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Dear Call Box: Where was the original Krystal restaurant in Jacksonville?
Dear N.E.: We called Krystal headquarters in suburban Atlanta and learned that the first restaurant was at 21 W. Adams St., near the Roosevelt Hotel, now The Carling. It opened in 1942 and was strictly counter service, with no drive-through window. The waitresses wore white uniforms, aprons and caps. In addition to its little square burgers, a Southern icon, it was noted for its chili, fries, frosted cake donuts and slices of lemon pie.
The company had no further information, nor could we find anything in Times-Union archives as to when it closed. Perhaps a reader will know. A larger, more modern Krystal opened at Ocean and Forsyth streets in downtown Jacksonville, not far from the original site. But that, too, has closed.
By the way, the chain's first Krystal opened in 1932 in Chattanooga, Tenn. The Associated Press reported its first customer, French Jenkins, ordered six Krystals and a cup of coffee for 35 cents. One Krystal would set you back a nickel.
Dear Call Box: A miniature pony named Seymore was stolen from a yard in Mandarin in 2009. The Times-Union wrote about it, and it's been weighing on my mind all these years. I never saw a follow-up story about him being returned or if they found a suspect. I've been praying and hoping that these people got him back.
Dear E.M.: Seymore's fate remains unknown. Seymore, actually, was a tan and brown male miniature donkey who stood about hip height to an adult. He went missing from a fenced-in yard on Hood Landing Road on May 13, 2009. Seymore normally lived in the yard with a gate secured by a chain, its owner said in the Times-Union story. She last saw Seymore at 10:30 a.m. when she left the house. When she returned home around 5:30 p.m., she found the fence intact, the gates locked and no Seymore. She told the Times-Union the donkey was too short to have jumped over the gate or fence. The family posted lost donkey signs on their mail box, at the local convenience store and on the Internet, apparently to no avail.
"Somebody has him, that's the way I feel. If someone had seen a donkey walking down Hood Landing Road, they would have called it in," the owner said in the story.
We were unable to reach the owner at the address given in the police report, and she apparently has moved. We could not find a phone listing for her.
We called the Zone 3 Powers Avenue substation, which covers the Mandarin area. Police Officer T. Seymore, who ironically shares the same last name, said there was a May 22 report of a stolen donkey on New Berlin Road on the Northside, but it was not Seymore. There's been no follow-up information since then, she said.
We also talked to Rhonda Reese, an animal lover and former Times-Union community columnist, who said she remembered the theft but never heard if the donkey was found. So while Seymore's rightful owners may not have gotten him back, we hope he found a caring home.
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My Build Link :- [Click]
WvWvW pvp Vid 10 [NEW] 16th Nov
WvWvW pvp Vid 9
WvWvW pvp Vid 8
WvWvW pvp Vid 7
WvWvW pvp Vid 6
WvWvW pvp Vid 5
Spvp 1 [NEW]
Spvp 2 [NEW]
Spvp 3 [NEW]
My Impossible to win fights [NEW] :-
Soloing Supply Camp [NEW] :-
Sorry had to delete 1-3 because of the music, will re-upload 4 later.
And I'll make a better Spvp one later.
How I play my Ele tutorial/armour/weapons/build etc
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=D5OvTpSoAq0 – Part 1 – PvP Fights at end of vid
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=e5TVBmcyaLw – Part 2 – PvP Fights at end of vid
Eternal BattleGround Puzzle Jump Speed run 4:10
Lost Shore Day 1
Lost Shore Day 2 Part 1
Lost Shore Day 2 Part 2
Dagger – Cleric's pearl carver of corruption
Dagger – Carrion pearl carver of smoldering
Back – Guild defender backpack of carrion
Ear – Sapphire Ori. earring of the Cleric
Ear – Chry. Ori. earring of carrion
Ring – Sapphire Ori. ring of cleric
Ring – Chry. ori. ring of carrion
Neck – Sapphire ori. amulet of cleric
Head – Cleric exalted masque of undead
Shoulders – Cleric's Exalted Mantle of undead
Chest – Valkyrie winged tunic of undead [WvWvW Honor Badge Chest]
Gloves – Carrion Exalted gloves of undead
Legs – Cleric's Exalted pants of undead
Boots – Carrion's Exalted boots of undead
I wanted to balance Toughness/Power/Condition/Vitality/Healing out quite equally so I'm pretty much
good in all fields, so this is my set.
For abilities:
Signet of Restoration - nice 3.6k heal + 270 heal everyskill.
Signet of Fire - 8k easy dmg every 20 seconds.
Lightning Flash - Used for chunning earth when they move out of range.
Mist Form - 3 second immunity(not from dots sadly) and used for mostly finishing people when fighting mutiple enemies.
Glyph of Elementals - I don't use this, but if I did. Water elite, as it heals me to full.
30 Earth for tanky build + gives me 300 condition.
20 Water for heals.
20 Arcane for the traits you get in that line and longer boon's and shorter switching.
Check out my Ele tutorial video for more info.
So I got asked a question on why am I doing these video's, good question.
First of all I picked this build from day 1, and I'm always a big fan of dmg over time, it's not very popular
because you only see small dmg.
it's depressing/disheartening to see no big crits over 6k etc but that's what I like best,
as people tend to ignore small dmg over time, if they see 4-6k hits you react more and will be on high alert.
So this is for people who are interested in condition dmg over time and not big dmg/crits.
Instead of a big essay which I could write but nobody would read, I'd like to point out the things I like best
about this build and maybe the flaws.
1) Condition ignores all armour! it's a direct damage to their health pool.
2) It's pretty much stealth damage, not many will notice the HUGE drain from the overtime dmg.
And I'm not talking small damage my:-
signet of fire does 8k dmg in 12.5 seconds. [20 sec CD]
Chunning earth does 10k+ dmg in 11 seconds. [30 sec CD]
Impale/ring of earth does 2k dmg in 13 seconds ish. [1-6 sec CD]
Drake's Breath does 10k dmg in 4 seconds. [5 sec CD]
Ring of fire does 5k dmg in 7 seconds. [15 sec CD]
Now that's alot of damage and on very short CD, ok some classes have
abilities that can cleanse them, but they can't keep cleansing every
10 seconds can they, guardians can with their 10 second heal thing, but
he's got to heal sometime, and when he does, there is nothing to defend him.
Oh and don't ignore the direct damage that my skills do as well!
Normal to the big hits like churning earth does 1-4k damage if they hit alone.
3) Kwayso Corrected me on this and I'll just delete this part
Fire stacks in duration, but bleed's do stack in intensity too
0.5 * Level + 0.05 * Condition Damage + 2.5 = per stack per second
Formular for all you math wiz's.
But for a quick example if I stack bleed + fire dmg, then I can do
around 1000+ damage every second!
4) Now the REAL beauty of this is the many style of plays I can do,
I don't do it much in my video's but against melee classes or people
who need to stay close, you can apply dot/bleeds then run away and leave
them dying overtime, whilst they chase you.
5) The majority of our skills are AOE, so if fighting multiple enemies, not only will you
be taking 1 down, you will also be taking the others around him down at the same time.
I've taken down enemies I was ignoring around me, whilst fighting another, it's fun to see.
6) It's a bunker build, but don't think just because I'm nearly as tough as a guardian and can
heal to full in less in 3 seconds that I can't do damage, because chances are you'll be down
without you knowing it.
I can pretty much go on forever but I bet no one will read all this.
Flaws :-
1) I'm slow, I can't roam fast or chase people or run away that well.
Ride the lighting/teleport helps abit, but it's not that great.
2) I can't kill other ele's who are 0/0/10/30/30, they heal and cleanse too much.
but good thing is they can't kill me either, so it's just a waste of time.
[I got a vid of this fight, and it went on for ages! I'll upload it when I got time]
3) D/D range is very short, so sadly we have to get up close and personal to land the skills.
Quick Summary :-
Want to be a Tank/Healer and be able to do dmg at a decent rate(no big hits sorry) then try this build out,
I find it really fun to play, and I'm sure you will too, I know some have switched to this build and enjoyed it,
and also one person switched from his Theif d/d to Ele d/d because of this.
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Bjarne Stroustrup Interview
There is a new interview with Bjarne Stroustrup on the Geek of the Week site where Bjarne mentions POCO along with Boost and Qt. We're finally being recognized. Even more, Bjarne now also has a link to POCO on his website (look at the bottom – we're described as "Web development support library") 🙂


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Aaron takes a look at the HTC Butterfly S, the Taiwanese cousin of the HTC One with some impressive improvements that make it a great smartphone. Closely resembling the original Butterfly (also known as the HTC DROID DNA), the Butterfly S offers a 1.9 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, 5-inch 1080p HD display, 4-ultrapixel camera with 1080p HD recording, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage (with a microSD card slot), 3,200 mAh battery, and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with HTC Sense 5.
While you lose the metal exterior that One users know and love, the Butterfly S brings some huge improvements over the HTC One, including a display that matches the size of the one on the Galaxy S 4 and a much larger 3,200 mAh battery. The downside is the cost - with no carrier availability in the US, the unlocked price of the HTC Butterfly S is around $800. Larger display, larger battery - and larger price point. Should you bite? Part 2 of 2.
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I'm concerned about my 4yo neice, she is not able to speak sentences, is not familiar with any colours, shapes, counting or alphabet, she is very hyperactive, and only eat's junk food.
She is the eldest of three girls. Her younger sister will be 3 in June and does not speak at all. She is at times very scared/ nervous, she is fidgety at times with her hands together. Touches her lips with her pointing finger for long period's of time. Loud noises make her jump out of her skin.
My husband and I have spoken to there mother about it but she is in denial, I have a 4yo boy which is two weeks younger than his cousin and he is on a totally different level to her.
I'm not sure how to approach there mother about it again, through one ear and out the other!
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When 80-mph winds ripped through the Quad-City region the morning of July 21, 2008, many trees and branches were downed. And while the debris has largely been removed from urban areas, it has piled up in natural places where it has become dangerously dry, posing a fire hazard.
"It is reaching critical levels," Marilyn Andress of the Rock Island County Soil and Water Conservation District said of the downed wood in places such as Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island and West Lake Park in Davenport.
"With arson or a lightning strike, it could lead to an uncontrolled fire in the woods," she said.
And because Black Hawk and West Lake are close to residential areas, people and homes could be in danger.
To address this problem, the conservation district and several other area agencies landed a two-year, $120,500 U.S. Forest Service grant for work to clear out the dead, dry wood, or "hazardous fuel," as it is called, by burning it in a controlled manner.
The areas targeted for work are the 208-acre Black Hawk site, the 620-acre West Lake Park and a 67-acre ecological preserve in Milan that is owned by Augustana College.
Interns already are walking the woods to pinpoint the areas that need to be addressed. Then crews will drag out the piles so that when the wood is burned, it won't create a huge, reaching-to-the sky blaze. The first fires will be set in the spring if conditions are right.
Mitigating this "hazardous fuel" is part of a bigger effort to restore Black Hawk, West Lake and the Milan preserve, all of which are under siege by the spread of invasive plant species such as burning bush, oriental bittersweet and bush honeysuckle.
"They're losing at Black Hawk," Matt Schramm, also of the Soil and Water Conservation District, said of efforts to curb invasives. "If we don't get in there and do something now, in five years invasives will be everywhere."
What Schramm says might be shocking to Quad-Citians familiar with Black Hawk, known for its spring wildflowers as well as mature oak and hickory trees.
Schramm's point is that without human intervention, the invasives that have been spreading despite caretakers' efforts to keep them in check could result in the forest ceasing to exist as it does today. It is already degraded.
Mature trees are reaching the end of their life span, and there are few "teenagers" to take their place, Andress said. Baby seedlings sprout, but they die out because they are shaded and crowded by the invasives, she explained.
The same thing is happening with the spring flowers, she added.
What Black Hawk and the other areas need is fire, Schramm and Andress both say. Fire was nature's way of keeping forests healthy until the time of European settlement, and it needs to be resumed because fire eventually kills out the invasives while leaving the trees unharmed.
Forests are not just fire-tolerant, they are fire-dependent, Andress said. "We are providing what 'should be.' Without processes like this, we don't have regeneration."
But for burns on the forest floor to take place, those working on restoration first have to get rid of those large piles of dead wood because fires could burn out of control otherwise.
Schramm and Andress want Quad-Citians to understand that the fires will produce some smoke. But they won't be like the residential leaf-burning piles that choked neighborhoods prior to burn bans because they will be set only under conditions that favor smoke ascending straight up and then dispersing.
Most flames would be less than 2 feet high. And those conducting the burns have the necessary Environmental Protection Agency permits.
Although natural areas face big challenges, "we find they are very resilient," Andress said. "They will come back. They are waiting for a helping hand. They're not gone yet. By this intervention, we are bringing back the forest ecosystem."


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The Sports Xchange
NFL Team Report - Houston Texans - INSIDE SLANT
The Texans prefer to talk about the Buffalo Bills in general and not Mario Williams in particular, but the media won't allow them.
The Sports Xchange
NFL Team Report - Houston Texans - INSIDE SLANT
The Texans prefer to talk about the Buffalo Bills in general and not Mario Williams in particular, but the media won't allow them.
Since the Houston players returned from their bye week to begin preparations for the Bills, all they have heard about is Williams' homecoming.
After five seasons with the Bills, including only five games in 2011 because of a torn pectoral muscle that required surgery, Williams signed with Buffalo for $100 million, including $50 million guaranteed.
When Williams steps on the field for the first time Sunday, a sellout crowd at Reliant Stadium is expected to boo him vociferously.
"Most of the time when you hear the boos, it does get you jacked up," said Houston defensive end Antonio Smith, who is one of Williams' best friends. "All it takes is for you to make one good play, and you could just have an explosion of energy."
Because of a salary-cap situation that required them to let several starters, including Williams, leave as free agents, the Texans never made him a concrete offer because they knew they couldn't compete.
The circumstances surrounding Williams' departure -- that the Texans couldn't afford to keep him and that any player in his right mind would accept $50 million guaranteed -- don't matter to the fans.
Williams always had to be motivated when he played for the Texans. He should have no trouble getting motivated to face the Texans. Expect him to do everything possible to improve on the 16 tackles and 3.5 sacks he has recorded this year.
"People make a big thing about these games, and I was part of one when I first got here," Smith said about playing against his former team, the Arizona Cardinals. "The one thing you don't account for is the control of all the different emotions you get in the game like this, coming back, going back, playing against the team you used to be with, playing against guys that you're friends with.
"You can't really be mean and aggressive and do stuff that you normally would do. Sometimes you think you're going to come in and just dominate, but it doesn't always (work) like that. I'm looking forward to seeing how he's going to respond."
In the Texans' last game, a 43-13 victory against Baltimore, former Houston receiver Jacoby Jones was booed every time he stepped on the field.
"It was funny to me," Smith said. "I think that it kind of gave Jacoby a little bit of juice because he was almost there (scoring touchdowns) a couple times. I'm glad we got his butt down. I didn't want him scoring a touchdown against us.
"Mario? I don't know. It's going to be a mixed crowd. A lot of them are going to boo him. Some of them are going to cheer for him. When I first got here, Mario was the man in Houston, so I don't know how the fans are going to react to him."
Williams is part of the 31st-ranked defense in the NFL. More than likely, Williams will spend more time trying to stop the run than rushing quarterback Matt Schaub. The Bills rank last against the run, allowing 170 yards a game, and the Texans are a run-oriented offense.
SERIES HISTORY: Sixth regular-season meeting. Bills lead series, 3-2. Both Texans victories have been on the road. In the teams' last meeting in 2009, the Texans won 31-10 at Ralph Wilson Stadium.
NFL Team Report - Houston Texans - NOTES, QUOTES
--Running back Arian Foster likes to know who's behind him. It's usually Ben Tate, but Tate has a hamstring injury, and he probably won't play against Buffalo.
Justin Forsett, who signed with the Texans as a free agent before camp, is averaging 5.2 yards on 23 carries in limited playing time. Forsett will back up Foster in Sunday's game against the Bills.
"Justin Forsett is a very capable back," Foster said. "We've seen what he can do already. That's just the nature of the business. Somebody goes down, the next guy has to step up.
"He's a very good back. He's proven every time he gets an opportunity he does well. We don't look for any drop in production."
--The Texans, who are ranked third in defense, including fourth against the run and fifth against the pass, haven't allowed a rushing touchdown. They're the only team that hasn't surrendered a touchdown on the ground.
--The Texans average 30.8 points a game. Their plus-88 point differential is second to New England's plus-92.
--Since the start of the 2010 season, the Texans have recorded a league-high 22 individual 100-yard rushing games by their running backs, primarily by Foster. Jacksonville is second with 16. Atlanta has 15.
--Over the past two seasons, the Texans have limited five opponents to fewer than 200 yards. That's the most in the NFL. Baltimore is second with three.
--Under coach Gary Kubiak, the Texans are 38-5 (.884), including 6-0 this season, when they run the ball at least 30 times. They're 3-30 when rushing fewer than 25 times.


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It seems like a lot of people like to tout their ability to function on minimal amounts of sleep. However, while many people think they're capable of performing at a high level when deprived of sweet repose, researchers believe they have found the actual percentage of people who need little sleep – and it's much smaller than you probably think.
The Wall Street Journal reports that for a select group of people, sleep is but a chore rather than a time to recharge. As much as three percent of the U.S. population fits the bill of what scientists deem natural "short sleepers," the select group of people who are both awake late at night and early in the morning.
Short sleepers function just fine on only a few hours of sleep each night and unlike their sleep-deprived brethren, they're also energetic, outgoing, optimistic and ambitious – which coincidentally are characteristics entrepreneurs often have. In fact, the research has spawned lots of talk amongst business insiders who posit that some of the most successful entrepreneurs are among this select group of quasi-insomniacs.
Such a connection is decidedly difficult to prove, however, as it's hard to know the exact sleeping habits of anyone really. While a lot of people may think they fit into this group, University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist Daniel J. Buysee said they're probably wrong. "There aren't nearly as many as there are people who think they're short sleepers," Dr. Buysee told the Wall Street Journal.
Do you think you're one of them? If you do, you may want to consider this little fact: Out of every 100 people who believe they only need five or six hours of sleep a night, only about 5 actually do, according to Dr. Buysee. What about the other 95 people? They're merely chronically sleep deprived and contribute to another – and very different – statistic: They are a part of the 33 percent of the general public who get the recommended seven hours of sleep every night.
Nonetheless, entrepreneurs tend to fit the description of these special sleeps. "These people talk fast. They never stop. They're always on the up-side of life," Dr. Buysee affirms.


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JNF Warns of Danger From Lack of Firebreak Areas
The Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) is warning of a growing danger to the lifes of people living in communities near forests, if they do not take appropriate action to prevent and control forest fires.
The JNF says it is necessary to improve the coordination between the various firefighting authorities, and to implement the recommendations to establish a firebreak area without vegetation around every community. The JNF recently put into service a fleet of special new fire trucks designed specifically for the JNF for fighting forest fires. JNF officials have spoken out on the matter in recent weeks.
The fear of damage and injuries has grown after the serious blaze a month and a half ago in the area of Ma'ale Hahamisha in the Jerusalem Corridor, which spread toward a number of towns. The forest fire damaged a number of school buildings.
Dr. Zvi Avni, head of the JNF's forestry division, said a great tragedy was avoided at Ma'ale Hahamisha because the fire happened on Saturday and there were no pupils at the school. "There would have been a real problem to rescue the students there," explained Avni. "The firefighters knew there were no students so they mostly dealt with protecting the communities."
A JNF inquiry determined it was necessary to warn the towns in the area that they had not cleared fire breaks, and of the dangers facing them. The inquiry found there was no such open area around the school, and that the town of Abu Ghosh has no such protection either. In addition, there were tracts covered with flammable materials such as trees and bushes in fields farmers had left fallow.
To improve preparations for future fires, the JNF plans to operate its 22 new fire trucks, which can traverse difficult terrain carrying a large amount of water. However there are a still a lot of problems such as a lack of hookups to main water lines, said Avni.
The JNF is also finishing implementing the recommendations stemming from the fires during the Second Lebanon War two years ago. During the summer of 2006, about 16,000 dunams (4,000 acres) of forest were burned. Israel was left without any reserves of fire retardant, and the Air Force had to make 11 flights overseas to replenish the inventory, mostly from fears of fires at military installations. Today there are emergency supplies of flame retardant, said Avni.
The use of helicopters to put out forest fires was stopped a few years for a number of reasons, but in particular due to damage to the helicopters while they were lifting the seawater containers used to fight the fires, Avni said. Instead the JNF is now using crop spraying airplanes to spread fire retardants. However, there are problems in paying for the planes, and the JNF often has to provide interim financing even though the state is supposed to pay for the fire fighting, he added.
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How Concentration Is Rotting the Capital Market
The same people own banks and businesses, lend money to themselves and their cronies, stifling competition and development.
To build a pyramid, to become a business tycoon, you need to borrow money. That's the first and most important step. It takes nerve. And to tap the public for money on the capital market nowadays, it takes having the right phone numbers.
You don't need many. It's enough to have contacts at the three big insurance companies, Clal Insurance, Migdal and Phoenix, and the three big investment houses, Psagot, Excellence and DS-Apex.
The power in the Israeli economy is concentrated in the hands of a few families and business groups. That is a bad thing in that needing to pressure only a few centers of power to get your way creates risk.
"There are six massive financial institutions, each handling more than NIS 100 billion," said a top money manager. "If I were sitting on the government committee examining economic concentration, I would lose no time instituting competition. The amount of money entering the capital market has increased due to the law mandating pension saving, but we've been left with the same six players."
Diversifying the public's assets among a multiple money managers also ensures money is being lent to a range of players.
Truth be told, things used to be even worse. The Bachar Reform, which forced the banks to sell their mutual funds and provident funds six years ago, began a process that ended the banks' monopoly over giving credit.
"The reforms that took power away from the banking sector changed things. Instead of a few banks making all the decisions, hundreds of bodies now offer credit," said a businessman. "One may finance a jewelry store, another a farmer up north, one has some nonsense in Romania and another invests in an ingenious startup. That's the advantage of variety."
But the trend reversed. The capital market seems to be is consolidating: Small money managers are struggling to hold their own, and tough regulation increases their expenses.
"There's a thin line between too much regulation and abandoning responsibility," said an investment manager. "Regulation is so tight that ultimately you're not responsible for anything. The regulator binds the investment managers' hands to the extent that all they do is sit with their lawyers for advice all day. The most dangerous thing is passing the point at which people lose their sense of responsibility. Why should I bother taking a risk in order to get another 2% a year? We've returned to where we were with the banks, except instead of selling credit, these groups are selling insurance."
An insider speaks, with concern
The concerns about concentration in the pension sector got a boost from an unexpected direction in February - from Ronen Tov, CEO of Psagot and a former VP at Migdal.
"The pension fund sector and the managers' insurance sector are highly concentrated. The main distribution network, insurance agents, is controlled by the insurance company and blocks competition. Do we really want three families to be managing all our pension savings?" he said at a conference at the Dead Sea hosted by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel. "Even though people can now choose their own pension funds and pension management companies, there's a problem and this isn't really happening.
"Currently, the investment houses hold a negligible amount of pension savings. None of their pension funds have really gotten off the ground because the insurance companies bought the main distribution means - the insurance agencies. This doesn't mean that their agents don't sell other products, but this is how the industry looks right now. Some people were saying that the first Bachar legislation would address the banks, and the second would address the insurance companies."
The domination of the market by a few – its concentration – depresses competition on all levels, from the quality of investment management to efforts to obtain the highest returns for customers.
It also causes upward pressure on the fees we pay.
Tycoons lending to themselves
Even if you have all the right phone numbers, some people will have an easier time raising money than you will.
Of the six aforementioned institutions, half - Clal, Phoenix and Excellence - are controlled by the two biggest borrowers on Israel's capital market.
These two borrowers are Yitzhak Tshuva and Nochi Dankner. In other words, two of the people who borrow the most money in Israel also control financial institutions responsible for lending the public's money to those who need it.
While they do face limitations and they can't just lend as much money to themselves as they want, the result of this combination gives the tycoons unprecedented power in the face of hired money managers. They recognize that the tycoon asking to use the public's money may latter offer them jobs at the many companies these tycoons control, and could be drawn into investing in a less than optimal way.
Those who control financial institutions are members of the "lenders' club." Membership in this club is worth a lot.
Investment managers say the tycoons occasionally call the investment houses' executives in order to personally recommend they invest in a share or bond issue by one of their companies. They also send representatives to push their own companies. Sources also say that tycoons occasionally come to the offices of investment houses deciding whether to invest in their fundraising efforts, and hint to employees about job opportunities awaiting if they make the right decision.
"If a tycoon is wandering around my building and offering jobs to investment managers, that's a problem," said a former CEO at a major investment house. "Then it starts to involve the personal interests of people who want to be friends with others who can offer them jobs."
"Everyone knows who his or her next employer is," said a senior investment manager. "The average money manager spends three or four years at a small institution, until he or she gets to one of the big institutionals. And then what? These companies are controlled by parties with clear interests. They invite you to a basketball game and say, 'You're really smart,' 'You're the best investment manager in the world.' They're clearly your next employer, and the employer after that."
If pyramid structures create conflicts of interest, then this mix of controlling financial companies and non-financial companies creates ridiculous situations. One example of this is the story of three sister companies that was revealed in a transaction that Delek Real Estate reported in January 2011, when it announced that its control committee and board approved "a standard transaction in which the controlling shareholder has a personal interest." Delek Real Estate, of the Delek group, announced that it had asked Phoenix Insurance to approve its decision to sell off its portion in the Bayit VeGan development to Elad Israel Residence.
Delek needed Phoenix's approval because Phoenix had given Delek a loan whose securities included the Bayit VeGan project. At that point, all of Elad Israel's shares were also attached to Phoenix. All three companies - Delek Real Estate, Phoenix and Elad Israel - are controlled by Yitzhak Tshuva.
Who did that deal benefit? Sister company Delek Real Estate, who was selling; sister Elad Israel, who was buying, or sister Phoenix, to whom the other two sisters were indebted? Or was it Tshuva, who was pulling all the companies' strings? The one thing certain is that no solution would make the other shareholders feel comfortable in the face of the conflicts of interest inherent in this transaction.
Endless conflicts of interest
An institutional investor that invests the public's money in the shares of a company can take an active role in that company, since the shares give the institutional's representatives voting rights at shareholders' meetings on fateful matters, such as insider transactions, dividends disbursals or executive salaries. This creates endless conflicts of interests when the same individuals can control both financial companies and non-financial companies.
It can start as something small, as in the story told by Meitav Investment House controlling shareholder Zvi Stepak.
One day, as he recalls, a senior official at one of Israel's two largest banks called him to ask him personally to ensure that the official's niece would be appointed a board member of a company that that same official controlled. Stepak had this control due to the public's funds invested in the company.
"He asked that we consider our stance," said Stepak. "My person responsible for this matter decided to vote against. They called the shareholders assembly for 7:30 A.M. on a Friday morning up north, and we couldn't make it. I told him, 'You have to go and vote against.' When that company's workers have their money in your provident fund, you're managing his portfolio. And then you say 'I trust the opinion of an external party.' There were two cases where we lost investment portfolios because we voted against that party."
"Ninety-five percent of the transactions involving controlling shareholders are approved in Israel," said a former senior regulator. "The problem is structural, cultural and legal. People who control non-financial corporations take advantage of their holdings in financial corporations to make things harder for their competitors. They make it harder for the competitors to receive credit. They use their power to influence and to direct the institutionals in order to make the transactions legit. How free are the institutionals in the current situation?"
Even sources at the Israel Securities Authority admit that the combination of financial and non-financial holdings within the same business group limit the ISA's ability to supervise the market.
"Many of them live based on the worldview of scratch my back and I'll scratch yours," said a former senior official at the ISA. "When an investment house decides at the lower ranks how to vote regarding an interested party transaction, everything is set from above, by the tycoon who controls things. The tycoons won't fight among themselves at the lower ranks for no reason.
"Ultimately it won't end in regulation, due to economic interests," said the former regulator. "As long as everyone is caught up in the web of cross holdings, it won't happen. Managing investments with money captive to external interests is problematic. Often they choose to sell off the stocks at a loss. In order to pass the legal test in court you need a good story, and the institutions are the ones who have to tell it. No one wants to be first. Currently, there aren't enough investors' organizations. My dream is to launch a group to protect investors."
The U.S. example
The mix of financial and non-financial holdings within the same group - cross holdings - can damage competition within the economy. For example, until February Clal Insurance and Clal Finance were interested parties in Alon Blue Square, a company controlled by Dudi Wiessman. Blue Square competes with Super-Sol, one of the leading companies in Israel's retail sector. Super-Sol also happens to be a sister company of Clal Insurance.
"If Super-Sol has a holding in Blue Square through Clal Insurance, then it becomes a deciding party in interested party transactions. Even if it's a wise investment, it's best that a competitor not have any control over Blue Square. Blue Square's board is not supposed to think about the large institutional sitting on the control committee," said Dror Strum, Israel's former antitrust commissioner.
Insurance companies that issue credit are exposed to an additional form of pressure.
"It's not tenable that the CEO of a non-financial company could say to the CEO of an institutional, 'If you vote like this at my assembly I'll take my company's business to another insurance company,'" says an investment manager at an institutional, describing the behind-the-scenes pressure surrounding assemblies.
The problem is personal, too - our pension managers are supposed to represent the public before the businesspeople who need credit, and demand that they pay the highest possible interest in exchange for borrowing our pension money. But they're making their income on the capital market, and the result is that their decisions are not always relevant or designed to maximize the public's wellbeing.
As a former senior ISA official put it, "Every buy-side in Israel [the public's money managers at the institutionals] is a prisoner of the sell-side [the tycoons issuing bonds]. There are few people here who don't think about their future."
S., an institutional investment manager who launched a campaign against a major businessman who tried to get away with a transaction that involved a conflict of interest under the public's nose, experienced what this means. "I transcribed all my conversations with the institutionals, and I looked at all their excuses when they didn't want to take part. 'We can't right now,' 'We need time to study the issue.' They get scared and say, 'Why do I need this trouble?' 'Why should I waste the time?' You're subject to these pressures all the time. Why should the institutional give himself a hard time? Particularly when his side has some lawyer who's charging NIS 1,000 an hour. The solution is for the union of mutual funds, which gets paid dues every month, to hire lawyers like Yossi Segev, Jacob Weinroth, Ram Caspi and Yigal Arnon. If someone wants to sue on behalf of the public, he or she needs lawyers of this caliber."
Fifteen years ago, the government attempted to address the issue of concentration in general and financial/non-financial cross holdings in particular. In 1996, the Brodet Committee recommended banning banks from holding more than 20% of a non-financial company or of the bank's own equity, in order to avoid conflicts of interest between asset management and corporate management.
"With the Brodet Committee, we created a system in which banks wouldn't control non-financial businesses for a number of reasons," said Avi Ben-Bassat, a professor at Hebrew University, who was a member of the committee.
"So the banks wouldn't discriminate in giving credit to the bank's companies; so they couldn't take advantage of insider information if they had it on companies competing with their non-financial holdings; because it was easy for banks to block competitors; because it was easy for them to have aggressive policies toward competitors; and because they could lower prices in order to break competitors, because they had broader backs.
"All these things apply not only to banks, but also to institutional investors. If you have a holding in a company that manages pension funds, it's easier to expand your empire. The head of a pyramid is constantly forming partnerships with institutional investors. Almost always, some of the partners in a company are institutional investors, and it's easier when they're part of your conglomerate. We need to implement reforms similar to what we recommended at the time - we didn't forbid them [cross holdings] entirely, but we did forbid a method."
"I don't miss the days when banks were political entities," said a former banks supervisor. "But if someone owns a bank and a company, he can pressure you not to compete with him. Currently, the financial and non-financial leaders are the same people with the same executives and the same lawyers, who interact constantly and closely."
Strum said, "When it comes to internal financing at the conglomerates, they're helping each other. The question is whether we're not continuing to unthinkingly invest in these same marionettes. After all, it's an investment in the same large, veteran groups. When institutionals are used to investing in the same businessmen and the same companies and are stuck in the same swamp, it's not efficient.
"You need to ask the same question when it comes to corporate bonds. It's not for nothing that Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer sounded the alarm, with 30% of the public's money invested in six corporate groups following the global financial crisis. Only the big guys know how to issue bonds nowadays. The institutionals don't bother with bonds from small companies because they need more knowledge about the field, and that's something only the banks have."
There is no other country where things work quite like this, said Strum. "The U.S. has the Banking Act, which states that if you handle money, you can't be involved in other things - you have to decide which horse you're riding. We don't have that here. All the lenders are knowledge aggregators. Who has more information on Osem, a shareholder or a lender? A lender has more information, and has his hand on the pulse."
Strum believes there's only one solution. "I've always said that you don't need regulation or Chinese walls. Instead, we need to make sure the structure is proper. We need to find the most elegant fix, such that the regulator won't spend the entire day overseeing investment boards. I don't know any mechanism aside from competition, and the only thing that will advance competition is separating financial holdings and non-financial holdings. It's a pity that nothing will happen unless there's a crisis involving the loss of public money. That division will likely occur after the next crisis. Things advance here only after a bomb goes off. The army calls it 'responding only to commissions of inquiry.'"
What's the alternative?
Strum: "The United States limits the business interests of people who control investment banks. The committee discussing competition within the economy is supposed to discuss this. The options including limiting the percentage of a financial institution that groups can hold if they also control non-financial companies that need credit."
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The No. 12 jersey worn by quarterback Andrew Luck during last Sunday's record-setting game against Miami will be displayed in the Hall of Fame's Pro Football Today Gallery.
Luck threw for 433 yards, a single-game rookie record, and tied Peyton Manning as the only quarterbacks in league history to produce four 300-yard games during their rookie season.
Meanwhile, Luck will be sporting a new look when the Colts play at Jacksonville tonight.
Luck has joined the nearly three dozen Colts players who have shaved their heads in a show of support for coach Chuck Pagano, who is undergoing treatment for a form of leukemia.
SEAHAWKS: Guard James Carpenter, a former Hephzibah player, and linebacker K.J. Wright did not practice as they continue to recover from concussions suffered last week.
Coach Pete Carroll said he is still unsure if either will be able to play Sunday against the New York Jets.
Carpenter was injured in practice last week, while Wright was hurt on the first series of last Sunday's win against Minnesota.
CHARGERS: The NFL fined San Diego $20,000 because it said a member of the equipment staff failed to immediately surrender towels when ordered to do so by a game official against the Denver Broncos on Oct. 15.
PACKERS: First-round pick Nick Perry's season is over after he was placed on injured reserve with a wrist injury.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported that the linebacker had surgery to repair a ligament.
Perry had missed the past three games, but it was with a knee injury.
TITANS: Tennessee coach Mike Munchak says quarterback Jake Locker will start against Miami on Sunday, barring any setbacks.
Locker has missed five consecutive games after injuring his left, non-throwing shoulder Sept. 30.


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Gajanan Mishra
Have You Seen My Greedy Eyes - Poem by Gajanan Mishra
Have you seen my greedy eyes in your Kadamba tree?
Within your all-embracing arms I am feeling free.
I have remembered everything but I failed to express myself,
I am wandering in your forest and still I am fearless.
I am reflecting everything in my poems from time to time,
How the water and the fire are playing within the body.
Being the controller of everything you know everybody,
I remembered all arts all cultures while composing poems.
I know the movement of the body and the mind that have
a link with you without any interruption from anywhere.
It is right you are the creator of all happiness and
all sorrows and all universes with good faith and trust.
The fire in my veins are yours that is mystery
I am going on creating you my dear in my own way and you agree.
Topic(s) of this poem: god
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Comments about Have You Seen My Greedy Eyes by Gajanan Mishra
Sushil Kumar Tripathy (8/16/2014 11:21:00 AM)
Botanical Name of Cadamba: - Anthocephalus cadamba-:
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Sushil Kumar Tripathy (8/16/2014 11:19:00 AM)
Botanical Name of Cadamba: - Anthocephalus cadamba (Report) Reply
Sushil Kumar Tripathy (8/16/2014 11:14:00 AM)
I am going on creating you my dear in my own way and you agree.A very key surrender, very nice: -
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Gajanan Mishra (8/16/2014 7:43:00 AM)
with good faith and trust - god (Report) ReplySushil Kumar Tripathy (8/16/2014 11:17:00 AM)
Faith is always good that automatically drags towards God : -
Sushil Kumar Tripathy, Sonepur
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Ken Alexander is used to turning theatres on their heads.
When the newly appointed – and first ever – artistic director of the Royal Court theatre in Liverpool was in charge of the Byre Theatre in St Andrews, he initiated touring and an outreach programme while at the same time overseeing the in-house company's move from its old premises to its new lottery-funded state-of-the-art home. Once in the new building, Alexander increased production from five shows a year to eight, a remarkable feat that paid dividends in both attendance and quality.
When Alexander took over Perth Theatre, where his career had begun as a trainee director under theatrical legends Joan Knight and Clive Perry, during his year-long tenure he re-established the venue as a producing house and increased audiences.
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With the closure of the Byre two weeks ago, several years after its Scottish Arts Council funding cut caused its production arm to be scrapped outside of pantomime season, someone with Alexander's commercial and artistic savvy is much needed. Given his central role in the Byre's former glory, Alexander is both mournful and angry.
"I feel pretty angry about the staff who've been with the company since before the new theatre was built being laid off the way they have," he says. "But I think once the SAC removed core funding from the Byre that this was inevitable. The Byre was designed to be a producing theatre, so after core funding was removed it was a no-brainer that something was going to go horribly wrong."
Alexander was speaking just days before a summit meeting between Fife Council, Creative Scotland and the Scottish Government was held to try to save the Byre. Whatever happens next, all parties might do well to listen to Alexander's experience.
"When I was at the Byre we really had to fight hard to get the funding that we did, and to convince the SAC that Fife was a place deserving of producing work in its own right," he says. "The SAC never regarded St Andrews as strategically important, but to think that St Andrews can be serviced by theatres in Dundee and Edinburgh is a big mistake and a serious misjudgment. I'd really like the Byre to go back to being a producing house, but you need strong management to achieve that."
It is Liverpool, however, where Alexander's energies will be channelled over the next few years, in a building which seems tailor-made for his talents. For the past 30 years the Royal Court was a music venue before returning to its theatrical roots several years ago with a series of commercial comedies served up in a Scouse demotic. Alexander has already directed several shows there, including A Nightmare on Lime Street and Dirty Dusting, and has plans for more ambitious fare.
"It's a job that's going to have its challenges," Alexander admits. "The Royal Court as a production company has only existed for six or seven years and so far it's been done on a commercial basis, with shows being paid for by the last thing that was done. Part of my remit is to develop and expand the programme, and we're at the first stage of a four-stage development. A lot of the plays that go on are by writers in the Liverpool area. There's a really strong sense that the theatre is tapping into working-class Liverpool voices, and I'm really interesting in developing that, and finding new Liverpool talent.
"I'm also interested in taking some of the shows on tour. Most of the number-one venues say they can't find enough drama to put on, so I'll be looking to making links with various consortiums to try to work out how we can do that."
The Royal Court seats 1200, with cabaret-style tables filling the stalls where audiences can have a meal before the show. This speak-easy vibe fits in perfectly with Liverpool's strong theatrical history, both with the Everyman, currently being rebuilt, and the 700-seat Liverpool Playhouse. There is also the 2000-seat Liverpool Empire a stone's throw from the Royal Court.
"A lot of the top-quality touring work that does exist tends to bypass Liverpool and goes to Manchester," Alexander observes, "so we'll also be looking at bringing some of that in, and looking at some kind of possible relationship between the Royal Court and the Empire. It's important that what we do compliments what's already there rather than going up against it, and I'd like to see us share work and resources with the other theatres here."
With plans to expand the theatre's community and outreach work, Alexander's ambitious plans come at a time when Scottish and Scotland-based directors are spreading their artistic wings. Former Dundee Rep director James Brining is already in post heading up West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, while outgoing National Theatre of Scotland head Vicky Featherstone is about to take charge of the more familiar Royal Court in London.
Only last week Lorne Campbell, previously associate director at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, was announced as the artistic director of Northern Stage in Newcastle, a city with its own set of funding problems.
While this is a clear endorsement of directing talent nurtured in Scotland, Alexander also points to other reasons for this trend.
"There's not as much going on in buildings in terms of producing in Scotland anymore," he says. "That's partly why I wanted to spread my wings. I certainly learned a lot in Scottish theatres, and was lucky to work in such well-equipped theatres, but I don't think there are as many opportunities for directors to develop their craft in the way that I did."
Alexander will spend his first full year at the Royal Court "fact finding", as he survey's Liverpool's theatrical landscape, and he is unlikely to direct a show until the autumn at the earliest.
The theatre will nevertheless continue in a light-hearted vein, a la Nightmare on Lime Street. Already lined up is another Christmas show with a similarly local flavour, a science-fiction spoof revelling in the name of Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley, the location being a northern suburb of the city. Bearing in mind that it was Liverpool which pretty much initiated the current wave of rock musicals, with the first production of Return to the Forbidden Planet at the Everyman in the mid-1980s, such a focus on unashamed populism isn't surprising.
"I would like to see the Royal Court in a position where we can plan seasons with at least a couple of shows going out on tour," he says. "I would also like to see the likes of the National Theatre, the RSC and the National Theatre of Scotland touring here. I want the theatre to be running at least 50 weeks of the year. It has to be aspirational."


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Blake Martin's 75-yard late fourth quarter touchdown run gave Oak Ridge the lead before Zack Claiborne's strip and Jacob Proul's fumble recovery ended Ponderosa's last hope as the host Trojans ground out a hard-fought 20-17 Delta River League victory Friday night.
Working his way back from an injury, Martin ran for 137 yards, the bulk coming on his dash with 4:50 left. Breaking arm tackles, Martin outraced the Bruins secondary for his second touchdown.
"I was just trying to get a first down to keep the drive going but once past the line I saw daylight," Martin said. "My O-line did a phenomenal job."
Fans expecting a wide-open affair instead saw both teams rely on the run game. Oak Ridge attempted just 11 passes to 12 for Ponderosa. Troy caught a huge break when Bruin running back Brett Jonutz went out late in the second quarter after a helmet-to-lower leg hit and didn't return. At the time, Jonutz had already amassed 115 yards.
In Friday's aftermath, a poignant scene was the father-son midfield embrace of Jonutz and his dad Darren, Oak Ridge's Defensive Coordinator.
"Give credit to Ponderosa and its coaches, they came out with a great game plan," Trojan coach Eric Cavaliere said. "Their 4-3 (defense) surprised us and affected what we did (play calling). It wasn't our prettiest game but our guys stuck with it, hung together and got stronger as the game went. It was 58 guys all prepared to do what it took. We made a couple of adjustments and came out with the win."
The intra-county matchup attracted a big crowd for each side for the inaugural Tackle Hunger game. Both came in 1-1 in league but a disappointed Bruin squad fell to 1-2 after being tied or ahead most of the way.
"It hurts when you come so close and the ball just doesn't bounce your way but I'm proud of the kids," Ponderosa coach Jason Tenner said. "I challenged the team, told them I thought they were tougher and we were physical and chewed up yards and the clock but obviously we wanted a different outcome."
Martin's 11-yard run capped an opening-possession touchdown for Oak Ridge but the Bruins, behind a Jeff Camilli/Jeff Martin-led defense, clamped down for the remainder of the half.
"We were ahead the whole game, felt like we were playing harder and should have won," Martin said. "Just a couple of big plays that they capitalized on."
Ponderosa took advantage of a shanked Trojan punt early in the second as Jonutz picked up gains of 21 and 31 yards before quarterback Jake Bist ducked in behind center Logan Murray for the 1-yard keeper.
Curtis Goldsmith recovered his own onside kick to shock Oak Ridge but the visitors had to wait a possession to move in front after taking over inside Trojan territory. Martin fell across from the 2 as the Bruin went to the half up 14-7.
Tyler Mickelson's fumble recovery on the second half kickoff led to Goldsmith's 33-yard field goal as Ponderosa extended. Oak Ridge answered behind the running of Martin and Josh Wellman to move 80 yards in 10 plays — 45 on a pitch to Wellman and Kyler Flynn's upfield block — to pull within 17-13 as Samuels found Ross Dwelley on a 6-yard touchdown pass.
Troy then took the lead on Martin's big run.
"It was a real team effort and I'm glad we pulled through," Oak Ridge linebacker Nick Gordon said. "Coach made the adjustments at halftime, we stuck together and pushed through."


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Boston Marathon latest challenge for De Soto board member
April 15, 2008
As his 40th birthday approaches, Don Clark says he is in the best shape of his life.
The De Soto USD 232 at-large Board of Education member is training for the Boston Marathon, in which he will compete Monday.
Clark, of Olathe, said he always had a goal in life to run a marathon, but this isn't his first. He ran his first marathon in Chicago 10 years ago, and he ran in the Boston Marathon in 2006.
"What really hit me this year is I'm getting ready to turn 40 in June," he said. "I'm going to go into 40 fighting."
As the race approaches, Clark is following the recommended training schedule on the marathon's Web site, bostonmarathon.org, which has him running several miles six or seven times per week.
"I added a little bit of weight training also to help make my legs stronger," he said.
Hills also have been a major focus for Clark's training. He said around mile 18, some runners end up walking because of the hills at the end of the more than 26-mile race.
"For between 3 and 3 1/2 miles you are running uphill," he said. "They talk about this runner's high, you have to hit that. That is what carries you up this hill."
Cold winter weather with lots of ice and snow made training difficult for Clark this year.
"It's been one of the worst winters I can remember to train in," he said. "I fell about four or five times on the ice and snow this year. I'm hoping those types of training runs will really help me."
Since he began training in December, Clark said he has lost about 15 to 20 pounds, although he eats a lot more food to fuel his body for his runs.
"You've got to take in a lot of calories," he said. "My wife is like, 'Will you stop eating? It's not fair.'"
Clark's wife has helped him train by riding on a bike alongside him during some of his runs. She will travel with him Friday to Boston, where they will catch a Boston Red Sox game as they prepare for the marathon.
Although Clark is running to be in shape, he said he also is doing it to be a good role model for the teams he coaches.
"I've always believed from a leadership side that it's one thing to talk about it, but it's another thing to do it and show it," he said. "I want to let them know that look, anybody can do this. If you put your mind to it regardless of what it is, I truly believe that you can accomplish anything."
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Army Spcs. Khoi Pham and Damian Ellsworth watched each other's back during an Iraq war tour with the California National Guard.
Now, a year after their safe return, they're headed for Afghanistan.
"I joined this unit looking for a home," said Ellsworth, 24, as he milled around Friday with other members of the 670th Military Police Company at the armory in National City. "I called my battle buddy up and said: 'Hey, I'm deploying. You want to come, too?' "
Pham, 23, hardly hesitated.
"My last time, I took care of him," Pham said. "I wouldn't have let him go alone."
The two San Diegans were among 175 soldiers who left yesterday from North Island Naval Air Station for a yearlong deployment that will take them to Afghanistan later this summer, after training at Fort Bliss in Texas.
It's the second combat-zone stint in six years for the 670th, which spent 2003-04 in Iraq guarding the Abu Ghraib prison site. It will be the first California National Guard unit to serve a tour in Afghanistan.
The members are scheduled to work as prison guards at Bagram Air Base, near the capital city, Kabul.
Lt. Jamie Long of San Diego is among the few soldiers to deploy with the 670th both times.
As a sergeant in Iraq, he was a team leader responsible for three soldiers. Now, as an officer, he's the company commander. That makes him responsible for everyone.
"I have a lot of blood, sweat and tears with this unit," Long said. "This is the greatest honor. In all my life, I've only wanted to be an infantry commander."
About two-thirds of the 670th's soldiers are imported from two other military police units for this deployment, which has created logistical headaches.
Long's group also thought it was bound for Iraq to guard the prison at Camp Bucca. Then news of the Afghanistan mission came six weeks ago, and the reassignment requires special training.
In addition, medical problems have sidelined about one-fourth of the soldiers who had been expected to deploy.
"The good news is, all 175 of these soldiers are here because they want to be here," Long said.
Pfc. Samantha Adame, 19, joined the National Guard two years ago to get money for college and because she liked the uniform. After finishing boot camp, she signed up with a unit bound for peacekeeping duties in Kosovo.
Instead, she's heading to a combat zone.
"Part of me is kind of OK with going, and part of me doesn't want to go," said Adame, a supply clerk with the 670th.
She's one of eight children who have been raised by their widowed grandmother, Lupe Gonzales, in a small rented house in Encanto. One of her brothers is a soldier bound for Iraq.
Gonzales cries with both fear and pride at seeing Adame go to war.
"She's my big help, but I've got to let her grow up," said Gonzales, 60, whose husband was a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War. "I'm going to go to Mass every day and pray."
Less than two months ago, Sgt. Kirk Prohaska returned from a tour in Iraq with a different unit. But he's eager to return to the war theater.
"I like helping out, sharing my experience," said Prohaska, 46, of Oceanside. "It's all about keeping the bad guys at bay."
Money also is a factor. After 10 years in the Navy and nine more in National Guard and Reserve units, another tour will bring him closer to drawing retirement pay. And he wants to tap money from the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which will take effect Aug. 1, to obtain a long-delayed bachelor's degree.
"It's good to be employed," Prohaska said.
Battle buddies Pham and Ellsworth also mix patriotic and economic motives.
Pham joined the National Guard against the wishes of his parents because he wanted to leave behind a job at a fast-food restaurant. He banked $17,000 in savings after his last combat deployment.
"It's good money; I won't lie," Pham said.
Ellsworth said he enlisted in 2003 as a high school junior because "I wanted to be part of this war."
Now he's supporting his wife, Stephanie, and three sons. "My family backs me up 100 percent," Ellsworth said. "They know this is my best source of income."
More than that, the 670th has become his second family. Going to war does that to a unit.
"I see more and more camaraderie," Ellsworth said. "These are my brothers and sisters."
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Aside from the regular deals you can find on Slickguns.com, for this week, they've collected Black Friday deals as well. If you don't know about Slickguns, you should check it out. It's actually pretty cool. It's an aggregation site for firearm sales that shooters/Internet users post because they think they're worth a damn. So to get you ready for the Day-After-Thanksgiving sales and maybe keep you out of the busy stores, here's some of the highlights online shopping has to offer:
1. Springfield XDM 5.25" Competition .45 ACP
Springfield released the XDM 5.25 Competition this past summer. Unlike the other XDM models, the Competition features a long 5.25-inch barrel, an adjustable rear sight with a fiber optic front sight, and a lightening cut in the slide. The lightening cut reduces weight in turn allows for faster cycling and both light and heavy loads to be used. It's great for competitive shooting or if you just want a really accurate pistol.
It also has a variety of safety features such as a grip safety, a trigger safety, a striker status indicator, and a loaded chamber indicator. The .45 model uses a 13-round magazine and the kit comes with three magazines, a lock, three backstraps, and a reloader.
This deal is only for the .45 ACP model, which is the newest in the bunch, and in matte black. MSRP runs $795, but the deal on Slickguns is set at $674.
2. Ruger Mini-14 Ranch .223 Remington
I have to admit that every time I hear the name "Mini-14" I think of a .22, but it isn't. It's actually a short-barreled M14 replica – at least that's the idea behind it.
The Mini-14 Ranch is semi-auto rifle chambered for .223 Remington/5.56 NATO and uses a gas operating system. This particular model has a black synthetic stock, stainless steel 20-inch barrel and comes with scope rings. The Mini-14 Ranch is intended for shooting coyotes or varmints, or just plinking, plus you can never really go wrong with Ruger.
MSRP for the Mini-14 starts $881, but this deal is for $667.
3. Russian Combo! Two Mosin-Nagant Rifles: the M91/30 and M44
This Slickguns deal stands out because you get two surplus rifles – surplus rifles galore (redundant?).
Although the original rifle was introduced in 1891, the Mosin Nagant M91/30 was the most abundant variant. This historic bolt-action rifle was standard issue for the Soviet infantry from 1930 and up until the end of WWII.
And the M44 is simply a carbine variant of the M91. It was introduced in 1944 and wasn't so much used by the Soviet Union, but its satellite nations. They're accurate and durable rifles, but lack a lot of features. Simply iron sights, wooden stock and stamped steel barrel.
This deal requires you to enter a coupon code and then it's yours for $219 – only on Black Friday though.
But the real deal, when you get most surplus guns, is the ammo. The 7.62x54R, on Black Friday, is offered for $68 a can – that's 440 rounds. Again you have to enter a coupon code, which is listed on the ad page.
4. Some of the major online dealers have their Black Friday sales sheets listed on Slickguns, too. Some of the deals aren't as sexy as the ones listed above, but they're still good nonetheless. Here's a few of them:
Midway USA: Here you can get gear like scopes, bipods, bags, knives, etc. In fact, everyday this week they have specific sales items.
JSE Surplus: Lots of post ban AR-15 lowers, uppers, and rails.
SGAmmo.com: They sell ammo, of course, but more specifically they're having deals on .40, .223, 12-gauge buckshot magnum and 00 buckshot low recoil.
Gearhog: Kind of like the Groupon of the gun world. You buy a gift card for a discounted price.
5. And lastly they're holding the ads for the major retailers like Dick's, Academy Sports, Turner's Outdoor and even Walmart. And they all seem pretty good, but you have to go into the store for the deal, which sort of defeats the purpose of online shopping, but the deal I'm directing you towards just sort surprised me. Gander Mountain posted the Beretta Nano on sale – these guns just shipped and have been piquing the interest of the self-defense crowd since it was revealed (just check out our Youtube video review – it's been gaining at least 1,500 views a week since we posted it).
The Beretta Nano is a new pocket pistol with some neat little features like an internal slide catch, adjustable/removable sights, a double-action only trigger and trigger safety. It lacks any extraneous levers like a manual safety or slide release button. And the ad is set an incredibly decent price of $429.
Check out the ad, make some phone calls, I'm sure Gander Mountain has some, but quantities are limited right now and I'd hate for you to waste your time participating in the hellish pandemonium that is aroused by Black Friday Shopping.
Those are some of the highlights Slickguns has to offer. If we missed a sale you think is important, post it below.


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Saddleback Medical Center has consistently been named one of Healthgrades' America's 50 Best Hospitals, an achievement gained by just 1% of the nation's hospitals. It has also been honored among Truven Health Analytics' Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals in the U.S., consecutively voted Orange County's #1 Best Hospital in the Orange County Register's Best of Orange County poll of readers and has appeared on both Becker's Hospital Review and Thomson Reuters' lists of America's Best Hospitals. Saddleback's U.S. News & World Report "high-performance" ranking categories included Heart Failure, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
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Apes Draw Guns in a 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Fan-Made Tease
by Ethan Anderton
November 15, 2012
Source: Facebook
Following the news from 20th Century Fox that the Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel, appropriately and wordily titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, would arrive on May 23rd, 2014, the franchise prequel director Rupert Wyatt left the production. Thankfully, Matt Reeves (Let Me In, Cloverfield) has stepped up to take over directing duties and keep the production on track to meet the proposed release date in a year and a half. Now the film's official Facebook page has released some kind of odd teaser image for the sequel (though it's actually fan-made), and it looks like we may be seeing some pretty apes with guns soon enough.
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possibly fan-made teaser image for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, posted on Facebook:
Update: This image is not actually an official studio promo, but is rather Albert Watson's photograph titled "Monkey With Gun" first debuted in 1992. Original image (via @russfischer) can be found officially here.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will be directed by Matt Reeves (Let Me In, Cloverfield) and written by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum), Mark Bomback (The Wolverine, Live Free or Die Hard) and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). No plot details have been revealed yet, but following the events of the first film, the sequel will see the advancement of the intelligent apes that revolted against humans in San Francisco. Andy Seriks is reprising his motion-capture work from the first film as the ape Caesar and 20th Century Fox sends the film to theaters on May 23rd, 2014. Stay tuned for more info.
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SALTLAKECITY(AP) By the time airplanes began flying again into the airport, President Bush had been safely ushered away and the Olympic flame burned above a nearly empty stadium.
An unprecedented security plan worked to near perfection in its first major test. For those protecting the Olympics, there were no opening-night jitters.
As the crowds went home from the opening ceremony Friday night, there was a quick sigh of relief and one sobering realization there are still a lot of Olympics left to protect.
"That was a big day, but we've still got a lot to go," said David Tubbs, executive director of the Olympic security force.
Security officials had been quietly confident that three years of preparation and an investment of $310 million would be enough to guard an Olympics that suddenly seemed more vulnerable after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Still, they were eager to see the complex plan meet and pass its first test. It didn't get any bigger than guarding Bush, three other heads of state and an audience of more than 50,000 on a chilly night in the Salt Lake City foothills.
"We're all breathing freely now," Salt Lake Olympic chief Mitt Romney said. "Our security worked extremely well."
The security was layered and intense outside Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium on the University of Utah campus, where teams of police peered into the windows of cars in the driveways of nearby residences and black-clad Secret Service snipers watched from the rooftop.
A few helicopters patrolled nearby skies, which were otherwise absent of planes beneath 28,000 feet because the airport was closed and airspace restricted.
Once the crowds got through metal detectors and were patted down, though, they might have been surprised by the lack of visible security inside the stadium.
That was a secondary goal of organizers, who used plainclothes officers to mingle with the crowds inside to keep the games from having a militaristic look.
"Inside, where events are taking place, the security will be much more unobtrusive," Secret Service agent Marc Connolly said.
If anyone at the stadium needed a reminder of why security was so intense, all they had to do was look at the tattered flag pulled out of the rubble of the World Trade Center that was solemnly held during the national anthem.
Following the terrorist attacks, the Olympics security budget increased by $40 million. Officials also heightened the awareness that the games could be a prime target.
Security was so tight, the Salt Lake International Airport was closed for four hours during the opening ceremony, disrupting some 332 flights. The only trouble came when five protesters were arrested after confronting police near where Bush was expected to arrive.
"There was nothing unexpected and nothing left to chance," Tubbs said. "Everything that we've spent all the time planning and having exercises for went exactly the way it should."
What might be most surprising was how quickly spectators got through metal detectors and into the Olympic stadium.
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