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Just as we are attempting to eliminate force out of our national relationships, and just as it is obvious today that the process of drastic penalties has not succeeded in preventing crime, or in deterring people from violent selfishness (for that is what all crime is), and just as the social attitude (in contradistinction to the anti-social position of all law-breakers) is being regarded as desirable, and taught in our schools, so it is beginning to dawn upon the public consciousness, that the inculcation of right relations, and the spread of self-control, and the growth of unselfishness (and these surely are the goal, subjective and oft unrealised, of all legal procedure) are the needed approach to the young.
Crime will be stamped out when the environing conditions in which children live, are bettered, when physical attention is given in the early formative years to glandular balance, as well as to teeth and eyes and ears, to right posture and correct feeding, and when there is also a more proper apportionment of time; when esoteric psychology and esoteric astrology give their contribution of knowledge to the bringing up of young people. The old methods must give way to the new, and the conservative attitude must be dropped in favour of religious, psychic, and physical training and experiment, scientifically applied, and mystically motivated. When I say religious, I do not refer to doctrinal and theological teaching. I mean the cultivation of those attitudes and conditions which will evoke reality in man, bring the inner spiritual man to the foreground of consciousness, and thus produce the recognition of God Immanent. (16 – 237).
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(1) Shirk not these crises, hard and difficult though they may appear to be. Difficult they are. Forget not that the habit of confronting crises, is a long-established one within the consciousness of humanity. Man has the "habit of crisis", if I may so call it. They are only the points of examination as to the strength, purpose, purity and motive and the intent of the soul. They evoke confidence when surmounted, and produce greatly expanded vision. They foster compassion and understanding, for the pain and inner conflict they have engendered is never forgotten, for they draw upon the resources of the heart. They release the light of wisdom within the field of knowledge, and the world is thereby enriched. (16 – 477).
(2) The creative crisis (for Humanity) has been made possible by three major happenings:
1. The conclusion of a twenty-five thousand year cycle or movement around what is called the lesser zodiac. This connotes a major cycle of experience in the life of our planetary Logos . . .
2. The end of the Piscean Age. This simply means that the energies coming from Pisces during the last two thousand years, are now being rapidly superseded by energies coming from Aquarius. These result in major changes in the life of the planetary Logos, and potently affect His body of manifestation through the medium of His three major centres: Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity.
3. The increasingly dominant activity of the seventh Ray of Order or Ceremonial Magic, as it is somewhat erroneously called. This ray is now coming into manifestation, and is in close co-operation with the two above factors. (18 – 550/1).
(3) Unless such moments of crisis occur, the life simmers down to a general dead level and (even if useful) offers not the chance for an extreme effort with its consequent need to draw upon the full resources of the soul. (5 – 269).
(4) The handling of crises is the hallmark of the disciple, and every crisis met and rightly handled, provides (once the difficulty is occultly "under the feet") the place from which an extended vision can be gained, fresh knowledge can flow in and the transmuting light can shine from the Angel of the Presence and thus produce results.
Each of you has passed through a cycle of real difficulty and strain. This is true of all disciples. (6 – 13).
See also: (6 – 644).
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(1) Why is (non-criticism) regarded as so essential a requirement? . . . Because in a sudden burst of critical thought, the entire personality can be galvanised into a potent co-ordination, but of a wrong kind, and with disastrous results. Because criticism being a faculty of the lower mind, can hurt and wound, and no man can proceed upon the Way as long as wounds are made, and pain is knowingly given. Because the work of white magic and the carrying out of hierarchical purpose meets with basic hindrances in the relations existing between its workers and disciples. In the pressure of the present opportunity there is no time for criticism to exist between workers. They hinder each other and they hinder the work.
. . . I urge upon all those who read these Instructions to forget their likes and their dislikes, and to overlook the personality hindrances which inevitably exist in themselves and in all who work upon the physical plane, handicapped by the personality. I urge upon all workers the remembrance that the day of opportunity will not last forever. The pettiness of the human frictions, the failures to understand each other, the little faults which have their roots in the personality and which are, after all ephemeral, the ambitions and illusions must all go. If the workers would practise detachment, knowing that the Law works, and that God's purposes must come to an ultimate conclusion, and if they would learn never to criticize in thought or word, the salvaging of the world would proceed apace, and the new age of love and illumination would be ushered in. (4 – 560/1).
(2) One of the major faults of disciples today, is the paying of too close attention to the faults, errors and activities of other disciples, and too little attention to their own fulfilment of the law of love, and to their own dharma and work. . . . Today, the neophyte must learn the same lesson of attention to personal perfection, and to personal work through the means of that inner silence which broods over the disciple, and forces him to attend to his own work and business, leaving others to do the same, and so learn the lesson of experience. A great deal of present right activity, is hindered by the speech interplay between disciples, and much time is lost through wordy discussion of the work and activities of other disciples. Humanity, as a whole, needs silence at this time as never before; it needs time in which to reflect, and the opportunity to sense the universal rhythm. Modern disciples, if they are to do their work as desired, and to co-operate with the Plan correctly, need that inner reflective quiet, which in no way [Page 59] negates intense outer activity, but which does release them from wordy criticisms, feverish discussions, and constant preoccupation with the dharma, the motives, and the methods of their fellow disciples. (15 – 43/4).
(3) Criticism is a virulent poison. It damages in every case eventually the one who criticises – owing to the fact of voiced direction – it hurts still more the one who is criticised. Where there is purity of motive, true love and a large measure of detachment, the subtler bodies of the one who is under attack, may remain immune, but the physical effects will be definite, and where there is any physical weakness or limitation, there will be found the localisation of the projected poison.
Unvoiced criticism is very dangerous, for it is powerfully focussed and strongly, though not individually directed; it issues continuously and as a steady stream, sent forth on the wings of jealousy, ambition, pride in a personal grasp of a supposed situation, and a belief that the one who criticises, is in a position to understand correctly and could – given right opportunity – take right action. (15 – 617).
(4) Watch with care your thoughts anent each other, and kill out at once all suspicion, all criticism, and seek to hold each other unwaveringly in the light of love. (5 – 10).
(5) Criticism is wholesome as long as it is not permitted to become destructive. (5 – 786).
(6) There are times when criticism is unquestionably a recognition of fact. This means that a criticising disciple has reached the point where his judgment is based on love, that it produces no personality effect in his own life or that of his fellow disciple. It is simply a loving recognition of limitation, and only becomes wrong when these undoubted facts are used to arouse criticism in the unqualified, and provide points for discussion. (5 – 725)
(1) The soul's meditation is rhythmic and cyclic in its nature, as is all else in the cosmos. The soul breathes and its form lives thereby. . . . There is an ebb and flow in all nature, and in the tides of the ocean we have a wonderful picturing of an eternal law. As the aspirant adjusts himself to the tides of the soul life, he begins to realise that there is ever a flowing in, a vitalising and a stimulating which is followed by a flowing out as sure and as inevitable as the immutable laws of force. This ebb and flow can [Page 60] be seen functioning in the processes of death and incarnation. It can be seen also over the entire process of a man's lives, for some lives can be seen to be apparently static and uneventful, slow and inert from the angle of the soul's experience, whilst others are vibrant, full of experience and of growth. This should be remembered by all of you who are workers, when you are seeking to help others to live rightly. (4 – 62).
(2) These cyclic impulses in the life of a disciple are of a greater frequency and speed and forcefulness than in the life of the average man. They alternate with a distressing rapidity. The hill and valley experience of the mystic is but one way of expressing this ebb and flow. Sometimes the disciple is walking in the sunlight and at other times in the dark; sometimes he knows the joy of full communion and again all seems dull and sterile; his service is on occasion a fruitful and satisfying experience, and he seems to be able to really aid; at other times he feels that he has naught to offer and his service is arid and apparently without results. All is clear to him some days and he seems to stand on the mountain top looking out over a sunlit landscape, where all is clear to his vision. He knows and feels himself to be a son of God. Later, however, the clouds seem to descend and he is sure of nothing. He walks in the sunlight and is almost overpowered by the brilliance and heat of the solar rays, and wonders how long this uneven experience and the violent alternation of these opposites is to go on.
Once, however, that he grasps the fact he is watching the effect of the cyclic impulses and the effect of the soul's meditation upon his form nature, the meaning becomes clearer, and he realises that it is that form aspect which is failing in its response, and reacting to energy with unevenness. He then learns that once he can live in the soul consciousness and attain that 'high altitude' (if I might so express it) at will, the fluctuations of the form life will not touch him. He then perceives the narrow-edged razor path which leads from the plane of physical life to the soul realm, and finds that when he can tread it with steadiness, it leads him out of the ever changing world of the senses into the clear light of day and into the world of reality. (4 – 63).
(3) May there be a full and steady play of cyclic force from the kingdom of the spirit upon each one of us, calling us forth into the realm of light, love and service, and producing a cyclic response from each one! May there be a constant interchange between those who teach and the disciple who seeks instruction! (4 – 64/5).
(4) The ebb and flow of daily life during a particular incarnation, will also demonstrate its interludes, and these the aspirant has to learn to recog-[Page 61] nise and to utilise. He has to register the distinction between intense outgoing activity, periods of withdrawal, and interludes wherein the outer life seems static and free from active interest. This he must do if he is to avail himself fully of the opportunity which life experience is intended to furnish. The whole of life is not concentrated in one furious continuous stretch of rushing forth to work, nor is it comprehended in one eternal siesta. It has normally its own rhythmic beat and vibration, and its own peculiar pulsation. Some lives change their rhythm and mode of activity every seven years; others alter every nine or eleven years. Still others work under shorter cycles and have months of strenuous endeavour, followed by months of apparent non-effort. Some people again are so sensitively organised that, in the midst of work, events and circumstances are so staged that they are forced into a temporary retirement wherein they assimilate the lessons learnt during the preceding period of work. (4 – 514).
(5) Growth is one long period of building in order to destroy, of constructing in order to disorganise later, of developing certain rhythmic processes in order to later disrupt them, and to force the old rhythm to give place to the new. (2 – 82).
(6) Cyclic appearance, therefore, governs the rays as well as the kingdoms in nature, and the forms contained therein. It determines the activity of God Himself. Races incarnate, disappear and reincarnate, and so do all lives in form. Reincarnation or cyclic activity, lies behind all phenomenal activity and appearance. It is an aspect of the pulsating life of Deity. It is the breathing out and the breathing in of the process of divine existence and manifestation. (14 – 266/7).
(7) The way of the aspirant climaxes at times, and might be described as a series of steady growth cycles, accentuated at intervals by definite periods of forced development, wherein one limitation after another is forcibly removed, by yourself. All limitations and hindrances have to go. (5 – 598).
(8) The "cycles of interest", or those periods in which the Masters pay close attention to the quality aspect of mankind, are also being speeded up; the "gauging" process will take place now every three hundred years, instead of every one thousand years, as has been the case until 1575 A.D. (6 – 335)
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(1) I might here touch upon the paralleling activity of the forces which are working to prevent the externalisation of the Hierarchy of Light, since such a happening as that would mean increased – because proven – power. As you know, on the astral and mental planes, centres exist which are called "dark centres", because the emphasis of their activity is upon the material aspect of manifestation, and upon the activity of material substance; all energy is subordinated to purely selfish purpose. As I have stated before, the Forces of Light work with the soul, hidden in every form. They are concerned with group purposes, and with the founding of the Kingdom of God on earth. The dark forces work with the form side of expression, and with the founding of a centre of control which will be theirs entirely, and which will subdue all the living forms in all the kingdoms, to their peculiar behests. It is the old story, familiar in Biblical phraseology, of the kingdoms of the world and the kingdom of the Christ, of the power of the anti-Christ, and the power of Christ. This produced a great climax in Atlantean days, and though the Hierarchy of Light triumphed, it was only by the merest margin. The battle was fought out on the astral plane, though it had its correspondence upon the physical plane, in a great world conflict, of which the ancient legend tells us. It ended in the catastrophe of the Flood. The seeds of hate and of separation have been fostered ever since that time, and the three modes whereby the forces of darkness seek to control humanity, are hatred, aggression, and separativeness. The three great spiritual counterparts are love, selfless sharing, and synthesis.
However, the hold of the forces which are working against the living principle of love (as embodied in the Hierarchy), is not gaining ground at this time, for the response of humanity to that which is good and synthetic, is much more rapid and general, than it was a few hundred years ago. There is much reason to hope that there will be a steady waning of the undesired control. The dark forces are ruled on the physical plane by a group of six oriental leaders, and six occidental leaders; of these the oriental are the most powerful because they are the oldest racially, and therefore the most experienced. They work by the identification of glamour, and by the stimulation of the lower psychic powers. Their particular point of attack at this time, is the group of world disciples and initiates, for these latter are responsible for the fostering of love in the world, and for the binding of men together in the spirit of unity. If they cannot succeed with this task [Page 63] now, it should be possible to externalise the Hierarchy, and thereby greatly lessen the control of the so-called evil forces.
If these evil forces cannot induce the disciples everywhere, in group formation or individually, to succumb in some form to glamour, then they will endeavour to utilise group glamour to negative their efforts, and force those with whom the disciples work to believe evil, to impugn motives, and to produce such a convincing story, that the struggling disciple will be left to fight almost singlehanded. If this cannot be done, they may then attack the physical bodies of the workers and agents for the Hierarchy, and seek, through the distress of the physical body, to control the disciple's output. This does not always prove successful, as the Master can, and often does, protect His disciple. The dark forces work also through the identification or stimulation of the psychic mechanism, so that the lower psychic powers become abnormally developed, and prematurely assume proportions which are almost uncontrollable. This happened on a large scale in Atlantean days, and led to the entire astral plane standing revealed, but not understood. Its undesirable potencies, were then let loose upon the physical plane, and this led to the war between the two great schools of the mysteries – the Light and the Dark – which culminated in the destruction of the then known world.
Today these potencies, light and dark, are again struggling for physical plane expression and supremacy, but this time the result is vastly different. The effort to produce soul contact, or to hinder it is working out in the form of nervous diseases and pathological conditions, and this is affecting potently the group activity of man. The effort by the dark forces to stimulate the lower psychic powers, seems able to reach no deeper into matter and form than the etheric vehicles, and from there to condition the physical body physiologically, in the form of diseases, lesions, nervous troubles, and brain afflictions, and the many other ways in which the human being is rendered helpless and unfitted to cope with daily living, and modern world conditions. But the mind nature has reached a stage of protective usefulness, and some of the great guarding barriers which are flung up around humanity at this time, are the spirit of scepticism, and the refusal to recognise the existence or the usefulness of the psychic powers. This is a point to remember. (15 – 576/9).
(2) The major weapon now being used by the combined Forces of Evil is chaos, disruption, lack of established security, and consequent fear. . . . The entire rhythm of international thinking has to be altered, and that constitutes a slow and arduous task; the evil personalities which, in every [Page 64] country, are responsible for the chaos and uncertainty, have eventually to be replaced by those who can work in co-operation with the rhythm of the seventh ray, and thus produce ordered beauty. (13 – 668).
(1) I speak about Death as one who knows the matter from both the outer world experience and the inner life expression: There is no death. There is, as you know, entrance into fuller life. There is freedom from the handicaps of the fleshly vehicle. The rending process so much dreaded does not exist, except in the cases of violent and of sudden death, and then the only true disagreeables are an instant and overwhelming sense of imminent peril and destruction, and something closely approaching an electric shock. No more. For the unevolved, death is literally a sleep and a forgetting, for the mind is not sufficiently awakened to react, and the storehouse of memory is as yet practically empty. For the average good citizen, death is a continuance of the living process in his consciousness and a carrying forward of the interests and tendencies of the life. His consciousness and his sense of awareness are the same and unaltered. He does not sense much difference, is well taken care of, and oft is unaware that he has passed through the episode of death. For the wicked and cruelly selfish, for the criminal and for those few who live for the material side only, there eventuates that condition which we call "earth-bound". The links they have forged with earth and the earthward bias of all their desires, force them to remain close to the earth and their last setting in the earth environment. They seek desperately and by every possible means to re-contact it and to re-enter. In a few cases, great personal love for those left behind or the non-fulfilment of a recognised and urgent duty, holds the good and beautiful in a somewhat similar condition. For the aspirant, death is an immediate entrance into a sphere of service and of expression to which he is well accustomed and which he at once recognises as not new. In his sleeping hours he has developed a field of active service and of learning. He now simply functions in it for the entire twenty-four hours (talking in terms of physical plane time) instead of for his usual few hours of earthly sleep. (4 – 300/1).
(2) The mind of man is so little developed that fear of the unknown, terror of the unfamiliar, and attachment to form have brought about a situation where one of the most beneficent occurrences in the life cycle of an incarnating Son of God is looked upon as something to be avoided and postponed for as long a time as possible.
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Death, if we could but realise it, is one of our most practised activities. We have died many times, and shall die again and again. Death is essentially a matter of consciousness. We are conscious one moment on the physical plane, and a moment later we have withdrawn onto another plane and are actively conscious there. Just as long as our consciousness is identified with the form aspect, death will hold for us its ancient terror. Just as soon as we know ourselves to be souls, and find that we are capable of focussing our consciousness or sense of awareness in any form or any plane at will, or in any direction within the form of God, we shall no longer know death.
. . . People are apt to forget that every night, in the hours of sleep, we die to the physical plane and are alive and functioning elsewhere. They forget that they have already achieved facility in leaving the physical body; because they cannot as yet bring back into the physical brain consciousness the recollection of that passing out, and of the subsequent interval of active living, they fail to relate death and sleep. Death, after all, is only a longer interval in the life of physical plane functioning; one has only "gone abroad" for a longer period. But the process of daily sleep, and the process of occasional dying are identical, with the one difference that in sleep the magnetic thread or current of energy along which the life force streams, is preserved intact, and constitutes the path of return to the body. In death, this life thread is broken or snapped. When this has happened, the conscious entity cannot return to the dense physical body, and that body, lacking the principle of coherence, then disintegrates. (4 – 494/5).
(3) The young forget, and rightly forget, the inevitability of that final symbolic detachment which we call Death. But when life has played its part, and age has taken its toll of interests and strength, the tired and world-weary man has no fear of the detaching process, and seeks not to hold on to that which earlier was desired. He welcomes death, and relinquishes willingly that which earlier engrossed his attention. (15 – 76).
(4) Death, as the human consciousness understands it, pain and sorrow, loss and disaster, joy and distress, are only such because man, as yet, identifies himself with the life of the form and not with the life and consciousness of the soul, the solar angel. . . . The moment a man identifies himself with his soul and not with his form, then he understands the meaning of the Law of Sacrifice; he is spontaneously governed by it; and he is one who will, with deliberate intent, choose to die. But there is no pain, no sorrow, and no real death involved. (15 – 94).
(5) The intent is for man to die, as every man has to die, at the demand of his own soul. When man has reached a higher stage in evolution, with [Page 66] deliberation and definite choice of time, he will consciously withdraw from his physical body. It will be left silent and empty of the soul; devoid of light, yet sound and whole; it will then disintegrate, under the natural process, and its constituent atoms will pass back into the "pool of waiting units", until they are again required for the use of incarnating souls. Again, on the subjective side of life, the process is repeated, but many have already learnt to withdraw from the astral body without being subject to that "impact in the fog", which is the symbolic way of describing the death of a man upon the astral plane. He then withdraws on to the mental level, and leaves his astral carcass to swell the fog, and increase its density. (17 – 29).
(6) Death has been present upon our planet from the very night of time itself; forms have come and gone; death has overtaken plants and trees, animals and the forms of human beings for untold aeons, and yet our planet is not a charnel house, as it well might be in the face of this fact, but is still a thing of beauty, unspoilt even by man. The processes of dying and of dissolution and the dissipation of forms, goes on every moment without producing contagious contamination, or the disfiguring of the surface of the earth. The results of dissolution are beneficent in effect. Ponder on this beneficent activity, and on the beauty of the divine plan of death and disappearance. (17 – 245).
(7) The cycle in which we now live, has seen the greatest destruction of human forms, in the entire history of our planet. There has been no destruction of human beings. I would have you note this statement. Because of this wholesale destruction, humanity has made a very rapid advance towards a more serene attitude in connection with death. This is not yet apparent but – in a few years time – the new attitude will begin to be marked, and the fear of death will begin to die out in the world. This will also be largely due to the increased sensitivity of the human response apparatus, leading to a turning inward, or to a new orientation of the human mind, with unpredictable results. (17 – 432).
(8) Could you but see a little further into the matter, you would learn that death releases the individualised life into a less cramped and confined existence, and eventually – when the death process has been applied to all the three vehicles in the three worlds – into the life of universality. This is a point of inexpressible bliss. (17 – 433).
(9) The sin of murder is in reality based upon the fact that it interferes with the soul purpose, and not really upon the killing of a particular human physical body . . .
Death appears frequently to be so purposeless; that is because the intention [Page 67] of the soul is not known; past development, through the process of incarnation, remains a hidden matter; ancient heredities and environments are ignored, and recognition of the voice of the soul is not generally developed. These are matters, however, which are on the very verge of recognition; revelation is on its way, and for that I am laying the foundation. (17 – 436).
(10) Death to the average thinking man is a point of catastrophic crisis. It is the cessation and ending of all that has been loved, all that is familiar and to be desired; it is a crashing entrance into the unknown, into uncertainty, and the abrupt conclusion of all plans and projects. No matter how much true faith in the spiritual values may be present, no matter how clear the rationalising of the mind may be anent immortality, no matter how conclusive the evidence of persistence and eternity, there still remains a questioning, a recognition of the possibility of complete finality and negation, and an end of all activity, of all heart reaction, of all thought, emotion, desire, aspiration, and the intentions which focus around the central core of man's being. The longing and the determination to persist, and the sense of continuity still rest, even to the most determined believer, upon probability, upon an unstable foundation, and upon the testimony of others – who have never in reality returned to tell the truth. (17 – 438), (18 – 102).
(11) Perhaps some lines from the Manual of Death which is to be found in the hierarchical archives would prove explanatory to you, and might aid you in gaining a new perspective upon death . . .
"This descending and ascension men call life, existence, and decease; this We Who tread the Lighted Way call death, experience and life.
"Light which descends anchors itself upon the plane of temporary appearance. Seven threads it outward puts, and seven rays of light pulsate along these threads. Twenty-one lesser threads are radiated thence, causing the forty-nine fires to glow and burn. Upon the plane of manifested life, the word goes forth: Behold! A man is born.
"As life proceeds, the quality of light appears; dim and murky it may be, or radiant, bright and shining. Thus do the points of light within the Flame pass and repass; they come and go. This men call life; they call it true existence. They thus delude themselves, yet serve the purpose of their souls and fit into the greater Plan.
"And then a Word sounds forth. The descended, radiating point of light ascends, responsive to the dimly heard recalling note, attracted to its emanating source. This man calls death and this the soul calls life." (17 – 468/9).
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(12) Death is now the result of the will of the soul. Eventually it has to be the result of the united will of the soul and the personality, and when that happens, there will be no fear of death. (5 – 669).


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Authorities identified the gunman as Ali Syed, 20, and said he took the gun from a home he shared with his family in the normally quiet community of Ladera Ranch, 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The motive for the shootings was unclear.
The rolling spate of violence, which included at least one execution-style killing, spanned several miles across a number of communities in suburban Orange County, including the cities of Tustin and Santa Ana.
The violence occurred just a week after a massive manhunt for a fugitive former Los Angeles policeman wanted in a series of shootings targeting officers and their families ended in a fiery stand-off in the mountains above Los Angeles.
In Orange County, authorities first received a call on a shooting before dawn at Syed's home in Ladera Ranch, said Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino. Officers arrived to find a woman in her 20s shot to death.
Police were still seeking to determine the relationship between her and Syed, who fled the scene in his family's sport utility vehicle and headed to the city of Tustin, about 15 miles away, Amormino said. Syed had been a student at Saddleback College, a community college in Orange County.
The gunman committed his first carjacking in Tustin, where he took a car at a gas station after shooting and wounding another motorist in a Cadillac who drove away, police said.
He then drove onto the 55 Freeway and got out of his car on a transition road where he opened fire on passing drivers, said Tustin police Chief Scott Jordan. The ensuing mayhem left one person wounded and two cars damaged, police said.
Later, at an off-ramp for the 55 Freeway, on the border between Tustin and Santa Ana, he targeted a 69-year-old man with a BMW vehicle in a second carjacking, police said.
"He orders him out of the vehicle, walks him to the side of the curb and then executes our victim," Santa Ana police spokesman Corporal Anthony Bertagna said.
Behind the wheel of the BMW, the gunman drove back into Tustin where he killed a plumber at a work site and wounded another person before driving off in a utility truck, police said.
The gunman killed himself with a shotgun after officers pulled him over in the stolen truck in the nearby city of Villa Park, police said.
"We're still investigating how many victims we might have," Tustin police spokesman Lieutenant Paul Garaven said. He added that some more people or cars may have been hit when the gunman opened fire on the 55 Freeway.
Paris Joseph, 50, who works at a Tustin gas station where Syed took a car from a motorist but did not open fire on that person, said it was fortunate no one was killed there.
"We've never had anything like this," Joseph said.
(Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Bob Burgdorfer)


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S&P's French Kiss
France deserves a downgrade at least as much as the United States.
You probably heard that on Aug. 5 Standard & Poor's downgraded the United States one notch, from AAA to AA+ *. You may not have heard that on Aug. 10 S&P said France's current AAA rating was "warranted" and "stable." S&P was saying that the United States is a bigger credit risk than France.
The market is behaving as though S&P had said the exact opposite. Treasuries rose in price, and the United States.was able to auction $72 billion of notes and bonds at 2.13 percent, the lowest average yield for a re-funding on record. Meanwhile, the difference between French and German yields on 10-year bonds rose to almost a full percentage point. That's the largest spread for France since the euro was established. The annual cost of insuring French debt against default for five years soared from about $75,000 in the earlier part of the summer to $175,000, compared with about $55,000 to insure the United States. (The cost of insuring French debt has since fallen back to about $150,000.) The market is saying that AAA France is a much bigger credit risk than the AA+ United States.
Qu'est-ce qui se passe?
One view of the market's reaction is that the downgrade of the U.S. raised fears that S&P would downgrade France, despite the agency's reassurances. Another (not necessarily contradictory) view is that the market has zero respect for S&P's judgment about the relative creditworthiness of the two countries. When I asked investors whether S&P's response made any sense, the reaction was uniform: Of course it doesn't!
Investors really don't have any respect for the agency's reasoning in downgrading the United States. The first thing S&P cited in announcing the downgrade was "political risks": its belief that "the effectiveness, stability and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened." To be sure, S&P also talked about the U.S.'s soaring debt-to-GDP ratio—a key quantitative measure of a country's financial health—but its concern was less about the number than about the possibility that we won't be able to tame the growth of our debt. The widespread feeling among most investors I spoke to was that regardless of whether S&P was right or wrong, it wasn't appropriate for the ratings agency to make so political a judgment. Nor, they said, was politics anything about which S&P has previously demonstrated any particular expertise. (You could even ask whether S&P has demonstrated any expertise about the Eurozone, given that the agency rated Ireland and Spain AAA in 2006.)
Based on many purely quantitative measures, France is actually in worse shape than the United States. John Chambers, the chairman of S&P's sovereign ratings committee, conceded the point in an Aug. 8 conference call. France's debt-to-GDP levels aren't significantly different from ours. Indeed, S&P has forecast that in 2015, France's debt will be 83 percent of GDP, higher than the 79 percent that it forecasts for the United States. But S&P thinks France has demonstrated a greater willingness to tackle its problems—for instance, by reforming its pension system—and that France's ratio will come down dans les annéessuivantes , whereas ours will increase. Maybe S&P is right, but there's enormous weight resting on that qualitative judgment, because France has several disadvantages relative to the United States. It will likely face more difficulty growing its way out of its debt problem because France's gross domestic product is growing even more slowly than ours is. (France logged a 0.9 percent increase during the first quarter and no increase at all during the second.) And France's currency, the euro, is not the reserve currency of the world, as the U.S.'s is. That status, according to Moody's, give the United States "unmatched access to financing."
In addition, there's this little matter of Europe being in the middle of a rather dire financial crisis. No one I spoke to thinks that you can view France's credit as being independent of the Eurozone. France has contingent liabilities to the European Financial Stability Fund, which is Europe's attempt at a bailout mechanism, meaning that France is partly on the hook for the EFSF's existing loans and may have to cough up more. One market observer told me that including those liabilities increases France's debt to GDP ratio by almost one-third.
Also, French banks are on the hook for loans they've made directly to weaker European countries. Sean Egan, the president of independent rating agency Egan Jones, says that French banks' exposure to Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain totaled $83.1 billion, $77.3 billion, $48.5 billion and $201.3 billion, respectively, as of the end of last year. French banks' exposure to flailing European nations is an issue for the credit standing of France itself, because in the modern financial system you can't logically separate any country's government from its banks. (Iceland, which allowed its banks to default on their loans to foreign creditors, has been the exception.) "The method the authorities rightly chose three years ago was to substitute the credit of the state for the credit in the financial system," the hedge-fund wizard George Soros told Der Spiegel on Aug. 15. Once you do that, you can't go back. Or as Mark Blyth, a professor of international political economy at Brown *, put it to me: "Banks used to bail sovereigns. Now, sovereigns bail banks!"
France's potential liability is a big part of the reason why Egan Jones, unlike S&P, rates France below the United States. Egan Jones downgraded the U.S. to AA+ on July 16—almost a month before S&P did—but the firm rates France a AA-minus, several notches lower. In calculating its rating, Egan Jones figures in the underfunding of a country's banking system: "We use a base assumption that no country can afford to allow its major banks to fail." Egan estimates that France's top 10 banks are undercapitalized by $343 billion. (Egan calculates the undercapitalization by taking 8 percent of a bank's listed assets, which is the percentage of assets that a bank should hold in equity, and subtracting from that the market value of the stock. That provides a metric for how undercapitalized the market thinks a given bank is.) Instead of basing its debt-to-GDP calculations on net debt, Egan bases them on gross debt. Egan believes that any attempt to estimate the value of a country's assets will be too fraught with uncertainty, and the assets themselves too hard to realize, to make the exercise worthwhile. As a result, he calculates that France will by 2012 have an adjusted debt-to-GDP ratio—with debt including the underfunding of its banking system—of 109 percent. By contrast, Egan projects that—since the U.S.'s banks are "only" underfunded by $170 billion (mostly because of Bank of America)—the U.S. will by 2012 have a slightly lower adjusted debt-to-GDP ratio: 105 percent. Unlike S&P, Egan thinks French debt is likely to grow, not shrink, in part because of the high cost of supporting and recapitalizing the French banking system.
Last week, the stock prices of French banks plummeted, with Société Générale , the country's second-largest bank, hitting a new 2.5-year low. Even so, France's banks argue that everything's fine and that any criticism is just unfounded rumor. (Bonjour, Lehman!) Even if they're right, being right doesn't always matter, particularly in tumultuous financial times. The health of any financial institution depends on confidence. There are rumors that U.S. money market funds, which have been a major source of dollar funds for European banks, are pulling back; reports are trickling out that European banks are having funding problems in other countries, too. During the next 24 months, major European banks will need to roll trillions of euros in debt. All this could lead to harmful speculation. "Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse," Soros told Der Spiegel. "If there is a weak point, it will expose it."
The ramifications of all of this are really unpleasant, because France's sovereign guarantees provide the second-largest contribution (behind Germany's) to the EFSF. The EFSF uses its resulting AAA guarantee to borrow cheaply. If France's rating changes, that will throw the EFSF mechanism for a loop. And if France is downgraded, then French banks probably will have to be downgraded, too. That, in turn, may mean other European banks will be downgraded too. Such cascading downgrades would increase the funding pressures on European banks at a uniquely inopportune moment.
By downgrading the United States, Standard & Poor's has created a dilemma for itself. If there is to be any logical consistency to S&P's ratings, then France can't be AAA when the U.S. isn't AAA. But if France loses its AAA rating, all hell will very likely break loose. S&P can lose whatever credibility it has left, or it can lose whatever friends it has left.
Correction, Aug. 18, 2011: This article originally and incorrectly said that Standard & Poor's and Egan Jones downgraded the United States' crediting rating to AA. (Return to the corrected sentence.) Correction, Aug. 19, 2011: The article also originally stated that Mark Blyth was a professor at Dartmouth. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Gary Harris scored 14 points and No. 4 Michigan State beat Northwestern 54-40 on Wednesday night for its ninth straight win.
The preseason favorite to win the Big Ten, the Spartans (16-1, 5-0 Big Ten) continue to roll along, although it was hardly an easy night for them. They overcame a sluggish start and pulled away down the stretch even though they struggled in a big way from the outside.
They were 2 of 16 on 3-pointers with Harris missing all six and Keith Appling going 0 for 3. Harris did have four steals, and Appling managed to score 11 points.
Branden Dawson, fighting an illness, had 11 rebounds and three blocks, and the Spartans came away with the win even though they were missing one of their top players in Adreian Payne. The 6-foot-10 forward sat out his second straight game because of a sprained right foot, but Michigan State had enough to get by in this one.
Tre Demps did his best to keep Northwestern (8-10, 1-4) in the game, scoring 10 of his 12 points in the second half, but leading scorer Drew Crawford never got going. He managed just six points with Denzel Valentine guarding him most of the game, and the Wildcats came up short after beating then-No. 23 Illinois on Sunday night to give new coach Chris Collins his first Big Ten victory.
They haven't knocked off a top five team since they took out fourth-ranked Michigan State on Jan. 27, 1979.
Coming off back-to-back overtime wins against Ohio State and Minnesota, Michigan State probably could have used a breather. The problem was the Spartans had trouble sustaining a run.
They looked like they were poised to put this one away after Travis Trice nailed a 3 and Matt Costello scooped in a reverse layup to make it 40-31 with 11:36 remaining. But Demps answered with a basket for Northwestern.
It was 44-37 when Alex Gauna banked in a shot to start a six-point spurt that gave the Spartans a double-digit lead.
Harris hit two free throws and stripped Demps, leading to two more foul shots for Appling that made it 50-37 with 4:59 left, and the Spartans hung on from there.
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Manchester parking fee plan sent back to aldermanic committee
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
— A plan to raise parking fees downtown that had been on the fast-track hit a bump in the road Tuesday.
The aldermen's Bills on Second Reading Committee voted Tuesday to send three proposed ordinance changes concerning parking enforcement back to the Public Safety, Health and Traffic Committee for further review.
The aldermen expressed concerns that they couldn't vote separately on the proposed fee hikes. One of the ordinances contains a schedule of rates that includes metered spaces, as well as the prices for monthly lot, garage and residential permits.
As originally proposed in a plan devised by the city finance and parking directors, monthly permit fees at city lots would have be hiked by roughly 50 percent. Parking meter enforcement would also be expanded to encompass a wider perimeter around downtown and a uniform rate of 75 cents per hour would apply to all meters (some coin meters currently cost 50 cents an hour).
In addition, there would be a new $100 annual fee for a downtown residential parking permit, which could only be purchased by people who live in the district.
The plan, drawn up after the mayor called on department heads to come up with new revenue ideas, could generate an additional $600,000 to $1 million annually, according the finance director's estimates.
At the committee meeting Tuesday, several aldermen said they that supported some of the fee hikes, such as making the meter rate uniform, but not others.
"This putting meters and permits together, half I don't have a problem with, the other half I do," Ward 5 Alderman Ed Osborne said. "As far as the permits, I would rather leave them the way they are. I just assume, the way the economy is, leave them alone at least for another year."
The Bills on Second Reading Committee is only supposed to make technical modifications to bills previously passed by the full board, which approved the parking fee hikes at its meeting last month.
After some debate about protocol, deputy city solicitor Tom Arnold and City Clerk Matt Normand agreed at Tuesday's meeting that the best course of action was to send the ordinances back to the traffic committee, where the they could, in Normand's words, "be recodified."
The parking permits hikes now being considered by the aldermen are more modest than they were when the finance director first outlined the plan. The increase in parking permit fees at the Millyard, for example, would go from $45 to $55, rather than to $70. Parking at surface lots, would go from $50 to $60, and the monthly fee at the Victory Garage would go from $75 to $85.
The cost for a residential parking permit, for people who live in the central business district, would be $100 a year.
The revised fares could result in $504,000 in new revenue for the city, according the finance director's estimates.
Alderman-At-Large Dan O'Neil said whatever the aldermen ultimately approve, he wants the public to be aware of the changes. "I don't have much of a problem with the increases because I think they've been discussed," he said. "It's about how much advanced notice we're giving the public of the increases."


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BERLIN (AP) — Russia's standoff with the West is hurting European companies, from heavy industry to sports goods makers, even before the latest sanctions have a chance to take effect.
A group representing Germany's machinery industry cut its output forecast sharply on Thursday, pointing to the uncertainty caused by political tension with Russia over its alleged role in destabilizing Ukraine. A profit warning from sports goods maker Adidas underlined wider unease over the crisis.
"The conflict with Russia is not just leaving tracks in bilateral trade — it is generally hindering demand in important sales markets for our industry," said Ralph Wiechers, chief economist for the VDMA, the industry group.
VDMA now expects production of machinery to grow by about 1 percent this year, rather than the 3 percent it predicted in October, before the crisis over Ukraine erupted. Machinery is a leading component of German exports to Russia, accounting for nearly a quarter of last year's total.
The oil industry is also on alert. Earlier this week, British oil company BP said sanctions against Moscow could weaken its earnings.
The European Union has been very careful to design its sanctions on Russia so that they do not hurt its own economies too hard. But the VDMA report shows how difficult that may be to pull off, with the mere uncertainty over Russia creating an environment that can be toxic for business.
"Economic sentiment has darkened in many countries; as a result, orders cannot develop the momentum that would be needed" for 3 percent production growth this year, Wiechers said in a statement.
Russia's economy and currency have weakened this year as the crisis over Ukraine escalated. The U.S. and EU imposed a string of sanctions, mainly on individuals. This week, they approved tougher penalties aimed at hurting Russia's economy, punishing alleged Russian support for Ukrainian rebels.
Germany has Europe's biggest economy. With the new sanctions, "we know that we could suffer economically ourselves — we know that our trade with Russia is not overly large, but it does have some significance," Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, who is also Germany's economy minister, said this week.
The profit warning from Adidas, based in Herzogenaurach, Germany and the biggest rival to U.S. giant Nike, underscored economic worries going well beyond goods that might face sanctions. The company cited the Russian tensions among the reasons for cutting its net profit forecast for this year to 650 million euros ($870 million), from the range of 830 to 930 million euros previously forecast.
Adidas — a sponsor of soccer's World Cup, which Russia is to host in 2018 — said it would "significantly reduce" the number of stores it open in the region this year and next and close more, a move it said aimed to "reduce risk and protect profit."
"The recent trend change in the Russian ruble as well as increasing risks to consumer sentiment and consumer spending from current tensions in the region point to higher risks to the short-term profitability contribution from Russia" and other former Soviet republics, Adidas said in a statement.
Russia was Germany's 11th-biggest trading partner last year, well behind the top four of France, the Netherlands, China and the U.S.
German exports totaled 36.1 billion euros, 3.3 percent of the country's total exports, with machinery and vehicles among the main goods sold. German authorities estimate that only around one-tenth of the countries' exporters sell goods to Russia.
Imports from Russia totaled 40.4 billion euros last year, with oil and gas accounting for nearly three-quarters of the total.
As for the potential damage, Gernot Erler, the government's coordinator for cooperation with Russia, told n-tv television that some estimates see sales to Russia dropping by 4 billion to 6 billion euros.
The German economy is generally in robust shape. Official figures Thursday showed the jobless rate edging up to 6.6 percent in July from 6.5 percent the previous month for purely seasonal reasons, while the underlying trend remained positive.


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A survey It's not a surprise that sales of iPods have been slowing. Since we live in a world of limited resources, growth cannot persist indefinitely. As iPod sales have grown to staggering heights, the Law of Large Numbers takes effect. To continue its FY07 31% unit growth rate, Apple would need to sell close to 70 million iPods in FY08, which is one-half the 140 million total sold over 6 years. At that growth rate, iPod sales would be 200 million FY12. It's highly unlikely that annual sales volume would ever achieve that level. Unit growth has been trending towards a rate in the teens, possibly single-digits. Last quarter, Q1 2008, units increased 5%, compared to 50% growth in Q1 2007. Yr/Yr 2007 growth rates were 24% (Q4), 21% (Q3), and 17% (Q2). Unit growth was 31% in FY07, compared to 75% (FY06), 409% (FY05), 371% (FY04), and 149% (FY03). decreasing rate, finally to a point where sales turn flat as the product enters the maturity phase. Sales growth turns negative in the decline stage.
To avert the Decline (or mature) stage, product innovation is needed to rejuvenate sales growth. Introducing improved models with new features can sprout a new curve from sales growth reaccelerating. The S-curve then takes on a more scalloped shape.
The new iPod Touch presents the opportunity for attracting new PMP users plus influencing current owners to "trade up" to a device at a higher ASP. The Shuffle should appeal to price sensitive consumers who previously weren't willing to pay the high prices for iPods. These two factors should strengthen demand in light of a maturing market.
Apple uses a number of contract manufacturers and suppliers to make its products. Most are Taiwan-based. While shares of some of these companies are listed on U.S. exchanges as ADRs, others can only be purchased through the Taiwan or Hong Kong stock exchanges.
Apple is developing a version of the iPhone that would work on US Cellphone networks other than AT&T, according to a WSJ article. The new phone would be assembled by Pegatron Technology Corp., the contract manufacturing subsidiary of Taiwan's ASUSTeK Computer. [2]
Hi John,Relatively new to the blog but wanted to jump in as I acluatly just finished reading The New Market Wizards. I too found that idea interesting. I can see both sides of it. And it surprised me that more than 1 of the wizards interviewed had the same strategy. I think some of it may be more psychological than anything. When you are on a winning run, you are more confident about your trades and therefore more likely to follow your plans and place a solid trade. When you are on a losing streak, I think sometimes the mentality may be to try and get that last loss back so you may reach more. I think it is something that is I would want to test in paper trading first, see if at the end, you really do end up more than just placing the same amount on each trade.I am with you, I think having a pre-determined exit point can be somewhat problematic, especially when it comes to letting winners run. I do think at the initial set up, you should have an initial loss point set up to minimize risk, but as the trade runs in your favor, I think it translates more into a managed stop than a pre-determined stop. Look forward to reading more of your ideas and thoughts. Thanks again!
The average internet user in China is 25 years old, but in China, owning a computer is not socially acceptable yet.[22] As a result, the Chinese youth pack into internet cafe's that are open 24 hours a day. The young demographic and their hunger for technology and the internet plays right into the hands of the iPhone. While computers are not socially acceptable, cell phones are, which means that the Chinese consumers may very well replace computers with smart phones, like the iPhone. Not to mention, the market for Chinese cell phones is already massive - China Mobile had as many as 574 million customers.[23]
iPhone sales in Japan have been such a bust that Apple has decided to sell it for free (given that a 2 year contract is purchased as well).[24] Reasons for the phone's lack of success point to possible shortcomings of the iPhone, such as the comparitively low megapixel camera and the inability to take streaming video (both highly coveted features to the Japanese). Other complaints from the Japanese have been reported to be the very high monthly data plans and the fact that the iPhone is not produced by a Japanese company. Whether this free iPhone market campaign makes an impact in Japan or not, Apple clearly has an uphill battle ahead of them in Japan.
However, AppleInsider investigated the Wired report and questioned its validity as reported in the article: Japanese Hate for iPhone All a Big Mistake. The author, Brian Chen, misquoted a source saying the iPhone makes a lame fashion statement. The source, Daiji Hirata, seeing that he had been misquoted responded that he'd never met Chen. "I have never said 'And carrying around an iPhone in Japan could make you look pretty lame.' I think most Japanese think iPhone is the coolest item. At least I have and love iPhone."
AppleInsider concluded that much of Wren's argument was rather inaccurate and unsupported. Yet, there isn't much dispute that iPhone sales have been somewhat soft in Japan, due to the array of competing devices along with the Japanese preference for homegrown technology.
At the release of the 3G iPhone, 500 applications are available with 10% of them being free and the other 90% being $10 or less.[25] The rise of applications brings the iPhone, and other smart phones, that much closer to becoming handheld PCs. Companies like Sega are utilizing the accelerometer, which detects motion, to produce a game app. Other companies are producing apps that help build friend networks, and others are utilizing the GPS to notify you when you are near a restaurant you like or that a friend recommended.[26]
On August 11, Apple announced that it had $30 million in application sales for the iPhone. In comments with the Wall Street Journal, Steve jobs said "This thing's going to crest a half a billion, soon.... who knows, maybe it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time…. I've never seen anything like this in my career for software."
The 3G iPhone was released on July 11th 2008 in 22 countries, and in the first 3 days 1 million 3G iPhones were sold. This makes the 3G iPhone one of the largest consumer electronics launch in history.[27] The new iPhone is priced at $199 and $299 for the 8GB and 16GB versions, respectively. However, Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, did a survey that found only 35% of buyers will be eligible for the price subsidy and that the average entry price level for an 8G will be more around $400.[28] The 3G speed is about 3x as fast as the current EDGE service and battery life has been boosted to 10 hours of 2G talk time or five hours of 3G talk time, about five hours of browsing, 24 hours of audio, seven hours of video playback, and 300 hours-standby. In addition, it will feature real GPS capability. The new iPhone was released to 22 countries on July 11th and will be offered in 70 countries by the end of the year. As for iPhone applications, a survey taken of iPhone developers found that about 70% of applications were expected to be offered for free, and for the rest the price would begin at $10, but likely drop to $3 or less.[29] Apple (AAPL) is initially offering 500 applications.
One concern about the new iPhone is its camera. The iPhone still has a 2 megapixel camera which is inferior to many of its smartphone competitors that have 3-5 megapixel capabilities. Apple may not put as much priority of the camera but a representative from Nokia called it the most important capability for a consumer purchasing a phone of this caliber.[30]
3G iPhone purchases require committing to a 5year service agreement which includes $30/month data plan. The cheapest voice plan offered is 450 minutes for $40/month. Thus, the minimum monthly service fee available is $70 (voice/data) yet text messages aren't included.
AT&T stated a no-contract 3G iPhone would eventually be offered for $599 for an 8 gig and $699 for a 16 gig.[31] As of January 2009, AT&T has yet to make available non-commitment pricing.
From the perspective of an iPhone application developer or any mobile software engineer, the iPhone is the most prime market, operating well even during the current worldwide recession and catering to the needs of the members of low socioeconomic status. [32] Due to this, mobile software developers face a seemingly unending supply of consumers who may buy a well designed application. Since the App Store ranks applications on both freshness and popularity, both new applications and popular old applications receive spotlight. This helps the developer publicize his application with little effort beyond the construction of the "App" itself.
There are many success stories due to the iPhone App store. One of the more popular success stories is Steve Demeter's $250,000 of profit after two months of releasing a puzzle game named Trism. [33].
Applications on the App Store sell from $1-$10, with a few exceptions. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple will keep 30% of the sales of an application and lets developers keep 70% of the income. [34] As of August 2008, Apple made approximately $30 million selling 60 million iPhone applications. [35]
A few controversies regarding the strict regulation of App Store applications bother iPhone App developers, none of which is cause for any concern to investors.
With the iPhone's and iPod Touch seamless integration with iTunes as well as the simple iPhone usage and computer usage, many consumers are turning to iTunes for the first time. Once a consumer is using iTunes they are very likely to be a repeat customer due to the copywrite code that makes the songs unable to be transfered to other portable devices.


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One of the favorite TV shows in Eric Casaburi's household is "Undercover Boss." The more episodes the family watched, the more Casaburi's two oldest children kept saying, "Dad, you would be so great on this show!"
On Friday night, 12-year-old Carmela and 11-year-old Eric Jr. are going to get their wish. Their dad, the CEO and founder of Retro Fitness, Colts Neck, NJ, is the star of this week's episode of "Undercover Boss." The show airs at 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Central on CBS.
This is the series where the CEO or an executive of a company goes in disguise and becomes an everyday employee and learns what really goes on during business hours. Shooting "Undercover Boss" was an eye-opening experience for Casaburi, to say the least.
"The journey is just amazing. It's very enlightening, at many levels," Casaburi said Tuesday from Disney World in Orlando, where he and his family were taking a quick vacation before the big show airs. The family includes wife Kim, 3-year-old daughter Victoria and 8-month-old Drew. You might recall Casaburi announced Drew's birth last year on Twitter.
Before appearing on the show, Casaburi made a few phone calls to people who know people who know people, and a few of those phone calls were returned. He eventually got an interview and learned the show has a qualification process for companies involving certain sales and employee parameters. Casaburi and his success with Retro Fitness passed the test. (For more on Casaburi's personal and professional history, you should really give this Q&A a read.)
The premise of Friday's show is that a film crew follows Casaburi around as he tries to land a spot on a game show. But it's not really Casaburi. In the show, he's Barry Goshe, which happens to be the name of a song Casaburi's high school band wrote.
"I knew I would not forget the name Barry Goshe," Casaburi says.
Casaburi also grew a beard, dyed it and wore a floppy wig, which makes him look more like Barry Gibb than Barry Goshe. (Hey, it is Retro Fitness, after all.) He also wore some padding under his shirt to make him look a little less in shape.
The show began filming in March at Retro Fitness clubs in Easton, PA, and Yonkers, NY, as well as clubs in northern New Jersey, Casaburi says. The whole time during shooting, Casaburi was without a cell phone, laptop or iPad. He face-timed his wife and kids (if they were still up) late at night from his hotel room after a long day.
Casaburi (as Barry) did everything as an employee, from hanging heavy bags to cleaning dumbbell racks to doing a sales tour to making prospecting phone calls. Not only does Casaburi work with an employee who A) doesn't like customers and B) doesn't follow directions, he also meets one employee who credits Retro Fitness for a life-changing experience.
"It's been a long time since I've actually worked as an employee at a gym," Casaburi says. "You're never treated the way you were treated when you were an employee when you are the CEO. Everyone's always on guard. Everyone always wants to be doing their best. No one is going to try to let the ball drop when they're juggling when you're there. But when you go in as an undercover guy…everybody is themselves, and you learn more."
Casaburi becomes the latest fitness club operator to appear on a TV show. The others include Curves co-founders Gary and Diane Heavin and Anytime Fitness co-founders Chuck Runyon and Dave Mortensen. Both sets of co-founders appeared on separate episodes of ABC's "Secret Millionaire." Last year, Jazzercise founder and CEO Judi Sheppard Missett appeared on the A&E network's "Be the Boss."
Ironically, Tony Wells, now of ADT, appeared on "Undercover Boss" two weeks ago. Wells previously served as the chief marketing officer at 24 Hour Fitness.
The exposure Retro Fitness will get Friday night is going to be through the roof, much like what Planet Fitness receives on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" and 24 Hour Fitness received on that show in years past. But the nationwide exposure is only one benefit Casaburi will take away from the show.
"We're at a turning point now where we're closing in on 100 clubs," Casaburi says. "If there's anything I've got to fix in my system, I better fix it now because once you get to that 200-, 300- to 500-(club) level, it's very difficult to fix or change it, especially a franchise (company).
"CBS gave me the opportunity to go undercover, and it was great. I'm thankful and grateful for it. And when you see the show, you'll realize why."


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Paradise Biryani Pointe (Emory Point)
In these parts, go-to Indian places are hard to come by. Or were, anyway. Owner Pavan is shaking things up with his quick, fresh and authentic Hyderabadi cuisine, served in a clean, minimalist dining space.Close your eyes. Think of your average hole-in-the-wall Indian place–you know the type, dim and dingy, full of thick, curry-infused air and sub-par cuisine. Never fear, Paradise Biryani Pointe is a vast improvement over those other locales. Now open your eyes. This rising Emory Point star is decorated in a sleek and clean, minimalist design. It's an open space in calming whites and grays with tall ceilings, and light streaming in through the expansive windows. Yes, this is the sort of place that just begs for you to swing by for a quick lunch, or pop in with a buddy or three to linger over dinner.
The owner, Pavan, had tired of Atlanta's practically documented lack of real, no-naansense (mmhmm) Indian fare and was inspired by concepts he'd seen in New York. And so, nearly two years ago, he rolled out Paradise's simple, easy-to-understand menu featuring the hits from Central India. The Hyderabadi cuisine is influenced by ancient Persian cooking, and includes such classics as Paradise's namesake: biryani. A flavorful rice dish, it is only prepared in the traditional way, which is to say, the right way. Though the speediness of each order may have you fooled: they aren't just plopping bland, universal rice into each of the dishes, mixing it after the fact. Each type of biryani is cooked ahead of time, either raw meat or raw vegetables along with the raw rice. In this way, Pavan explains, the dish is guaranteed to be bursting with authentic flavor. And just like the biryani, every dish you'll find on the menu, from spicy garlic naan to chicken tikka masala is made on-site, using only the highest quality ingredients. Really makes you re-evaluate your lunchtime decision-making paradigm, doesn't it?
Menu Highlights:
Vegetarian Samosas, $4.99
Vegetable Biryani, $11.49
Green Curry (Nilgiri Chicken), $11.99
Chicken Tikka Masala, $11.99
Garlic Naan, $2.99
Monday - Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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By Nancy Clark, MS, RD
My clients commonly ask what I recommend for breakfast. In general, my answer is any combination of wholesome choices from three food groups. More specifically, my answer is cereal because it's a simple way to get those three types of foods-whole grains, low-fat milk, and fruit-plus a host of other benefits. By eating a bowl of whole-grain cereal topped with fruit, you can get half of the recommended daily fruit and whole-grain servings before you even get out of your pajamas.
I'm big on cereals because they are all these positive things:
Cereal, in general, is a breakfast for champions, particularly if it is a whole-grain, high-fiber cereal that contributes to lower blood pressure and reduced risk of heart attacks. However, some brands offer far more nutritional value than others. Here are five tips to help you make wise choices as you romp through the cereal aisle.
Cereal may be one breakfast of champions, but it's not the only one. For you non-cereal-eaters, rest assured that other breakfasts can fuel you for a high-energy day. See the recipes in part IV for some wholesome high-carbohydrate breakfast breads and muffins you might want to enjoy with a glass of low-fat milk and some fruit or juice.
Dimitri, a businessman and breakfast skipper who needed to lose the 20 pounds (9 kg) of fat that had crept on since his years as a collegiate soccer player, decided to eat dinner for breakfast. He loved his chicken and potatoes, so instead of trying to have small portions at dinnertime, he ate his full dinner in the morning and then had cereal for supper. He lost weight easily and happily. Although few people are willing or able to make the effort to prepare dinner for breakfast, the point is that any breakfast is better than no breakfast, a bigger breakfast is preferable to a skimpy breakfast, and a hearty breakfast that includes wholesome foods is best for your health and performance.
If you are destined to eat breakfast at a fast-food restaurant, be sure to make wise food choices.
This is an excerpt from Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook 4E.
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We are the dot-com generation. As such, we lived through a historic boom and bust bubble cycle that was significantly injurious to the economy. Every American was affected in some way by this event. A key characteristic of the price run-up was that so few were willing to admit there was a problem, and even fewer still were willing to act on that belief.
Now that we're on the other side of the burst, we may feel as though we're experts on bubbles. Although we hear talk about bubbles all the time, the truth is that they tend to be rare events. Nevertheless, we look at current market trends and wonder whether it is a bubble or just a strong bull market. What is the difference?
According to one standardized definition (Wikipedia), a speculative bubble is distinguished by "trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values and could also be described as a situation which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future." In other words, it's a mania.
A common historic example is the Dutch tulip price bubble of the mid-1600s when tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the income of a skilled craftsman. The only explanation of such a scenario is psychological. In his book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," Charles Mackay explains how a crowd will behave irrationally from time to time. Another popular theory about manias and bubbles is the so-called "greater fool theory" that describes market participants beliving they can speculate on an asset, and no matter how overpriced it gets, they can resell it to some other speculator. This explanation certainly sounds familiar to those caught up in the housing bubble that peaked around 2006.
Riding the bull
We now need to differentiate bubbles from bull markets, which is a trend of confidence and increasing asset prices over a long period of time. A secular trend can last anywhere from five to 20 years. The two most powerful secular stock market trends in the second half of the 20th century lasted 17 years (1949-1966) and 18 years (1982-2000). While a bull market can end with a bubble, most of the time investors were optimistic about the future but did not view the future implausibly until the end.
The main difference between a bull and a bubble is the speculative component. One example is a company called Norris Communications. This was a bulletin board company that changed its name to e.Digital in 1999 when it traded that January at $0.06 per share. By Dec. 31, 1999, it was trading at $2.91. Three weeks later it was at $24.50. It quickly collapsed and resumed its former low price at $0.10 .
Perhaps the key component is the implausibility factor. In the British railway mania of the 1840s, total railway revenues in Britain in 1845 were £6 million. The expectation was for £60 million by 1852 while the actual revenues came in at £15 million. While tenfold increases are the expectation for new technologies or industries, by the 1840s the rails were no longer considered a new technology or industry. There had been a smaller rail bubble in the 1830s in Britain where revenues did increase tenfold. But to continue at that rate invoked the implausibility factor.
A bull and a bubble also can be differentiated by obvious market sentiment. While a bull market climbs a wall of worry — or caution — the characteristic sentiment of a bubble is a laissez-faire attitude and the belief that "this time is different."
After the financial crisis bottomed in 2009, media commentators would interview many guests and ask if they thought there would be a double-dip recession. The question was asked continuously while the market kept rising. In a bubble, nobody talks about recessions or is even worried about the possibility of a decline. In fact, the key psychological component is denial that prices ever could decline to past levels. Applying this analysis to today's rising stock market, it would suggest that this is a true bull market, as caution and worry have certainly accompanied the higher prices.


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Homeland vs. Scandal: Battle of the Political Soaps
Who has a better extramarital affair with serious political fallout?
One show's a high-end drama with the Emmys to prove it. One's a soapy underdog just starting to gain traction. They're both political stories with assassination attempts and scheming politicos, highly trained snipers, and more pantsuits than any sane person would know what to do with. Homeland and Scandal are cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is a soap-soaked American flag. There's room in our hearts for both, certainly, but how do they stack up head-to-head?
Homeland has the obvious advantage of having Claire Danes and her cry face, but Scandal casts a wider cry-net: Olivia (Kerry Washington) cries, but so do her sidekicks Abby (Darby Stanchfield) and Quinn (Katie Lowes). We've seen Jessica Brody (Morena Baccarin) get choked up, but it's not the open sobbing we've come to expect from the fixers at Scandal's Pope and Associates.
Winner: Scandal. Homeland almost never makes the audience cry, but Scandal considers that a virtue.
Evil Vice-Presidents
On Homeland, V.P. Walden ordered the drone strikes that killed Issa, among other innocent children. He also seemed like an assbag. On Scandal, Sally Langston (Kate Burton) is just as much of an assbag, but has slightly less blood on her hands. Not no blood. But less blood.
Winner: Homeland. R.I.P., Walden.
Forbidden Love
The best, most interesting kind of love! And the two romances in question have a lot in common: Both are adulterous for the men, both are fraught with professional fallout, both bring the women to tears on many occasions. But Homeland stumbled into its couple, while Scandal had its romance set up from the start. Both shows can be equally schmaltzy, but on Homeland that only extends to Carrie and Brody, whereas Scandal is a one-stop schmaltz shop, schmaltzing things up every which way. Now that we've seen Carrie and Brody together a lot, much of the intrigue has worn off. The exact opposite has happened with Olivia and Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) though: The flashbacks and love-confessions between her and the president just made it even harder to watch them be apart.
Winner: Scandal. We want Carrie to find someone more suitable.
Wise Middle-aged Guys
Carrie and Brody might be the stars of Homeland, but Saul is everyone's favorite, and with good reason. He's scrappy and takes no bullshit, and he's compassionate even in the face of terribleness. Plus that beard! Over at Scandal, Fitz's chief of staff Cyrus is the father figure you don't want to cross. (And just for our crazywall: Jeff Perry, who plays Cyrus, was once a mentor to a Claire Danes character, too, as Mr. Katimski on My So-Called Life.) He's more devious than Saul (yes, we hear you, Saul conspiracy theorists), more capable of cruelty, more ambitious, and more manipulative.
Winner: Homeland. Grow a beard and we'll see where things go, Cyrus.
Comparisons to the Creators' Previous Work
Before there was Homeland, there was 24 — and all the baggage that comes with it. Every bad episode of Homeland gets slapped with the label of being too much like 24, too reminiscent of that show's narrative shortcomings. For Shonda Rhimes and Scandal, the comparisons to Grey's Anatomy are a little different. Yes, Scandal shares a lot of DNA with Grey's: Our heroine is someone's mistress, many episodes include sobbing, the secondary characters tend to have interesting love lives, and the cast overlap is significant. (Cyrus and Sally on Scandal are Thatcher and Ellis on Grey's, for example.) But early era Grey's is the gold standard for contemporary melodrama. Any primetime soap would kill for a line as iconic as "Pick me! Choose me! Love me!" Scandal's getting there, and when I say the show reminds me of season-two-era Grey's, it's a compliment.
Winner: Scandal.
Does the Show Know What It Is?
We think of Homeland as a political thriller with romance; Scandal's a romance with political thriller. But this season of Homeland fell a little short on the thriller front and overindulged a bit on the romance, while Scandal found ways to make its White House setting even more sudsy and exciting. Know thyself, shows.
Winner: Scandal.