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1. User Agreement
1.1 By using the Website and the Booking Engine, You are agreeing to the following terms and conditions of use without modification or revision.
1.2 You acknowledge that:-
1.2.1 We are acting as solely as the Vendor's agent in respect of bookings made by You for Guests to stay at the Vendor, and these bookings are made between You and the Vendor;
1.2.2 The terms and conditions on which Guests will stay at the Vendor shall be governed by this User Agreement.
1.3 It is important that You understand that We may amend, revise or update the terms and conditions of this User Agreement at any time and without prior notice to You and the most up to date version of this User Agreement from time to time will appear on the Website. Therefore, You should carefully review the terms and conditions of this User Agreement each time You use our Website or Booking Engine. If the terms and conditions of this User Agreement are not acceptable to You, You should not use our Website or Booking Engine.
2. Payment and confirmation
3. Cancellations and amendments
The cancellation terms firstly reflect the cost to us (including bank charges) in administering your refund, including bank charges, which is reflected in an administration fee. Secondly each vendor factors in their costs in terms of reduced probability of the room being filled and any room servicing costs incurred or food purchased in preparation for your visit. Each vendor can set their own charges, but in general, the less warning you give, the higher the cancellation fee will be. However, because We understand that plans can change unavoidably, You can always amend the dates of Your stay without penalty (as long as it's the same Vendor, the value of the booking doesn't decrease, and only if availability exists).
3.1 All cancellations and amendments must be confirmed through the "My booking" page of the Website.
3.2 The cut-off time for cancellations is 23.59 GMT on the day before arrival. The cut-off time for amendments may vary between Vendors: please make Your amendment as early as possible to avoid the risk of having passed the cut-off time.
3.3 Cancellation terms: please check the cancellation policy of the Vendor before making your booking. If no cancellation terms are showing, Our standard cancellation terms will apply ("Notice period" relates to the number of days before the night in question; the same terms apply to any extras booked with Your accommodation):
Notice period Your refund (which will be sent to the card You booked with)
More than two weeks: 100% (minus £10/€10/US$15/C$15/A$15/NZ$20 administration charge)
Two weeks to one week: 75% (minus £10/€10/US$15/C$15/A$15/NZ$20 administration charge)
One week to one day: 50% (minus £10/€10/US$15/C$15/A$15/NZ$20 administration charge)
Day in question (onwards): No refund
3.4 Amendments involving no reduction in the total price of the booking will not incur a penalty, subject to availability. You may be able to make an amendment involving a reduction in the total price of the booking, in which case a fee relating to the difference between the original value and the amended value may apply. However please note that the amendment can only be made at the same property as the original booking, and can only be made where future availability exists: otherwise a cancellation is required.
3.5 Visitor tickets and tours. Cancellations and amendments to visitor ticket and tour bookings involving a reduction in the total price of the booking: please check the cancellation policy of the Vendor before making your booking. If not terms are listed, Our standard terms will apply and a 100% refund will be made to the Booker if the cancellation or amendment is made anytime up until the day of the visit or tour, minus a £2 administration fee. From the day of the visit or tour onwards, no refund will be due.
3.6 Your bank may charge currency conversion or international payment fees. We will not be liable for these fees. Currency conversion rates on Our websites are estimates only.
3.7 The Vendor reserves the right to cancel Your booking: this may be because of a situation beyond their control, insufficient availability, an error with their prices, or a decision that the nature of Your group may not be in keeping with their requirements. In this case, You will receive a full refund for your booking. Any offer to relocate You to different accommodation or travel-related compensation will be at the discretion of the Vendor.
4. Your stay
4.1 Every Vendor will do their best to ensure that Guests' stays are as comfortable as possible. For example every effort will be made to locate groups in adjacent rooms (although this may not always be possible). It should be emphasised that Guests will be staying in a College or University built for adult students and not a hotel. Facilities for children will be very limited and parts of buildings may not be safe for young children. Children remain the responsibility of the parent or guardian at all times.
4.2 The photographs on the Website are only examples, and no guarantee can be made that Guests will be in the same rooms as those photographed.
4.3 If Guests have a query or complaint it should, in the first instance, be directed to the Porters Lodge or Reception. If Vendor staff are unable to help, Guests should email us via the Contact Us page on the website. If it is a complaint, the Vendor will be contacted and efforts will be made to correct the problem. In very exceptional circumstances a refund may be made at the discretion of the Vendor, and a £10 administration fee will be retained by Us to reflect the cost to Us in administering Your refund, including bank charges.
5. Towels, Bedding, and Travel Cots
All towels and bed linen are supplied and changed as necessary, unless stated otherwise.
If you are booking at a Vendor that allows young children, all children over 2 years of age must have their own bed. If you have a child aged 2 years or under, they are normally able to sleep in a travel cot which must be provided by You. In this case, firstly You should find a Vendor suitable for young children by entering Your child in the correct age category on the search form. Once You have browsed the rooms and facilities and have decided which Vendor is most suitable, please then make your search again leaving out the baby from the Under 10 category on the search form, book Your chosen room(s) and write in the Additional Information section that You are bringing a baby and will provide a travel cot. If there is a problem with having a travel cot the Vendor will contact you.
6. Meals
Breakfast will generally be self-served; dinner, where available, will be served. Of those Colleges or Universities that offer dinner, check the Vendor's profile page to discover whether Guests will be given a wine list or a menu.
7. Disabled access
If Guests require disabled access You must specify this on the booking form. It is recommended that You book at least 3 weeks in advance to maximize the chances that Guests' needs can be met. See the Vendor's profile pages on the Website for information as to whether they have any disabled access. Some Colleges or Universities with disabled access may not be able to meet Guests' needs: in this case You will be informed within 2 Working Days and your Booking Fee will be refunded.
8. Fire Regulations and Health and Safety
8.1 Guests are required to familiarise themselves with, and comply with, all fire regulations, evacuation procedures and health and safety requirements at the Vendor where they are staying. Each room will contain a Fire Action Notice which should be read and understood immediately on arrival.
8.2 Any malicious activation of, or tampering with, fire alarms will result in a penalty being incurred.
9. Arrival and Departure
Guests should check individual Vendor arrival and departure times, which are found in the "Arrival Information" section on the Vendor's profile page. On arrival Guests should report to the reception (or Porter's Lodge in the case of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges), which is located near the main entrance to every Vendor, where Guests will be given a key and directed to their room(s).
10. Missing items, damage or theft
As the individual making the booking, You are responsible for every person whom You are booking on behalf of. If, at any time during Your stay or visit, or subsequent to departure, there is discovered damage to or theft attributable to You, You will be liable for the costs of repair or replacement. A charge will be made to Your credit/debit card, or if that fails, You will be required to make a payment direct to the Vendor. A receipt will be emailed to You.
If You leave an item in Your room or lose an item elsewhere on the Vendor's property, please contact the Vendor directly to try to locate it. Please note that, whilst the Vendor should do everything they can to help You, they cannot be held responsible for lost items.
11. College/University Rules and Porters
Please ensure that you have fully read and understood the Vendor's profile page on our website before making Your booking, as it may contain specific rules and requirements that You need to be aware of, which are deemed a part of these Terms and Conditions.
All Guests are asked to treat College or University staff and property with respect, and conduct themselves in a manner befitting an academic institution, bearing in mind students and academics may be working and living on site. Guests must adhere to the College or University's rules concerning use of email and the internet, smoking, noise, and disturbance. As a general rule, unnecessary noise and disturbance is not permitted on Vendor premises between 11pm and 8am, or as otherwise specified in the Vendor's rules and requirements. If in doubt, ask at the Porter's lodge or reception. In addition to assisting Guests with information, they will also enforce any College or University rules that Guests are breaching or are in danger of breaching. If College or University rules are broken or the behaviour of Guests is deemed sufficiently unruly, College or University staff retain the right to remove Guests from the College or University premises (in which case no refund will be made) or demand a surcharge on the price of Your rooms.
12. Animals
No animals are allowed on Vendor premises with the exception of assistance (guide) dogs, unless stated otherwise.
13. Limited Right to Use of Website Material
13.1 Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement, we hereby grant to You a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable and revocable licence to view, print and download content from our Website and Booking Engine solely for Your personal and non-commercial use, and solely for purposes of enabling You to make bookings offered through our Website or Booking Engine.
13.2 You agree not to republish, distribute, assign, modify, transmit, display, reproduce, licence, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any content or other materials obtained or obtainable on or through our Website or Booking Engine.
14. Copyright and Trademark Notices
The content and other matters related to our Website or Booking Engine are protected under applicable laws relating to intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyright and trademark laws. The copying, redistribution, use or publication by You of any such matters or any part of our Website or Booking Engine, except as allowed under this User Agreement, is strictly prohibited.
15. Liability disclaimer and limits
15.1 The content or other materials published on this Website and/or in the Booking Engine may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. The content or other materials may be changed or updated periodically. We, and any of our affiliates may, but shall not be required to, make any changes to our Website or Booking engine at any time without prior written notice to You.
15.2 Neither We nor any of our affiliates make any representation or warranty about the suitability of the content contained on our Website or the Booking Engine for any purpose whatsoever, and the inclusion or offering for sale or rent of any accommodation, or other products or services, on or through our Website or the Booking Engine shall not constitute any warranty, endorsement or recommendation of such products or services by Us or our affiliates. All such content is provided "as available," without any warranty of any kind whatsoever and we and our affiliates hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to such content and all products and services available through our Website or Booking Engine.
15.3 Our Website and/or Booking Engine may contain bugs, errors, problems or other limitations, for which You agree to hold Us and our affiliates harmless.
15.4 The suppliers, including the Colleges or Universities, providing products and services through our Website or Booking Engine are independent contractors and are not our or our affiliates' agents. Neither We nor our affiliates are liable for the acts, errors, omissions, representations, warranties, breaches or negligence whatsoever of any such suppliers or for any personal injuries, death, property damage or other damages or expenses resulting therefrom.
15.5 Nothing in this User Agreement excludes any liability which we may not lawfully exclude under contract, including but not limited to personal injury or death caused by our negligence.
15.6 From time to time, access to our Website or Booking Engine (or any portion thereof) may be suspended without prior notice.
15.7 You agree that We and our affiliates will have no liability and will not be obligated to make any refund and shall otherwise not be responsible in the event of any:-
15.7.1 delay, cancellation, overbooking or misquoted rates beyond our control; or
15.7.2 strike, riots, floods, acts of god, security breach, false transmissions, pranks, hoaxes, technological failure, health scares, or any other cause beyond our or our affiliates' control, and further that neither We nor our affiliates shall have any responsibility for any additional expense resulting from any such acts or events or from acts of any government or authority.
15.8 In no event shall We or any of our affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of, or in any way connected with, the use of our Website or Booking Engine or the delay or inability to use our Website or Booking Engine, or for any content or products or services obtained through our Website or Booking engine, or otherwise arising out of the use of our Website or Booking Engine, whether based on contract, tort, strict liability, or otherwise, even if we or our affiliates have been advised of the possibility of damages, except where We may not lawfully exclude such liability under contract.
16. No Unlawful Or Prohibited Use
16.1 As a condition of Your use of our Website and/or Booking Engine, You agree that You will not use our Website or Booking Engine for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by, or inconsistent with, this User Agreement.
16.2 You represent and warrant that You are at least 18 years old and posses the legal authority to enter into this User Agreement and to use our Website and Booking Engine in accordance with the terms and conditions of this User Agreement.
16.3 You may only use our Website and the Booking Engine to make legitimate reservations or purchases and not for any other purposes, including without limitation, to make any speculative, false or fraudulent reservations or any reservation in anticipation of demand.
16.4 You may not share any Website password(s) issued to You by Us with any other person or persons, and responsibility for the security of any such password(s) rests with You.
17. Use Of Information
17.1 Other than personally identifiable information (which is covered under our Privacy Policy), any material You transmit or post to the Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. We shall have no obligations with respect to such material. We shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
17.2 We reserve the right, and You authorize Us and our affiliates, to use and assign all information provided by You in any manner consistent with our Privacy Policy.
18. Content
Some of the content that refers to places to visit, places to stay, tours, and other services is supplied by third party suppliers that are not under our control. We do not independently verify, and do not guarantee, the accuracy of the information that we receive from such third parties. All information, prices and availability are subject to change without notice.
19. Links To Other Websites
Our Website and Booking Engine may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. We do not control such websites and will not be responsible for their content or for any breach of contract or any intentional or negligent action on the part of such third parties, which results in any loss, damage, delay or injury to You or Your companions. We are not responsible for the accuracy of opinions express in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Inclusion of any linked website on our Website or Booking Engine does not imply or constitute approval or endorsement of the linked website by us. If You decide to leave our Website or Booking Engine to access these third party sites, You do so at Your own risk. All rules, policies (including privacy policies) and operating procedures of websites operated by third parties will apply to You while on such sites. We are not responsible for information provided by You to third parties.
20. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Us and our affiliates, and any of our or our affiliates' officers, directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns, harmless from and against any liability, claim, loss, expense, cause of action or demand, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees arising directly or indirectly in connection with any breach by You of any term, condition, representation, warranty or covenant contained herein or otherwise resulting from Your use of our Website or Booking Engine.
21. Contract Information
21.1 No contract will exist under this User Agreement for the reservation of any rooms at the Vendor unless and until We confirm Your reservation by email.
21.2 Acceptance will be deemed complete and will be deemed to be effectively communicated to You for all purposes, at the time that We send the email to You whether or not You receive the email.
22. Miscellaneous
22.1 This User Agreement (and any other terms and conditions referenced herein) constitutes the entire and only agreement between Us and You, and supercedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements, representations, warranties and understandings with respect to our Website or the Booking Engine or, the content thereof, or any products or services provided by or through our Website or Booking Engine, and the subject matter of this User Agreement.
22.2 You agree that except as expressly stated in this User Agreement no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship is created as a result of this User Agreement or use of our Website or Booking Engine.
22.3 Our performance of this User Agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this User Agreement is in derogation of our right to comply with law enforcement requests or requirements relating to Your use of this Website or information provided to or gathered by Us with respect to such use.
22.4 If any part of this User Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of this User Agreement shall continue in effect.
22.5 A printed version of this User Agreement and of any notice given in electronic form in relation thereto shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this User Agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.
22.6 Our failure to enforce any provision of this User Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision nor of the right to enforce such provision.
22.7 You agree that notices to be given under this User Agreement may be given by electronic mail and that such notices comply with any legal requirement that such communication or notice must be in writing. If notice is to be given to Us it should be emailed to us via the Contact Us page on the website. Notices sent to Us will be deemed to be received 24 hours after receipt by Us at the relevant email address. If We require to send notice to You it shall be sent to the email address originally used by You when You made the booking with Us. Such notices will be deemed to be received at the time that We send the email to You whether or not you receive the email.
22.8 Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by Us.
22.9 Other terms and conditions may apply to your purchase of products or services offered on or through the Website and/or Booking Engine.
22.10 This User Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
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In this User Agreement:
"You" means the individual whose card is used to pay the Booking Fee where the context so requires, and otherwise the individual using the Website;
"Booking Engine" means the online booking engine contained on the Website;
"Booking Fee" means the fee paid by You for booking the room(s) at the Vendor;
"Guests" means the person(s) who stay at the rooms at the Vendor in accordance with your booking and this User Agreement;
"User Agreement" means these terms and conditions;
"Vendor" means the College or University where the Guests will stay in accordance with your booking;"We" or "Us" means SpeedyBooker.com Ltd, Everards House, 2 Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. IP33 1BE
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"Working Day" means any day in which the banks in the City of London are open for business.
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DYSON has accused German rival Bosch of planting a mole in its high-security research and development department in Wiltshire.
The engineering firm, founded by Sir James Dyson, filed proceedings at the High Court claiming a rogue employee at its facility in Malmesbury, was handing company secrets to Bosch for a period of as much as two years.
The alleged spy, who is reportedly Chinese, was one of 100 engineers working on Dyson digital motors, which are key to the firm's cordless technology and Airblade hand dryer.
Dyson - famed for its bagless vacuum cleaner - claims secrets were also passed to Bosch's Chinese motor manufacturer and Bosch's vice president Dr Wolfgang Hirschburger was aware of the engineer's employment.
Bosch Group, which has its UK headquarters in Middlesex and develops automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology, declined to comment.
Dyson claims that Bosch paid the mole through an unincorporated "business" created specifically for this purpose.
The engineering firm said it has confronted Bosch with evidence of wrongdoing but it has refused to return the technology nor promised not to use the technology for its benefit.
Mark Taylor, Dyson research and development director, said: "We have spent over 15 years and GBP100 million developing high-speed brushless motors, which power our vacuum cleaners and Airblade hand dryers. We are demanding the immediate return of our intellectual property."
Bosch later released a statement in response to the allegations.
It said: "Dyson employed an individual with a pre-existing consultancy agreement with Bosch Lawn and Garden Limited in relation to garden products, and not vacuum cleaners or hand dryers as Dyson implies.
"Bosch has sought to establish the full details of what occurred, including attempting to establish from Dyson what, if any, confidential information supposedly passed between Bosch and Dyson. Bosch regrets that Dyson has chosen to issue legal proceedings and a press statement at this stage, but will continue to act in the appropriate way."
Dyson said it invests more than £1.5m a week in research and development and employs more than 750 engineers at its Malmesbury headquarters.
Its Dyson digital motors spin at up to 104,000 revolutions per minute - five times faster than an F1 race car.
In 2010, French courts ruled that TTI's Dirt Devil had unfairly copied Dyson's overall look, while the Dyson Air Multiplier fan has seen around 500 infringements in over 30 countries over the past two years.
Dyson, which employs nearly 4,000 people worldwide, sold the equivalent of a vacuum cleaner every 30 seconds in the UK last year.

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§ 416.1017. Reasonable efforts to obtain review by a qualified psychiatrist or psychologist.
(a) The State agency must determine if additional qualified psychiatrists and psychologists are needed to make the necessary reviews (see § 416.1015(d)). Where it does not have sufficient resources to make the necessary reviews, the State agency must attempt to obtain the resources needed. If the State agency is unable to obtain additional psychiatrists and psychologists because of low salary rates or fee schedules it should attempt to raise the State agency's levels of compensation to meet the prevailing rates for psychiatrists' and psychologists' services. If these efforts are unsuccessful, the State agency will seek assistance from us. We will assist the State agency as necessary. We will also monitor the State agency's efforts and where the State agency is unable to obtain the necessary services, we will make every reasonable effort to provide the services using Federal resources.
(b) Federal resources may include the use of Federal contracts for the services of qualified psychiatrists and psychologists to review mental impairment cases. Where Federal resources are required to perform these reviews, which are a basic State agency responsibility, and where appropriate, the State agency's budget will be reduced accordingly.
(c) Where every reasonable effort is made to obtain the services of a qualified psychiatrist or psychologist to review a mental impairment case, but the professional services are not obtained, a physician who is not a psychiatrist will review the mental impairment case. For these purposes, every reasonable effort to ensure that a qualified psychiatrist or psychologist review mental impairment cases will be considered to have been made only after efforts by both State and Federal agencies as set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section are made.
[52 FR 23928, Sept. 9, 1987]


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Most Miami fans are still haunted by the move the Miami Dolphins made in 2007, when they traded Wes Welker within the division to the New England Patriots. Since then he has gone on from being a local fan favorite, to being a star in the NFL who twice a year terrorizes the Dolphins secondary and makes fans wonder what could have been.
The Dolphins did not really have a choice that offseason. Wes Welker was a restricted free agent and the Patriots were able to make an offer that the Dolphins were unable to match, so instead of just getting a second round pick, the Dolphins traded Welker to the Patriots for a second and seventh round pick.
Now, Dan Uggla is not quite as big of a secret as Wes Welker was when he left South Florida. Uggla is a 2-time All-Star and has been one of the best homerun hitters in the NL. However, Uggla is best known for his 2008 All-Star performance when he went 0-4 and set the record for errors in the All-Star Game.
Just like Welker, Uggla is another over achiever in the game who has beaten the odds. Wes Welker was an undrafted rookie out of Texas Tech who was cut by the San Diego Chargers in camp before being signed by the Miami Dolphins. Dan Uggla was an average playing in the Arizona Dimondback organization that never made it past AA, and was a rule 5 draft pick in 2005. The next year at age 26 he made is first start in the big leagues and over the next 5 seasons he would hit 154 home runs and become the Florida Marlins all-time leader in home runs.
The Marlins are notorious for not keeping their star players, and often preferring to just trade away players and promote from with in. Recently that has changed a bit with the Marlins choosing to sign pitchers Ricky Nolasco and Josh Johnson, and also shortstop Handley Ramirez all to long term deals. Financially not signing Dan to a long term deal may make some sense if you look at it as the Marlins were not only able to bring in Mike Dunn and Omar Infante, but it also freed up the cash so that the Marlins could sign John Buck and Javier Vazquez. Also Uggla is going to be 31 at the start of the 2011, and projects to be a DH rather than an everyday infielder. Also the Marlins have a good player in Chris Coghlan who at some point will become the Marlins 2nd baseman.
But trading him with in the division is the decision (and not getting much in return) that really makes me personally weary of this deal. Uggla while a liability in the field, he is a perfect fit for the Braves batting order. Uggla give the Braves a power hitter form the left side of the plate, which is much needed as Chipper Jones continues to decline, and he also will provide as protection of the Braves rising star Jason Haywood.
As much as Dag Uggla use to terrorize the Braves pitching staffs the past 5 years, it maybe the Marlins Front Office who will nightmares of Dan Uggla for years to come.
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I know that this has been talked about in previous threads, but when something huge, or at least huge to me, happens, I like to make my own little mark.
I just want to say thank you to ESPN for wrapping 18 record breaking years full of heart and persistance into 8 seconds of non-substanial recognition. I had never watched the Espy's before, and I don't think that I ever will again because of this. Reggie Miller has meant so much to so many people and the sport of basketball itself. After learning that Reggie was nominated for the award, I was glad that he had been recognized for his achievements;However, now after seeing his little clip this award show can kiss my a**. I understand time limits and such, but if they were so concerened with that, did we really need to see 10 minute monologues between ever award?
Sorry for ANOTHER Reggie thread, but it really really got to me.
P.S.-Able, if you got my Email, you'll see that my text box works now, eerie....Cue X-files music...


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|Sport, 1 pitch, 80'
|YDS: 5.11b French: 6c Ewbanks: 23 UIAA: VIII- ZA: 23 British: E3 5c [details]
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By tenesmus
Jun 24, 2006
|Didn't he post this as .11d on utahclimbers? Hard down low in July.
By Nathan Fisher
Jun 24, 2006
|Tyler posted it on UC as an 11+, but he also asked for a consensus. I felt 5.11b was accurate. Very slimy this time of year. If I go back in September or October, I may think it is only a 5.10c or something. The upper face is cool and solid, it's just that 1st bolt.
By Nathan Fisher
Jun 28, 2006
Tyler, that is true. It is a move that favors the 6 footers. I almost couldn't do it as clean as I did. My partner for the day, who is assuredly better than me, and also assuredly shorter than I, could not do it.
Nice line all the same.
By glen kaplan
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Jul 12, 2006
rating: 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
yeah, I don't know...we did it in June, or rather tried it, after doing Stiffler's...I think it is harder than anything on Stiffler's...the 11+ seemed somewhat accurate (I want to climb it again in better conditions--it's got to be at least 5.11 solid--I'm comparing to other routes in the area)...at least for that short 8 foot section that moves past the 1st bolt...otherwise the rest of the route is cruiser and fun (either way you do it: using the flake/chimney thing or staying on the face and using the flake/chimney thing for your left hand only) this section reminds me of that route to the left of funky bolt at the city...the one that starts in the flake/chimney thing :)
but...we'll see how it ends up...there is still room for some cleaning to be done...I pulled off several small flakes and crystals...
awesome work
By Nathan Fisher
Jul 19, 2006
|Yes it was a TR, however... I had attempted the lead earlier and when the weather is better I will go back for the redpoint. I did take into account the fact that I TR'd it and I also adjusted for the conditions. I personally feel that if you climb a route once that is not enough to get an accurate grade. So take my 5.11b with all those grains of salt.
By BobGray
From: Salt Lake City, Utah
Aug 26, 2006
rating: 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
|I have to say One Time At Band Camp is one of the hardest slab routes I have ever tried. I have walked many other slab routes in the 10+ range and feel in no way shape or form can this be 10c. It is at least 11+. Nuff said. Tall guys have it made on this one.
By 5555
Mar 27, 2007
Curious if you ever went back and led this route? What was your final grade? Did you send clean? 10C would make you a slab wizard if that grade still holds for you. Hell, 11B would make you my new hero.
Mark Davis
By Nathan Fisher
Apr 22, 2007
Not yet. Anytime you want to get out and get it (as long as you don't drop me :) ) let me know. I took all winter off and am ready for it.
By tenesmus
May 28, 2007
still can't do that move. But I have been on some other 5.11 slabs lately and that thing is .11+. Just nothing there to hold onto. Hell of a lot harder than Punany AND Dangling Participle AND Neuromancer and Romance on the Rocks. I thought it was harder than Walk on Air too for what its worth.
oh - nice hangers!
By Nathan Fisher
Jun 21, 2007
|Lol TP
By Nelson Day
From: Joshua Tree, CA
Aug 16, 2012
rating: 5.12- 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
|It was hot today when I tried to lead it. Definitely one of the harder slab climbs I have tried. Definitely a LOT harder than the crux pitch of Stifflers Mom. I give this solid .11+/.12-. The move between the 1st and 2nd bolt was tenuous, took me about 20 tries to figure out, and ended up relying on a single crystal edge that was definitely one of the hardest slab moves I have done. This is definitely harder than .11b, especially in warmer weather and if you stick to the bolted line and avoid the flake/chimney on the left. The rest of the moves on the line after the move between the 1st and 2nd bolt probably go at .11+.


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Taking a holiday on board a boat has the advantage of giving your family both a relaxing and active trip at the same time as many activities and shore visits can be opted in or out of depending on how you feel at the time. So mum may even get to finish her book whilst the kids swim and dad visits the local archaeological site! Beaches are an important part of many family holidays and a boat-based holiday will often get you to the best of them far away from the summer holiday crowds. The warm and calm blue waters of the Mediterranean are a popular spot for a summer cruise and choosing a small traditional vessel such as a Turkish gulet, Greek caique or Croatian oldtimer for your boat holiday will give a much more genuine cultural experience than on a large cruise liner.
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The Collecting of Campaign Buttons Has Become "America's Last Great Treasure Hunt"
They still root for Theodore Roosevelt and pay hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars for choice items associated with any of his campaigns--even though he last ran for the White House 84 years ago and has been dead since 1919. They willingly offer $50 to $60 for a desiccated, disintegrating souvenir cigar with Woodrow Wilson's picture on the band. They barely blink at the $19,800 paid for a rare John W. Davis button, even as they jovially concede that he is one of the most obscure presidential candidates of the twentieth century. They eagerly fork over more than $1,450 for an unusual, 1 3/4-inch button for the cigar chomping Happy Warrior, Al Smith, the 1928 Democratic candidate who went down to defeat at the hands of Herbert Hoover. And they revel in a monthly newsletter with such riveting front-page headlines as "Sam Tilden: The President Who Never Served," "Benjamin Harrison's March Toward the Presidency" and "Who Was Henry George and Why Haven't You Been Collecting His Memorabilia?"
To those who a veteran collector once affectionately dubbed the junk men of history, the admirable attributes and dignified visages of long-gone (and often long-forgotten) political candidates remain eternally appealing; the issues they advocated--or avoided--remain forever fresh. All are preserved in the astonishingly diverse, wildly colorful assortment of gimcracks created to ballyhoo their cause. And while it may prove small consolation to either Bill Clinton or Bob Dole, should defeat be his lot in November, history has shown that the remnants of a losing candidate's crusade almost always are worth more to collectors.
There are more of these collectors now than ever before. Until recent years, political item collecting remained largely the province of the shoebox-and-dresser-drawer brigade, a small, dedicated band of campaign junkies and American history buffs who stashed their treasures in humble containers and swapped them as frequently as they bought or sold them. American Political Items Collectors (APIC), the national organization of campaign memorabilia aficionados, was founded by five such devotees in 1945, but by 1959 it had only 75 members. As recently as the 1970s, it was easy to walk into any local presidential campaign headquarters and find large bowls full of buttons, free for the taking.
All that changed dramatically in 1981, when two determined and deep-pocketed collectors set their sights on a particularly rare celluloid pin-back button up for auction and turned the political memorabilia world on its ear. The bidders were Joseph M. Jacobs, a prominent labor lawyer in Chicago who had the largest collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt items ever assembled, and publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes Jr., also known as Steve, this year's flat-tax presidential candidate (and now a face on his own collectible campaign buttons).
The object of their quest was a 1 1/4-inch button bearing the portraits of the 1920 Democratic presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. James M. Cox, and his young vice presidential running mate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose electoral record at the time was scant but whose name and smile were already magnetic. Only eight varieties of such Cox/Roosevelt paired-portrait buttons (called "jugates" by collectors) are known to exist, and the button Jacobs and Forbes coveted is the only known one of that design. When the auction dust settled, Jacobs had what he called the "capstone" of his 40,000-piece Roosevelt collection--at a cost of $33,000.
Jacobs liked to say that his victory represented a triumph of labor over capital, but it also heralded a heightened respectability for political item collecting, putting it on a par with the collecting of coins and stamps. An explosion of interest in the hobby ensued. Now, hundreds of new members join APIC each year. Today it has more than 3,200 members throughout the world, many of them attorneys, doctors and other professionals; over 30 specialty chapters devoted to particular candidates or regions; a monthly newspaper, The Political Bandwagon; a thrice-yearly magazine, The Keynoter, and dozens of regional meetings annually. A variety of mail-order auctions are held each year, and private sales thrive.
To those who haunt flea markets, rummage sales and other venues for button-gatherers, part of the hobby's appeal is its continuing unpredictability, even as every supposed source is explored. Button collecting is "America's last great treasure hunt," says Robert A. Fratkin, a McLean, Virginia-based Smith Barney stockbroker and former president of APIC, whose button collection is worth more than $1 million.
Unlike coins and stamps, most of which were produced by government agencies that kept a strict accounting of numbers and varieties made, button manufacturers have always been a free-wheeling, sometimes fly-by-night lot. Button collectors "don't know everything that's out there still in attics or flea markets or estates," says Fratkin, a collector since 1961. "I've seen dozens of items over the years that I didn't even know existed."
What button mavens collect are pieces of the nation's history--though often made of the humblest materials. All political memorabilia collectors quickly learn that campaign or promotional paraphernalia associated with American presidential contests is as old as the office itself. Prior to George Washington's first inauguration in 1789, enterprising entrepreneurs struck and sold more than 40 varieties of pewter, brass or copper clothing buttons commemorating the event, some inscribed with Washington's initials, those of the original 13 states of the Union and the exclamation: "Long Live the President!"
Ever since, an extraordinary, seemingly endless array of objects have been used to promote Washington's successors--including celebratory cigars featuring a candidate's name and picture on the box and band.
Leading the pack of political artifacts are the most ubiquitous of all campaign devices, the pin-back celluloid button, which burst upon the political scene in 1896 and is celebrating its centennial this year. (A later innovation, lithographic pin-backs, first appeared in 1920.)
Old presidential buttons can range in size from a petite 5/8 of an inch in diameter to a ponderous 10 inches. Many come in bright, vibrant colors; still more in basic reds, whites and blues; some in stark blacks and whites. They present a captivating, kaleidoscopic parade of candidates and causes. In them you can see perennial office seekers age, going from youthful, square-jawed crusaders to veteran, jowly contestants. William Jennings Bryan, hailed as the curly-haired "Boy Orator of the Platte" in 1896, became the bald, paunchy "Great Commoner" of 1908; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the "Gallant Leader" of the Great Depression, became the paternal commander-in-chief during the Second World War; an impossibly youthful John F. Kennedy was proudly "presented by New England" as a vice presidential possibility in 1956--and mourned as a martyred president in 1963; the emphatic "Nixon's the One!" slogan of 1968 came back to haunt the Watergate-embattled chief executive, who was forced to resign six years later. Presidential buttons can even link the generations: a 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower "Time for a Change" button, featuring a cartoon baby with "I Like Ike" on his diaper, perhaps foreshadowed the kindergarten photo of Bill Clinton that his Baby Boomer supporters gleefully identified with and wore in 1992.
In the decade and a half since the epic auction battle of Jacobs and Forbes, collecting campaign buttons and other political items has become a major recreational activity; prices for exceedingly rare pieces now can spiral into the $20,000 to $50,000 range. Another Cox/Roosevelt jugate, different in design than the one for which Jacobs and Forbes vied, went for $49,700 in 1991; yet another fetched $36,000 in a 1994 auction. (A 1916 button for Republicans Charles Evans Hughes and Charles Fairbanks went under the gavel for $22,500 in 1993--making it probably the most valuable button other than a Cox/Roosevelt jugate.)
Fortunately for the average collector, most buttons and other presidential campaign materials remain far more modestly priced. Perfectly respectable Teddy Roosevelt items can be had for as little as $25 or $35. Consequently, the acquisition of political Americana has become an increasingly popular specialty even for people who find modern campaigns mean-spirited and meaningless. Eagerly absorbing American political history along with present-day maneuverings, political item collectors love to play the "futures" market, trying to guess which current politico's paraphernalia will be hot in the future. In the process, they learn that campaign etiquette really wasn't a whole lot better back in the "good old days."
For example, if you're outraged by the often frivolous content of today's presidential campaigns, don't necessarily direct your ire at Clinton or Dole; instead, blame William Henry Harrison and the Whigs.
In 1840, the Whig party nominated Harrison, an aging general best known for his victory in 1811 against the Indian warrior Tecumseh in the battle of Tippecanoe, to oppose incumbent President Martin Van Buren. Harrison, who had been defeated by Van Buren four years earlier, kept his mouth shut (as was common for presidential candidates then) and seemed content to have the Whigs offer virtually no substantive proposals for voters to consider. What they offered instead was hoopla--and Harrison won handily.
Employing one of the most euphonious slogans in American political history, "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too" (Tyler being John Tyler, Harrison's running mate, a renegade Democrat from Virginia), the Whigs got their chief emblems for an unprecedented profusion of promotional items by capitalizing on a blunder by their opponents. The Baltimore Republican newspaper sought to dismiss Harrison by publishing what it thought was a withering put-down: "Give him a barrel of hard cider and a pension of two thousand a year and...he will sit the remainder of his days in a log cabin...and study moral philosophy."
Canny Whig tacticians seized on the supposed slur, recognizing the popular appeal of the hard-cider-and-log-cabin image of a humble hero. They made it the centerpiece of their campaign, transforming Harrison, actually a wealthy man with a substantial home on 2,000 acres in North Bend, Ohio, into an impecunious farmer called from his plow at the behest of the people. They realized, as one Whig conceded, "that passion and prejudice, properly aroused and directed, would do about as well as principle and reason in a party contest."
So it has often been since. As Keith Melder, curator emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, noted in his 1992 book, Hail to the Candidate: Presidential Campaigns from Banners to Broadcasts, the Whigs of 1840 launched "the first American national advertising campaign of any kind," using an incredible array of materials to promote Harrison's candidacy. Among these were more than 50 versions of "medalets," coin-like pieces featuring Harrison's portrait and slogans, and more than 150 varieties of lapel ribbons, most of them embellished with little log cabins and hard cider barrels.
The Whigs, whatever their failings, pioneered the techniques of slick party organization common today and did much to popularize presidential campaigns, which largely had been the province of the elite. The immense amount of artifacts left behind by the campaign for Harrison served as a sort of seedbed for all of the engaging electioneering gizmos that have followed.
Few things have not been employed as campaigning items: mugs, mirrors, pitchers, pennants, plates, playing cards, puzzles, glassware, walking sticks, board games, pens, pencils, razors, lighters, license plates, watches, jewelry, nail files, bandannas, umbrellas and, of course, buttons. Each category of collectible has its own devotees, but buttons probably have the most adherents.
Buttons were "the most prevalent and popular of all campaign paraphernalia," Melder wrote, until television began vacuuming up practically all the money now being spent to promote presidential candidates. He complained that a buttonless electorate, glued to the tube, is less personally involved in today's campaigns, and democracy has suffered because of it.
The invention of photography enabled promoters to put a candidate's actual likeness (rather than an engraved portrait) on items, beginning in 1848 with the campaign between Zachary Taylor, another former general nominated by the Whigs, and his Democratic opponent, Lewis Cass. The immediate precursors of modern buttons, these ferrotypes--tintype photos encased in brass frames--are credited by some scholars with making the homely but honest face of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois easily recognizable to voters elsewhere.
The creation of the modern pin-back button came about with the invention of celluloid, an early form of plastic, around 1870, plus advances in printing and other manufacturing methods. The original pin-backs were simple devices, featuring a thin metal disk, a piece of paper printed with a candidate's name and picture, a clear piece of celluloid to protect the paper, and a metal ring that held everything together. A pin was inserted in the back, under the edge of the ring.
Shortly after Amanda M. Lougee of Boston perfected the pin-back button in 1893, the Whitehead and Hoag Co. of New Jersey, printers of advertising novelties, acquired the patent for the pin-back. With its sharp marketing savvy, Whitehead and Hoag helped pin-back buttons become the rage of the 1896 campaign between Republican William McKinley and Democrat William Jennings Bryan. With more than 1,000 varieties of buttons churned out by Whitehead and Hoag and other firms for the McKinley and Bryan forces, pin-backs established themselves as key electioneering accoutrements, a status they retain to this day as a fund-raising device.
The appeal of buttons was obvious and enormous: they cost little to make and gave the party's legions a bright, colorful and effective means for promoting the candidate's name, face and ideas. In the ensuing decades and campaigns, dozens of manufacturers of advertising novelties made millions of buttons for innumerable candidates--whose followers often would later squirrel them away in dresser drawers, old shoe boxes, basements and attics.
There have always been collectors of presidential campaign paraphernalia; otherwise, the George Washington coat buttons, James Monroe crockery, Franklin Pierce lapel ribbons and similar relics associated with every president of the United States would not have survived to entice hobbyists today. The Smithsonian received its first gift of electioneering items in 1884.
The first comprehensive chronicle of political Americana was not compiled, however, until 1974, when Theodore Hake, an expert in collectibles of all sorts, published his landmark Encyclopedia of Political Buttons. The book established campaign memorabilia as a major area for collectors to pursue, says Albert Salter, a retired advertising executive who reports on the ups and downs of the political Americana auction market for APIC's newsletter, The Political Bandwagon.
Hake also issued several price guides for political buttons, but the most recent, published in 1991, is hard to find even in paperback and now is five years out of date. Salter notes that the best "price guides" are the catalogs prepared by the top five or six auctioneers of political memorabilia. These catalogs--and their subsequent accounts of the prices paid for items sold--serve as the most accurate yardsticks of the political memorabilia market.
As interest in antique political memorabilia grew, so did the appearances of what hobbyists call "brummagem," or reproductions of buttons and other items that are passed off as originals. APIC was instrumental in ensuring passage of the federal Hobby Protection Act of 1973, under which the Federal Trade Commission has issued regulations requiring that imitation political items, including buttons, posters, stickers, literature or advertisements, be marked with the year of manufacture. Imitation numismatic items, including any coin, token, commemorative medal or paper money, must be marked with the word "COPY."
Perhaps the most spectacular legal case to involve antique political buttons didn't deal with phony pin-backs but plain old mail fraud and a bogus insurance claim, with an especially rare, tell-tale button sealing the defendant's fate.
According to court records, Edward Sinker, a 39-year-old Syracuse, New York, attorney and button collector, claimed that his 2,200-item collection, valued at $76,097, had been stolen while he was at a political button show in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in July 1990. He filed a claim with Allstate Insurance Co. and was fully reimbursed. Among the items Sinker said he had lost was an extremely unusual 1916 Charles Evans Hughes button worth $5,000. It featured a photo of Hughes (the last major party presidential candidate to sport a beard), along with the words: "Undiluted Americanism, Hughes for president." Only three examples of this particular Hughes button are known to exist, Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles E. Roberts told the court.
Sinker might have gotten away with his scam had he not succumbed to a common penchant of button collectors: he liked to show off his treasures. In October 1992, at the height of the Bush-Clinton race, Sinker went on WKTV in Utica, New York, to display his splendid assortment of antique buttons--two years after he claimed they had been stolen.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation began an inquiry. FBI agents went to Sinker's home in December 1992 and recovered 3,700 buttons. Sinker contended that after his collection had been stolen, he had replaced it, button for button, by going to garage sales, antique dealers and a museum of Americana. Unfortunately for him, however, one of the items recovered by the FBI agents was that spectacular, one-of-only-three Hughes button. Scientific tests showed that it bore the marks and defects unique to the one Sinker claimed had been stolen, according to court evidence. Similar meticulous examinations of eight or nine other buttons showed them to be among those Sinker said he had lost to thieves. A jury convicted Sinker of mail fraud and U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. sentenced him to four months in prison, four months of home detention and three years of supervised release. The judge also ordered restitution to Allstate of $76,097 and imposed an additional $15,000 fine and 250 hours of community service.
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In 2001, Advance Auto Parts realized it needed to learn Spanish—and fast. The nation's No. 2 auto-parts retailer, behind AutoZone, had just acquired Discount Auto Parts with the heart of its store count in the heavily Hispanic South Florida area.
The company, with almost 3,300 stores, and annual sales nearing $5 billion, is dedicated to driving its automotive business in pursuit of the rapidly growing Hispanic market. Darren Jackson, the former Best Buy executive VP who was appointed president and chief executive of Advance Auto Parts earlier this year as part of the chain's turnaround, has charged his executive VP and customer development officer Elwyn Murray with advancing Advance Auto Parts' Hispanic initiative.
"The acquisition of Discount Auto Parts in 2001 immediately opened our eyes to a world of Spanish-speaking communities, the likes of which we had never seen before," said Murray. "The education we gained from that acquisition allowed us to carry the initiative to other markets."
Surprisingly, the "other markets" aren't the ones that most people associate as being Hispanic. For example, Advance Auto Parts isn't in Los Angeles or Phoenix. Instead, the Roanoke, Va.-based retailer is in Greensboro, N.C., Nashville and other seemingly Anglo cities.
"Our footprint is in roughly where 40% of the Hispanic population is," said Murray. "Nonetheless, the Hispanic growth is occurring in the markets we're in, and it's critical for us to capture that."
Critical, because Hispanics now account for more than 15% of the U.S. population, according to just-released Census Bureau data, and will grow to 30% by 2050. The group's spending power is rising faster than the general population and, at $1 trillion, Hispanics have more disposable income than any other minority.
Building staff: The surest way to reach out to Hispanics, said Murray, is through in-store staffing. Research has shown that approximately 69% of first-generation Hispanics cite Spanish-speaking employees as the most important reason for shopping a certain retailer. In answer, Advance Auto Parts turned to Consorte (pronounced Consortay) Media, a San Francisco digital-marketing company that helps employers connect with the Hispanic online audience—which numbers approximately 20 million.
According to Consorte CEO Alicia Morga, tailoring an online recruiting and hiring solution for Advance Auto Parts, designed to attract Spanish-speaking staff, isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. "Hispanics identify with more than just language or country of origin," said Morga, who works with companies such as Best Buy and Advance Auto Parts to develop integrated marketing programs to target the Hispanic market. "We promote a metric-driven approach and testing what will work and what won't."
For Advance Auto Parts, Consorte developed marketing messages designed to attract bilingual employees at primarily the managerial level in selected geographic regions.
"Today we have Spanish-speaking team members in about 65% of our stores," said Murray. "However, that's not claiming victory, as we need many more. This is a hugely important ongoing initiative for us."
Building brand: "The other dimension we're dialing up in 2008 is our electronic-media spend targeted to Spanish-speaking customers," continued Murray. The increase equates to five times the level expended in 2007. A new brand campaign, implemented through Dallas-based Richards Group, is intended to resonate with a Spanish-speaking customer base. Bilingual in-store signage, a tailored assortment, grassroots marketing efforts around Hispanic events and celebrations, and a Hispanic Council that includes Hispanic company leaders have put Advance Auto Parts on the path to a chainwide initiative. In the near future, Murray hopes, this program will be led by a single leader that will champion the movement across merchandising, marketing and operations.


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There have been over 5 million Camaros produced. Every Camaro was sold from one of hundreds of Chevrolet dealerships.
Back in the day, many dealerships branded the cars they sold with a dealership badge before customers could drive their cars off the lot. This badging/branding was done by attaching a badge with the name of the dealer, and sometimes included the city and state. Camaros were no exception. Even rare super cars like COPO 427-powered '69 Camaros proudly wore the badges. Some of the dealerships that sold COPO Camaros with their names on them were: Berger, Jack Douglass, Burt, Van, Van-T, Byrne Brothers, Jay Kline, Dana, Francis, Prout, Reedman, Joseph, and Bill Allen. Does your Camaro have a badge from one of these dealerships? It's possible the badge is the last remnant of the lost history of a COPO Camaro, or at the very least a dealership that may have disappeared from Americana decades ago.
Over the years, most of these cool dealer badges have been thrown away and the holes left behind have been filled. Without these badges, the Camaros lose a piece of their history. If you remove a dealership badge and don't want to put it back on the outside of the car, maybe there's a place inside the trunk it could be mounted in an inconspicuous place to keep some of the history. We've only heard of a couple of rare cases where someone installed a dealership badge that didn't belong to the car. For the most part, the dealership badge on a car might be original.
What if you want to add a dealership badge and be 100 percent correct about the original selling dealership? You'll have to do some research about your car. If you're lucky, your car will have some helpful hints, but the only way to truly know which dealership originally sold your vehicle is to own a documented COPO 427 Camaro or have the original dealership paperwork (bill of sale, Protect-O-Plate, window/Monroney sticker, etc.).
Did your Camaro have a dealership badge? If so, what dealership? Did you take it off during a restoration? If so, why? Do you have proof of which dealership originally sold your Camaro? If so, which one? If you have answers to these questions and are interested in being part of a Camaro dealership database, contact me at email@example.com
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Updated with afternoon market action, comments from Guggenheim Securities analyst Marty Mosby and Atlantic Equities analyst Richard Staite, The separate settlement with the OCC and the Federal Reserve and more information about Bank of America's sale of mortgage servicing rights. NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Bank of America ( BAC) has finally settled with Fannie Mae ( FNMA) in a big money deal that will wipe out nearly all of its fourth-quarter profits. After resisting the government-sponsored mortgage giant's mortgage loan repurchase demands all through 2012 and seeing its mortgage operations partially crippled as a result, Bank of America on Monday announced an agreement covering $1.4 trillion in loans sold to Fannie Mae through 2008. Bank of America will pay Fannie $3.6 billion in cash and pay roughly $6.75 billion to repurchase about 30,000 mortgage loans, which is to be covered by existing mortgage putback reserves, along with "an additional $2.5 billion (pretax) in representations and warranties provision recorded in the fourth quarter of 2012." Bank of America's shares were down a nickel in afternoon trading, to $12.06. The bank agreed to "settle substantially all of Fannie Mae's outstanding and future claims for compensatory fees arising out of past foreclosure delays," which is "expected to be covered by existing reserves and an additional provision of $260 million (pretax) recorded in the fourth quarter of 2012." The settlement will lower Bank of America's fourth-quarter pretax earnings by $2.7 billion, and the company also said that its fourth-quarter results would be "negatively impacted by approximately $2.5 billion (pretax) for the independent foreclosure reviews, litigation (primarily mortgage-related), and other mortgage-related matters." The Independent Foreclosure Review was part of a previous mortgage foreclosure settlement between Bank of America, other large mortgage servicers, including Citigroup ( C), JPMorgan Chase ( JPM), Wells Fargo ( WFC), U.S. Bancorp ( USB) and PNC Financial Services Group ( PNC), with the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The regulators on Monday announced that the foreclosure review had ended, and that the servicers subject to the foreclosure settlement would make $8.5 billion in cash payments and other assistance to borrowers victimized by servicing errors. Borrowers could receive up to $125,000 each. Factoring in a $1.3 billion tax benefit from the recognition of foreign tax credits, a benefit from the sale of mortgage servicing rights and "approximately $700 million of pretax negative debit valuation adjustments (DVA) and fair value option (FVO) adjustments related to the continued improvement in the company's credit spreads," the company expects "earnings per share to be modestly positive for the fourth-quarter of 2012." Fannie Mae and its sister company Freddie Mac ( FMCC) were taken under government conservatorship in September 2008. Fannie said in a filing that the $10.3 billion payment by Bank of America and associated agreements address "substantially all of our outstanding repurchase requests made to Bank of America. As of September 30, 2012, $10.8 billion, or 67%, of our $16.2 billion in outstanding repurchase requests to all our mortgage seller/servicers, as measured by unpaid principal balance, had been made to Bank of America. Accordingly, the amount of our outstanding repurchase requests will decrease substantially in the first quarter of 2013 as a result of the resolution agreement."
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SIMON DYSON finished the Trophee Hassan II in Morocco in a tie for 37th place after a level par closing round of 72.
The North Yorkshire golfer carded four birdies and four bogeys in an up and down fourth round at the Golf du Palais Royal.
Birdies at the third and seventh holes were negated by dropped shots at the fourth, eighth and ninth on the front nine.
The Malton & Norton star got back onto an even keel on the back nine, with birdies at the tenth and 18th, with only one dropped shot on the 15th hole.
On Saturday, Dyson overcame double-bogey seven at the par five fifth hole to card a one under par third round.
Alejandro Canizares won the tournament on 19 under par.


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Masterson cites why he'd sign short-term pact
Indians righty loves playing for Francona, embraces role as leader of rotation
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- There are millions of reasons for Justin Masterson to take his talents to the free-agent market next offseason, but the Indians rotation leader also sees plenty of reasons to consider sticking around with Cleveland for a few more years.
That is why Masterson might be willing to sign a shorter-term contract with the Tribe, rather than demanding an extension similar to the six-year, $105-million pact Homer Bailey signed with the Reds earlier this spring. Masterson just wants a fair deal, even if that includes agreeing to a three- or four-year extension to stick around.
"It is a challenging situation," Masterson said on Wednesday morning. "Especially for me. [I'm] not doing this because we need to get the most money ever. We also think about others who may come behind us. There are a lot of different factors you try to work in. Are we being true to our value or are we skewing it?"
This past weekend, Masterson's camp presented what it felt was a fair deal to the Indians and the pitcher is waiting for the club to counter. When Bailey signed his long-term deal with Cincinnati, it seemed a foregone conclusion that Masterson -- comparable to the Reds righty in both service time and statistics -- would go to free agency next winter.
At least in terms of contract length, Masterson now appears willing to give Cleveland a discount. The big right-hander loves pitching for manager Terry Francona, has embraced being a leader and mentor for the rotation and his growing family has found a comfort level in Cleveland.
Masterson said those kind of factors "become increasingly important."
Masterson added that there is something to be said for showing commitment to a city that has seen plenty of stars leave over the years. Francona brought his two World Series rings to Cleveland two offseason ago, when Nick Swisher and Michael Brantley also joined the team on long-term deals as free agents. This spring, Brantley inked a five-year extension to stay with the Tribe.
"In general," Masterson said, "when you have those commitments on certain teams, it does show, 'Hey, I want to be here.' Not only to the fans, but to other people. People want to come here. Why do they want to go there? Now you have people thinking, 'Hmm, what it is it about that place?' There can be that aspect. Maybe not, but there is that possibility."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Our chapter is committed to the accountancy profession through education, training and community involvement. Our members provide outstanding service to public and private institutions as well as individuals.
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State lawmakers heard an assessment Thursday of how well Minnesota is responding to natural disasters.
The Legislative Auditor examined the state's response to recent floods, tornadoes and severe storms and gave the state a "fairly positive" review for its work helping communities recover.
But study author Jody Hauer said they also uncovered inconsistencies, especially when a disaster fails to meet the threshold of a presidential disaster declaration.
When that happens, she recommends the Legislature set clear criteria for determining under what circumstances state funding will be made available.
"Right now, communities have to make decisions on spending for these recovery activities without really knowing what portion of those costs they're going to have to bear," Hauer said.
The report also found that even when disasters did qualify for federal assistance, there were wide variations in how much the state helped local communities pay the remaining costs.