend, the Occupy movement is its own thing. Not your father's sixties revolution, and not the Arab Spring.
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Interview with Bruce Berkowitz, released today by Fairholme Funds. First the fund holdings, which have two things in common; most were down in 11, and most are financials.
TOP HOLDINGS BY ISSUER * * * as of 11/30/2011
%of Total Net Assets
American International Group, Inc. 26.2%
AIA Group Ltd. 11.4%
Sears Holdings Corp. 10.7%
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 9.3%
CIT Group Inc. 6.9%
Bank of America Corp. 5.5%
General Growth Properties, Inc. 4.2%
The St. Joe Co. 4.0%
China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., Ltd. 3.8%
Leucadia National Corp. 3.6%
Total 85.6%
Now for the interview with Bruce
Fred: Bruce, it's great that we can do this today, because we've had a really
tremendous response to asking our shareholders for questions. So we've taken
all the questions and put them in the order of how often they were asked, and if
it's okay with you, I'll just get right into it.
Bruce: Great, if you've got questions, hopefully, we'll have answers.
Fred: Okay. The most asked question was about Sears. People want to know what is the intrinsic value of Sears?
Bruce: That seems to be the $64 question, and it's hard for most to get a hold of it because of the different components. Everyone knows there's real estate, that they're a brand, and there's an online component. A lot of people don't realize that there's a service business with 12 million visits to homes every year, a warranty business on the products. Of course there's Sears Canada – mostly owned by Sears now. But the real interesting issue which people have to get their hands around is the long leases that Sears and Kmart have. You have to ask yourself the question, when does the long lease equal in value what
ownership is. So when you take into account the very long leases and just the nature of what it is to be an anchor in a mall, how you become an anchor and the terms and conditions of becoming an anchor in a mall, there's tremendous value. Quite alot of work to get there, but when you add up all the values, including the long leases and the importance of anchors in malls, plus the brands, whether it's Lands' End online or the Sears websites that are doing reasonably well, you come up with a pretty big number. The number is multiples of what we think the current stock price is, but we'll let everybody on the outside figure out what the exact range is.
Fred: Given all those asset values, people also wanted to know whether you view this
like a Berkshire Hathaway type of company?
Bruce: A lot of similarities. Warren Buffett, hedge fund manager, starts to invest
heavily in a textile mill, Berkshire Hathaway. Over time, decides to call it a
day as a fund manager, stays focused on Berkshire Hathaway. Tries to turn
around the company, the entire company for the benefit of the employees.
Eventually comes to the conclusion it can't happen, fixes what he can. Sells
what he can't fix and moves on with insurance and becomes a conglomerate
holding company, and the Berkshire that we know today.
If you take a look at Eddie Lampert in Sears from Kmart, so then the merger
with Sears, then trying to fix the entire system. Recently announcing that it all
can't be fixed, so that which can't be fixed will be sold. He's going to
rationalize it, and you can take a look at the cash flows. Whether it's his
partnerships, the company's recent purchase of more Sears, there's a pretty
good analogy between the two. So can Sears become Eddie Lampert's
Berkshire Hathaway? Well, so far it looks that way. We'll see.
Fred: Believe it or not, the second most asked question was about last year.
Everybody knows that 2011 was a really tough year, and they want to know in
retrospect, would you have done anything differently if you knew what you
know now?
Bruce: In retrospect and in hindsight, yes, I'd do a lot differently. I'd go all to cash and I would have really slowed down the selling of the healthcare companies and the buying of the financials. With hindsight, of course I would do that. You know, we bought the healthcare companies when everyone thought they were going bankrupt because of Obamacare, and we knew that wouldn't be the case and we did reasonably well. But we sold too soon, because the financials became cheaper and because of the market's belief that President Obama was going to destroy the financial system. But the financials that we bought were cheap and they became much cheaper. Of course we buy cheap, and we bought more of those stocks cheaper. So yes, with hindsight, of course we'd do a lot. We'd be perfect. But given the events and given the fact that the business trends of every company that we purchased, that's all the financials that we purchased during that period have all turned positive since the time at which they'd been purchased. So it's going the way we expect it to go. It all looks great. The rest of the investment world has to start to be convinced that these are valuable franchises that are going to make money once they clear up the sort of one-time fixable problems they had from sort of the irrational exuberance of home ownership.
Fred: Sort of the follow-up to that, which they didn't ask, but I'll ask you is, are you happy with the whole portfolio the way it is now? Is this the portfolio that you want to take forward for the next couple of years?
Bruce: This is it. This is the kind of portfolio composition, business type that I had in the early '90s where I had my greatest performance, companies like Wells Fargo and others. It's what I know best. It's the industry that we're in. I mean, these companies, especially the financial services companies, are just dead center in what I believe to be my circle of competence. I've seen this act
before. I've seen the play before. I've seen the cycle of financials. That's the
one thing good about old age, you've seen it before and you know how it plays
out. History may not be exact, but it does rhyme. I'm excited. I never thought
I'd have another opportunity to really take advantage of the financial cycle.
And we're going to do it, and hopefully this will be the year it shows.
Fred: AIG is our largest holding in the Fairholme Fund, and people wanted to know what the investment thesis is specifically on AIG. The backup question to that was why would you want to own a company that the government owns 77% of?
Bruce: We'll go with the latter question first. Why the government ownership is such a concern to long-term investors I don't know. To me it would be a positive. If you're truly a long-term investor, and you like to buy cheap and cheapen your value base, then the worst that could happen is you get to buy more at a cheaper price. That's the situation that we're in, and that's the reason why we bought more at a cheaper price, because of this fear. Going