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How to Make It
Step 1
Cut an oval piece out of top of each loaf. Reserve oval pieces for another use.
Step 2
Combine meat and next 5 ingredients. Shape into 36 (1-inch) balls. Cook meatballs in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes or until browned on all sides. Remove from heat, and pat dry.
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Preheat oven to 400°.
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Return meatballs to pan; add pasta sauce. Cook over medium-low heat 10 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
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Place loaves on a baking sheet; top each with 6 meatballs. Spoon sauce evenly over meatballs. Sprinkle evenly with cheese. Bake at 400° for 5 minutes or until cheese melts.
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One of the fun things about blogging, I'm discovering, is networking with and getting to know other bloggers. This week I had the opportunity to write a "guest blog" for J.P. Hansen's Kindle Mystery Blog.
Titled, "Research Brings Mystery Writing Alive," my guest piece focuses on the variety of experiences Mary Joy and I had while doing our research for our book On the Road to Death's Door up in Door County and elsewhere. As I said in the blog spot, I love research. You can learn so many interesting things and meet so many interesting people. And it's turning out that my new adventure with blogging and getting to know other bloggers is also helping me to learn interesting new things and meet interesting new people.
For instance, J. P. Hansen is an author and a freelance editor. His book, The Vanilla Lawyer inthe Mayhem Blues, takes place against a backdrop of corporate greed, race relations, and politics in the music business. J.P. also enjoys writing poetry. In between writing gigs, J.P. pays the bills by working as an editor. He works with a variety of businesses, non-profits, and charities, as well as writers and publishers.
My thanks to J.P. for giving me the opportunity to contribute my voice to his blog. (I'll be asking him to return the favor in the near future). Please take a hop on over to the Kindle Mystery Blog to check out my writing there.


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July 4, 2018
Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa has defied an arrest order, claiming the new government is waging "lawfare" to deprive him of a political future – and even life, in an exclusive RT interview.
Judge Daniella Camacho ordered the arrest of three-term President Rafael Correa on Tuesday over his alleged involvement in the 2012 abduction of a political opponent and requested that Interpol apprehend him for extradition. Correa, who now lives in Belgium, called the allegations "tremendously ridiculous" and dismissed Ecuador's pressure on him in an interview with RT.
"That is called lawfare, you know," Correa said. "They can't defeat us in elections, so they try to defeat us using the judicial system. We have to stop that because this is not democracy."
The former president, who also hosted a show 'Conversations with Correa' on RT Espanol, said that his adversaries "may invent whatever they want because they control everything – media, judicial system, the National Assembly [Ecuadorean parliament], etc. to pursue left leaders."
"This is a regional strategy to pursue progressive leaders through judicial system – it's called lawfare or judicialization of politics," he said. Asked what he is going to do next, he replied: "Just waiting because there is no hope to have a fair [trial]."
He maintained that the prosecutor dealing with the 2012 abduction case was appointed against Ecuadorean law, which stipulates the post may only be filled after a nationwide selection. "He was installed with a mission to put me in jail," Correa said, adding that he hopes that political situation in Ecuador will finally change.
"Come on, I don't have to prove I'm innocent. Under the rule of law, they have to prove that I am guilty. And they will never be able to do that because they're lying."
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Here is another easy project, easy because there is no precision woodworking required. My wife has been asking for this since I got my new table saw a few months ago, and I finally got around to it this past holiday weekend.
As you can see, 1/2 in. CDX plywood and 1X4 pine. The panels are each 44 X 20 I glued and stapled the frames to the back, and made cleats, with a 45 degree bevel to mount them to the wall. Notice the top rail on the panels are also cut at 45 degrees. This is a really good way to mount these because the cleats hold the panels very tight and flush against the wall.
The 3 panels are not attached to each other, because the cleats hold them so tight they are just butted up against each other. The upholstery work is a little tedious, but I have experience from making some poker tables in the past. I adhered foam to the front of the panels, then stapled 1 & 1/2 in. batting and then the upholstery. Between the frames, batting and upholstery, each panel has about 500 crown staples.
My old Craftsman crown stapler broke in the middle of this project, so I got a new Porter Cable crown stapler out of this. Maybe I'll do a review of it :)
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125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004-2498
June 24, 2002
Jonathan G. Katz, Secretary,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
450 Fifth Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20549-0609.
|Proposed Form 8-K Disclosure of Certain Management
Transactions - File No. S7-09-02
Dear Mr. Katz:
We are pleased to submit this letter in response to the Commission's request for comments on its proposal to require most U.S. issuers to submit current reports on Form 8-K about certain transactions involving their directors and executive officers, as contained in Release No. 34-45742 (the "Release").
We understand that the Commission is proposing to require current reporting by issuers of insider transaction information because it believes that such disclosure would provide timely information to investors regarding management's views of company performance and prospects. However, as more fully explained below, we respectfully suggest that a detailed disclosure regime like the one proposed would be extremely difficult to comply with and would provide more information than is needed to serve the identified goals. A much simpler disclosure regime, focused on the decision by an insider to purchase or sell securities, would in our view serve the same goals just as well and, moreover, would be far less burdensome. If the Commission nevertheless requires issuer reporting of Section 16-like information as proposed, we respectfully suggest that it require all reportable transactions, other than those that are truly de minimis, to be filed not later than the close of business on the last business day of the week following the week in which the event occurred. Such a universal "next-week" reporting deadline would provide an issuer with sufficient time and flexibility to ensure that its reports are accurate while still serving the goals that the Release identifies. Moreover, the simplicity of a single, predictable deadline, as opposed to the three reporting periods set forth in the Commission's proposal, will aid in compliance and administration of reporting obligations.
We also offer several comments on specific aspects of the proposed rules. In particular, we respectfully suggest that if any final rules require issuers to report Section 16-like information, then Item 10 and Section 16 reporting requirements should be harmonized to the greatest extent possible. Similarity between the two schemes is desirable as it would be likely to lessen confusion among issuers, directors and officers, and the investing public. It also would ease comparisons of the two types of reports by investors and other readers. We also respectfully suggest that, as Section 16 contains its own comprehensive liability scheme and as issuers will have to rely, to a large extent, upon disclosures by their officers and directors in making the proposed reports, any final rules requiring the reporting by issuers of Section 16-like information should make clear that the Item 10 issuer reporting requirement does not impose any independent liability for such reports. We also suggest that, in light of the need for issuers that are largely unfamiliar with Section 16 reporting practices to develop procedures to ensure proper capture and reporting of insider transactions, and the importance of procedures in satisfying any safe harbor from liability that the Commission may establish, effectiveness of any new rules requiring Section 16-like disclosure of issuers be phased in more gradually than proposed.
Nature and Timing of Reports
Issuers should not be required to report Section 16-type information. As recognized in the Release, much of the information that issuers would be required to report with respect to the transactions involving their directors and executive officers is already required to be reported by those same insiders under Section 16 of the Exchange Act. The Release explains that the Commission is proposing to require issuer reporting of insider transactions information on a current basis in addition to the Section 16 reports by the insiders themselves in part because it believes that reports under Section 16 are not sufficiently timely, and also because current disclosure of insider transaction information would enable investors to make investment and voting decisions on a more current and better informed basis, would provide timely information regarding management's views of company performance and prospects and, through the electronic filing requirement, would ensure wider public dissemination of this information.
We recognize that many people have supported these objectives, but we question some of the benefits that are foreseen from the new regime as compared with the costs and difficulties to issuers, as well as reporting insiders, in complying with these new requirements. In particular, we question whether the information would provide insight into management's views of company performance and prospects. Our understanding has always been that Section 16 reporting was designed to inform shareholders and the public about insiders' transactions, but Section 16 reports are a crude tool for informing the trading markets about management's views on the issuer's prospects. The Release cites articles that indicate insider trading is, at best, an imprecise ground on which to base a rational trading strategy. We similarly do not believe that insider trading, by itself, serves as an accurate indicator of an insider's true estimation of the issuer's prospects, although we agree that it may be a useful device for evaluating public statements by insiders that are at variance with their personal trading. We are also concerned that the volume of transaction information that would be reported under the regime proposed by the Commission would be likely to result in widespread investor confusion and cynicism as analysts ponder the true significance of the information.
Our understanding of the true purpose of Section 16, however, has always been that it was intended to discourage insider "short-swing" trading by subjecting it to profit recapture, and the reporting requirements were designed to enhance enforcement of recapture by giving the public the means to determine whether liability exists. The rules and regulations governing Section 16 reporting have been carefully developed over the years, and as a result Section 16 reporting today has become a complex, comprehensive system that reports primarily particular transaction details that are relevant to profit recapture. As long as insider trading is subject to profit recapture under Section 16, the reporting requirements with respect to such trading should require enough transaction detail to enable potential profit recapture to be assessed, but also allow persons that are required to file reports enough time to gather and report the relevant information accurately. We believe that current Section 16 reporting practices and the timing requirements for the filing of Section 16 reports generally strike the appropriate balance between the complexity of the required disclosures and the purpose of subjecting insider trades to public scrutiny.1
Assuming that the Commission believes that insider decisions to buy or sell company equity securities are so important to investors that they should be disclosed on a current basis, it should be adequate to disclose only that an insider has entered an order to purchase or sell such securities without adding the detailed Section 16-like information, such as per share acquisition or disposition prices and the aggregate value of transactions. A simpler disclosure scheme such as this, focused solely on decisions by insiders to purchase or sell, would enable investors to obtain the core information that the Commission believes they need, while issuers and reporting persons would have a much easier time complying with their new insider transaction filing obligation. The details of particular insider trades would still be reported in Section 16 filings made in the normal course. Thus, there would be no effect on the ability to enforce the profit recapture rule.
In any event, two business days is not adequate time to prepare and file reports. While we believe that issuers generally could meet an accelerated reporting requirement if the Commission were to simplify the requirements as we have suggested above, we believe that a requirement of two-day reporting of Section 16-like information would be extremely difficult for issuers and insiders to meet with consistency and does not sufficiently account for the complexity of current Section 16 reporting. Much of the information about particular transactions simply is not reasonably available within two business days of a trade. Moreover, complex legal determinations often have to be made relating, for example, to "pecuniary interest," "deputized" directors or derivative securities. Whenever groups of related persons need to consider filing together, further complexity enters into the legal determinations of what should be reported. Indeed, certain information is not even available to trading persons - for example, the exact price and quantity of securities purchased or sold on a particular day as a result of a limit order placed with a broker - within sufficient time to be reported within two business days.
In addition to sharing the same burdens faced by Section 16 reporting persons, issuers will face the additional practical difficulties associated with filing the proposed Form 8-K reports electronically in EDGAR format.2 In general, at least one full business day is needed in order to produce an EDGAR draft document, review and proofread that draft for coding information and content, make any necessary changes and electronically file the document with the Commission. This is true whether the EDGAR document is prepared by the issuer itself or by a financial printer or other outside contractor. In light of these difficulties, although we believe that it may be possible to collect the information required to be reported by Section 16 for some insider transactions within two days, we are not confident that any class of insider transactions could be reported consistently on the EDGAR system within two business days.
We also believe that the existence of different reporting deadlines for different kinds of insider transactions as the proposal contemplates is likely to cause confusion among both reporting companies and readers of reports. A single reporting deadline would promote the development of reporting procedures and would lessen the issuer's and the reporting person's compliance burden by ensuring that issuers need not wait on particular details of transaction information (such as aggregate value) in order to determine the reporting deadline for that transaction. Issuers also would have a greater ability to consolidate several insider transactions into one report, which would likely reduce the overall time needed to be spent by the issuer in preparing reports and might enhance the ability of readers to compare the trades of all of the insiders of a particular issuer.
If the Commission nevertheless decides that the reporting process has to be accelerated, we would respectfully suggest that the Commission require a single next-week reporting deadline for all transactions required to be reported, although on a slightly longer "next-week" reporting period than proposed in the Release. Instead of reports being due not later than the close of business on the second business day of the week following the week in which the transaction occurred, we would suggest that issuers be given until the end of the following week. Based upon our experience, this period would be the shortest one that could reasonably be imposed while still allowing issuers sufficient time to collect, process and report Section 16-like information in the normal course. If the Commission were to adopt this "next-week" reporting, even the transactions that would be eligible for deferred reporting under the Commission's proposal (i.e., de minimis transactions) could possibly be reported on this basis.
Conforming Item 10 and Form 4 Requirements
If the Commission decides to require issuers to report Section 16-like information as proposed in the Release, we respectfully suggest that the reporting requirements of Item 10 and Section 16 should be harmonized to the greatest extent possible. This would mean that the list of transactions, the transaction details reportable and the list of persons whose transactions are covered by Item 10 of Form 8-K should essentially replicate those covered by Section 16 and Forms 3, 4 and 5 reporting.
We appreciate that many of the proposed Item 10 reporting exclusions are similar to exclusions from Section 16 reporting that the Commission has made by rule, including, for example, receipt of stock dividends, acquisitions pursuant to broad-based dividend reinvestment plans and tax-conditioned employee benefit plans, transactions pursuant to domestic relations orders and transfers by will or the laws of descent and distribution. However, the proposal also would exempt some categories of transactions required to be reported under Section 16 from reporting under Item 10 and, likewise, some transactions that would be required to be reported under Item 10 are exempt from Section 16. For example, transactions in derivative securities with a floating exercise price and awards of performance-based units would be required to be reported under Item 10 but are exempt from Section 16, whereas certain trust transactions by directors or executive officers required to be reported under Section 16 would be exempt under Item 10. Grants and awards of stock options, which for Section 16 purposes are generally eligible for deferred reporting on Form 5, would be required to be reported under Item 10.
The details about a transaction that must be reported under Item 10 also are not identical to those required in Form 4. For example, Form 4 requires the number of shares and the price per share but not the aggregate value of the transaction, which would be required in Item 10 reports. Form 4 reports employ transaction codes as opposed to the textual description of the nature of the transaction that would be required under Item 10. We would leave to the Commission whether Forms 3, 4 and 5 should be changed or Item 10 changed to make the reported information the same.
Similarly, with respect to the group of insiders whose transactions are subject to the two reporting schemes, Item 10 would rely upon the definition of executive officer set forth in Exchange Act Rule 3b-7, as opposed to the Rule 16a-1 definition of executive officer. We believe that the group of persons covered under Item 10 should essentially be coterminous with the group of Section 16 insiders,3 so that Item 10 should expressly include the principal accounting officer and the principal financial officer, as well as officers of parents and subsidiaries of the issuer who perform significant policy-making functions for the registrant.
Even though the Item 10 reports are designed to serve a different function than the Section 16 reports, we believe that, if the Item 10 reporting scheme sufficiently resembles Section 16 reporting, most reporting insiders and issuers will tend to assume that the reporting schemes are identical. Different requirements, then, will result only in a trap for the unwary - a trap that under the current proposal could have independent liability consequences for the issuer and/or reporting insiders. Insiders may well be confused as to what transactions are reportable in what way and on what form. Practitioners, investors and issuers who already are familiar with Section 16 reporting requirements may be similarly confused.
Harmonization of the two disclosure schemes will have the additional benefit of facilitating investor comprehension of Item 10 disclosures by easing comparison among Form 8-K reports and Section 16 reports. It also will make more practical the Commission's suggestion in the Release that officers and directors be permitted to satisfy their Section 16 reporting obligations by attaching a Form 4 to the issuer's Form 8-K reporting the same transactions and, conversely, that issuers be allowed to satisfy their Form 8-K reporting obligations by adding Form 8-K header information to an officer's or director's Form 4.
Application to Particular Transactions
Loans and Guarantees. The Release takes the position that it is important that insider loans and guarantees be disclosed because they can be a form of director and officer compensation. We agree that information about loans and guarantees in favor of insiders (and forgiveness thereof) can be important for investors in determining the compensation of directors and executives officers. However, we see no reason why loans and guarantees should be treated differently from other elements of compensation. Singling out loans for current disclosure on Form 8-K seems to be a piecemeal way of re-examining the content and timing of director and officer compensation and transaction disclosures now required to be reported under current rules in the company's Form 10-K and its definitive proxy statement for the annual meeting at which directors are elected, where such information is most relevant to investors. If the Commission believes that reporting about director and officer compensation generally is too stale under the current requirements, then we believe it should propose changes in the reporting of compensation generally, as part of a broader re-examination of director and officer compensation and transaction disclosures, perhaps including whether some information should be reported more frequently than on an annual basis.
The Release also suggests that the Commission believes that one particular type of insider loan - one secured by a pledge of the issuer's equity securities - can be of particular current interest to investors. But many insiders use the issuer's equity securities as collateral for loans that they have every intention of repaying, only because these securities often represent a major portion of their personal assets. We believe that only non-recourse loans secured by a pledge of issuer equity securities should be reported currently, and only to the extent that such a loan amounts to a sale under Section 16.4
Rule 10b5-1 Arrangements. We believe that the reporting of actual transactions effected under Rule 10b5-1 plans is sufficient for investors to assess the alignment between management's and shareholders' economic interests, the strength of the link between executive compensation and insiders' views of the issuer's prospects. Whatever marginal benefit there may be to disclosure about the existence, modification or termination of such a plan, we do not believe that it outweighs the risk that disclosure of the details of such plans could be used by others to manipulate or influence the market for such securities in advance of insider trades thereunder. In addition, the requirement to report the entry into a Rule 10b5-1 plan as well as any trade thereunder could lead investors to be confused by apparent double-reporting, unless the actual transactions under the plan were specifically identified as being entered into pursuant to a 10b5-1 plan. The proposed rule does not appear to require explicit identification of a purchase or sale of the issuer's equity securities as having been made pursuant to a plan, although issuers could do so in describing the nature of the transaction or in identifying other material information. Finally, we do not understand why disclosure of the counterparty or agent of a plan would serve the Commission's identified goals, and we are not sure why this information would otherwise be of importance to investors. At the very least, we believe that any final rule in this regard should contemplate counterparty or agent requests for confidentiality.
Derivatives. As we have suggested above, we believe that consistency in Item 10 and Section 16 reporting requirements is important to eliminate the possibility of confusion among reporting persons and investors, and to facilitate comparisons of issuer reports with Section 16 reports. Accordingly, we believe that the definition of "derivative security" in Rule 16a-1(c) should apply in full to the proposed issuer reporting requirements, including the exclusion for rights with an exercise or conversion privilege at a floating price. The exclusion (by interpretive letter) of performance-based units should also carry over to reporting by issuers.
We question whether information about collars or other hedges associated with insider's derivative transactions generally would serve the purposes of the proposed rules, in that it would not appear to be particularly useful in assessing the alignment between management's and shareholders' economic interests, or in signaling that any link between executive compensation and company equity securities performance has been severed. We are also concerned that there is a risk that disclosure of the material terms of a counterparty's trading activity, including hedges and collars in connection with the insider's derivative transactions, could reveal proprietary trading strategies. However, in the interests of lessening confusion by conforming Item 10 and Form 4 requirements as discussed above, we suggest that the release containing any final rules expressly provide that collars or other hedges associated with derivative transactions be disclosed only to the extent that they would have to be disclosed under current Section 16 reporting requirements.
As a technical matter, we note that the Commission has not yet amended its rules to reflect the addition of security-based swaps (which are not securities, pursuant to Exchange Act Section 3A) to the Section 16 reporting and profit recapture scheme, effected by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. While the Commission states in the Release that reporting of security-based swaps will be required by Item 10, the proposed Instructions refer only to Rule 16a-1(c), which does not include such instruments in the definition of "derivative securities". We recommend that the Instructions be revised to expressly refer to security-based swap agreements and respectfully urge the Commission not to include these instruments, because they are not securities, in the definition of derivative securities.
Liability and Consequences of Late Filing
Liability. We respectfully urge the Commission to reconsider its proposal to consider Item 10 Forms 8-K as "filed" for purposes of liability under Exchange Act Section 18. If an issuer must "file" the information on Form 8-K, the report will be subject to liability under Section 18. The information also will be subject to automatic incorporation by reference into the issuer's Securities Act registration statements, which will be subject to liability under Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act. Any underwriter would, of course, be subject to Section 11 liability as well. In addition to issuer and underwriter liability under Section 11, the seemingly odd possibility of cross-director liability for information about the transactions of another director would also exist.
We respectfully suggest that, in light of the fact that most of the information that issuers will be required to disclose will have to come from its directors and officers who would be required to report the information individually and would be subject to Section 16's own comprehensive liability scheme, Item 10 Form 8-K reports should not be considered "filed" unless the company specifically states that the information is to be considered "filed" (similar to Item 9 of Form 8-K for Regulation FD disclosures), and any final rules should make clear that there is no independent liability scheme created by the proposal to require issuers to disclosure Section 16-like information.5
Safe Harbor For Reporting Violations. We are encouraged by the Commission's proposal to include in the general instructions to any final rules a Commission finding that it is not in the public interest to impose any sanction on an issuer, notwithstanding a reporting violation, that is able to demonstrate that: (1) at the time of the violation, it had designed procedures and a system for applying such procedures sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that Item 10 events are timely reported; (2) at the time of the violation, it followed those procedures; and (3) as promptly as reasonably practicable, it made a filing to correct any violation.
However, we believe that framing this safe harbor as an enforcement policy does not provide strong enough protection to be of real benefit to issuers. Instead, this concept should be set forth in any final rules as an explicit safe harbor, one that expressly provides that if an issuer has and follows reasonable procedures for reporting of Item 10 events (and corrects any violations promptly), then that issuer will not in any way be subject to sanction in connection with the reports or late filing thereof, including freedom from any liability under Section 18 of the Exchange Act and Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) under the Securities Act. As the Release points out, granting safe harbor protection for the issuer would not limit the Commission's ability to proceed against any director or executive officer for such person's reporting violation.
Consequences of Late Filing. We strongly support the Commission's proposal to amend the applicable registration statement form instructions and Securities Act Rule 144 so that any Item 10 Form 8-K delinquency would not affect an issuer's short-form eligibility or the issuer's current reporting status under Rule 144(c).
Effectiveness of Rules
If the Commission adopts final rules requiring issuers to disclose Section 16-like information, we suggest effectiveness of those rules be delayed for at least 180 days for all reportable transactions, while encouraging earlier compliance as a best practice during those 180 days. It is our belief that issuers (especially smaller ones) are generally not used to dealing with Section 16-like information, at least not on a regular basis. In many cases, issuers will have to develop ab initio procedures for ensuring appropriate data collection and compliance with the proposed rule. Until issuers begin the process, it will be difficult to assess the extent to which issuers may be able to make use of existing procedures, what additional resources they will have to devote and what additional costs they will have to incur in order to compile and report the required information and convert it into electronic format for filing. Therefore, we believe that a delay of 180 days would be necessary, in many cases, and desirable in all others, to ensure that issuers have sufficient time to develop reporting procedures that are adequate to ensure the collection of relevant data and that they can consistently report the required information on a current basis as well as to collect any information that they may need regarding outstanding 10b5-1 arrangements, loans and guarantees (which the proposal indicates the issuer will have to report shortly after the proposed effective date). We believe that it is particularly important to give registrants enough time to develop adequate procedures in light of the Commission's stated enforcement policy.
Alternatively, the Commission could require a shorter deadline, perhaps 120 days, with respect to officer transactions and allow the longer, 180-day phase-in period with respect to directors only. Issuers may well need the longer period in dealing with directors as some Boards may meet only on a quarterly basis, or every other month. It may take several Board meetings to fully discuss compliance procedures, to educate directors about the requirements and to secure their agreement to provide the necessary transactional information to the issuer upon the entry into a transaction.
Technical Suggestion Concerning Foreign Private Issuers
It is clear that the proposal is not intended to apply to foreign private issuers even if they have equity securities registered under Section 12, as only domestic issuers are required to file Form 8-K reports as per Exchange Act Rule 13a-11(b). This is consistent with the Exchange Act Rule 3a12-3(b) exemption from Section 16 with regard to the securities of foreign private issuers. Nevertheless, we believe that it would be helpful if the release containing any final rules included an express statement that the issuer reporting of insider transactions scheme only applies to U.S. issuers.
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We appreciate this opportunity to comment on the Commission's proposal to require Form 8-K disclosure of certain management transactions, and would be happy to discuss any questions the Commission may have with respect to this letter. Any such questions may be directed to John T. Bostelman (212-558-3840) or Richard R. Howe (212-558-3612) in our New York office or to Eric J. Kadel, Jr. (202-956-7640) in our Washington office.
Very truly yours,
|However, we would also note one change in the Section 16 requirements that would better serve the purpose of informing the markets on a reasonably current basis. In particular, reporting of insider transactions that are eligible for deferred reporting on Form 5 because they are exempt from profit recapture, such as transactions with the issuer, could be changed so that these reports are filed more currently. We would suggest that the Commission require reporting on Form 4 of all reportable transactions other than those that are truly de minimis. We do not believe that additional notice and comment rulemaking would be required for the Commission to amend Form 5 in this manner.
|If the Commission believes that electronic filing of Section 16 reports is important to ensure widespread public dissemination of the information, it could, as it has indicated that it intends to do, require Section 16 reports to be filed electronically. We believe that such action should be taken by subsequent notice and comment rulemaking, as there are many issues (not the least of which would be the prospect of providing filing numbers for each Section 16 reporter) that the Commission would have to address in connection with such a requirement.
|We agree that more than 10% beneficial owners who are subject to Section 16 reporting should not be covered by the proposed rule for the reasons stated in the proposing Release (i.e., the issuer has no control over such persons, and they may even be adverse to the issuer).
|As suggested above in footnote 1 and the accompanying text, we also would support the Commission requiring monthly reporting of these non-recourse secured loan transactions on Form 4.
|We appreciate the Commission's acknowledgement that, as with other alleged Section 13(a) violations, there would be no private right of action against the issuer for its failure to timely file a required Form 8-K report.


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Headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland (near the BWI Airport), the AUA and the Urology Care Foundation collectively employ more than 160 individuals with a wide range of professional expertise. Over the past century, the AUA has built a culture of teamwork and innovation, and the staff serves the AUA's mission to promote the highest standards of urological clinical care through education and research and in the formulation of health care policy.
Learn more about working for the AUA and Urology Care Foundation, including current job opportunities.
Careers in Urology
The AUA JobFinder Service is an online job board for urologists and all urology professionals, including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, medical assistants and researchers. This service is available to both employers and jobseekers and offers a variety of features.
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Renenutet (also known as Termuthis, Ernutet, Renenet) was a cobra goddess from the Delta area. She was a powerful goddess, whose gaze destroyed her enemies. However, the ancient Egyptians had no reason to fear her as she offered them protection in many areas of their life.
She was depicted either as a woman, a cobra or a woman with the head of a cobra wearing a double plumed headdress or the solar disk. She was also depicted with a lions head, like Hathor in her form of the "Eye of Ra". In the underworld she became a fearsome fire-breathing cobra who could kill with one gaze.
Her name may derive from the words "rnn" (to bring up, or nurse) and "wtt" (snake), but others have suggest that "rnnt" can mean "fortune" or "riches". A further possibility is that the first syllable is "rn", translated as "name". This would certainly fit with her role in naming children, but those who support this view tend to translate her name as "She who is in the name" which doesn't actually fit the rest of the hieroglyphs. This brings us to a further possibility. Some sources refer to a separate snake goddess named Renenet, who was a goddess of nursing. They may well be one and the same, or they could have become merged over time, but it is also possible that the two have simply become confused by historians.
Renenutet was sometimes considered to be the wife of Geb (the earth god) and the mother of Nehebkau (the snake god who guarded the entrance to the underworld and protected Ra as he passed through every night), but other traditions held that she was married to Sobek or Shai, the god of destiny. She was the mother of Nepri, the personification of corn, who was closely associated with Osiris. However, as an example of perfect motherhood, she was merged with Isis (Osiris's wife) as Isermithis or Thermouthis.
To the ancient Egyptians, names were words of great power. As the Goddess of suckling, Renenutet gave each newborn baby a secret name along with its mother's milk. In this role she was given the epithet "She Who Rears". She also protected children from curses. In fact, the child was said to "have Renenutet upon his shoulder from his first day". In this role she was linked with Meskhenet, a goddess of childbirth, who actually oversaw the labour.
The ancient Egyptians believed that in order for a person to enjoy eternal life, their image and their name must survive. As Renenutet gave each person their name, she was linked with Shai, as a goddess of fate. Ramsses II stated that he was the "Lord of Shai and Creator of Renentet" as an indication of his power to control his own fate. Renenutet and Shai were often depicted with Thoth and were sometimes named "the hands of Thoth". In the Litany of Re (New Kingdom) she appears in the underworld as the "Lady of Justification", associating her with the goddess Ma´at.
According to the Pyramid Texts, Renenutet was the goddess of plenty, and good fortune. Snakes were often seen in the fields around harvest time, hunting the rodents who would threaten the crop. As a result, Renenutet was considered to protect the harvest and given the epithets "Goddess of the Double Granary", the "Lady of Fertile Fields" and the "Lady of Granaries". Amenemhet III and Amenemhet IV dedicated a temple to Renenutet, Sobek and Horus at Dja (known to the Greeks as Narmouthis or Harmounthis and now called Medinet Madi) which was expanded during the Ptolemaic Period. In this temple an annual harvest festival was held in her honour during which a quantity of the best quality produce was dedicated to her, and throughout Egypt, shrines to her were built in areas where wine was brewed. She was also linked to the coming of the inundation and by the later period presided over the eighth month of the ancient Egyptian calendar known to us by the Greek name "Parmutit".
From the early period, she was seen as protector of the pharaoh in the netherworld, with the epithet "Nourishing Snake". She imbued his clothing with power which repelled his enemies. By the New Kingdom her power extended to the mummification ritual during which she imbued the mummy wrappings with magical power, and in the Ptolemaic Period this role was honoured with the epithet "The Lady of the Robes".
- Bard, Kathryn (2008) An introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
- Budge, E Wallis (1904) The Gods of the Egyptians
- Goodenough, Simon (1997) Egyptian Mythology
- Watterson, Barbara (1996) Gods of Ancient Egypt
- Wilkinson, Richard H. (2003) The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt


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Carrying Cube for the In-Ear Headphones
Originally uploaded by JoshB.
A clear plastic enclosure holds everything in place. The part holding the different silicone buds is removable, probably to prevent them getting easily lost.
You can check out more photos of the "opening" ceremony of my new iPod in this Flickr set. Enjoy!


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Center Performing Arts Opportunities
Many of the FiftyForward centers provide members with the wonderful opportunity to perform — whether it's singing, acting or dancing. FiftyForward members delight in sharing their talents; many groups give seasonal performances as well as travel to perform for others. Browse our center-based performance opportunities.
The Larry Keeton Theatre
Named by the Nashville Business Journal as the third most highly attended theater in Nashville, The Larry Keeton Theatre serves scrumptious dinners and provides thrilling performances. Operating under the Senior Center for the Arts, a nonprofit organization and wholly owned subsidiary of FiftyForward, our mission is to offer affordably-priced training in the arts to the community and to enhance the artistic talents of our members and artists of all ages. For more information and to view the theatre's performance calendar, visit thelarrykeetontheatre.org
Music for Seniors
July 1, 2014 Music for Seniors began operating independently of FiftyForward in its new offices at Nashville Public Television, where the creative team continues sharing live music and lighting up lives!
You can now find Music for Seniors at: www.musicforseniors.org.
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Lionsgate, San Diego Comic-Con to Launch Online Video Service
San Diego Comic-Con is going year-round by partnering with Lionsgate to launch an subscription video-on-demand service aimed at fanboys.
The online service, the result of two years of talks between SDCC and Lionsgate, will feature exclusive archived footage from the past 45 years of Comic-Con, films and TV series from Lionsgate and other companies and original video.
"The fan base for the kind of films and television series showcased at Comic-Con has grown exponentially, and a subscription video-on-demand service is the ideal platform to capture the magic and excitement of the Comic-Con experience year-round as well as the perfect vehicle for Comic-Con fans to discover new content," said Lionsgate president of worldwide TV and digital distribution Jim Packer in a statement Thursday.
Lionsgate earlier launched the Lionsgate Entertainment World platform with the Alibaba Group in China and plans the upcoming launch of Tribeca Shortlist, an SVOD for cinephiles in partnership with Tribeca Enterprises.
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Port Gregory Accommodation, Hotels, Tours & Information
Places nearby Port Gregory
- Ajana
- Arrino
- Badgingarra
- Beachlands
- Beacon
- Beresford
- Big Bell
- Binnu
- Binnu West
- Bluff Point
- Boogardie
- Boolardy
- Bootenal
- Bowgada
- Bunjil
- Canna
- Cape Burney
- Carnamah
- Caron
- Coolimba
- Coorow
- Cue
- Dongara
- Drummond Cove
- Eneabba
- Eneabba North
- Eradu
- Gascoyne Junction
- Georgina
- Geraldton
- Glenburgh
- Glenfield
- Green Head
- Greenough
- Gutha
- Horrocks
- Howatharra
- Hutt
- Indarra
- Irwin
- Isseka
- Jameson
- Jurien Bay
- Kalbarri
- Karloo
- Kojarena
- Koolanooka
- Latham
- Lawlers
- Leeman
- Leinster
- Lynton
- Mahomets Flats
- Marchagee
- Meekatharra
- Merkanooka
- Mingenew
- Moonyoonooka
- Morawa
- Moresby
- Mount Erin
- Mount Magnet
- Mount Narryer
- Mount Tarcoola
- Mullewa
- Murchison
- Murgoo
- Nabawa
- Nannine
- Nanson
- Naraling
- Narngulu
- Northampton
- Northern Gully
- Oakajee
- Oakbella
- Ogilvie
- Paynes Find
- Paynesville
- Perenjori
- Pindar
- Pintharuka
- Point Moore
- Port Denison
- Rangeway
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- Snag Island
- Spalding
- Strathalbyn
- Sunset Beach
- Tarcoola Beach
- Tardun
- Tenindewa
- Three Springs
- Tuckanarra
- Utakarra
- Waddy Forest
- Wagga Wagga
- Waggrakine
- Walkaway
- Wandina
- Webberton
- West End
- Whelarra
- Wicherina
- Wilroy
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- Wonthella
- Wooree
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Port Gregory
The beachside village of Port Gregory is famed for its pink lagoon, exposed reef, spring wildflower scenery and settler history, complete with convict-era buildings and shipwrecks. Swim, dive, fish and immerse yourself in this quintessential Western Australian beach holiday spot.
Just under six hours north of Perth by car, this picturesque fishing village is nestled between the beach and Hutt Lagoon, near the mouth of the Hutt River.
With its five kilometres of exposed reef forming a natural harbour, Port Gregory is a sheltered aquatic playground. From the safe swimming beach to the water-skiing area, there's something for everyone. Launch and anchor your boat. Scuba dive in the clear waters. Explore the reef. Try your hand at offshore fishing, or drop a line off the jetty - rock lobster is a local favourite.
A host of natural delights await on land too.
In spring, colourful wildflowers blanket the surrounding countryside. Take a scenic drive through the hinterland's hills and valleys, or contact a local tour guide to ensure you see all the native flora hotspots. Or, for an adventure of a more interactive kind, try a guided self-drive quad biking tour at Wagoe Beach. It's a unique opportunity to discover the pristine Indian Ocean coastline between Port Gregory and Kalbarri.
While you're exploring inland, head to nearby Lynton - a historic settlement built by convicts in the mid-19th century. The townsite was home to a depot that served as an early employment agency, recruiting convicts to work at the local Geraldine Mine and pastoral stations. Today, you can visit restored buildings, the hiring depot and Sanfords House - a must-see for history buffs.
There's much to see and experience in and around Port Gregory, with an equally diverse range of accommodation options, from the town's caravan park to nearby farmstays, chalets and beach cottages.
Wherever you stay, be sure to visit Hutt Lagoon at sunset when this magnificent salt lake changes colour, from mauve to pink to purple.
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Olivia Wilde Covers 'Fashion' Magazine September 2013
Olivia Wilde looks gorgeous on the cover of Fashion magazine's September 2013 issue, on newsstands August 5.
Here is what the 29-year-old Rush actress had to share with the mag:
On her stylish, scandalous role in Rush: "It is based on a true story. I play Suzy Miller�"who was James Hunt's first wife. Suzy ended up leaving [James] for Richard Burton�"who left Elizabeth Taylor for Suzy. My job in the film was to tell the story of James's tumultuous marriage, which was very Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? messy… I got to wear archive Gucci head to toe through the movie!"
On learning a few tricks from fiancé Jason Sudeikis: "His skill level is so high. I really have learned a lot from him, especially when it comes to being bold and taking risks as an actor within a role. Comedians are so great about trying things, like doing seven takes in seven different ways and really not being afraid to stumble."
On her past experience with love: "It's really hard to jump into a relationship after you feel you've been through a difficult time…I liken it to a burn victim jumping back into a Jacuzzi. It took a lot of coaxing."
For more from Olivia, visit FashionMagazine.com! Bigger cover inside…


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About Modified Rides
Modified Rides was created in 2016 by shawn miller, We are a massive online modified car portal and have everything to do with modified cars.
We have modified car pictures, videos, forums, websites and alot more.
We are adding new modified car pictures and videos everyday and we have a great modified car blog for all your modified car needs.
What is a modified car ?
A development of hot rodding, the change in name corresponded to the change in the design of the cars being modified. The first hot rods were pre-World War II cars, with running boards and simple fenders over the wheels. Early model cars (1929 to 1934) were modified by removing the running boards and either removing the fenders entirely or replacing them with very light cycle fenders. Later models usually had fender skirts installed.
Many cars were "hopped up" with engine modifications such as adding additional carburetors, high compression heads and dual exhausts. Engine swaps were done, the object of which was to put the most powerful engine in the lightest possible frame and body combination.
The suspension was usually altered. Initially this involved lowering the rear end as much as possible with the use of lowering blocks on the rear springs. Later cars were given a rake job either adding a dropped front axle or heating front coil springs to make the front end of the car much lower than the rear.
Much later some hot rods and custom cars swapped the old solid rear axle for an independent rear axle, often from Jaguar. Sometimes the grille of one make of car replaced by another; the 1937 Buick grille was often used on a Ford. In the 1950s and 1960s, the grille swap of choice was the 1953 De Soto.
The original hot rods were plainly painted like the Model A Fords from which they had been built up, and only slowly begun to take on colors, and eventually fancy orange-yellow flamed hoods or "candy-like" deep acrylic finishes in the various colors.
With the change in automobile design to encase the wheels in fenders and to extend the hood to the full width of the car, the former practices were no longer possible. In addition, there was tremendous automotive advertising and subsequent public interest in the new models in the 1950s. Hence custom cars came into existence, swapping headlamp rings, grilles, bumpers, chrome side strips, and tail lights, as well as frenching and tunnelling head- and taillights. The bodies of the cars were changed by cutting through the sheet metal, removing bits to make the car lower, welding it back together, and adding a lot of lead to make the resulting form smooth (hence the termlead sled; lead has since been replaced by Bondo). By this means, chopping made the roof lower;[1] sectioning[2] made the body thinner from top to bottom. Channeling[3] was cutting notches in the floorpan where the body touches the frame to lower the whole body. Fins were often added from other cars, or made up from sheet steel. In the custom car culture, someone who merely changed the appearance without also substantially improving the performance was looked down upon.
More recently, Juxtapoz Magazine, founded by the artist Robert Williams, has covered Kustom Kulture art.
Customization style
Custom cars are distinct from cars in stock condition. Builders may adopt the visual and performance characteristics of some relevant modification styles, and combine these as desired. There are now several different custom themes, including:
- Rat rod: imitates (or exaggerates) the "unfinished" and amateur-built appearance of hot rods of the '30s, '40s, and '50s
- Restomod - restored and modernized. Safety and convenience upgrades, such as disc brakes, AC, etc., but can include fuel injection and overdrive upgrades, etc. Externally might resemble a stock car with period correct mods rather than customs.
- Street machines: Typically American cars with large-displacement engines modified for speed and often appearance.
- Street rod - consist largely of period specific vehicles and components, or emmulate visual characteristics of cars through the'40s vintage. There is a great deal of overlap here with hot rods. See street rod definition below.
- Tweeners - early 60s cars between the styles of 50s and the muscle cars.
- Modern: The style of contemporary cars. Most often contemporary components and paint finishes of modern cars are used.
- NOTE: Types overlap and blend often impossible to classify.
Paint was an important concern. Once bodywork was done, the cars were painted unusual colors. Transparent but wildly-colored candy-apple paint, applied atop a metallic undercoat, and metalflake paint, with aluminum glitter within candy-apple paint, appeared in the 1960s. These took many coats to produce a brilliant effect — which in hot climates had a tendency to flake off. This process and style of paint job was invented by Joe Bailon, a customizer from Northern California.
Customizers also continued the habit of adding decorative paint after the main coat was finished, of flames extending rearward from the front wheels, scallops, and hand-painted pinstripes of a contrasting color. The base color, most often a single coat, would be expected to be of a simpler paint. Flame jobs later spread to the hood, encompassing the entire front end, and have progressed from traditional reds and yellows to blues and greens and body-color "ghost" flames. One particular style of flames, called "crab claw flames", which is still prevalent today, is attributed to Dean Jeffries.[4]
Painting has become such a part of the custom car scene that now in many custom car competitions, awards for custom paint are as highly sought after as awards for the cars themselves.
Engine swaps
Engine swaps have always been commonplace. Once, the flathead, or "flatty", was the preference, supplanted by the early hemi in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1970s, the small-block Chevy was the most common option, and since the 1980s, the 350 cu in (5.7 l) Chevy has been almost ubiquitous.[5] More recently,[when?] the 325 cu in (5.3 l) Chevrolet LS has begun replacing the 350.[citation needed] Flatheads and early hemis have not entirely disappeared, but ready availability, ease of maintenance, and low cost of parts make the Chevrolet V8, in particular the first and third generation small block, the most frequent engine of choice.[citation needed]
Once customizing post-war cars caught on, some of the practices were extended to pre-war cars, which would have been called fendered rods, with more body work done on them. An alternate rule for disambiguation developed: hot rods had the engine behind the front suspension, while customs had the engine over the front suspension. The clearest example of this is Fords prior to 1949 had Henry Ford's old transverse front suspension, while 1949 models had a more modern suspension with the engine moved forward. However, an American museum has what could be the first true custom, built by Cletus Clobes in 1932, among its exhibits.[6]
With the coming of the muscle car, and further to the high-performance luxury car, customization declined. One place where it persisted was the U.S. Southwest, where lowriders were built similar in concept to the earlier customs, but of post-1950s cars.
As the supply of usable antique steel bodies has dried up, companies such Westcott's,[7] Harwood, Gibbon Fiberglass[8] and Speedway Motors[8] have begun to fabricate new fiberglass copies,[9] while Classic Manufacturing and Supply, for one example, has been making a variety of new steel bodies since the 1970s.[10] California's "junker" (or "crusher") law, which pays a nominal sum to take "gross polluters" off the road, has been criticized by enthusiasts (and by SEMA) for accelerating this trend.[11]
Starting in the 1950s, it became popular among customizers to display their vehicles at drive-in restaurants. Among the largest and longest lasting was Johnie's Broiler inDowney, California. The practice continues today, especially in Southern California.
Examples of notable customizers include George Barris, Bill Cushenberry, the Alexander Brothers, the "legendary" Gil Ayala,[12] Darryl Starbird,[13] Roy Brizio, Troy Trepanier (ofRad Rides by Troy), Boyd Coddington, Harry Westergaard,[14] Dave Stuckey,[13] Dean Jeffries, Troy Ladd of Hollywood Hot Rods, "Posie",[15] Ron Clark and Bob Kaiser (ofClarkaiser Customs),[16] Joe Bailon[13] (inventor of candy apple paint),[17] Gene Winfield, Rick Dore[18] Joe Wilhelm, "Magoo",[19] Chip Foose,[20] and Pete Chapouris. Others, such as Von Dutch, are best known as custom painters. Several customizers have become famous beyond the automobile community, including Barris, Jeffries, and Coddington, thanks to their proximity to Hollywood; Barris designed TV's Batmobile, while Chapouris built the flamed '34 three-window coupé in the eponymous telefilm "The California Kid". Another Barris creation, Ala Kart (a '29 Ford Model A roadster pickup), made numerous appearances in film (usually in the background of diner scenes and such), after taking two AMBR wins in a row.
Some customizers have become well-enough known to be referred to by given name alone. These include Boyd (Coddington), Pete (Chapouris), and Jake (Jim Jacobs).
The highest award for customizers is the AMBR (America's Most Beautiful Roadster) trophy, presented annually at the Grand National Roadster Show since 1948 (also known within the customizer community as the Oakland Roadster Show until it was moved to Southern California in 2003). This competition has produced famous, and radical, customs.
Another is the Ridler Award, presented at the Detroit Autorama since 1964 in honor of show promoter Don Ridler. With one of the most unusual of car show entry requirements, winners of the prestigious Ridler Award are selected as the most outstanding from among cars being shown for the first time. This prompts builders of many high-end roadsters to first enter the Autorama first and then the Grand National show in order to have the chance to win top honors at both shows. Few cars and owners can claim this achievement.
Notable customs
Some customs gained attention for winning the AMBR trophy, or for their outlandish styling. Notable among these is Silhouette and Ed Roth's Mysterion. Some of these more unusual projects turned into Hot Wheels cars, among them The Red Baron.
Other custom cars became notable for appearances in film (such as Ala Kart {1958},[21] The California Kid three-window {1973},[22] or the yellow deuce from "American Graffiti" {1973}) or television (such as The Monkeemobile, the "Munsters" hearse, or, more recently, Boyd's full-custom Tool Time '34, or Don Thelan's[23] '33 three-window, Eliminator, built for the ZZ Top video[24]). Specialist vehicles, such as the T/A, KITT, from Knight Rider, are not usually considered customs, but movie or TV cars, because they retain a mostly stock exterior.
Still others exemplified a trend. One of these is the '51 Merc built by the Barris brothers for Bob Hirohata in 1953, known forever after as the Hirohata Merc. Even without an appearance in film ("Runnin' Wild"), it is iconic of '50s customs, and of how to do a Merc right.[25] The same year, Neil Emory and Clayton Jensen built Polynesian for Jack Stewart, starting with a '50 Olds sedan. Polynesian made the cover of Hot Rod in August, and saw 54 pages of construction details in Motor Trend Custom Car Annual in 1954.[26]
Certain linguistic conventions are followed among rodders and customizers:
- The model year is rarely given in full,[27] except when it might be confused, so a 1934 model is a '34, while a 2005 might be an '05 or not.
- A 3- or 5-window is usually a Ford, unless specified.
- A flatty is a flathead V8[28] (always Ford, unless specified); a late (or late model) flatty is probably a Merc.
- A hemi ("hem ee") is always a 426, unless displacement (331, 354, or 392) is specified;[29] a 426 is a hemi, unless Wedge is specified. See baby hemi.
- A 392 is an early hemi.
- A 331 or 354 is known to be an (early) hemi, but rarely referred to as such
- A 270 "Jimmy" was a 270 cubic inch GMC truck engine often used to replace a smaller displacement Chevrolet six cylinder.
- Units are routinely dropped, unless they are unclear, so a 426 cubic inch (in³) displacement engine is simply referred to as a 426, a 5-liter (litre) displacement engine is a 5.0 ("five point oh"), and a 600 cubic feet per minute (cfm) carburetor is a 600. Engine displacement can be described in cubic inches or liters (for example, a 5.7 liter engine is also known as a 350 {"three fifty"}); this frequently depends on which units the user is most comfortable or familiar with.
The "cutoff year" as originally promoted by the National Street Rod Association (NSRA) is 1949. Many custom car shows will only accept 1948 and earlier models as entries, and many custom car organizations will not admit later model cars or trucks, but this practice is subject to change. The NSRA has announced that starting in 2011 it will switch to a shifting year method where any owner with a car 30 years or older will be allowed membership. So in 2011 the owner of a 1981 model year vehicle will qualify, then in 2012 the owner of a 1982 model year vehicle will quality, and so on. Additionally, the Goodguys car show organization has moved the year limit for its "rod" shows from 1949 to 1954 in recent years.
- Hi-Riser (automobile)
- Hot rod
- Kustom (cars)
- Lead sled
- Lowrider
- Rat rod
- Rice burner
- Three window coupe
Common terms
Some other common terms:
- 3 deuces — arrangement of three 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors; distinct from Six Pak and Pontiac and Olds[30] Tri-Power[31] (also 3x2 arrangements)
- 3-window — 2-door coupé; so named for having rear window and one door wbyindow on each side[32]
- 3 on the tree — three-speed manual transmission operated by a steering column mounted shifter.
- 4 on the floor — four-speed manual transmission operated by a floor mounted shifter.
- 5-window — 2-door coupé; so named for having rear window plus one door window and one quarter window on each side[33]
- 97s — Stromberg carburetors[34]
- A-bone — Model A coupé[35]
- Appletons (sometimes Appleton spots) — spotlights, mounted in the A-pillars, similar to those used by police cars. Decorative but used through the 50s as driving lights because headlights were poor, roads were narrow with no white lines at the edges, and there were no speed limits on most highways. Not much traffic either, especially at night.
- Ardun - Ford flathead V8 hemi heads designed by Zora Arkus Duntov (later known as THE Corvette guy)
- Baby moons - chrome small smooth convex hubcaps covering the wheel lug area. Full moons covered the entire wheel.
- Baby hemi, baby elephant. Dimensionally small early 50s Chrysler corporation small cubic inch hemi V8s, 241 to 325 cid. Often used in the 50s in hot rods.
- Barn fresh, barn find— a newly discovered vehicle typically found in storage (i.e. a barn, etc.), either long forgotten or abandoned, still in its original condition from when it was first stored[citation needed]
- Blue oval — Ford product (for the Ford badge)
- Blue dots —
- Bondo — brand name for a body filler putty, often used as a generic term for any such product
- Bowtie (sometimes Red Bowtie[citation needed]) — Chevrolet product (for the badge; the red bowtie refers Chevrolet Motorsport's logo)[37]
- Bugcatcher intake — large scoop intake protruding through hood opening, or on cars with no hood.
- Bullnosing — Replacing the hood ornament with a "bullnose" chrome strip or filling the mounting hole with lead.
- Cabriolet (or cabrio) — A vehicle with a removable or retractable cloth top, characterized by integrated door window frames and crank up glass.
- Cherry — like new[38]
- Channeled or channeling - lowering a vehicle by cutting out the floor and mounting the body lower on the frame rails.
- Chopped — removing a section, usually of the window posts, to lower the roofline of a vehicle.
- Cobra killers - decorative wheel centers that stick out excessively 3-5 inches and have flipper qualities for more visual attraction.
- Convertible — retractable top car with no integral door window frames like the cabriolet. Has roll up glass in doors as opposed to roadsters that do not.
- C.I.D. (sometimes Cubic Inches or Inches) — cubic inches displacement
- Crank — crankshaft
- Cutouts - stub exhaust pipes installed behind the front wheels that allow uncapping for noise and power. In the 50s were home made from gas tank filler necks with gas caps and water pipes with screw on caps.
- Dagmars — large front bumper "bullets"[39] the actress) younger folks call them Dollys
- Dollys - Dagmars
- Decked — trunklid trim removed[40]
- Deuce —
- '32 Ford (most often a roadster);[41] now commonly on A frame WRONG rails[42]
- rarely, 1932 model of any manufacturer.
- Chevy II Nova[43]
- '32 Ford (most often a roadster);[41] now commonly on A frame WRONG rails[42]
- Duvall windshield — a v-shaped windshield with a center post, as opposed to the typical stock straight-across type.
- Elephant — Chrysler 426 Hemi[44] (see baby hemi)
- Fat-fender — 1934-48 (U.S.) car[45]
- Flatty — flathead engine[46] (usually refers to a Ford; when specified, the Mercury-built model)
- Fordillac ("for di lack") — Ford with transplanted Cadillac V8 engine
- Frenched —
- Antenna sunken into the body or fender
- Headlight slightly sunken into fender[47]
- Tail lights slightly sunken into body or fender
- Gennie — genuine[48]
- Hairpins — radius rods[49]
- Hiboy (or highboy) — fenderless, but not lowered[50] Distinct from gasser.
- Hopped up - A stock engine modified to increase performance
- Humpback or hump. Late 30s sedans with a prominent rear trunk. See 37 Ford sedans. Opposite of slantback/ smoothback.
- Inches — CID
- Indian (also "Tin Indian") — Pontiac (for the grille badge)
- Jimmy (or Jimmy Six) — GMC straight 6
- Any GMC product
- Lead sled — customized vehicle where lead has been melted and adhered to a metal body to smooth its surface, as filler. (Lead has since been replaced by Bondo.)
- Lakes pipes — straight exhaust pipes that run along the lower edge of a rod, typically near the rocker panels, without mufflers. The name comes from their original use on cars used on dry lakes by land speed racers.
- Loboy (or low boy, lowboy) — fenderless and lowered[51]
- Mag
- magnesium wheel, or steel or aluminum copy resembling one such
- magneto
- Mill — any internal combustion engine on such a vehicle
- Moons (or Moon discs; incorrectly, moon discs) — plain flat chrome or aluminum hubcaps, originally adopted by land speed racers. Smaller examples are "baby moons". Named for Dean Moon.
- Mouse — small-block Chevy[52]
- Nailhead — an early Buick V8
- Nerf bars — bumper horns[53]
- NOS — New Old Stock: original-manufactured part, never installed, often in original packaging.
- Nosed — hood trim removed[54]
- Phaeton - 4 dr. ragtop "roadster" also called a touring
- Phantom — body style never built by the original manufacturer[55] (a term also adopted by model kit builders)
- Pinched rails - when deuce frame rails are narrowed under a Model A, which has a narrower front body.
- QJ — Quadrajet (Rochester 4-barrel)[56]
- Q-jet — Quadrajet[57]
- Ragtop — convertible
- Rat —Chevrolet Big-block
- Repop — reproduction (not NOS)[58]
- Resto — restoration, or restored
- Roadster - A two door with removable or retracting top. No roll up side glass like true convertibles, usually snap on ising glass.
- Rockcrusher — Muncie M22 4-speed transmission[59][60]
- Rake job — car with suspension modified to lower the front end
- Rocket — Oldsmobile, in particular their early V8s. A reference to the marque's logo.
- Sabrinas (Britain) — bumper bullets, similar to Dagmars [61]
- SBC — Chevrolet small-block engine
- SBF — Small-block Ford, usually one of the Ford Windsor engines
- Sectioning — removing an entire horizontal section of the body or top to bottom. Not to be confused with "chopping".
- Shoebox — '49-'54 Ford or 1955-57 Chevrolet (for the slab-sided appearance)
- Skirts - Covers installed on the openings on rear fenders
- Slantback — sedan with forward-angled but straight rear window and sheetmetal. Also referred to as slick back, slicky, smoothback, smoothy. Distinct from straightback. Also see humpback.
- Smoothies - chrome steel wheels with no brake vent holes. Usually with baby moons or spiders.
- Sombreros — '47-'51 Cadillac hubcaps[62]
- Souped (souped up) — hopped up, performance improved (more common in '40s and '50s)
- Spiders - a decrotive chrome insert covering the bearing grease cover and lugs nuts.
- Spinner knobs, suicide knobs - an egg sized knob mounted on the steering wheel to assist rapid turning. Many cars needed 5 or more turns of the wheel from full right to full left. Knobs often had pin-up girl pictures.
- Steelies — stock steel rims[63]
- Stock — original equipment[64]
- Stone stock — all-original (usually referring to a project's starting condition); unmodified ("'53 Merc with a stone stock 350").
- Stovebolt — Chevy straight 6[65]
- Straightback — sedan with vertical rear window and sheetmetal. (Known as squareback in the VW community.)
- Street rod - A modified car licensed for use on streets and highways. --Traditionally designated as '48 and older by enthusiasts, SEMA, and states that issue specific street rod license plates. '49 and newer receive custom car plates. Antique, street rods, custom rod, and normal plates carry different rules under SEMA rules for state applied licenses.
- Studillac ("stewed i lack") — Studebaker with transplanted Cadillac V8 engine
- Suicided — changed from front- to rear-hinged ("suicide door")
- Suicide front end — a front axle configuration where it is mounted forward of the front cross member or the end of the frame rails.
- Suicide knob - see spinner knob
- Taildragger - A vehicle lowered more in the rear than front. Often seen on leadsleds. Often a regionalized trend.
- Tin Indian — Pontiac (for the grille badge)
- Toploader — Ford 4-speed manual transmission[66]
- Touring — see Phaeton
- Track T — Model T roadster built in the style of a dirt track race car[67]
- Trailer queen — pejorative term used in some circles for pure show cars which are never driven
- Tri-Five — 1955, 1956, or 1957 Chevrolet
- Tuck-and-roll — upholstery technique creating a "pleated" look[68]
- Tunneled — deeply sunken into fender[40]
- V-butted (or vee-butted) — with windshield center post deleted, original panes meeting in the middle[69] (distinct from fitting a one-piece windshield), or to make such a change ("the windshield was vee-butted", "he vee-butted the windshield")
- Vicky — Victoria body style[70]
- Weedburners - downward pointing zoomies
- Wide whites — wide-stripe whitewall tires,[71] typical of the '50s, as opposed to modern ones
- Woodie — Typically a station wagon manufactured by most of the major manufacturers where much of the body behind the firewall was replaced with wood construction.
- Zoomie pipes (or zoomies) — short exhaust pipes with no mufflers, used for racing, or just for show (not street legal)[72] Usually one pipe per cylinder. Pointing upwards called zoomies. Downwards are weed burners.
Some terms have an additional, different meaning among hot rodders than among customizers: NOS, for instance, is a reference to nitrous oxide, rather than new old stock.


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First, the player has to have played within the last 20 years but must be retired for at least five years. The player will be eligible for 15 years as long as he gets a minimum of 5% of the votes. Anyone on the ballot 15 years without election is referred to the Veteran's Committee for consideration. Anyone receiving less than 5 % is also referred to the Veteran's Committee for consideration.
Second, they had to be an active player in at least parts of ten seasons.
Third, if they die during their career, they can be eligible for the Hall of Fame on the next ballot (assuming the ballot is more than six months after their death).
Finally, anyone listed on the baseball ineligible list (this would be players like the Black Sox, Pete Rose, Hal Chase, Joe Gedeon, etc) is not an eligible candidate.
To be elected, a player needs to receive votes on 75% of the ballots cast in any given year. For example, this past season there were 569 ballots cast. A player would have needed to appear on 427 ballots. The closest person this past year was Craig Biggio who spent his entire career with the Astros. He fell 39 votes short of the requirement.
The Hall gives very few guidelines or suggestions on what should be considered. It merely says that the voting should be based on their "record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character and contributions to the teams on which the player played". There are no automatic elections. A perfect game, a triple crown, a .400 season does not mean you get into the Hall.
So that still doesn't answer what makes a Hall of Fame member. There are differing opinions but here are some of the more common qualifications that people use:
- If a player gets certain milestones they are generally considered a lock for the Hall of Fame: 3000 hits, 500 Home Runs, .300 lifetime average, 300 Wins, etc. This does not mean you have to reach one of these to make it but it has traditionally been considered your "get in free" pass.
- If a player is the clear cut, best player at his position for his era. For example, Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson were clearly the best pitchers of the 1960's. While Denny McLaine had a 30 win season and dominated the 1968 American League, over the length of his career he was not as dominant as that one season. Based on that Gibson and Koufax are in and McLaine is not.
- If the story of a player's era cannot be told without mentioning them they should be in. For example, if you led your era in wins, average, Home Runs, etc over a ten year period you should be in the hall of Fame. Additionally, if you contribute heavily to the success of a team that has been the dominant team of the league you should merit significant consideration.
Photo of Hank O'Day Courtesy of ESPN
If you had asked someone before 1919 how they thought the New York Highlanders (the early version of the Yankees) would do in an upcoming season you would likely have to wait for the laughter to subside to get an answer. The Yankees were owned by Frank Farrell and William Devery from the time the team moved from Baltimore in the early years of the American League. The two had done nothing to improve the team and although they had some future Hall of Fame players including Pitcher Jack Chesboro and the legendary Wee Willie Keeler, the Highlanders were the joke of the league. Devery and Farrell were more interested in what they could get out of the team financially and politically than they were in putting a competitive team on the field. Ruppert, meanwhile, was a former congressman who ran a highly profitable brewery and was trying to buy a baseball franchise. He had tried several times to buy the Giants as well as considering buying the Cubs. When Ruppert's friend John McGraw introduced him to Colonel Till Huston, who also wanted to own a baseball team, the two combined resources and purchased the Yankees for $480,000 in 1915. Ruppert and Huston set to the task of building a competitive team and they had the resources to do it. Someone who needed resources was the Red Sox owner Harry Frazee. Over the next few years the Yankees started to slowly build a wining team and by 1920, after the purchase of Babe Ruth and numerous other Red Sox players, they were legitimate pennant contenders. They would remain consistent playoff contenders long past Ruppert's days. The relationship between Huston and Ruppert soured (which is a topic for another day) and Ruppert bought out Huston's share in 1922. Ruppert was still the owner when he passed away in January of 1939 but during his time as owner of the Yankees he turned the American League's New York franchise from a joke into the most successful franchise in sports history. Under Ruppert, the Yankees won the World Series seven times (1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937 and 1938). They would also reach the World Series another three times (1921, 1922, and 1926) but come up short. The General Manager, Ed Barrow, who was considered the architect of both the Red Sox dynasty and the Yankees dynasty in the early decades of the sport, was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 1953. Somehow it took an extra 60 years for Ruppert to get there.


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The Shanghai arm of Fanuc, which dominates the global market for industrial robotics, almost doubled sales every year until cooling somewhat following the 2009 global financial crisis and outbreak of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. They still still managed to achieve close to 20 per cent sales growth in China last year. Shanghai-Fanuc Robotics is a the Chinese joint venture with Japanese giant Fanuc. The firm sold about 4,000 robots in China, up 18 per cent on the 3,400 it sold in 2011.
The International Federation of Robotics says the world's robot industry developed at its fastest rate ever in 2011 with global sales up 37 per cent year on year to 165,000. Sales in China jumped 50.7 per cent to reach 22,600. By next year, China will surpass other countries to become the top market for robots worldwide.
State leaders have called on businesses to upgrade technology to boost their competitiveness, as the country's role as the world's manufacturing centre is shaken by rivals in emerging markets with a growing, cheaper labour supply.
Former World Bank chief economist Justin Lin predicts that the average monthly wage in China's manufacturing sector may rise to nearly US$1,000 (HK$7,760) by the end of this decade from US$350 in 2010. The increase is caused, in part, by yuan appreciation and government policies intended to boost personal income.
The rapidly rising salaries of factory workers could see China lose up to 85 million manufacturing jobs to other countries in the region, Lin says. But analysts say robots may prove the saviour - or at least delay the process.