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direct/ Wereldhave Property Corp.
(the "9 ½ per cent. Stock")
£20,000,000 nominal 10 ¾ per cent. First Mortgage Debenture Stock due 2015
(the "10 ¾ per cent. Stock")
(together the "Stocks")
Wereldhave today announces an offer to purchase (the "Offer to Repurchase") up to £20,000,000 nominal amount of the Stocks. Any Stock purchased pursuant to the Offer to Repurchase will be cancelled.
Pursuant to the Offer to Repurchase, Wereldhave has asked The Royal Bank of Scotland to solicit offers from holders of the Stocks to offer for repurchase some or all of their respective holdings for redemption at a minimum margin of 60 basis points (0.60 per cent.) over the semi-annual gross redemption yield of the 4.75 per cent. Treasury Stock 2015 (the "Reference Stock").
It is envisaged that existing holders will offer their Stock for repurchase at a margin of 60 basis points or more above the gross redemption yield of the Reference Stock. Wereldhave will only accept offers for repurchase at margins greater than or equal to 60 basis points above the gross redemption yield of the Reference Stock.
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By Order of the Board
39 Sloane Street,
London SW1X 9WR
7th December 2006
Registered in England No. 295909
A member of the Wereldhave Group
Charles Bloema, Corporate Treasurer
+31 70 346 93 25
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
Andrew Burton, Head of Liability Management
+44 20 7085 8056
Mike Hardman, Head of UK Sales
+44 20 7085 8082
Stuart Montgomerie, Head of European Corporate Syndicate
+44 20 7085 5862
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For the Soup:
- 2 cups filtered water (add more or less for desired thickness)
- 2 stalks celery cut into 1/4-inch cubes
- 1/2 cup yellow onion, peeled and chopped
- 1 cup butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice blend
- 1 tsp. poultry seasoning blend
- 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
- 1/2 tsp. cumin
- 1/2 tsp. minced garlic
- 1 tbsp. yellow miso
- 1 large avocado
- 1 whole red bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 6 whole fresh sage leaves (or 1 tsp. dried ground sage)
For the Cream:
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tsp. apple cider vinegar
- 3 tsp. lemon juice
- 1 tsp. light miso
- 1 cup raw cashews (soaked for 4 hours)
- Place all soup ingredients except the red pepper and sage leaves in a blender. Blend until creamy and smooth.
- Add the red bell pepper and lightly blend until bell pepper is combined. Do not over-blend; you want small pieces of the beautiful bell pepper throughout your soup. Transfer to a tureen or large bowl. Wash blender container.
- To make the cashew cream:
- Add all ingredients for the cashew cream to the blender and blend until smooth.
- To assemble:
- Ladle the soup into serving bowls. Top with a teaspoon of cashew cream and one sage leaf.

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الإرهاب تعريفه وآثاره في العالم الإسلامي
Terrorism has become a danger faces the entire international community. All countries agreed to combat and addressed it. Worldwide researchers have agreed that terrorism is not characterized by religion, colour or nationality. However, many Westerners believe that extremism and terrorism are part and parcel attributes of a Muslim wherever he is.
Accordingly, the research problem in this study is centered on a core question which is: what are the ways to combat the phenomenon of terrorism, which represents a risk to the issue of security in the Muslim world
The study aims to clarify the concepts of the term terrorism from the perspective of different directions. The current study adopts a descriptive approach by reviewing previous studies relevant
The study found the most important results which are represented in the intellectual vacuum, wrong understanding of religion and militancy and extremism in religion, as well as the emergence of an extremist religious group within the Muslim community
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People in Todmorden are being urged to take extra care when out and about this weekend, as a number of cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 (first identified in India) have been found in Todmorden and are linked to socialising in the evening.
The Delta variant is more transmissible, so it is more important than ever to stick to the five big things to help prevent the spread:
- Keep our distance and limit mixing with people we don’t live with.
- Wear a face covering where necessary, unless medically exempt.
- Self-isolate if we test positive or are a contact of someone who has tested positive.
- Meet others outside where possible, and if not then let the fresh air in.
- Book our vaccine when we are invited by the NHS.
Additional PCR testing will begin in Todmorden next week to help stop the new variant spreading and to keep COVID-19 rates as low as possible. More information will be available next week on how to access this extra testing, which will be for everyone in Todmorden regardless of whether they have symptoms.
Deborah Harkins, Calderdale Council’s Director of Public Health, said:
“The fantastic joint efforts of people in Calderdale have helped to drive down our local COVID-19 rates in recent months. However, cases are now gradually increasing in Calderdale, and across the whole borough there has been an increase in cases of the Delta variant in the last week. The number of Delta cases is still low but is increasing quickly, reflecting the situation across the country.
“A cluster of Delta cases has been found in Todmorden and the evidence from contact tracing shows that this transmission started through socialising in the evening.
“If you’re out and about in the good weather this weekend, please make sure you play your part, be vigilant and take extra care. By taking preventative action together, through the five big things, we can stop things getting worse.
“To add to the public health advice that we can all follow, we’re providing more testing in Todmorden next week as a preventative measure to help control the spread of the Delta variant.”
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The ATV is described as a Red Honda Rancher 420 with the letter “P” cow branded on both sides of the vehicle’s fender, a “bull head logo” cow branded on both sides of the gas tank, and the number “138” etched on top of the gas tank. The estimated value of the ATV is $9,000.
Police ask anyone with information relative to this case to call the police department’s non-emergency line at 808-935-3311 or email Officer Kiley Loo at [email protected].
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NORRISTOWN — A Delaware County man potentially faces decades in prison after a judge convicted him of charges he illegally sold firearms outside an Upper Providence gun show and threatened detectives with a gun as they moved in to arrest him.
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By Diogenes ( articles ) | Aug 26, 2005
Tom Hennessy sings the praises of Jimmy Breslin's favorite priest:
[Brooklyn's Fr. John Powis] kept his Sunday tradition of having the congregation sing "Happy Birthday" to members celebrating that occasion.
Once when a little girl missed the cue to stand for the song, Powis caught her disappointment, summoned her to the front of the church, and had the congregation sing a second time just for her. Who would not love such a man?
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After VIPs, now pandal delays use of Eastern Freeway
MMRDA sources claim structure built to host inauguration of the freeway at the hands of the CM is being pulled down slowly owing to the rains; motorists likely to ply on freeway today only after 1 pm
While the Eastern Freeway, constructed by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), was finally inaugurated yesterday afternoon at the hands of Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, sources from the MMRDA said the freeway would be thrown open for motorists only after 1 pm today as dismantling the pandal erected for the inauguration programme would take time.
A source said, “Labourers worked non-stop to erect the pandal. Owing to the rains, as a precautionary measure, dismantling work cannot be done in the night.” Though several motorists thought they might use the freeway immediately after inauguration, the pandal constructed at the Orange Gate-end covered both the carriages of the freeway, forcing MMRDA officials to keep the freeway off-limits for motorist despite inauguration. MMRDA Joint Project Director Dilip Kawathkar said, “We have already instructed the contractor to dismantle the pandal at the earliest so that the freeway can be opened for the motorists.”
What the CM said
“Mega projects such as Eastern Freeway will make Mumbai a world class city. Most importantly, the freeway is toll-free. It will not only serve Mumbaikars and change their way of commuting, but will also showcase the pathway to infrastructural growth of the state.”
Asked about the delay, Chavan said, “The inauguration got delayed due to some pending work done in the adjacent tunnel.” Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said the freeway was inaugurated to reduce the inconvenience experienced by motorists during monsoon. He also took potshots at the MMRDA for lack of planning while executing skywalk projects.
“The MMRDA is doing a very good job, but at the same time it should do a proper survey while implementing projects like skywalks which are receiving a lukewarm response. These days, skywalks have become a place for morning and evening walks. Pedestrians are also using them to kill time and have small meetings.”


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Brazilan Baroque, A Musical Eldorado
Brazilian music is rich in rhythm and themes and it is definitely not just made of samba. This 500 years old country has other cultural treasures, that have now been discovered and explored by Birmingham's players and singers from Ex-Cathedra.
The concert is conducted by the Artistic Director, Jeffrey Skidmore, who has been to Brazil twice and in early this year, visited the country once again looking for more hidden gems of Baroque art itself in cities such as Curitiba, São Paulo, Salvador and Ouro Preto.
Baroque art has importance to the architecture, literature and music of Brazil.
It will be the first time Ex Cathedra will performance this traditional Brazilian music and as a result, this magnificent concert will be recorded as a CD.


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Plainsite is an online database that makes state and federal court filings and other public records available to users for free. The site also offers analytics features to paying subscribers, meant to help lawyers and pro-se litigants gain insights about attorneys, judges, government offices and the law.
Greenspan has meticulously tracked litigation by or against companies mostly in the U.S., including Tesla, Twitter (which Musk took private in an acquisition last year), as well as competitors GM, Meta and a myriad of others. He and Musk have also been involved in litigation over the years.
At the time Plainsite’s account was suspended, it boasted more than 24,000 listed followers on Twitter. Greenspan’s personal account had around 2,500 followers.
The suspension stands at odds with public statements from Twitter’s executive chairman and CTO Elon Musk, and newly-appointed CEO Linda Yaccarino. Yaccarino was previously global advertising chief at NBCUniversal, the parent company of CNBC.
In April 2022, after Musk announced his intention to acquire Twitter, he wrote in a tweet, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
More recently, Yaccarino wrote in a company-wide memo that a healthy civilization needs an “unfiltered exchange of information and open dialogue about the things that matter most to us.” She also said in the memo, “You should have the freedom to speak your mind. We all should.”
Greenspan told CNBC on Thursday that he has not yet received information from Twitter saying why the company suspended his accounts, though he has requested a reinstatement of both.
He also discussed some of the reasons why he started the “legal transparency initiative” Plainsite, and how he came to be regarded as an Elon Musk nemesis.
“I created Plainsite with two friends in 2011, because we were all wondering why Occupy Wall Street didn’t have the impact we expected,” he reminisced. “No financial execs went to jail for the 2008 financial crisis though it really was obvious there had been criminal wrongdoing somewhere. One reason, we thought, was that people didn’t understand what the law said and what are the loopholes banks or execs were able to exploit to get out of being held accountable.”
Over the years, Greenspan has shorted stock in some of the companies he has researched and written about on Plainsite, disclosing those positions when he held them. He is not short Tesla today, but he has been in the past, he said.
Why Plainsite began looking into Tesla
Plainsite began its focused research on Tesla in 2018 after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Musk and Tesla with civil securities fraud.
The charges came after Musk tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla private at $420 per share and had funding secured to do so, causing a halt in trading that day, and sending Tesla stock into a period of volatility for weeks.
Musk and Tesla settled the charges with the regulators, without admission of guilt or the ability to claim innocence.
Greenspan said, “I was not interested in Tesla until the SEC took action against the company and Elon that year. That got me thinking that it may be over-valued, given the fact it was running into trouble with financial regulators.”
A community on Twitter, including short sellers and other subject matter experts interested in what Tesla was doing, became frequent Plainsite users and subscribers.
Court filings and public records rendered easily searchable by Plainsite often revealed details about Tesla’s troubles and tactics. Plainsite records obtained through FOIA requests have been widely cited by press including CNBC, Reuters, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times and many others.
Since 2018, Greenspan has made court filings and other public records available on Plainsite that revealed:
- Twitter is facing more than 25 lawsuits over non-payment to vendors since Elon Musk took over in October 2022.
- Even as Musk continuously promised shareholders that Tesla was on the brink of delivering a “level 4-5” self-driving robotaxi – the company’s Autopilot engineers categorized its most advanced driver assistance systems as “level 2” in official government communications with the California DMV. A level 2 system is not self-driving, it requires drivers to keep their hands on the wheel.
- Complaints sent to attorneys general in Texas, Nevada and Ohio, showing that Tesla customers there were not able to get the EV maker to provide required documentation to register their vehicles with local DMVs.
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk once attempted to refer a former process technician at Tesla’s Gigafactory, whistleblower, Martin Tripp, to the US Attorney’s office for the District of Nevada for criminal prosecution (p. 192).
- Elon Musk knew but did not tell shareholders that SolarCity was facing a liquidity crisis at the time the Tesla board was pushing for an acquisition of the solar installer, which was started by Musk’s first cousins and where Musk was a major investor and board member.
In May 2020, Greenspan sued a Tesla promoter alleging harassment, and named Elon Musk as a party contributing to that harassment in the lawsuit.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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Our Song of the Day is The Bottom of the Well, a new track from Norwegian singer and songwriter Torgeir Waldemar who in 2014 took the Norwegian people and music press by surprise with his eponymous debut album which has been described as having come straight from the rehearsal room of a young troubadour from Laurel Canyon in the seventies.
The Bottom of the Well is taken from his forthcoming new album No Offending Borders, one that documents and shows the seriousness we meet in our everyday lives. Both on the personal level, with relationships that fall apart and the loss of loved ones, but also on a national and global level, with refugee crises, suicide statistics and the weakest members of our society.
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Initial Voters List for CMC Elections Announced
The Supervising Committee for the Fifth Central Municipal Council Election announced the initial list of voters at the headquarters of each constituency on Wednesday, 28/01/2015. The initial list included more than nineteen thousand and six hundred names of the voters.
The committee has urged all citizens who have registered their names in voters list to head toward electoral headquarters to ensure their names are entered in the voter list. Meanwhile, the committee has also started receiving applications for addition or deletion of the voters through the headquarters of all electoral constituencies as well as ‘Metrash2’ service, and is providing a chance to the citizens who could not register their names in the voter list to register during the addition and deletion period of seven days until Thursday, 5/2/2015.
The addition or deletion phase is the second period of registration in the voters lists according to the system of CMC election, allowing citizens who have did not find their names in the list for any reason or faced any kind of mistake in their details to approach their headquarters with in the described period.
The committee pointed out that there is one committee in each of the headquarters of all electoral constituencies to assist the citizens in all of the registration process.

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When The Conference Board announced this morning that America’s recession is “losing steam,” it added its voice to an ongoing discussion among economy watchers about whether the worst of the downturn is finally behind the country.
The New York-based Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators rose 1.2% in May, the second consecutive month of gains. Seven of the Board’s 10 indicators improved in May. A week earlier, USA Today and the market research firm IHS Global Insight made headlines when their new Economic Outlook Index, a composite of 11 variables, forecast that the recession would end in September, “with a mild recovery beginning in October.”
The U.S. Department of Labor joined the chorus when it reported this morning that continuing jobless claims fell by 148,000 to 6.68 million during the week that ended June 6. That was the largest drop in more than seven years and broke a string of 21 weeks of increases.
Other positive signs include the fact that inflation remains under control. The federal government’s Consumer Price Index in May was down 1.2% from a year ago, and rose only 0.1% from the previous month, despite recent spikes in oil and food prices. And the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reports this morning that manufacturing firms in the Philadelphia say they are seeing the best business conditions since last September, when the economy crashed.
These so-called “green shoots” in the economy could still prove to be false alarms. "We see a bottom in the fall, but there's a lot of risk attached to that," David Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor’s, told USA Today. The Philadelphia Fed Bank’s economic index is still negative 2.2 for June, which means more businesses than not see business conditions worsening. But that index’s latest reading is a dramatic improvement from the negative 22.6 it registered in May, according to MarketWatch.
One indicator of how soon a metropolis might recover could be how well its housing market has fared during the recession. A new survey by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, which monitors the economies of 366 metropolitan areas, found that in the first quarter of 2009, 38 of the top 100 metro areas avoided declines in home prices over the previous 12 months, during which prices nationwide had dropped by 6%.
Brookings’ “MetroMonitor” deems San Antonio the country’s most recession-resistant town, based on four key indicators: percentage changes in employment, unemployment rate, gross metropolitan product and real housing prices.
John Caulfield is senior editor at BUILDER magazine.
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Did a video about my love for One Piece. Enjoy
17 years of One Piece - the story so far…
17 years of One piece! Thank you Oda for all your hard work until now ^^
(I was trying to be serious with this but kinda failed on the last one)
HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY, ONE PIECE!!
08.04.2014 | Happy 17th Anniverary, One Piece!!


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A Castle of Sand by Bella Forrest
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Format: eARC, 296 pages
Series: A Shade of Vampire #3
Source: Author in exchange for an honest review
Description from Goodreads:
What Sofia has with Derek feels like a sandcastle; temporary and something that the waves of life and time will soon ruin...
the return of Gregor Novak, the island has turned several shades
darker. His hatred toward Sofia and thirst for fresh blood lead to a
brutal war igniting between father and son.
hunters are gaining formidable strength and resources by the day; they
know that the safety of The Shade hangs entirely on its ability to
remain hidden from them.
And a sinister secret lies in wait for
Sofia within the bowls of an Egyptian desert... a secret that threatens
to crush her sandcastle much sooner than she could have expected.
Honestly, it took me a little bit of reading in the beginning of this book to get back IN to the series. But once I got back in? Goodness, I was HOOKED. Bella Forrest writes the most compelling vampire stories. This one picks up right where A Shade of Blood left off, catching us up with Derek and Sofia and everyone else pretty easily.
These characters are great. Sofia...well, she does seem like a special snowflake, but she also earns her status. I like how she can be calm in situations I know I would personally be FREAKING OUT. And she really is kind. Add that stuff to the fact that she is one big mystery--WHY is she so important, what is up with her, WHAT is going on?!?!--and that makes for a character that may not be my favorite but definitely hold my attention. And Derek...I don't know what to do with this guy. I feel for him so much. My heart hurts. He was much better behaved in this one than he was in book 2, so that made me happy. But he's still not perfect. Then again, that's what makes his character feel so real. Imperfections always help to make characters feel more real, in my opinion. I heart Derek. He's not my favoritest ever, but I think he can definitely end up being one of the book boys I cherish once he and Sofia finally get through the big mess they're currently dealing with.
Throughout the whole book, there's the idea of a sandcastle and how they always get swept away by nature. That's just how it goes; it's inevitable. I really liked how this idea held throughout the story. It didn't feel like too much to me at all. It just WAS and I enjoyed that. Plus, it was kind of deep.
Oh, and Ben. Oh, goodness Ben. BEN BEN BEN. My boy Ben. Sigh.
The course this story takes is waaaaay far from what I ever could have imagined. Right when I think the story's going one way and the characters are going to do one thing, they do something I NEVER could have expected. I kind of love it, though. I love not being able to predict what comes next. It's not so much that I have no idea what is happening; it's just enough that I don't really ever get bored.
The ending to this one is just like we've come to expect from Bella--a big BOOM that left me wanting more. So much more.
Overall, this was an awesome addition to a series I grow to love more and more with each installment. Bella Forrest writes the most addicting stories, y'all. And she does vampires soooo well. Yeah, I'm wanting the next book NOW.

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David Harbor to star in new horror movie for Gory’s holiday season
Are you ready for another entry into the holiday horror subgenre? This year sees the release of Silent night, an apocalyptic vision of seasonal terror. Next year we will receive Violent night, a bloody and “dark as coal” Christmas offering.
Universal Pictures has officially awarded a holiday thriller Violent night to their calendar. On December 2, 2022, the David Harbor starring production 87North hits theaters, just in time for you to stuff your trackers.
Violent night has been described as a “charcoal black holiday thriller that says you should always bet on red”. The horror film will be the star Black Widow, Hellboy, and Strange things‘ David Harbor and is directed by Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola. It was the filmmaker who brought us the Dead snow series.
Once again, Universal Pictures has scheduled its holiday thriller 87North Violent night by December 2, 2022, Deadline reports.
Subsequently, for those who do not remember, the Dead snow snow series is a cult zombie combination of holiday features. The Norwegian filmmaker torpedoed the relevance of the films, which saw a group of young people fighting Nazi zombies against a backdrop of a snowy vacation.
Personally, I am not a huge fan of using the Nazis with horror. But, it is undeniable that cult status Dead snow has achieved over the past decade.
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Finally, what did you think of the Dead snow series? Are you interested in a more seasonal horror from the filmmaker? Let me know on Twitter via @joshkorngut. I’m always here to discuss the horror of the holidays.
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The 566 members of the Netherlands’ 12 provincial councils will decide if the governing alliance gets a majority in the upper house of parliament on Monday afternoon.
The minority cabinet, made up of the VVD Liberals and Christian Democrats, has an alliance with the anti-Islam PVV in the lower house of parliament, but the three parties may fall one seat short of an overall majority of 38 seats.
This means the coalition will need the support of a fourth party to get through controversial legislation – particularly in the field of tightening up immigration laws. The PVV agreed to support the cabinet on economic matters in return for a get-tough approach to foreigners.
This weekend it emerged the VVD has dropped support for legislation which would scrap the blasphemy laws. This is widely seen as a concession to win the backing of the fundamentalist Christian group SGP in the senate – a move which could give the alliance the slim majority it needs.
Voting takes place at 15.00 hours, with the result due at around 16.00.
According to the Financieele Dagblad, it is still extremely unclear if the government will get the support it hopes for, despite the concessions to the SGP. Between three and six seats are still uncertain, due to the complicated voting procedure and the fact that some councillors may vote for other parties.
Trouw says if the three alliance parties give their ‘excess votes’ to the anti-Islam PVV, that would add up to an extra seat for the alliance. Helping the SGP to a second seat would also have the same affect. But if the Liberal democrats of D66 and ChristenUnie give their surplus votes to Labour or the Socialists, the opposition may have a majority.
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Mercenaries 2 deploying August 31
At the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo, then-independent developer Pandemic Studios unveiled Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for the PlayStation 3. Now, 22 and a half months, three more versions, two delays, and one near-Bono-boycott later, the now-Electronic Arts-owned studio has finally announced the game's release date, courtesy of a trailer released today on its official site. As predicted by retailers in January, the game will arrive in August--Sunday, August 31, to be exact. Pandemic has since confirmed to GameSpot that the date applies to the PS3, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, and PC editions of the game in North America. Europe and the UK will receive the game Friday, September 5.
The trailer shows the setup for Mercenaries 2, which follows the further misadventures of Scandinavian gun-for-hire Mattias Nilsson, voiced again by Swedish actor Peter Stormare (Fargo, Prison Break). This time, instead of tangling with North Koreans, the tattooed merc is betrayed by his employer, the suave drug lord Ramon Solano, who stages a coup in Venezuela.
After receiving a painful gunshot to the posterior, Matthias reteams with his two former comrades--American Chris Jacobs and Chinese-Australian Jennifer Mui--to take on Solano by working for other factions seeking Venezuela's oil wealth. Said factions include the Chinese, Rastafarian pirates, Universal Petroleum, and the PLAV (Peoples Liberation Army of Venezuela).
Like the first Mercenaries, World in Flames will feature free-roaming gameplay where a player can run freely--and amok--on a battlefield eight by eight kilometers in size.
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THis was supposed to be a PS3 exclusive. but now it's multi. i hope it'll be good.
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Everything you need to know about vaping and the latest controversy over e-cigarette deaths
It’s billed as a smoking cessation medication or a ‘healthier’ alternative to traditional dried tobacco smoking, but after reports of a cluster of lung diseases associated with electronic cigarette use, many have started questioning its long-term safety. Amanda Cassidy reports.
You probably know someone who vapes. You might vape yourself. But do you know exactly what it is doing to your lungs? Neither do researchers – at least not over the long-term.
But it is better than smoking, right? Not necessarily.
Amid the hysteria about vaping, one thing has come to light – the fact that nobody is sure exactly how inhaling nicotine through an aerosol impacts health.
In recent weeks over 200 people have been admitted to hospital for pneumonia-like symptoms including shortness of breath, coughing, chest pain, fatigue, vomiting and fevers. It is suspected that vaping is responsible for the illness. Two people have died, a person in Illinois who was identified as being between 17 and 38 years old, and another from Oregon who had been using a vaping device with cannabis purchased from a dispensary.
In cases in New York, researcher also found that Vitamin E was in black market vape oils tied to illnesses in the state. The Centre for Disease control has now opened an investigation into the number of severe lung diseases potentially associated with vaping.
In context, comparing this to the number of regular smoking-related deaths, it is easy to dismiss the numbers involved as minuscule, but the red flag here is the unknown.
Simah Herman is an 18 year old from California, she uploaded images of herself unconscious in hospital after her lungs failed. ‘This is all because of vaping,'”she wrote in her post which was shared hundreds of thousands of times. ‘Vaping is advertised as “a healthier alternative to smoking” which is false. Whether it’s nicotine or weed vaping can be fatal. I was lucky. The doctors didn’t think I was going to make it but with prayers from family and friends I pulled through after almost a week on a ventilator.”
This week, also in the US, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that the state will ban the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes in an attempt to curb youth vaping. It’s after a prominent US surgeon general called it an ‘epidemic’.
“My number one priority is keeping our kids safe and protecting the health of the people of Michigan,” said Whitmer. “And right now, companies selling vaping products are using candy flavors to hook children on nicotine and misleading claims to promote the belief that these products are safe. That ends today.”
So what exactly is in an e-cigarette?
Electronic cigarettes were invented in 2003. It is a device allows the user to get nicotine through an aerosol rather than combustion products of dried tobacco. Vaping is when the e-cigarette heats up a liquid that usually contains the drug nicotine as well as chemicals that are “generally recognised as safe” when eaten but not when inhaled
These chemicals include propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin that is derived from vegetable oil. That vapor contains all of the chemicals in the liquid and also may contain others produced by the heating process.
Recent studies have shown a string of potential health risks associated with vaping. Lipoid pneumonia is one such disease, probably caused by inhalation of oil-containing vapor: the body’s immune response to oil in the lungs involves inflammation that can be fatal. Laura Crotty Alexander, is a pulmonologist who has been studying the effects of e-cigarettes since 2013.
Speaking to the the Huffington Post, she is in no doubt that vape devices are dangerous. “They’re definitely going to cause disease, both in the lungs and throughout the rest of the body,” she said. “We can definitely say now that they are not healthy, they’re not without risk.”
But for some, it is the lesser of two evils.
Some public health groups even recommends that e-cigarettes can help smokers quit. A study carried out two years ago found that if an e-cigarette is used along with behavioural therapy it may help some smokers quit.
But aren’t these devices are sold in places where this type of ‘therapy’ isn’t always readily available? Moreover, they are now, worryingly being marketed at the younger generation. In other words, instead of being a cessation remedy for smoking, could it be a gateway to smoking for those who’ve never tried any type of smoking before?
“To suggest there is a less-bad way of consuming harmful substances is at best ignorant, and at worst manipulative”.
Amelia’s 15-year-old daughter started vaping earlier this year. She believes that it is being sold to teens as a more modern and ‘cooler’ version of smoking and that it is completely safe. “I was so cross with her, and asked her why and she told me it was safe, much safer than actual smoking. She was adamant that there was nothing risky about it. I don’t know why it isn’t banned completely. But the packaging is bright and youthful, the flavours like bubblegum attractive to kids.”
My own eight-year-old daughter asked me what ‘My Blu’ is the other day. She saw the bright packaging of the newest e-cigarette brand to hit Ireland as we stood waiting for the Luas. She rarely asks me about ads so it was obvious that it was something in the marketing that caught her attention.
Smoking, whichever way you consume it, is a choice. We know puffing on these things isn’t wonderful for our health. To suggest there is a less-bad way of consuming harmful substances is at best ignorant, and at worst manipulative. To market them to our children is reckless.
The latest health panic over vaping is a good opportunity to have a wider conversation about what we consider ‘healthy’ when it comes to smoking. We should be asking ourselves if this is signal that we should be taking steps to stamp it out completely?
Perhaps instead of applauding an alternative to smoking like vaping, we can work towards some better resources and supports for those who do want to quit smoking for good. And to steer our children away from the message that there is a safe way to smoke.
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Read more: How vaping may harm your immune system
Read more: 16 people die every day from smoking in Ireland
Read more: I’ve finally quit smoking for good after 35 years


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Here is a timeline of the actions of and interactions between Donald Trump and James Comey leading up to Thursday’s much-anticipated Senate hearing.
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In May the WHO warned that mental health must be at the centre of any pandemic recovery plan. Australia is responding with a national plan for mental health and wellbeing but some say its not nearly enough.
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A slow start to the snow accumulation season north of the U.S.-Canadian border has served to drag down -- to about 97 percent of normal -- predictions of how much water will gush from Columbia River basin mountains by summer’s end.
The Northwest River Forecast Center’s monthly “final” forecast predicts, in the most likely scenario, the water supply as measured at The Dalles Dam on the lower Columbia from January through July will be 104 million acre feet. That would be just below the 1971-2000 average. The forecast for April through September is also 97 percent of average.
The latest NWRFC forecast assumes 100 percent of normal precipitation for the rest of the winter and spring. All the runoff from the mid- and upper Columbia and Snake River courses past The Dalles.
The forecast is buoyed by rosy prediction of 110 percent of average runoff from the upper Snake, as measured at Lower Granite Dam on the lower Snake. The water volume expected to run past Lower Granite from January through July is 33 MAF.
British Columbia, at least through early January, is saddled with a modest snowpack in the Columbia’s headwaters. The water volume forecasts for Canadian measuring points range from 90 to 93 percent of normal. About 60 percent of the overall basin water supply comes from British Columbia/western Montana in the Columbia’s upper reaches, the NWRFC’s Steve King said during a Monday discussion of the forecast.
The water supply forecast for Grand Coulee Dam on the mid-Columbia in central Washington is 94 percent of normal or 59 MAF for January through July.
It’s possible that the upper basin’s snowpacks could catch up. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center has issued “a very bold forecast” for a wetter than average January-March across the Northwest, King said. The CPC forecast is for a greater than 33 percent chance of above normal precipitation for the region as a whole and a probability of more than 40 percent throughout Washington state, in northern Oregon, and in north and central Idaho.
“There’s lots of season to come,” King said.
La Niña conditions, which tip the odds toward cooler, wetter winters in the Northwest, are expected to continue well into the Northern Hemisphere’s spring 2011.
A moderate-to-strong La Niña continued during December 2010 as reflected by well below-average sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific Ocean, according to a Jan. 6 “diagnostic discussion” posted on the CPC’s web site.
“The current ENSO model forecasts have not changed significantly compared to last month. La Niña is currently near its peak and is expected to persist into the Northern Hemisphere spring 2011 at a lesser intensity,” the Jan. 6 discussion says. The climatic phenomenon is known as the El Nino/Southern Oscillation.
“Thereafter, there remains considerable uncertainty as to whether La Niña will last into the Northern Hemisphere summer (as suggested by the NCEP [National Centers for Environmental Prediction] CFS and a few other models), or whether there will be a transition to ENSO-neutral conditions (as suggested by the CPC CON and a majority of the other models).”
“We’re still expecting near normal conditions for the year,” Steve Barton of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told the Technical Management Team Monday. “Everything near the border and south is near normal. Canada does have some ground to make up.”
The Corps and Bureau of Reclamation operate the dams in the Columbia-Snake mainstem hydro system. TMT’s federal, state and tribal members discuss dam operations that might be implemented to benefit salmon and steelhead stocks that are listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Precipitation totals show the same north-south differential. In the Columbia basin above Grand Coulee precipitation was 93 percent of normal Jan. 1-10 and 94 percent of normal so far in the water year (Oct. 1 through Jan. 10). It could be higher but for the fact that the Columbia above southern British Columbia’s city of Castlegar has only received 77 percent of normal precipitation so far during this water year.
The Snake River basin above Ice Harbor Dam has received 120 percent of its average precipitation through Jan. 10.
The Columbia basin above The Dalles has received 101 percent of its normal precipitation.
Snowpack “snow-water equivalents” are the best, as a percent of average, in the upper Snake region in south-central and southeastern Idaho, according to the National Resources Conservation Service’s SNOTEL Snow/Precipitation Update Report. The area that includes the Henrys Fork, Teton, Willow, Blackfoot and Portneuf drainages had a snowpack SWE at 114 percent of normal through Jan. 11 and the Raft, Goose, Salmon Falls and Bruneau area was at 123 percent of normal.
The Owyhee-Malheur snowpack SWE is at 118 percent of normal. The Owyhee originates in northern Nevada, cuts across the southwest corner of Idaho and the southeast corner of Oregon and empties into the lower Snake. The Malheur originates in southeast Oregon and likewise drains into the lower Snake.
The Clearwater-Salmon snowpack SWE was only 90 percent of normal through Tuesday. Both rivers originate in central Idaho. The NWRFC’s latest forecast, however is for runoff of 109 percent of normal during January-July in the Salmon at Salmon, Idaho, and 102 percent of normal in the Clearwater at Orofino, Idaho.
The NWRFC’s water supply forecast for the North Fork of the Clearwater, which fills Dworshak Dam’s reservoir in west-central Idaho, is 100 percent of average. The Corps’ own forecast completed early this month for Dworshak water supply is 124 percent of average. The Corps forecast is nudged up by the La Nina conditions while the NWRFC forecast is not.
Western Montana snowpack is, for the most part, at or above average. The Kootenai River drainage in Montana is at 97 percent SWE, the Flathead River at 112 percent and the lower Clark Fork River drainage at 97 percent while the upper Clark Fork is at only 86 percent. The Idaho Panhandle mountains have only 84 percent of their average SWE.
The NWRFC’s Jan. 7 forecast predicts the Kootenai River’s flows into Libby Dam’s reservoir will be 93 percent of average during January-July. The Corps’ forecast is for inflows of 96 percent of average during the April-August period.


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A practice prevails to a very considerable extent among the sevoral school disiricts, of trustees' engaging with a teacher that he shall board with the parents of the children alternately. There is no au. thority for such a contract, and it cannot be enforced on the inbabitants. This compulsory boarding gives occasion to constant altercation and complaint, which often terminate in breaking up the school. The best arrangement is to give the teacher a specific sum and let him board himself But there are some districts so destitute that it may afford the inhabitants considerable relief to be permitted to board the teacher. In such cases the object can be obiained in another
way. Let the trustees contract with the teacher at a specific sum per month, or by the quarter, and they may agree with him, that if he shall be afforded satisfactory board at the house of any of the inhabitants, he shall allow whatever sum may be agreed upon per week for such board.--N. Y. Dec.
TEACHERS' CONTRACT. If a teacher's certificate is annulled, the trustees (district board) are at liberty to dismiss him, and to rescind their contract with him. They engage him as a qualitied teacher, and the moment he ceases to be so, there is a failure of the consideration for the contract. If, however, the trustees continue him to the school after notice that his certificate has been annulled, it will be regarded as such a continuance of the contract that they will not be allowed at a subsequent period to dispute it.-16.
EXEMPTION OF INDIGENT PERSONS. In the exercise of the power conferred upon the trustees, of exempting indigent inhabitants of their district from the payment of the whole, or of portions of their rate bills, the utmost liberality, compatible with justice to the district, should be indulged. Nothing can be more at variance with the benign spirit and intent of the school laws, than the compulsory distress and sale of articles of absolute necessity to an indigent family, for the purpose of satisfying the rate bill for teachers' wages. And yet cases of this kind are frequently brought to the notice of the department. Every reasonable facility should be afforded to the children of the poor, for the attainment of all the blessings and advantages of elementary instruction; and this should never be permitted to become in any degree burdensome to their parents. Where any inhabitant of the district in indigent circumstances cannot meet the rate bill for the payment of the teachers' wages, without subjecting himself to serious embarrassment, or bis family to sensible deprivation, he should promptly and cheerfully be exonerated. A just feeling of pride may reasonably be expected to preclude any from availing themselves of this exemption, unless under the pressure of absolute necessity; and occasional abuses of the privilege so accorded, are productive of less disastrous results, than & prevailing impression among the indigent inhabitants of a district, that their children can partake of the advantages of common school
education, only at a burdensome charge to themselves, and by a sacrifice of the ordinary necessities and comforts of their families. -N. Y. Dec.
As a general rule, all under the age of twenty-one years, and of a proper age to be benefitted by instruction, are entitled to admission. There must, however, be some discretion vested in the trustees, in regard to such admission. Children having infectious diseasesidiots--infants—and persons over twenty-one, may undoubtedly be excluded; and colored children, where their attendance is obnoxions to the greater portion of the patrons of the school, especially in cases where schools have been established for their separate benefit, within a reasonable distance from their residence.-16.
DISMISSAL OF SCHOLARS.
It is the duty of the trustees to co-operate with the teacher in the government of the school, and to aid him, to the extent of their power and influence, in the enforcement of reasonable and proper rules and regulations; but they have no right to dismiss a scholar, except for the strongest reasons; for example, such a degree of moral depravity as to render an association with other scholars dangerous to the latter, or such violent insubordination as to render the maintenance of discipline and order impracticable, in which case they may legally exclude him from the school
, until such period as he may consent to submit to the reasonable rules and regulations of the teacher and trustees; and if after such exclusion be persists in attending, without permission from the trustees, and contrary to their directions, he may be proceeded against as a trespasser.-—-16.
The object of the law for procuring district libraries is to diffuse information, not only, or even chiefly, among children or minors, but among adults and those who have finished common school education. The books, therefore, should be such as will be useful for circulation among the inhabitants generally. They should not be children's books, or of a juvenile character merely, or light and friv. ulous tales and remances, but works conveying solid information which will excite a thirst for knowledge, and also gratify it, as far as such a library can. Works imbued with party politics, and those of a sectarian character, or hostility to the Christian religion, should on no account be admitted; and if any are accidentally received they should be immediately removed. Still less can any district be permitted to purchase school books, such as spelling books, grammars, or any others of the description used as text book in schools. Such an application of the public money would be an utter violation of the law.
The selection of the books for the district library, is devolved by law exclusively upon the trustees, (in Michigan upon the school insepctors,) and when the importance of this most beneficial and enlightened provision for the intellectual and moral improvement of the inhabitants of the several districts, of both sexes and all condi
tions, is duly estimated, the trust here confided is one of no ordinary responsibility. In reference to such selections, but two prominent sources of embarrassment have been experienced. The one has arisen from the necessity of excluding from the libraries all works having, directly or remotely, a sectarien tendency, and the other, from that of recommending the exclusion of novels, romances and other fictitious creations of the imagination, including a large proportion of the lighter liertature of the day.
The propriety of a peremptory and uncompromising exclusion of those catch-penny, but revolting publications which cultivate the taste for the marvellous, the tragic, the horrible, and the supernatural—the lives and exploits of pirates, banditti and desperadoes of ev. ery description—is too obvious to every reflecting mind to require the slightest argument. Unless parents desire that their children should pursue the shortest and surest road to ignominy, shame and destruction-should become the ready and apt imitators, on a circun. scribed scale, of the pernicious models whic they are permitted and encouraged to study-- they will frown indignantly on every attempt to place before their immature minds, works whose invariable and only tendency is disastrous, both to the intellect and the heart.
The exclusion of works imbued to any perceptible extent with sectarianism, rests upon the great conservative principles which are at the foundation of our free institutions. Its propriety is readily conceded when applied to publications, setting forth, defending, or illustrating the peculiar tenets which distinguish any one of the numerous religious denominations of the day from the others. On this ground no controversy exists as to the line of duty. But it has been strongly argued that those "standard” theological publications which, avoiding all controverted ground, contain general expositions of Christianity--which assume only those doctrines and principles upon which all “evangelical” denominations of Christians are agreed, are not obnoxious to any reasonable censure, and ought not, upon any just principles, to be excluded from the school district library. There are two answers to this argument, either of which is conclusive. The one is, that the works in question, however exalted may be their merit, and however free from just censure, on the ground of sectarianism, are strictly theological, doctrinal or metaphysic-l; and therefore no more entitled to a place in the district library ihan works devoted to the professional elucidation of law, medicine, or any other learned professions. Their appropriate place is in the family, church or Sunday school library. The other answer is, that in every portion of our country are to be found conscientious dissenters from the most approved theological tenets of these commentators on Christianity; individuals who claim the right, either of rejecting Christianity altogether, (as the Jews.) or of so interpreting its fundamental doctrines, as to place them beyond the utmost verge of "evangeli-' cal” liberality; and this too, without in any degree subjecting themselves to any well-founded imputations upon iheir moral character as citizens and as men. The State, in the dispensation of its bounty, bas no right to trample upon the honest convictions and settled
belief of this or of any other class of its citizens, against whose demeanor, in the various relations of society, no accusation can be brought; nor can it rightfully sanction the application of any portion of those funds to which they, in common with others, have contributed, to the enforcement of theological tenets to which they cannot conscientiously subscribe. Any work, therefore, which, departing from the inculcation of those great, enduring and cardinal elements of religion and morality which are impressed upon bumanity as a part of its birthright-acknowledged by all upon whom its stamp is affi xed, however departed from in practice, and incorporated into the very essence of Christianity as its pre-eninent and distinctive principle-shall descend to a controversy respecting the subordinate or collateral details of theology, however ably sustained and numerously sanctioned, has no legitimate claim to a place in the school district library, nor can its admission be countenanced consistently with sound policy or enlightened reason.
The following general principles have been laid down in a special report on common school libraries, prepared under the direction of the department, by Henry S. Randall, Esq., County Superintendent of common schools of Cortland county, and may be regarded as the settled principles of the department in reference to this class of books:
“1. No works written professedly to uphold or attack any sect or creed in our country, claiming to be a religious one, shall be tolerated in the school libraries.
“2. Standard works on other topics shall not be excluded, because they incidentally and indirectly betray the religious opinions of their authors.
"3. Works avowedly on other topics, which abound in direct and anreserved attacks on, or defences of, the character of any religious sect; or those which hold up any religious body to contempt or execration, by singling out or bringing together only the darker parts of its history or character, shall be excluded from the school libraries.
“It is said that under the above rules, heresy and error are put on the same footing with true religion—that Protestant and Catholic, orthodox and unorthodox. Universalist, Unitarian, Jew, and even Mormon, derive the same immunity! The fact is conceded; and it is averred that each is equally entitled to it, in a government whose very constitution avows the principle of a full and indiscriminate religious toleration.
“ He who thinks it hard that he shall not be allowed to combat, through the medium of the school libraries, beliefs, the sin and error of which are as clear to him as is the light in Heaven, will bear in mind that the library at least leaves him
and his religious beliefs in 84 good a condition as it found him. If it will not propagate his tenets, it will leave them unattacked. If he is not allowed to use other men's money to purchse books to assault their religious faiths, he is not estopped from spending his own as he sees fit, in bis private, or in his Sunday school library-nor is he debarred from placing these books in the hands of all who are willing to receive them. His pon
er of morally persuading his fellow men is left unimpaired; nor will he, if he has any confidence in the recuperative energies of truth—if he believes his God will ultimately give victory to truth-ask more. In asking, or condescending to accept, the support of an earthly gov. ernment, he admits the weakness of his cause, the feebleness of his faith. He leans on another arm than that which every page in the Bible declares all-sufficient. In what age of the world has any
church entered into meretricious connection with temporal governments, and escaped unsullied from the contact? Any approximation to such connection, even in the minutest particular-any exclusive right or immunity given to one religious sect or another in the school library or elsewhere, is not only anti-religious, but anti-republican. we have the right to adopt religious creeds, and to attempt to influence others to adopt them; but as Americans, as legislators or officials dispensing privileges or immunities among American citizens, we have no right to know one religion from another. The persecuted and wandering Israelite comes here, and he finds no bar in our Daturalization laws. The members of the Roman, Greek. or English Church equally become citizens. Those adopting every hue of religious faith-every phase of heresy, take their place equally under the banner of the Republic-andro ecclesiastical power can snatch even *the least of these' from under its glorious folds. Not an hour of confinement, not the amercement of a farthing, not the deprivation of a right or liberty weighing in the estimation of a hair,' can any such power impose on any American citizen, without his own ful! and entire acquiescence.”—N. Y. Dec.
When it is considered that the foundations of education are laid during the period of youth, and that the taste for reading and study is, with rare exceptions, formed and matured at this period, if at all, the importance of furnishing an adequate supply of books, adapted to the comprehension of the immature but expanding intellect-suited to its various stages of mental growth, and calculated to lead it onward by a gradual transition, from one field of intellectual and moral culture to another, cannot fail to be appreciated.
And even if the intellectual wants of many of the inhabitants of the districts, of more mature age, are duly considered, it admits of little doubt that a due proportion of works of a more familiar and elementary character than are the mass of those generally selected, would have a tendency not only to promote, but often to create that taste for mental pursuits which leads by a rapid and sure progression to a moro extended acquaintance with the broad domains of knowledge. Those wbose circunstances and pursuits in life, have hitherto precluded any systematic investigation of literary subjects, and who, if they possessed the desire, were debarred the means of intellectual improvement now brought within their reach, can scarcely be expected to pass at once to that high appreciation of useful knowledge, which the perusal of elaborate treatise on any of the numerous branches of science or metaphysics requires; and the fact brought to view by the annual reports of the county superintendents, that by far the greater proportion of the inhabitants of the several districts neglect


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Verizon Communications Inc. already disclosed that it reversed its negative subscriber trends in the fourth quarter, but there’s more to be shared about the company’s story.
The wireless giant is set to post fourth-quarter results Tuesday morning amid continued skepticism on Wall Street about the company’s ability to drive a bigger change in its business. Verizon
may have stemmed the bleeding after three quarters in a row of subscriber declines in its consumer postpaid business, but analysts, who are mainly neutral-rated on the stock, have questions about Verizon’s ability to pick up real momentum in a competitive wireless market.
Here’s what to expect ahead of Verizon’s report, which is due out before Tuesday’s opening bell.
What to expect
Earnings: Analysts tracked by FactSet expect the company to post adjusted earnings per share of $1.19 for the fourth quarter, down from $1.31 a year before. According to Estimize, which crowdsources projections from hedge funds, academics and others, the average estimate calls for $1.22 a share.
Revenue: Analysts surveyed by FactSet anticipate that Verizon generated $35.09 billion in revenue for the latest quarter, up from $34.10 billion a year before. Those contributing to Estimize expect $35.16 billion on average.
Stock movement: Verizon shares have fallen following each of the company’s past four earnings reports. The stock is up 12% over the past three months, though it’s fallen 25% over a 12-month span.
Of the 28 analysts tracked by FactSet who cover Verizon’s stock, seven have buy ratings, 19 have hold ratings, and two have sell ratings, with an average price target of $44.34.
What to watch for
While Verizon Chief Executive Hans Vestberg already teased that the company achieved its goal of positive consumer subscriber growth in the fourth quarter, but the company has yet to reveal the scale of those gains.
Evercore ISI analysts led by Vijay Jayant expect that the company saw 50,000 postpaid phone net additions in its consumer business, down from the 336,000 it saw in the fourth quarter of 2021. They anticipate that Verizon saw a 12-basis-point increase in its churn relative to a year ago.
The company’s outlook for fiscal 2023 will also be of key interest.
“We are expecting Verizon’s 2023 guidance to be impacted by the same competitive and macro pressures that led to management lowering 2022 guidance in July — cost inflation, competition, increased promotional subsidies, higher interest rates, and business vs. consumer customer growth mix,” wrote Deutsche Bank analyst Bryan Kraft. In addition, he notes the potential for “a slower demand ramp in 5G mobile edge compute services and higher cash taxes (possibly, depending on management’s assumptions underlying the FCF [free-cash-flow] guidance).”
However, such pressures “appear to already be reflected in consensus estimates,” Kraft added.
Verizon’s narrative continues to invite skepticism on Wall Street.
“We find the near-term setup to be negative for VZ with the valuation above
historical averages and fundamentals struggling to show sustainable growth,” wrote KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Brandon Nispel, who has a sector-weight rating on the stock. “We are below consensus estimates and see headwinds to EPS [earnings-per-share] growth that are likely to cause a short-term negative reaction to the stock.”


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This high-energy conglomerate of jazz, ballet and contemporary movement knows how to entertainclassic and sophisticated, but with a playful, modern twist (Naples Daily News). Enjoy River North Dance Chicagos commissioned world premiere dedicated to the life and music of Eva Cassidy, an extraordinary artist who died years before her music became cult classics. Sexy, daring, and fluid, they light up the stage (Dallas Morning News).
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In partnership with Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center around the presentation of Eva, free walk-up skin cancer screenings will be offered on April 4 from 5:30 PM-7:15 PM in the Annenberg Center Main Lobby.
Stay after the performance for a talk back with the company.
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MARBELLA, Spain, May 13 (UPI) -- England's Lee Westwood Sunday won the European Tour's Romano Open de Andalucia by two shots over fellow Englishman Phillip Archer and Swede Fredrik Andersson.
In the final 18 holes, Westwood shot 5-under 67 to end with an overall score of 20-under 268.
"I never really thought about going so long without a win," Westwood said after ending a four-year victory drought. "I've still been playing pretty well. I knew that winning is fickle -- sometimes you just don't get across the line first."
Westwood, a five-time Ryder Cup member, won 16 times between 1996 and 2003 -- including six victories in 2000 to match the European Tour record set by Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo and Colin Montgomerie.
Andersson (66) and Archer (65) finished at 18-under 270.
Second-round leader Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa (69) and Sweden's Michael Jonzon (69) shared fourth place at 16-under 272.


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Fire-rescue crew members use a jaws of life rescue device to free a girl whose head became trapped between the bars of a metal fence Wednesday Dec. 25, 2013 at a McDonald's.
Firefighters with tools commonly used to extricate victims from car crash wreckage freed a 3-year-old girl whose head was stuck Wednesday between the metal bars of a fence at a McDonald's.
The girl's head was lodged for about 20 minutes between two bars of the fence around a play area at the restaurant in the 4900 block of Beach Boulevard in Buena Park. Orange County Fire Authority personnel used the Jaws of Life rescue tool to cut through bars so the child could escape.
The uninjured girl was crying, but managed a smile after receiving a fireman's sticker badge, a stuffed animal and ice cream.


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Small Corners is an album of Christian music by British pop singer Cliff Richard. It is his third gospel album, and was recorded in Abbey Road Studios in January 1977. It consists largely of songs by American writers which he had been performing in concert for some time.
AllMusic found that due to its "spontaneous air" it was more fun and less "pious" than his other religious recordings. On its reissue, Mojo magazine gave it 3/5.
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If you don't want a permanent structure and need to be able to put your goal out of the way, you will need a portable one. This kind of goal is the most challenging to assemble, and can take anywhere between 5 hours to a full day, although once assembly is complete, you will have a premium basketball goal. The instructions will let you know what tools are needed to assemble the goal and before play, you will need fill the base with water to ensure that it is stable You can place this type of goal anywhere you want, and moving it around will be easy as it will have wheels on its base. An added advantage of this type of goal is that it can be adjusted to different heights to suit different players.
If you have a little bit of experience in outdoor activities you will know about the hazards nature can impose. Hypothermia and dehydration are among the most dreaded of these. There are in fact various aspects of nature that can make a difference to you health, for better or for worse. You need to get the proper outdoor gear to do away with the latter.
Most of us worry about subjecting our smartphone, MP3 player, or an expensive set of headphones to the sweat and casual abuse that can destroy most outdoor gadgets during the course of a workout or run. Imagine yourself mid-run when it begins to rain, or running along the street and a car splashes a puddle all over your body. With Sony's new waterproof MP3 Walkman you now don't have to worry about such casual disasters.
If you are starting to hike regularly, then think about what you need on these hikes and what you potentially will need to have once you increase the distance and elevation covered. The right shoes or boots are naturally an essential, as well as the correct outdoor layers for whatever season it is. You will also need backpack, water bottle, tools and cookware among others. Once you expand these trips to overnight ones, you will need camping tents and other outdoor gear to protect you as you sleep.
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TripAdvisor shares hit all-time high; site saw 2 billion visitors in 2013
Shares in TripAdvisor reached an all-time high on Wednesday, rising as high as $93.13 during the day and closing at $90.27.
The surge came after the Newton, Mass.-based travel review and booking site beat revenue expectations in the fourth quarter and forecast strong financial results looking ahead.
TripAdvisor said traffic in the fourth quarter rose 50 percent year-over-year, and that its sites drew more than 2 billion unique visitors in total in 2013.
Shares in TripAdvisor (Nasdaq: TRIP) closed up 2.6 percent for the day on Wednesday, and were up 93 percent from the same day a year earlier, when shares closed at $46.66.
TripAdvisor shares were up another 1.6 percent, to $91.78, as of mid-day Thursday, giving the firm a market capitalization of $13 billion.
The company said 2014 revenue growth is expected at the mid-20 percent range (compared to an analyst consensus estimate of 21.9 percent).
Revenue for the fourth quarter of the year was $212.7 million, up 26 percent from the same period a year earlier and beating analyst estimates by $6.9 million.
Founded in 2000, TripAdvisor publishes user-generated reviews of hotels and other travel-related properties, coupled with travel search functions like booking for hotels, flights and rental cars.
Last year, the company rolled out a major change to its site that made it easier for consumers to view hotel pricing (and affected the pricing charged to advertisers).
In an interview last July, CEO Steve Kaufer said the move was "probably the biggest change to the reservation part of our site in the past 10 years" — and would hurt revenue in the short term, while helping the business over the longer term due to the improved user experience.
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Earlier this summer, I found myself in Madison, Wisconsin at the headquarters of one of our customers, Sub-Zero. Sub-Zero is the leading brand of built-in refrigeration and in 2000, acquired the Wolf line of cooking appliances. Both are the dream brands for anyone undertaking a kitchen remodel or dreaming of one (including my wife!). The Sub-Zero facilities are gorgeous, particularly the kitchen showrooms where they showcase innovative shapes, sizes, and models for all sorts of consumer needs, kitchen styles and décor.
I was particularly struck at how these appliances- truly the most beautiful and technologically advanced of their kind, are designed and built in the heartland of America (with engineering in Wisconsin and manufacturing in Arizona). The Cisco team and I, along with our partner from Librestream, were there to profile how Sub-Zero used the Internet of Everything, in this case, innovative mobile video collaboration to re-engineer and streamline their new product design, manufacturing and installation processes. Find out more details on their use case and business outcomes Sub-Zero experienced from my colleague Chet Namboodri’s blog on Sub-Zero Innovates with the Internet of Everything
To me, Sub-Zero’s use of innovative solutions clearly embodies the theme of a recent Industry Week article on how small to mid-sized manufacturers can use transformative technology to level the playing field. In many cases, I think smaller firms actually have the advantage- including more flexibility to pilot and deploy solutions in perhaps unusual ways. What do you see as some of the possibilities for IoE in your engineering or production environment?
Adding a detachable tablet with a proprietary app that compliments grocery deliver services, etc. is becoming very inexpensive for these companies to intergrate into their products. It could even very easily turn into a revenue generating stream that continues to bring in cash for these companies long after the appliance has been sold.
Nicholas Lee Fagan
Fully agree with your comments from the end user standpoint and just in the past few days there have been some great articles with Google and Amazon looking to get into this area. The focus of SubZero in this case is around product development and product releases. I can not speak for SubZero with regards to future products and possible link ups outside of the blog I have written.
Security will always be a concern from a consumer standpoint, and the IoT world is starting to see this need and reacting to this. No longer is it enough to just plug in your TV (Refrigerator, stove, etc…) and turn it on. Now you need to be aware of any and all connections that this device may have and ensure you are connecting to the outside world in a secure and safe manner.
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The four lodges in this private concession are run by the well-established Wilderness Safaris, which means exclusivity, impeccable service and superb guiding. The reserve borders the western boundary of Chobe NP and a big part of the famous Savute Channel is located within the reserve. There are no borders between the reserve and Chobe, and animals migrate freely across. The Linyanti swamp system, created by a big bend in the Linyanti River, attracts large herds of animals, especially elephant. The Linyanti River and the Savute Channel attract big herds of animals in the Dry season. Elephant are particularly prolific, but so are other herbivores, such as red lechwe, Burchell's zebra, blue wildebeest, impala, waterbuck and buffalo. Lion, wild dog and cheetah are regularly seen. Night drives give an opportunity to spot bushbaby, genet and other nocturnal species. The main habitats in Linyanti Concession are the river with several lagoons and marshes, and the adjacent woodland. The Savute Channel is usually a dry, sandy riverbed, but it flows occasionally. In the channel are permanent pools of water attracting many animals.
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Mardi Gras falls on March 5 this year, so there’s still time to join in the festivities with a New Orleans-inspired menu. The five recipes here showcase Louisiana flavors and ingredients in easy-to-prepare dishes.
1. Louisiana Seafood Gumbo
Louisiana chef John Folse created this gumbo for Walk-On's Independence Bowl college football game, held earlier this season, but this Creole soup-stew also makes for a celebratory Mardi Gras meal. There are as many variations of gumbo as there are parade floats, but they all start with a saute of onions, bell peppers and celery—“the holy trinity” in culinary terms—and are thickened with a brown roux. Chef Folse’s version also includes lots of local seafood, such as crab, oysters and shrimp, as well as andouille sausage.
Photograph courtesy of Walk-On's Bistreaux & Bar
2. Jambalaya Pasta
Jambalaya, a saute of rice, vegetables and seafood or meat, is as iconic a dish as gumbo in Louisiana. At McPhee’s Grill in California, chef-owner Ian McPhee gives the classic his own spin by using orecchiette pasta in place of rice and enriching the mixture with creme fraiche, but sticking with the traditional Cajun seafood seasoning and andouille sausage.
Photograph courtesy of California Milk Advisory Board
3. Creole Black Skillet Pistachios
A hot cast-iron skillet, unshelled pistachios and an assortment of seasonings are the essentials for this quick-cooking Mardi Gras snack. The combination of Creole spice, bourbon, garlic and sugar infuses the nuts with authenticity. Chef Tory McPhail recommends eating the pistachios as you would eat crawfish, by first tasting the shell to experience all the seasonings, then removing the shell to get to the crunchy nut inside.
Photograph courtesy of American Pistachio Growers
4. Crawfish Mashed Potatoes
The small crustaceans known as crawfish—or mudbugs to the locals—are indigenous to Louisiana and show up in many preparations. Here, chef David Woodward adds cooked crawfish tail meat to scratch-made mashed potatoes to create a hearty side dish with the flavors of bayou country. The potatoes are simmered in Creole crab boil spices to reinforce the regional connection.
Photograph courtesy of Idaho Potato Commission
5. Mini Muffuletta Sandwiches
University of Texas is holding a Mardi Gras feast for students, serving a New Orleans-inspired menu at the end of February. Muffuletta sandwiches, rooted in NOLA’s Italian community, are one of the items on offer. These are typically made on long French baguettes, but this mini version uses ciabatta buns for a more portable, individual sandwich, layering on the traditional sliced salami, provolone and smoked ham. A housemade olive tapenade jazzes up the filling.