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Nikon D750 Digital SLR Camera Body with 64GB Card + Battery & Charger + Case + GPS Adapter + Flash + Kit
|Nikon D750 Digital SLR Camera Body
|Nikon Deluxe Digital SLR Camera Case - Gadget Bag
|Transcend 64GB SecureDigital SDXC 300x UHS-I Class 10 Memory Card
|Spare EN-EL15 Battery for Nikon
|Battery Charger for Nikon EN-EL15
|Precision Design DSLR300 High Power Auto Flash
|Precision Design GP-1 GPS Geotag Adapter Unit & Shutter Cord for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
|Precision Design ML-L3 Wireless Shutter Release Remote Control for Nikon Cameras
|Precision Design SD/SDHC & MicroSD HC Card Reader
|Precision Design 6-Piece Camera & Lens Cleaning Kit
|Precision Design 8 SD / 2 MicroSD Memory Card Case
|Precision Design Universal LCD Screen Protectors
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Nikon D750 Digital SLR Camera Body with:
Nikon D750 Digital SLR Camera Body
Full-frame freedom. Compact versatility.
For those who find inspiration everywhere, who switch between stills and video without missing a beat, who want the look only a full-frame DSLR can achieve and who love sharing their shots, the Nikon D750 has a feature set unlike full-frame DSLRs its size. It uses the same autofocus and metering technology as the D4S and the D810 -- Nikon's powerful 51-point AF system with 15 cross-type sensors and 3D Color Matrix Metering III with a 91,000-pixel RGB sensor.
It's fast and responsive; shoot 6.5 fps at full resolution. And it's endlessly versatile; shoot stills in multiple formats, video with enhanced definition, smooth time-lapse sequences up to 9,999 shots in-camera and more -- all with stunning sharpness and rich tonality. Open new compositional possibilities with its 3.2-inch 1,229k dot tilting Vari-angle LCD display, or use a compatible smartphone or tablet as a remote monitor for Live View shooting, thanks to the D750's built-in Wi-Fi capabilities.
Enthusiasts upgrading from a DX-format DSLR will marvel at the D750's full-frame performance. Pros seeking a primary or secondary camera for fast-paced shoots will appreciate the D750's familiar handling and speed. And filmmakers looking for a compact DSLR to bring a production to life or to capture B-Roll will find the D750 a perfect fit. The D750 is a thrilling centerpiece of an exceptional imaging system.
Nikon Deluxe Digital SLR Camera Case - Gadget Bag with:
1 Year Nikon USA Warranty
Nikon Deluxe Digital SLR Camera Case - Gadget Bag
Protects your valuable digital SLR camera and accessories.
Protect your valuable photography equipment with this sturdy, water-repellent carrying case from Nikon. Constructed from durable, ballistic nylon, this compact system case is ideal for storing your digital SLR camera, plus lenses and accessories.
The interior of this case is well-padded to protect against impacts and scratches, and features several adjustable hook-and-loop dividers, allowing you to customize the fit.
Transcend 64GB SecureDigital SDXC 300x UHS-I Class 10 Memory Card with:
Lifetime Transcend USA Warranty
Transcend 64GB SecureDigital SDXC 300x UHS-I Class 10 Memory Card
Shoot and store more pictures at blazing-fast Class 10 speed!
More memory means more pictures, and you'll be able to store hundreds of high-quality photos and videos with this ultra-fast Transcend 64GB SecureDigital SDXC 300x UHS-I Class 10 Memory Card. SDXC memory cards feature high data transfer speeds of 60MB/s, allowing you to capture images and video faster than with a standard SD card. Now you can shoot faster, capture super-smooth digital video, and take full advantage of your camera's maximum image quality and resolution settings. UHS-I Cards are fully compatible with SD 3.01 standards, easy to use with plug-and-play operation and feature built-in Error Correcting Code (ECC) to detect and correct transfer errors.
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Spare EN-EL15 Battery for Nikon with:
1 Year Manufacturer USA Warranty
Spare EN-EL15 Battery for Nikon
A spare battery is an essential accessory. No power, no pictures!
Increase your shooting capacity with this powerful EN-EL15 Lithium-ion rechargeable battery for Nikon digital cameras. More powerful than your standard battery, this spare high-capacity EN-EL15 will not put constraints on how you want to shoot. Plus, this rechargeable battery is Memory Free. It can be charged at any time without harm, even if it already has a partial charge, and can be typically charged over 1000 times.
Battery Charger for Nikon EN-EL15 with:
1 Year Manufacturer USA Warranty
Battery Charger for Nikon EN-EL15
Power up your battery with this convenient travel charger
This Multi-Voltage Rapid Battery Charger plugs directly in to a standard wall outlet or your car's 12V DC outlet, and charges your EN-EL15 battery in approximately 60 to 90 minutes. Its flat-pin, foldable design allows easy storage and makes it the most compact battery charger on the market! In addition, this charger includes a European adapter plug for use in 250V outlets.
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Precision Design DSLR300 High Power Auto Flash with:
6 Year Precision Design USA Warranty
Precision Design DSLR300 High Power Auto Flash
The most powerful, affordable DSLR flash solution available!
Every photographer knows that a quality flash unit is an essential component to taking great pictures. Built-in flashes simply don't have enough power to properly illuminate most subjects, and typically produce harsh shadows, red-eye, and other undesirable effects. An external flash offers far more power and versatility, resulting in consistently better pictures!
The Precision Design DSLR300 is a high-power flash unit that works seamlessly with a wide variety of camera models and provides exceptional light coverage, at a price that doesn't break the bank! The DSLR300 features automatic exposure, which detects the scene's current light level to provide just the right amount of illumination. The zoom function allows you to light subjects as far away as 50 feet, and the bounce head tilts and swivels to give you full creative control.
Precision Design GP-1 GPS Geotag Adapter Unit & Shutter Cord for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras with:
1 Year Precision Design USA Warranty
Precision Design GP-1 GPS Geotag Unit for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
Geotags your image files as you shoot!
The Precision Design GP-1 GPS Geotag Unit is designed for select models of Nikon and Fujifilm DSLR cameras. It acquires longitude, latitude, elevation (altitude), and UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) information, and via the camera connecting cable, embeds it into to the metadata header (EXIF data) of an image file at the time of exposure.
This information can be immediately viewed on the "GPS Data" page (automatically created for all images that have been taken with the GP-1 enabled) when reviewing your images on your camera's LCD. In addition, when these images are subsequently uploaded to various photo sharing sites (e.g. Nikon's my Picturetown) or opened in various imaging programs (e.g. Nikon View NX), the location can be displayed by online map services (e.g. Google Earth).
The Precision Design GP-1 includes two connector cables (N1 & N3) that allow the GPS unit to be used with a variety of Nikon SLR cameras. It also comes with a bonus remote release cord that allows the user to fire the camera's shutter up to 3 feet (approx. 1m) away from the camera. It can significantly reduce camera shake to provide sharper images, especially when using telephoto lenses, shooting close-ups and when long exposures are required. It also includes a strap clip for attaching the unit to a camera strap if desired
Precision Design ML-L3 Wireless Shutter Release Remote Control for Nikon Cameras with:
5 Year Precision Design USA Warranty
Precision Design ML-L3 Wireless Shutter Release Remote Control
The Precision Design ML-L3 Wireless Remote Control is a miniature infrared transmitter, handy for taking pictures of subjects that are difficult to approach, or to minimize vibration for close-ups and time exposure. It operates at ranges up to 16.4 ft. (5m), and may also be used to activate mirror lock and bulb shutter function.
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Precision Design SD/SDHC & MicroSD HC Card Reader with:
1 Year Precision Design USA Warranty
Precision Design USB 2.0 SD / microSD Memory Card Reader
Easily transfer files from your SD or microSD memory card.
The Precision Design USB 2.0 SD / microSD Card Reader transfers photos and videos from your SD, SDHC, microSD or microSDHC memory card to your computer quickly and easily, without the hassle of connecting your camera to the computer. It provides fast transfer speeds, universal USB 2.0 connectivity, and easy plug-and-play installation. It is compatible with both Windows and Mac, and requires no external power.
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Precision Design 6-Piece Camera & Lens Cleaning Kit with:
1 Year Precision Design USA Warranty
Precision Design 6-Piece Lens & Digital SLR Cleaning Kit
Essential items for the proper maintenance of your equipment.
It's obvious that the cleaner the lens and camera sensor, the sharper your pictures will be. Dirt, dust, and fingerprints will degrade the image quality of even the finest optics. However, it's equally important to avoid using incorrect cleaning materials which can permanently damage your photo equipment.
This 6-piece cleaning kit contains everything you'll ever need to properly clean your lenses and digital SLR camera, including an air blower, soft brush, cleaning solution, lens tissues, cotton swabs, and a microfiber cloth. Also includes a soft carrying pouch.
Precision Design 8 SD / 2 MicroSD Memory Card Case with:
1 Year Precision Design USA Warranty
Precision Design Memory Card Case
Secure your memory cards and protect your digital photos.
The Precision Design Memory Card Case provides protection and durability where it counts, and keeps up to 8 SecureDigital (SD) cards safe from impacts, moisture and other hazards.
This tough plastic case also includes two microSD card holders (shaped like standard SD cards) that can be used to securely store these especially small memory cards.
Precision Design Universal LCD Screen Protectors with:
5 Year Precision Design USA Warranty
Precision Design Universal
LCD Screen Protectors
Keep your LCD screen clean and protected from scratches.
This package contains 3 Universal LCD Screen Protectors that can be easily cut to size, attached and removed. Each piece protects your LCD screen from scratches and wear, and reduces glare for enhanced viewing. A squeegee card is also included to make application even easier, and to reduce air bubbles. These screen protectors can be used on a variety of electronic devices including digital cameras, camcorders, cell phones, handheld video games, and more.
Key Features:
|Nikon D750 Digital SLR Camera
|Camera Type:
|FX-format (full-frame) digital SLR camera
|Optical Low-Pass Filter:
|Aliasing and moiré pattern reduction operation disabled
|Effective Pixels:
|24.3 million
|Total Pixels:
|24.93 million
|Sensor Type:
|FX-format CMOS
|Sensor Size:
|35.9 x 24mm
|Image Sizes:
|FX-format: (L) 6,016 x 4,016
(M) 4,512 x 3,008
(S) 3,008 x 2,008
1:2 format: (30 x 20) (L) 5,008 x 3,336 (M) 3,752 x 2,504 (S) 2,504 x 1,664
DX-format: (L) 3,936 x 2,624 (M) 2,944 x 1,968 (S) 1,968 x 1,312
|Image Formats:
|JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx 1:4), normal (approx 1:8), or basic (approx 1:16) compression (Size priority)
NEF (RAW) + JPEG: Single Photograph Recorded in both NEF (RAW) and JPEG Formats
NEF (RAW): Lossless compressed, compressed 12 or 14 bit
|HD 1,920x1,080 / 60 fps
HD 1,920x1,080 / 50 fps
HD 1,920x1,080 / 30 fps
HD 1,920x1,080 / 25 fps
HD 1,920x1,080 / 24 fps
HD 1,280x720 / 60 fps
HD 1,280x720 / 50 fps
|Lens Mount:
|Nikon AF-S or AF bayonet mount
|Image Stabilization:
|None (VR available in lenses)
|Autofocus Type:
|9, 21 or 51 point / Dynamic-area AF / Auto-area AF / Single-point AF / 3D-tracking (51 points)
|Focus Modes:
|Auto AF-S/AF-C selection (AF-A) / Continuous-servo (AF-C) / Face-Priority AF available in Live View only and D-Movie only / Full-time Servo (AF-A) available in Live View only / Manual (M) with electronic rangefinder / Normal area / Single-servo AF (AF-S) / Wide area
|ISO Sensitivity:
|ISO 100 -12,800 / Lo-1 (ISO 50) / Hi-1 (ISO 25,600) / Hi-2 (ISO 51,200)
|Shutter Type:
|Electronically controlled vertical-travel focal-plane
|Shutter Speeds:
|Fastest: 1/4000 sec. in steps of 1/3
|Continuous/Burst Shooting:
CH: Up to 6.5 frames per second CL: Up to 1-6 frames per second
CH: Up to 6.5 frames per second CL: Up to 1-6 frames per second
|2, 5, 10, 20 sec.; 1 to 9 exposures at intervals of 0.5, 1, 2, or 3 sec.
|Exposure Metering System:
|TTL exposure metering using 91,000-pixel RGB sensor
|Exposure Modes:
|Aperture-Priority Auto (A) / Manual (M) / Programmed Auto with flexible Program (P) / Shutter-Priority Auto (S)
|Exposure Compensation:
|±5 EV in increments of 1/3 or 1/2 in P, S, A, and M modes
|Exposure Lock:
|Exposure Bracketing:
|2 to 5 frames in steps of 2 or 3 EV
2 to 9 frames in steps of 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 or 1 EV
|White Balance:
|Auto (2 types), Choose color temperature (2500K-10000K), Cloudy, Direct Sunlight, Flash, Fluorescent (7 types), Incandescent, Preset manual (up to 4 values can be stored), Shade
|Shooting Modes:
|Continuous low-speed [CL] mode / Continuous high-speed [CH] mode / Mirror-up [Mup] mode / Quiet Shutter Release / Quiet Continuous Release / Self-timer Mode / Single-frame [S] mode
|Built-in Flash:
|Flash Control:
|TTL: i-TTL flash control using 91,000-pixel RGB sensor are available with built-in flash and SB-910, SB-900, SB-800, SB-700, SB-600, SB-500, SB-400, or SB-300; i-TTL balanced fill-flash for digital SLR is used with matrix and center-weighting metering, standard i-TTL flash for digital SLR with spot metering
|Flash Sync Terminal:
|Flash Compensation:
|-3 to +1 EV in increments of 1/3, 1/2 or 1 EV
|Eye-level Pentaprism Single-Lens Reflex Viewfinder
|Monitor Type:
|Wide Viewing Angle TFT-LCD
|Monitor Size:
|3.2 in. diagonal
|Monitor Resolution:
|1,229,000 Dots
|Live View:
|Photography Live View Mode
Movie Live View Mode
|Auto Image Rotation, Full-Frame and Thumbnail (4, 9, or 72 images or calendar), Histogram Display, Image Comment, Movie Playback, Movie Slideshow, Playback with Zoom, Slideshow, Highlights
(2 Secure Digital (SD) card slots available)
|Power Source:
|EN-EL15 Lithium-ion Battery
EH-5b AC Adapter
|Audio input: Stereo mini-pin jack (3.5 mm diameter; plug-in power supported)
HDMI output: Type C mini-pin HDMI connector
Headphone Connector
Hi-speed USB
|Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
|Dimensions (WxHxD):
|5.8 x 4.5 x 3.1 in. (140.5 x 113 x 78mm)
|26.5 oz. (750g) (body only)
Reviews are for the first item in the kit:
Nikon D750 Digital SLR Camera Body


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Single Witch's Microwaved Cheese Chips
Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 1
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 31.1
- Total Fat: 0.2 g
- Cholesterol: 3.4 mg
- Sodium: 272.6 mg
- Total Carbs: 2.5 g
- Dietary Fiber: 0.0 g
- Protein: 4.8 g
View full nutritional breakdown of Single Witch's Microwaved Cheese Chips calories by ingredient
Submitted by: SINGLEWITCH
IntroductionFast, Easy, Tasty and Dip-friendly Fast, Easy, Tasty and Dip-friendly
Number of Servings: 1
1 slice Kraft American Singles
Parchment Paper
Cut the cheese slice into 16 (yes 16) small pieces. Lay the pieces on a piece of parchment baking paper cut to fit into the microwave. Cook for about 15-20 seconds--depends upon your microwave. You'll see them bubble up and once done they will flatten. When cool they are a chip-type consistency and you can even use them with a dip. Just watch that they don't burn! You can use the parchment over and over again during each cooking session.
Number of Servings: 1
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user SINGLEWITCH.
Number of Servings: 1
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user SINGLEWITCH.

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Timberdoodle Movie Contest from Ebenezer Forest Farm on Vimeo.
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Thinking about the time and costs involved in the financial management of your business can make your head spin. Managing your business finances can be exhaustive – invoicing, accounts payable, payroll, tax, accounting – the list goes on, and with today's time constraints, maintaining your records and accounts presents a huge challenge for small businesses. ATO lodgement obligations require your bookkeeping to be accurate, up-to-date and most importantly cost effective. Internal bookkeepers are fine, but can be expensive when you look at the cost per transaction.
Outsourcing your bookkeeping and accounting functions can save time and money, and enables you to focus your attention on the most important thing… managing your business! With advancements in web based accounting software, we will both be able to work from the same data file. We'll do the time consuming data entry and you'll be able to view the reports sooner.
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Democrats vow ballot challenge to Ohio union bill
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Ohio Democrats pledged anew to lead a repeal effort at the ballot if a collective bargaining bill passes the Republican-led Legislature and is signed into law by Gov. John Kasich.
Their comments Tuesday came as the measure was to have its first hearing before a House committee. The bill would limit collective bargaining for some 350,000 Ohio teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees.
The state Senate narrowly passed the legislation last week by a 17-16 vote.
Roughly 3,200 people gathered at the Statehouse on Tuesday to show their opposition to the measure.
House Speaker William Batchelder says he anticipates nine hearings on the bill.
House Democratic Leader Armond Budish of suburban Cleveland says his party plans to aggressively question witnesses at the hearings and would push for a repeal.


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"American Idol" (search) fans were shocked this week to see just how big former champ Ruben Studdard (search) is now.
And we're not talking about his record sales.
"People are worried about him," Diane Sawyer said yesterday on "Good Morn ing America" as she watched a video tape of Studdard taking the stage Wednesday night. "Ev eryone wants him to take care of himself."
Studdard, 25, is a for mer offensive tackle at Alabama A&M University and has always been a big guy. But comparisons to photos of him last year — winning the "Idol" title — show he has packed on an alarming amount of weight since then.
The Velvet Teddy Bear, as Studdard is called, has made few television appearances since he was crowned the "Idol" winner last season. So it came as a shock to many when he briefly appeared during the series' two-hour finale to sing.
In an interview last winter, Studdard said he tries to exercise when he can. "I like to work out," he told The Associated Press. "I went to college on a football scholarship, but I got lazy, man, for a little while. . . . Going to the gym, your day might be better."
But when asked whether he was trying to lose weight, Studdard shook his head no.
"I don't want to take anything away from him as a talented person, and he may have many different issues that he's dealing with for the good of human kind," said Cathy Nonas the director of diabetes and obesity programs at Harlem's North General Hospital (search).
"But when you're fat, you kind of wear your problems on your sleeve. It's not like you can smoke in a dark ally where no one sees you — everybody knows he's fat," said Nonas, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator with a master's degree in clinical nutrition.
Nonas has never met Studdard and does not know about his specific — if any — medical conditions, but said based on his size and young age, the singer could be suffering from, or facing the possibility of, developing diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol, pulmonary problems, osteoarthritis or even a stroke.
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At least one of the people who discovered Studdard — "Idol" judge Randy Jackson (search) — understands the danger of obesity. Jackson took steps this year, undergoing a radical and sometimes dangerous surgery, to make his stomach smaller.
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QCAD is an application for computer aided drafting (CAD) in two dimensions (2D). With QCAD, you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts, or schematics and diagrams. QCAD can be easily extended through plugins and its very powerful and complete ECMAScript (JavaScript) interface.
Release Notes: This release introduces block attributes. Block attributes are dynamic text entities that are part of a block definition. The value of a block attribute can be defined individually for each block reference in the drawing.
Solfege is an ear training program that can be used to train your rhythm, interval, scale, and chord skills.
Release Notes: This release has support for intervals up to double octaves, and adds the exercise modules toneincontext and solmisation. The lesson file language adds two statements: import and rimport. There are many minor tweaks and bugfixes.
OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform developed using the open source model. The three main functional areas of OpenNMS are service polling, which monitors services on the network and reports on their "service level"; data collection from the remote systems via SNMP in order to measure the performance of the network; and a system for event management and notifications.
Release Notes: This is the latest in the stable 1.12 series of releases. It contains a number of bugfixes and cleanups over 1.12.0, including a potential data loss issue if you use the provisioning ReST interface.
OCRE is an optical character recognition (OCR) system that reads an image file and writes ASCII or Unicode characters.
Release Notes: This release also reads JPEG images.
LDAP Account Manager (LAM) is a web frontend for managing entries (e.g. users, groups, DHCP settings) stored in an LDAP directory. LAM was designed to make LDAP management as easy as possible for the user. It abstracts from the technical details of LDAP and allows persons without technical background to manage LDAP entries. If needed, power users may still directly edit LDAP entries via the integrated LDAP browser.
Release Notes: This release adds Unix user+group support for Samba 4. Additionally, you may now manage Kolab groups. Custom fields support read-only fields and file uploads. LAM is now PHP 5.5 compatible.
Nuxis is an integrated solution for virtualization management. Some of its features are centralized management of nodes/physical machines and virtual machines, management of virtual networks, storage management, ISO management, monitoring and statistics charts, backup/restore of appliance configurations, import from and export to other virtualization systems using the OVF format, access control, support for multiple operating systems on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, including Linux and Windows, paravirtualized hardware acceleration drivers, live migrate, PXE boot, Web management, storage management with LVM, and more.
Release Notes: This is a major release. It's based on 64-bit CentOS6 with the xen4centos repository. There are many bugfixes and a few enhancements: physical volume resizing; triggering a warning message when one snapshot is out of free space; and implementation of Storage iSCSI configuration and support. Libvirt has been updated to 0.10.2.7, Xen to 4.2.3, and the kernel to 3.4.61.
Nuxis is an integrated solution for virtualization management. Some of its features are centralized management of nodes/physical machines and virtual machines, management of virtual networks, storage management, ISO management, monitoring and statistics charts, backup/restore of appliance configurations, import from and export to other virtualization systems using the OVF format, access control, support for multiple operating systems on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, including Linux and Windows, paravirtualized hardware acceleration drivers, live migrate, PXE boot, Web management, storage management with LVM, and more.
Release Notes: Lots of bugfixes and a few enhancements: physical volumes resize, trigger warning message when one snapshot is out of free space, implementation of Storage iSCSI configuration and support Libvirt updated to 0.10.2.5, xen to 4.1.5
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
Release Notes: RFC 2616 specifies that Location directives must contain an absolute URL, but most browsers normalize a relative one. With this release, siege now follows the browser convention. This version also includes a new default user-agent that complies with RFC 2616. That should silence the types of Web servers that like to complain about that sort of thing.
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, HTML, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and CID-0 fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression, digital signatures, and encryption.
Release Notes: This version includes a bugfix for the PDF417 barcode class.
WeatherLog is an application for keeping track of the weather and getting information about past trends.
Release Notes: This release adds more command line arguments, as well as other minor improvements.
ltrace is a debugging program which runs a specified command until it exits. While the command is executing, ltrace intercepts and records the dynamic library calls which are called by the executed process and the signals received by that process. It can also intercept and print the system calls executed by the program. The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don't have the source handy. You should install ltrace if you need a sysadmin tool for tracking the execution of processes.
Release Notes: This minor release fixes building on MIPS, building using CLANG, and a bug in tracing on MIPS.
974 Application Server helps with development of powerful Web applications emphasizing security and clustered load balancing which you can rapidly redistribute on the same cluster to other customers.
Release Notes: Rapid Activity Development manager was updated and more documentation was added.
eSpeak for Android is a port of the eSpeak Text-to-Speech synthesiser to Android, supporting 75 languages and accents. It is based on the eyes-free version, but with improved language selection and language name display, support for accents and special characters, improved handling of speech rate and pitch, support for MIPS-based devices, and improved support for SSML.
Release Notes: This release supports setting the punctuation level and punctuation characters. It supports importing custom-built eSpeak dictionary files from the SD card. It supports selecting NVDA voice variants. It fixes a regression when setting the voice to speak with.
With a small codebase, the PowerDNS Recursor is an advanced resolver currently serving the DNS resolving needs of over 80 million Internet connections. Besides high performance (using kqueue or epoll, over 100 thousand qps on commodity hardware), it provides advanced anti-spoofing measures. In addition, the program caches server performance and timeouts, making it both network and user friendly. It also has built-in hooks for making graphs with rrdtool, providing insight into nameserver performance.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix and performance update to 3.5.2. It brings serious performance improvements for dual stack users.
Jodd is a Java utility library and set of frameworks. Jodd tools enrich the JDK with many powerful and feature rich utilities. It helps with everyday tasks, and makes code more robust and reliable. Jodd frameworks is set of lightweight application frameworks, compact yet powerful. Designed following the CoC, DRY, and SCS principles, it makes development simple, but not simpler; you get 90% of the features with 10% of the usual effort.
Release Notes: The Lagarto parser is more robust. Email now supports IMAP and can handle EML files and attachments. HTTP usage is easier with Browser. Jerry has the #form() method.
BugHotel Reservation System is a hotel booking and accounting software package which uses the Internet to "network" your corporate office to each of your hotels. All data processing occurs at the Application Service Provider (ASP) data center. Income statements, reports, etc. may be customized.
Release Notes: A JavaScript issue was fixed in Access Control List (Admin).
pgBadger is a fast PostgreSQL log analyzer that generates detailed reports with charts.
Release Notes: Major bugs in vacuum and checkpoint graphs were fixed along with some other minor bugs.
JFreeChart is a chart library for the Java platform that supports a wide range of charts including pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and vertical, regular or stacked, with optional 3D-effects), line charts, XY plots, scatter plots, time series charts, high/low/open/close charts, candlestick plots, Gantt charts, Pareto charts, combination charts, and more. It is suitable for use in applications, applets, servlets, and JSP.
Release Notes: This release added subscript/superscript support for axis labels (via AttributedString), new axis label positioning options, simplified ChartFactory methods, new methods in DatasetUtilities for interpolating y-values in XYDatasets, URLs for labels on CategoryAxis, seamless integration with JFreeSVG and OrsonPDF, improved consistency of the SWTGraphics2D implementation, and fixes for various bugs. All JUnit tests have been upgraded to JUnit 4.
Tonido is a software and service which, once installed on any computer (Windows, Linux, or Mac), can make files and media in that computer available anywhere through a Web browser or from mobile phones (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or Windows Phone 8).
Release Notes: Folder songs are now indexed using track number. It is now easy to set the indexed folders when getting started. The Sharing Options dialog box was revamped. Drives are now shown directly instead of inside "Drives". A confirmation is now shown when original files will be deleted. The sharing list is now sorted with the most recent items at the top.
BaseX is a light-weight, high-performance, and scalable XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor, including full support for the W3C Update and Full Text extensions. An interactive and user-friendly GUI frontend gives you great insight into large XML data instances. It is platform independent and works out of the box.
Release Notes: XQuery now uses the new map syntax (example: {'key':'value'}). Tail call optimization is now also applied to dynamic functions. fn:subsequence() calls and sequence casts are better optimized. Original options are preserved when calling db:optimize(). In WebDAV, non-breakable spaces are returned as . In the core, OutOfMemory exceptions are avoided when building large databases.
Release Notes: This release provides a better and more stable PDF to image (TIFF, JPEG, PNG) conversion feature as well as the ability to search for text strings split over two lines using regular expressions. This version is also compatible with Google Web Toolkit. Issues with downgrading PDF version to 1.4 were resolved. Problems with type3Font decoding in PDF to TIFF and PDF to JPEG conversion were fixed.
Giada is a minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs and live performers. Just pick your sample, drop it in any channel, and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler, or effect (VST) host. Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for production use and live sets.
Release Notes: This release features an experimental 64-bit version for Linux, many improvements in the Piano Roll tool, a massive internal cleanup, fixes for many bugs, and minor improvements.
AutoLaTeX is a tool for managing small to large LaTeX documents. It detects which files which are used to build the document (included TeX files, BibTeX, figures, etc.), and launches the various different tools (latex, bibtex, makeindex) when the sources files have been changed. It provides translation rules which automatically generate figures in EPS, PNG, or PDF formats from different types of sources (dia, xfig, svg, astah, source code, etc.) AutoLaTeX also provides graphical user interfaces, a plugin for the editors Gedit and Sublime Text, and a standalone Gtk application.
Release Notes: A major bug was fixed in the Gedit plugin: the AutoLaTeX toolbar and menu are no longer hidden when a no-TeX document is active.
abcm2ps is a commandline program which converts ABC to sheet music in PostScript or SVG format. It is an extension of abc2ps which can handle many voices per staff.
Release Notes: This release adds the %%glyph command, and is compilable with ninja-build and clang.
Snort is a network intrusion detection and prevention system. It is the most widely deployed technology of its kind in the world. It performs detection using a variety of methods including rules-based detection, anomaly detection, and heuristic analysis of network traffic. Its rules language is open source and available to the public as well.
Release Notes: This release fixed an issue with the SMTP preprocessor and the ignore_tls_data configuration correctly stopping inspection after an SMTP session is encrypted. All rule evaluation (as opposed to just rules with fast patterns) is now disabled for packets on a previously blocked session. The perfmon preprocessor now writes stats as soon as both the time and packet count criteria are met. The same restrictions are enforced on relative PCRE for HTTP buffers from shared library rules as already existed with text rules.


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13 Tasting Notes
Thanks to Epi Tea for the sample.
Right away, the first thing I could think of after having sipped this tea was being six years old in poverty-stricken Russia, suffering from a nasty flu, and being forced to drink some strange raspberry-honey-pepper-medicine concoction from a thermos by my mother.
Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I took a trip down a certain memory lane that I thought I would never see again. The flavor is just about identical to what I drank all of those years ago, but far more tolerable. The raspberry flavors are overwhelming…I think the tea should be renamed to Raspberry Rooibos.
Not my cup of tea, but I appreciate the opportunity to try it nonetheless.
Thanks to Epi Tea for the sample!
I was a bit nervous to try this tea due to the lavender flavoring—I have always been a fan of plain Earl Grey tea, spiked with noticeable amounts of Bergamot. I was pleasantly surprised to discover, however, that this tea was not overwhelming in the least. There is a perfect amount of lavender flavoring and does not interfere with the nature of Earl Grey. My only recommendation would be to have some Bergamot flavoring into the tea, if only a little bit. Otherwise, great tea!
Thanks to Epi Tea for the sample sachet.
This is my first experience with Rooibos tea of any kind. I can't say I was too thrilled with this tea…others have described it as having an orange cough-syrup taste, and I would have to agree. The tea smells a lot better than it tastes, in my opinion.
Thanks to Epi Tea for the sample. I have tried different kinds of Chai before, but none quite like this. The spices, while strong, were not offensive in the least and the aftertaste is rather pleasant (I personally taste almost exclusively the red peppers after drinking). A very nice and unique tea!
My first try of any Irish Breakfast, courtesy of the free sample sachets from Epi Tea. Very different from the varieties of English Breakfast teas I've had. Personally, not something that I would have again, but it was good for the experience of trying a brand new sort of tea. Seems like this is an acquired taste, so it's not surprising that I didn't really like it on my first try.


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The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir
by Walker, Alice
The New Press. Hardcover. 1595586458 Walker, Alice. The Chicken Chronicles. NY: The New Press, 2011. 186pp. 12mo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with very light rubbing to panels. . Fine. 2011. (Inventory #: UWALCHI00DG)


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The speeds you get are based on your location and Internet speed. If you would like for our streams to buffer faster stay on the old player till we revamp the videos to work with divx plus.
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Old Player
I am going to ride the storm out. I will not be going back to the old player, ever. That's not a solution for me, because I cannot stand the ugly grainy compression it had, nor lack of MKV support. The picture quality of all videos is crisp now in the DivX Plus Web Player.
I realize that your site's issues are due to the new player, but I also know how fantastic free DivX Den links stream with 5 GB/ a second free streaming. That's on the new player, streaming the best I've seen for DivX. ISP speed is never my issue, since I do have over 20 MBS a second cable, I should be okay you'd think. It's the fastest in Oklahoma man. On top of about 22 MBS solid, I have my mozilla minefield installed in my RaM disk, with Bywifi and the Web Plus Player there too, so I have it all running in nanoseconds bro. Granted it's FAT 32, not NTFS, and I only have DDR2 Ram, but still, with a D-Link gamer lounge, it smokes on all my computers bro. Bywifi currently does help buffer DivX somewhat, since I requested that feature. If Bwifi gets full DivX support, it would go a long way to resolving all buffering issues. Then I could stream MKV mega upload links no problem I bet.
Since I am fervently sticking to my guns here, when will you be able to have the site working correctly with the new DivX Plus Web Player? A timeline, and frequent updates would be so helpful.
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Global Tax Alert | 12 March 2014
Taiwan's Ministry of Finance introduces measures to raise tax revenues
On 24 February 2014, Taiwan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) proposed tax reforms to increase tax revenues from NT$70 to NT$ 80 billion (US$2.3 billion to US$ 2.6 billion).
Proposed tax reforms
Increase in business tax for banking and insurance industries
Business taxes imposed on banking and insurance industries are proposed to be increased from the current 2% to 5%. The 2% business tax for other financial industries, such as the investment trust industry, will remain unchanged
Surtax Credit
Under the current law, a 10% surtax is assessed on a Taiwanese company's current year earnings if the earnings are not distributed to shareholders in the following year. However, the total surtax paid by the company may be used as a credit against a withholding tax on dividends distributed to nonresident shareholders in a subsequent period. The proposal would limit the amount of the credit to 50% of the surtax paid by the distributing company.
The proposed tax reforms have not been submitted to the Legislative Yuan for first review; accordingly it is still early to assess the full impact of the proposed tax reforms. However, a proposed 50% limitation on the surtax credit would increase nonresident shareholders' withholding tax liabilities. To minimize the effect, nonresident shareholders may consider receiving distributions from their subsidiaries of prior year's undistributed earnings before implementation of the proposal. Due to the complexities of creditable surtax calculations, seeking professional advice is recommended.
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Ernst & Young (Taiwan), Taipei
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JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) has reached a tentative $4 billion deal with the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency to settle claims that the bank misled government-sponsored mortgage agencies about the quality of mortgages it sold them during the housing boom, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Friday.
The deal is for less than the $6 billion the agency initially sought, the Journal said, citing people close to the discussions.
Even the full $6b would not have been much of an incentive never to do this again.
JP Morgan devoted $9.3 billion to legal expenses last quarter, driving its net loss of $380 million. Its legal troubles took up 39% of its total revenue in the same period, by far the company's largest single expense.
That's right: The largest bank in the United States spends more money fighting and paying off legal and regulatory challenges than it does paying its staff, buying securities or paying rent on its 5,600 Chase retail bank branches.
What does your largest expense say about your business? Ideally, the biggest cost should get at the heart of what the firm does. Goldman Sachs' largest expense was compensation and benefits for its (in)famous talent. Apple's largest expense in its most recent quarterly report was on sales, largely new stores and employees. General Motors' largest expense is building cars.
For the first time, the bank revealed its total expenditures on legal costs. Since 2010, JP Morgan has devoted $31 billion to legal problems, spending $8 billion on settlements and reserving $23 billion for future costs. That's almost half of its net earnings ($57.5 billion) in the same period, keeping in mind some of those reserves can be returned to stockholders if settlements and legal fees turn out to be less than expected
Markets swung rapidly on the 2 p.m. announcement last Wednesday, with stocks, bonds, and the price of gold all skyrocketing. Somebody placed massive orders for gold futures contracts betting on exactly that outcome within a millisecond or two of 2 p.m. that day — before the seven milliseconds had passed that would allow the transmission of the information from the Fed's "lock-up" of media organizations who get an early look at the data and the arrival of that information at Chicago's futures markets (that's the time it takes the data to travel at the speed of light. A millisecond is a thousandth of a second). CNBC's Eamon Javers, citing market analysis firm Nanex, estimates that $600 million in assets could have changed hands in that fleeting moment.
There would seem to be three possibilities: 1) Some trader was extraordinarily lucky, placing a massive bet just before a major announcement that would make that bet highly profitable. 2) There was a leak, either by a media organization with early access to the data or even someone at the Fed. Or 3) The laws of physics have been violated as the information traveled from Washington to Chicago faster than the speed of light.
You can see why Option 2 looks the most plausible.
Presumably there will be a hard look into what exactly happened, and in particular whether some technical glitch allowed some high frequency trading firm to get the data a few milliseconds early, or some unethical behavior. But in the meantime, there's another useful lesson out of the whole episode.
It is the reality of how much trading activity, particularly of the ultra-high-frequency variety is really a dead weight loss for society.
Nokia's board of directors seems caught in a tragicomedy of epic proportions. The latest twist is Finland's largest newspaper claiming that Nokia made a false statement about CEO's bonus package last Friday. Pressed by Finnish and international media last week, chairman Siilasmaa had claimed then that the bonus structure of Stephen Elop's contract in 2010 was "essentially the same" as the one the previous CEO had received. But the largest daily of the country, "Helsingin Sanomat", decided to dig into SEC filings to investigate the matter. By early Tuesday morning, the newspaper had uncovered evidence that Nokia's board had made fundamental changes in Elop's contract compared to his predecessors.
According to changes implemented in 2010, Elop was entitled to immediate share price performance bonus in case of a "change of control" situation… such as selling of Nokia's handset division. Curiously, his predecessor Kallasvuo had no such clause in his contract. This adjustment meant that unlike previous CEOs, Elop was facing an instant, massive windfall should the following sequence happen to take place:
– Nokia's share price drops steeply as the company drifts close to cash flow crisis under Elop.
– Elop sells the company's handset unit to Microsoft under pressure to raise cash
– The share price rebounds sharply, though remains far below where it was when Elop joined the company.
Should this unlikely chain of events ever occur, Elop would be entitled to an accelerated, $25M payoff.
Many years ago MIT's Andy Lo made a simple point (weirdly, I haven't been able to track down the paper) about the distortion of incentives inherent in financial-industry compensation. Suppose you're a hedge fund manager, getting 2 and 20 — fees of 2 percent of investors' money, plus 20 percent of profits. What you want to do is load up on as much leverage as possible, and make high-risk, high return investments. This more or less guarantees that your fund will eventually go bust — but in the meantime you'll have raked in huge personal earnings, and can walk away filthy rich from the wreckage.
But surely, you say, investors will see through this strategy. They can't consistently be that stupid or naive, can they?
Rolling Stone has since learned that a whistleblower complaint has been filed to the SEC identifying 16 of the world's biggest banks and hedge funds as the allegedly even-earlier recipients of this key economic data. The complaint alleges that this select group of customers received the data anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour ahead of the rest of the markets.
The identity of these 16 firms has not been made public yet, but sources describe the firms as major financial institutions, many of them well-known to the general public. Their inclusion in this case would significantly expand the scope of the scandal.
Contacted by Rolling Stone today, the SEC declined to comment on the status of the case.
Darryl Layne Woods, the former CEO of a Missouri bank, admitted in court yesterday to using financial crisis bailout funds to purchase a luxury waterfront condo in Florida, Dealbook's Peter Lattman reports.
In November 2008, Woods, 48, who was the head of Mainstreet Bank and the bank's holding company Calvert Financial Corporation, applied for TARP money on behalf of his bank, a press release states.
In January 2009, his bank received $1,037,000. A month later, he used $381,487 of it to buy a place in Fort Myers, Florida.
He pleaded guilty to misleading federal investigators about how he used the TARP money.
A former JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader wanted by the United States for allegedly falsifying bank records to cover up $6 billion in trading losses was arrested in Madrid Tuesday, Spanish police said.
A statement said Spaniard Javier Martin-Artajo, 49, was arrested after he presented himself to police in Madrid, who had located and asked him to turn himself in.
When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3 percent unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears.
Former JPMorgan Chase traders Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout were charged by US federal prosecutors for manipulating bank records and understating losses in the $6.2 billion 'London Whale' financial debacle of 2012.
In a blow to Wall Street and America's largest bank by assets, prosecutors filed charges against Martin-Artajo, 49, a former London-based managing director and trading supervisor, and Grout, 35, an ex-trader at the London office.
The two charged men, whose arrest warrants were issued August 9, haven't been located by authorities. Grout, a French national, is reportedly in France, and Martin-Artajo is reportedly on a planned holiday, according to statements from their respective lawfirms.
Back in 2012, the major US banks settled a federal mortgage-fraud lawsuit for $95,000,000. The suit was filed by Lynn Szymoniak, a white-collar fraud specialist, whose own house had been fraudulently foreclosed-upon. When the feds settled with the banks, the evidence detailing the scope of their fraud was sealed, but as of last week, those docs are unsealed, and Szymoniak is shouting them from the hills. The banks precipitated the subprime crash by "securitizing" mortgages — turning mortgages into bonds that could be sold to people looking for investment income — and the securitization process involved transferring title for homes several times over. This title-transfer has a formal legal procedure, and in the absence of that procedure, no sale had taken place. See where this is going?
The banks screwed up the title transfers. A lot. They sold bonds backed by houses they didn't own. When it came time to foreclose on those homes, they realized that they didn't actually own them, and so they committed felony after felony, forging the necessary documentation. They stole houses, by the neighborhood-load, and got away with it. The $1B settlement sounded like a big deal, back when the evidence was sealed. Now that Szymoniak's gotten it into the public eye, it's clear that $1B was a tiny slap on the wrist: the banks stole trillions of dollars' worth of houses from you and people like you, paid less than one percent in fines, and got to keep the homes.
Remember when BART helped a few giant multi-national corporations establish lucrative tax shelters?
You probably don't. It hasn't been written about much in the press. The type of deal BART agreed to has gotten some attention, but even so, most people are unfamiliar with the scheme and how it works. BART's tax shelter deals almost cost the transit agency $40 million in 2009 when the financial sector was melting down. One of the agreements withered and BART lost $5.5 million. Few people know this.
So what sketchy tax shelters am I talking about? They're called lease-in, lease-out, or LILO agreements. BART calls them lease, leaseback agreements in their financial reports.
In a LILO deal a public transit agency like BART leases its trains or train operating equipment to a private corporation for some extended period of time. The corporation immediately turns around and leases the property back to BART. The terms of the lease are incredibly complicated and circuitous. I wont go into details here. It's the kind of creative accounting and contract law that vast financial disasters are made from, and it's mind-numbing in detail.
Why would BART ever do this you ask?
The most immediate answer is because it provided up front cash payments to BART which the agency then capitalized over a period of future years. This had the effect of easing BART's budgetary strains, and providing BART with more borrowing capacity. It was the closest thing to free money the agency had ever been offered besides its cut of the regional sales tax, and it could be gotten without political pain, without appealing to voters for a bigger trim of retail sales. And BART wouldn't need to confront the big real estate corporations in San Francisco and Oakland that have benefitted so much from the system. Million of dollars could be generated out of a shuffle of paperwork and a fictitious transfer of capital through a circular lease agreement.
Of course there's no such thing as free money. The money that BART obtained from the deals was cut from the profits that BART's private financial partners were making through the LILO agreements. These profits came not out of any productive investment activities or new efficiencies, for the LILO deal didn't meaningfully transfer or redeploy ownership of BART's assets, nor did it redeploy the lease payments into any other economic activity. Rather, the profits were harvested from federal tax deductions claimed by the private corporations leasing and then subleasing BART's trains and equipment. It was, in the words of Senator Charles Grassley, "a good old fashioned tax fraud."
Of course BART would never characterize it that way. Nor will the financial corporations that have been the instigators of these deals.
Latvia is resisting calls to extradite a man the US alleges wrote a computer virus used to steal millions.
In January, Latvian Deniss Calovskis was named by the US as one of the creators of the Gozi virus.
Latvian courts have twice rejected US extradition requests and its foreign minister has now backed their stance.
In a statement, he said the potential jail term Mr Calovskis faced was too severe for the crimes he is alleged to have committed.
They ran a "modern-day bank robbery ring, that required neither a gun or a mask", said US attorney Preet Bharara in January.
Mr Rinkevics said the US sought a jail term for Mr Calovskis that exceeded 60 years.
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While he could not take a view on whether Mr Calovskis broke the law or not, the jail term amounted to an effective life sentence, he wrote.
"In my view, such a penalty is disproportionate to the amount, and so far no-one has been able to conclusively dispel my fears that it might be otherwise," he said.
I know some other folks worthy of jail sentence who are still running a "modern-day bank robbery ring, that required neither a gun or a mask"…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is probing 15 banks over allegations that they instructed brokers to carry out trades that would move ISDAfix, the leading benchmark rate for interest rate swaps.
Pension funds and companies who invest in interest rate derivatives often deal with banks to insure against big movements in the ISDAfix rate or to speculate on changes to interest rate swaps
ISDAfix is published each morning after banks submit bids for swaps via Icap, the inter-dealer broker, in a number of currencies. The CFTC has been investigating suggestions that the banks deliberately moved the rate in order to profit on these deals.
Given the hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of interest rate derivatives trades that occur annually, even the slightest manipulation can have a substantial effect. The CFTC, which started to investigate ISDAfix after last summer's Libor scandal has now been handed emails and phone call recordings that show the rate was deliberately moved, according to Bloomberg.
Barclays has reportedly handed the CFTC information, while employees at Icap and Citigroup have also been questioned. In its interim results statement yesterday, Royal Bank of Scotland also said it was co-operating with authorities regarding the investigation.
Man, we are going to slap their wrists so hard.
Visualisations of corporate ownership for six banks: Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo.
A New York jury has found former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre liable for fraud in a complex mortgage deal that cost investors $1bn (£661m).
Jurors concluded that the trader, who nicknamed himself "Fabulous Fab", had misled investors in the run up to the global financial crisis in 2008.
Complex mortgage investments played a significant role in the crisis.
Mr Tourre was found liable in six of the seven fraud claims brought by US financial regulators.
He was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of misleading investors about investments linked to subprime mortgages that he knew would fail.
Because the case is civil rather than criminal, he faces possible fines and a ban from the financial services industry.
Michael, who is father of three and husband, asked RTV6 not publish his last name.
His family has lived at 11889 Esty Way for 10 years until April, when they decided to move to a bigger home and rent out their townhouse.
Michael found a tenant, but he was forced to refund the money when their townhouse was locked and the utilities were turned off.
"Our lender changed the locks on us," Michael said.
A notice was left on the Esty Way townhouse from Safeguard Properties , a company that works with mortgage lenders in securing homes being returned to the banks.
Safeguard's posting alerted the family that, "all persons entering this property (must) provide an explanation of their visit, sign and date the form."
Michael was locked out, even though his bank statements show he is current with his mortgage and his loan doesn't mature until 2033.
"The woman told me — this is something that I will never forget, honestly — she told me that they were the mortgage company, and if they wanted to change your locks, they could," Davis said.
Anyone hoping to get into the walk-in lock boxes of this very special Swiss tax haven must first surmount a number of hurdles. At the first door, an employee has to type the right combination of numbers into a small screen. The next hurdle is a large steel barrier that has to be rotated counter-clockwise until it snaps into place, followed by a heavy steel door that resembles a submarine bulkhead. Behind it is a drab corridor with doors on both sides. Only the renters have keys to these doors.
The employee of Geneva Free Ports & Warehouses Ltd. remains discreetly in the background while the owners of the locked-up treasures count their gold bars or examine their collection of paintings being stored in the warehouse.
The Nahmad dynasty of art dealers reportedly has 300 Picassos in storage in Geneva. Countless Degas, Monets and Rothkos are also stored on the inhospitable premises. The estimated value of the works is in the billions. Hardly any museum can boast such a valuable collection.
Those who use the warehouse are genuinely wealthy. According to the Capgemini World Wealth Report, there were 12 million millionaires in the world last year, with combined assets of $46.2 trillion (€35 trillion), or 10 percent more than in the previous year.
An Athens County woman is looking to get her belongings back after a bank incorrectly broke into her house and took them.
Katie Barnett says that the First National Bank in Wellston foreclosed on her house, even though it was not her bank.
"They repossessed my house on accident, thinking it was the house across the street," Barnett said.
Barnett, who had been away from the house for about two weeks, said she had to crawl through the window of her own house in order to get in after she used her own key that did not work.
Some of the items in her house had been hauled away, others were sold, given away and trashed.
It turns out the bank sent someone to repossess the house located across the street from Barnett's house, but by mistake broke into hers instead.
"They told me that the GPS led them to my house," Barnett said. "My grass hadn't been mowed and they just assumed."
She called the McArthur Police about the incident, but weeks later, the chief announced the case was closed.
Barnett said that according to the bank president, this was the first time something like this has happened.
She presented him with an $18,000 estimate to replace the losses, but the president refused to pay.
Nice to have to police to help you when your stuff is nicked…. "Someone stole your home and all your shit? Sorry call back when you have a real crime to report, like someone smoking a joint."
The town of Lac-Megantic is taking legal action against the rail company at the heart of this month's fatal train derailment in the community. Mayor Colette Roy-Laroche says Montreal, Maine & Atlantic has not yet paid any of the workers it hired to clean up the crude oil that leaked from dozens of tanker cars.
She told a news conference today that Lac-Megantic has paid the workers $4 million so far after some threatened to walk off the job. Roy-Laroche says lawyers have been told to inform MMA that it must pay up right away. She described the situation as completely unacceptable.
Forty-two bodies have been found since the blaze and explosions on July 6, with another five people missing and presumed dead.
Good luck on collecting from that bunch.
Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs consumers billions of dollars.
SPIEGEL: Still, authorities in Spain and France have convicted a number of prominent tax evaders based on the data you gave them.
Falciani: That's true, but so far not even 1 percent of the information I supplied has been analyzed, because the authorities are only interested in client names. But this information can also be used to expose the system banks have installed to make tax evasion and money laundering possible. For me, it has always been about calling attention to the banks' behavior, after I failed to change it from inside.
SPIEGEL: The bank denies you ever pointed out problems from inside.
Falciani: I did, but to no avail. Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.
SPIEGEL: Did you also offer your information to German authorities?
Falciani: Three years ago, I offered my help and made direct contact through my lawyer.
SPIEGEL: And?
Falciani: Nothing happened.
SPIEGEL: Why was that?
Falciani: I ask myself the same question. We're talking about a total of 127,000 clients and over 300,000 accounts.
When Judge Kristen Booth Glen walked into her Manhattan Surrogate's courtroom one day in 2007, she had no idea she was about to challenge the nation's top banks on behalf of tens of thousands of disabled people.
Before her stood lawyer Harvey J. Platt, who was petitioning to become the legal guardian of Mark Christopher Holman, a severely autistic teen who lived in an institution upstate.
Holman had been left an orphan nearly three years earlier after the eccentric millionaire who adopted him passed away. According to doctors, he had the communication skills of a toddler, unable to bathe, dress, or eat by himself.
But before Judge Glen would grant this seemingly perfunctory petition, she had a few questions for Platt.
"How often have you visited Mark Holman?" she asked the lawyer.
"Since his mother died, I have not visited him," said Platt.
"And when you say you haven't visited him since then, how often had you visited him prior to that?"
"I haven't seen him since he was eight or nine," responded the lawyer. "His mother used to bring him to our office with his brother, just to show him my face and so forth and so on, so I haven't seen him probably since 1995 or 1996."
It was around that time that Platt helped Mark's mother, Marie Holman, draft her will and create trusts for him and his older brother. A decade later, when she was dying, Platt promised Marie he'd apply to become Mark's guardian.
"And have you visited the institution which he currently resides in?" Glen asked.
"No, I intend to, but I have not as yet," Platt said, sounding weary. "I don't think even a visit has much significance anyway. He's totally nonverbal—he's never spoken a word. He's potentially aggressive."
This didn't sit well with Judge Glen. When it came to signing away the rights of disabled people to guardians, she was perhaps the most cautious judge in New York. But what came next would floor her.
Platt informed her that Mark's trust had reached nearly $3 million. But while his trustees—Platt and JP Morgan Chase—had collected thousands of dollars in commissions, they hadn't spent a penny on Mark. Medicaid covered his basic care at the institution upstate, but neither the lawyer nor the bank had considered how his mammoth trust might further aid his quality of life.
If you are a working stiff and can squirrel away $250 to put in a Chase "savings account," Chase will pay you 12.5 cents a year (.05% APY at a "standard rate"). Furthermore, if you don't make any transactions, they will charge you $4 a month, meaning that you will be left with $202 at the end of a year, plus your 2.5 cents.
As Andrew Haldane, director of stability at the Bank of England, put it in a historical overview a few years ago, 'there is one key difference between the situation today and that in the Middle Ages. Then, the biggest risk to the banks was from the sovereign. Today, perhaps the biggest risk to the sovereign comes from the banks. Causality has reversed.' Yes, it has: and the sovereign at risk is us. The reason for that is that in the UK bank assets are 492 per cent of GDP. In plain English, our banks are five times bigger than our entire economy. (When the Icelandic and Cypriot banking systems collapsed the respective figures were 880 and 700 per cent.) We know from the events of 2008 and subsequently that the financial sector, indeed the whole world economy, is in an inherently unstable condition. Put the size together with the instability, and we are facing a danger that is no less real for not being on the front page this exact second. This has to be fixed, and it has to be fixed soon, and nothing about fixing it is easy.
In the UK, the government has spent magic money on QE to the tune of £375 billion, 23.8 per cent of our GDP. An amount equal to a quarter of our entire annual economic activity has therefore been willed into being in an attempt to stimulate the economy. If they'd just given the money directly to the public, perhaps in the form of time-limited, UK-only spending vouchers, it would have amounted to just under £6,000 for everyone, man, woman or child, in the country. Can anyone doubt that the stimulus effect of that would have been much bigger?
But you can't trust little people with all that money, can you? Giving banks money is the only way out of our mess, right? The trouble with just giving people money is that they'll go out and buy things with it, effectively wasting it on foolish nonsense like food, and housing.
The nation's eight largest banks would have to meet tougher financial ratios than required under international standards as part of proposed rules designed to protect taxpayers from another financial crisis.
Under the plan, Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and four other U.S. bank holding companies designated as "systemically important financial institutions" would each have to hold capital equal to at least 5% of total assets.
In addition, their federally insured bank subsidiaries, such as Citibank and Chase bank, would have to hold capital equal to at least 6% of assets, according to the proposed rules.
Other U.S. banks and bank holding companies have to meet only a 3% leverage ratio under rules adopted by regulators as part of an international agreement known as Basel 3.
Michael Milken (of junk-bond infamy) once said:
"When I was on Wall Street, we rarely had more than 1:1 leverage, and the highest I recall in my career was 4:1. The idea of leveraging 30:1 or more, as many financial institutions did recently, is not a business."
When the guy responsible for a market meltdown based largely on not being able to cover losses tells you your leverage is off, it might be a good idea to listen.
In 1965, the average CEO made 20 times the average worker. Now the ratio is 273 to 1, meaning the average CEO makes in a day what their workers make in a year.
Jeff Olson was found not guilty of vandalism today after writing anti-bank messages about Bank of America on public sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year.
Olson was charged with 13 counts of vandalism and faced 15 years in jail, plus $13,000 in fines.
Olson had written the anti-bank messages in front of three Bank of America buildings in San Diego, California.
Darrell Freeman, Vice President of Bank of America's Global Corporate Security, pushed San Diego authorities to prosecute Olson for writing messages such as: "No thanks, big banks" and "Shame on Bank of America."
San Diego Deputy City Attorney Paige Hazard was in communication with Bank of America, assuring the multinational corporation that Olson would be charged.
As reported by the San Diego Reader, Judge Howard Shore banned Olson's lawyer from mentioning the "First Amendment."
Despite that highly-questionable ruling, the jury still voted "not guilty" in Olson's case, notesNBC San Diego.
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner had called the prosecution of Olson by San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith "a stupid case," reported the Los Angeles Times.
Financial data company Markit, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and 13 banks were charged with blocking two exchanges from entering the credit derivatives market in the last decade in breach of European Union (EU) antitrust rules.
The European Commission said the group, which included Goldman Sachs and UBS, shut out Deutsche Boerse and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from the Credit default swaps (CDS) business between 2006 and 2009.
CDS are over-the-counter contracts that allow an investor to bet on whether a company or country will default on its bonds within a fixed period of time. Lack of transparency on such derivatives is a key target of regulators following the 2007-2009 crisis.
The case is one of several opened by the EU antitrust regulator into the financial services since the crisis. Banks and other companies involved could be fined up to 10% of their global turnover if found guilty of infringing EU rules.
French politicians have diluted President Francois Hollande's plans to make politicians declare their wealth in a transparency drive. They have also backed harsh penalties for journalists who publish the information.
After the resignation of a budget minister over a secret Swiss bank account, Hollande's government drafted a bill in April to force politicians to declare their assets and income to an independent authority.
However, members of the National Assembly, the lower house of France's parliament, who worried about their privacy, including Hollande's own Socialist Party, voted on Tuesday in favour of an amended version of the bill.
The new version would only provide the information to people who specifically requested it.
Besides, it would ban publication of the details: any reporter who publishes the information would be subject to a jail sentence of one year and could pay a fine of 45,000 euros ($58,000).
They are so worried about their privacy poor lambs. Off with their heads!


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John Schinker. left, and Larry Tooker, members of the American Elm Tree Committee of the Men's Garden Club of Youngstown, show some of the trees the club will give away in daily drawings at the Canfield Fair. In addition to seedlings, the club also will give away an 8-foot Prairie Expedition American Elm, the first of the new cultivar to become available in the Mahoning Valley.
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Madison,Wis - Despite his team's recent success, coach Thad Matta knows Ohio State's return to the AP poll could be a short one if there isn't some improvement from its last game.
The No. 24 Buckeyes try for a fifth straight victory while looking to snap a six-game road losing streak to surging Big Ten rival Wisconsin on Saturday night.
Oddsmakers from Online Sportsbook Sportsbook.com have made the Wisconsin -6 point spread favorites for Wednesday's game against the Ohio St Current College Basketball Public Betting Information shows that 57% of more than 217 bets for this game have been placed on the Wisconsin -6.
While consecutive victories over ranked opponents has Ohio State (17-5, 7-4) tied for third in the Big Ten, Matta hopes his squad can put forth a complete effort in the next challenge.
"We want to be a better team when we take the floor Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin, than we were against Minnesota," Matta said after the Buckeyes shot 42.3 percent in a 64-58 home win over the then-No. 19 Golden Gophers last Saturday.
Ohio State is better than that effort, shooting a Big Ten-leading 47.9 percent. The Buckeyes made 60.1 percent of their shots in the previous three games, which included an 80-72 overtime home win over then-No. 12 Purdue on Feb. 3.
The Buckeyes likely need to regain that touch in order to claim their first victory at the Kohl Center since a 53-51 win on Jan. 13, 2000. Even the 2007 national runner-up team failed to win in Madison, falling 72-69 to the then-No. 3 Badgers in the Buckeyes' most recent trip there.
Wisconsin won 58-53 on Feb. 24 in Columbus, Ohio, in the teams' only meeting last season.
It doesn't get easier for Ohio State now that Wisconsin (15-9, 6-6) has won three in a row after a six-game losing streak.
The Buckeyes, though, are confident after returning to the poll since ranking as high as No. 15 during a four-week stay in December.
"We had a couple of bumps and bruises down the road but we finally got together and we're clicking," said sophomore Evan Turner, who had 18 points and 10 rebounds against Minnesota. "Everybody's contributing."
A candidate for Big Ten player of the year, Turner is third in the conference in both scoring (17.0) and rebounding (7.5). He's averaged 24.3 points and 10.6 boards in his last three games.
Turner, though, was held to four points as the Buckeyes shot 37.0 percent against the Badgers last season.
Another win over a ranked team would help Wisconsin's questionable NCAA tournament resume. The Badgers beat then-No. 23 Illinois 63-50 on Feb. 5, won by 10 at Penn State on Sunday and 69-52 over Iowa on Wednesday.
Wisconsin is allowing 48.7 points and holding opponents to 19.6 percent shooting from 3-point range in its last three games after giving up 68.3 points during the recent skid.
Joe Krabbenhoft scored 16 points and Marcus Landry recorded the 1,000th of his career as the Badgers shot 53.1 percent from the field - 58.3 from beyond the arc (7-for-12) - against Iowa.
"We need to keep that going for the game on Saturday," said guard Jason Bohannon, who had 16 points versus Ohio State last season.
Landry, averaging a team-leading 12.8 points, was held to nine against Iowa and has scored 26 in four career games versus Ohio State.
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COHOES -- Usually, getting into a shootout with Lansingburgh isn't a good idea.
There are exceptions, of course, and Cohoes used one on Friday, racking up 23 first downs and 498 yards in a 50-32 pounding of the Knights.
Even without his leading receiver -- Brandon LaForest, who was sidelined by a hip injury -- Cohoes quarterback Max Carey passed for 234 yards and two touchdowns. Junior tailback Shelton Alston and John Malulan each rushed for over 100 yards and totaled four rushing touchdowns.
Alston carried the ball 19 times for 130 yards and scored touchdowns from 2, 17 and 39 yards out. His 39-yarder gave the Knights a 50-26 lead with 3:44 and even though Anthony Walker returned the ensuing kickoff 78 yards for a touchdown, the Tigers were safe, improving their Section 2 Class B Reinfurt Division record to 2-1.
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Lansingburgh's defeat (1-1, 1-2) gave every team in the division at least one division loss.
"We didn't think anyone was going to run the table (in the division)," Cohoes coach James Ducharme said. "It only took three weeks for that to play out. Everyone (Cohoes, Burgh, Ravena, Albany Academy) still has to take care of business and win."
Not overlooked in the loss was another outstanding performance by Walker, an All-Record running back.
Swarmed upon by the Cohoes defense on seemingly everyone of his 23 carries, he totaled just 88 yards rushing -- none in the second half --red from 13 and 10 yards out and turned a simple swing pass from Shay Curtis into a 63-yard catch-and-run touchdown which kept the Knights in the game -- somewhat -- at 42-26 with 9:50 remaining.
The Knights gave up too many big plays, though, and Malulan, wide receiver Nick Ernst and running back Try Nelson were also heroes for Cohoes.
Malulan bolted 48 yards off tackle to score, giving the Tigers a 14-0 lead with 5:43 remaining in the first quarter and gained 102 yards on 11 carries.
Ernst caught five passes for 142 yards and two touchdowns and Nelson caught one touchdown pass, threw another, and set up the first score of the second half that jolted the Knights.
Ducharme admitted that getting into a scoring match with Lansingburgh always takes precision execution, and some good fortune, if a team is going to come out on top in such a setting.
"Obviously, they can score a lot of points, and quickly," he said of the Knights. "And Anthony is such a great back, he can score from anywhere. But we have confidence in our offense. We can put points on the board, too. These aren't the games you like to be in (often); they're fun, they're exciting, they're fun to coach; it was just a good day."
Lansingburgh coach Jess Passinella said the Tigers didn't do anything that surprised the Knights -- just beat them.
"No, everything they ran today, we'd seen (in scouting Cohoes). "They just beat us up up front; we couldn't establish our running game between the tackles and we made some mistakes in the beginning.
"We're not happy with the outcome."
"It was a great win," Alston said. "It puts us in a great place (tied for first place). The line was great today."
Carey opened the scoring with a 35-yard touchdown pass to Nelson just 4:46 into the game.
After Malulan's TD, Lansingburgh's Josh Rodriguez bolted 63 yards for a touchdown, but Alston capped a 79-yard Cohoes drive with a 2-yard score and the Tigers led 20-7 late in the first.
Walker's two scores tied the score 20-20 -- the second of which was set up by Tyler McDonough's blocked punt -- then came a key play in the game in the final half-minute of the first half.
Nelson took a pitch from Carey, stopped an lofted a perfect pass which Ernst caught in the end zone for a 31-yard TD, Carey passed to Ernst for a 2-point conversion and the Tigers led, 28-20 at halftime.
After losing four yards on the first play of the second half, Carey lofted one over the middle to Nelson for 53 yards. That set up Alston's slashing, tackle-breaking 17-yard touchdown run. When Malulan added a two-point conversion run, the Tigers had a 36-20 lead.
The Knights could never fully recover from that.
Carey threw a 47-yard scoring pass to Ernst early in the fourth quarter.
"My line did a helluva job protecting me," Carey said, "and I just had great confidence in my receivers catching the ball. Nick Ernst stepped up big for us. He's a helluva player."
"I didn't think (the ball) would go to me that often," Ernst said, "but I knew it was coming to me a good amount."
"It was great," Nelson said of the victory. "It's an awesome feeling to beat Burgh, we'd never beaten them. I'm going to celebrate before I get back to work (practice) on Monday."


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ANDY PETTITTE has pitched nine years for the Yankees, eight of them for Joe Torre. He has won 149 regular-season games, 137 on Torre's watch. He won 21 games this season. No starting pitcher has done more for this Yankees manager, come all the way with him, than Pettitte has.
Torre doesn't forget, and Pettitte keeps giving him new reasons not to.
''That's so much in the bank for me,'' Torre said last week after Pettitte saved him from what might have become first-round ruin.
That was then. Last night was now, another semi-must-win Game 2, another home-field hole for Pettitte to pull the Yankees out of. Only it was the Red Sox, with their scruffy posse of working-class hitters, not the Minnesota Twins, not a bunch of postseason poseurs, digging in.
It was the Red Sox, who hit three home runs off Mike Mussina in Game 1 on Wednesday night, who hammered 13 hits to the Yankees' 3, who had reminded everyone very early in the American League Championship Series that Matthew LeCroy had left the building.
It was the Red Sox, who had Pettitte looking stiff and a little scared to challenge them early last night. Who were a timely hit or two away from putting the Yankees on a slow road to Boston, down by 0-2 in the series, with Pedro Martínez awaiting them tomorrow afternoon in Game 3.Continue reading the main story
Six hits, the Red Sox had in two innings last night. They scored one run. A runner thrown out stealing in the first inning helped. There was a huge double play in the second. Pettitte gave Torre and the Yankees 118 pitches and six and two-thirds innings, after it looked as if he wouldn't last two. The fans gave Pettitte their loudest New York roar as he jogged from the mound after Torre took him out. Order was restored for the Yankees, who won Game 2, 6-2, behind Andy Pettitte, survivor.
''I was fighting myself so bad,'' he said afterward. ''Overthrowing.''
Torre had to send Mel Stottlemyre, his pitching coach, out to ''do some therapy on him.'' Pettitte discovered his resolve, his internal control. Next up is the main event of this Northeast psychodrama, with Roger Clemens facing Martínez tomorrow at Fenway Park in Game 3 of what promises to be a long, draining series.
''It'll be a different kind of crowd,'' Torre said, meaning there will be no Fenway love-in like the one Clemens experienced last month.
Torre could have spared Clemens the return date, another match-up with Martínez like the one he lost, 13-1, in 1999. Torre said he did not worry about Clemens the ancient getting too hyped anymore, but the truth is that Torre set up his rotation the way he did because he wanted Pettitte in place in the event the Yankees wound up in the position they were in last night.
Pettitte has never been the star Clemens was, never the poster-boy pitcher. What he has been, for Torre, is the ubiquitous and faithful fallback, the Game 2 starter a mind-boggling nine straight years in the three-of-five-game division series.
''I don't think I can trust anyone more than I trust Andy,'' Torre admitted. ''Because I put so much value on someone who pitches under the stress that he pitches under.''
He mentioned Pettitte's first World Series victory for him, beating John Smoltz in Atlanta in 1996. It was Year 1 of the Torre era. A long and lasting impression was made.
Torre has always stood by Pettitte, especially when he struggled and the owner was wishing him away. Maybe Torre saw some of himself in the crafty left-hander, a resolve that is so easy to understand when meeting Pettitte's father, Tommy, a former police sergeant who, before 50, had withstood having two feet of colon removed, bypass surgery and assorted problems with his neck, back and wrists.
All he wished for, Tommy Pettitte said one afternoon when we met at the Yankees' training complex a couple of years ago, was medical clearance to go back to work in a chemical plant.
All his son, now 31 and in the final year of his contract, wanted last night was the ball, another Yankee Stadium chance to pull the bill of his cap down low over his eyes and meet the enemy gaze.
There is talk that Pettitte may be gone from New York next season and that it will be his choice. Clemens, his friend and fellow Texan, is retiring. Torre has one year left on his contract, and who knows how that story will end?
Thanks to Pettitte, it probably won't end at Fenway Park this weekend. He made it out of the first two innings and then, over the next four and two-thirds, the Red Sox didn't look like the '27 Yankees anymore. Jason Varitek homered with two out in the sixth. The Yankees had a 4-2 lead when Bill Mueller got the ninth hit off Pettitte, a two-out single in the seventh. José Contreras came in to overpower Nomar Garciaparra and pitch a stress-free eighth. Mariano Rivera closed. Torre, though, knew where the game was won.
''That trust will never go away,'' he said of Pettitte.
Day to day, pitcher to pitcher, ballpark to ballpark, moods swing violently this time of year. Emotions run high. But trust based on years of performance is the more valuable asset to draw on. Along with those six and two-thirds innings, Andy Pettitte gave Torre a 12th career postseason victory last night. In the manager's mind, Pettitte will always be his man, always No. 2.Continue reading the main story


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Shimla, July 21 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said the government will file a review petition in the high court over its order to remove encroachments by fruit growers, mainly apple, on forest land.
The high court order has affected the small and marginal fruit growers across the state and the state is determined to provide relief to them," the chief minister told reporters here on Tuesday.
He said there was no need to cut the fruit trees on the encroached land.
"Instead, the forest department after taking the possession of the land will fence it and sell the produce. This would enhance the income of the forest department and also help retain the green cover," the chief minister said.
He said the review petition would be filed in a day or two.
On the order of the high court to disconnect water and electricity connections of the encroachers, the chief minister said: "The water and electricity connections should not be disconnected indiscriminately."
Getting tough on encroachments on forest land, the Himachal Pradesh High Court in April directed the government to clear them within six months, adding that electricity and water connections of encroachers should be disconnected.
A division bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan, in an interim order, observed that in all cases where encroachments have been removed or are yet to be removed, the cost of removing them would be recovered from the encroachers.
In its next hearing on July 14, the high court directed the state to file a fresh status report on encroachments on forest land.
Horticulture Minister Vidya Stokes, a prominent apple grower, along with Congress legislators on Tuesday met the chief minister here and sought government intervention over the state high court order.
They urged the chief minister to file a review petition in the high court and initiate steps for stopping the drive of removing encroachments wherein many small and marginal farmers were being affected.


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Winston-Salem Neighbors Comfort Each Other After Fatal Plane Crash
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Fifty years ago, the neighborhood around Kearns Avenue was an apple orchard. And though fruit trees have long since given way to houses, the Winston-Salem street is still a tranquil place. But on Easter Sunday, a small plane crash shattered the quiet and shook Roma Combs and his neighbors to the core. "We had just come home from church and we were sitting down to an Easter meal," said Combs, who has lived on the street for 45 years. "I heard the explosion first and came running out the front door. I looked to the north and there was a huge cloud of smoke whirling over my neighbor's house. And I thought something had exploded at his house. "Combs and his wife live about six doors down from where the fixed-wing LanCair LC 42 went down in a stand of woods between Kearns Avenue and Graylyn International Conference Center. A Beaufort County couple and their dog died. "I'll never forget it, especially that sound. I've never heard anything like it in my life," he said.Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said Dr. Dennis O'Neal, a Beaufort County optometrist, and his wife, Debbie O'Neal, an English instructor at East Carolina University, were flying from North Wilkesboro home to Washington, N.C. Shortly after taking off at 12:35 p.m., the pilot reported a partial loss of engine power to the tower at Piedmont Triad International Airport. The pilot also said they were trying to land at Smith Reynolds Airport.Megan Wrappe was helping prepare Easter dinner with her family. She says the explosion shook their home. "And my Dad took off running down the street after we saw the woods were on fire," she said. "I got there a little bit later, the cops started arriving, we figured out it was a plane after seeing the tail in the trees."No one on the ground was hurt.Yellow tape now marks off about 100 yards where burned wreckage is scattered. Wrappe and some of the residents have been allowed to get a closer look. "You see the front of the plane and more of the broken pieces. And now we know there was a husband and wife and a dog that died in this crash. It puts a somber spin on it," Wrappe said.According to Winston-Salem police, relatives of the O'Neals have asked if the couple's three children can visit the crash site. The woman who owns the home closest to the crash site has agreed. Meanwhile, residents continue sharing their stories and comforting each other. And although Combs never met the O'Neals, he said he will never forget them. "It was turning into a beautiful day," he reflected with tears glistening in his eyes. "It's a reminder of how short life can be and how unpredictable it can be." The NTSB is expected to issue a preliminary report next week.