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A complex international operation to free a Russian ship trapped in Antarctica has ended after the vessel cleared the ice field.
The Russian-flagged Akademik Shokalskiy became stuck on 24 December, triggering a rescue operation coordinated by Australian authorities which included French, Chinese, American and German agencies.
China's powerful icebreaker Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, raced to respond to the stranded ship, which had been carrying 74 scientists, passengers and crew, but was unable to break through and became trapped itself.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) confirmed today that the Akademik Shokalskiy and the Xue Long "have broken free from the ice in Antarctica and are no longer in need of assistance".
The United States Coast Guard 399-foot long icebreaker Polar Star, which had been en route to the stranded ships, was released from the rescue.
It will now continue on its original mission of resupplying and refuelling the US's McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott South Pole stations during the weather window provided by the southern hemisphere summer.
US Coast Guard commander Vice Admiral Paul F Zukunft said: "This case underscores the dynamic and harsh operating environment and the necessity for Polar Class Icebreakers in the Antarctic."
AMSA said the captain of the Russian ship, Igor Kiselyov, told officials yesterday that cracks had started to open in the ice around the trapped vessel and a short time later it began to make slow movements.
"Finally the wind changed to the west and as a result a crack appeared in the ice," Mr Kiselyov told Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency. "We went into it and we are now slowly moving north," he said late yesterday.
The ship quickly managed to clear the area containing the heaviest ice and despite the hard conditions, including thick fog and reduced visibility, began making slow progress north through lighter ice conditions.
The ship, which has 22 crew on board, took about 12 hours to leave the ice field behind and is now heading to New Zealand, AMSA said.
The captain of the Chinese vessel had also managed to break free of the heaviest ice around the same time "and is now making slow progress through lighter ice conditions" and is in need of no assistance, it said.
The ice surrounding the Xue Long, which has 101 people on board, had been up to four metres thick.
The Xue Long had been trapped since last Friday, one day after dramatically rescuing 52 scientists, passengers and journalists from the Shokalskiy using its helicopter.
The 52 were transferred to the Australian Antarctic programme's supply ship the Aurora Australis, which also raced to the rescue but was unable to break through the ice to reach the Russian vessel.
In total five ships were involved in the search and rescue mission -- Akademik Shokalskiy, the French vessel L'Astrolabe, Xue Long, Aurora Australis and USCGC Polar Star.
But the diversion of several government's Antarctic programme's resources to help the Shokalskiy has drawn criticism of its "Spirit of Mawson" expedition, which was emulating a 1911-1914 tour by explorer Sir Douglas Mawson.
The Aurora, which was resupplying Australia's Antarctic base at Casey when it was diverted, is now running two weeks behind schedule, while French scientists have had to scrap a two-week oceanographic campaign.


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It all adds up to the publicly familiar Shirley Jones, whose crystalline soprano voice and dewy prettiness made her an immediate star in the 1950s film versions of "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel" and who captured a subsequent generation of fans in TV's "The Partridge Family" in the 1970s.
Then there's "Shirley Jones," her new autobiography (written with Wendy Leigh and published by Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books imprint) that turns the 79-year-old actress' image on its head in startling — even shocking — ways.
"So bring out the smelling salts, hang on to your hats, and get ready for the surprise of your lives!" she writes in the introduction. It's not false advertising.
There's a recounting of her early life and dazzling career that included working with two musical theater masters, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, as well as many of Hollywood's top actors, including Marlon Brando (king of the retakes to exhaustion, Jones said), Jimmy Stewart (charmingly ditsy) and Richard Widmark (the only co-star she fell in love with).
But a substantial part of the book is spent on her troubled marriage to the late Jack Cassidy, the glossily handsome actor and singer whom she describes in a passage as her first lover and "sexual Svengali," and whose lessons she shares candidly.
The character of Marian, the spinsterish librarian in 1962's "The Music Man," another smash hit for Jones, "wasn't me," she said firmly. And her autobiography makes that abundantly clear, although she says it took the passing of years for her to bring such candor.
"I never would have written this book if I weren't the age I am now," she said.
So she's grown-up enough to tell her story, and her admirers should be grown-up enough to read it? "That's exactly how I feel," replied Jones.
She overturned her squeaky-clean image once before with her Oscar-winning portrayal of a vengeful prostitute in "Elmer Gantry" (1960) opposite Burt Lancaster, and the role that she considers her most important. Marty Ingels, the comedian who is her second husband of 35 years and counting, jokes that he is offended by her personal history.
"All that stuff she did with her husband (Cassidy), all those adventures, ... I'm looking into the grounds of having my marriage annulled," he said.
Jones had a chance to reflect on her life anew while recording the audio version of "Shirley Jones."
"What came to me is, 'I did this, and obviously I loved it when I was doing it," she said. "I had a great time. I have no regrets whatsoever."

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Group of Eight Summit Yields Africa Aid, Little Else
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RAY SUAREZ: A fleeting friendly moment marked the farewell to the most contentious meeting of the Group of Eight industrial nations in the 22 years of these get-togethers. The summit ended today after three days of blunt talk, seeming stalemate, and some wary agreement.
Beyond the reaffirmed commitment to aid for Africa — $60 billion to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria there — the G-8 leaders left other issues unresolved.
There was notable conflict on another big issue on this final day: a U.S., European Union and United Nations plan to grant what is called supervised independence to Kosovo, a province of the former Yugoslavia. Russia continued to support Serbia, its longtime ally. Serbia considers Kosovo an essential part of its heritage and opposes any independence for the province and its ethnic Albanian majority.
President Vladimir Putin rejected the independence proposal, saying Western countries should not humiliate or impose their will on Serbia. A 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Serbia stopped a brutal bout of ethnic cleansing in the province. But since then, the United Nations peacekeeping force has maintained a fragile calm.
On climate change, the Europeans and the U.S. smoothed over their public differences by agreeing to a non-binding pledge to "seriously consider" cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by the year 2050. Despite criticism from environmental groups that the Europeans had backed down, German chancellor and host of the meeting, Angela Merkel, sounded an optimistic note.
ANGELA MERKEL, Chancellor, Germany (through translator): Now the path is open for everyone to say that we need these binding targets.
RAY SUAREZ: On Darfur, the Group of Eight appealed to the Sudanese government to open a corridor of humanitarian assistance into the war-torn region. President Bush expressed open frustration on the lack of progress in stopping the killing.
GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States: I'm frustrated that the international organizations can't move quickly enough. I don't know how long it's going to take for people to hear the call to save lives.
RAY SUAREZ: Away from the group meetings, President Bush and Russian President Putin seemed to tamp down some earlier rhetoric over missile defense and democracy that brought reminders of the Cold War to the G-8 summit. At a meeting yesterday, Putin countered an American plan to install missiles and radars in Poland and the Czech Republic with his own plan: to use an old missile base in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.
President Bush, who's insisted the missile defense system is aimed at rogue states and not at Russia, called the Putin idea "interesting." Putin went further today, suggesting the U.S. might explore Turkey or even Iraq as possible locations for the missile bases.
Two views now — one American, one European — on the summit. Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. Reginald Dale is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He's a former correspondent and columnist for the Financial Times and the International Herald-Tribune.
Charles Kupchan, now that it's over and one for the books, a successful meeting, this G-8?
Grading the conference
CHARLES KUPCHAN, Council on Foreign Relations: Well, I'd probably give it a "B," if the question is, were they well behaved? Was there a bust-up? And the answer is, no, and that was not foreordained, in that there were a lot of contentious issues coming into this summit, as you said, and there was no fisticuffs. No one really aired these major grievances.
But if you ask the question "What did they actually accomplish?" I would give them somewhere well below a "C," not necessarily a failing grade, but they really didn't bring much home when it comes to Kosovo, Iran. Aid to Africa was basically a restatement of what they did at the Gleneagles summit a couple of years ago. On climate change, a big gap remains between the U.S. and the E.U. On Kosovo, essentially kicked the can down the road. Darfur, no progress.
So it really wasn't a summit that advanced in any significant way the major issues on the table.
RAY SUAREZ: Reginald Dale, from what Professor Kupchan said, it was hardly worth going.
REGINALD DALE, Center for Strategic and International Studies: Well, no, I'd give it a much higher grade than he does. I think you have to remember, first of all, what these summits are. They're not decision-making forums. They're places for the leaders to get together and decide on an approach which will then be followed through later by their ministers, and advisers, and civil servants.
And I think that, on the two major issues that we had in front of the summit here, climate change and relations between the United States and Russia, you could say that, in that sense, they achieved pretty good success.
The agreement on climate change was a big diplomatic victory for the United States; there's no doubt about that. We've now put the future orientation of the discussions on climate change, I think, on a much more sensible track.
The Europeans have more or less conceded that the rigid targets of -- rigid, enforced, mandatory targets of Kyoto are going to be a thing of the past. And Bush was talking -- he used the word "post-Kyoto" twice in one sentence at the end of the talks.
Evaluating emissions progress
RAY SUAREZ: Let me follow up on that in particular. When you get the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world together for one meeting, and what you come up with at the end is a promise to "seriously consider" -- that's the word from the joint communique -- "seriously consider" reductions by 2050, is that really a victory, even for the United States?
REGINALD DALE: Yes, it is, because what they were seriously considering -- if I could finish that sentence -- was mandatory targets, which is what the Europeans wanted. What has emerged from the meeting is a much more flexible system in which every country will be allowed to act in the way most appropriate to its own circumstances, its own economy. And that's the way in which you get China and India and all these other countries into the negotiations.
If you stick with this rigid European approach, which even the Europeans are beginning to see doesn't work -- it hasn't worked in Kyoto. They've missed their targets, and it's been a mess. And now we are going to have a situation where each country can do what's appropriate, where it has been accepted by the Europeans that economic growth is essential. That's been a big American point. The Europeans have accepted that technology plays a big part in the solution to this problem. I think that it's been a big move in the American direction, and a good one.
RAY SUAREZ: Professor Kupchan, on climate change, was that a move in the right direction?
CHARLES KUPCHAN: Well, I think the progress that was made was limited, and it falls well short of what's needed to really deal with this problem. I mean, I would agree with Reginald that the two sides of the Atlantic are somewhat closer together, and that shift really occurred last week when President Bush, number one, said we've got a problem here, and the scientific evidence makes that clear. Number two, we need a multilateral approach to this that includes Russia and needs to include China, needs to include India, in other words, countries that are in a more developmental phase.
But he said we're not going to abide by a timetable or specific mandatory targets. And then we can have an argument about whether such targets are a good thing or not. In my view, and in the view of, I think, many environmental analysts, you need such targets and such timetables, because otherwise countries fall off the wagon, as it were.
And in the case of Kyoto, there are specific targets in the E.U. They set up a carbon-trading system to try to get the emitters to bring down their levels, and they did so by setting a price for not emitting carbon and then trading those units of not carbon, if you will. And even then, as Reginald said, yes, countries are not keeping up to their commitments.
So if the U.S. position is the one that prevailed, then I think it may be a victory for the Bush administration, but it certainly isn't a step forward on the question of trying to limit greenhouse gases and fight global warming.
Discussing missile defense
RAY SUAREZ: Reginald Dale, let's take a look at missile defense.
REGINALD DALE: Yes.
RAY SUAREZ: The conference began with Russia and the United States lobbing verbal salvos at each other. At least at the end, they're talking about other alternatives. Progress there?
REGINALD DALE: Yes, I would say there is. It's too early to say what will happen in the future, but what the conference achieved was putting the United States and Russia back on speaking terms. They agreed to study this whole question of missile defense together. The Americans talked about a strategic dialogue; so we've got the Russians into the dialogue on missile defense.
Now, this could either -- there's a good and a bad interpretation of this. The bad one is that the Russians are just trying to spin it out. They're the world's best chess players, as you know, and they've just made a move, moved a piece to Azerbaijan by offering a radar facility there. This may just be a delaying tactic to spin it out and to further divide the Europeans.
The good interpretation would be that they are now on board with the idea of missile defense and are prepared to discuss it seriously, because, obviously, there are big differences. The Americans are not going to give up the plan to put them in Poland and the Czech Republic, the missiles in Poland and the radar in the Czech Republic.
U.S. relations with Russia
RAY SUAREZ: Professor Kupchan, what did you make of the result on missile defense?
CHARLES KUPCHAN: I basically agree with that view, and it's good news in the sense that Russia, instead of fighting the system, is now trying to somehow engage us, and that may lead to a situation in which there is a convergence of views on it. But it's simply too soon to tell, because there are a lot of unknowns about the Russian proposal.
What is the capability of the radar in Azerbaijan? What is the geographic implications of using Azerbaijan? It may, in fact, be too close, and that's because the system that we're talking about is focused on what's called midcourse intercept, rather than boost phase, so being really close to Iran is not necessarily a good thing. Is Putin saying that we don't want to have any systems in the Czech Republic and Poland? Today, he mentioned, well, maybe we should use Turkey, Iraq, ships as a way to launch the interceptors.
So there's a lot that's unknown here, but I do think it is a step in the right direction, because, instead of having Russia and the U.S. on opposite and opposing sides of this issue, at least we've got them both floating ideas, trying to find some common ground. And that's a good beginning, especially given the blustery rhetoric of Putin over the last few years.
But, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have carried over to Kosovo, where we do have a resolution pending in the U.N. Security Council. And at least as far as we can tell, Putin intends to exercise a veto on the independence of this province from Serbia.
RAY SUAREZ: Reginald Dale, let's close with Kosovo. Does the scene now shift from Heiligendamm in Germany to Kennebunkport, Maine, and indeed to the U.N.?
REGINALD DALE: Well, I don't know that they're going to talk about Kosovo in Kennebunkport. It shifts to the U.N. in the sense that, if Russia vetoes this plan in the U.N. for limited independent for Kosovo, Kosovo is quite likely to declare independence by itself, which would create quite a big crisis.
I think the important thing to remember here is that Russia is trying step by step to rebuild the position it had in the Cold War, and that is a position in which it is the main interlocutor for the United States over the heads of the Europeans. And Putin seems to be working in that direction. He has talks on the missiles, U.S.-Russian, talks on Kosovo, U.S.-Russian, and he wants to show that these are the two big powers and he's back at the top table.
RAY SUAREZ: Reginald Dale, Charles Kupchan, gentlemen, thank you, both.
REGINALD DALE: Thank you.


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SYDNEY -- I used to feel sorry for the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The giant arch was the city's pride for decades after it opened in 1932, the most impressive feat of engineering the nation had ever seen. It had taken thousands of workers almost a decade to join the north and south shores of Sydney Harbor with 52,000 tons of steel held together with some 6 million rivets. For years afterward, the handsome arch that locals call the Coathanger was the premier Aussie icon.
Then in 1973 the Sydney Opera House arrived and the Coathanger was pushed aside, at least as far as Australian pride and joy went. Sure, it was still a national symbol, but it became a bit of a frowsy older sister by comparison, and I felt bad for the old girl.
The drab gray span was instantly outshone by architect Jorn Utzon's gorgeous structure, which sat gracefully right on the almost always impossibly blue harbor, its dazzling and brilliant white pavilions spread like billowing skirts at a ball.
But these days, the great, gray bridge is frumpy no more. Over the past eight years, more than a million people -- including locals, tourists, and A-list celebrities -- have clambered over the steely structure and looked down on the city, including that flashy opera house. Turns out the Sydney Harbour Bridge is now quite glam.
I grew up in the southwest of Sydney, a good 40 minutes away from the neighborhoods where people saw the bridge -- and got stuck in its eight lanes of traffic -- every day. I crossed it on a train a few times to get to the Zipper and Ferris wheel and fast food at Luna Park, the amusement complex by the bridge's north side . (You entered the park through the mouth of a giant, creepy clown face that still sits there, regarding the city with what appears to be a mixture of amusement and alarm.) I knew the bridge mostly from kitschy tea towels and souvenir spoons.
Going to university took me to neighborhoods closer to the bridge, and into contact with the kind of people who wanted to climb it. Everyone knew someone who had done it. It was a rite of passage. Stories of couples who had scaled the steel to join the 440-foot-high club were legion.
Late one warm summer night, I found myself surrounded by gently swaying, Coathanger-savvy classmates under the southern side of the bridge, looking up, contemplating climbing the thing. But there apparently had been a crackdown, resulting in far more barbed wire than my fellow adventurers had encountered previously. And it was late, and we were more than a little tipsy.
Mission aborted.
Twenty years later, I found myself at the base of the bridge again, surrounded by another group of people eager to scale the gray steel. This time, I was speaking breathily into a blood-alcohol testing machine held by a cheery young woman who airily informed us that a reading over 0.05 would mean instant disqualification.
``I'm really excited to climb the bridge," I said loudly, at her suggestion.
This time , I am happy to report -- given that it was not quite 11 a.m. -- I was utterly sober. So were my fellow adventurers : a few young tourists from Germany and the United States, some other Aussies at the back end of middle age, and my sister Thelma, a flight attendant with a fear of heights and an adventurous streak.
What changed between my misspent youth and today was the arrival of BridgeClimb, a tour operation that takes as many as 1,000 people to the top of the bridge's arch every day. Since the company began leading climbs in 1998, about 1.5 million people have scaled the Coathanger, including one Mrs. Chris Muller, a plucky 100-year-old.
Nicole Kidman has done it. Justin Timberlake. Cameron Diaz. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, although one wonders how the diminutive duo took to the compulsory drab gray jumpsuits that make climbers look like hapless extras in a Devo video.
These days, couples are more likely to become betrothed than to consummate their relationship atop the arch: About 1,000 couples have decided to tie the knot up there since 1998. About 28 percent of climbers are locals, 17 percent Australians from out of town, and 55 percent overseas visitors. All day, every day, you can look up from the forecourt of the opera house or waterfront cafes and see a couple of dozen gray-suited tourists inching up along the arch like so many insects.
Costs for bridge climbs vary, depending on the time and day you take them, from about $130 for a weekday climb to about $225 for a dawn expedition on Saturday. Thelma and I opted for an 11 a.m. weekday session. The whole thing takes about 3 1/2 hours, and a good portion of that is given over to preparing people for the climb.
With releases signed, jewelry and anything else that might fall into the traffic below removed or tied down, and jumpsuits donned, small herds of climbers are ushered onto a mock-up of the gray steel to practice safe stair-ascension and attaching their safety tethers to the cables that run along the entire route. (In case anyone slips, they don't go far.)
Still, once you get out onto the lower deck of the bridge, it's hard not to feel nervous. When the tour leader asked if anyone was afraid of heights, Thelma fessed up, and he put us at the head of the line, just behind him.
We followed him along a steel mesh approach, which runs under the roadway, and which already seemed an awfully long way up on account of you could see through it to the ground and the water below. So we tried not to look down. Then it was on to a series of ladders to the top of the arch.
This was where Thelma got those faint red patches on her cheeks she gets when she's uncomfortable. I wasn't so overjoyed myself at this point. It's a little disconcerting to be climbing a series of ladders with eight lanes of deafening traffic whizzing by within a few feet of your head.
It's worth it when you get beyond the last of those ladders, emerging on top of that arch for the first time. We had a gray day for our climb, but that first 360- degree view of Sydney Harbor and the giant, sprawling, city spread beneath us knocked the wind out of us nonetheless .
And from that point on, it's pretty simple, with wide, shallow stairs leading you to the apex. From there, you can see beyond the opera house and the harbor to the open sea.
Water taxis, yachts , and small boats whizzed along on the water below us. There were none of the city's trademark ferries rushing between the north and south sides because, in classic Aussie fashion, they were on strike that day.
To the west, you could see countless fingers of land jutting into the blue, and beyond that, the working class neighborhoods where I grew up.
We stayed up there for a while, taking it all in, and having our pictures taken. (We couldn't bring our own cameras, but we each got a free, not particularly flattering shot of the whole group, and bought a couple of pictures of just the windswept two of us .)
Our guide was full of helpful information all along the climb, but he wouldn't tell us how many people had died building the bridge until we were back down the arch, clear of the ladders, and on the mesh gangplank headed back to the base. (The answer is 16.)
By the time we were done, we were exhausted, partly from climbing 1,439 stairs and partly because of the adrenaline floods on the ladders.
We needed a drink. Happily, our knocky knees carried us as far as the Harbour View Hotel, which has a delightful pub where my sisters and I have spent some pleasant summer evenings.
The original Harbour View was razed to make way for the bridge. The new one, built in the 1920s, is quite stylish since a recent renovation. Thelma and I parked ourselves on the hotel's terrace and ordered a couple of glasses of wine, steamed mussels, and Vietnamese summer rolls.
From where we sat, we could see other dozens venturing gingerly onto the Coathanger's catwalk. Maybe it was the wine, but the sight of them already was making us a little nostalgic for our climb and more than a little enamored of the formerly frowsy bridge.
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William W. Scranton, President-elect Richard M. Nixon's special envoy to the Middle East, reportedly asked Israeli leaders not to strike targets in Jordan and to refrain as much as possible from hostile acts against Jordan. This was learned from sources close to Mr. Scranton who said that he believed military action only increases tensions and hurt chances for peace.
The former Pennsylvania Governor who visited four Arab countries, Iran and Israel on his fact finding mission for Mr. Nixon, left Lydda Airport today for the United States. At an airport press conference he repeated earlier statements that he was more encouraged about Middle East peace prospects than when he started his tour. He said that he had "no personal opinions" but could understand both the Israeli and the Arab positions. "I found in Israel elements necessary for peace talks," he told reporters. "I had useful talks here and talks with the Arab leaders have encouraged me. I understand Israel's position regarding direct negotiations which can bring peace to the Middle East. I also understand the Arab difficulty in stomaching Israel's reunification of Jerusalem." Mr. Scranton emphasized that the purpose of his Middle East Junket was to gather facts and that policy decision on the Middle East would be made by Mr. Nixon.
Mr. Scranton met Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in the latter's home Tuesday. Reporters were barred from the meeting which was attended by Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev, Chief of Staff of Israel's armed forces; Gen. Tzvi Tzur, Deputy Defense Minister; Gen. Abaron Yariv, chief of intelligence, and representatives of the Foreign Ministry. Gen. Dayan gave Mr. Scranton an ancient glass object as a gift for Mrs. Nixon. There was speculation that Mr. Scranton may meet with Gen. Dayan again when the general visits the United States this weekend.


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text: LPL Financial Holdings Company Profile (NASDAQ:LPLA) Company Profile Analyst Ratings Earnings History Earnings Estimates Dividend History Insider Trade Headlines Social Media Chart About LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA) LPL Financial Holdings Inc. is a broker-dealer, a custodian for registered investment advisors and an independent consultant to retirement plans. The Company provides a platform of brokerage and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors, including financial advisors at financial institutions across the country. It also supported approximately 4,000 financial advisors, affiliated and licensed with insurance companies through customized clearing services, advisory platforms and technology solutions, as of December 31, 2016. Through its advisors, it is a distributor of financial products and services in the United States. It provides its technology and service to advisors through a technology platform that is server-based and Web-accessible. Its technology offerings are designed to permit its advisors to manage various aspects of their businesses. It automates time-consuming processes, such as account opening and management, document imaging and account rebalancing. Industry, Sector and Symbol: Sector: Finance Industry: Investment Banking & Brokerage Services Sub-Industry: Investment Banking & Brokerage Symbol: NASDAQ:LPLA CUSIP: 50212V10 Web: www.lpl.com Capitalization:Market Cap: $4.45466 billionOutstanding Shares: 89,911,000Average Prices:50 Day Moving Avg: $46.22200 Day Moving Avg: $42.3552 Week Range: $28.38 - $50.06 P/E:Trailing P/E Ratio: 21.51Foreward P/E Ratio: 15.41P/E Growth: 1.60Sales & Book Value:Annual Revenue: $4.13 billionPrice / Sales: 1.07Book Value: $9.93 per sharePrice / Book: 4.96Dividend:Annual Dividend: $1.00Dividend Yield: 2.0% Profitability:EBIDTA: $560.84 millionNet Margins: 5.10%Return on Equity: 26.45%Return on Assets: 4.70%Debt:Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 2.44%Current Ratio: 1.52%Quick Ratio: 1.52%Misc:Average Volume: 673,903 shs.Beta: 1.84Short Ratio: 1.01 Frequently Asked Questions for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA) What is LPL Financial Holdings' stock symbol? LPL Financial Holdings trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LPLA." How often does LPL Financial Holdings pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for LPL Financial Holdings? LPL Financial Holdings announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Thursday, August 24th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.03%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 8th. View LPL Financial Holdings' Dividend History. How were LPL Financial Holdings' earnings last quarter? LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) released its earnings results on Thursday, July, 27th. The company reported $0.74 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.66 by $0.08. The business earned $1.07 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.05 billion. LPL Financial Holdings had a net margin of 5.10% and a return on equity of 26.45%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 4.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.53 EPS. View LPL Financial Holdings' Earnings History. When will LPL Financial Holdings make its next earnings announcement? LPL Financial Holdings is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November, 1st 2017. View Earnings Estimates for LPL Financial Holdings. Where is LPL Financial Holdings' stock going? Where will LPL Financial Holdings' stock price be in 2017? 8 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for LPL Financial Holdings' stock. Their predictions range from $38.00 to $58.00. On average, they anticipate LPL Financial Holdings' share price to reach $49.25 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for LPL Financial Holdings. What are analysts saying about LPL Financial Holdings stock? Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about LPL Financial Holdings stock: 1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "LPL Financial Holdings Inc. is engaged in providing an integrated platform of brokerage and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors and financial advisors at financial institutions in the United States. Its brokerage offerings include variable and fixed annuities, mutual funds, general securities, alternative investments, retirement plans, fixed income, and insurance offerings. LPL Financial Holdings Inc., formerly known as LPL Investment Holdings Inc., is based in Boston, Massachusetts. " (9/20/2017) 2. SunTrust Banks, Inc. analysts commented, "We reiterate our Hold rating following LPL's February metrics report, which featured strong brokerage and advisory asset growth. We have also increased our 2017/2018 EPS estimates to $2.43/$2.52 from $2.41/$2.47, respectively, to reflect asset growth and higher short-term interest rates, partially offset by higher expected operating costs. Our $42 price target equals 21x 2018E EPS, discounted back 24 months at 12% per year (vs. the 24x historical average)." (3/17/2017) Are investors shorting LPL Financial Holdings? LPL Financial Holdings saw a decrease in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 468,377 shares, a decrease of 46.5% from the August 15th total of 875,385 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 759,079 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.6 days. Currently, 0.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. Who are some of LPL Financial Holdings' key competitors? Some companies that are related to LPL Financial Holdings include Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA), Alleghany Corporation (Y), Camden Property Trust (CPT), American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC), British Land Company PLC Sponsored ADR (BTLCY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Bankinter SA (BKNIY), VEREIT (VER), Kimco Realty Corporation (KIM), Aercap Holdings N.V. (AER), W.R. Berkley Corporation (WRB), Scor SE (SCRYY), Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLPI), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Macro Bank (BMA), Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS), Macerich Company (The) (MAC) and W.P. Carey (WPC). Who are LPL Financial Holdings' key executives? LPL Financial Holdings' management team includes the folowing people: Dan H. Arnold Jr., President, Chief Executive Officer, DirectorMatthew J. Audette, Chief Financial OfficerGeorge Burton White, Managing Director, Investor and Investment Solutions and Chief Investment OfficerVictor P. Fetter, Chief Information Officer, Managing DirectorTracy Ellen Calder, Deputy Chief Risk Officer, Managing DirectorMichelle B. Oroschakoff, Chief Risk Officer, Managing DirectorDavid P. Bergers, General Counsel, Managing Director - Legal and Government RelationsThomas Gooley, Managing Director - Service, Trading & OperationsJ. Andrew Kalbaugh, Managing Director, Divisional President, National Sales and ConsultingSallie R. Larsen, Managing Director, Chief Human Capital Officer Who owns LPL Financial Holdings stock? LPL Financial Holdings' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Janus Henderson Group PLC (10.45%), Vanguard Group Inc. (9.76%), Fairview Capital Investment Management LLC (4.83%), BlackRock Inc. (3.96%), Clarkston Capital Partners LLC (2.90%) and HMI Capital LLC (2.09%). Company insiders that own LPL Financial Holdings stock include Dan H Arnold, George Burton White, Group Holdings (Sbs) Advis Tpg, John Andrew Kalbaugh, Marco Hellman, Mark S Casady, Tracy Calder, Viet D Dinh and William P Jr Morrissey. View Institutional Ownership Trends for LPL Financial Holdings. Who sold LPL Financial Holdings stock? Who is selling LPL Financial Holdings stock? LPL Financial Holdings' stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., Clarkston Capital Partners LLC, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Cornerstone Capital Management Holdings LLC., Three Peaks Capital Management LLC and Engineers Gate Manager LP. Company insiders that have sold LPL Financial Holdings stock in the last year include Dan H Arnold, George Burton White, John Andrew Kalbaugh, Marco Hellman, Mark S Casady, Tracy Calder and William P Jr Morrissey. View Insider Buying and Selling for LPL Financial Holdings. Who bought LPL Financial Holdings stock? Who is buying LPL Financial Holdings stock? LPL Financial Holdings' stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Janus Henderson Group PLC, Vanguard Group Inc., Samlyn Capital LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Capital Fund Management S.A., Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. View Insider Buying and Selling for LPL Financial Holdings. How do I buy LPL Financial Holdings stock? Shares of LPL Financial Holdings can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is LPL Financial Holdings' stock price today? One share of LPL Financial Holdings stock can currently be purchased for approximately $49.32. MarketBeat Community Rating for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ LPLA)Community Ranking: 1.7 out of 5 ()Outperform Votes: 184 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 358 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 542MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about LPL Financial Holdings and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. Analyst Ratings Consensus Ratings for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA) (How are Consensus Ratings Calculated?) MarketBeat calculates consensus ratings using the most recent rating from each brokerage that has rated a stock within the last twelve months. Since brokers often use different ratings systems, each rating is normalized to a standardized rating score of 1 (sell), 2 (hold), 3 (buy) or 4 (strong buy). Consensus ratings scores are calculated using the mean average of the number of normalized sell, hold, buy and strong buy ratings. Each stock's consensus rating is derived from its calculated consensus ratings score (0-1.5 = Sell, 1.5-2.5 = Hold, 2.5-3.5 = Buy, >3.5 = Strong Buy). MarketBeat's consensus price targets are a mean average of the most recent available price targets set by each analyst that has set a price target for the stock in the last twelve months.MarketBeat will no longer include ratings and price target data in its consensus calculation if a broker drops coverage and MarketBeat has received a report that coverage was dropped. Ratings from certain research firms that issue ratings using purely quantitative methods (such as Zacks, Vetr and ValuEngine) are not included in consensus calculations. MarketBeat's consensus ratings and consensus price targets may differ from those calculated by other firms due to differences in methodology and available data.Ratings Breakdown: 1 Sell Rating, 2 Hold Ratings, 4 Buy Ratings, 1 Strong Buy RatingConsensus Rating:Buy (Score: 2.63)Consensus Price Target: $49.25 (0.13% downside) Analysts' Ratings History for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA) Show: Only the Most Recent Rating From Each Brokerage All Ratings For This Stock DateFirmActionRatingPrice TargetImpact on Share PriceDetails8/18/2017J P Morgan Chase & CoReiterated RatingNeutral$48.00 -> $51.00Low8/17/2017NomuraBoost Price TargetBuy$53.00 -> $58.00Low8/16/2017SunTrust Banks, Inc.UpgradeHold -> Buy$49.00 -> $55.00High7/10/2017Morgan StanleyReiterated RatingUnderweight$35.00 -> $38.00Low7/4/2017Keefe, Bruyette & WoodsReiterated RatingHold$44.00Low5/10/2017Citigroup Inc.Boost Price TargetBuy$47.00 -> $50.00Low4/28/2017InstinetUpgradeNeutral -> Buy$46.00 -> $51.00High3/20/2017Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)UpgradeNeutral -> Conviction-Buy$44.00 -> $47.00Low8/22/2016Credit Suisse GroupDowngradeOutperform -> Neutral$28.00N/A2/12/2016Wells Fargo & CompanyDowngradeOutperform -> Market PerformN/A2/5/2016Susquehanna Bancshares IncUpgradeNegative -> Neutral$31.00 -> $27.00N/A(Data available from 9/26/2015 forward) Earnings Earnings History for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA)Earnings History by Quarter for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ LPLA)DateQuarterConsensus EstimateActual EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueRelease LinkConference CallDetails10/31/2017$0.66N/A7/27/2017Q2 2017$0.66$0.74$1.05 billion$1.07 billionViewN/A4/27/2017Q1 2017$0.36$0.66$1.01 billion$1.04 billionViewN/A2/9/2017Q4 2016$0.36$0.46$1.01 billion$1.01 billionViewListen11/2/2016Q316$0.38$0.42$1.02 billion$1.02 billionViewN/A7/28/2016Q2$0.44$0.53$1,000.00 million$1.02 billionViewListen4/28/2016Q1$0.44$0.56$1.03 billion$1.01 billionViewN/A2/11/2016Q4$0.51$0.37$1.05 billion$1.02 billionViewListen10/29/2015Q3$0.54$0.55$1.07 billion$1.06 billionViewListen8/5/2015Q215$0.64$0.61$1.10 billion$1.09 billionViewN/A4/30/2015Q115$0.62$0.60$1.13 billion$1.11 billionViewN/A2/19/2015Q414$0.61$0.66$1.11 billion$1.10 billionViewN/A10/30/2014Q314$0.46$0.48$1.10 billion$1.09 billionViewN/A7/30/2014Q214$0.56$0.57$1.10 billion$1.09 billionViewListen4/23/2014Q114$0.72$0.69$1.11 billion$1.09 billionViewListen2/11/2014Q413$0.58$0.63$1.07 billion$1.09 billionViewListen10/30/2013Q313$0.52$0.56$1.02 billion$1.05 billionViewN/A7/31/2013Q2 2013$0.60$0.61$999.14 million$1.02 billionViewN/A4/25/2013Q1 2013$0.55$0.64$978.92 million$974.80 millionViewN/A2/6/2013Q4 2012$0.48$0.50$918.23 million$944.20 millionViewN/A10/31/2012$0.44$0.47ViewN/A7/31/2012$0.56$0.49ViewN/A4/30/2012$0.52$0.56ViewN/A2/7/2012$0.46$0.44ViewN/A10/26/2011$0.45$0.46ViewN/A7/27/2011$0.50$0.52ViewN/A4/26/2011$0.48$0.52ViewN/A2/7/2011$0.40$0.42ViewN/A(Data available from 1/1/2011 forward) Estimates Earnings Estimates for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA)2017 EPS Consensus Estimate: $2.342018 EPS Consensus Estimate: $3.44QuarterNumber of EstimatesLow EstimateHigh EstimateAverage EstimateQ1 20172$0.35$0.37$0.36Q2 20172$0.61$0.72$0.67Q3 20172$0.59$0.70$0.65Q4 20172$0.64$0.70$0.67Q1 20181$0.83$0.83$0.83Q2 20181$0.84$0.84$0.84Q3 20181$0.83$0.83$0.83Q4 20181$0.94$0.94$0.94(Data provided by Zacks Investment Research) Dividends Current Dividend Information for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA)Most Recent Dividend:8/24/2017Annual Dividend:$1.00Dividend Yield:2.03%Payout Ratio:43.48% (Trailing 12 Months of Earnings) 39.68% (Based on This Year's Estimates)31.25% (Based on Next Year's Estimates)Dividend History by Quarter for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ LPLA)AnnouncedPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable Date7/28/2017Quarterly$0.252.19%8/8/20178/10/20178/24/20174/28/2017quarterly$0.252.38%5/11/20175/15/20175/25/20172/28/2017Quarterly$0.252.45%3/8/20173/10/20173/24/201711/4/2016Quarterly$0.253.04%11/14/201611/16/201611/30/20168/1/2016quarterly$0.253.86%8/9/20168/11/20168/25/20165/10/2016quarterly$0.254.14%5/18/20165/20/20165/31/20162/25/2016quarterly$0.255.04%3/2/20163/4/20163/14/201610/30/2015quarterly$0.252.35%11/9/201511/12/201511/24/20158/6/2015quarterly$0.252.29%8/13/20158/17/20158/28/20154/30/2015quarterly$0.252.48%5/7/20155/11/20155/21/20152/19/2015quarterly$0.252.19%2/26/20153/2/20153/16/201510/30/2014quarterly$0.242.32%11/6/201411/11/201411/26/20147/30/2014quarterly$0.242.02%8/12/20148/14/20148/29/20144/23/2014quarterly$0.242.03%5/2/20145/6/20145/20/20142/11/2014quarterly$0.241.83%2/20/20142/24/20143/10/201410/30/2013quarterly$0.1911/11/201311/26/20138/1/2013quarterly$0.191.93%8/13/20138/15/20138/30/20134/26/2013quarterly$0.141.57%5/2/20135/6/20135/20/20132/6/2013quarterly$0.141.62%2/13/20132/18/20133/4/2013(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) Insider Trades Insider Trading and Institutional Ownership History for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA)Insider Ownership Percentage: 4.00%Institutional Ownership Percentage: 89.73%Insider Trades by Quarter for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA)Transaction DateInsider NameTitleBuy/SellNumber of SharesAverage Share PriceTotal TransactionDetails6/2/2017William P Jr. MorrisseyInsiderSell32,150$39.34$1,264,781.00 3/14/2017Dan H ArnoldCEOSell15,428$39.14$603,851.92 3/13/2017Tracy CalderInsiderSell6,465$39.31$254,139.15 2/27/2017Tracy CalderInsiderSell10,747$39.05$419,670.35 2/23/2017John Andrew KalbaughInsiderSell30,000$39.73$1,191,900.00 2/22/2017George Burton WhiteInsiderSell25,000$40.14$1,003,500.00 2/22/2017Mark S CasadyDirectorSell58,628$40.40$2,368,571.20 2/15/2017Mark S. CasadyDirectorSell365,213$40.76$14,886,081.88 2/14/2017Mark S. CasadyDirectorSell204,471$40.65$8,311,746.15 2/13/2017Marco HellmanDirectorSell900,000$40.00$36,000,000.00 3/8/2016Dan H ArnoldPresidentSell1,208$21.27$25,694.16 2/29/2016Viet D DinhDirectorBuy4,844$20.42$98,914.48 2/25/2016Dan H ArnoldPresidentSell1,095$19.29$21,122.55 12/10/2015Group Holdings (Sbs) Advis TpgInsiderSell4,319,537$43.27$186,906,365.99 6/10/2015Dan H ArnoldPresidentSell4,273$48.00$205,104.00 6/2/2015Sharyn HandelsmanInsiderSell6,393$43.50$278,095.50 5/28/2015Mark S CasadyChairmanBuy21,100$42.48$896,328.00 2/14/2014Robert MooreCOOSell129,993$52.99$6,888,329.07 1/9/2014James PutnamDirectorSell30,000$50.00$1,500,000.00 1/7/2014James PutnamDirectorSell30,000$48.00$1,440,000.00 12/23/2013James PutnamDirectorSell30,000$46.00$1,380,000.00 12/10/2013James PutnamDirectorSell30,000$44.00$1,320,000.00 11/14/2013Lux ThomasCAOSell1,000$42.31$42,310.00 11/13/2013James PutnamDirectorSell79,697$42.06$3,352,055.82 11/8/2013Group Holdings (Sbs) Advis Tpgmajor shareholderSell59,000$39.68$2,341,120.00 11/7/2013Group Holdings (Sbs) Advis Tpgmajor shareholderSell279,679$40.42$11,304,625.18 10/21/2013James S PutnamDirectorSell77,500$40.01$3,100,775.00 9/6/2013Group Holdings (Sbs) Advis TpgMajor ShareholderSell260,237$37.33$9,714,647.21 9/3/2013Group Holdings (Sbs) Advis Tpgmajor shareholderSell171,840$37.10$6,375,264.00 6/13/2013Group Holdings (Sbs) Advis TpgMajor ShareholderSell137,726$36.65$5,047,657.90 6/4/2013Jeffrey E StieflerDirectorSell46,942$37.18$1,745,303.56 5/15/2013James S PutnamDirectorSell75,000$38.00$2,850,000.00 5/9/2013James S PutnamDirectorSell70,000$36.00$2,520,000.00 4/10/2013James S PutnamDirectorSell65,000$34.01$2,210,650.00 8/8/2012Robert J MooreCOOBuy20,000$28.42$568,400.00 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) Headlines Headline Trends for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA) Latest Headlines for LPL Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:LPLA) Source: All Sources Trusted Sources MarketBeat.com Bloomberg MarketWatch Motley Fool NASDAQ Reuters Seeking Alpha The Street The Wall Street Journal Yahoo Finance DateHeadlineLPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Researchwww.americanbankingnews.com - September 23 at 9:02 PMInteresting LPLA Put And Call Options For November 17thwww.nasdaq.com - September 23 at 6:08 AMLPLA Crosses Above Average Analyst Target - Nasdaqwww.nasdaq.com - September 22 at 11:06 AMLPL Financial Announces Completion of Senior Secured Debt Repricing - GlobeNewswire (press release)globenewswire.com - September 22 at 11:06 AMLPL Financial Announces Completion of Senior Secured Debt Repricingfinance.yahoo.com - September 22 at 11:06 AMLPL Financial Holdings Inc. Forecasted to Earn FY2017 Earnings of $2.50 Per Share (LPLA)www.americanbankingnews.com - September 22 at 7:22 AMLPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Expected to Post Quarterly Sales of $1.07 Billionwww.americanbankingnews.com - September 22 at 6:04 AMBRIEF-LPL Financial reports monthly activity for August 2017www.reuters.com - September 21 at 4:20 PMWe're officially in the 2nd-largest bull market since World War IIfinance.yahoo.com - September 21 at 4:20 PMLPL Financial Reports Monthly Activity for August 2017finance.yahoo.com - September 21 at 4:20 PMLPL Financial Reports Improvement in Activity for Augustfinance.yahoo.com - September 21 at 4:20 PMLPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Receives Average Recommendation of "Buy" from Analystswww.americanbankingnews.com - September 20 at 10:46 AMZacks: Brokerages Anticipate LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Will Post Earnings of $0.63 Per Sharewww.americanbankingnews.com - September 20 at 4:26 AMWe're officially in the second largest bull market since WWIIfinance.yahoo.com - September 20 at 2:55 AMGAIN Capital Holdings (GCAP) and LPL Financial Holdings (LPLA) Head to Head Comparisonwww.americanbankingnews.com - September 19 at 8:52 AMLPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA) Short Interest Down 46.5% in Augustwww.americanbankingnews.com - September 16 at 1:20 AMGoldman Sachs (GS) Slashes Fees for its Smart-Beta Funds - Yahoo Financefinance.yahoo.com - September 13 at 6:13 AMGoldman Sachs (GS) Slashes Fees for its Smart-Beta Fundsfinance.yahoo.com - September 13 at 6:13 AMGoldman Sachs (GS) to Expand Retail Banking, Moves to UK - Nasdaqwww.nasdaq.com - September 11 at 10:52 PMLPL Financial Holdings, Inc. : LPLA-US: Dividend Analysis : August 10th, 2017 (record date) : By the numbers : September 11, 2017finance.yahoo.com - September 11 at 10:52 PMBRIEF-LPL financial announces pricing of add-on senior unsecured note offeringwww.reuters.com - September 8 at 2:17 AMLPL Financial Announces Senior Secured Credit Facilities Repricing and Senior Unsecured Note Offeringfinance.yahoo.com - September 8 at 2:17 AMLPL Financial Announces Pricing of Add-On Senior Unsecured Note Offeringfinance.yahoo.com - September 8 at 2:17 AMMetLife Slashes Annuity Pay to Former Advisorsfinance.yahoo.com - September 6 at 9:58 PMCiti (C) Aims Expansion of Australian Wealth Management Armfinance.yahoo.com - September 5 at 4:13 PMLPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Expected to Announce Quarterly Sales of $1.07 Billionwww.americanbankingnews.com - September 3 at 4:00 AMInteresting LPLA Put And Call Options For April 2018www.nasdaq.com - September 2 at 5:47 AM$0.63 Earnings Per Share Expected for LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) This Quarterwww.americanbankingnews.com - September 1 at 4:26 PMLPL Financial and Stratos Wealth Partners Welcome Barton Spector Wealth Strategiesfinance.yahoo.com - August 30 at 6:09 AMFinancial Survey: LPL Financial Holdings (LPLA) vs. The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW)www.americanbankingnews.com - August 26 at 8:20 PMLPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Given Average Rating of "Buy" by Brokerageswww.americanbankingnews.com - August 26 at 10:48 AM4 Reasons Why Cohen & Steers (CNS) Stock is Worth a Buy - Nasdaqwww.nasdaq.com - August 22 at 3:38 PM4 Reasons Why Cohen & Steers (CNS) Stock is Worth a Buyfinance.yahoo.com - August 22 at 3:38 PMT. Rowe Price (TROW) Displays Revenue Rise: Time to Hold?finance.yahoo.com - August 22 at 3:38 PMHead to Head Analysis: LPL Financial Holdings (LPLA) versus The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW)www.americanbankingnews.com - August 21 at 6:16 PMSunTrust Banks, Inc. Upgrades LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) to "Buy"www.americanbankingnews.com - August 20 at 11:58 PMRaymond James Financial (RJF) & LPL Financial Holdings (LPLA) Head-To-Head Analysiswww.americanbankingnews.com - August 20 at 8:56 AMLPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Given Neutral Rating at J P Morgan Chase & Cowww.americanbankingnews.com - August 19 at 11:06 AMLPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Forecasted to Post Q3 2017 Earnings of $0.59 Per Sharewww.americanbankingnews.com - August 18 at 6:42 AMWhy Comerica (CMA) Should be Added to Your Portfolio Now? - Nasdaqwww.nasdaq.com - August 18 at 6:28 AMLPL Financial (LPLA) Reports Mixed Activity for July 2017 - Nasdaqwww.nasdaq.com - August 18 at 6:27 AM5 Strong Buy Stocks Ignorning Volatilityfinance.yahoo.com - August 18 at 6:27 AMNomura Raises LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) Price Target to $58.00www.americanbankingnews.com - August 17 at 4:54 PMQ1 2018 Earnings Forecast for LPL Financial Holdings Inc. Issued By SunTrust Banks (LPLA)www.americanbankingnews.com - August 17 at 12:02 PMETFs with exposure to LPL Financial Holdings, Inc. : August 16, 2017finance.yahoo.com - August 16 at 9:11 PMLPL Financial Holdings (LPLA) Has Climbed To A New High After Acquisitionwww.rttnews.com - August 16 at 4:11 PMLPL Financial (LPLA) Acquires National Planning Holdingsfinance.yahoo.com - August 16 at 4:11 PMLPL Financial (LPLA) Reports Mixed Activity for July 2017finance.yahoo.com - August 16 at 4:11 PM[$$] The Add-On Deal Roundup: Aug. 16finance.yahoo.com - August 16 at 4:11 PM$1.07 Billion in Sales Expected for LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) This Quarterwww.americanbankingnews.com - August 16 at 8:02 AM Social Chart LPL Financial Holdings (LPLA) Chart for Tuesday, September, 26, 2017 This page was last updated on 9/26/2017 by MarketBeat.com Staff


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The Belgian artist will release a new album on Further Records in October.
The album will be the prolific artist's first of 2012, following a run of more than ten releases in the past two years alone, most of which have been on cassette. It will come out on Further Records, a Seattle label known for its limited edition cassettes, though this one will be on vinyl. The album is in line with Dens' earlier work: heavy, pounding synth music with an emphasis on dub atmospherics and low-end, drifting in and out of ambient passages, described by the label boss as "loopy narcotic fractured dub/drone." It was mastered by metal musician James Plotkin, known for his work in bands like Isis, Sunn 0))) and Khanate. Like most of Further's releases, A Lion's Baptism will be limited to 300 copies, with 100 pressed on purple vinyl.
01. The Essence Of The Earth As Arch As Arc
02. Bodycells Fortress
03. There With The Boxer, The Fog And Pale Queens In White Panties Dance
04. Blind Guide Killing A Lioness
05. On The Roads A Message Of Home
06. Her Prints Will Light The Path
07. Birthnight
08. Prince Of The Immortal Woods
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New Delhi, Sep 28 (ANI): Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla on Saturday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for demanding Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's resignation following Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's criticism of the ordinance on convicted politicians.
"The Prime Minister wasn't insulted. Rahulji didn't welcome the ordinance," he said, while accusing the BJP of politicising the issue.
Congress spokesperson Bhakta Charan Das on his part described Rahul Gandhi's opinion on the ordinance on convicted politicians to be reflective that of a mass leader, and said that the latter merely expressed the sentiments of the people.
"Rahul Gandhi stood by the sentiments of the people and the anger which he expressed yesterday was not his but it was the anger of the people of the country. This is a quality of a mass leader," said Das.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however, had said that Rahul Gandhi's remark was an insult to the Prime Minister.
"Rahul Gandhi has not only insulted the Prime Minister who is in United States, he has also insulted the constitutional authority of India's highest position. It is up to the Prime Minister to react to it but I don' think he has any other option but to resign after this insult by Rahul Gandhi," he said.
Rahul Gandhi had earlier written a letter to the Prime Minister regarding his views on the ordinance.
"I realize that what I feel about the Ordinance is not in harmony with the Cabinet decision and the Core Group's view. I also know it would be exploited by our political opponents. You know that I have the highest respect for you and I look up to you for your wisdom," said Gandhi in his letter.
"I have nothing but the greatest admiration for the manner in which you are providing leadership in extremely difficult circumstances. I hope you will understand the strength of my own conviction about this very controversial issue," he added.
In a major embarrassment to the ruling UPA, Rahul Gandhi yesterday dubbed the ordinance to negate the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers as 'complete nonsense', and said it should be torn up and thrown away.
"I personally think what the government is doing on the ordinance is wrong. It was a political decision, every party does it, and there is a time to stop this nonsense," he said.
The Prime Minister yesterday issued a statement from Washington saying the matter will be reconsidered after his return to India.
"The Ordinance cleared by the Cabinet pertaining to the Representation of the People Act has been a matter of much public debate. The Congress Vice-President has also written to me on the issue and also made a statement," said Dr. Singh in a statement.
"The Government is seized of all these developments. The issues raised will be considered on my return to India after due deliberations in the Cabinet," he added.
The developments came a day after President Pranab Mukherjee summoned senior Cabinet ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde, Kamal Nath and Kapil Sibal for consultations on the ordinance pending before him for signature.
The Union Cabinet had approved an ordinance to reverse the Supreme Court judgment mandating the immediate disqualification of lawmakers convicted for a criminal offence punishable with a jail term of more than two years.
The ordinance seeks to reverse the Supreme Court judgement that had not only disqualified lawmakers convicted of offences with two years or more in jail, but also barred from contesting elections. (ANI)


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BURBANK — A woman was killed by smoke inhalation in a house fire in Burbank, a police lieutenant said today.
The name or age of the woman was not immediately known, Burbank police Lt. John Dilbert. Neighbors, however, said she was elderly.
The fire was reported at about 9:20 p.m. Saturday at 910 N. Evergreen St., said Crystal Bartl of the Verdugo Fire Communications Center, which dispatches for Burbank and several area agencies.
Firefighters arriving at the scene reporting flames coming out of the front of the door of the home and two people — a man and a woman — trying to enter the home, Verdugo Dispatch Deputy Fire Marshal George Martinez said.
Three people were in the house when the fire broke out, Bartl said. Paramedics rushed the man and woman to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Martinez said.
Firefighters dispatched to the scene had the fire out within 20 minutes of their arrival, Martinez said. He said firefighters believed that women who dies was mother to the man, and the other injured woman was her daughter-in- law.
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Nearly four in five (79 percent) of Brits using Virgin Media's TiVo TV on demand service accessed web apps such as Twitter and YouTube via their TV.
TiVo, which has been available in the US for some time but only came to Britain at the end of last year, combines live TV with catch-up TV, on-demand content and web-based services such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube - all of which can be accessed from one programme guide. The service also features a set-top box with 1TB of storage and three tuners, so viewers can record two channels while watching a third.
Virgin Media said on average, each TiVo box launched apps 4.5 times a week. Furthermore, one in every four views of a TV channel did not originate from the traditional Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), compared to other digital platforms where the EPG is the sole means of accessing channels. In TiVo's case, viewers are utilising the intelligent search feature.
The Apprentice was the most-searched for TV show using this feature, and was closely followed by Camelot and Doctor Who.
Furthermore, 484 million On Demand TV views have been made in 2011 so far 2010 across all of Virgin Media's digital TV subscribers, that's 19 percent up on the same period last year. Virgin Media says it's on track to exceed the predicted one billion On Demand views for the whole of 2011.
"TV will never be the same again. Our TiVo Service takes television viewing to another level by seamlessly combining traditional channels and On Demand with the best of the web, making it easier to find and uncover amazing programmes," said Cindy Rose, executive director of digital entertainment at Virgin Media.
"The discovery tools for the next generation will be search, browsable collections and recommendations. There's such a vast world of great entertainment that it's exciting our early adopters are already exploring what the TiVo Service can do and we'll continue to refine and build upon our lead in connected TVs."
Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo set-top boxes cost from £49.95 with monthly subscription fees starting from £6.25, when a Virgin phone line is also purchased.
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The PASS Board meeting wrapped up on Thursday in Seattle, and as promised, we discussed the Board appointment process for close to 90 minutes. We gave careful consideration to the membership feedback received over the last couple of weeks and reviewed all opinions. We understand and respect that certain of our members disagree with our decision. However, the Board members who voted in favor of the appointments of Kendal Van Dyke and James Rowland-Jones stand by their decision.
As PASS President, I erred in not clearly communicating how the appointment process would work. I should have been clear whether I would automatically recommend the runners up or choose from a broader pool for my recommendation to the Board. In the future, if we have known appointment openings prior to the start of the election process, I will clearly, and publicly, articulate how I plan to approach the appointment process.
In the next PASS Connector newsletter, we will provide a roundup of our latest Board meeting and will do so for every subsequent in-person meeting. I'm also encouraging PASS Board members to blog about their Board meeting experiences. We do publish the Board meeting minutes, but I recognize many of you do not have the time to review these lengthy public documents, so we'll summarize as best as possible and publish the information in our bi-monthly newsletter. This will help us do a better job articulating and communicating PASS Board discussions and decisions.


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National Hurricane Center releases storm names for 2013
Hurricane season is almost here and the National Hurricane Center has released its annual list of storm names.{}
As usual, the list alternates between boy and girl names.{} It kicks off with "Andrea" followed by "Barry", "Chantal", "Dorian", "Erin" and "Fernand".{}
Hurricane season officially begins June 1st.{} The name "Sandy" was retired from the list of hurricane names after last year's devastating storm on the East Coast.
You can see the complete list at www.nhc.noaa.gov


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I have a linoleum floor that has a pink stain on it. It looks like something drained out of the dishwasher onto the floor, Kool-Aid? Not sure. I think it's been there for a long time. I've tried Mr. Clean eraser, bleach, and ammonia, all separately, nothing works.
By Lynnvalverde from Surprise, AZ
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Sounds like you've tried them ALL!
Here's one more thing that MAY work: Dyehouse Color Remover
or this:
* Read the detailed directions at the very bottom of the pages.
Once you DO remove it, sealy your floor with a product called "Future" it's sold at Walmart
PS. If your stain is NATURAL (like cherry, raspberry or cranberry juice (& NOT artificial like cherry Kool-aid or Jell-O) then start by pouring hydrogen peroxide on the stain & letting it sit about 10 minutes & fizz. If it's organic, it SHOULD work, but not of it's an artificial food coloring.
---> A note: Almost everybody uses the terms "Linoleum & Acrylic" interchangeably. But most flooring is really Acrylic & not actually Linoleum. If your floor is REALLY Linoleum & not Acrylic flooring, then Linoleum is made from Linseed oil & sawdust. It's a natural & porous material (which should be sealed), if it's actually Acrylic, then it usually isn't porous because it's not a "natural" product, but more like plastic & comes with a bonded-on plastic coating. Linoleum was made in America from the late 1800's up until the 1960's when Acrylic flooring (& plastics) came into production, but very recently they started using Linoleum all over again, especially for people who have allergies & people who want a "natural" & biodegradable product.
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The summer that I replaced all the linoleum in my kitchen I also attempted my first batch of Grape Jelly. The jelly turned out fantastic, but the juicer had leaked all over my new white and blue floor.
I had just discovered a new (at the time) product: LA'S Awesome (this is a yellow liquid in a spray bottle that sells for a dollar each you can get it at Dollar General, Family dollar, and Dollar Tree).
It took every BIT of the grape stain out (mind you this had leaked down behind the counter where I didn't see it until several hot days later). Good stuff. You might try that.
My roommate had to replace some frozen, burst PVC pipes behind the tub enclosure this past winter. He used some dark purplish red stuff that had to be put onto the threads of the pipes to keep them from leaking when it dried. Well....you guessed it! He got it on the floor in several places and it stained badly. I couldn't get it up with anything I had on hand. So, I bought some acetone and put some on a paper towel and it came right up. The flooring is separate pieces of squares that adhere to the floor by pressing down on them. I don't know what the make up...(acrylic or linoleum) is considered. Anyway, the floor looks as good as new and it didn't hurt the finish either!
This is weeks late in coming. But it maybe a form of mold growing up from under the flooring. It has happened in my Mom's bathroom after a minor flood. We got up all the water and dried everything and then a while later this spot appears it is a mishappen crecsent moon. So I had to call the homeowners for a different issue and they had to past her bath and he saw it and I explained what happended. He told it was mold under the floor and the floor was ruined. He put it a claim for it right then and there.
Just a thought.
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"It's uncomfortable for you. It's uncomfortable for me."
The detective took his hands out of his trench coat and tapped back the fedora on his head. He took two steps forward and one to the side. Why did I do that?
"You say your name is Martins." The detective looked around the almost empty drug store. He wondered if the in-house cameras were working. Probably not. Nothing works anymore. Except poor stiffs like me.
Mr. Martins leaned against the cooler where he had moments earlier filled a bottle of water. And put a cap on the bottle. Then opened the bottle of water. A procedure which he did not question but which he could not have explained. It was like smiling. His head cocked from side to side. As if he was trying to shake. Out a kink.
"Yes. That's right, lad." He took a swallow from the bottle. And smiled. Mr. Martins suffered from an odd social affliction. When being confronted by people who made him uncomfortable, Mr. Martins spoke in an accent. And he was not in control over the type of accent. This time he spoke with a Scottish accent. Or at least the sort of accent one picks up. From television commercials and B movies.
"You make it sound like I should know who you are." The detective grunted and glanced at a nearby stand of magazines. He could see his reflection in the glossy covers. Not too bad.
"Like Martins was front page material," the detective continued. "Well, who are you? Some kind of celebrity. I'll tell you right up front, it won't do you any good. I don't cow tow to you. Hollywood types."
Mr. Martins smiled. He looked around the drug store. He was grateful that there were no customers around.
"Why are you wearing a trench coat, lad? It's summer outside. You must be bloody roasting in that garment."
The detective stroked his chin. He took a finger out of the deck. And pointed it at Martins.
"You know how to avoid answering a question. I'll give that to you. A business type. Let me tell you, I don't care what kind of clout you swing on Bay Street. It won't do you any good in this man's world." The detective took a second finger from the deck. The thumb. And jabbed it into this chest.
Mr. Martins bowed. He smiled. A kind of acknowledgement. Or so the detective thought. A recognition that the detective was a person to be reckoned with.
"Thank you, detective. I'm quite sure that you will be judicious. But I really wanted to know why you're wearing a trench coat. I'm interested in such things. I listen to people. That's my business."
"Your business is listening to people," the detective repeated. He rolled his tongue around in his mouth. "What are you, a priest? Let me tell you." And here the detective took his pointer finger and jabbed it into the air in front of Mr. Martins as if his finger was a dagger. "I don't care if you're an agent from the Pontiff himself. It won't do you any good in this confessional. The only that swings loosely here is the truth. If you even know what the truth is. And in case you haven't notice, I decide what the truth is."
Mr. Martins laughed. "Detective, I'm afraid we've gotten off to cross purposes here. I'm an investor. Mostly other people's money. In businesses that I think will flourish. I speculate on the future."
The detective placed his hands on his hips as he shook his head. A smile snuck across his face.
"I should have seen it. You pretty boys are all the same. Putting on the glamorous front. When you're rotten through and through."
"I'm an investor," Mr. Martins repeated.
"You're a gambler." The detective smiled to himself.
"A consultant."
"Use any fancy word you please." The detective slipped his hat back off his head and scratched his scalp. "It all comes down to the same thing. You're a gambler. House of the Rising Sun and all that." The detective stepped to one side and leaned against a stand of contraceptives. "And you make a living out of this?" the detective asked.
"A good living," Mr. Martins responded.
"On the future?" the detective asked.
Mr. Martins nodded.
"What makes you think there is any future?" the detective enquired.
"You think there isn't?" Mr. Martins asked.
"What I think doesn't matter." The detective grunted. What the hell did I say that for? He glared at Mr. Martins for a moment. Then he took a photograph out of his pocket. It was a photograph of faeces. Against a set of shiny light blue bathroom tiles. Floor tiles.
"Do you recognize this?"
Mr. Martins took the photograph out of the detective's hand and looked at it.
"Is it what I think it is?" Mr. Martins asked.
"That depends," the detective said, "on what you think it is."
Mr. Martins handed the photograph back to the detective.
"What do you mean by recognize?" Mr. Martins asked.
"Is it yours?" the detective asked.
Mr. Martins laughed. "Now how the hell would I know that?"
The detective moved to the left of Mr. Martins as if his intention was to walk around him. The cooler was in the way.
"Did you leave it in the middle of the washroom?" The detective barked, turning back in the other direction.
"I most certainly did not." Mr. Martins was offended. Why would I do something so disgusting? Why would anyone?
"Can you prove it?" the detective asked.
Mr. Martins shook his head.
"Some sicko," the detective said shaking his head, "left this souvenir in the middle of the men's washroom last week. Who knows what else this sick mind has up his sleeve? Would you be willing to take a polygraph test?"
"A lie detector test? I most certainly would not."
"If you're innocent, what have you got to lose?" the detective asked.
Mr. Martins shook his head. He looked around. "I can hardly believe what I'm hearing. You think I want to waste my time taking a test because you're out to find your great white leviathan?"
The detective took a toothpick out of his pocket and stuck it between his teeth.
"It wasn't white."
There was no smile on the detective's face.


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by Pat McGrady Author of Fascism in America
In a little attic room in the Kreutzer Hall in Yorkville the Uschla, a sort of a tong court established by the League of Friends of New Germany to rule upon treason and traitors within the movement, has met on a number of occasions.
The Uschla has an influence in its group comparable to the power of excommunication among the Catholics or the pronouncement of a "charem" among orthodox Jews. Once damned by the Uschla, a man becomes an outcast in Nazi society. Members of the Friends of New Germany, according to the ruling of the body, are to have no further business nor social intercourse with the condemned. Walter Kappe, one of the leading lights in the Friends of New Germany and editor of the League organ, the Deutsche Zeitung, admits as much, but he qualifies these assertions with the statement that:
"The rule is frequently broken, and those condemned by the Uschla sometimes find members who remain friendly."
Such was the case of Werner Haag, a handsome, young fellow who sold Das Neue Deutschland, the fore-runner to the Deutsche Zeitung, to its present owners for the sum of one dollar. Haag did this, as he told the McCormack Congressional Committee, because he "didn't know how to run a newspaper." He also intimated before the committee that he felt some apprehension as to the safety of his relatives in Germany. Haag sold Das Neue Deutschland for one dollar although it was on a paying basis, German business and shipping interests having given it generous advertising subsidies, and although the cash assets of the paper amounted to about $400.
When asked why Haag should be such a poor business man as to sell the paper, its good will, and its cash for one dollar, Kappe recently said, "Because," as he told the Congressional Committee, "he didn't know anything about newspapers." Kappe could not recall exactly how much cash was thrown into the bargain, but he expressed doubt that it amounted to $400.
That the Nazis, who have advocated non-amalgamation with Americans, "because" as Kappe once put it, "as German Americans we are mongrels," have isolated themselves to such extent that they pass on criminal doings within their fold quite independently of courts is a fairly well established fact.
Friedrich Karl Kruppa, a resigned member of the Friends of New Germany who has expressed a willingness to give information on the "corrupt" practices of the Friends of New Germany, described a meeting of the Uschla which he professed to have attended on January 23, 1934, as follows:
Before the meeting of the Uschla committee there was a lot of secret doings. Everybody was whispering in the little attic room of the Kreutzer Hall. I was told to stand by because I was to be a star witness against the dependant.
"The Uschla Committee was composed of three men, Griesinger, Trawnic and Ostermann. There were five witnesses to testify against Mr. H., who was accused of treason to the fatherland.
"When the trial was over, everybody pledged his word not to mention the matter to anyone and to be sure that Fritz Gissibl, the leader of the Friends of New Germany, did not learn of it. The next day, however, everybody in Yorkville knew everything that happened. The man's reputation was ruined.
"I was given the minutes of the meeting, and everybody wanted to take them away from me. I was threatened by members of the committee who tried to get me to surrender the papers so they could be sent back to Germany. They were supposed to go to the Geheime Polizei in Berlin.
"On February 8 I came home late one night to see seven men in my room, some of whom I had never before seen. One was a German secret police, but I do not care to reveal his name at this time. He took the protocols back to Germany.
"On the previous day, Wendel Del Monteroca was called before the committee for suspected theft. The money had been inked with an invisible fluid. When Del Monteroca went to wash his hands the ink stain appeared and the harder he washed the blacker his hands became. He was found guilty as a thief and excommunicated from the Uschla.
"He was a very nervous man. The rest of the crowd stood around and said, 'My, how nervous you are.' One asked him to sit down to the typewriter to write something, but he was too nervous to write. They stripped him naked in searching for the money, which amounted to about $120."
Kruppa was deprived of the leadership of the German Youth Group in New York by Fritz Gissibl, who has been absolute dictator over the Friends of New Germany since Heinz Spanknoebel, who fled to Germany in the face of a federal indictment charging him with representing his government here subversively, disappeared. Gissibl pleaded with the group at a meeting in the Kreutzer Hall on April 18 and succeeded in turning them against their leader, according to Kruppa. Kruppa says that despite his efforts to obtain a hearing from the Uschla, he has been summarily dismissed from the Friends of New Germany and suffered the loss of his Jungsturm publication, without having been granted any consideration. The Jungsturm happened to be making money for Kruppa.
When Kruppa took the youth movement in hand last year thirty boys belonged to it. When he was forced to surrender it to the professional Nazis they numbered 250. The boys are dressed in the manner of the Hitler Jugend in Germany. They are given tasks to perform in the city, which calls for drilling and searches through the streets. They are marched in the manner of their older brothers, the American Nazi stormtroopers.
There is an organization for the younger girls, who are clad in blue cotton dresses after the style of the Hitler girls in Germany, and they number approximately two hundred. They sing and make themselves generally useful at Nazi affairs here.
Their older sisters are clad in brown and resemble in all respects the young women's organizations of Hitler's Germany. They are under the direct supervision of Corporal Hauptner of the storm troops and are called the Girls Department of the Ordnung Dienst. While it is claimed that there are only twenty girls registered in this department a much larger turnout has been encountered at a number of New York Nazi affairs.
The Nazi storm troops here, which have changed their name from Schutz Staffel (as the higher grade storm troops are called in Germany) to Ordnung Dienst, are identical with the storm troops in Germany in dress. There are 700 of them in New York City. They drill on Monday and Thursday evenings in the Kreutzer Hall, as admitted by Kappe, and are divided into O.D.-A. (the "regulars" who drill on Thursday) and O.D.-B. (the "reserves," who drill on Monday).
According to the testimony rendered to the McCormack Committee by Gissibl, he returned to Germany some months ago to try to persuade Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, head of the Nazi foreign department, to abandon an order demanding that all members of the National Socialist Party here resign from the Friends of New Germany. Some resentment is still held against the Fuehrer because he paid Nazi money to travel on a French ship back to the fatherland while one of the prime objects of his movement here is to encourage patronage of German ships and wares.
Kruppa now states that Gissibl sought control not only of the Friends of New Germany but also of the American branch of the National Socialist Party. Kruppa says that Gissibl has purposely failed to announce that for the last three months the German Nazi office has been receiving party membership applications from Germans abroad. "Gissibl hopes by this to keep those who would join the Nazi 'Party' and their dues within the Friends of New Germany," he said.
Gissibl, shortly before appearing before the McCormack Committee in New York—a few hours before —filed for his first citizenship papers. Four months ago he announced his resignation from the Friends of New Germany, stating that he intended returning to Germany to help build up the Nazi Party, of which he was then a member. Despite his resignation, however, he continued to thrive on the Friends of New Germany by extracting from their income extremely liberal expense accounts.
The present nominal head of the Friends of New Germany is Hubert Schnuch, in office now for almost one month. Two months ago in Washington, Gissibl, then supposed to be out of the Friends of New Germany, testified before the Congressional Committee that Schnuch was his man and that he would have him elected head of the Friends of New Germany—as he did shortly after.
At the national convention of the Friends of New Germany on July 1st, Reinhold Walter, doomed to retire as national head (as national "straw man" as he confessed he was before the McCormack Committee), gained the floor and before the representatives of America's forty-four cells of the Nazi Friends of New Germany excoriated Gissibl.
He charged Gissibl with having broken his promise to Bohle, never again to speak in public nor to hold office. This Gissibl denied, but, according to some who attended the convention, Walter produced a written promise to this effect signed by Gissibl and addressed to Bohle. As one of the members later put it: "For the first time since I've known Gissibl, I saw him absolutely speechless."
At the same meeting serious charges of racketeering against the leaders were read. The fact that all happened to be paid leaders annulled whatever effect they might have had. The charges were written by Kruppa and distributed in circular form.
Some reason that the recent change of heart undergone by Gissibl, which caused the Fuehrer to abandon plans for building up the Third Reich and devote himself, as an American, to the construction of that fine American organization, the Friends of New Germany, was occasioned by Gissibl's defiance of orders from Bohle and the fact that a sizeable fund collected by the Friends of New Germany now rests in a New York bank. It is understood that this fund, most of which was saved during the conservative reign of Reinhold Walter, amounts to $6,000 and is banked in the name of a private person. With dissolution of the movement it is believed that the first to grab would be the best rewarded. Hence Gissibl remains in this country.
To Be Continued Tomorrow