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ZHENGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Asia's top mergers and acquisitions bankers gathered two years ago at the swanky Island Shangri La in Hong Kong to celebrate the top deals of 2012. As the transactions were being toasted, one was unraveling.
Advisers on Caterpillar Inc's $677 million purchase of ERA Mining Machinery Ltd picked up an award for cross-border deal of the year. The purchase was billed as a coup for Caterpillar, the world's top maker of tractors and excavators. ERA was the holding company for Zhengzhou Siwei Mechanical & Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Co Ltd, one of China's biggest makers of hydraulic coal-mine roof supports. Siwei would help Caterpillar gain traction in the world's largest coal industry.
"Siwei was going to be our Chinese business card," said a person with direct knowledge of Caterpillar's strategy.
The night of the awards on November 16 three Caterpillar lawyers were wrapping up an eight-hour grilling of Wang Fu, Siwei's chairman. Major accounting problems had been unearthed at Siwei headquarters in the gritty Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Two months later, on January 18, 2013, Caterpillar said it had discovered "deliberate, multi-year, coordinated accounting misconduct" at Siwei.
Wang was sacked. Caterpillar took a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $580 million - 86 percent of the value of the deal. The company says it was caught unaware by the problems at Siwei and only discovered them in November 2012, five months after the deal closed.
A Reuters review of hundreds of pages of public documents, as well as interviews with former employees, board members, bankers and advisers, reveals a more complex story. Accounting problems were rampant at Siwei before Caterpillar bought it. Yet at multiple junctures, Caterpillar chose to ignore existing or potential problems and push ahead with the deal.
A year and a half after directors of the Peoria, Illinois-based company signed off on the deal, it has become a case study in how a foreign company with decades of experience in China can still flounder in that market. It also shows how willing some multinationals are to accept risks they might otherwise avoid to establish themselves in the world's second-largest economy.
The deal has triggered legal action against Caterpillar. In May, Caterpillar announced it had settled a dispute with Siwei's controlling shareholder, owned by an heir to the Crown Worldwide logistics company fortune and the former head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. Four shareholder suits filed in the United States in Caterpillar's home state of Illinois are continuing.
Meanwhile, Siwei has foundered. Former employees told Reuters that as of September, the company had no new orders in 2013, and it had fired or furloughed about half of its workforce.
Siwei's former CEO, Wang, says his books were a mess but he committed no wrongdoing.
"We were a legend in the industry," Wang, 52, told Reuters, in his first media interview since the announcement of the write-off. Wang is now pursuing a second act: He has launched a new company with a nearly identical name in the same business. He has yet to build a factory, but says he can take Siwei's old customers when he does.
Becoming A Chinese Manufacturer
When it bought Siwei, Caterpillar had been doing business in China for more than 30 years. It had amassed 20,000 China employees, dozens of manufacturing, research, logistics and parts centers and a broad dealer network. It had nine new facilities under construction, and had just completed the $8.8 billion purchase of Bucyrus, a mining and earth-moving company with significant China operations.
When former Chinese president Hu Jintao dined with a group of American businessmen in 2011, Caterpillar Chief Executive Doug Oberhelman was included.
But the company was slow to ramp up production of construction machinery in China and lost out on market share as a result, says Anthony Farmer, a former executive at Caterpillar. It didn't want to make the same mistake in coal mining equipment.
China's coal industry is the largest in the world, but it also insular. Local companies, particularly state-owned enterprises, prefer locally made products, said Farmer, now at construction and mining consultancy Millton Group.
Siwei was attractive. It once was state-owned, but no longer. That, and the fact that it was listed in Hong Kong - under the name of ERA - made it much easier for a foreign company to buy.
Moreover, the roof supports it made - spatula-like hydraulic arms that keep underground coal mines from collapsing - were lucrative, since 80 percent of China's mines are underground.
Siwei retained close ties to the government. In 2012 alone, it was visited twice by the Communist Party leader of Zhengzhou.
American Connections
Adding to the appeal, Siwei also had three high-profile investors with American ties.
Li Rubo, an American-trained mining engineer and an early Siwei investor, had arranged mining deals in Russiaand Mongolia - sensitive undertakings that would have required political connections.
Emory Williams, an American business associate of Li, was a major shareholder and chairman of Siwei's parent. He had invested in a Beijing concrete business back in the mid-1990s. The son of a former senior Sears executive, Williams had also served as chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. And along with Li, he had founded another Chinese mining company recently sold to another American mining equipment maker.
The third investor was Jimmy Thompson. He was Li Rubo's son-in-law - and the son of billionaire Jim Thompson, who founded Crown Worldwide, the transport, relocation and storage giant.
Li and Williams were part of the reason Caterpillar felt comfortable with the acquisition, several people with direct knowledge of the situation said.
"They provided loans, they helped finance the company," one of those people said.
Beyond that, their influence was limited. "The show was run out of Zhengzhou on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately, they were further away from the business than I had expected," that person said. "Our reliance on them was the blind leading the blind."
Li, Thompson and Williams declined to comment for this story.
Project Sequoia
Steve Wunning, the Peoria-based president of Caterpillar's mining equipment division, Resource Industries, and then-Chief Financial Officer, Ed Rapp, pitched the idea of buying Siwei to the company's board of directors in October 2011. It was codenamed "Project Sequoia." The board expressed support for the strategy, according to court documents filed in the United States.
The first sign of trouble surfaced quickly. On November 7, 2011, the board received a two-page memo explaining that Siwei would need an immediate $50 million loan for working capital. Excerpts of the memo were contained in the court documents.
The memo explained that Siwei's customers weren't paying what they owed. It also noted Siwei hadn't made overtime payments to its workers and didn't hold operating permits required by Chinese regulations. Fixing these and other issues, the memo said, would cost CAT as much as $30 million.
The board was unfazed. That same day, the directors voted for the acquisition, authorizing the purchase of Siweifor up to $964 million. It would be the biggest foreign machinery acquisition in Hong Kong or China since the country opened up for business in 1978. The board also authorized the loan for working capital.
Four months later, in March 2012, the board received another memo signaling trouble at Siwei, court documents showed. The company had missed its 2011 financial targets, and its parent company, ERA, was going to report a $2 million loss rather than a $16 million profit. Wunning also told the board that Siwei's average receivables had grown to an extraordinary 371 days, according to filings in connection to the court case.
Corporate filings show the amount owed to Siwei by customers had risen 58 percent per year since 2008, overtaking total sales in 2011. Some 90 percent of those debts were overdue when Caterpillar launched its bid.
Mining equipment companies typically finance at least part of their customers' purchases. However, once accounts are more than 90 days old, they are almost always disqualified from being counted as collateral for loans. At six months, they are widely recognized as needing to be turned over to a collection agency, or they are written off or reserved in full, according to one of the four shareholder suits filed in the United States. The complaint says the receivables issue rendered Siwei's revenues and assets "highly suspicious and most likely wholly illusory."
Unsold goods were also a problem for Siwei. At the end of 2010, the average number of days Siwei's products sat in storage was 414, double what it was during China's economic slowdown in 2009.
No 'Red Flags'
Caterpillar spokesman Jim Dugan said the company would not comment directly on matters of "pending litigation."
But he said Siwei's accounting problems were unrelated to the profit warning and other issues the company found during its due diligence of the acquisition.
"The Siwei accounting issues that led to the goodwill impairment charge involved Siwei's falsification of its books," Dugan said in an email. "Therefore, Siwei's profit warning and failure to meet its 2011 targets, the $50 million working capital loan to Siwei, and other issues that came up in the course of Caterpillar's diligence were not 'red flags' as to the accounting fraud."
The news release announcing Caterpillar's tender offer went out on June 6, 2012.
Documents produced for one of the Illinois court cases show that Caterpillar's board of directors did not ask for the results of the due diligence investigation, which ran from about September 2011 until June 2012. The board also did not look into whether Siwei's financial problems had been resolved. And it did not adjust the offer price, the documents indicate.
Siwei had been focused almost entirely on gaining market share. Getting customers to actually pay their bills came to seem like an afterthought, former executives told Reuters.
"They would take orders without down payments, so they had to finance the whole thing," said a person with direct involvement with Siwei. The point "was to try to get market share." This person added: "These were all things we felt we could fix once we were on board."
Caterpillar was so bullish on China, it may have been willing to overlook some of Siwei's problems, former insiders say.
"There was also a lot of euphoria. We were really going to dominate. Not only in mining but also in China," the person said, and old China hands Williams, Li and Thompson would help. "Obviously it was too much, and we got burned."
Legend In The Industry
At first, Wang Fu was equally exuberant about the deal. Siwei's former CEO is a native of the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning with nearly 30 years experience in the machinery industry. His first job out of college in 1984 was with the state-owned company from which Siwei would eventually be spun out in 2003.
In Siwei's first year of operation after the spinoff, sales were less than 20 million yuan. Growth came quickly amid China's insatiable hunger for coal. By 2011, revenue approached 2 billion yuan ($500 million).
On June 8, 2012, two days after the acquisition was completed, Caterpillar executives addressed Siwei's first post-merger board meeting in Zhengzhou. They pledged to preserve Siwei's culture and way of doing business.
Wang says he was inspired. Siwei would retain independence, but be able to draw upon the experience and expertise of its new Fortune 500 parent.
The excitement faded quickly. Accounts of what went wrong, why and how, now diverge completely in Peoria and Zhengzhou.
In the interview, Wang said he knew Siwei's accounting methodology was bad, and its finance team too inexperienced to make improvements. He said as CEO, his primary concern had been chasing market share. "Better to have market share than to solve every single problem and lose the market." But his finance team, he said, couldn't keep up as the firm grew and orders poured in.
Wang said he was proactive about the accounting problems. He raised it two or three times at Siwei board meetings, he said, hoping Caterpillar's more experienced finance team could help. He said the board gave him half a year to resolve the issue.
Caterpillar denies that. Spokesman Dugan said Wang never brought the issue up and said Siwei's accounting problems - including the existence of a second set of books - were only discovered in November 2012, after Caterpillar found inventory discrepancies.
Wang says there was no second set of accounting books.
The Game Is Up
Wang said he mobilized employees in finance, sales, manufacturing and technology to dig into the accounting issues following the acquisition. At the time, Wang said, nobody knew exactly how bad things were.
By October 2012, Wang found that costs were sometimes allocated to incorrect projects. Other times, the company had simply not capitalized costs, or had accounted for them improperly on Siwei's balance sheet. Siwei had also double-booked some sales, which led to inventory discrepancies.
At the same time, however, by Wang's estimates, the company's income had been underreported by about 170 million yuan because it had under-valued equipment made in-house.
Caterpillar spokesman Dugan said this account was not accurate, but did not respond to specific questions about whether Caterpillar had written off too much. Requests to interview Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Oberhelman were declined.
In the months to follow, Wang's relationship with Caterpillar soured. Every decision, it seemed to Wang, had to go through Caterpillar's lawyers, and Wang said he rarely interacted with senior Caterpillar executives.
At the end of Wang's marathon grilling by Caterpillar attorneys on November 16, the day of the awards ceremony in Hong Kong, the attorneys concluded there had been mismanagement but no fraud, Wang said.
Two months later, Wang says he was told to drop by Caterpillar's China headquarters in Beijing at the tail end of a business trip. Company lawyers fired him, he says, and refused to answer his questions.
The written notice said: "Your misconduct and serious dereliction of duty have caused severe damage to the company. You have also seriously violated company rules."
Since Caterpillar bought Siwei, it has had no new orders for hydraulic roof supports, two former employees with knowledge of customer accounts said.
The number of working employees fell to about 1,900 in September from about 4,300 at the start of the year, one former office employee said. Four other former employees corroborated the scope of the cuts.
Wang feels Caterpillar never had a "comprehensive understanding" of Siwei's financial situation and believes he was the scapegoat.
"It looks like it is precisely to justify and cover up a dereliction of duty by their so-called elite teams that an easily discovered management issue is labeled as deliberate, intentional fraud," he said.
Caterpillar stands by its allegation of fraud. And it is trying to open a new era at the company it acquired.
On November 8 it announced the company name had been changed to Caterpillar (Zhengzhou) Ltd. The Siweibrand, it said, would be phased out.
(Reporting by John Ruwitch and Clare Baldwin. Additional reporting by Alina Selyukh. Editing by Bill Powell and Bill Tarrant.)
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Alright, I know, we're two weeks into the new year, a new decade even, and the time for Top 10s has passed. Well, you're going to have to make room for one more because I have done one as well.
What follows is my Top 10 most memorable, enjoyable, amazing cigars that I smoked last year. I decided to make my Top 10 all about the highest scoring cigars that I smoked but, rather, the cigars that scored well and were special to me for some reason or another. Price is a small consideration in this list but quality is what is most important.
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This cigar is awesome. I only gave it 89 points but, once you consider the price point, it's a steal. For less than $4.00 (if you buy a box of 30) you will get a little bomb of flavor.
9. Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary Maduro
The Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary Maduro Robusto is a fine cigar. Medium bodied with chocolate and earthy flavors. Maybe not enough complexity but a joy to smoke nonetheless.
I was walking through a local cigar shop, saw this cigar at what turned out to be a hefty markup (thanks to the California taxes, I'm sure) and decided to pick it up. After all, it was the top cigar at Cigar Aficionado in 2008. And it is good but not mind blowingly good. The Casa Magna Colorado Belicoso has spice, wood and nuts as the main flavors. Definitely worth it considering the price.
A torpedo, the CAO L'Anniversaire Maduro Belicoso, was a wonderful blend of earth and chocolate. Loads of flavor and enough complexity with this cigar to make it very enjoyable. I have been meaning to pick up some of these again and now that it's officially in my Top 10 I don't see why I shouldn't.
6. Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente
I started out smoking the Gran Reserva line of Fuentes and because of that they will always hold a special place in my heart. Even though I don't consider the normal Fuente line to be anything special anymore this one was a home run for me. I loved everything about it.
When I smoked the Man O' War Ruination Robusto No. 1 I wasn't expecting a whole lot. The original Man O' War line was a fine cigar and I was thinking I was going to get something along those lines, maybe a little better. Boy was I wrong. Yeah, it was full bodied but it had a lot of flavor and depth to it as well; something I thought was lacking from the original line.
The Tatuaje Miami Reserva J21 is simply a great cigar. Tons of complex flavors from beginning to end with this one. Need I say more?
3. Padron Anniversary Series (Natural)
The Padron Anniversary Series Monarca is a special cigar. Tons of full bodied flavor oozes from this cigar. If only the second half had been as good as the first half I bet this cigar would have been my favorite cigar of the year. And, ironically, it was the first cigar I smoked in 2009. Nothing like starting off with a bang!
This cigar, the Fuente Fuente Opus X Belicoso XXX, received my highest score this year with 96 points and the only reason why it's not going to be number one is because of the price. $26.00 is a lot to pay for a cigar that is less than five inches long but you have to give the Devil its due with this one. It really is a special cigar and its flavor profile matches up with what I like extraordinarily well.
Smoking the Camacho Triple Maduro 50/4.5 was Heavenly for me. This is the one cigar that I go back to as often as I can and, even though I gave a higher mark to the Opus X, that is why it's my top cigar for 2009.


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Anyone can apply to be a foster carer.
Contact your local council if you're interested in fostering.
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Some local councils use fostering agencies to get children into foster care, particularly children who might be hard to place. You can contact a fostering agency in your area directly.
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You'll attend a group preparation session with other people who are applying.
Your suitability to foster will be assessed. This can take up to 6 months.
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Providence Health Care Selects M*Modal to Deliver Speech-Enabled Transcription Services for the Lower Mainland Health Authorities in Canada
Published on December 11, 2012
M*Modal's Fluency for Transcription Speech Platform Brings Improved Physician Productivity, Quality and Cost Savings to the Largest Hospital Network in British Columbia
Vancouver, BC– December 11, 2012 – M*Modal Canada, a leading provider of clinical documentation and speech understanding solutions, today announced that Providence Health Care (PHC) , leader of consolidated Health Information Management service across British Columbia's Lower Mainland, has selected M*Modal Fluency for Transcription™ as the exclusive speech platform for all Lower Mainland Health Authorities hospitals and facilities. As the largest health network in British Columbia, Canada, Lower Mainland Health Authorities will be implementing this technology in 38 hospitals and health centers to improve the quality of documentation and productivity for approximately 10,000 physicians.
PHC was charged with identifying a clinical documentation platform to replace multiple aged, legacy systems throughout the Lower Mainland Health Authorities facilities, and selected M*Modal Canada for its ability to deploy a single, speech-based solution. In addition to PHC, Lower Mainland Health Authorities includes Fraser Health, Vancouver Coastal Health and Provincial Health Services Authority.
"We are intensely focused on developing a clinical documentation model that provides the highest quality care with best-in-class efficiency and turnaround times," said Yoel Robens-Paradise, Executive Director, Integrated Health Information Management at Providence Health Care. "We've partnered with M*Modal to deliver on that promise with a common platform that works seamlessly across all of our facilities and improves physician productivity."
M*Modal's Fluency for Transcription gives physicians a single document management and workflow solution that integrates the capture of voice with speech recognition, editing and electronic signature tools. With this platform, physicians can quickly and easily create comprehensive electronic health records that relay the heart of the patient's story.
"Our cloud-based technology surpasses traditional transcription solutions, giving physicians reliable, accurate records that will allow them to provide better care to their patients and improve the workflow of the entire health facility," said Vern Davenport, CEO, M*Modal. "The opportunity to work with one of the largest healthcare providers in Canada is very exciting for our global team."
Hospitals and health systems continue to be faced with the challenge of increasing documentation requirements. As the largest clinical documentation services provider in the U.S. and Canada, M*Modal offers the scalability and high-quality documentation to help customers maximize healthcare resources, turnaround time and return on investment. Cloud-based M*Modal Fluency for Transcription further empowers quality assurance and HIM personnel to monitor quality and transcription workflows. The solution also enables physicians to dictate anytime, anywhere, on any device, and perform real-time editing of their own speech recognized reports, improving speed and the entire transcription process.
For more information on M*Modal please visit www.mmodal.clientcreative.com or follow on Twitter @MModal.
About Providence Health Care
Providence Health Care is one of Canada's largest faith-based health care organizations, operating 16 facilities within Vancouver Coastal Health. Guided by the principle "How you want to be treated," PHC's 1,200 physicians, 6,000 staff and 1,500 volunteers deliver compassionate care to patients and residents in British Columbia. Providence's programs and services span the complete continuum of care and serve people throughout B.C. PHC operates one of two adult academic health science centres in the province, performs cutting-edge research in more than 30 clinical specialties, and focuses its services on six "populations of emphasis": cardiopulmonary risks and illnesses, HIV/AIDS, mental health, renal risks and illness, specialized needs in aging and urban health.
About M*Modal and MModal Inc.
M*Modal is a leading healthcare technology provider of advanced clinical documentation solutions, enabling hospitals and physicians to enrich the content of patient electronic health records (EHR) for improved healthcare and comprehensive billing integrity. As the largest clinical transcription service provider in the U.S., with a global network of medical editors, M*Modal also provides advanced cloud-based Speech Understanding technology and data analytics that enable physicians and clinicians to capture and include the context of their patient narratives in a single step into electronic health records, further enhancing their productivity and the cost-saving efficiency and quality of patient care at the point of care. M*Modal has been recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America, placing in the top third of Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 for 2012. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.clientcreative.com, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.


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"Fashion can tell you everything that is going on in the world," says Anna Wintour in the new documentary "In Vogue: The Editor's Eye," which debuted this week on HBO.
And what is fashion telling us right now? Insiders and observers agree: personality is what's driving the world of style.
From the placement of New York designer wunderkind Alexander Wang to the creative directorship of storied French fashion house Balenciaga; Rihanna announcing she will produce and star in a reality series that will focus on celebrity dressing; a maternity-wear industry thrilled over the announcement of a royal baby on the way in the U.K.; to that documentary exploring the behind-the-scenes work of fashion editors at Vogue, it's the people who create the trends that are now firmly in the spotlight.
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"Fashion has always played an integral part in my life and career," said Rihanna in a statement Wednesday announcing her show "Styled to Rock," tentatively scheduled to air on the Style network in the second half of 2013. The reality series will feature 12 designers -- hand-selected by the singer -- who will be tasked with creating various looks for celebrities.
Barbados-born Rihanna splits her time between homes in L.A. and New York, but spends much of the year traveling the world promoting and performing her music. That gives her a unique insight into global trends – a physical, on the ground view of what the majority of fashion followers only experience via Instagram and Tumblr.
Her personal mix of high/low style includes pairing designer jackets with street brand denim and mass appeal sports footwear; a haute street approach that has made her a style icon to women of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds. Rihanna's personality directly informs her brand.
That notion couldn't be more evident than in the appointment of 28-year-old Alexander Wang as creative director at Balenciaga. Wang is expected to bring the streetwise edge and social popularity that has made him one of the brightest stars of the American style scene to the French fashion house that was founded in 1914, according to WWD.
"We really spent time understanding who is, not what is, the brand — the human being," François-Henri Pinault (the man behind fashion conglomerate PPR which owns the Balenciaga brand) told WWD. "Alexander Wang is young and he has a very universal culture. He is American with Chinese roots. His family is based in Shanghai... I like that he's young and based in New York, so we will have more exposure of the brand worldwide."
Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has enthralled the globe with her chicly elegant approach to dressing. Always appropriate and never overtly sexual, her choice of that Alexander McQueen wedding dress in 2010 cemented her as one to watch. So on trend and appealing has she become that Vanity Fair promoted her to their 2012 Best Dressed List.
Kate's influence on clothing purchases has been dubbed "the Duchess Effect," and with news that she is pregnant with an heir to the British throne, her choices of maternity clothing will no doubt provide inspiration to American moms-to-be as much as her wedding dress informed prospective brides.
"The big maternity style designers will be keeping a close eye on what she is wearing and then designing pieces that they will actually market as Kate Middleton style," Shannon Guyton, style director of TheBump.com said following the announcement. "And moms everywhere will start mimicking whatever elements she brings - like sleeved gowns following her wedding."
Lesser known fashion personalities step into the spotlight in "In Vogue: The Editor's Eye." The documentary highlights the visual and historical contribution fashion editors have made to the pages of the magazine over the years. The special focuses on editors past and present including Babs Simpson, Tonne Goodman and Grace Coddington (whose no-nonsense attitude already gained fame thanks to her scene stealing appearance in 2009's "The September Issue") and the images they helped create.
"It's not just about fashion, it's about culture, it's about Hollywood," former Vogue editor Jade Hobson says in the documentary of fashion's reach and influence. "It reports on the world at large."
At the helm of Vogue is Wintour, herself a larger-than-life personality now making headlines thanks to reported rumors of a possible future political ambassadorship due to her fundraising efforts for President Obama. The official word from Wintour is that she is happy where she is, and with 2013 marking her 25th year at the helm of one of the world's most successful fashion bibles, it's difficult to imagine her stepping down in advance of such a landmark anniversary.


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It never ceases to amaze me how our government spends money hand over fist for illegal immigrants. It is a slap in the face to all taxpayers and legal immigrants who have taken the steps needed to stay and live here. Take a look:
Links to check out: Cost of Illegal Immigration , Immigration and Welfare and The high cost of cheap labor
A Real Eye Opener
Informative, and mind boggling!
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:
Boy, was I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts…
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML
9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the US from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report:
12. The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute…org/PDF/deportation..PDF
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14.. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'
Verify at: http: // http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml http://ww/%20w.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.
Are we THAT stupid? YES, FOR LETTING THOSE IN THE U.S.CONGRESS GET AWAY WITH LETTING THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!


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Prospect of the Week (5.2.12)
This season Bolt Prospects introduced our Prospect of the Week award, an honor (virtually) given to one Tampa Bay Lightning prospect for their on-ice contributions.
We wanted to highlight prospects throughout the year to help fans get better acquainted with the next round of Lightning stars while recognizing the prospect's achievement on the ice.
This week's BP Prospect of the Week award goes to … Alex Killorn, Norfolk Admirals (AHL).
Norfolk fans were thanking the heavens for Alex Killorn last week as the pre-rookie pro (he's on a tryout contract after finishing at Harvard) scored the overtime winner for the Admirals to clinch their first round Calder Cup series against Manchester.
Killorn, a First Team All-American by the American Hockey Coaches Association, had four points in two games last week. On Wednesday, he had two assists as Norfolk beat Manchester 5-2 on the road to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-5 series. Then on Friday, he had the primary assist on Evan Oberg's first period goal that tied the game at one goal apiece. Killorn carried the puck into the zone on the play, retrieved the rebound of his own shot, then protected the puck along the boards before feeding it to Oberg on the blueline. Oberg's point shot found it's way through goaltender Jeff Zatkoff and into the net.
On his overtime winner, Killorn followed up an outstanding individual effort by teammate Alex Picard, who had escaped a check on the wall to create a 2 on 1 down low on Zatkoff. His pass was blocked by a sliding defenseman, but Killorn was there to deposit the puck into the upper portion of the net to send the Admirals on to the second round with a 4-3 win.
Killorn, who looks pro ready now and is ranked the organization's top prospect by Bolt Prospects, could be a serious contender for a spot on the Lightning next season. He needs some professional seasoning, which he's getting right now for Norfolk. Technically, he's not a professional rookie until next year when his entry contract kicks in.
The former Harvard star has six points in four playoff games so far – all coming in the last three contests.
Previous BP Prospects of the Week:
Riku Helenius, JYP (Finland) - April 25, 2012
Cory Conacher, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) - April 16, 2012
Mark Barberio, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) - April 11, 2012
Tyler Johnson, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) - April 4, 2012
Norfolk Admirals Hockey Club (AHL) - March 27, 2012
Richard Panik, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) - March 21, 2012
Tyler Johnson, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) - March 13, 2012
Danick Gauthier, Saint John (QMJHL) - March 6, 2012
Matt Peca, Quinnipiac (NCAA) - February 29, 2012
Pat Nagle, Florida (ECHL) - February 21, 2012
Alex Hutchings, Florida (ECHL) - February 14, 2012
Alex Killorn, Harvard (NCAA) - February 6, 2012
Adam Wilcox, Tri-City (USHL) and Alex Killorn, Harvard (NCAA) - January 30, 2012
Nikita Kucherov, CSKA Jr. (Russia) - January 24, 2012
Riku Helenius, JYP (Finland) - January 16, 2012
Brett Connolly, Canada (U20 WJC) - January 10, 2012
*Due to the Christmas break when few games below the NHL level were played, no POTW award was given.
Mark Barberio, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) - December 19, 2011
Vladislav Namestnikov, London Knights (OHL) - December 12, 2011
Tyler Johnson, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) - December 5, 2011
Alex Killorn, Harvard (NCAA) - November 28, 2011
Nikita Kucherov, Team Russia/CSKA Jr. (MHL) - November 21, 2011
Vladislav Namestnikov, London Knights (OHL) - November 14, 2011
Dustin Tokarski, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) - November 6, 2011
Riku Helenius, JYP (Finland) - October 30, 2011
Matthew Peca, Quinnipiac Bobcats - October 23, 2011
Radko Gudas, Norfolk Admirals - October 16, 2011
Carter Ashton, Norfolk Admirals - October 9, 2011
Brett Connolly, Tampa Bay Lightning - October 2, 2011
Mattias Ritola, Tampa Bay Lightning - September 25, 2011
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Just like everything else this Chicago-born, father-and-son duo has concocted, the Skip Burger is a classic for a reason. That reason? It's just good ol' fashioned, 'Merican deliciousness.If we were to close our eyes and think real hard about what exactly constitutes a neighborhood hot dog joint, Skip's Hot Dogs would be the first to spring to mind. With its cozy, homey space, throwback booths and cheery mustard yellow walls, it has everything we could hope for in such a place, including the delicious hot dogs. But Skip's doesn't just settle for being a respectable Chicago-dog joint. No sir, in addition to providing on-site catering, here the cooks also sling a mighty fine burger, and with confidence. The Skip's Burger, as it's affectionately called, is a marinated quarter-pound patty, piled high with lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions and all the requisite condiments. And, yes, it tastes as good as it sounds.
Just like everything else this Chicago-born, father-and-son duo has concocted, the Skip Burger is a classic for a reason. That reason? It's just good ol' fashioned, 'Merican deliciousness. Let's talk a little more about that marinade, shall we? Instead of just slapping some seasoning onto the burger and calling it good, Skip's marinates every patty with care, letting it soak up the goodness of that housemade sauce. And in case you were wondering: yes, it's basically a direct infusion of flavor. We're more than okay with that.
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Critics say arrests and other actions do little to address the root causes and merely drive the homeless elsewhere
When Georgia Anderson goes out with friends near her downtown condo, some of them are terrified of running into the people she spends many of her days with.
Anderson volunteers at Resurrection House in Sarasota, which provides basic services such as meals, clothing and job placement to thousands of homeless people.
"They don't understand each other," Anderson said of the disparate populations. "They live in two different worlds."
While the lingering economic downturn continues to increase homelessness in the area — the number of homeless seeking services in Manatee and Sarasota counties has nearly tripled since 2008, federal data show — Sarasota's reaction to the growing problem has been sporadic and often complaint-based.
When downtown businesses and condo owners complained about the nearby homeless, city officials pulled benches from Five Points Park and police stepped up enforcement of a strict no-trespassing policy.
Local officials landed in the spotlight again two weeks ago after police arrested a homeless man at Gillespie Park for charging his cellphone at a public pavilion. He plans to sue the city, and the local American Civil Liberties Union has used his arrest as a rallying cry for a scheduled news conference today about what they dubbed the city's "war on the homeless."
Advocates say such arrests do little to address the root causes of homelessness and merely drive the population elsewhere.
"There's a real strong group that says, 'Not in my backyard, have them go somewhere else,' " said Bryan Pope, general manager at Sarasota's Salvation Army. "That's not a solution, that's a relocation."
Pope and other advocates hope a new group of city leaders — including a city manager who started three months ago and a new police chief who is slated to begin in January — will settle on an approach that is more carrot than stick.
Incoming Police Chief Bernadette DiPino said she wants to take police out of the equation where possible, and instead connect people with the social services or treatment they need.
"If that connection hasn't been made yet, we'll begin to make it," City Manager Tom Barwin said.
However, any changes that DiPino and Barwin decide on will ultimately require a sign-off from their bosses, the five city commissioners, who answer to the public's divided demands.
The city has cracked down on crimes often linked to the homeless.
From January through September of this year, arrests for illegal lodging, panhandling and trespassing have jumped compared with the past two years. Arrests for illegal lodging — sleeping outdoors, which the city prohibited in 2005 — shot up from four in 2011 to 111 this year.
Over the past few months, commissioners have asked police to give reports on vagrancy downtown.
Police responded that they made 55 arrests around Five Points Park in August, where the most common problems were open container and illegal lodging violations. Since September, police have made about 95 arrests in the area, Capt. Wade McVay said.
Tough enforcement downtown has moved more homeless people into the neighborhoods, McVay said. In September and October police have also given commissioners "hot spot" reports that list open container, outdoor lodging and trespassing arrests in Five Points Park, Fredd Atkins Park and Gillespie Park.
Police focus on residents' requests and try to curb problematic behavior, McVay said.
When a sergeant arrested Darren Kersey on charges of theft of city utilities as he charged his cellphone at a Gillespie Park outlet, the officer was responding to months of pleading from neighbors, said Linda Holland, president of the Gillespie Park Neighborhood Association.
In June, Holland wrote a letter to city officials urging them to do something about the homeless people who pollute the park, use it as a bathroom, harass neighbors and use city electricity.
"I know people think it's just so minor," she said. "It's not if you have to put up with it day after day and if it takes away form the hard work you've done to make it a pleasant place for the other 90 percent."
Mayor Suzanne Atwell characterized Kersey's arrest and commissioners' decision last year to remove benches from Five Points Park, where many homeless slept, as "symptoms."
"Obviously this is all about behavior management," the former mental health counselor said. "Sometimes you have to act when there's a critical mass of unacceptable behavior."
There is no city that has a perfect solution, and every community has different demands, said Pope, of the Salvation Army. What might work in a city with a younger, more tolerant population will not fly in Sarasota, he said.
At Resurrection House, Anderson checks in hundreds of people who do not have a place to live.
They come to the one-story building to do the basics. Take a shower. Throw in a load of laundry. Make a call.
Anderson is one of more than 200 volunteers who help operate the nonprofit. When she moved to Sarasota 10 years ago, she did not know what to do when homeless people asked her for money on the street.
She was not sure cash was the best way to help. Instead of giving money, she decided to volunteer.
The organization has been operating for 22 years, director Bill Wilson said, and the decisions of City Hall, just a few blocks south, do not impact its work.
But like the other organizations that serve the homeless in Sarasota, there is a divide between who gets in and who remains on the curb outside. People who are disruptive or dangerous, often those with an addiction or mental illness, are not allowed in.
Organizations that help the homeless get a higher return on their investment if they work with the population of people who want to change their lives, Pope said.
When complaints arise from residents about the homeless, they usually are directed to law enforcement.
The police department ends up in a Catch-22 where either residents or an organization like the ACLU is upset, said DiPino, who will replace retiring Police Chief Mikel Hollaway on Jan. 1.
"Do you think we want to arrest people for minor violations? No," DiPino said.
"Our only real authority is to arrest people," she said. "We don't have the authority to order people to go to the hospital and get their medications, we don't have the authority to tell people to get a job."
Police interaction with homeless people should fall under the classic motto: protect and serve, said Neil Donovan, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless.
"We don't ask them to make unreasonable accommodations," Donovan said. "We just ask for equity."
In 2006, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless named Sarasota the meanest city in the nation after commissioners repeatedly pushed to pass an ordinance prohibiting people from sleeping outdoors. The coalition has since done away with the "meanest list," which was based on anecdotes, not fact, Donovan said.
But the ACLU argues the city is still trying to arrest or cite the homeless away.
Barwin, the new city manager, disagrees. The one direction he has gotten from commissioners on handling homelessness has been clear, he said.
"We need to make everyone feel safe here at all times," Barwin said.
Kersey, who was arrested for charging his phone at Gillespie Park, talked with friends outside Resurrection House last week. He had no advice for the city manager, but hopes something more can be done to improve the situation for himself and others without a home.
"Where are we supposed to go?" he asked.


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"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently called the current Supreme Court ' … one of the most activist courts in history.' We agree," said AFJ Justice Programs Director Michelle Schwartz. "Conservatives preach judicial restraint, but, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court majority routinely overreaches in pursuit of an ideological agenda."
The most prominent recent example of the Court's activism is the majority's decision to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "We agree with Justice Ginsburg's description of that decision," Schwartz said. "She called it 'stunning in its activism.'
According to the report, the Court majority
…has rewritten the rules and gone to bat for a conservative agenda that shields the most powerful interests in American society at the expense of the most vulnerable.
The courthouse doors are increasingly shut to those who have been harmed by corporate malfeasance and powerful interests, because the Roberts Court has changed long-standing rules of the game … At the same time, the Court has ignored settled precedent to undermine, or even completely eviscerate, critical civil and human rights, consumer protection, environmental, and other laws that are contrary to a conservative agenda.In cases after case, according to AFJ's report, the current Supreme Court majority, led by Chief Justice John Roberts:
● Decides to hear cases about legal issues which do not currently warrant Supreme Court review.
● Answers questions not presented to the court, thereby issuing broad, new legal rules without consistency, logic or fairness to the parties involved.
● Decides factual issues that should be left to lower courts and Congress.
The report illustrates these practices through brief analyses of more than a dozen cases decided in recent years, and notes that the Court will hear several more in the term beginning in October that threaten additional overreach by the justices.
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THURSDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Parkinson's disease has no cure, but three experimental treatments may help patients cope with unpleasant symptoms and related problems, according to new research.
The research findings will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in San Diego from March 16 to 23.
"Progress is being made to expand our use of medications, develop new medications and to treat symptoms that either we haven't been able to treat effectively or we didn't realize were problems for patients," said Dr. Robert Hauser, professor of neurology and director of the University of South Florida Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center in Tampa.
Parkinson's disease, a degenerative brain disorder, affects more than 1 million Americans. It destroys nerve cells in the brain that make dopamine, which helps control muscle movement. Patients experience shaking or tremors, slowness of movement, balance problems and a stiffness or rigidity in arms and legs.
In one study, Hauser evaluated the drug droxidopa, which is not yet approved for use in the United States, to help patients who experience a rapid fall in blood pressure when they stand up, which causes light-headedness and dizziness. About one-fifth of Parkinson's patients have this problem, which is due to a failure of the autonomic nervous system to release enough of the hormone norepinephrine when posture changes.
Hauser studied 225 people with this blood-pressure problem, assigning half to a placebo group and half to take droxidopa for 10 weeks. The drug changes into norepinephrine in the body.
Those on the medicine had a two-fold decline in dizziness and lightheadedness compared to the placebo group. They had fewer falls, too, although it was not a statistically significant decline.
In a second study, Hauser assessed 420 patients who experienced a daily "wearing off" of the Parkinson's medicine levodopa, during which their symptoms didn't respond to the drug. He compared those who took different doses of a new drug called tozadenant, which is not yet approved, with those who took a placebo. All still took the levodopa.
At the start of the study, the patients had an average of six hours of "off time" a day when symptoms reappeared. After 12 weeks, those on a 120-milligram or 180-milligram dose of tozadenant had about an hour less of "off time" each day than they had at the start of the study.
Tozadenant, which works on brain receptors thought to regulate motor function, merits further study in future trials, Hauser said.
In another study, Hauser looked at 321 patients with early stage Parkinson's whose symptoms weren't handled well by a medicine called a dopamine agonist, typically the first drug prescribed for Parkinson's patients. During the 18-week study, Hauser assigned them to take either their usual medicine plus an add-on drug called rasagiline (brand name Azilect) or their usual medicine and a placebo.
Azilect is approved for use in patients with early stage disease as a single therapy or as an add-on to levodopa, Hauser said, but not yet as an add-on to dopamine agonists.
Those taking the Azilect -- but not those taking the placebo -- improved by 2.4 points on a standard Parkinson's disease rating scale.
Costs of the still unapproved drugs are not known. Azilect costs about $200 monthly at the 1-milligram daily dose used in the study.
Each of the studies was funded by the pharmaceutical company making the particular drug: Chelsea Therapeutics paid for the blood-pressure study; Biotie Therapies Inc., supported the "wearing-off" study; and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries sponsored the Azilect study. Hauser is a consultant for all three companies.
Most impressive of the three studies is the use of droxidopa to prevent dizziness and fainting, said Dr. Michael Okun, national medical director of the National Parkinson Foundation and director of the University of Florida Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration.
Drugs are already available to treat the problem, and compression stockings are also often recommended. Even so, "having another drug in that arena is going to help a lot of people," he said.
The effects of the other two treatments are more modest, said Okun, who is also a neurology professor. Additional studies will help determine how noteworthy the effects are in real life, he said.
Findings presented at medical meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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- William V. Collentro, Leonid Shnayder. (Aug 23, 2013). "Water for Pharmaceuticals", Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, Taylor and Francis: New York, 3821-3837.
- L. Shnayder, M. Khanina. (2005). "Equipment Cleaning-In-Place in Modern Biopharmaceutical Facilities: Engineering Concepts and Challenges", Pharmaceutical Engineering, 25 (1).
- L.Shnayder. (2001). "Pharmaceutical Purified Water Storage and Distribution Systems - an Engineering Prospective", Pharmaceutical Engineering, 21 (6).
- PME 530 Introduction to Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
- PME 535 Good Manufacturing Practice in Pharmaceutical Facilities Design
- PME 540 Validation in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
- PME 628 Manufacturing and Packaging of Pharmaceutical Oral Solid Dosage Products
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Both teams returned to Nashville at the start of the week from a five-day road trip through Florida over spring break.
Head coach Andrew Harris said the trip strengthened both the men and women's teams in multiple ways.
"I think each of the teams grew from this past week," Harris said. "Anytime you go on a trip with your teammates for an extended period of time like this past week, you are certainly going to grow as a unit."
The Lady Bisons returned to Nashville empty handed, posting two losses during the week, including a 7-0 loss to Stetson on Thursday and a 6-1 loss to Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday.
Freshman Alyssa Bellini picked up the Lady Bisons only win for the week. Harris said the Lady Bisons showed improvement as the week went on.
"On the court we took some strides, especially on the women's side in terms of the level of competitiveness throughout the week," Harris said. "Certainly, Stetson showed us the type of program they continue to build, but we also felt that we could of stretched them more in a few of the matches.
"Then heading down to FGCU on Saturday, the ladies came in with more purpose in understanding what they were looking to achieve, and they did much better."
With the two losses, the Lady Bisons' A-Sun record dropped to 1-4.
As the ladies prepare for North Florida and Jacksonville, Harris said the Lady Bisons will need to build on each point in order to pick up a win.
"Our ladies continue to improve match to match by competing each and every point—taking one point at a time and building from there," Harris said. "I think Coach (Jamie) Aid has done a great job all spring with the ladies in terms of encouraging them to have the correct mindset before matches and seeing the bigger picture that we are building here."
The men, on the other hand, split their matches this week, falling to Stetson 4-3 but defeating FGCU 4-3.
Harris said the men's doubles play ultimately determined the outcomes of their matches this past week.
"It was a tough match against Stetson, and then to rebound on Saturday, the team continues to show the ability to improve," Harris said. "Coach (Mike) Sherman really challenged the guys to step up in doubles and play with more aggressiveness on the return games, and, sure enough, the guys responded with more focus on their footwork and staying inside the service line and ended up sweeping the doubles point."
Looking ahead to this weekend, the Bisons face some tough competition, particularly with North Florida, who rests at No. 75 in the NCAA.
"On the men's side, UNF is ranked right now and has played at a high level all spring, and I know they will be ready to go," Harris said. "The importance again for the men to take the doubles point will be critical towards the outcome of that matches this weekend."
Harris said both teams will need to focus on footwork and aggressive play against North Florida and Jacksonville.
"Both of those pillars will be key going into this weekend," Harris said. "Both UNF and JU are very solid with both of their teams."
Both the men's and women's matches will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday, while the men will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday and then women at 2 p.m. at the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center.
"It will be nice to be at home," Harris said. "After being on the road the past 3 matches being back at the tennis center here will be a big boost for us come Friday. We are looking forward to it."
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"You should make grape sorbet," Ben recently suggested when I put out a call for ice cream flavors. "You should really make grape sorbet."
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Ron Lyle memorial service Saturday at the Red Shield boxing gym where he coached
Friends, family and fans will gather Saturday to remember Denver's Ron Lyle, the boxer who fought Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in classic heavyweight bouts in the 1970s.
Lyle, 70, died last Saturday after complications from a stomach ailment.
He'll be celebrated Saturday at 11 a.m., at the Salvation Army Red Shield community center gymnasium, 2915 High Street in Denver. Lyle in recent years coached a youth boxing program at Red Shield, the Salvation Army Cox-Lyle Boxing Program, in the Whittier-Five Points neighborhood near where he grew up.
The former contender was part of consecutive memorable fights against Foreman and Earnie Shavers in 1975 and Ali in 1976. Lyle's matchup against Foreman — seen on national TV — was watched closely by fans in Denver and around the world. Both fighters were knocked down twice before Foreman won by KO in the fifth round.
Lyle went on to topple Earnie Shavers, then lose to Ali in a title bout.
A funeral will also be held for Lyle on Tuesday at 11 a.m., at the Macedonia Baptist Church in Denver, 3240 Adams Street.
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