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About to bring a famous rap star to trial for
murder, Melanie Vargas becomes the sole witness when a car bomb kills the
rapper's lawyer. Her career and her safety are on the line, but so is her heart:
Melanie's relationship with the charismatic defense lawyer was more than
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Determined to hunt down his killer, she finds
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Palit GTX 460 1GB Sonic Platinum Review
Nvidia had just released the GTX 465 which was a scaled down GF 100 card using a total of three graphics processing clusters with 11 streaming multiprocessors and 352 cuda cores to do battle with the likes of the HD 5830 and HD 5850 (albeit with mixed results). It still pulled a lot of juice and ran warm just like its big brother the GTX 480. Pricing left a lot to be desired based purely on performance. Fast forward a little more than a month and we have the release of the GTX 460 with its modified Fermi architecture using a GF 104 40nm core that comes equipped with two GPC clusters housing 7 streaming multiprocessors, 336 CUDA cores, 56 texture units and either 32 or 24 ROP units depending on the amount of memory onboard. You have two separate versions of the GTX 460, one with 768Mb of memory on a 192 bit bus (24ROP) and 1024Mb on a 256bit bus (32 ROP). The Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum overclocking Edition is based on this GF 104 design and is one of three models that Palit offers. This model comes with what may be the highest clock speeds out of the box at 800Mhz on the fixed function units 1600Mhz on the Shader domain and 2000Mhz for the GDDR5 memory. With specifications like that this card may well be what the GTX 465 was not, the right card at the right price.
Closer Look:
The Palit packaging has taken a turn for the better with this latest Nvidia based card. Gone is the Frobot from the front panel. The front now has a shield with the Palit name over what could be a heatsink in the background. The top right side lists many of the Nvidia specific technologies such as CUDA, SLI, PhysX and 3D Vision Surround with DX 11 thrown in for good measure. There is a small medallion on the bottom right that identifies this card as the "Sonic Platinum" overclocking edition video card. This distinguishes it as the top dog in the Palit GTX 460 product stack. The GTX 460 is available with two different memory configurations, 768MB and 1024MB. This is the 1GB version. The back panel gives a short synopsis of the technical specifications in multiple languages and talks about DirectX 11 done right with graphics from three of the latest DX 11 titles, Metro 2033, Just Cause 2 and Mafia II. Not to be left out of the mix, the Frobot makes an appearance on only one side panel, less exposure but still there.
Inside the outer packaging sleeve is a plain cardboard box. Nothing elegant, but pretty much standard operating procedure across the spectrum as just about every card I look at comes this way. Flip open the box and there are what looks like three compartments. In reality, only one compartment is used and houses the GTX 460 with the accessory bundle.
The accessory bundle that comes with the Palit GTX 460 Sonic is slim by any standard, but in reality what more do you really need? The manual, driver disk and dual 4 pin molex to 6 pin PCIe power connector are all that comes with the Sonic Platinum Edition GTX 460. There is not a need for a ton of adapters to make a connection to your display of choice because you are covered on everything but DisplayPort connectivity.
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Bay Area Pool Service – Home of the Pool Troopers originated in Tampa, Florida in 1952 as Chittenden Pool Supply. We became known as Bay Area Pool Service once the original Company was purchased by the Crayton family in 1971. When we made the decision in 2013 to expand into Texas, Arizona, Nevada and new parts of Florida we launched 'Pool Troopers – America's Backyard Heroes' as our National Brand.Learn More About Pool Services in Orlando
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Hey Crew,
I've been working on a new exhibition over the last few months and have the arduous task of cutting down my 30-40 or so shoots and 5000 images to 24 final prints
Here's a shot from the last few days where I had model Soomee Halemba (who conveniently happens to be my partner) diving in and out of a kelp forest.
Here's a few behind the scenes shots
I managed to convince Soomee to take a few snaps of me (her first underwater photos ) and she nailed this awesome one of me!
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The powerful Earl of Léonas was one of the loyalist nobles to the king and as a reward had given the Earl vast lands. In return for the land the Earl was charged with keeping the kings peace in the area.
The Earl relied on nobles like Baron Hreaðemús, equally as loyal to both king and their overlords, in keeping peace and sending much needed reinforcements to the king fighting his war on the continent. The Baron had help serve the king and Earl in both international and local conflict and had been reward as tenant of Cwelderæde Castle.
Whilst the castle wasn't large it was well protected being located in a lake with the only access via the drawbridge. The Baron was satisfied with the castle and continued to serve both the Earl and his King.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
My name is Kim Robertson (Director of Swap Kids Stuff P/L and mum of 2). I have 15 years in advertising, marketing and business development within the IT industry. This service is a first of its kind to offer mums the opportunity to send in their unwanted/pre-loved kids clothes and receive 'credit points' they can then spend on the website, which contains a catalogue with a wide range of thousands of pre-loved kids clothes (newborn to 12 year old kids size) in great condition. The actual items of clothes they select are free as the only money they outlay is on the small annual membership, handling fee and postage.
Why would people use our service
1. They want to turn their unwanted, pre-loved kids clothes into real value by trading for something they need (without spending a fortune)
2. They don't have to wait for someone to have a swap match - they add and take from an existing pool of quality pre-loved clothing.
3. If you sell your kids clothes on auction sites you're lucky to get 25% of the value back - with this service you could argue your getting 100% back (like for like)
4. Swapping with friends is hit and miss as they may have more of a need for your pre-loved clothes and don't have something of equal value to give in return (ie your child is older)
5. You are given clothes as gifts that are the wrong size, wrong season
6. They don't have to leave home
Target audience: Mothers with children under 12 years old. We envisage a trusted countrywide online community of busy, money savvy mums who want to extend their very limited clothes swapping network (made up of immediate friends and family) without having to compromise on quality. Freeing up much needed cash to spend on other things their family may need. Saving them time and money whilst helping them to reduce their households carbon footprint one swap at a time (through the recycling of clothes before they need to be thrown out).
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Brand attributes we aspire to – trustworthy, community focused, network, friendly, professional (not cheap/nasty), quality, fun, care for our children, innovative/modern, practical, supporting the environment by facilitating the recycling of quality clothes in good condition not ready to be thrown out.
Colours: bright mix of colours (we are selling a service within the kids clothing industry).
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Small Spaces, Canadian Style!
Ok, I realize "small spaces" isn't exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you think of my homeland — more like vast open spaces. But we Canucks are pretty good at making do when we have to, and living little is no exception. Since we're all about small this month on Apartment Therapy, I thought I'd round up some Small, Cool, Canadian spaces from past contests.
First Row (Small Cool 2011):
Shereen's Open & Airy
Dana's First Condo
Patricia's Colors in Canada
James' Ultra Compact Abode
Marielle & Simon's Bright and Joyful
Second Row (Small Cool 2010):
Stephanie's Storage Space Solution
Matt & Jac's Live/Work Space for 2
Nicole's Hidden Storage
Jason & Jeff's "Cocktail Party Perfect"
Terri & Evan's Perfect Layout
Third Row (Small Cool 2009):
dp2r's Organized Abode
Azaleasmoke's Happy Compromise
Bernard's Light & Bright Home
aphleung's Quebecois Home
Sayf & Shruti's Elegant Minimalism
Fourth Row (Small Cool 2008):
Sarah & Angelo's Vancouver Digs
Laura & Paul's Refuge Above the Highway
Simone's Gastown Space
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Technical Newsletter From Your Ballistic TechniciansVolume 7, Issue 1
The CAB Designs
Sierra Commits to NSSF
A common question here at Sierra is," what is my OAL for this bullet in my rifle." Since each firearm is an individual, that can vary from gun to gun. Often, they have tried to measure a factory cartridge or use the length from a reloading manual of another manufacturer resulting in a bullet being jammed into the rifling, resulting in high pressures and blown primers or worse. Just because a bullet is the same weight, the profile of it can change the OAL considerably. An easy way to get an OAL is to follow a few simple steps. I try to seat the bullet as long as possible and make sure it will feed out of the magazine. Then, I make sure it isn't jamming into the rifling. I like to have about 20 to 25 thousandths jump to the rifling, and check each new batch of bullets, since there can be a slight variance from lot to lot. Then make sure you have enough of the bearing surface of the bullet in the mouth of the case to have a firm grip on the bullet. Usually about one caliber of the bearing surface is the rule of thumb, but you can fudge on that a little . If you have a long throated gun, usually about all you can do is have it seated as long as the magazine will allow and make sure you have a good grip on the bullet with the case and let it jump the distance to the rifling. There you go, an easy way to find your OAL.
We get a lot of questions on hunting bullet performance. All to often, hunters expect miracles out of a bullet. The worst problem is the bullet placement. Often, shots are placed ( or happen to wind out there), in places where a humane kill isn't possible-regardless of the bullet or caliber. My saying has been," If you shoot them where they live, they die where they are standing." If more hunters would follow that saying, they will have a lot less "bullet performance" problems.


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The primary function of the Registrar's Office is...registration for classes! And if you are here for that purpose, go to myLipscomb. That's where it's done. However, if you are not a current student but need a transcript, an online catalog or need commencement day details for your honored student, you're in the right place.
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Current students, alumni and former students can order official transcripts or replacement diplomas and remit payment online 24 hours/7 days a week. Lipscomb has partnered with Parchment to provide online transcript ordering and payment.
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Holiday Closings 2017-18
- New Year's: January 1, 2018
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#84017 by AngryGeriatric
Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:09 pm
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Dude, just because he's not the UFC champion anymore doesn't mean he's delusional. The poor guy snapped his leg in half.AngryGeriatric wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:09 pm
Yeah but I'm not down with the blown out assholealmostapathetic wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:44 pmPM pastorX, he has a squirrel-sized chink pud.
Didn't this happen the other day, some wifey was dragged off a plane kicking and screaming cos she unlocked her husbands phone, using his finger while he was asleep and found out he'd been having an affair.Hakik wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:43 amI thought you meant like at work. So you mean someone is gonna break into your house to steal your phone while you're sleeping? Or is your wife that untrustworthy? Anyway, in that case it would be easier to use their finger, you don't have to turn on the light to make sure you can capture their face.
You're excelling at your job, minister of propaganda. True WWE level charactership, pretending to be the evil one...stirring up the audience. You're taking it a little too far though, bro. You already earned the money.AngryGeriatric wrote:When a hobo eats nothing but canned corned beef, they are prone to fantasies of being a past-their-prime MMA star. It says so right on the label.


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The Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030
In September 2015, the international community adopted the Agenda 2030 which includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which lasted from 2000 to 2015, but are more comprehensive and inclusive. The SDGs are particularly relevant for the peacebuilding community for two reasons. First, the Agenda explicitly recognizes the link between peace and sustainable development. Second, peace is a central topic across the Agenda as well as in a separate goal, SDG 16 on peaceful, just and inclusive societies.
The implementation of the SDGs is an important opportunity to strengthen conflict prevention as an important part of inclusive and sustainable development. The universal Agenda 2030 aims to be a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder process involving all segments of society and leaving no one behind. The same approach is necessary to achieve sustainable peace, where prevention is a continuous effort not only to prevent crises but also to address root causes of conflict.
GPPAC was part of a group of NGOs that collectively lobbied at the UN in New York and with different member states to ensure peace became an integral part of the agenda. Now that the goals are set, a strong political commitment for inclusive, people centred implementation at local, national, regional and international level needs to be fostered, maintained and scrutinised. This is necessary for the SDGs to really help prevent violence and insecurity.
GPPAC is supporting its members to act on this by raising awareness about the SDGs and jointly exploring opportunities for our members and other CSOs working in peacebuilding and conflict prevention to link their work to this framework. GPPAC will be seeking to further develop the capacities of its members and the network to be involved in SDG processes relevant to conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Finally, GPPAC aims to bring experiences and lessons learnt from our members to the policy level, relating them to the SDG agenda in a meaningful way. We are, for example, actively promoting the link between Human Security and its inclusive people centred approach and the SDGs.
Through our engagement with the SDGs, GPPAC aims to strengthen the role of local civil society in fostering conflict prevention and peacebuilding by ensuring a truly inclusive multi-stakeholder approach based on local ownership is realised in the SDG implementation across the globe.
The Importance of the SDGs for Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding
In this video, Pascal Richard -Managing Adviser Policy and Advocacy at GPPAC- talks about the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
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GPPAC Background Paper: A Peacebuilding Lens on the Sustainable Development Goals
GPPAC has written a background paper on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from a peacebuilding perspective. The paper gives recommendations on how CSOs can engage with the agenda and is the first of a number of activities GPPAC is planning around the SDGs.
Read it here.
Interview with Ivana Gajović on the relevance of the SDGs for peacebuilding CSOs
Ivana Gajović is the Director of the Nansen Dialogue Centre in Montenegro, regional secretariat of GPPAC Western Balkans. Their work focuses on peace education and thus has a strong connection to the SDGs. In this interview, Ivana talks about why she thinks the SDGs are important for peacebuilding CSOs like the Nansen Dialogue Centre and many other GPPAC members.


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On November 15-16, the Chicago-Kent Law Review and Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States (ISCOTUS) are presenting a symposium titled "The Supreme Court and the American Public." See the entire schedule at www.alumni.kentlaw.edu/symposium.
The Honorable Richard A. Posner of the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals will give a talk on "The Supreme Court and Celebrity Culture" from 4:30-5:15 p.m. in Ogilvie Auditorium on Thursday, November 15. Students are invited to attend the talk, but due to limited seating, students are asked to enter a lottery for a seat to attend the lecture.
Please enter the lottery online no later than Friday, November 9 at 12:00 p.m.: www.alumni.kentlaw.edu/posner.
If you are selected to attend, you will be notified on Monday, November 12.
Fall 2012 graduates: complete your mandatory graduate survey by Monday, December 3. The survey is available online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ckgradfall2012.
If you will not be in the Chicagoland area during Spring 2013 and are planning to participate in the Commencement ceremony, please email email@example.com to arrange for tickets, cap and gown, and other graduation information as soon as possible.
Please visit the Commencement Portal for other details about your Commencement ceremony.
The Chicago-Kent tradition of Alumni Legacy Hooding allows a graduate to be hooded by an alumni relative during the ceremony. If you are an immediate relative of a Chicago-Kent alumnus/a and would like him/her to hood you at the ceremony, please email email@example.com for additional details.
Please note that this person must be both an alumnus of Chicago-Kent College of Law and an immediate relative of yours. Unfortunately there are no exceptions to this rule.
All Alumni Legacy Hooders will participate in the graduation processional and recessional and therefore will be sitting on the stage throughout the ceremony. Legacy Hooders do NOT need a graduation ticket. Legacy Hooders will wear caps and gowns and will pick up their regalia in the Faculty Robing Room on graduation day.
The 2012 Alumni Awards will be presented at the 35th annual Alumni Awards & Recognition Luncheon:
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL
11:30 a.m. Reception
12:00 p.m. Luncheon and Awards Ceremony
The Alumni Association is pleased to offer student tickets for only $20. Click here to register online.
For more information, visit www.alumni.kentlaw.edu/awardsluncheon.
In an effort to help you connect with a strong network of Chicago-Kent alumni, the Alumni Association and Office of Career Services offer the Alumni Career Advisor Network. Alumni from around the world are available to discuss issues such as practice trends, legal markets in specific geographic areas, and other career-related topics. This is an excellent opportunity to start building your personal network with Chicago-Kent alumni!
To search for an Alumni Career Advisor, all you have to do is log-in to the Chicago-Kent Alumni Association website.
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During your first time login you will create a username and password. Afterwards, you may log in directly at www.alumni.kentlaw.edu/advisorsearch using the username and password you created. If you need assistance with your first time login, please contact the Office of Career Services at email@example.com or visit Suite 360.
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Contact Kayla Portillo at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information on how the Alumni Association can help connect you with the Chicago-Kent alumni community.
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Alternate ending to New Moon. As the months continue Bella continues to slowly heal. But tragedy strikes again, creating a domino affect with everything in her life. With Edward gone, who will save her? New chapters finally added!
1. Chapter 1: Farewell My Friend
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"Bella!" I heard a faint voice call my name, but couldn't be sure because of the rain.
The sky was dark, but it was still early. The wind whipped the rain through the air, making it sting as it hit my face. There was a sudden clap of lightning, followed by soft rolling thunder. I stood with my umbrella over head keeping me from the pouring rain.
Everyone had left, leaving only Jacob, Sam and myself. Jacob decided to start leaving, but I wanted to stay just a little longer. Sam was standing only a few feet in front of me, his cheeks stained with tears.
"Bella!" the voice finally reached my ears clearly. It was Jacob.
I turned to look for him. He was standing a few yards away, holding an umbrella just like mine, waving for me to hurry up. He had a black tux on, he looked exceptionally handsome today, even under the circumstances.
I turned back to Sam. He wore a tux like the one Jacob had on. He didn't hold an umbrella. He stood in the rain, letting it completely soak through his clothes. His spiky hair had pools and droplets of water. His eyes were squinted shut, eyebrows furrowed together, his lips quivering as he gasped for air. It was hard to determine his tears from the rain, it was just silent cries. I had never seen him like this, and frankly never thought I would. He usually held himself with confidence and strength, but now I stood across from him at probably his absolute weakest point.
"Bella!" Jacob called again. The storm was picking up it was time to leave.
I knelt down, placing a single white rose on the drenched ground. I read the tombstone one last time. "Emily, Beloved Daughter & Friend 1986 - 2006." The tears that had some how evaded me the entire day had found it's way to the surface. "Goodbye…wolf girl." I brushed the tombstone and said my final goodbye.
I wasn't extremely close to Emily, but we had become friends over the past few weeks. While the others were out tracking down Victoria, I was left alone. Every so often I would stay with her, but had to leave once Sam returned. The love both of them shared ripped at the hole in my chest, it was to much to much to handle. The memories of her made the tears fall faster. I stood up and looked at Sam.
"I'm sorry." My voice was only a whisper, but I knew he would be able to hear me. He didn't move, or look at me. He simply nodded his head once.
I turned to meet Jacob. I closed my umbrella and huddle under his. He wrapped his arms around my waist, the heat radiating from his body instantly warmed me. I twisted my body taking one final look at Sam standing in the rain. He threw his face into his hands, and knelt onto the muddy ground next to her grave, letting out a thunderous roar. Seeing Sam in this condition, brought on a sudden twinge of pain. The edges of the very raw hole in my chest seared. Seeing Sam standing over her grave was to familiar, and reminded me of that person I wasn't aloud to speak of. His words played in my head, "If I was too hasty…if for one second I wasn't paying attention, I could reach out, meaning to touch your face, and crush your skull by mistake…" I felt myself falling apart right here in Jacobs arms. I wrapped my arms around my waist, trying to keep myself together, trying to delay the pain.
Not here. I told myself. I had to keep it together. Jacob knew that I was broken, but I hoped he didn't know to what extent - I hoped to keep it like that.
- Chapter 1: Farewell My Friend
- Chapter 2: Hurting the Ones We Love
- Chapter 3: Losing Control
- Chapter 4: Time
- Chapter 5: Broken Hearts
- Chapter 6: Charred Remains
- Chapter 7: Dull Existence
- Chapter 8: Heartbeats
- Chapter 9: Fixing What's Already Done
- Chapter 10: Unseen
- Chapter 11: Trying to Change the Future
- Chapter 12: Changes
- Chapter 13: Ashes
- Chapter 14: Stupid Vampires
- Chapter 15: Home?
- Chapter 16: Gone Missing
- Chapter 17: Time Doesn't Always Heal
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Eclipse DemoCamps Helios 2010/Bucharest
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Freescale Semiconductor Romania
45, Tudor Vladimirescu Street
Tati Business Center
Bucharest, 050881
Date and Time
June 28, 15:00 - 18:00
Teodor Madan, Freescale Semiconductor
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- Teodor Madan: What's New in CDT 7.0 and Flexible Resources in Helios
- Pazargic Antonel Ernest: Speed-up Software Development with Eclipse IDE and Mylyn and Installing/Updating Eclipse Based Products with the P2 System
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- Teodor Madan, Freescale Semiconductor
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- Cristian Tepus, Freescale Semiconductor
- Ionut Frujina, Freescale Semiconductor
- Viorel Andronic, SE-DD Soft Solutions


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Michelle got the cab drivers attention right away. She always did when she went out on the town. She was wearing a black leather skirt, not scandalous, but definitely short. Her blouse was so delicate that one could see the black bra she was wearing under it. Somebody whistled as she got into the cab.
At least I got the right look, Michelle thought. The night promised to be an interesting one. Michelle had a date. A professional date kind of date.The cab only took ten minutes to get her to a Japanese restaurant on 21st street.
"That will be fourteen dollars," the cab driver said. Damn zone system, Michelle thought. Washington DC is the only place on earth that charges cab fares according to a zone system rather than by distance. A zone system that no one understands. Michelle gave the driver fifteen bucks, a lot of money for a student in this city. But then, everything cost a lot of money in this town. Especially a date with Michelle didn't come cheap these days. She got a receipt from the cab driver for her tax records and walked up to the restaurant. She looked sexy and confident when she entered the place.
The attendant showed Michelle to her table. Her date was already waiting. He was wearing a dark suit with a red tie. He looked relatively young, maybe early forties. A businessman, sales or marketing, Michelle thought. Stephen got up when he realized she was heading for his table.
"Michelle? Hi, I'm Stephen. Nice to meet you. Here, have a seat."
He had a good look at Michelle while she sat down. Michelle was rather tall for an asian-american girl, made taller by the heels on her pumps. Middle twenties, he guessed. She smelled nice, a very light type of perfume, sweet. The leather skirt tightened and stretched as she sat down. Definitely a very nice ass.
The dinner was a little awkward at first, those dates almost always are. But Michelle kind of liked Stephen, he was interesting. Director for International Marketing at a software company. Asian culture specialist. Less shy than the usual technical people. Entertaining. Michelle had to make up her mind. Her obligation with the agency ended with the dinner. Everything that might happen after dinner was between her and him. Stephen knew how to ask for further services. He handed Michelle a small white envelope across the table. Michelle opened it and found five crisp hundred dollar bills. All she had to do was to put the envelope into her purse to seal the date for the rest of the night. What might he want? This was quite a lot of money even by DC standards, she thought.
Stephen opened the passenger door of his Land Rover. Michelle climbed in without effort. He had asked whether she would mind meeting another couple. This was a new type of situation for Michelle, usually she just did single dates. Stephen convinced her that it would be OK, that she had nothing to worry about. The club was north of DC, in Bethesda, Maryland. It looked like any larger private house, except for the automatic iron gate that was opened by someone from inside the villa after Stephen talked through the intercom. He parked the Land Rover between a Lexus and a Mercedes and helped Michelle out of the car. The heavy wooden door of the villa had a small brass plate that read Villa Sapporo.
Anthony and Pearl were sipping champagne in the salon. Pearl was small, almost looking like a little girl. Anthony was short too, but he looked strong and muscular. They introduced themselves as friends of Stephen. Pearl's eyes inspected Michelle from head to toe, then she asked Michelle to turn around slowly. Michelle was a little perplexed and just did as she was told.
"You have a very pretty ass, Michelle," Pearl said. "Are you ready to have some fun?"
They went down a corridor and entered what looked like a sauna or pool. It was made out of wood. A large wooden hot tub blew inviting bubbles. Pearl was the first to get undressed. She took off her skirt and underwear, opened her blouse. She stemmed her hands into her sides and proudly showed off her tits.
"Like my little tits?" she asked Anthony and threw him a mischievous look with her slanted brown eyes. Anthony's answer shocked Michelle. He gave Pearl a slap in the face and called her a slut. A dirty little girl. Naughty. Nothing but sex on her mind. He told her that she needed her ass thrashed like a school girl. Then he turned to Michelle:
"What do you think, Michelle? Does she need to be punished?"
Michelle remembered how Pearl treated her when she first met her.
"Yes," she answered. "Pearl needs her ass thrashed like a school girl."
Anthony tied Pearl's wrists to a rope that dangled from the ceiling. He took off his shirt,then unbuckled his belt and pulled it off the loops off his pants. He rolled up the thick leather belt, told Pearl to stick out her ass, and started to smack her behind with the flat end of the belt. Again and again Anthony whipped the belt across Pearl's little ass. She looked like a school girl that had to be punished, tender, small thighs and buttocks on a girl wearing a pink bow in her hair. Anthony paused, picked up a bucket of water, and emptied it over Pearl, showering her with the cold liquid.
Stephen and Michelle had been watching from inside the hot tub. Stephen had turned her towards the spectacle, made sure she was watching. His hand was caressing her wet ass that stuck out from the water. Michelle had her legs spread and arched her back to please Stephen. Watching the spanking excited Michelle, she thought about how much pain it must cause Pearl, that little slut. Michelle watched Anthony soak the belt in the water. She watched Anthony and enjoyed Stephen's fingers playing inside her hot pussy as Anthony prepared to continue Pearl's lashing with the wet leather belt. Michelle watched intensely, it took her a second to realize that Stephen had started to push his finger deep inside her, into her ass. Michelle was moaning with pleasure, still watched Pearl, listened to the wet lashes. Pearl was twisting and turning, she tried to save her tender schoolgirl ass. Anthony stopped and inspected Pearl's ass. It was red, undoubtedly hot. But he didn't untie her. He lowered the rope from the ceiling and tied Pearl's ankles to the rope, tied the rope around her waist with her wrists behind her back, then pulled her up again. Poor Pearl. Her ordeal was far from over. But Michelle's wasn't either. Stephen had withdrawn his finger. She missed the invasive finger, it had given her pleasure. It was replaced by Stephen's hard cock that entered Michelle from behind. Michelle gasped, it entered so suddenly, she wasn't prepared. She felt his orgasm, his pulsating cock exploded inside her pussy. He pulled out and gave Michelle a slap on her ass, then climbed out of the hot tub.
"It's my turn to punish Pearl," Stephen said to Michelle.
Anthony sat down at the edge of the hot tub, he dangled his feet in the water. He still had the belt in his hand.
"Won't Stephen need that?" Michelle asked, looking at the belt. The belt fascinated her. Thick leather, soaked with water. Just minutes ago it had whipped a beautiful girl. There was no need for an answer from Anthony. Stephen went over to a trunk, just next to their discarded clothes, and got out a long leather whip. He snapped it through the air, like a practice swing. The whip was four feet long, just two flat leather straps attached to a wooden handle. It was designed to inflict pain without cutting the skin. Stephen grabbed a hold of the dangling Pearl and gave her a twist. Pearl was spinning, the soft backs of her thighs exposed for the lash. Michelle had to remember to breathe while she was watching. The prospect of Pearl being lashed with that whip excited her.
Anthony gazed at Michelle's pretty ass that stuck out just above the water of the hot tub. He could see the remaining cum of Stephen's orgasm run down between Michelle's legs. A sudden smacking sound rang out, a smack so hard that it echoed from the walls. Michelle's hea
flew around, her mouth and eyes were wide open, staring at Anthony, while the heat and the pain of the blow still intensified. Michelle dipped her ass under the water instinctively. Anthony held the belt tightly between his hands.
"I need your ass above the water Michelle. Raise it, and I will lash you again. I will whip your ass as long as you can keep it up above the water."
A challenge, Michelle thought, he is challenging me. Michelle saw the second lash coming. She had raised her ass, she still faced Anthony, she looked defiant, she invited the lash. She saw him swing the belt over his head and lashing it down until it hit her cheeks with another earsplitting smack. This time Michelle kept her ass raised. "Yes," she said with a husky voice. Blow after blow landed on Michelle's behind, she managed to keep her bottom just above the water, water that splashed all over the tub with each blow. Anthony didn't stop until her ass was crimson, until every inch of her bottom was hot from the lashing.
Stephen, who had been watching Michelle receive the whipping, turned his attention to Pearl. He snapped the whip one more time with a practice swing.
"How many lashes Michelle? How many does Pearl here deserve?" he shouted across the room. He had an erection again. Watching Michelle suffer had turned him on.
"Fifty," Michelle managed to say. She didn't know why. Fifty just seemed right. Anthony was standing next to Michelle in the hot tub, his palms caressed her hot buttocks. He loved to feel the heat of a young girls behind under his hand, a behind that had received the punishment it deserved.
Stephen cracked the whip hard across the backs of Pearl's thighs. Pearl moaned, the leather straps curled around her legs, angry red marks appeared instantly. Michelle could only imagine the pain that Pearl must have felt. Another cracking blow landed a little higher on her thighs, another red stripe. The next one fell across Pearl's ass, then another across her thighs. Pearl started screaming, screams that were like music in the ears of the others. That included Michelle who was watching intently. First Michelle's eyes had been blurry from the tears that remained from her own recent flogging, but after a few minutes that went away. She saw Pearl clearly, the way she twisted in her ropes, red stripes that turned purple, every hard blow that Stephen delivered with the whip. Inside the hot tub Anthony was amazingly gentle when he pushed his cock into Michelle from behind. She was hot and wet, needed Anthony, encouraged him. Michelle's mouth and eyes were wide open, too many sensations went through her body. She watched Stephen as he whipped stripe after stripe on Pearl's ass and thighs. Anthony's thighs were slapping against Michelle's ass faster and faster. Michelle reached her limit, she moaned and had an orgasm. She grabbed Anthony behind her, she wanted him deeper.
Anthony continued to fuck Michelle who was wet inside with her own cum. Anthony held back. He was not going to come until Pearl had received all fifty lashes. He was glad he had whipped Michelle's pretty behind, but he also wanted to fuck Michelle until her pussy was raw. The whip-smacks continued to echo from the walls and Anthony continued with Michelle, his thighs still slapped against Michelle's buttocks.
When Stephen delivered the fiftieth blow across Pearls behind, Anthony came. He came inside Michelle, a Michelle who was as wide open as she had never been before. She almost collapsed in the hot tub. Anthony held her and then helped her out. Stephen had lowered Pearl from the ceiling and had untied the rope. Pearl was crying. Nobody fucked her. Both men were spent. Pearl's behind was a pattern of welts. She wouldn't sit down on her ass for days. The party was over. It was time for Michelle to take her leave for the night.
Stephen dropped Michelle off at Dupont Circle, like she requested. He handed her two additional hundred dollar bills as a tip. He said that he thought she was great. She gave him a kiss on the cheek and got out of the car. Michelle watched him leave before she flagged down a cab to go home. She had trouble walking. The leather skirt felt much too tight on the raw skin of her behind. She had been whipped with a belt and had her pussy fucked raw. It's gonna be OK, she thought. Actually, she had enjoyed the whole thing. That was what scared her the most. She had liked everything she experienced that night.


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MACON, GA.- Lipscomb women's golfer Miriam Parker was named the Atlantic Sun Player of the Week after firing a two-round total of 144 (+2) in the Charles Braun Jr. Intercollegiate earlier this week.
Parker was named medalist for the first time in her career and helped the Lady Bisons to a second place finish.
In the first round Parker fired a one-under par 70. Her score was the lowest of the day and second lowest of the tournament.
On day two, Parker had an unfortunate mishap and grounded her club in a hazard, but still found a way to fire a three-over par 74.
Parker's two rounds were her two lowest rounds of the fall.
It was her second top-10 finish of 2013. She finished tied for sixth with a 78-81 in the SIUE Intercollegiate in Sept.
Parker lowered her stroke average to 79.6 after nine rounds of play.
Chris Banister- T26 – (80-88-82) = 250 [+34]
SIUE Intercollegiate- T6 – (78-81) = 159 [+15]
APSU Intercollegiate- T49 – (83-80) = 163 [+19]
Braun Intercollegiate- T1 – (70-74) = 144 [+2]


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Oracle 8.1.5
Solaris 7
I am receiving the following error(s) in listener.log when trying to run my java app:
TNS-12502: tNS:listener received no CONNECT_DATA from client
*** According to Oracle ***
TNS-12502 TNS:listener received no CONNECT_DATA from client
Cause: No CONNECT_DATA was passed to the listener.
Action: Check that the service name resolved from TNSNAMES.ORA has the CONNECT_DATA component of the connect descriptor.
I have filled in the CONNECT_DATA on client (in tnsnames.ora) with as many variables as I could find that are valid. They all match tns on the server, and I cannot get past this point. any suggestions?


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Two more defendants have pleaded guilty in a case of conspiracy surrounding the defunct Seven Falls development in Etowah, and two others may follow their lead as the trial date approaches.
Two more defendants have pleaded guilty in a case of conspiracy surrounding the defunct Seven Falls development in Etowah, and two others may follow their lead as the trial date approaches.
Special plea hearings have been set for Thomas "Ted" Durham Jr. of Fletcher, former president of Pisgah Community Bank, and Aaron Ollis, a certified real estate appraiser, on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Asheville.
Durham faces a slew of federal charges from wire fraud and money laundering to embezzlement and defrauding the government. His hearing is slated to begin at 2 p.m.
Ollis was added to the case in a superseding indictment last year and charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, bank fraud and misapplication of bank funds. He pled guilty Dec. 18, but is set to be heard on a new plea deal with attorneys at 2:30 p.m.
A final pre-trial conference hearing for defendants has been set for 2 p.m. Oct. 3, with the case set for a trial term of Oct. 7.
Real estate investors and private money lenders Avery Ted "Buck" Cashion III of Lake Lure and Raymond "Ray" Chapman of Brevard pleaded guilty last week to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
In March, co-defendant Andrew Quinn Hager pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and agreed to work with authorities in the ongoing investigation.
Federal prosecutors allege Hager was a "straw borrower" in a "lot loan program" that deceived federally insured banks to keep the flailing development afloat.
Cashion, Chapman and Hager each face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the conspiracy charge. Cashion and Chapman were initially charged with wire fraud, money laundering, engaging in monetary transactions, misapplication of bank funds, bank fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Seven Falls developer Keith Arthur Vinson entered a plea of not guilty in the case on Dec. 14. He faces federal charges of wire fraud conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud, misapplication of bank funds, bank fraud and money laundering.
Certified Public Accountant George Gabler, charged with bank fraud, pled not guilty Dec. 18 when he and Ollis were added as defendants in the case.
In a recent motion to extend the deadline for a trial brief, federal prosecutors said, "...the recent change in pleas by two of the defendants has changed the posture of the case." Attorneys for the U.S. government said they would have to amend trial instructions to exclude the defendants who have pled guilty. The court granted an extension until Friday.
Federal prosecutors have painted the Seven Falls criminal case as a complicated conspiracy among co-defendants to confuse banks and extend credit lines for the proposed luxury golf resort, where developers halted work in early 2010.
Vinson is set to appear in Henderson County Superior Court on Sept. 30 to face 72 counts of defrauding in an attempt to obtain money and three counts of terminating group health insurance of his employees without notice.
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A Bellmore man was recently indicted for his alleged role in what officials described as a massive fraud against the federal Social Security Disability Insurance benefits program, which resulted in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced on Jan. 7 that Thomas Hale, an 89-year-old Bellmorite, and three other Long Island men were charged with one count of first-degree grand larceny, 101 counts of second-degree grand larceny and one count of second-degree attempted grand larceny. The charges stem from an ongoing investigation that lawmakers said revealed that the four men directed hundreds of Social Security Disability Insurance applicants, including many retirees from the New York City police and fire departments, to lie about their psychiatric conditions to obtain benefits to which they were not entitled.
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[May 25, 2014]
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SPRINGFIELD — Our cash-strapped state
government has found a new use for its fleet of aircraft – flying birds
into Illinois.
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And the expenditure already has
lawmakers grousing.
"This is an egregious abuse of tax
dollars," said state Rep. Bill Mitchell, R-Forsyth. "I don't care if
the money is coming from a grant or not. It doesn't seem like a
smart way to do business."
Mitchell long has been a budget hawk, calling for the elimination of
most of the state air fleet, which he said is mostly used to ferry
lawmakers and other bigwigs between Chicago and Springfield. In
2013, the state spent $7.3 million operating its aircraft.
It would be much cheaper for lawmakers and others to drive or take a
It ought to be pointed out that this is all happening at a time that
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Mr. Rogers received a B.A. (Political Science) from Washington College in 1980 and completed the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School.His son, Geoff, Jr., graduated from WC in 2006.
Mr. Rogers is the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the Wilmington office of The Glenmede Trust Company, N.A. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the office, which he launched in June 1999, providing comprehensive wealth management solutions for high-net-worth clients. Prior to joining Glenmede, Mr. Rogers served as Vice President for Scudder Private Investment Counsel, responsible for new business development. He has also served as Vice President with the Wilmington Trust Company and Delaware Trust Company (now Wells Fargo).
Mr. Rogers has extensive volunteer board experience, including: Winterthur Museum & Country Estate; Operation Warm, Wilmington Renaissance Board, the World Affairs Council, and Easter Seals of Delaware & Maryland's Eastern Shore. He just completed a successful term as President of the Board of Trustees of Sanford Prep School. Mr. Rogers is past chair of the Wilmington Tax Group and board member of the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.
Geoff is also a member of the Harvard Club of New York, the Wilmington Club, and the Biderman Golf Club.
While at Washington College, he played lacrosse, basketball, soccer, and track, and was involved in student government.


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This past Wednesday, Missouri's General Assembly was cut short because of the approaching major winter storm that left our state blanketed with ice and snow.
This past Wednesday, Missouri's General Assembly was cut short because of the approaching major winter storm that left our state blanketed with ice and snow.
I appreciated House leadership for their foresight in making sure all of us had an opportunity to leave for home before the storm hit. Before we adjourned, however, we did pass HB 55, the Tax Amnesty Bill. This legislation passed the House by a vote of 153 to 1.
The last time Missouri offered a major amnesty program was in 2002. This year's program is similar. In 2002, the program brought in $74 million in delinquent tax monies to the state. The program was so successful that it was offered again the following year, at which time it brought in another $42 million.
The tax amnesty idea was revisited in the 2011 session. After having failed in 2011, it was once more proposed in 2012, only to fail again. Both years this legislation passed the House but was rejected in the Senate. This year, both the Missouri House Budget Committee and the governor's budget proposal have factored into their perspective budgets some revenue from an amnesty program.
With a seemingly successful program bringing in much needed state revenue, one might wonder why some of Missouri's senators are still opposed to a tax amnesty bill. These senators are calling this bill a "tax-cheating program," because they maintain that Missouri's delinquent taxpayers are just taking advantage of the system. They say these individuals need to pay their taxes on time, as does every other state taxpayer.
While I don't disagree with this reasoning at all, I do believe that a tax amnesty program will accomplish two positive things: 1) It will bring in much needed revenue to the state. It is estimated that this program could produce from $55 to $70 million in additional tax revenue for Missouri. 2) I believe this to be a fair way to encourage a positive change in those individuals or businesses that owe back taxes. We have gone through some very challenging economic times with our national recession; our economy has suffered, and many individuals and businesses have experienced hardships. For whatever reasons the taxes were not paid, this program will give delinquent taxpayers an opportunity to make right on their back-tax obligations.
How will this tax amnesty program work? The legislation that just passed the House will also have to pass the Senate and then be signed by the governor to become law. Next, the Missouri Department of Revenue would begin to advertise and implement the necessary program requirements to offer the opportunity for amnesty to delinquent taxpayers and businesses. Finally, they would create an amnesty period — usually a period of three months, and most likely Aug. 1 to Oct. 31, 2013 — for those wishing to take advantage of the program. The ones owing back taxes will only be required to pay the tax. All accumulated interest and penalties will be waived.
Since the state is providing this amnesty program for delinquent taxpayers, it is expected that these individuals become current and then remain up-to-date on their tax obligations. Some safeguards have been put in place to encourage these taxpayers not only to pay their tax debt, but also to ensure they do not fall back into their previous delinquent status.
Those granted amnesty will be required to comply with all state taxing laws for the next eight years or risk having all previously waived interest and penalties re-applied to their accounts. Additionally, language has been added to ensure that a taxpayer who receives amnesty and doesn't remain current will not be able to apply or participate in any future amnesty programs.
While this proposal provides a way for the state to collect tax money that it is owed, it will also help to increase amounts of much needed revenue without raising taxes on responsible citizens who meet their obligations on time.
Nationwide, state tax amnesty programs have gained popularity in recent years, with 23 states offering amnesty programs in just the past three years. The largest year for multiple state programs was in 2002, when 10 states — including Missouri — offered it to delinquent taxpayers. Today, most states that have been successful in offering the program are offering it again. In Missouri the time may be right to once more offer an amnesty program in order to recover delinquent revenue.
If I can be of help to you with this or any other state matter, please do not hesitate to contact me by one of the following means:
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Box Office Report: 'Hotel Transylvania' Breaks Records, While 'Looper' Is a Hit
Here's your weekend box office returns (new releases bolded):
1. Hotel Transylvania - $43.0 million
2. Looper - $21.2 million
3. End of Watch - $8.0 million
4. Trouble with the Curve - $7.5 million
5. House at the End of the Street - $7.1 million
6. Pitch Perfect - $5.2 million
7. Finding Nemo 3D - $4.0 million
8. Resident Evil: Retribution - $3.0 million
9. The Master - $2.74 million
10. Won't Back Down - $2.70 million
The Big Stories
Looks like Adam Sandler may have found a home for his wacky, unfunny voices. After Jack & Jill and That's My Boy couldn't live up to an impressive box office record that saw his last 12 live-action comedies (without dramatic implications) break $100 million, Sandler's Hotel Transylvania killed this weekend. How well did it do? In three days it has already bested the total gross of That's My Boy. It boasted the best #1 total since the weekend of July 20 when The Dark Knight Rises opened. It's the sixth film in Sandler's career to open north of $40 million and will be the second or third highest of his career depending on final estimates. It is the highest opening weekend of September ever, soaring past Sweet Home Alabama, which grossed $35.6 million in 2002. Maybe saddest of all, it is only $10 million away from besting the far superior Paranorman and just another $30 away from besting Sony's own Monster House.
This is a big bounce back for Sony's Animation division who, in the past nine months had received disappointing returns on both Arthur Christmas ($46.4 million) and The Pirates! Band of Misfits ($31 million). Not only is Hotel Transylvania going to skyrocket past both of those combined, it is going to be their biggest hit since Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which opened to $30.3 million in September 2009 and finished with nearly $125 million. Their second best film to date, Open Season, opened six years ago on the same weekend and went on to gross $85 million. No film has opened to more than $40 million this year and grossed less than $125. Frankenweenie may steal some of that audience away next weekend, but maybe not enough to best Hotel Transylvania in week two.
Rian Johnson has a hit!
Sony not only had the top film at the box office this weekend, but their Tri-Star division (remember the horsey?) pulled in at #2. With his first wide release, writer-director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) grabbed an impressive $21.2 million. It may be just one of 23 films that have opened to more than $20 million in September, but in the same territory of openings since The Dark Knight Rises here is where it ranks
Hotel Transylvania ($42.0), The Bourne Legacy ($38.1), The Expendables 2 ($28.5), The Campaign ($26.5), Total Recall ($25.5), Looper ($21.2), Resident Evil: Retribution ($21.0), The Possession ($17.7), Finding Nemo 3D ($16.6), Hope Springs ($14.65), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days ($14.62), Paranorman ($14.0), End of Watch ($13.1), The Watch ($12.7), House at the End of the Street ($12.2)
While you may scoff that it couldn't outdo Len Wiseman's horrendous Total Recall remake and barely bested the fifth Resident Evil, this is a film that will be celebrated long after the numbers are forgotten. (Speaking of which, Lionsgate's Dredd has fallen out of the top 10 after just six days and won't gross what any of these films opened to.) While we are thinking of numbers, consider that Looper's budget ($30 million) is less than half of Resident Evil's and not even a quarter of Recall's. All three films fly under the Sony banner with Total Recall grossing over $175 million worldwide (not even close to breaking even) and Resident Evil still chucking along with $142 million to date (grabbing a small profit). Looper has a good shot at outgrossing both domestically and has already got off to a tremendous start overseas opening in China to even more than its U.S. numbers. Maybe once it jumps ship in Hong Kong and makes its way over to Tibet, Looper can take on the Dalai Lama in the Himalayas. Anyway you slice it, the film is likely going to be turning its own profit by its second weekend. So it's got that going for it, which is nice.
A Nearly Pitch-perfect Opening
In what may be the all-around surprise of the week, Universal's Pitch Perfect (spawned by supposed terrific word of mouth) was launched on 335 screens this week. This was ahead of its planned opening date of next weekend where it will be facing off with Frankenweenie and Taken 2. While the film may be aimed at female audiences where the others are not, solid comedies can have terrific crossover appeal and Jason Moore's debut film is every bit that. If word of mouth is truly any indication, Pitch Perfect could surprise a lot of people next week. But not if they looked at the numbers this week.
While everyone went gaga over The Master's impressive opening a few weeks ago, the Weinsteins may have jumped the gun on getting the film out there. Paul Thomas Anderson's latest wonder was always destined for a limited audience and maybe even moreso once even fans could not put the experience into words, but in the manner of a single week shifted the story from Oscar talk and a record opening to watching how it looks on a Top 10 list. Numbers can be cruel that way sometimes. It is up to the film lovers and award watchers to keep it in the conversation now. On the bright side as many people went to see it on its third weekend in 856 locations as those who saw Fox's far less challenging piece of wannabe Oscar bait, Won't Back Down, opened on over 2,500.
Screen count is what makes Pitch Perfect's number all the more impressive this weekend. Besting even Hotel Transylvania's per-screen average this week ($15,522 vs. $12,840), the Anna Kendrick-starrer looks even better amongst films that either platformed or opened their widest on less than 500 screens. Here is the list since 2000:
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ($12.78), Closer ($7.70), Pitch Perfect ($5.2 million), The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D ($3.27), Pride and Prejudice ($2.86), Under the Same Moon ($2.76), Beauty and the Beast (IMAX) ($2.58), Woman Thou Art Loosed ($2.32), Almost Famous ($2.314), After Dark's Horror Fest: 8 Films to Die For ($2.310), Fantasia 2000 ($2.29), Casa de Mi Padre ($2.28), A Mighty Wind ($2.11), Chicago ($2.07), Friends with Kids ($2.01)
Tom Cruise. Julia Roberts. Anna Kendrick. A great weekend for Anna and her 50/50 costar Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Hopefully they can both keep it up for weeks to come. Same goes for Summit who should take a cue and expand The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It's book following has to be ever stronger than Mickey Rapkin's non-fiction tale of a cappella groups that Pitch Perfect stems from. In two weeks of limited release (four screens last week and 102 this weekend), its total gross stands at $1.46 million. If Moonrise Kingdom can take home over $45 million on less than 1,000 screens, the far superior Wallflower which favors honest emotion over forced quirkiness and style deserves a chance to do even better.
[box office figures via Box Office Mojo]
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Oh man, did Lindsay Lohan ever get trashed! I'm talking TRASHED, people -- not just the usual stumbling, gypsy-punching, car-crashing kind of trashed. I'm talking full-on garbage trashed. No, no, the star hasn't resorted to rummaging through dumpsters for food -- she's the subject of artist Jason Mecier's latest trash portrait. By which I mean a portrait made entirely of trash. Rubbish, you say? Not at all: Mecier is known for his celebrity trash portraits, which actually bear a remarkable resemblence to the celebs; among them, Honey Boo Boo, Amy Winehouse, RuPaul, even President Obama. The trash he chose for LiLo's portrait is especially meaningful: Make-up, jewellery, sunglasses, credit cards, cell phones, booze bottles, handcuffs, Visine, prescription bottles, Lindsay's CDs and DVDs, 2 collectable Mean Girls nail files, 4 ant traps, Monistat 7, 8 Q-Tips, 13 bullet shells, 1 tampon and 29 cigarette butts.
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Twitter hack hits Wall Street for $136 billion, shows market's fragility
A false report of explosions at the White House that wiped out $136 billion from the Standard & Poor's 500 Index in about two minutes highlighted the risks of the computerized trading that dominates the $18 trillion market.
The S&P 500 was up about 1 percent at about 1,578 at 1:07 p.m. New York time today when a posting on the Associated Press Twitter account said there had been explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama had been injured. The benchmark gauge for American stocks erased almost the entire gain, falling as low as 1,563.03 by 1:10 p.m. The index recovered from the plunge within three minutes as the news service said its Twitter account had been hacked and there were no explosions. The S&P 500 ended the session up 1 percent at 1,578.78.
"Trades should not be busted," Rick Fier, director of equity trading at Conifer Securities LLC in New York, said in a interview. His firm oversees $8 billion in assets. "No human believed the story. Only the computers react to something that serious disseminated in such a way. I bought some stock well and did not sell into it. Humans win."
Exxon Mobil Corp., Apple Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft Corp. briefly lost about 1 percent in two minutes before rebounding. The plunge didn't trigger circuit breakers for individual stocks. Shares for most companies pause for five minutes if they lose 10 percent in five minutes.
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. doesn't comment on market moves, Robert Madden, a spokesman for the exchange operator, said by phone. Richard Adamonis, a spokesman for NYSE Euronext, declined to comment. Molly McGregor, a spokeswoman for New York-based International Securities Exchange LLC, and CME Group Inc. spokesman Michael Shore declined to comment. Chicago-based CME is the world's largest futures exchange.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU) lost about 145 points before recovering and ending the session 152.29 points higher at 14,719.46. Other markets briefly retreated and then recovered losses. Canada's S&P/TSX Composite Index slid 0.3 percent and Brazil's Bovespa lost 0.5 percent in the minutes after the Twitter post.
Traders said the selloff may have been exacerbated by so- called stop-loss orders, which are placed by investors to automatically sell stocks when declines of a specified threshold are reached.
"The whole lesson is never do stop-losses," said Barry Schwartz, fund manager with Baskin Financial Services Inc. in Toronto. He helps manage about C$500 million ($487 million). "That's what I took from this. Same with the flash crash. Second is I don't know how markets can react to that news so quickly. It must be programmed computer trading, which is also quite scary," he said.
"Don't let computers rule your investments," Schwartz said.
On the floor of the NYSE on Wall Street in Manhattan, Jonathan Corpina said he immediately called a client who works two blocks away from the White House to confirm the story.
"He did not know what I was talking about," Corpina, senior managing partner with Meridian Equity Partners Inc., told Bloomberg Radio. "He said I'm staring at the White House and there's nothing going on here right now," he said.
Algorithmic trading programs that read news headlines may have started the selling, he said. "And then other algos jump in to play the snowball effect, and little by little you have the computer trading systems that have canceled all their orders on the buy side and the sell algos hit all these bids, and that's the big dip we saw," he said.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, surged more than 9 percent from 13.6 at 1:08 p.m. to as high as 14.87 at 1:10 p.m. before reversing the gain in the following three minutes.
The VIX, which moves in the opposite direction to the S&P 500 about 80 percent of the time, ended the session 6.3 percent lower at 13.48 and is down 25 percent for the year.
Today's plunge reminded many traders of the May 2010 flash crash that briefly erased $862 billion in market value in less than 20 minutes. Regulators and exchanges are altering the speed bumps adopted after that incident in an effort to boost confidence in a market that has become faster and more complex over the last decade. Under the limit-up/limit-down system, which is going into effect gradually for stocks, trades aren't allowed to occur at more-than specified percentages above or below a stock's rolling five-minute average price.
The changes are intended to prevent a repeat of the flash crash, which was caused partly by one firm's trade in stock- index futures, according to a study released Oct. 1 that year by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The trading algorithm employed by the firm, identified by two people with knowledge of the findings as Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. (WDR), sparked the rapid selling of stock futures because it took into account volume but not price or time, the report said.
Today's plunge "is different than some market mechanism breaking down or some problem with a broker," John Carey, a fund manager at Boston-based Pioneer Investment Management Inc., said by telephone. His firm oversees about $208 billion. "This was just a rumor and there have been lots of rumors over the years that moved prices until people get some confirmation that it was or wasn't true," he said. "I would guess that would have just been the beginning of some market drop if it had been a true story. But thankfully it wasn't."
To contact the reporters on this story: Lu Wang in New York at ; Whitney Kisling in New York at ; Eric Lam in Toronto at


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Dean teaches two Music Theater classes at the M.O.T. Charter School, where students learn how to incorporate choreography and song together.
The seventh graders in Heather Dean's Music Theater class were all smiles and laughs rehearsing for The Granny Awards.
"It's my favorite class at the end of the day," said seventh grader Bridget Andrews. "I like to sing and dance and she's my favorite teacher."
Dean teaches two Music Theater classes at the M.O.T. Charter School, where students learn how to incorporate choreography and song together.
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Andrews plays the Fairy God Mother.
Bethany Keatin, also a seventh grader, stars in the chorus.
"First we learn the lyrics and then [Ms. Dean] teaches us the choreography," she said. "Then we run each scene."
Both girls like the class and said it's really fun.
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The antique plateware may have a bit of a feminine touch, but chef Sam Crannell's cooking at LloydMartin is meaty and masculine. Yet it will appeal to all who come to this romantic little cocktail bar-like hideaway, named after Crannell's two grandfathers, in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood. And after a meal that might include the likes of lamb meatball sliders, roast duck leg, bison Bolognese, and pork roast, how about a dessert to fit the theme?
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This site no longer displays content on my home ISP.
The Latest Articles do not appear down the middle of the page.
None of the story links are active.
If I click on NCAA Game Night: 10/27, for instance, only Ken's Went to the College Classic Saturday reply is visible.
Even the Recent Blog Posts which I read here last weekend are gone. The replies are displayed, but not the original post.
And it shows I just Submitted this blog entry on
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