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Safari Extensions, Internet plug-ins, and other add-ons are designed to enhance or customize the browsing experience. Add-ons are widely available on the Internet, and some are installed as part of an app or other software. If you have add-ons installed, an add-on could be causing the issue.
If the issue is unwanted pop-up windows, ads, and graphics while surfing the web, learn how to remove ad-injection software (adware) from your Mac.
Turn off Safari Extensions
You can turn off Safari Extensions to learn whether any are causing the issue.
- From the Safari menu, choose Preferences.
- Click the Extensions icon, then select an extension from the list.
- Deselect the Enable checkbox to turn off that extension.
If turning off an extension resolves the issue, check for extension updates by clicking Updates in the lower-left corner of the window. Or remove the extension by clicking the Uninstall button.
Remove Internet plug-ins and other add-ons
You can remove Internet plug-ins and other add-ons to learn whether any are causing the issue. To find them, quit Safari and open these Library folders:
- The Library folder at the top level of your hard drive. Open it from the Finder by choosing Go > Go to Folder from the menu bar. Then type
/Libraryand click Go.
- The Library folder in your home folder. Open it by holding Option while choosing Go > Library from the menu bar.
The Library folders contain the following folders for add-ons. Move any files within these folders to the Trash.
- Internet Plug-Ins
Don't remove Default Browser.plugin, nslQTScriptablePlugin.xpt, Quartz Composer.webplugin, or QuickTime Plugin.plugin.
- Input Methods
- InputManagers
- ScriptingAdditions
If removing the files from these folders resolves the issue, quit Safari again and gradually put back files until you find the one causing the issue:
- Open the Trash and select one of the files you removed. Chose File > Put Back. The file returns to its folder.
- Open Safari and see if the issue returns.
- If the issue returns, you've identified the add-on causing the issue. Avoid using it or contact its maker for an updated version.
- If the issue doesn't return, quit Safari and put back another file.


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MeRrY ChRiStMaS!!
Think about the real reason we celebrate Christmas and do something related. Stop in at the Church, watch the Nativity movie, read the Nativity story from your bible, etc.
{You may choose to simplify the process big-time. It doesn't need to be time-consuming, stressful, or cost you anything. Do what works for you and enjoy the season with the ones you love!!}
Alternative Activity: Read (and or sing!) through the lyrics of "The First Noel" :
The first Noel the angel did say
Was to certain poor shepards in fields as they lay:
In fields where they lay a keeping their sheep
On a cold winter's night that was so deep.
Noel Noel Noel Noel
Born is the King of Israel.
They looked up and saw a star
Shining in the east beyond them far:
And to the earth it gave great light
And so it continued both day and night.
Noel Noel Noel Noel
Born is the King of Israel.
And by the light of that same star
Three wise men came from the country far;
To seek for a King was their intent,
And to follow the star wherever it went.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.
This star drew nigh to the north-west;
O'er Bethlehem it took it's rest,
And there it did both stop and stay,
Right over the place where Jesus lay.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.
Then entered in those wise men three,
Fell reverently upon their knee,
And offered there in his presence
Their gold and myrrh and frankincense.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the kind of Israel.
Then let us all with one accord
Sing praises to our heavenly Lord,
That hath made heaven and earth of nought,
And with his blood mankind has bought.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.

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Davide Mauri, a colleague from SolidQ, brought up an interesting discussion in our company, which originally started in the Italian SQL Server forums. The topic was certain behavior of the T-SQL REPLACE function that some people thought was a bug and others a feature. I will present the example in question here as a puzzle, and before describing the correct answer and the reasoning behind it, I'll let you try and figure out what you think the correct answer is.
See if you can guess what the output of the following code is going to be before executing it (empty space left intentionally before presenting the answer):
DECLARE @s AS VARCHAR(1000) = '.x.x.x.';
SELECT REPLACE(@s, '.x.', '.y.');
Books online doesn't provide much details about the REPLACE function. All it has is just one sentence saying: "Replaces all occurrences of a specified string value with another string value." With this in mind, it's interesting that for many people it seems intuitive that the correct answer should be .y.y.y., but in practice, it is, .y.x.y. (read: dot y dot x dot y dot). If you guessed incorrectly, now that you know what the correct answer is, see if you can explain the reasoning behind it.
Given the expression REPLACE(@s, @find, @replacement), the REPLACE function was designed to replace in @s nonoverlapping occurrences of @find with @replacement, scanning the string from left to right. So apply this logic to our example, where @s is initially .x.x.x.. You can express the original string as x, and after the replacement, the result is x. Translating the result to the actual string, you get .y.x.y..
For some this behavior seems like a bug for two main reasons:
1. You're thinking of overlapping cases.
2. You're thinking of the all-at-once concept that is supposed to be implemented by SQL, where all calculations are supposed to be handled in an all-at-once manner, as opposed to being handled from left to right.
Regarding point 1, the REPLACE function simply wasn't designed to deal with overlapping cases, rather nonoverlapping ones.
Regarding point 2, the all-at-once concept is applicable to the set operations that apply to the tables (relations) involved in the query. All expressions that participated in the same logical query processing phase (e.g., the SELECT phase, the WHERE phase, the UPDATE SET phase, etc.), are conceptually evaluated at the same point in time. The concept is not applicable to the logic of a scalar expression operating on an input value expression, which is our case.
So, now that you know what the correct answer is, and that this behavior is in fact a feature and not a bug, how do you change the original expression such that it will handle overlapping cases? That is, can you think of an expression that when applied to the input .x.x.x., requesting to replace all ocurrences of .x. with .y., you will get the result .y.y.y.?


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Jeff Hougland is sure glad he didn't tap out to a career in MMA.
After winning his first professional fight, he lost four in a row. That will put doubts in anyone's mind. He certainly thought about quitting.
Instead, he reinvented himself in the sport and soon found himself on a streak that won him a short-notice fight in the UFC. And though nerves certainly took their toll this time around, Hougland is confident he will soon be finishing opponents.
Hougland (10-4 MMA, 1-0 UFC), a bantamweight, nearly finished his first UFC opponent, Donny Walker (15-7 MMA 0-1 UFC), on several occasions at UFC 132 using a submission, which to him is proof positive of how far he's come. Three of his four losses were by submission.
"I wanted to jump off a building," Hougland told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio) of his early-career losing streak. "But I didn't know jiu jitsu at all. I was from a kickboxing gym. I would roll, but it's like grabbing somebody off the street and rolling around with them.
"I figured I would give this jiu-jitsu a try, and I immersed myself in it. I trained in a gi for over a year. Then when I fought again, my jiu-jitsu was much better."
Although Walker escaped the triangles and guillotines Hougland threw his way, he was behind on scorecards when the final tallies were read.
It was certainly a good start for Hougland, but he'd like to do better.
"I wished I would have finished him in a minute or something, but in the end, I'm happy I could do it on short notice," he said. "With a full training camp, I'm going to push a wicked pace for 15 minutes."
Just fighting to his potential was tough enough to do. Hougland makes no bones about it: He had the octagon jitters – before the event for photo shoots and paperwork, and definitely during the walkout.
"It was a really emotional experience for me," he said. "I was almost crying going out there. I'm trying to stay focused, and I want to win, and it's just so much going on in your head. But you've got to keep it in its place and perform."
Then a different nervousness appeared. Walker had survived the submission attempts and charged back aggressively on the feet. Hougland was worried that the judges wouldn't see his groundwork the way he did.
"I asked my corner after the fight whether I'd won, and they were confident that they had," He said. "The cameraman told me I won."
When it was made official, he relaxed.
Now, Hougland isn't choosy about whom he faces next. He's more interested in getting a full training camp in for his next fight.
Everyone thinks he's Mr. Jiu-Jitsu with his performance this past Saturday, and that's a good thing. When he returns, some new skills are going to be showcased.
He has no doubts that he made the right decision when he continued fighting.
"I got the minimum (medical) suspension," Hougland said. "My leg's a little sore from kicking and being kicked – a bruised knuckle – but other than that, I'm good."
For complete coverage of UFC 132, check out the MMA Events section of the site.
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NSA leaker Snowden claims proof of U.S. hacking China, Hong Kong targets
HONG KONG -- Former CIA worker Edward Snowden possesses classified US documents which show specific computers targeted by the National Security Agency in China and Hong Kong, according to a report Friday.
The South China Morning Post said a small sample of records were shown to the newspaper during an interview with Snowden which detailed the Internet Protocol addresses of targets and dates of cyber attacks.
IP addresses are unique numbers assigned to individual computers and other devices attached to the Internet. The SCMP did not publish the addresses themselves or identify individuals who might have been targeted.
The latest report came after the FBI said Thursday that the United States had launched a criminal investigation and is taking "all necessary steps" to prosecute Snowden for exposing state secrets.
The documents seen by the SCMP, but which could not be verified, also showed details of whether a cyber attack was ongoing, the paper said, and appeared to suggest a hacking success rate of 75 percent.
"I don't know what specific information they were looking for on these machines, only that using technical exploits to gain unauthorised access to civilian machines is a violation of law. It's ethically dubious," 29-year-old Snowden told the newspaper.
The revelation that Snowden possesses specific details of individuals targeted will pile extra pressure on the US to stem the leaks.
Snowden, who worked as a subcontractor handling computer networks, is in hiding in Hong Kong after arriving in the city on May 20 and leaking details of a global eavesdropping operation by the NSA.
On Wednesday he vowed to remain in the city and fight in court any efforts by the US to extradite him.
FBI chief Robert Mueller has defended the Internet and phone sweeps as a vital tool in the US fight against terror and said they were implemented legally in accordance with the Constitution.


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Clay was the best bet, so I googled to try and find a tutorial: I was led to Dismount Creative, which is a great site.
I really enjoyed her tutorial, but found that when I sliced the sides BEFORE baking, the edges weren't as crisp as I wanted them to be. I might have been exerting too much pressure? They weren't looking like DC's at all, hers looked great! I was getting frustrated.
I finally got one as a good as I was probably going to get it, popped it into the oven and waited. I ended up taking an exacto knife and slicing the bead to try and straighten out the sides. It worked a lot better than I thought it would.


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The news from the 2010 census that African Americans are moving south in significant numbers prompted The Root to call Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, a work that has been called "magisterial." She spent a decade on the book, which documents the massive movement of African Americans between 1910 and 1970 from oppression in the South to opportunity in the North.
An award-winning writer, Wilkerson won a Pulitzer Prize for her journalistic thoroughness and exquisite writing while working at the New York Times. She spoke to us during a pause on her never-ending book tour.
The Root: Is the reverse migration a new phenomenon? I've found articles going back to the 1970s describing black professionals moving from North to South.
Isabel Wilkerson: It's not new. This kind of demographic shift may occur very slowly and deceptively, and that's why a lot of times [the shifts] go unremarked. It's hard to tell what a trend is until the end of it. The Great Migration that I wrote about — that migration from the South to the North — leveled off and began to shift in favor of more people moving to the South than outside of the South. The South began to benefit in the 1980s. It's not a new phenomenon, but [instead] it's one we're seeing as a continuation.
TR: How do you connect the earlier Great Migration with this new trend?
IW: When the 20th century began, 90 percent of all African Americans were living in the South. By the end of that migration, nearly half were living outside of the South. That global distribution has not changed dramatically, even with the reverse migration. These things take decades, generations, to play themselves out.
Right now it may be 55-45 or something along those lines, meaning the South has always had the majority of African Americans. This reverse migration is a movement of smaller percentage [than the Great Migration]. I'm not diminishing the role of it. It just doesn't have the same magnitude …
It was the magnitude of that original migration that forced the North and the South to confront what was going on in the South and ultimately forced change. The South was losing so much of its cheap black labor, and the North was being confronted with the arrival of so many people from the South that [both regions were] forced to deal with demographic sea change.
If [blacks] wanted to leave, they had a place to go. It was the first time in American history that African Americans, the lowest-caste people, had a choice.
When the Great Migration began, there were 10 million African Americans in the U.S. You were looking at a million leaving per decade. By the end of it, half [of blacks] had been redistributed to the rest of the country. Currently there are 35 million to 40 million African Americans. Even the movement of a million people would not have the same impact now that it would have then.
TR: The motivations for the Great Migration were largely economic as well as political: for example, physical intimidation of black people. Today the reasons for the reverse migration seem more diffused.
IW: I prefer the term "return migration" as opposed to "reverse migration." That's because "reverse migration" makes it seem the people had made a mistake and are going backward. I don't believe any migration is ever a mistake or going backward. It's a universal human story no matter what our background.
There are many migrations that have occurred in this country — from Europe, from the Caribbean, from Asia. Any migration is a decision made by people who have thought things through and choose another place as the best place for their family. Any migration is a referendum on the place they are leaving and an expression of hope for where they chose to go.
That region [the South] is now a different place. It still has a long way to go. But it's a different place from when the Great Migration began. They're returning to a place different from what it was before because of the effects of the departure and the sacrifice that their ancestors made.
In some ways it's the maturating of a people who had been marginalized for so long. Now the children, great-grandchildren, can make a decision what is absolutely best, not just "We must leave for our lives!" That actually means there are choices that their parents and grandparents didn't have.
They're also moving along the tide of other Americans, the mainstreaming of African Americans into the general trends that may be going on demographically for other Americans. [African-American] children have options of going to Houston, to Jackson, Miss., or to Atlanta or Charlotte — as any other American might. [The South] is now a more open place than it had been before. Many white Northerners who might never have considered living in the South also are moving there because it's more open to them.
TR: How are the new migrants different from their ancestors who went North?
IW: The parent and grandparents went to the biggest and most expensive places in the country: New York, they went to Chicago, they went to Washington, D.C., they went to Chicago and they went to L.A. They went to big, expensive, forbidding, anonymous places that cities can be.
Now, their definition of the American dream is different from that of their parents and grandparents. Their definition may be more space, more land, more square footage. Their parents had a different definition of what they needed: the freedom to walk down the street without having to step off the sidewalk, getting paid for their hard work. Their expectations were not the expectations people would have now. Now they're going to where they can live out the life that they dream for themselves, whether it's the suburbs or a Southern city.
Joel Dreyfuss is managing editor of The Root.


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A "Dumb and Dumber" sequel is finally nigh, nearly two decades after the buddy cop comedy hit theaters. After a myriad of production problems and questions surrounding Jim Carrey's involvement, it looks like "Dumb and Dumber To" is back on track.
Jeff Daniels has already promised that filming begins this month, telling Jimmy Fallon in July that the script is "hysterical."
Now, Carrey has tweeted a look at himself back in action as one half of the incredibly idiot duo that first appeared on screens in 1994. Here's Lloyd's chipped tooth:
Bobby Farrelly said last year that the plot would involve a Lloyd or Harry's love child.
GESS HUUZ BAK BICHEZ? http://t.co/CK4VkZy5Ua— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) September 8, 2013
"The story revolves around the fact that one of them may have sired a child. They want to go and find the child because he's having a kidney problem and he wants to ask him for one of his kidneys."


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Gallo to receive MLA book award
A book by Rubén Gallo,
assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures at
Princeton, has been chosen for the Modern Language Association's
Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize.
"Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution," published in 2005 by MIT Press, was selected for the award for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. The $1,000 prize will be presented on Dec. 28 during the association's annual convention in Philadelphia.
The book is a study of how five artifacts -- cameras, typewriters, radio, cement and stadiums -- shaped the representation of modernity in Mexican art and literature of the post-revolutionary period. In selecting the volume, a committee of the association said: "Dynamically written, strikingly conceived and beautifully executed, 'Mexican Modernity' is a highly original contribution to our understanding of the post-revolutionary period in Mexico, with suggestive resonance for the rest of Latin America as well. … [The book] is certain to have as lasting an influence on the field as the turn-of-the-century technological innovations Gallo describes."
Gallo has been a faculty member at Princeton since 2002.


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Reposting by popular demand, and because everyone has to understand the embedded risks in this market, courtesy of the shadow banking system.
In an oddly prescient turn of events, yesterday we penned a post titled "Has The Imploding European Shadow Banking System Forced The Bundesbank To Prepare For Plan B?" in which we explained how it was not only the repo market, but the far broader and massively unregulated shadow banking system in Europe that was becoming thoroughly unhinged, and was manifesting itself in a complete "lock up in interbank liquidity" and which, we speculated, is pressuring the Bundesbank, which is well aware of what is going on behind the scenes, to slowly back away from what will soon be an "apocalyptic" event (not our words... read on). Why was this prescient? Because today, Reuters' Christopher Elias has written the logical follow up analysis to our post, in which he explains in layman's terms not only how but why the lock up has occurred and will get far more acute, but also why the MF Global bankruptcy, much more than merely a one-off instance of "repo-to-maturity" of sovereign bonds gone horribly wrong is a symptom of two things: i) the lax London-based unregulated and unsupervised system which has allowed such unprecedented, leveraged monsters as AIG, Lehman and now as it turns out MF Global, to flourish until they end up imploding and threatening the world's entire financial system, and ii) an implicit construct embedded within the shadow banking model which permitted the heaping of leverage upon leverage upon leverage, probably more so than any structured finance product in the past (up to and including synthetic CDO cubeds), and certainly on par with the AIG cataclysm which saw $2.7 trillion of CDS notional sold with virtually zero margin. Simply said: when one truly digs in, MF Global exposes the 2011 equivalent of the 2008 AIG: virtually unlimited leverage via the shadow banking system, in which there are practically no hard assets backing the infinite layers of debt created above, and which when finally unwound, will create a cataclysmic collapse of all financial institutions, where every bank is daisy-chained to each other courtesy of multiple layers of "hypothecation, and re-hypothecation." In fact, it is a link so sinister it touches every corner of modern finance up to and including such supposedly "stable" institutions as Jefferies, which as it turns out has spent weeks defending itself, however against all the wrong things, and Canadian banks, which as it also turns out, defended themselves against Zero Hedge allegations they may well be the next shoes to drop, as being strong and vibrant (and in fact just announced soaring profits and bonuses), yet which have all the same if not far greater risk factors as MF Global. Yet nobody has called them out on it. Until now.
But first, a detour to London...
As readers will recall, the actual office that blew up the world the first time around, was not even based in the US. It was a small office located on the top floor of 1 Curzon Street in London's Mayfair district, run by one Joe Cassano: the head of AIG Financial Products. The reason why this office of US-based AIG was in London, is so that Cassano could sell CDS as far away from the eye of Federal regulators as possible. Which he did. In fact he sold an unprecedented $2.7 trillion worth of CDS just before the firm collapsed due to one small glitch in the system - the assumption that home prices could go down as well as up. Yet the real question is why he sold so much CDS? The answer is simple - in a world of limited real assets, the only way to generate a practically limitless cash flow annuity would be to sell synthetic insurance on a virtually infinite amount of synthetic underlying. Which he did. Only when it came time to pay the claims, AIG blew up, forcing the government to bail it out, and set off the chain of events where we find ourselves now, where every day could be the developed world's last if not for the ongoing backstops, guarantees and bailouts of the central banking regime.
What is greatly ironic is that in the aftermath of the AIG collapse, the UK was shamed into admitting that it was its own loose, lax and unregulated system that allowed such unsupervised insanity to continue for as long as it did. As the Telegraph reminds us, "Conservative Party Treasury spokesman Philip Hammond called for a public inquiry into the FSA's oversight of AIG Financial Products in Mayfair. "We must not allow London to become a bolthole for companies looking for a place to conduct questionable activities," he said. "This sounds like a monumental cock-up by the FSA," said Lib Dem shadow chancellor Vince Cable. "It is deeply ironic," he added, that Brown was in Brussels last week calling for tougher global financial regulation just as the scandal over the FSA's role in one of the key regulatory failures at the root of the global panic emerged as an international issue." It is ironic because the trail in the MF Global collapse, where it is yet another infinitely leveragable product that once again comes to the fore, once again goes straight to that hub for "questionable activities" - London.
But before we explain why London is once again to blame for what was not only the immediate reason of the MF Global collapse, but could well precipitate the next global collapse, a quick look at rehypothecation.
As Reuters points out, it was not so much the act of creating "repos-to-maturity" that imperiled MF Global, but what is a secret gold mine for those privy to it - the process of re-hypothecation of collateral.
[h]ypothecation is when a borrower pledges collateral to secure a debt. The borrower retains ownership of the collateral but is "hypothetically" controlled by the creditor, who has a right to seize possession if the borrower defaults.
In the U.S., this legal right takes the form of a lien and in the UK generally in the form of a legal charge. A simple example of a hypothecation is a mortgage, in which a borrower legally owns the home, but the bank holds a right to take possession of the property if the borrower should default.
In investment banking, assets deposited with a broker will be hypothecated such that a broker may sell securities if an investor fails to keep up credit payments or if the securities drop in value and the investor fails to respond to a margin call (a request for more capital).
Re-hypothecation occurs when a bank or broker re-uses collateral posted by clients, such as hedge funds, to back the broker's own trades and borrowings. The practice of re-hypothecation runs into the trillions of dollars and is perfectly legal. It is justified by brokers on the basis that it is a capital efficient way of financing their operations much to the chagrin of hedge funds.
So far so good, assuming there was regulation, and assuming if regulation failed, that the firms that blew up as a result of their greed would truly blow up, instead of being resurrected as TBTF zombies by a government in dire need of rent collection and lobby cash (because with or without regulation, if those who fail are not allowed to fail, then the whole point of capitalism is moot). But... there is always a snag.
Under the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's Regulation T and SEC Rule 15c3-3, a prime broker may re-hypothecate assets to the value of 140% of the client's liability to the prime broker. For example, assume a customer has deposited $500 in securities and has a debt deficit of $200, resulting in net equity of $300. The broker-dealer can re-hypothecate up to $280 (140 per cent. x $200) of these assets.
But in the UK, there is absolutely no statutory limit on the amount that can be re-hypothecated. In fact, brokers are free to re-hypothecate all and even more than the assets deposited by clients. Instead it is up to clients to negotiate a limit or prohibition on re-hypothecation. On the above example a UK broker could, and frequently would, re-hypothecate 100% of the pledged securities ($500).
This asymmetry of rules makes exploiting the more lax UK regime incredibly attractive to international brokerage firms such as MF Global or Lehman Brothers which can use European subsidiaries to create pools of funding for their U.S. operations, without the bother of complying with U.S. restrictions.
In fact, by 2007, re-hypothecation had grown so large that it accounted for half of the activity of the shadow banking system. Prior to Lehman Brothers collapse, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) calculated that U.S. banks were receiving $4 trillion worth of funding by re-hypothecation, much of which was sourced from the UK. With assets being re-hypothecated many times over (known as "churn"), the original collateral being used may have been as little as $1 trillion – a quarter of the financial footprint created through re-hypothecation.
So let's see: a Prime Broker taking posted collateral, then using the same collateral as an instrument for hypothecation with a net haircut, then repeating the process again, and again... Ring a bell? If you said "fractional reserve lending" - ding ding ding. In essence what re-hypothecation, and subsequent levels thereof, especially once in the shadow banking realm, allows Prime Brokers is to become de facto banks only completely unregulated and using synthetic assets as collateral. Curiously enough it was earlier today that we also penned "ECB Confirms Shadow Banking System In Europe In Tatters" in which we explained that since ECB has to expand the eligible collateral it will accept, there is no real collateral left, meaning the re-hypothecation process in Europe has experienced terminal failure. Yet the kicker is that the "safety haircut" only occurs in the US. Not in the UK. And therein lies the rub. In the UK, the epic failure of supervision has allowed banks to become de facto monsters of infinite shadow banking fractional reserve leverage - every bank's wet dream! Naturally, Prime Brokers have known all about this which explains the quiet desire to conduct re-hypothecation out of London-based offices for every US-based (and Canadian) bank. Reuters explains:
Keen to get in on the action, U.S. prime brokers have been making judicious use of European subsidiaries. Because re-hypothecation is so profitable for prime brokers, many prime brokerage agreements provide for a U.S. client's assets to be transferred to the prime broker's UK subsidiary to circumvent U.S. rehypothecation rules.
Under subtle brokerage contractual provisions, U.S. investors can find that their assets vanish from the U.S. and appear instead in the UK, despite contact with an ostensibly American organisation.
Potentially as simple as having MF Global UK Limited, an English subsidiary, enter into a prime brokerage agreement with a customer, a U.S. based prime broker can immediately take advantage of the UK's unrestricted re-hypothecation rules.
While we already mentioned AIG as an example of the lax UK-based regulatory regime, it is another failed bank that is perhaps the best example of levered failure but in the specific re-hypothecation context: Lehman Brothers itself.
This is exactly what Lehman Brothers did through Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE), an English subsidiary to which most U.S. hedge fund assets were transferred. Once transferred to the UK based company, assets were re-hypothecated many times over, meaning that when the debt carousel stopped, and Lehman Brothers collapsed, many U.S. funds found that their assets had simply vanished.
A prime broker need not even require that an investor (eg hedge fund) sign all agreements with a European subsidiary to take advantage of the loophole. In fact, in Lehman's case many funds signed a prime brokerage agreement with Lehman Brothers Inc (a U.S. company) but margin-lending agreements and securities-lending agreements with LBIE in the UK (normally conducted under a Global Master Securities Lending Agreement).
These agreements permitted Lehman to transfer client assets between various affiliates without the fund's express consent, despite the fact that the main agreement had been under U.S. law. As a result of these peripheral agreements, all or most of its clients' assets found their way down to LBIE.
And now we get back to the topic at hand: MF Global, why and how it did precisely what Lehman did back then, why it did this in London, and why its failure is a symptom of something far more terrifying than merely investing money in collapsing PIIGS bonds.
MF Global's Customer Agreement for trading in cash commodities, commodity futures, security futures, options, and forward contracts, securities, foreign futures and options and currencies includes the following clause:
"7. Consent To Loan Or Pledge You hereby grant us the right, in accordance with Applicable Law, to borrow, pledge, repledge, transfer, hypothecate, rehypothecate, loan, or invest any of the Collateral, including, without limitation, utilizing the Collateral to purchase or sell securities pursuant to repurchase agreements [repos] or reverse repurchase agreements with any party, in each case without notice to you, and we shall have no obligation to retain a like amount of similar Collateral in our possession and control."
In its quarterly report, MF Global disclosed that by June 2011 it had repledged (re-hypothecated) $70 million, including securities received under resale agreements. With these transactions taking place off-balance sheet it is difficult to pin down the exact entity which was used to re-hypothecate such large sums of money but regulatory filings and letters from MF Global's administrators contain some clues.
According to a letter from KPMG to MF Global clients, when MF Global collapsed, its UK subsidiary MF Global UK Limited had over 10,000 accounts. MF Global disclosed in March 2011 that it had significant credit risk from its European subsidiary from "counterparties with whom we place both our own funds or securities and those of our clients".
It gets even worse when one considers that over the years the actual quality of good collateral declined, meaning worse and worse collateral was to be pledged in these potentially infinite recursive loops of shadow banking fractional reserve lending:
Despite the fact that there may only be a quarter of the collateral in the world to back these transactions, successive U.S. governments have softened the requirements for what can back a re-hypothecation transaction.
Beginning with Clinton-era liberalisation, rules were eased that had until 2000 limited the use of re-hypothecated funds to U.S. Treasury, state and municipal obligations. These rules were slowly cut away (from 2000-2005) so that customer money could be used to enter into repurchase agreements (repos), buy foreign bonds, money market funds and other assorted securities.
Hence, when MF Global conceived of its Eurozone repo ruse, client funds were waiting to be plundered for investment in AA rated European sovereign debt, despite the fact that many of its hedge fund clients may have been betting against the performance of those very same bonds.
At this point flashing red lights should be going though the head of anyone who lived through the AIG cataclysm: in effect the rehypothecation scenario affords the same amount of leverage, and potentially even less supervision that the CDS market. Said otherwise, the counteparty risk of daisy chaining defaults is on par with that in the case of AIG.
As well as collateral risk, re-hypothecation creates significant counterparty risk and its off-balance sheet treatment contains many hidden nasties. Even without circumventing U.S. limits on re-hypothecation, the off-balance sheet treatment means that the amount of leverage (gearing) and systemic risk created in the system by re-hypothecation is staggering.
Re-hypothecation transactions are off-balance sheet and are therefore unrestricted by balance sheet controls. Whereas on balance sheet transactions necessitate only appearing as an asset/liability on one bank's balance sheet and not another, off-balance sheet transactions can, and frequently do, appear on multiple banks' financial statements. What this creates is chains of counterparty risk, where multiple re-hypothecation borrowers use the same collateral over and over again. Essentially, it is a chain of debt obligations that is only as strong as its weakest link.
And the kicker:
With collateral being re-hypothecated to a factor of four (according to IMF estimates), the actual capital backing banks re-hypothecation transactions may be as little as 25%. This churning of collateral means that re-hypothecation transactions have been creating enormous amounts of liquidity, much of which has no real asset backing.
It turns out the next AIG was among us all along, only because it was hidden deep in the bowels of the unmentionable shadow banking system, out of sight (by definition) meant out of mind. Only it was not: and at last check there was $15 trillion in the shadow banking system in the US alone, where the daisy chaining of counteparty risk meant that any liquidity risk flare up would mean the AIG bankruptcy was not even a dress rehearsal for the grand finale.
But where does one look for the next AIG? Who would be stupid enough to disclose the fact that they have essentially the same risk on their off-balance sheet books as AIG had on its normal books? Once again, we turn to Reuters:
The lack of balance sheet recognition of re-hypothecation was noted in Jefferies' recent 10Q (emphasis added):
"Note 7. Collateralized Transactions
We pledge securities in connection with repurchase agreements, securities lending agreements and other secured arrangements, including clearing arrangements. The pledge of our securities is in connection with our mortgage?backed securities, corporate bond, government and agency securities and equities businesses. Counterparties generally have the right to sell or repledge the collateral.Pledged securities that can be sold or repledged by the counterparty are included within Financial instruments owned and noted as Securities pledged on our Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition. We receive securities as collateral in connection with resale agreements, securities borrowings and customer margin loans. In many instances, we are permitted by contract or custom to rehypothecate securities received as collateral. These securities maybe used to secure repurchase agreements, enter into security lending or derivative transactions or cover short positions. At August 31, 2011 and November 30, 2010, the approximate fair value of securities received as collateral by us that may be sold or repledged was approximately $25.9 billion and $22.3 billion, respectively. At August 31, 2011 and November 30, 2010, a substantial portion of the securities received by us had been sold or repledged.
We engage in securities for securities transactions in which we are the borrower of securities and provide other securities as collateral rather than cash. As no cash is provided under these types of transactions, we, as borrower, treat these as noncash transactions and do not recognize assets or liabilities on the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition. The securities pledged as collateral under these transactions are included within the total amount of Financial instruments owned and noted as Securities pledged on our Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition.
According to Jefferies' most recent Annual Report it had re-hypothecated $22.3 billion (in fair value) of assets in 2011 including government debt, asset backed securities, derivatives and corporate equity- that's just $15 billion shy of Jefferies total on balance sheet assets of $37 billion.
Oh Jefferies, Jefferies, Jefferies. Barely did you manage to escape the gauntlet of accusation of untenable gross (if not net) sovereign exposure, that you will soon, potentially as early as tomorrow, have to defend your zany rehypothecation practices. One wonders: will Sean Egan downgrade you for this latest transgression as well? All the better for Leucadia though: one more million shares that Dick Handler can sell to Ian Cumming.
Yet Jefferies is just the beginning. It gets much, much worse.
With weak collateral rules and a level of leverage that would make Archimedes tremble, firms have been piling into re-hypothecation activity with startling abandon. A review of filings reveals a staggering level of activity in what may be the world's largest ever credit bubble.
Engaging in hyper-hypothecation have been Goldman Sachs ($28.17 billion re-hypothecated in 2011), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (re-pledged $72 billion in client assets), Royal Bank of Canada (re-pledged $53.8 billion of $126.7 billion available for re-pledging), Oppenheimer Holdings ($15.3 million), Credit Suisse (CHF 332 billion), Knight Capital Group ($1.17 billion),Interactive Brokers ($14.5 billion), Wells Fargo ($19.6 billion), JP Morgan($546.2 billion) and Morgan Stanley ($410 billion).
And people were wondering why looking through the balance sheet of Canadian banks revealed no alert signals. It is because all the exposure was off the books! Hundreds of billions of dollars worth. As for JPM and MS amounting to nearly a trillion in rehypothecation... well, we are confident the market will be delighted to start pricing that particular fat-tail risk as soon as tomorrow.
Yet it is Reuters' conclusion that strikes home, and is identical to what we said last night about the liquidity lock up in Europe and what it means for the shadow banking system, although from the perspective of an inverted cause and effect:
The volume and level of re-hypothecation suggests a frightening alternative hypothesis for the current liquidity crisis being experienced by banks and for why regulators around the world decided to step in to prop up the markets recently.
That's precisely right: the shadow banking system, so aptly named because its death rattle can never be seen out in the open, is slowly dying. As noted yesterday. But lest we be accused of hyperventilating, this time we will leave a respected, non-fringe media to bring out the big adjective guns:
To date, reports have been focused on how Eurozone default concerns were provoking fear in the markets and causing liquidity to dry up....Most have been focused on how a Eurozone default would result in huge losses in Eurozone bonds being felt across the world's banks. However, re-hypothecation suggests an even greater fear. Considering that re-hypothecation may have increased the financial footprint of Eurozone bonds by at least four fold then a Eurozone sovereign default could be apocalyptic.
U.S. banks direct holding of sovereign debt is hardly negligible. According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), U.S. banks hold $181 billion in the sovereign debt of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. If we factor in off-balance sheet transactions such as re-hypothecations and repos, then the picture becomes frightening.
And there you have it: in this world where distraction and diversion often times is the only name of the game, while banks were pretending to have issues with their traditional liabilities, it was really the shadow liabilities where the true terrors were accumulating. Because in what has become a veritable daisy chain of linked shadow exposure, we are now back where we started with the AIG collapse, only this time the regime is decentralized, without the need for a focal, AIG-type center. What this means is that the collapse of the weakest link in the daisy-chain sets off a house of cards that eventually will crash even the biggest entity due to exponentially soaring counterparty risk: an escalation best comparable to an avalanche - where one simple snowflake can result in a deadly tsunami of snow that wipes out everything in its path. Only this time it is not something as innocuous as snow: it is the compounded effect of trillions and trillions of insolvent banks all collapsing at the same time, and wiping out the developed world and the associated 150 years of the welfare state as we know it.
In this light, it makes far more sense why, as we suggested yesterday, the sanest central bank in Europe, the German Bundesbank, is quietly making stealthy preparations to get the hell out of Dodge, as it realizes all too well, that the snowflake has arrived: MF Global's bankruptcy has already set off a chain of events which not even all the world's central banks can halt. Which is ironic for the Buba - what it is doing is "too little too late." But at least it is taking proactive steps. For all the other central banks in the Eurozone, and soon the world, unfortunately the deer in headlights image is the only applicable one. And all because of unbridled greed, bribed and corrupt regulators sleeping at their job, and governments which encourage the TBTF modus operandi as the only fall back one, which in turn gave banks a carte blanche to take essentially unlimited risk.
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Passengers fall ill on Melbourne-NZ flight
Passengers have been screened on the tarmac at Auckland's airport after a number became ill during a flight from Melbourne.
An Auckland Airport spokeswoman said paramedics were called to Virgin Australia flight VA167 about 3.30pm (NZ local time) on Monday following reports of illness.
Travellers were being screened as they came off and a Virgin spokeswoman said they had all since been cleared.
"The pilot made the decision to alert the New Zealand Ministry of Health as a precautionary measure to check the health of some passengers who felt unwell," she said.
Auckland Regional Public Health Service medical officer of health Shanika Perera said about 10 of the passengers had to be examined by ambulance crews.
"However, none of these are seriously unwell or require further medical treatment. They are free to leave the airport," she said.
There were 157 passengers onboard and it's understood some were presenting flu-like symptoms.
Last week, 11 people were taken to hospital in New York after reports of more than 100 aboard an Emirates flight from Dubai were experiencing flu-like symptoms.
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Cash Flow
Economics 101
New Complex and Confusing Regulatory Policies require Additional Accounting and Legal Fees to Comply
There have been demonstrations to raise the minimum wage. President Obama even called for Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. He also wants employers to pay salaried people overtime. There have been demands for paid family leave (paying people for not working). Unions want to organize businesses. To get employers to pay union wages. Provide union health care packages. And union pensions. Obamacare has made costly health insurance mandatory for all employees working 30 hours or more a week.
Environmental regulations have increased energy costs for businesses. Sexual harassment training, safety training, on-the-job training (even people leaving college have to be trained before they are useful to many employers), etc., raise costs for businesses. New financial reporting requirements require additional accounting fees to sort through. New complex and confusing regulatory policies require additional legal fees to sort through them and comply.
With each payroll an employer has to pay state unemployment tax. Federal unemployment tax. Social Security tax (half of it withheld from each employee's paycheck and half out of their pocket). Medicare tax. And workers' compensation insurance. Then there's health insurance. Vehicle insurance. Sales tax. Use tax. Real property tax. Personal property tax. Licenses. Fees. Dues. Office supplies. Utilities. Postage. High speed Internet. Tech support to thwart Internet attacks. Coffee. Snow removal. Landscaping. Etc. And, of course, the labor, material, equipment and direct expenses used to produce sales.
The Problem with Guaranteed Work Hours is that there is no such thing as Guaranteed Sales
The worst economic recovery since that following the Great Depression has created a dearth of full-time jobs. In large part due to Obamacare. As some employers struggling in the worst economic recovery since that following the Great Depression can't afford to offer their full-time employees health insurance. So they're not hiring full-time employees. And are pushing full-time employees to part-time. Because they can't afford to add anymore overhead costs. Which is hurting a lot of people who are having their own problems trying to make ends meet in the worst economic recovery since that following the Great Depression. Especially part-time workers.
Now there is a new push by those on the left to make employers give a 21-day notice for work schedules for part time and 'on call' workers. And to guarantee them at least 20 hours a week. Things that are just impossible to do in many small retail businesses. As anyone who has ever worked in a small retail business can attest to. You can schedule people to week 3 weeks in advance but what do you do when they don't show up for work? Which happens. A lot. Especially when the weather is nice. Or on a Saturday or Sunday morning. As some people party so much on Friday and Saturday night that they are just too hung over to go to work. Normally you call someone else to take their shift. Then reschedule the rest of the week. So you don't give too many hours to the person who filled in. In part to keep them under 30 hours to avoid the Obamacare penalty. But also because the other workers will get mad if that person gets more hours than they did.
The problem with guaranteed work hours is that there is no such thing as guaranteed sales. If you schedule 5 workers 3 weeks in advance and a blizzard paralyzes the city you may not have 5 workers worth of sales. Because people are staying home. And if no one is coming through your doors you're not going to want to pay 5 people to stand around and do nothing. For with no sales where is the money going to come from to pay these workers? Either out of the business owner's personal bank account. Or they will have to borrow money. It is easy to say we should guarantee workers a minimum number of work hours. But should a business owner have to lose money so they can? For contrary to popular belief, business owners are not all billionaires with money to burn. Instead, they are people losing sleep over something called cash flow.
Cash Flow is everything to a Small Business Owner because it takes Cash to pay all of their Bills
To understand cash flow imagine a large bucket full of holes. You pour water in it and it leaks right out. That water leaking out is expenses. The cost of doing business (see all of those costs above). A business owner has to keep that bucket from running out of water. And there is only one way to do it. By pouring new water into the bucket to replace the water leaking out. That new water is sales revenue. What customers pay them for their products and/or services. For a business to remain in business they must keep water in that bucket. For if it runs out of water they can't pay all of their expenses. They'll become insolvent. And may have no choice but to file bankruptcy. At which point they'll have to get a job working for someone else.
Cash flow is everything to a small business owner. Because it takes cash to pay all of their bills. Payroll, insurance, taxes, etc. None of which they can NOT pay. For if they do NOT pay these bills their employees will quit. Their insurers will cancel their policies. And the taxman will pay them a visit. Which will be very, very unpleasant. So small business owners have to make sure that at least the same amount of water is going into the bucket that is draining out of the bucket to pay their bills. And they have to make sure more water is entering the bucket than is draining out of the bucket to pay themselves. And to grow their business.
This is why business owners don't want to hire full-time people now. Because full-time people require a lot of cash (wages/salary, payroll taxes, insurances, training, etc.). They're nervous. For they don't know what next will come out of the Obama administration that will require additional cash. For every time they want to make life better for the workers (a higher minimum wage, overtime for salaried employees, guaranteed hours, etc.) it takes more cash. Which comes from sales. And if sales are down future cash flow into the business will also be down. Leaving less available for all of those holes in the bucket. So they guard their cash closely. And are very wary of incurring any new cash obligations. Lest they run out of cash. And have to file bankruptcy. Which is why they lose sleep over cash flow. Especially now during the worst economic recovery since that following the Great Depression.
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Spanish Tortilla
Recipe Type: Main Dish
Cuisine: Spanish
- 1 1/2 pounds russet potatoes (about 2 medium)
- extra-virgin olive oil, for frying (about 4 cups), *see cook's note
- 2 medium onions, thinly sliced (1 1/2 pounds)
- 4 teaspoons kosher salt
- 10 large eggs
- serving suggestions: sliced chorizo, roasted pequillo peppers, or crumbled goat cheese or sofrito, recipe follows
- sofrito:
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 onions, finely chopped (3 1/4 cups)
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 4 teaspoons kosher salt
- 6 ripe plum tomatoes (about 1 pound)
- 1/2 teaspoon pimenton
- leaf bay
- Peel and thinly slice the potatoes. Soak slices in water for 10 minutes. Drain and dry completely in a salad spinner. Meanwhile, pour enough olive oil into a large saucepan so it's about an inch deep. Heat over medium heat until a slice of onion bubbles gently when placed in the oil, about 310 degrees F. Add the onions and fry, stirring occasionally until just golden, about 8 minutes. Scoop the onions from the oil with a slotted spoon and drain on a paper-towel lined baking sheet.
- Add about half of the potatoes, and fry until lightly golden and a little puffy, about 10 minutes. Scoop the potatoes from the oil, add to the onions. Repeat with the rest of the potatoes. Reserve the oil. Season the vegetables with 3 teaspoons of the salt. (The preparation of the vegetables can be done up to 2 hours ahead.)
- Break the eggs into a large bowl. Whisk just enough to combine but not so much that they get loose and runny, about 15 times. Add the vegetables and remaining 1 teaspoon salt.
- Heat a medium (10-inch) nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add 2 tablespoons of the reserved oil and heat. Add the tortilla mixture and stir briskly with a spatula to get peaks and valleys in the folds of the egg, about 2 to 3 minutes. Stop stirring and reduce the heat to low, cover and cook until the eggs are set but still pretty loose, about 5 minutes. Lay a flat pan lid or a plate on top and invert the tortilla. Add more oil to the pan if needed, and slide the tortilla back into the pan, cover and finish cooking until set and lightly brown, about 3 minutes more. Slide the tortilla out of the pan to a cutting board to cool slightly.
- Cut into cubes or thin wedges and serve warm or room temperature as is or with 1 of the suggested toppings.
- Sofrito:
- Heat the olive oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the onions and sugar and half the salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until golden and sweet, about 1 hour. If the onions begin to get really brown, add a splash of water to slow them down.
- Meanwhile, cut the tomatoes, crosswise. Grate them on the cut side on the largest holes of a box grater into a bowl all the way down to the skins. Discard skins. Add tomato puree, pimenton and bay leaf to the caramelized onions, and continue to cook until quite thick and the tomato separates from the oil, about 10 to 15 minutes more. Season with the remaining salt or to taste. Serve warm or at room temperature.
- Cook's Note
- *Yes that's a lot of oil. But you can reuse it for other tortillas and in sauces, dressing or salads. It has a wonderful onion-y flavor that is great tossed on roasted potatoes or chicken. We love this as a topper to grilled bread, with cheese, or as an alternative to cocktail sauce with shrimp or other seafood.
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NEW YORK — Almost a year after going public, Town Sports International Holdings Inc. (TSI) had an 11.8 percent increase in fourth quarter 2006 revenue and an 11.5 percent revenue increase for the year, according to the company's earnings released last month. Fourth quarter 2006 revenue grew to $110.2 million from $98.5 million for the same period last year. For the year ended Dec. 31, 2006, revenue grew to $433.1 million from $388.6 million for the prior year.
TSI's share price has almost doubled since the company went public on June 1 last year. At that time, shares were offered at $13, but as of the end of the day on March 23, the stock was going for $22 per share.
The company will add 15 clubs this year, says Robert Giardina, chief executive officer. TSI raised its 2007 earnings guidance based on a recent refinancing of its debt, which will save the company approximately $3.1 million on a pre-tax basis in reduced interest expense. TSI now expects net income to be between $13.8 million and $14.8 million for 2007. Net income in 2006 was $4.6 million.
TSI expects revenues for 2007 to be about $475 million, representing about 10 percent growth over 2006, driven by club membership and ancillary revenue growth, the maturation of recently opened clubs as well as new clubs to be opened during the year.
The increase in revenue was driven by growth in membership revenue and ancillary club revenue, Giardina says. The company had a 4.9 percent increase in membership, a 1.9 percent increase in price, and a 1.7 percent increase in ancillary revenue offset by a 0.6 percent decrease in initiation fee revenue recognized as a direct result of TSI's policy to amortize membership initiation fees over a 30-month, rather than a 24-month period. This change was implemented in the first quarter of 2006.


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I was able to travel A LOT this year. I've seen some fantastic places and made some wonderful memories. last year I posted a "recap" post with a list of ways I was awesome in 2013. this year was no less awesome, but I'm trying something different- reviewing the year through my travels. I spent time in 5 different countries in 2014, including my first ever trip south of the equator.
this post will also be full of my favorite photos + links to posts I've shared on these destinations, so if you're new around here it might give you a chance to explore.
we started off our 2014 travels with a 10-day trip to Bali, Indonesia. while I was terrified by the monkeys and somewhat disappointed by the crowds at Tanah Lot, I fell in love with the gorgeous orange stone temples. it was also a delicious experience: we had fun at a Balinese cooking class, tried Luwak coffee [harvested from mongoose poop!] and ate Mexican every day at Taco Casa.
in April, I celebrated my 29th birthday with a trip to Taroko Gorge - maybe my favorite place in Taiwan. my friend and I hiked through misty mountain trails, explored colorful temples, and soaked in a roof-top hot tub. I had been a little upset about turning 29, but the experience was so enjoyable I decided I didn't mind. [I also went back to Taroko in October... I really do love that place!]
then Husband and I took a long weekend in Tokyo to visit Disneyland. I can only begin to describe how completely and utterly magical it was. I laughed, I cried, and I felt like my heart was 25 years younger. it was also a lot of fun to take a "touristy" kind of vacation. I think there's value in all kinds of travel, and losing yourself in acting like a kid/geek/nerd at Disney is absolutely a worthwhile experience.
in June, I flew back to the states and spent a few weeks recovering from jet lag on the shores of Lake Michigan. I soaked in sunsets and climbed lighthouses, hiked through the state park and lounged by the pool.
the next few weeks were a blur of weddings, packing and unpacking, amazing tacos and protein/animal In-N-Out. we traveled from Detroit to Mackinac Island in northern Michigan, to San Diego, California to Austin, Texas and then back to Taiwan.
Hong Kong wasn't an intentional trip. I had to zip over for a quick 2-day "visa vacation." it was my first time traveling solo [not for business in the US, anyway] and my experience wasn't altogether pleasant. but I did my best to make the most of the situation by indulging in some Mexican food and shooting photos from Victoria Peak.
in case you're curious, I flew at least 30,000 miles this year. my passport was stamped 10 times, and I had 3 new visas added. I had a wonderful year of travels, and I'm looking forward to exploring more of this world in 2015. [starting with New Zealand in a few weeks!]
where did you travel this year - which destinations were your favorites? and where do you want to go in 2015?


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Mississippi River Wildlife
Just downstream from a power plant that locally thaws the frozen water of the Mississippi river, eagles congregate in the only open water for miles. This gallery taken by JR in January 2013, shows an unusually large flock of bald eagles found there. There is also an assortment of geese, cardinals and other birds that were encountered along the way.Read More


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Have you heard about Podcamp Topeka 2011? If not, go visit the website, read about it … and register! Podcamp Topeka is an unconference that my library helps organize and run. This will be the third year we've had it – it's gotten better every year! This year, it's on October 22 … and only costs $10 to register.
It's not a library event … but librarians are certainly welcome to attend, and will definitely learn something and be able to contribute as well. What exactly is Podcamp Topeka? Here's the blurb from the website:
PodCamp Topeka is a low cost unconference dedicated to emerging web media – social networks, podcasting & videoblogging, blogging, Twitter, Facebook, photography, and web design, for starters. Our goal? To learn about social media from social media experts, to network with fellow bloggers, podcasters & social media creators … and to have a blast!
And the video embedded in this post is me, giving some brief thoughts on why I like Podcamp Topeka. We'd love to see you there!


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Former England and Arsenal captain Faye White announced her retirement from the game today, following a trophy-laden career spanning two decades. She finished her international career almost a year ago after announcing that she was pregnant with her first child. Lukas was born in October and White, now a development marketing officer with the Gunners, admitted her newborn child has provided the perfect distraction.
"It's obviously a big change having a child, but it adds so much more to your life as well," White told FIFA.com. "When you're so focused on something for so long and it's a big part of your life, like playing for your country and playing football, the thought of giving it up leaves a big hole.
"He certainly more than outweighs that and has helped that smoother transition because I can focus all my energy into him. It's great to have him. It's a bit more of a juggling act but it's a great one."
Baby Lukas was born on 2 October, just a few months after another Lukas arrived at the Emirates Stadium. "People tweeted me asking: 'Have you named him after Lukas Podolski?' I have to say no! I always liked the name Luke or Lukas, but it's probably just because of the way we spelled it that people think that.
"I was at the training ground a couple of weeks ago and my Lukas actually met Podolski. One of the press ladies brought him over. It was like: 'Lukas meet Lukas!' The next game they played, Podolski scored a goal – so I think he was a good luck charm for him!"
Arsenal Ladies kick off their domestic campaign with the Continental Cup against Birmingham City this weekend, and the first fixtures of the FA Women's Super League season to follow next month.
"Some teams who weren't doing so well will be a lot stronger by the looks of it, such as Liverpool, with quite a few players leaving Everton to go there. Birmingham will always be strong and Chelsea have made a few additions.
"There are so many more younger players coming through and filtering into the teams which is adding to the quality of the football. It should be another great season and I can't wait for it to start."
To be involved in such a landmark is really great to help profile the women's game. It shows the full support that they have given.
White is an ambassador for the UEFA Women's Champions League final, taking place at Stamford Bridge on 23 May. Arsenal face Italian side Torres in the quarter-finals this afternoon.
"Whichever team you get it's going to be close because the competition has really developed over the last five years or so. We played Torres back in the 2004/05 season at the quarter-final stage when it was the UEFA Women's Cup. The second leg was probably one of our best games because the tie ended up 4-3 to us on aggregate. One minute they were going through and the next it was us.
"They've got [Patrizia] Panico, one of the top Italian strikers in their team. I've played against her quite a few times so I know what a handful she can be. The fact they're at this stage of the tournament shows they're a strong side and certainly a team we could slip up against if we don't play well."
White is also an ambassador for The FA during their 150th anniversary celebrations. Despite hanging up her boots, she still takes a keen interest in the England side.
"It's a great honour for me and it's also the 20th year that the FA have been supporting women's football. To be involved in such a landmark is really great to help raise the profile of the women's game. It shows the full support that they have given and they will continue to do going forward."
England coach Hope Powell is certainly looking to the future, and with a youthful side winning the Cyprus Cup earlier this month, White thinks the omens are good going into this summer's UEFA Women's EURO in Sweden.
"Back in 2009 we won the Cyprus Cup in the same year as getting to the final of the EUROs for England. It gives you confidence winning tournaments like that; I know it did back in 2009 because it was the first major tournament that the England squad had won, so it helped going into the EUROs.
"Jordan Nobbs, who ended last season as [Arsenal's] player's player of the year, scored at the Cyprus Cup. She was the U-15 and U-19 captain so she's got a good head on her shoulders. She's a small girl but she gets about the pitch and is a physical presence as well for such a small girl. She's not afraid to tell the older ones what she wants to happen. She's a good one to watch out for."
When I don't have such a young son to look after and he gets a little bit older perhaps I can start to put my efforts into other areas as well, maybe coaching.
One international competition that White missed out on was last summer's Women's Olympic Football Tournament, with the defender instead spending time as a television pundit.
"I had mixed emotions really. It felt great to be a part of it, being so close and certainly seeing a different side of it. I could feel what they were going through I knew what that still felt like. I'd played at the old Wembley but not at the new one and certainly not to a full house. My dream growing up was to see Wembley full for an England or Team GB women's game.
"You realise that things come to an end and it was great to still be a part of it and to have another avenue to go into. I love being able to talk about the game."
As well as her punditry, White is currently enjoying her role as a Development Marketing Officer at Arsenal, with her focus very much on the next generation.
"We're trying to get girls involved in playing and trying to promote the game. We're trying to think of different initiatives around the games that the fans can interact with and feel part of. I feel quite fortunate to work behind the scenes.
"When I don't have such a young son to look after and he gets a little bit older, perhaps I can start to put my efforts into other areas as well. Maybe coaching."
A succession of injuries may have forced White to call time on a playing career that saw her lift over 30 trophies, including a historic quadruple in 2007. But for the former defender, this end is just the beginning.


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I couldn't find anything in the Rules for Warsh section of your site regarding the leen medd followed by sukoon, so I assume that this means that the rules are the same as those for Hafs. Is this correct?
I have tajweed book which says that, when stopping on the word, the medd can be 2, 4 or 6 counts – as it is for Hafs – but I also have another book which says it can only be 4 or 6 counts. Which is correct?
Do the rules for Hafs about the presented sukoon lengthening being stronger than the leen medd and resulting restrictions when both of these medd are present in the same phrase also apply to Warsh?Many thanks. Wassalam
PS: The webpage on your site for Lesson 14 of the Rules for Warsh does not work and has been inaccessible for quite some time.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
As long as the leen letter is not followed by a hamzah, yes, the rules are the same for Hafs and Warsh. occurs when there is a leen letter, meaning a or saakinah preceded by a and only one voweled letter follows it, and we stop on this word with a temporary sukoon (for stopping only). Warsh agrees with all the other reciters when the leen letter is not followed by a hamzah. If however we have meaning a leen letter followed by a hamzah, such as in the word , then Warsh lengthening the leen 4 or 6 vowel counts whether stopping on the word or continuing. This very well may have been the cause of the difference in the books you looked at, one may have been referring to the normal when stopping and the other referring to , Allah knows best.
As to the vs and the counts allowed for both, Warsh agrees with Hafs, with the exception again for . In this case he lengthens it 4 or 6 vowel counts irregardless of the length of .Although we understand the questioner has read all the Warsh lessons, we ask the visitors that have not, to please see the Warsh lesson on for more information on the relationship between and : http://www.abouttajweed.com/warsh_rules_3.htm .
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2. The Father of All Things, by Tom Bissell (Vintage, 432 pp., $14.95) In a book that combines memoir, travelogue, and history, Tom Bissell tells of the 2005 trip to Vietnam he took with his father, a former US Marine and Vietnam vet. (CSM review 3/13/07)
3. The River of Doubt, by Candice Millard (Anchor, 432 pp., $15). In 1912, after a humiliating defeat in his third presidential bid, Theodore Roosevelt tried to distract himself and his son Kermit with a foolhardy trip down an unmarked Brazilian river. This stranger-than-fiction tale is a gripping read but also a touching father and son story. (CSM review 10/11/05)
4. Brother, I'm Dying, by Edwige Danticat (Vintage, 288 pp., $15) Haitian immigrant Edwidge Danticat has written a moving tribute to her father and uncle, the two men who raised her and loved each other and yet spent most of their adult lives on separate shores. (CSM review 9/11/07)
5. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father, by John Matteson (W.W. Norton, 512 p., $17.95) Matteson tells the odd, fascinating story of the über idealistic Bronson Alcott and the impact of his life decisions on his daughter, beloved childrens' book author Louis May Alcott. (CSM review 8/21/07)
6. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf Doubleday, 304 pp., $14.95) A father and son push an old grocery cart through civilization's ruins and debate ethics along the way in this dark but bracing work by National Book Award winner Cormac McCarthy. (CSM review 10/03/06)
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9. Finn, by Jon Clinch (Random House, 320 pp., $14) Novelist Jon Clinch offers a cruel but compelling back story for the life of Huck Finn's Pap. (CSM review 2/27/07)
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A Southern California teenager was arrested after he allegedly threatened to kill students at his high school and then himself, police said Friday.
Deputies got a call about 2 p.m. Thursday about a sophomore at Adolfo Camarillo High School threatening to shoot and kill another student earlier that day, according to the Camarillo Police Department.
After deputies talked to the 15-year-old boy and his parent, they found out the boy told a student he planned to "shoot up the school" and then take his own life, officials said.
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England cricketer Liam Plunkett has been charged with a drink-driving offence.
The 27-year-old Durham fast bowler will appear before magistrates later this month after he was arrested on Saturday night.
Plunkett, originally from Middlesbrough, has played in nine Tests and 29 one-day internationals.
The 6ft 3in player is currently recovering from an Achilles injury which prevents him from playing.
A Durham Police spokeswoman said: "A 27-year-old man from Durham was arrested on July 28 on suspicion of drink driving.
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Speaking to indianexpress.com, Chialin Chang, Chief Financial Officer of HTC, said almost all its new phones, except the top-end one range, are now made keeping the Indian consumer in mind. "It is because India is not only an important market, but also a very strategic one for us," he said. Chang said HTC knew that not everyone could afford the flagship phones and that was why it was launching phones offering great design and experience at lower price points too.
Asked what it thinks of the competition from global players like Asus and Motorola which were launching smartphones at very affordable prices in India, Chang explained: "We understand the competiton. But we are here for the long term and believe in delivering on our brand promise and experience."
The HTC One (E8) is a stylish lightweight device that reminds one of the HTC One. The phone comes with Motion Launch, HTC BoomSound and a 5MP front-facing and 13MP rear-facing camera. The 5-inch phone is powered by a top of the line 2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of onboard memory. It comes with a 2600 mAh battery.
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THE NHL has just suspended Raffi Torres for 25 games for slamming an opposing player into the ice. There are many stories in the media that hockey is too violent.
But is it? Ratings are higher than ever both in the United States and Canada. The sports editor of the Montreal Gazette wrote on Saturday: "Face it: Fans want violence."
And here is what Don Cherry said about violence: "The fans who pay the money love it. The players don't seem to mind it; the coaches don't seem to mind it. So who is it who doesn't like the fights and the banging around? It's the reporters who get in free. This is war. This has been going on forever.
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After their split with Ducati over the support required for campaigning and developing Ducati's new Panigale superbike, there was some speculation as to what would become of the Italian team which ran Ducati's crypto-factory racing program for the past two years. On Monday, Althea announced that as expected, the team would be making the switch to Aprilia, and racing an RSV4 in 2013.
The team will field only a single rider, Davide Giugliano remaining with the team for 2013. The young Italian had an excellent rookie season with the Althea Ducati team, getting on the podium twice at Misano and Assen and regularly tussling with front group of WSBK men.
Althea's choice for Aprilia makes a grand total of four RSV4s on the 2013 grid. Beside the factory Aprilia squad of Eugene Laverty and Sylvain Guintoli, Michel Fabrizio will also be racing an RSV4 for the Red Devils Roma, while Giugliano races the bike for the Althea team.
Below is the official press release from Althea:
Team Althea Racing together with Aprilia in 2013 World Superbike Championship
Althea Racing partners with Aprilia and prepares to compete at the top level in the 2013 World Superbike Championship.
Davide Giugliano will be tasked with riding the RSV4 Factory machine, the bike that won the Rider's and Manufacturer's titles in both the recently concluded 2012 championship and the 2010 season. The two winning companies have decided to work together to consolidate their position as frontrunners and give Davide Giugliano the chance to prove himself as a top rider in the category. The young Italian rider can count on the tried and tested structure of the Civita Castellana-based team and on the expertise of technicians who have clearly demonstrated their ability in recent years.
Genesio Bevilacqua: "I am very pleased to have reached such an important agreement with Aprilia. We will race with the championship winning bike next year and this will only encourage us to push even harder and live up to the potential of the bike that we are entrusted with. As everybody knows, Althea Racing is used to facing important challenges and counts on a structure that works in perfect harmony to achieve great goals. Our strength is our team and its components; our team members, who have worked together for many years with no secrets between them, remain the same. We believe that we have sufficient experience with which to confront the challenge of the 2013 championship. Davide Giugliano is our secret weapon. He is a young and aggressive rider who has amazing talent and together with him we will fight for success in the 2013 SBK championship standings. I would like to thank the entire Aprilia staff and particularly Engineer Dall'Igna for their willingness and professionalism."
And that makes three...
I'm crushed. Three of my favorite Ducati (or former Ducati) riders are moving to Aprilia next season. First it was Michel to Red Devils. Then Guinters to take Max's spot. Now Davide and Althea. Although I'm a little disheartened to see them on the "other" Italian, I think it's fair to say they'll be on the better bike for 2013.


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