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WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Epitome Biosystems(TM) announced today that it has been awarded a Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to support further development of the Company's protein phosphorylation-profiling product. The product is an antibody array that incorporates Epitome's proprietary EpiTag(TM) technology to enable qualitative and quantitative measurements of protein phosphorylation, an important readout of cellular function. The National Science Foundation awarded the grant titled "Proteome Epitope Tags-Based Antibody Arrays for High-Throughput, Proteome- Wide Kinase Pathway Profiling," which provides $500,000 toward the development of a product for measuring key tyrosine phosphorylation sites that have important roles in many cellular and drug responses.
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MIAMI (Feb. 29)
An economically strong Israel is vital to the attainment of peace in the Middle East, Yigal Allon, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister of Israel, declared here last night as he called for wider economic aid to Israel from Jews in the United States and Canada.
"We shall be in a much stronger position at the negotiating table if our economy, as well as our defense, is sound and impregnable," he said. "An economically and socially strong Israel will improve its military posture and political bargaining position," he said. Allon officially launched the 1976 International Inaugural Conference of State of Israel Bonds attended by more than 1000 Jewish leaders from the U.S. and Canada.
Calling attention to "the spectacular proliferation" of Arab wealth in recent years, Allon stressed that "it represented a thrust of the greatest magnitude to the economic stability of Israel." Israel's troubled economy may become "a weak link in our chain of defense against the political warfare of the Arab world," he warned.
Israel faces "the danger of a marked rise in unemployment for the first time in many years," Allon said. But he emphasized that it was the result of drastic measures taken by the Israel government to reduce inflation and increase exports. In 1975 Israel's balance of payments deficit amounted to $3.9 billion, the highest in its history.
Allon noted that increased unemployment would be a "serious threat" to the country's capacity to provide jobs for new immigrants. In this connection, he said, while Israel continues to give its "vigorous support to the right of Soviet Jews and Jews in Syria and other Arab lands to emigrate, it would be a very sad state of affairs if we failed to have the economic means to give jobs to those who might be permitted to come to Israel in larger numbers in the near future."
Sam Rothberg, general chairman of the Israel Bond Organization, who presided, declared that the recent Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry "must be supplemented with concrete action through the Israel Bond campaign to create jobs in Israel for those Jews who would be permitted to leave Soviet Russia for Israel in the coming year."
Rothberg called for a wider mobilization of American and Canadian Jews for the sale of Israel Bonds "to provide the largest possible share of Israel's development budget of $1 billion this year." He said "the example of sacrifice has been set for us in Israel's new budget which has placed numerous additional burdens and hardships on its citizens."


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Author: Dr. Denis Leary
Genre: Biography
First Published: 2008
Page Count: 240
Type: Hardcover
Film/ TV Adaptation: No
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Whether you're black, white, skinny, fat, rich, poor, young, old, or more importantly American, Denis Leary has a few choice words for you in this funny, take-no-prisoners self-help book.
*Personal anecdotes humanize the writer *Observes the obvious/ not so obvious flaws in American society with humor
*Distracting grammatical errors *Vague theme *Tone at times seemed harsh
"I have never been fat. But I have been- and oftentimes continue to be- loud, lazy and stupid. So put down the Pop-Tarts and listen up a little. I'm trying to help us here." If you've ever wondered why so many people, non-Americans and Americans alike, hate the United States of America, Denis Leary has compiled a list of reasons in his book Why We Suck. Loud, spoiled children, Dr. Phil, Lindsey Lohan's parents, and Starbucks are all targets of Leary's racy call to action against the type of people who are bringing down this once great nation.
Leary's book points out the obvious flaws in society that we've all taken a mental note of but would never bring up outside of the confines of our noggin. I know my best friend will particularly enjoy the chapter entitled, "Your Kids are not Cute." He also points out some not so obvious points about modern-day America such as the genius behind the empire known as Oprah. At the same time, the author breaks away from his ranting and raving to give the reader a look into his upbringing in a strict, and as he describes it, functional and dysfunctional Irish family. The flashbacks on his childhood take some heat off of the content in the book and give the reader a good look at where the author has come from and how he has formed his view on the world.
But Leary has a straight-to-the-point sense of humor that can sometimes seem harsh and against his own values. Hey, I'm always up for animated language and risqué opinions. I was one of the few people who thoroughly enjoyed the edgy hosting by Ricky Gervais for the Golden Globes earlier this year. However, Leary seemed to take things a bit far for the sake of comedy in some parts of his book. For instance, when he unrelentingly bashes parents who worship their children and think that the world is at their feet, I wondered if he would include himself in that group of parents because, throughout the book, there are a few mentions of his "gorgeous" daughter and "wonderful" son. Now his kids, his whole family in fact, look to be a perfectly beautiful group, but you're telling me he never doted upon or dreamed up a picture perfect future for his offspring? I understand he was mostly dissing the ridiculous parents who fawn a little too much over their precious Mary Sue or Bobby Joe, but love between a parent and their child is a natural bond. I can't believe that he was never one of "those" parents at one point in his life.
Within the book there were also a lot of grammatical errors including run-on sentences and incomplete sentences that could become more than a little distracting. The book is meant to come across as a personal look into Leary's mind but a comma or period here or there wouldn't take away from the casual tone; it might make it seem a little more professional though. I also was confused about the theme of the book. The cover and a couple of the chapters made it seem as if it was a book about what is wrong with American society today, but the other chapters that were filled with childhood stories made it seem more like a book promoting a proper Irish upbringing. The anecdotes did reveal why Leary feels the way he does about certain topics but it also made the book lean more towards the memoir department. The problems that Leary bemoans in the book also seem more like problems that any modern Western society might experience, even if America is usually at the forefront of some of the more embarrassing and idiotic trends. I think Leary started out wanting to talk about the problems with American society but that theme didn't clearly translate throughout the whole book.
I did laugh out loud quite a few times, and some of the passages seemed like verbatim mental conversations I have had with myself on many of the topics. There were also many times I disagreed with Leary's point a view but this is a comedy book. If you free up you mind and set yourself up for a good time, you'll find something for yourself in this read. And if you can't, then it's probably best you skip this one. As Leary mentions in the opening of his book, "there are endless things you can buy in America- but a sense of humor isn't one of them."


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January 25, 2014
The first purple ribbon honorees (from left to right): Assemblymember Nora Campos, Shirley Saunders of Beta Sigma Phi, Margaret Dowd of the Lupus Research Institute, Jo Dewhirst - founding president of LFNC, Linda Foth of Beta Sigma Phi, and Dr. C. Michael Neuwelt.
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Our own CEO and President, Margaret Dowd, was honored at the 36th Anniversary Gala of LRI National Coalition member, the Lupus Foundation of Northern California. The Purple Ribbon Award was established this year to honor outstanding commitment and leadership to lupus treatment, research, and philanthropy.


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I understand that the Irish Cardinal and Primate Cahal Card. Daly has died at the age of 92.
Requiescat in pace.
I understand that the Irish Cardinal and Primate Cahal Card. Daly has died at the age of 92.
Requiescat in pace.
I remember him in 1996 comprehensively demolishing an argument advanced by a rather patronising philosopher at a conference in Belfast. He was no less mentally alert at the Belfast Scholasticism conference in June of 2008; I teased him about his tentative acceptance of an invitation to it, as he claimed that he might not live long enough to attend! He did, thank God. Ar dheis Dé go raith a anam dílis
I met him in Rome once, we had a very nice but brief conversation at St. John Lateran.
Requiescat in pace.
"This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque 'salon' with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West "saloon" with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven." – Fr. Z
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Joseph Ratzinger - The Feast of Faith"In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. ... If all Catholics are obliged to oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions, Catholic politicians are obliged to do so in a particular way, in keeping with their responsibility as politicians." CDF 2003
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1/ For imaginary past actions, where the conditions for the action WERE NOT satisfied.
eg: If you'd been there, you would've seen it. (The conditions were not met because the person was not there and as a result did not see it.)
If + Past Perfect, + Would have + Past Participle
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Come with Maggie and Simon on their adventure through Australian culinary history. He might be a chef and she might insist on calling herself a cook, but together they are a celebration of Australian food.
Based in South Australia's Barossa Valley, Maggie Beer has taken the region's food to the world and won acclaim everywhere and in the process taken her place in the culinary history of Australia.
As an Executive Chef Simon is another champion of local produce, creating menus from locally sourced growers who use a methodology which is sustainable. He's a modern chef who's vitally interested in what we eat and how we treat our food in the modern world.
Each week, in this season of The Cook and the Chef, Maggie and Simon will look at a significant part of our evolving Australian cuisine and talk to the key figures who have transformed Australian fare from its beginnings to the dazzling array of food that is available today
Maggie and Simon then celebrate those times by cooking their versions of dishes influenced by this information. Along the way, as they always do, they'll be sharing their secrets and tips on how food is best bought and prepared.
In this series Simon and Maggie use Maggie's kitchen as a kind of time machine and laboratory as they share their skills and love of cooking to explore our rich culinary and food history. In each episode, The Cook and the Chef produce dishes that are easy to replicate in our own kitchens, introducing us to ways to work with our food traditions.
The Cook and the Chef is a program about the joy of celebrating Australian food traditions, it's about using good food to create great dishes with two people whose lives revolve around their passion for food.


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Hull, QC – Ali Faghfouri of Paragon Pictures directs the new "J'rap Encore" video from rapper Almiros. The song was produced by Anno Domini Beats and it features Dee Ghabrial. You can find the single on iTunes now along with his 2011 album release, J'rap.
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What leaps out most is the sheer variety of people who have turned up. The skyway from the NEC train station across to Hall 8 is criss-crossed by the obligatory bewildered dads, tugged along by eager kids with TV show t-shirts, but that's only the start of it. Pokemon fandom has been around long enough that it is now as eclectic as gaming audiences can get.
The age range takes in everything from toddlers to middle aged couples. There are as many girls as there are boys. Families have made a day of it. Groups of teenagers have made their own way down to the event. There are trendy students, trying hard to pretend they're here ironically, but inevitably failing to mask their delight when the chance to be photographed next to Pikachu presents itself. There's a man in a suit who looks like he's wandered in by accident from one of the boring industry trade shows running in the hall next door, until he whips out a DS and joins the queue for the Masters tournament. There are heavy metal fans in leathers, a smattering of punk hairstyles, hip hop heads and shameless adult Pokemon geeks indulging in some tongue in cheek cosplay.
And all are clutching a DS; there are some battered original models, lots of DSi XLs and enough 3DS owners to give Nintendo some comfort that the sluggish start of their latest handheld venture hasn't held back the faithful. Every time I open my own 3DS, there's a procession of new StreetPass contacts waiting for me, with locations drawn from all over the UK and even abroad.
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Video: Pok�mon Black and White 2 animated trailer
Five minutes of anime monster fighting to whet your appetite.
Screenshots: The Pokemon Masters gallery
This is the casual gaming audience that we hear so much about, those unseen mainstream masses, and they've travelled across the UK, hundreds of miles in some cases, because they love Pokemon. That's hardcore dedication, and it pays off with a genuine sense of community. You can't move for Pokemon branding, yet it somehow feels celebratory and inclusive rather than marketing slung at a captive audience.
It's the finals that pull it all together, as the top two players from each group take to a raised stage for their moment of truth. These matches are shown on LCD screens, and it's amazing how quickly the crowd gets sucked in. To the outside observer, it might as well be gibberish, but to those gathered around it's as nail biting as any Premiere League match.
A late substitution for Haxorus causes the sort of excitement that once greeted the introduction of David Beckham to a game. Gasps and applause erupt when, with the match in the balance, one of the Senior finalists reveals one of his Pokemon to be the shape-shifting Zoroark. Kids lean conspiratorially to whisper explanations in their parent's ears, thrilled to be in a place where they're the ones with all the answers for once.
And, soon enough, it's over. The young winners are hugged by proud families, the older winners make do with a high five or two, and all return home with a medal and a new 3DS for their trouble, as well as an invitation to be flown to San Diego for a week in August for the World Championships.
As fans filter back out down the echoing hallways of the NEC, to taxis, buses and trains that will take them back to boring old real life with schools and colleges and offices, the NEC staff move in to start tidying up. I overhear a doughty pair of fifty-something Brummies discussing who their favourite Pokemon is, as they start to close up shop. These salt of the earth souls, who wouldn't know a Gears of War from a Call of Duty, pause to consider their options. Finally they reach a consensus: "the big yeller one".
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Debate Over Museum of Tolerance - an Exchange
Dear Rabbi Hier: It saddens me to find myself in opposition to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose goals and good works I have long supported.
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Dear Rabbi Hier,
It saddens me to find myself in opposition to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose goals and good works I have long supported.
But I have an honest and personal disagreement with a decision the center has taken, the location of the Museum of Tolerance on a Muslim burial ground.
I detailed my objection in an article entitled Dividing Jerusalem, one bad wall at a time. I noted that in the past, SWC had worked diligently and admirably in protecting the sanctity of cemeteries, in particular, that of the unmarked Jewish graves of Auschwitz.
You responded with a letter headed "Museum of Tolerance is a beacon of light, not a wall." You begin by saying that I deliberately hid the fact that the land was given to the Simon Wiesenthal Center by the government of Israel and the City of Jerusalem, who presented petitions to the Supreme Court in support of the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem.
It remains unclear to me why I or anyone else would want, deliberately or otherwise, to hide that fact. But, since you brought it up, here's something else that I did not include:In an interview with the Jerusalem Post in February, 2006, when you said that the plot of land was not considered a cemetery and was given to the center in good faith by the government of Israel and the Jerusalem Municipality, you went on to say:
"We never would have accepted a site if the government of Israel or the Jerusalem Municipality had said it was a Muslim cemetery."
"We would have laughed. It would have been preposterous. We never would have accepted it."
I believe you. Just as I still believe that as soon as bones began to be unearthed at the site, it was time to recognize that the idea of building a Museum of Tolerance over a cemetery - whether Muslim, Jewish, Christian, non-denominational or animist - is, at its root, preposterous.
The same 2006 Post article, citing the Israel Antiquities Authority, notes that "The authority has already removed 250 skeletons and skulls from the site and has reported to the court that the cemetery dates back centuries and that there are at least five layers of density of graves there."
You have marshaled learned arguments to prove that the land is no longer legally sacred to Muslims.
But do you truly believe that Muslim individuals, who have come forward to state that their ancestors were buried there, are lying? Do you believe that they do not, in fact, consider this land sacred, or that their dismay over the museum plan is unjustified?
You have said that many of the critics of the plan are extremists, and that is true.
But seriously, on the most basic, human level, can you say in all honesty that you cannot understand why many Israeli citizens, moderate, tolerant Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, are vexed by the concept of a Museum of Tolerance built on a graveyard?
You have spoken eloquently and convincingly of the potential importance and contribution of the museum.
But you have not made one compelling argument for preferring the Mamilla site over other possible building sites in Jerusalem.
Finally, you have stressed that the bones found during construction were between 300 and 400 years old, the graves unmarked.
Are you telling us that in another 300 or 400 years, it will be all right for the Catholic Church to go ahead and re-build the convent near
Auschwitz that you so strongly opposed 20 years ago?Are you telling us that there is a statute of limitations on memory?People of good will in Jerusalem and its environs, intelligent, sensitive, tolerant Christians, Muslims and Jews, want to support a museum like this. These are exactly the kinds of people the museum needs to attract. These are exactly the kinds of people you need to listen to.
They are telling you that your flagship project may have lost its moral compass.
They are telling you that for all of your good will, this project, and, no less, your legacy, are in clear danger of defeating their own purpose.
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December 5th, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) The Ministry of Public Security no longer knows what to do with 36,000 confiscated weapons for which it no longer has storage space. The weapons were confiscated by the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ), and some are part of evidence in court proceedings, though many of the court cases have ended. Authorities say that no order to destroy the weapons has yet been received.
Celso Gamboa, Vice Minister of Security, stated that since January 2012, the National Arsenal has faced serious challenges in storing the weapons. "Due to a concession that we had provided, in 2001, the weapons were placed in the arsenal, mainly because of security issues, however, this was under the understanding that once the court processes ended, there would be a final destination for the weapons, either destruction or donation," said Gamboa.
However, that process never occurred, and the arsenal has now reached 36,000 confiscated weapons, whose weight alone is a serious problem.
"(The weight) caused some of the beams in the Arsenal to give way. We carried out a technical study and met last year with Paulino Mora, president of the Judicial Branch and Alfredo Jones, executive director; we took them to the arsenal, they observed it, made a mitigation plan to remove the weapons, and about 2,000 weapons were removed, but those 2,000 were replaced again due to the number of confiscations," said Gamboa.
According to Gamboa, the situation has now become that the amount of weapons that can be received by the arsenal is only equal to the amounts that are removed, as authorities have completely ran out of room to store the weapons.
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This article was published 13/1/2014 (1316 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs are introducing a mascot for the first time in the team's long history.
Drawings released by the Cubs on Monday show a young bear wearing a Cubs jersey and a backward blue baseball cap. The mascot is named Clark; the team plays at Wrigley Field, located at Clark and Addison streets on Chicago's North Side.
Team officials say they held focus groups before deciding on Clark, and fans told them they wanted a more family-friendly atmosphere at Wrigley Field.
Clark will greet fans at the ballpark before and during games, and the mascot will have a Twitter account and Facebook page.
The Cubs had a live bear mascot in 1916, nine years after formally adopting the Cubs moniker.


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A distinctive legacy. A distinguished education.
For five decades, the Providence College Master of Arts in History program has produced students who have become school teachers, college educators, business leaders, attorneys, and more. They have taken a sweeping knowledge of the issues and events that have defined the ages and put it into practice — in classrooms, courtrooms, and conference rooms.
Much of our alumni's success is due to their enthusiasm for studying history — and understanding its modern-day importance. Another reason for our graduates' achievements is our supportive, expert faculty members who are dedicated to maximizing your intellectual promise and to ensuring that you have the skills to succeed after graduation.
Many parts of our program can be measured in numbers — four corners of the globe are covered, 24 or 30 credits to earn a degree, dozens of diverse courses offered. Your experience as a student will be immeasurable.
To fulfill a teacher certification requirement? To gain a promotion? To prepare for a doctorate? These are all great reasons, but we have a few more:
The objective of our program is to provide students with the opportunity to develop a comprehensive grasp of the past so that they might more fully appreciate the heritage of Western Civilization and the problems that confront it today.
Master's degree students are required to complete 30 credits of graduate-level history, or 24 credits plus an acceptable thesis written under the direction of a professor.
At least 18 (but no more than 21) credits must be taken in the major field, three credits of which must be a seminar in the major field. Three additional credits must be taken in Historical Methodology. The remaining credits (six or nine) must be taken in an area other than the major field; a minor field may be designated for these credits. All students are strongly encouraged to take a course in Historiography in their major field.
[For more information about courses,
please see the graduate catalog.]
Students have an opportunity to pursue a master's degree with a primary major in either
American History or
Modern European History and a second major in
American History, Modern European History, or
Medieval History. Areas for a minor field are
American, Modern European, Medieval, or
East Asian.
Full-time status entails taking three courses per semester. Historical Methodology and seminars in American and European History are offered every year. The other courses are offered every two or three years. A "B" average must be maintained.
Students must give evidence of a reading knowledge of a foreign language. French and German are the recommended modern languages. However, substitution of another language may be made. In some instances, a student may be allowed to substitute a designated computer language course (with a minimum grade of "B") for the language requirement.
After the completion of all course work, students must pass an oral examination covering the major field.


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Formerly the Momentum Reel Mower, The StaySharp Max Reel Mower combines patent-pending technology with superior ergonomics to deliver best-in-class cutting performance without gasoline, oil, charging, the hassle of cords or the noise created by other mowers. It features an Inertia Drive Reel for twice the cutting power of standard reel mowers; StaySharp Cutting System to eliminate the cost and inconvenience of annual blade sharpening; Versa Cut Technology for easy cut height adjustment to provide a clean cut on any type of grass, even though southern varieties, plus one-touch height adjustment for comfort and control; inset wheel design for ultra-close side edging without uncut strips under the wheels; and a unique grass discharge shoot for that throws clippings forward cleanly, away from your feet. The combination of these technologies makes the StaySharp Max Reel Mower 60% easier to push than other reel mowers, helping you get more done with less effort. Includes an 18 in. cut width and a limited 3-year warranty.
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CoalWrangler wrote: My situation may be similar to yours, except with oil, in that I have an oil-fired forced air furnace and an oil-fired hot water heater. Rather that spending a large amount money on a new coal fired heat and hot water system, I opted for coal heat and oil-fired hot water. The cost of the oil to heat my hot water is negligible as compared to the cost of an entirely new sytem. Since I bought my stove used and did my own small refurbishing job it paid for itself in oil savings in less than two months. Just my thoughts - it's all about staying warm and saving money.
This statement rings true. I'm up in maine and that is exactly my situation. I burn little oil for hot water, hope to change that next year, and I've burned aprox. 25 gal. for forced air. I bought a used hand fired and stuck it in front of my fireplace and shazzam, anyone remember that word, saving money on a daily basis. My stove and coal has paid for itself in 4 months....by the way CW where in western ma. yah from, I'll be visiting my sisters camp in charlemont this summer, beautiful part of the world on rt. 2 along the Mohawk trail. Grew up outside of boston, grandparents always took us apple pickin' out west love the berkshires.


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* Potential targets in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia
* Bought Cambodia telco rival for $155 mln last month
* Has $2.8 bln cashpile, but cooling on Vietnam
* Will again spend big in Indonesia
By Yantoultra Ngui and Stuart Grudgings
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Axiata Group Bhd , Asia's third-largest mobile services group outside Japan and China by subscribers, is eyeing deals in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, but reckons getting into Myanmar will be "very tough", CEO Jamaludin Ibrahim said in an interview.
Axiata, valued at close to $19 billion and with a cash pile of $2.8 billion, is expanding in the fast-growing Asian telecoms sector as Jamaludin nips at the heels of Southeast Asian market leader Singapore Telecommunications Ltd and India's Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Its expansion comes at a time of surging demand for smartphones as Asian consumers' spending power grows and relatively untapped economies such as Myanmar and Laos open up for business. Consumers in the seven major Southeast Asian countries spent nearly $14 billion on mobile phones in the year to September, according to market research firm GfK Asia. Smartphone sales surged 78 percent.
Axiata, which already has more than 200 million subscribers, agreed last month to pay around $155 million for Cambodia's Latelz Co Ltd, creating the country's No.2 mobile firm with 5 million subscribers.
"That's a good reflection of what we intend to do," Jamaludin told Reuters at Axiata's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur late on Tuesday. "It can be a small company, it can be a relatively large company. Generally what we would like to do is consolidation."
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia - where Axiata spent more than half its record 5.4 billion ringgit ($1.8 billion) capital expenditure last year - were the most likely candidates for similar deals, Jamaludin said.
"That's the inorganic expansion. Of course, there are opportunities for new countries but in reality there's very few left," said the 53-year-old, who started his career as a lecturer in quantitative methods at California State University. He joined Axiata in 2008 from Malaysian telco Maxis Bhd .
Axiata - whose biggest shareholder is Malaysia's investment arm Khazanah Nasional Bhd - hopes to enter Myanmar, whose political opening has brought into play a new market of around 60 million people with the world's second-lowest cellphone penetration after North Korea.
But the lure of tapping one of Asia's last frontier markets has attracted a host of potential bidders, including Digicel and Norway's Telenor, for the two telecoms licenses Myanmar plans to offer to foreign operators. Five or six of the bidders were "really aggressive," Jamaludin said.
"It's going to be a tough one, a very tough one."
In contrast, Jamaludin said Axiata had little interest in entering Vietnam, which he said was an "anti-climax" after widespread excitement over its potential a few years ago. "They have a high level of penetration, so the attractiveness has gone down dramatically," he said.
Listed in 2008, Axiata shares last week hit a life high of 6.87 ringgit, and rose 28 percent last year, almost treble the increase in the broader Bursa Malaysia index. SingTel shares rose less than 8 percent.
Born from the 2008 demerger of TM International and Telekom Malaysia Bhd, Axiata already has controlling interests in operations in Indonesia through XL Axiata, Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata and Bangladesh's Robi Axiata, as well as its Cambodian business. It has minority interests in Singapore's M1, India's Idea Cellular, Pakistan's Multinet and Thailand's Samart i-Mobile.
Jamaludin said there was increasing competition between cellphone firms in Indonesia, where robust growth is propelling millions of people into a bulging new middle class. Axiata doubled its spending on Indonesia last year and would invest another "big sum" this year, he said.
"Everybody can see it's a big opportunity and this is the time to go for it. Smaller players have also decided to up the ante, whereas in a lot of the other countries the smaller players are getting more quiet," he said.
Jamaludin said Axiata had no plans to copy SingTel, which has embarked on a drive to acquire high-tech firms to transform itself into a multimedia and information technology leader. The company bought Israeli mobile advertising solutions firm Amobee Inc last year for $321 million.
"We decided we do (it) more cautiously," Jamaludin said. "We want to do something which is more incremental and adding value to existing business, leveraging on our customer base, leveraging on our network, our brand and so forth rather than building a new one."
Axiata trades at almost 19 times its projected earnings, well above SingTel's 13.9 times and the average Asia Pacific sector multiple of 12.6 times. Of 29 analysts tracking Axiata, 19 rate it a 'buy' or 'strong buy', with a single 'underperform' rating.
Cash flow from operations was at 2.67 billion ringgit at end-September, more than three times net income of 710 million ringgit.
$ = 3 Malaysian ringgit Additional reporting by Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah in Kuala Lumpur and Patturaja Murugaboopathy in Bangalore; Editing by Ian Geoghegan


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HTC One X, HTC One S available to be pre-ordered on Vodafone U.K.
As we told you last week, U.K. retailer Phones4u has already started offering pre-orders for the same two handsets offering service from Vodafone, Orange and O2. Those ordering through the Phones4u are also getting a free HTC Medialink HD with their order. The latest word we had was that the HTC One X and the HTC One S will both launch in the U.K. on April 5th.
source: Vodafone via AndroidCentral
18 Comments
1. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
Hold up. So your meaning to tell me that Vodafone in the U.K, the same company that owns Verizon Wireless is going to release the HTC One X, the hottest one out of the 3 One models, they are releasing this in the U.K but the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GET NO HTC ONE X? WHAT THE f**k BRO? Seriously, WTF? This is complete bulls**t that VZW once again dropped the damn ball on a hot handset like this. I am so sick and tired of AT&T getting everything cool and we get s**t. F U Vodafone.
2. gwuhua1984 (Posts: 1237; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
I thought there's a new device going to Verizon that people are rumoring as the Droid Incredible 4G. I would expect that it'd be on par with AT&T's One X?
10. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
You would think but I'm not sure if that's the case. Oh yeah, did you notice that the Samsung Plato is taken off from the Verizon upcoming phones section?
3. Joshing4fun (Posts: 1237; Member since: 13 Aug 2010)
AT&T getting everything cool? That's hilarious.
Verizon has the best android phones right now. Nexus, Razr, Spectrum, Droid 4, Rezound, and about a dozen other affordable ones.
AT&T needs the ONE X because besides the monster-sized Note, they have like nothing that great. Plus Verizon gets an awesome new phone like every month. Chill, it's one phone.
7. barondebxl (Posts: 132; Member since: 04 Nov 2011)
Dude what are you smoking? First of all, T-mobile has THE BEST ANDROID LINEUP to this date. Second of all, AT&T has arguably a better android line up than Verizon ( you mentioned Galaxy note and Galaxy s 2 which smokes everything Verizon android has plus the iPhone 4s,galaxy skyrocket, HTC vivid which is now running ice cream sandwich, Optimus 3d, Samsung captivate glide and you can get the nexus HSPA+ version). The droid phones are a joke (1-4) the razr (maxx) is good so is nexus and rezound is decent but the screen is amazing. Verizon network is great but their android phones are not the best.
12. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
Amen to that bro. By the way, the other comment is for Joshing, not you.
11. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
Oh, really? Your telling me that Verizon didn't drop the ball on the Samsung Galaxy Note? The LG Optimus lineup, the HTC One series? Yeah, instead, all these jackasses in Verizon are worried about are how slim their phone is. f**k that s**t. If VZW would wake up, we would have gotten these phones and VZW would have ruled the world.
4. N.Reynolds (Posts: 257; Member since: 15 Feb 2011)
Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon. It's not like they make all the decisions for what phone the company is going to carry.
13. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
But the point is, they have say. They are the Verizon of the U.K.
8. jove39 (Posts: 1977; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
Hahaha...why are you so frustrated? this isn't happening first time! All other countries except USA gets international version of device and USA alone get 3 or 4 versions...Its been already said...Verizon has best android lineup
16. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
What report did you read to get that last bit of info on your comment? Dude, 1 line: SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE.
Enough said.
5. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
On the specifications on the site, it says the One X has 32 GB of memory, I thought it only had 16?
6. oddmanout (Posts: 443; Member since: 22 May 2009)
@berzerk000 the US at&t variant will get 16GB everywhere else will get 32.
Sorry for the new comment. I can't reply on the iPad.
14. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
Which is one reason the iPad sucks.
17. Mercenary (Posts: 61; Member since: 21 Oct 2011)
Hey you stupid mother f**ker
Can you do a reply from an android tablet??
18. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
Hey you stupid mother f**ker, I bet you he could.
9. NOKIA.8800.ARTE (Posts: 100; Member since: 26 Mar 2012)
So in the Uk u get this phone free on £30 and above.
So in the states u pay the same plus upfront cost
off $150 what a rip off.....
15. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)


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By House of Neil on February 2nd, 2014
December was disappointing this month. It used to be that you would get some bank-breaker decks going off in December, as wives and girlfriends found the perfect xmas gift for their skate obsessed partners! They wouldn't mind if it was overpriced because they don't know and better and it's simply crossing a gift off the list. But I didn't see much of that this year. No, prices were down across the board. I saw more dudes dropping stuff for bargain prices, probably so they could afford to buy gifts for their wives and girlfriends! I'm not sure what that says about our hobby. Maybe the bottom is dropping out. We shall see.
First up this in the 70s section this period is this complete from 1977. It's an Alva 30" deck complete with Lazer trucks and blue 65mm Kryptonics. It was signed in 1978 in Southport, England, 30 minutes away from my house! It's in really nice condition, but I would remove the Powerflex stickers. That's one really nice looking complete! It sold for $543 on 17 bids.
Now here we have a G&S Fiberflex Bowlrider from 1977. The deck has factory grip but has never been mounted or ridden. The shiny black finish looks awesome with the clean griptape and the gold white and red sticker logo. This nice looking specimen sold for $400 on 8
And here's an unusual one! It's a Hawaii 5-0 complete from the late 60s/early 70s. It comes complete with Super Surfer clay wheels and measures 22" by 6". I don't know if it's a spin-off from the TV series or whether it's a coincidence. The blue blobs are the Hawaiian Islands if you didn't know. I used to have a sticker of them on the back of my car, and more than a few people told me that the sticker on the back of my car had ripped, not getting that they were individual islands! It sold for $415 on 5 bids.
Damn, here's a fucking racing machine! This thing just screams speed! It's a G&S Fiberflex Henry Hester slalom deck with gold Gullwing split axle HPG IV trucks and original OJ Superjuice wheels. It has been ridden but very very little, and is in superb condition as you can see. So shiny it looks like it was built yesterday instead of almost 40 years ago. Amazing. It sold for $1,225 on 36 bids.
And here's another great looking complete. Admittedly not as nice as the one above, but then again few are! It's a G&S Dennis Martinez "Flying Aces" deck from 1979, complete with Motobilt trucks and G7S Rollerball wheels. It's in excellent used condition; barely looks used at all really. The trucks are unusual, and Rollerballs are always a nice fine. It sold for $750.
The completes continue with this 1979 G&S Doug Pineapple Saladino "Pine Design (Routed)" deck, complete with Gullwing trucks and some kind of really bulky single conical wheels. It's in decent used condition, but looks like it could use some real cleaning up. Especially the wheels. They look like they've been rolling through hot tar. It sold for $800 with a BIN and lasted only 24 minutes.
And finally from the 70s this month we have this exquisite Santa Cruz 28" oak deck. It has the classic rainbow logo, and comes complete with Trackers and Tunnel V wheels. It's super clean and was a bargain at $385.
So first up in the 80s section this month we have this G&S Neil Blender "Driving" deck from 1988, complete with green Variflex trucks and Slammer wheels. It's been setup obviously but has never been ridden. Seriously, the thing is perfect. The trucks and white wheels make a nice compliment to the colors in the graphic too. This is awesome. It sold for $499.
And speaking of Neil Blender, here we have his 2nd pro deck, the G&S "Jumper" from 1982. It's actually his version of the Stiff Little Fingers "Go For It" album cover. Doodled on a schoolbook perhaps during class? This one is unusual because I've never seen that checkerboard motif on the nose and tail before. SO that's either a really rare variation, or was added by the original owner, along with all of the stickers. It comes complete with Gullwings and Powell Peralta wheels. It's not in great shape: the white deck has yellowed with age as has the clear griptape on top, and the stickers are very distracting from the main graphic. But it still sold for $1,000.
Now here's an absolute beauty. This is a Brand X "X Terminator" team deck from 1983. It's NOS, never mounted or gripped, but it does have some storage marks, especially on the nose unfortunately. It doesn't really detract from this deck in my eyes. It's magnificent. Simple but sooo great. I would love this one my wall. Hell, this would great on any wall. It sold for $430 on 13 bids.
Now here we have a Alva Chris Cook 'Jester" from 1986/87. The deck is NOS, mint really. No dings or obvious marks at all. I've never been able to figure out what the hell that graphic is and why it's called the jester, but what do I know? This one is a really nice teal stain, but a fade would have increased the price of this maybe twofold. It sold for $417 on 11 bids.
Here we have a Tracker Adrian Demain "Face 2" deck from 1990. He was way ahead of his time with manga style graphic, and the full bleed was a really nice touch. His decks are really underappreciated I feel, but if this one is any indication, they may be starting to get some respect! It sold for $450.
Here we have your classic Santa Cruz Duane Peters "DP 2" deck from 1985. It's the 29" version, and is mint in original bag. It's a total classic, and is being reissued in the near future by SC along with the Steve Olson checkerboard. It sold for $444.
Here we have a Santa Cruz Eric Dressen "Celtic Rose" deck from 1989. The deck is NOS, never mounted or gripped. I've always loved the graphic, and some really love the gold/blue duotone colorway like this, but I'm not into it that much. I much prefer the full color graphic, but can appreciate the understated class of this one. It is intricate and amazing. It sold for $400.
Goddamn! You never see one of those! Ever! It's a Fogtown "Beast" team model from 1985. Graphics are by the incomparable MoFo. Fogtown were one of those super mysterious small companies that advertised in ¼ page ads in the back of Thrasher. I always loved the idea of those decks, especially the Board to Death model, and this one, the Beast. It's fucking awesome and you never see it! It's NOS and it sold for $676 on 11 bids.
Here we have the G&S "Foiltail" team model from 1984. This came out after Gator left G&S to go to Vision, but they decided to keep his model and simply change the name on the bottom of the deck. This one is mint in the original bag it came in. It's not the best deck in the world, and by 1984 this kind of surf inspired graphic was already looking incredibly dated. But still. Hard to find in this condition. It sold for $499.
Here we have one of those crazy Alva workshop one off spray paint jobs. The deck is a John Gibson "Tex Street", but the real selling point here is the nutzo swirl spray can background. I love that the Alva guys did shit like this. They had the regular stained, the fades, and sometimes the speckles or the swirl backgrounds. Totally random and totally awesome. What's not awesome is that some dickhead tried to take advantage and fake some of these a few years ago, but I digress. The originals like this are just awesome, transforming an average deck into something special. It sold for $500.
Here we have a Vision Mark Gonzales "Split Face" from 1989. The deck is as close to mint as you will find with very few marks of any kind. The purple wash isn't my favorite colorway, and this graphic never really did it for me, but some obviously love it to death. It sold for a very large $1,650 on 30 bids.
So here we have a Schmitt Stix Jeff Grosso "Toy Blocks" from 1986. So already you can tell this is a big hitter right? Jeff Grosso's rookie deck, NOS condition, pink dip. Everything a collector could look for really. So you know that this is going for huge bucks, and you are not wrong. If there is any critique of this deck it would be that it isn't colorful enough. On a pink dip the letters in the blocks and the tie shouldn't be pink. An alternate colorway would make it pop far more. But anyway, it didn't need any help to go huge. It sold for $2,148 on 27 bids.
So remember what I was saying about prices being down? Well the next two decks really illustrate that. It used to be that any Powell Peralta Tony Hawk "Chicken Skull" deck would go for crazy dollars, despite the fact that there's a million of them out there. Well those days appear to be gone. The lime green dip used to be one of the biggest sellers. You couldn't touch a mint one for under 2k. This one is all mounted up with red Ventures and Schmitt Sawblade wheels, but it's never seen pavement, so to all intents and purposes it's NOS. It sold for $750. That seems REALLY cheap to me. Well let me put that another way. That's probably what it should go for, but it's far lower than this deck would have gone for a year ago.
So how about a mint one in an even rarer colorway? The yellow dip has always been one of the highest sellers. And full size, 7-ply, mint in shrink? That's a down payment on a car. Well not anymore apparently. Not that $1,026 is anything to be sneezed at, but that's about half of what it would have gone for at one point. Can anybody else explain this?
This one always tickles me! It's a Christian Hosoi "Dragon", the very first hammerhead deck that he ever came out with. He'd just left Alva after getting pissed that Tony took the credit for the hammerhead shape. Christian and his father decided to put out some decks by themselves, and this was the very first version. Not many came out (thank god), and shortly after they came up with the famous triangle graphic that sold a million decks. So this one is super rare, and even though it looks like a cheap toystore piece of crap, it's actually a piece of skate history. Even beaten up like this it still sold for $600.
Here's a true classic. The Sims Lester Kasai "Splat" from 1983. This one looks minty fresh. The white dip is super clean, and the blue and green graphic is fluorescent and bright. This is a superb specimen. I would love to have this deck in my collection. Don't put it on a white wall though. You will lose all of the effect! It sold for $801 on 10 bids.
Here we have a Schmitt Stix Joe Lopes "Barbecue" model from 1987. The deck was gripped but never actually setup or ridden. I like the natural colorway with turquoise and black graphic. It's very simple but effective. It sold for $600 on 2 bids.
I tell you what, I thin this might be the best colorway I've ever seen for this SMA Natas "Evil cat" deck. The bottle green woodstain with grain showing through is incredible, and the red, gold and blue main graphic looks really full and rich. It really is an exceptional looking deck. It sold for only $400, which I find crazy, but it might be because it was lightly skated and the griptape job is incredibly horrendous. But remove that and you have a beautiful deck.
And here we have a classic Alva fade. This one is the Eddie Reategui "Monkey" from 1988. Alva fades are exploding off the charts, it doesn't seem to matter what the graphic is. Decks that used to be $100 are now going for 4X that if they have the fade. This one used to be around $200. Now? Well this NOS one sold for $750.
And finally from the 80s this month we have this Sims Steve Rocco "Streetstyle" model from 1987. It's actually a very interesting deck, because it was one of the first "street" decks. Steve Rocco was an old freestyle rider who saw the possibilities of bringing freestyle tricks to the street, and was one of the first to do ollies in street contests. This was his final model on Sims before he left to form World Industries and change skating forever. So the fact this is a very conventional looking deck with a very old fashioned graphic is extremely ironic. It sold for $671 on 30 bids.
We've got a pretty great 90s section this month. Even I'm excited for it! Actually I play on the fact that I don't like 90s graphics, but that's not true. The early 90s stuff was some of the most exciting, groundbreaking stuff in skate history. And that goes for shapes and graphics. It's the mid 90s, throwaway graphic shit that I hate. All ripped off cartoons, ads or gangsta shit. Hate all that nonsense. We are better than that. Plus the full-on tiny popsicles. No style at all.
Anyway, first up in the 90s section this month we have this Alien Workshop "Visitor" team deck from 1992. It's NOS, never gripped or mounted, and in an amazing bright orange wood stain. The colors are amazing here, and it's got that amazingly skateable early 90s shape. It sold for $420 on 14 bids.
Now here's a deck I've never seen before! It's a Bad Boy Club (BBC) "Adam and Eve" deck from 1990. It's an odd graphic don't in a very odd style. More like a 60s painting than a skateboard graphic really. It's unusual but strangely compelling. It's NOS, never gripped or mounted but it does have storage marks. It sold for $400.
And here's an absolute classic. It's a Blind Jason Lee "David Bowie" deck from 1992. It's NOS, and in a yellow stain. C&D did a decent job with their reissue, but the original is always the best. And prices appear to be falling if you can believe that. It sold for $1,875 on 25 bids.
Here we have a Liberty Todd Congelliere "Icee Bear" deck from 1991. It's NOS< never gripped or mounted. This graphic has really exploded in popularity over the last few years and is highly sought after, especially in this condition and colorway. It sold for $436 on 19 bids.
Here we have a Santa Cruz Corey O'Brien "Mutant City" deck from 1991. The deck is mint in shrink. Most of us know Corey from the Jim Phillips penned "Reaper" graphic from 1988, but he did have a couple of other decks. Not as iconic as the "Reaper", but still pretty cool. It only came in the one colorway I think. Artwork by Daniel Clowes. It sold for $400
Next we have a Zorlac Craig Johnson "Torso" deck from 1991. So Craig originally rode for Zorlac and then left to skate for Alva. But for a short time in the early 90s he returned to the San Diego version of Zorlac. This is his second graphic on his return. The deck has been ridden a little but is in overall great shape. It's been drilled for rails but the grip has been removed. It sold for $620.
Here we have a Powell Peralta "Liberty and Justice for Some" team deck from 1991. It's NOS, never gripped or mounted. The graphic was originally conceived by Ray Barbee and finished by Sean Cliver. It sold for $615 on 17 bids.
And here we have another of the early 90s Zorlac decks. This is the Metallica "Pirate 2" team deck from 1992. It's NOS, never gripped or mounted, but has storage scratches from hanging etc. It's a nice red stain, and has one of the classic Pushead Metallica graphics. Although by this time I don't think Metallica had many links with the skate community anymore. It sold for $1,100 on 16 bids.
Now here's a simple graphic, beautifully rendered. It's a Powell Peralta Wade Speyer "Plaid" deck from 1992. The deck is mint in shrink. It's a very simple idea for a graphic but beautifully conceived. I really like the red around the edges too. It pulls the whole thing together. It sold for $399 on a BIN after 2 hours.
And here we have a New Deal Ed Templeton "crowd" deck from 1991. It's his second graphic, the "Patchwork Cat" being the first. The deck is NOS, never mounted or gripped. I'm seeing trend with a lot of the Stance decks that were sold. All the same color stain. That must have been some collection! It sold for $955 on 34 bids.
Here we have a Real Jim Thiebaud "Wrench" deck from 1991. As with most 90s decks this period it's being sold by Stance from Madrid! Crazy collection. The deck is NOS of course. Classic Thiebaud political graphic, and with most Thiebaud graphics it has a Klansman in it. It sold for $586 on 6 bids.
And finally in the 90s section this month we have this World Industries Mike Vallely 'Elephant 2" or 'Canyon" deck from 1990. The graphic is a continuation of his earlier Powell elephant graphic, but this time it is standing on the abyss. This deck has a top graphic that's almost as big as the bottom graphic. It also features the "egg" built into the concave on top of the deck. A gimmick that was supposed to help catch your front foot when doing an ollie. This deck was set up as a clock in a skateshop, hence the square cutout on top. It sold for $1,100 on 7 bids.
This is a C&D (Cease and Desist) "reissue' of the Mike Carroll Plan B "Nevertrend" deck, originally from 1992. It's autographed and mint in shrink and in a super limited edition of 10 supposedly. It sold for $455 on 20 bids. I had no idea that C&D decks went for so much. Especially because their "limited" runs often turn out to be not so limited.
Here we have a NHS Christian Hosoi "Rocket Air" banner. It's in new condition and measues 3 feet square. It sold for $550. So what's your guess? Hanging in a garage? It's much too valuable to be fixed to a ramp. Or in some rich collectors den perhaps. I have to admit, as banners go this one is pretty epic.
1984 Vision Agent Orange complete with white Gullwings and Sims Street wheels. $500 on 1 bid.
1984 Brand X "Weirdo" complete. Indy Stage III and Powell Bones III. $450 on 5 bids.
1988 Powell Peralta "Mechanical Dragon". NOS in natural wood. $420.
1988 Santa Cruz "Street Creep" team deck. Mint in shrink. $1,025 on 22 bids.
1985 Zorlac "Double Cut" team deck. Complete with (early) Ventures and Schmitt Stix Street Saw wheels. $500 on 20 bids.
1985 Zorlac John Gibson "Cow Skull" complete. Comes with Indys and Santa Cruz Bullets. $430.
1988 Santa Cruz Claus Grabke "Holding Back Time" deck. Mint in Shrink. $600 on 21 bids. Classic question on this auction: "I'm willing to go as high as $350 on this to end it now". The auction was already at $400…
1988 Vision Tom Groholski "Hurricane". NOS. $380 on 17 bids.
1989 Blockhead Omar Hassan "Arabian Knights II". NOS. $390 on 10 bids.
1990 Blockhead Rick Howard "Skunk" deck. NOS. $579 on 11 bids.
1985 Schmitt Stix John Lucero "X1". Complete with Trackers and Rat Bones. $430.
1984 Powell Peralta Mike McGill "Skull and Snake" deck. NOS. $694 on 52 bids.
1988 Santa Cruz Rob Roskopp "Face II". NOS. $495 on 25 bids.
1991 Powell Peralta Mike McGill "Stinger" deck. NOS. $600.
1990 Santa Cruz Rob Roskopp "Eye 2" deck. NOS $530.
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I've always wondered what sort of person pays 2,500 for deck that cost 50 bucks way back when. The Shogo Airbeams were going for almost 5,000 at one point! Mine was £25 quid in 1979. One of the factors could be that a lot of h.o.m.o.s got serious skatitis after Dogtown and Z Boys, getting back into skating and buying lots of gear, and those with too much disposable cash were buying these old decks as some kind of nostalgic memento of youth, or as an investment. Since their skate fever gradually calmed down, prices on the collector's market have been steadily going down too. Plus this never ending recession has got to be a major factor too.
Great work Neil Thanx. Some rare ones this month, prices are abit over the palce but its just changing generations coming into the collecting game but its never a surprise when early 80's and early 90's decks make big money low product and good art see to that.
ô that Hester !
Well, apparently, prices for spraypainted Alva's aren't going down at all. And that Hawk has plastics screwed into it.
Whut, no overpriced Powell t-shirt this time?
Great effort and great read again, Neil!
Good grief, that green Natas is awesome! Weird colors, but it looks rad.
I'd take the copers and tailbone off that Lucero and ride it
Yup, I said it 2 months ago: 400 dollar decks.
Hm, that reminds me of a coversong by the Reverend Horton Heat. Was it a Supersuckers song?
Great read again, thanks for your work! Very impressive Fogtown. Great graphic by mofo. Has been reused a year later by Concrete Jungle!
Brand X so simple so cool, plenty of good decks around $400 which seems fair to the buyer. Neil as always I enjoy this read tons.
Agreed : the graphics is super smple and stunning. My choice of the month.
The Dressen Celtic Rose is an all time favourite too – check its modern counterpart : the big Lush Legend.
Ive been unloading alot of my decks lately…mostly auctions because alot of stuff is hard to put a price on. nos and used decks are bouncing up and down like crazy, things im expecting to hit bigger stay low and vice versa. agreed, christmas seemed to stay low this year. i was watching that natas because i have one…couldnt belive it stayed so low.
Thanks, Neil, for another great Watch. Super appreciate you doing these. Total highlight.
C&D actually made 100 of those Carroll Nevertrends. I bought 3 of them when they were released with the highest numbered being number 91. Each came signed and with a unique picture of Mike. Seems pretty ridiculous that one went for that high. I would much rather have the original Natas above for less money!
Perhaps decks will fall in price some and I can pick up some crazy priced ones I've had my eye on. Would love to get a Lucero Street Thing 1 in mint for under $600.
That Street Creep team deck is gorgeous in blue, but wow, had no idea they were going for that type of coin..Shocked a complete Lucero went that low, and that Blockhead Hassan is a cool deck for relatively cheap..
Natas kitten for sale on ebay
Only like 18 hours left though
There seem to be two issues going on, I noticed there's allot less stuff available now from the 70s and 80s across the board over the past two years especially NOS. I haven't even seen a good set of wheels in over a year!
I'm sure its like earlier stated, this never ending " recession" is hurting the markets pretty bad. Although if you can afford 100 million dollar items like vintage Ferraris and Van Goughs there selling for record amounts.
It's that damn middle class suffering the most thing again.
Thanks again Neil!
Your right….not the typical Dec. but some nice wood for decent dough. Thanks for the write up onvce again friend!
Thanks for the heads up on the DP and Olson SC reissues. Thanks to you I was able to snag one of each for the collection on the release day.
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The western portion of the Crossgates Plaza shopping complex on Route 19 in Upper St. Clair soon will be known as Campbell Place, following its purchase by Peck Family Holdings LLC.
"We have changed the name and are only waiting for the sign to be attached," said H. Brian Peck, who with his brothers Edward C. Peck and Wayne C. Peck purchased the shopping complex for $2.1 million from several local trusts, according to a deed filed in Allegheny County.
The complex at Route 19, or Washington Road, at Fort Couch Road had been under a lease to the Crossgates Inc. real estate firm for 35 years, and that lease expired, H. Brian Peck said. That led to the Peck Family's decision to buy the complex, he said.
The plan is to delay any changes to the facility for about a year, while observing what may be needed, he said.
Currently, a Boston Market, Einstein Bagels and an H&R Block occupy the center. Chyten Learning Center had been a tenant but it left recently, he said. That leaves one storeroom available for lease.
The deed identifies the sellers as Elizabeth C. Davis, Robert C. Preston Living Trust and Mary Josephine Preston-Miller Living Trust.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - The death of a young man at a local mall prompted calls for change, but a bill aimed at protecting all shoppers is being blocked in Lansing.
Mckenzie Cochran died in January after being pepper-sprayed and restrained by guards at Northland Mall.
As a result, two state lawmakers from metro Detroit pushed for a new law requiring training for security guards. But so far, nothing has changed.
Six months later, cellphone video captured of Cochran being restrained after a scuffle with security guards at Northland Mall is still hard to watch. Officers were seen holding the 25-year-old man down as he screamed for help.
According to the Medical Examiner's office, Cochran's death was an accident. Autopsy results show he died of "position compression asphyxia."
More: Southfield mall death ruled accidental asphyxia
Days after the controversial death, representatives Rudy Hobbs and Thomas Stallworth came up with a new bill mandating security guards in Michigan undergo more extensive training.
The bill has now become a messy debacle. Hobbs said Sen. Darwin Booher is sitting on the legislation.
Hobbs and Stallworth teamed up with state senators to push the bill through, but they said Booher is leading the pack. He's been working on an update to the public act regulating security guard agencies for over two years.
Hobbs said Booher agreed to incorporate the new training requirements as part of his larger overhaul. The bill was expected to be introduced before summer recess, which is next week.
Down to the wire with the bill still not ready, the representatives are pressuring Booher to stop the standstill.
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We consider environmental regulation of n risk-averse, multiple pollutant firms. We develop a "yardstick competition" scheme where the regulatory scheme depends on the di erence between a firm's "aggregate" performance and the average "aggregate" performance of the industry. Whether this instruments dominates Pigovian taxation depends on the complete structure of the covariance matrix of the "common" random terms in measured pollution. Moreover, if the number of firms is large enough, the "yardstick scheme" is always superior to Pigovian taxation. This analysis also provides new arguments in favor of strict liability rather than negligence liability as regulatory tool.
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YORK has been identified as one of the top performing cities in the country for staff training and successes among small businesses.
Think-tank Centre for Cities has ranked York at number three in the top 10 list of cities with the highest proportion of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that trained staff.
The organisation's newly released Small Business Outlook revealed 79.2 per cent of SMEs in York trained their staff, ahead of a city average of 69 per cent.
The report stated: "SME's investing in training are likely to be more productive and adaptable. They are also likely to find it easier to retain staff.
"Overall, cities with a higher proportion of SMEs investing in training are also likely to have more high-performing SMEs."
York also faired well in the Small Business Outlook for closure rates, again ranking third in the list of cities with the lowest closure rates.
The data, for 2010 to 2013, showed York had a closure rate of 11.9 per cent compare to a UK average of 15.7 per cent and a city average of 14.9 per cent.
The report singled out York for high growth among small businesses, stating: "Differences between cities when it comes to SMEs adopting high-growth strategies are striking.
"There is a spread of SMEs adopting high-growth strategies from London out along the M4 corridor through Oxford, Swindon and Bristol and north along the M1 past Northampton, Derby and Nottingham.
"There are also clusters of SMEs adopting high-growth strategies in Manchester and Warrington, and Leeds and York.
"Cities with a large share of SMEs adopting high-growth strategies are more likely to drive employment growth in the short term."
While small businesses have been raising their profile, helped by initiatives such as Small Business Saturday and the SME broadband voucher scheme, York didn't fare well in all the report's statistics.
York was ranked eight in the list of ten cities with the lower number of jobs created per expanding SME.
Between 2010 and 2013 York had an average employment rate created per expanding SME of 4.3, compared to a UK average rate of 5.2 and a city average of 5.7.
Cllr Alexander, leader of City of York council said: "There are some very encouraging statistics to come out of this report with York SMEs not only having a much better chance of surviving and growing here than elsewhere, but that they are operating in competitive markets, expanding their offer and investing in their staff to ensure their success.
"For our part we are working with partners to ensure that York has the right environment for businesses to start, survive and grow; whether this is through improvements to our digital and physical infrastructure or in ensuring access to city-wide training and development opportunities".


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Big 5 firm, Ernst & Young, LLP (EY), just acquired the assets of Chicago-based Shipman Maison Associates (SMA). SMA provides software products that enable large corporations to screen and track employees and maximize tax incentives such as Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC).
This is an opportunity for EY to provide an even stronger incentives offering for clients. There are many ways that employers can utilize employment related incentives from federal, state and local governments and the people at SMA will help the firm do just that.
SMA's proprietary software, SMA Target (c) is the only available product with local computer service capability. The tool turns employee capital into a trackable asset, much like companies track financial assets. Employers will be able to cash in on government programs while analyzing training needs and monitoring employee stats.
This move was motivated by an all-time low unemployment rate and an emphasis that focuses on moving large numbers of poorly trained, low skilled workers into the work force. Government incentives are helping corporations take advantage of this hugely untapped employment pool. SMA's software will ensure these corporations get the full benefits associated with their new hires.