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  Gap Inc. Opens Doors Longer to Customers and Offers Great Deals for Holiday
  Shopping This Thanksgiving

   More than 1,100 Stores Open Across Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic on
Thursday, November 22; Nearly 1,500 Stores Opening at Midnight on Black Friday

Business Wire

SAN FRANCISCO -- November 08, 2012

Gap Inc. announced today it will continue its tradition of giving shoppers a
jumpstart on holiday shopping by opening more than 1,100 stores across the
country on Thanksgiving Day, including nearly 800 Old Navy stores, more than
200 combined Gap and Gap Outlet stores, and more than 100 total Banana
Republic and Banana Republic Factory stores.

Additionally, almost 1,500 stores across Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Gap
Outlet and Banana Republic Factory Store divisions will open at midnight on
Black Friday, November 23.

“Not only do our customers expect amazing products from Old Navy and other Gap
Inc. brands, but they also anticipate memorable shopping experiences during
this significant holiday weekend. From our extended hours, to our fun and
engaging in-store events, we are focused on exceeding our customers’
expectations,” said Tom Sands, executive vice president, Old Navy U.S.

Some Black Friday promotions include:

  *Old Navy: On Black Friday,  everything is on sale with featured doorbuster
    deals on coats, denim and tees. Customers can line up early for a free New
    Super Mario Bros. U game for Nintendo’s all new Wii U system with the
    purchase of $40 ($59.99 value; quantities limited and vary per store).
  *Gap: True to its “Be Bright” marketing platform,  Gap is turning Black
    Friday into “Bright Friday,” with up to 60 percent off storewide from
    Tuesday, November 20 through Sunday, November 25. From midnight until noon
    on Black Friday, customers can get sweaters for $19 at Gap and graphic
    tees for $5 at GapKids and babyGap. Also, when you buy a Gap gift card, a
    percentage of your purchase goes toward two non-profit organizations: CARE
    and Communities In Schools.
  *Gap Outlet and Banana Republic Factory Stores: Gap Outlet and Banana
    Republic Factory Stores will feature up to 70 percent off everything in
    the stores starting November 16 and lasting through Sunday, November 25.
  *Banana Republic: On Black Friday, Banana Republic will offer customers 40
    percent off their entire purchase all day long. Starting December 1
    through December 12, Banana Republic is launching “12 Days of Joy,” an
    exciting program giving shoppers a special free holiday surprise every
    time they shop.
  *Athleta: “Take a Breather from Black Friday” with Athleta. Visit any
    Athleta store across the country on Black Friday for a break from
    shopping. Each location will feature special offers such as giveaways,
    free fitness classes, and personal shoppers to help women renew, refuel,
    and recharge. Check to view the day’s activities
    per store.
  *Piperlime: In celebration of Piperlime’s first holiday with a physical
    store location, Piperlime in New York’s SoHo neighborhood will open its
    doors an hour early on Black Friday and offer a hot chocolate and holiday
    treats to shoppers.

In addition, customers can experience all Gap Inc. brands online with one
seamless checkout and payment process and Everyday Free Shipping on any order
over $50. As always, Piperlime orders include Free Shipping and Free Returns.

About Gap Inc.

Gap Inc. is a leading global specialty retailer offering clothing,
accessories, and personal care products for men, women, children, and babies
under the Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime, and Athleta brands.
Fiscal 2011 net sales were $14.5 billion. Gap Inc. products are available for
purchase in about 90 countries worldwide through about 3,000 company-operated
stores, about 250 franchise stores, and e-commerce sites. For more
information, please visit

Gap Inc.
Edie Kissko, 415-427-4173 (Media Relations)
Michael Jenkins, 415-427-4454 (Investor Relations)


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Air China’s Beijing-New York Service Gets Major Boost with Upgrade to Boeing 777-300ER and Expanded Frequency

  Air China’s Beijing-New York Service Gets Major Boost with Upgrade to Boeing
  777-300ER and Expanded Frequency

-The Big Apple joins other Air China North America gateways with fleet upgrade
                            and expanded capacity-

Business Wire

NEW YORK -- January 30, 2013

A special double treat awaits China and Asia-bound travelers from New York on
March 31, 2013 when Air China, China’s exclusive national flag carrier,
upgrades its aircraft to the state of the art Boeing 777-300ER and increase
its frequency from 7 to 11 per week for its nonstop New York-Beijing flights.

“Adding new flights is a response to a consistently growing passenger demand
for more convenient nonstop services between New York and Beijing. Business or
leisure travelers bound for Beijing or onward to domestic Chinese cities and
other destinations in Asia such as Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, the Philippines,
Thailand and many others, stand to benefit the most from Air China’s increased
capacity and convenient connecting flights,” Mr. Yuelong Zhou, Air China’s
General Manager in New York, said.

Air China is the only airline with nonstop service between New York and
Beijing. It is also the only airline with first class cabin between these two
cities. Current daily flights between New York and Beijing are CA 982 and CA

The additional outbound flight, CA 990, departs from John F. Kennedy
International Airport (JFK) on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 2:50
AM, arriving in Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) at 2:20 PM local
time the next day. Inbound, CA 989 leaves Beijing at 9:00 AM also on Monday,
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, arriving in New York at 10:20 AM local time on
the same day.

As the largest long-range twin-engine jetliner, the B777-300ER is cleaner and
greener. It also brings twin-engine efficiency and reliability to the
long-range market and delivers better fuel performance.

“Operating the New York-Beijing flight with the new ‘triple seven’ provides
Air China with a significant advantage in the highly competitive New York
market. It shows our commitment to provide air travelers with the best product
from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Beijing. I’m sure our guests
will appreciate the features of the energy-efficient Boeing 777-300ER,” Mr.
Zhou commented.

The ‘triple seven’ has a wider cabin than any competing aircraft. It is
designed for maximum passenger comfort and convenience. Air China’s Forbidden
Pavilion (first class) features eight luxury suites, 41 full-flat bed seats in
the Capital Pavilion (business class) and 259 economy seats with individual
monitors and in-seat audio-video on demand (AVOD).

Designed for maximum passenger comfort, the interior of Air China’s B777-300ER
feature ten mood lighting variations in the Forbidden and Capital Pavilions,
each timed to complement the different phases of a flight—from boarding
through meal service, sleeping and pre-arrival. The ambient lighting recreates
the sunset, night and sunrise to reflect the various services associated with
each phase and create a totally relaxing environment.

Today’s announcement follows last week’s approval granted to Air China by the
U.S. Department of Transportation to start four weekly nonstop services
between Houston and Beijing on July 11, 2013 using the B777-300ER. Houston is
Air China’s fifth gateway in North America in addition to New York, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. The Los Angeles-Beijing service,
operated with the B777-300ER, will resume its double daily flights on March
31, 2013. Vancouver-Beijing is scheduled to increase from 7 to 11 flights per
week on May 17, 2013. A bigger B747-400 full passenger aircraft will be used
for the San Francisco-Beijing daily operation beginning March 31, 2013.

About Air China

Air China is the world’s largest airline by market capitalization, according
to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Air China holds the
controlling shares for Shenzhen Airlines, Air Macau, Dalian Airlines, Beijing
Airlines, Shandong Airlines and 29.9% of Cathay Pacific Airways, making it the
airline’s largest shareholder after the Swire Group. It operates a fleet of
432 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Its robust network of 289 routes extends
throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South and North America from its
main hub at Beijing Capital International Airport where it offers unrivaled
connections to cities within China and beyond. As a Star Alliance member, Air
China has within its reach 1,356 destination in 193 countries.

Visit or call Air China’s North America Call Center at
800-882-8122 for more information.

Air China
Lillibeth Bishop
(310) 744-8231

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Copper Faces Two-Year Shortage, Will Peak at Over $10,000, Trafigura Says

Copper supplies will lag demand for at least the next two years, with prices peaking over $10,000 a metric ton in the second quarter next year, according to Trafigura Beheer BV, which considers itself the world’s second- largest trader of industrial metals.

Copper will move from a balanced market this year to shortages of 800,000 tons in both 2011 and 2012 at current prices, Simon Collins, head of refined metals at Trafigura in Lucerne, Switzerland, said in an interview yesterday. That’s even before demand climbs as exchange-traded funds backed by the metal are introduced, he said.

Such funds “will result in higher prices, which in turn will affect price-sensitive demand and price-sensitive supply,” Collins said. “Consumers are concerned about an ETF. Inventories are already relatively low.”

Copper prices are up 21 percent this year, and reached a record $8,973.50 a ton today, partly as manufacturers and other buyers who anticipate shortages build inventories to meet demand for next year, Collins said. Imports into China, the world’s largest consumer, typically are strongest in the second quarter, helping to boost copper prices and leading gains in lead, nickel and aluminum, he said. Copper stockpiles tracked by the London Metal Exchange have slid 30 percent this year.

In 2006, the copper market was also forecast to have a large deficit when higher prices brought the market further into balance than originally estimated, Collins said. If prices rise, next year’s deficit may be only 400,000 tons, he said.

Copper Trading

Trafigura trades about 1 million tons of copper a year, Collins said. Glencore International AG is the largest trader of industrial metals, according to Trafigura estimates.

Trafigura is preparing for more metals demand by customers and increasing its warehouse capabilities through its subsidiary NEMS, with plans to expand in the U.S. next year for the first time with storage facilities in Baltimore and New Orleans, as well as in China, Collins said. He declined to give an estimate of the investment.

Copper demand may rise if JPMorgan Chase & Co., BlackRock Inc. and ETF Securities Ltd. start ETPs backed by the metal, in line with plans announced by all three companies in October.

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Benesse, Glory, Mitsui, Panasonic, Tepco: Japan Equity Preview

The following companies may have unusual price changes in Japanese trading on May 23. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are as of the latest close. The information in each item was released after markets shut unless stated otherwise.

Benesse Holdings Inc. (9783) (9783 JO): The educational-services provider expects a 13 percent drop in net income to 18 billion yen ($220 million) this fiscal year. Benesse also said it will spend as much as 10 billion yen to buy back up to 2.8 percent of its shares. The stock gained 0.9 percent to 3,300 yen.

Geo Corp. (2681) (2681 JT): The operator of DVD and CD sale and rental outlets forecast operating profit will rise 10 percent to 15.5 billion yen this fiscal year. The stock advanced 1.1 percent to 92,800 yen.

Glory Ltd. (6457) (6457 JO): The maker of vending machines forecast net income will rise to 6.5 billion yen this fiscal year from 6.23 billion yen a year earlier. The stock slipped 0.8 percent to 1,721 yen.

Growell Holdings Co. (3141 JT): The drugstore chain said it will set up a venture in Shanghai to open outlets in China. The stock rose 0.3 percent to 2,057 yen.

Mitsui & Co. (8031 JT): BP Plc (BP LN) said a unit of Mitsui, one of its partners in the Macondo well, will pay $1 billion to the London-based oil company relate to a settlement over last year’s Gulf of Mexico spill. Mitsui fell 1.7 percent to 1,345 yen.

Nippon Signal Co. (6741 JT): The maker of traffic signals said full-year net income fell 20 percent to 2.64 billion yen. The company expects a 14 percent rise in net income to 3 billion yen this fiscal year. The stock rose 0.5 percent to 602 yen.

Panasonic Corp. (6752) (6752 JT): The world’s largest maker of plasma televisions said the impact this year from continued supply-chain disruptions from Japan’s record quake will be “extremely severe.” The stock lost 0.6 percent to 944 yen.

Sharp Corp. (6753 JT): Japan’s largest maker of liquid- crystal displays plans to more than double domestic sales of smartphones to 5 million handsets in the year ending March 31, the Nikkei newspaper reported. The stock slid 0.3 percent to 726 yen.

Softbank Corp. (9984) (9984 JT): The wireless operator may invest 80 billion yen in solar power generation plants, the Sankei newspaper said, without saying where it got the information. The shares rose 0.8 percent to 3,045 yen.

Sony Financial Holdings Inc. (8729) (8729 JT): The insurance and banking arm of Sony Corp. (6758) (6758 JT) forecast net income will fall 31 percent to 29 billion yen this fiscal year. Sony Financial retreated 1.5 percent to 1,426 yen. Sony rose 0.3 percent to 2,221 yen.

Tobu Railway Co. (9001 JT): The railway company said it expects net income to fall 37 percent to 8.2 billion yen this fiscal year. The stock dropped 0.6 percent to 310 yen.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501 JT): The utility, known as Tepco, reported a full-year net loss of 1.25 trillion yen following the Fukushima nuclear accident. President Masataka Shimizu will resign. Tepco will book a 1.1 trillion yen charge for the nuclear crisis and plans to raise 600 billion from selling assets. Also, Tepco said it will decommission four reactors at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, and suspended plans to build two additional reactors. The stock leapt 2.5 percent to 367 yen.

Tokyo Individualized Educational Institute Inc. (4745) (4745 JT): The cram school operator will retire 7.77 percent of its outstanding shares on May 31. The company also said it expects net income to fall 21 percent to 125 million yen this fiscal year. The stock declined 1.2 percent to 162 yen.

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Thai Jobless Rate May Rise to as High as 2.3% on Flood

(Corrects nine-month unemployment rate in second paragraph.)

Thailand’s unemployment rate may climb to 1.8 percent to 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter because of widespread flooding, the National Economic and Social Development Board said in Bangkok today.

The jobless rate will recover in the first quarter and return to a normal state in the second quarter as manufacturing resumes, it said. In the first nine months, the unemployment rate stood at 0.7 percent, the agency said.

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Canadian Natural Gas Declines After U.S. Stockpiles Increase

Canadian natural gas fell following a report that U.S. stockpiles of the fuel increased last week in the earliest seasonal gain in five years.

Alberta gas declined 2.5 percent after the Energy Department (DOENUSCH) said U.S. natural gas stocks rose 11 billion cubic feet to 2.38 trillion in the week ended March 16. Warmer-than- normal weather has helped inventories climb to 54 percent above the five-year average.

“Mother Nature has just kicked natural gas in the guts,” said Kyle Cooper, director of research at IAF Advisors in Houston. “The weather on an absolute basis has been really bearish.”

Alberta gas for April delivery fell 4.75 cents to $1.82 a gigajoule ($1.73 per million British thermal units) as of 2:45 p.m. New York time on NGX, a Canadian Internet market. NGX gas is down 36 percent this year.

Gas traded on the exchange is shipped to users in Canada and the U.S. and priced on TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Alberta system.

Natural gas for April delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange slid 9.1 cents, or 3.9 percent, to settle at $2.269 per million Btu.

Spot gas at the Alliance delivery point near Chicago slipped 1.85 cents to $2.1264 per million Btu on the Intercontinental Exchange. Alliance is an express line that can carry 1.5 billion cubic feet a day from western Canada.

Spot Prices

At the Kingsgate point on the border of Idaho and British Columbia, gas rose 1.26 cents to $2.1753 per million Btu. At Malin, Oregon, where Canadian gas is traded for California markets, gas rose 0.18 cent to $2.2304.

Volume on TransCanada’s Alberta system, which collects the output of most of the nation’s gas wells, was 16.8 billion cubic feet, 32 million above target.

Gas was flowing at a daily rate of 1.82 billion cubic feet at Empress, Alberta, where the fuel is transferred to TransCanada’s main line.

At McNeil, Saskatchewan, where gas is transferred to the Northern Border Pipeline for shipment to the Chicago area, the daily flow rate was 2.24 billion cubic feet.

Available capacity on TransCanada’s British Columbia system at Kingsgate was 917 million cubic feet. The system was forecast to carry 1.74 billion cubic feet today, or 66 percent of its capacity of 2.65 billion.

The volume on Spectra Energy’s British Columbia system, which gathers the fuel in northeastern British Columbia for delivery to Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest, totaled 3.1 billion cubic feet at 1:35 p.m.

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Ukraine to Sell Duty-Free Pipes to Russia, Kommersant Reports

Ukraine has won approval from the Russian-led Customs Union to supply 150,000 tons of steel pipes without tax from August through December, Kommersant-Ukraine reported, citing Economy Minister Petro Poroshenko.

Ukrainian pipe makers Interpipe (NITR) and Centravis will be allowed to export without any levies, according to the newspaper. Other Ukrainian steel-pipe makers pay a duty of between 19.4 percent to 37.8 percent, Kommersant reported. The Customs Union includes Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

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CEOs Back Deficit Deal as Obama Fails, Says Wilbur Ross

More than 80 heads of U.S. companies joined a campaign to reduce federal deficits through spending cuts and tax increases because President Barack Obama hasn’t reached an accord with lawmakers that would avoid a fiscal cliff, said billionaire investor Wilbur Ross.

“It was really an announcement out of desperation,” Ross said of a statement yesterday signed by the chief executive officers of companies including Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Boeing Co. (BA) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) “They were trying collectively as business leaders to fill the vacuum left by the political leadership of the president.”

The Campaign to Fix the Debt said in its letter that a long-term deficit-reduction deal would encourage economic growth and ease the uncertainty holding back the U.S. economy. Among the group’s leaders are Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co- chairmen of Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission.

Disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over how to approach deficit reduction have left Congress deadlocked. Obama has said he wants a plan combining some changes to spending programs with a tax increase on high-income earners. Republicans, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney, want cuts to entitlement programs and oppose tax increases.

Potential Recession

“I think it’s tragic that President Obama appointed Simpson and Bowles, they came with relatively sensible suggestions, and he totally walked away and provided no leadership for them,” Ross, chairman of WL Ross & Co., said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse.” “If he had exerted leadership, we wouldn’t have the fiscal cliff that we have now.”

The fiscal cliff refers to $607 billion in spending cuts and tax increases that are set to start in January unless Congress acts to avoid them. If Congress doesn’t come to an agreement, the drop in spending and burden of higher taxes would probably lead to a recession, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

“Policy makers should acknowledge that our growing debt is a serious threat to the economic well-being and security of the United States,” the executives said in the letter.

Other companies with CEOs participating in the campaign include Merck & Co. (MRK), Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), Bank of America Corp. and Loews Corp. (L)

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Oil Options Volatility Increases as Lawmakers Seek Budget Accord

Crude oil options volatility rose amid skepticism that U.S. lawmakers will break an impasse in negotiations to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

Implied volatility for at-the-money options expiring in January, a measure of expected price swings in futures and a gauge of options prices, was 26.94 percent on the New York Mercantile Exchange as of 3:35 p.m., up from 26.37 percent on Nov. 30.

“We saw some upside calls traded, like February $102, $105 and $110 calls,” said Fred Rigolini, vice president of Paramount Options Inc. in New York. “They’re cheap enough that people come in and take a chance on them. But there’s a lot of uncertainty in the market. I still see us being stuck in a range here from $85 to $92 to the end of the year.”

January-delivery crude oil rose 18 cents to settle at $89.09 a barrel on the Nymex.

President Barack Obama’s administration is negotiating with a divided Congress to avert a $607 billion package of automatic spending cuts and tax increases set to begin Jan. 1. The Congressional Budget Office has said failure to reach an agreement may push the economy back into a recession in 2013.

The most active options in electronic trading today were February $110 calls, which were unchanged at 11 cents a barrel on volume of 2,427 lots at 3:41 p.m. January $80 puts were the second-most active, with 2,351 lots exchanged as they declined 3 cents to 9 cents a barrel.

Bets that prices would decline, or puts, accounted for 63 percent of trading volume.

The exchange distributes real-time data for electronic trading and releases information the next business day on open- outcry volume, where the bulk of options activity occurs.

In the previous session, bullish bets made up 51 percent of the 82,956 contracts traded.

March $100 calls were the most actively traded options Nov. 30 with 3,902 contracts. They were up 7 cents to $1.17 a barrel. March $70 puts fell 5 cents to 25 cents on volume of 3,873 lots.

Open interest was highest for January $105 calls, with 45,707 contracts. Next were January $60 puts, at 34,922 lots, and January $110 calls, with 31,290 contracts.

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United Nations Denies Report Ban Ki Moon Will Visit North Korea

The United Nations denied a report by a South Korean newspaper that its Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon may visit North Korea in March.

“This report is totally baseless,” the spokesperson for the secretary-general said in an e-mailed statement. “I wish to make it absolutely clear that there are no plans for or discussions about such a visit by the Secretary-General as reported.”

South Korea’s Dong-A Ilbo newspaper reported earlier today Ban may visit Pyongyang in March to discuss the participation of the two Koreas in the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade, a sporting event for university athletes, as a unified team, citing an interview with Gwangju City Mayor Kang Un Tae.

Ban said last month that he is willing to visit North Korea when “the time comes, when appropriate conditions” are created. The UN Security Council unanimously condemned North Korea’s Dec. 12 long-range rocket launch, calling it a “clear violation” of UN prohibitions.

North Korea requested emergency supplies from the UN last summer, including food and fuel, as it suffered from torrential rains and flooding.

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FLSmidth Gains as Danske Says Share Underrated: Copenhagen Mover

FLSmidth & Co. A/S (FLS), the Danish maker of mining equipment, rose the most among Copenhagen’s benchmark stocks after Danske Bank A/S raised its recommendation, saying the share is too cheap given its potential.

FLSmidth rose as much as 1.5 percent to become the biggest winner in the Nasdaq OMX Copenhagen 20 index, which fell 0.2 percent. The stock rose 1.2 percent to 355.10 kroner at 11:03 a.m. in the Danish capital, with trading volume at 39 percent of the three-month daily average.

FLSmidth, which in November reported earnings that missed analyst estimates, had lost 4.3 percent of its stock market value in the six months through yesterday, compared with an 11 percent gain in the C20 index. Danske today raised its rating on the stock to hold from sell saying the Copenhagen-based company is set to benefit as the global economy recovers.

“We have seen a clear stabilization in China’s real estate and investment levels -- a clear driver of the material recovery in iron ore prices, a significant cash cow for the large mining companies,” Kenneth Leiling, an analyst at Danske, said in the note. He raised his 12-month price estimate on the share to 355 kroner from 295 kroner.

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Germany’s Westerwelle Slaps at Cameron’s EU Single-Market Focus

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said the European Union can’t be reduced to just a single market, hardening his opposition to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for the EU to limit its focus to trade.

Westerwelle, speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore today, said that the EU was a “fundamentally political project” from the outset. The 27- member bloc is the cornerstone of Germany’s post-World War II security and prosperity, and offers the only plausible response to a globalized economy, he said, according to the text of his speech e-mailed by the Foreign Ministry in Berlin.

“You will witness an EU that will move in the direction of more, not less integration, both in economic policy and foreign policy,” Westerwelle said. “Those who look at the EU only as a single market cannot but go wrong in their analysis.”

Cameron aims to repatriate powers to London from Brussels and hold an in-or-out referendum on the U.K.’s EU membership by late 2017, if he wins re-election. The Conservative leader said in a speech last month that the single market is the EU’s “essential foundation,” and not the euro.

Westerwelle, who said at the time that Britain can’t expect to “cherry-pick” the pieces of the EU that it wants and reject the rest, spelled out a very different vision for Europe in Singapore. Having “defied the doomsayers” to keep Europe together during the debt crisis in the 17-nation euro area, Germany will continue to do so in the future, he said.

“For Germany, the project of European integration is not one policy option among many,” Westerwelle said. “We know that we need a stronger and more united Europe if we want a bright future for our country. We will only be able to assert our values and interests if we Europeans stand together.”

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Bank Leumi, Mizrahi Accounts Used for Back-to-Back Loans

A Los Angeles businesswoman charged with conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service used accounts at two Israeli banks, Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd. (LUMI) and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd. (MZTF), to hide assets, her attorney said.

Guity Kashfi will plead guilty in federal court in California, where prosecutors filed her plea agreement, the Justice Department said yesterday in a statement. Kashfi went to the Los Angeles branches of both banks to obtain so-called back- to-back loans secured by accounts she set up offshore and didn’t declare to the IRS, according to the Justice Department.

Kashfi first set up an undeclared account at Mizrahi and then opened one at Leumi, said her attorney, Ed Robbins. The court documents refer to Mizrahi as Bank A and Leumi as Bank B. The highest balance in Kashfi’s undeclared accounts was $2.5 million, the Justice Department said.

“These back-to-back loans were part of the bank’s service,” Robbins said. “She’s cooperating with the government in what’s obviously an investigation of the banks and its principals. She’s been cooperating for quite a while.”

Orit Reuveni, a spokesman for Leumi, declined to comment. Benny Shoukron, a spokesman for Misrahi, didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

March Plea

On March 29, Zvi Sperling of Beverly Hills, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy for using back-to-back loans obtained in Los Angeles that were secured by undeclared accounts at Israeli banks. The banks were Leumi and Mizrahi, two people familiar with the matter said.

Dozens of U.S. citizens who used offshore accounts to avoid taxes have helped the federal government in a criminal investigation of those banks, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter wasn’t public.

The probe, which the people said involves a federal grand jury, comes amid a U.S. crackdown on offshore tax evasion that has widened since UBS AG (UBSN), the largest Swiss bank, avoided prosecution in February 2009. Zurich-based UBS paid $780 million, admitted it helped clients evade taxes, and later turned over data on thousands of accounts.

Kashfi, who was born in Iran, came to the U.S. in 1980 and became a U.S. citizen about 15 years ago, according to a statement of facts filed in her case. She started a clothing business called Countess of California.

Needed Collateral

By about 1982, her business had a $2.5 million line of credit with Mizrahi secured by her inventory. Her banker said she needed more collateral and asked if she had any Persian money to secure the loan. She said she had offshore funds that she wanted to keep overseas, according to the statement of facts.

The banker recommended that she open an account in Israel and transfer her funds to use as collateral for a back-to-back loan. He said “everyone in their community” of Persian Jews in Los Angeles was “using back-to-back loans to access their offshore funds,” according to the statement of facts.

While she initially opened the account in her name, she put it in a different name in 2001 “to prevent the U.S. government from finding the account,” according to the statement. He said the interest paid in Israel would be tax free “because it would not be reported to the IRS so no one would know about her Israeli account.”

Banker Arrested

In 2008, Kashfi was told that one of Mizrahi’s bankers had been arrested and the bank would use money in her Israeli accounts to pay off her back-to-back loans, according to Robbins and the statement. She then transferred the money to a Leumi account in Luxembourg “because she did not want to bring her money back” to the U.S., according to Robbins and the statement.

Kashfi grew concerned in 2009 and went to Luxembourg to close her account. She went to dinner with two bankers “who told her she would have issues if she closed her account and sent the funds” to the U.S., according to the statement.

“One of the bankers told Kashfi that her money was safe in Luxembourg” because “no one could get information relating to bank accounts” there, according to the statement.

The bankers “gave Kashfi a German cell phone to use with both bankers’ numbers preprogrammed in the phone, and told her to use the phone” to call them, according to the statement. “If the bankers needed to talk to Kashfi, they would call her on her personal phone and tell her to call them back on the German cell phone.”

After she closed her account in Los Angeles in 2011, “the bankers in Luxembourg told Kashfi to return the German cell phone, which she did,” according to the statement.

She failed to report interest income of $211,306 on the accounts from 2005 to 2011, according to court papers.

The case is U.S. v. Kashfi, U.S. District Court, Central District of California.

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Airbus SAS, Air Canada (AC/A) and BioFuelNet Canada agreed to work together to study clean jet fuel with the aim of eventually supplying the Canadian carrier as the aviation industry seeks to cut emissions in half.

The companies signed the agreement in Montreal today, Blagnac, France-based Airbus said in an e-mailed statement. They will do an initial study, to be finished this year, of the different processes and raw materials available for biofuel production.

Airlines won approval in July 2011 from ASTM International, the U.S. technical standards body, to fly passenger planes using a 50-50 blend of petroleum-based fuel and biofuel. Airlines that include Air Canada, Air France-KLM Group and Deutsche Lufthansa AG have flown using biofuel.

“Any new alternative fuel has to work on existing and future aircraft without modification while meeting certification requirements,” Frederic Eychenne, Airbus New Energies program manager, said in the statement. Solutions need to be “sustainable, affordable and technically suitable for all aircraft,” he said.

The International Air Transport Association has pledged to cut emissions by half by 2050 from 2005 levels.

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Canada Dollar Drops on Bets Jobs Data Won’t Stop Tapering by Fed

The Canadian dollar fell versus 15 of its 16 most-trade peers amid speculation that a weaker-than-forecast report on U.S. employment won’t keep the Federal Reserve from slowing monetary stimulus as soon as next month.

The currency trimmed a loss against its U.S. counterpart after data showed American employers added fewer jobs than anticipated in July even as the jobless rate fell. Earlier the loonie, as the Canadian dollar is nicknamed for the image of the aquatic bird on the C$1 coin, touched a two-week low versus the greenback. Benchmark government-bond yields fell from a two-year high. The U.S. is Canada’s biggest trade partner.

“It’s certainly not a game changer,” Adam Button, a currency analyst in Montreal at, said of the payrolls report. “The Bank of Canada is very confident in this U.S. recovery. One number never really changes anything.”

The loonie depreciated 0.4 percent to C$1.0392 per U.S. dollar at 5 p.m. in Toronto, falling against all of its major peers except the New Zealand dollar. The Canadian currency, which lost 1.1 percent over the past five days, touched C$1.0403, the weakest level since July 18. One Canadian dollar buys 96.23 U.S. cents.

Futures traders decreased their bets that the Canadian dollar will decline against the U.S. currency, figures from the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed.

The difference in the number of wagers by hedge funds and other large speculators on a decline in Canada’s currency compared with those on a gain -- so-called net shorts -- was 11,434 on July 30, compared with net shorts of 16,758 a week earlier. This week’s total was the least in a month.

Bonds Gain

Canada’s government bonds rose, pushing yields on the benchmark 10-year (GCAN10YR) security down six basis points, or 0.06 percentage point, to 2.49 percent. Yields touched 2.6 percent earlier, the highest level since August 2011. The price of the 1.5 percent debt due in June 2023 increased 48 cents to C$91.46.

The Canadian currency briefly erased losses against the greenback after the U.S. Labor Department reported a 162,000-job increase in U.S. payrolls last month, the smallest in four months. The median forecast of 93 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 185,000 gain. The U.S. unemployment rate declined to 7.4 percent, from 7.6 percent the previous month.

Oil, Canada’s biggest export, dropped for the first time in three days, with futures losing 1 percent to $106.83 a barrel in New York. The Standard & Poor’s GSCI index of commodities declined 0.6 percent.

Canada Impact

“All of a sudden it became ‘maybe the U.S. economy, which is Canada’s biggest export partner, is not as strong as we thought, and how is that really going to impact Canadian growth?’” said Adrian Miller, director of fixed-income strategies at GMP Securities LLC, by phone from New York. “That does not bode well for Canadian exports.”

The jobs figures followed reports this week that showed U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 1.7 percent annualized pace in the second quarter, versus a Bloomberg survey’s forecast of 1 percent, while home prices rose in May by the most since 2006 and manufacturing expanded.

Fed policy makers are discussing whether the U.S. economy has improved enough for them to start slowing the pace of their monthly bond purchases, which tend to devalue the greenback.

The U.S. central bank buys $85 billion of Treasuries and mortgage debt each month in its quantitative-easing strategy to put downward pressure on borrowing costs. Half of 54 economists surveyed by Bloomberg last month said the Fed may decide at its Sept. 17-18 policy meeting to reduce the purchases to $65 billion a month.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told Congress in July that any reduction in stimulus would depend on the economy’s performance.

Canadian Jobs

Canada gained 10,000 jobs in July, after losing 400 the previous month, economists in a Bloomberg survey forecast before a government report due Aug. 9. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.1 percent, economists projected.

The nation’s gross domestic product rose 0.2 percent in May from 0.1 percent the month before, Statistics Canada reported July 31 in Ottawa. Economists in a Bloomberg survey had estimated 0.3 percent growth.

The loonie is little changed this year against nine other developed-nation currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes. The euro has advanced the most, rising 6.1 percent, while the Australian dollar is the biggest loser, sliding 11 percent. The U.S. dollar has added 5.3 percent.

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Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), seeking to capitalize on its heft in markets from TV sets to tablets, pitched new software tools for developers to make games, sell music and deliver advertising across a range of its devices.

The world’s biggest maker of TVs and smartphones opened its first global developers conference yesterday in San Francisco, looking to attract exclusive content and applications. Samsung, based in Suwon, South Korea, told 1,300 attendees it will support Unity, a popular video-game development platform, and unveiled software that lets its tablets and smartphones exchange information through gestures, wireless links and digital pens.

The three-day conference, like similar events hosted by Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc., aims to raise Samsung’s profile among developers by highlighting the company’s strengths as a global electronics manufacturer. The tools are aimed at bridging differences in operating systems among devices, and easing other obstacles to creating software and services.

“There are half a billion connected devices today, yet none are connected to each other,” Samsung President Hong Won-Pyo said in an interview. “We foster an ecosystem of multi-screen apps and user experiences to improve the way people do the things they love, in turn, and create new business opportunities for developers.”

Samsung yesterday released a kit for multiscreen developers to make products, such as games and photo-sharing apps, that are compatible with a broader range of devices, including televisions.

‘Very Easy’

The company’s hardware presents a challenge for app developers because Samsung uses different operating systems across product categories. The new kits can sit on top of multiple systems to enable developers to design one app for many products, according to Curtis Sasaki, senior vice president of cloud service innovation and media solutions at Samsung.

“We want to create services that go back and forth in a very easy way,” Sasaki said in an phone interview. “Our goal is to set the stage for innovation and give developers a lot of ideas they can take with them.”

A keynote demonstration showed users listening to online radio on a Samsung Galaxy S phone, and then shifting it to a Samsung television in the home. Another presentation showed handwriting recognition software on a Galaxy Note 3 tablet. It was used to find an address on, the real estate website.

New Controller

The company showed off a Bluetooth game controller that can dock with mobile devices, and suggested developers using Unity Technologies’ video-game engine, which works across devices, would be able to make games for tablets, phones and even televisions.

While Samsung is the leader in smartphone sales, it’s been criticized for failing to add features that people use, said Ben Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies Inc.

“They’re trying to create proprietary value on their hardware,” said Bajarin, based in San Jose, California. “That’s going to be goal No. 1 for them. That’s challenging because to do that takes more than putting innovative features in a product that not everyone uses.”

This year, Samsung added its first phone with a curved screen to its roster, introduced its $299 Galaxy Gear smartwatch and registered designs for spectacles to challenge Google Glass in the wearable devices market. In July, it bought Boxee Inc., a startup that makes video-streaming apps for phones and tablets, as well as a Web-connected TV set-top box.

Innovation ‘Hotbed’

“Everything we do is about putting the most innovative technology and software in people’s hands,” said Hong, Samsung’s president. “It was also important to continue growing our presence in Silicon Valley, the hotbed of technology innovation.”

Samsung rose 2.3 percent to 1,482,000 won in yesterday in Seoul. The stock has dropped 2.6 percent this year while the benchmark Kospi has added 2.6 percent.

The company posted record third-quarter earnings last week, helped by sales of cheaper Galaxy smartphones in emerging markets. The mobile unit, responsible for about two-thirds of Samsung’s earnings, reported third-quarter operating profit of 6.7 trillion won ($6.3 billion), up from 5.63 trillion won a year earlier.

Profit at its consumer-electronics division, which includes the TV and home-appliance businesses, declined as television manufacturers reel from sluggish demand along with price competition.

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Dotcom Search Warrants Ruled Legal by Court in U.S. Win

New Zealand search warrants used in a 2012 raid on the home of Kim Dotcom were valid, an appeal court found, bolstering a U.S. case for extraditing him on charges including copyright infringement.

A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand today overturned a lower court ruling that found the warrants were overly broad and illegal. The appeal court affirmed a decision that duplicating data seized in Dotcom’s home and moving it to the U.S. was illegal.

Dotcom, 40, founder of the file-sharing website, was indicted in Virginia in January, 2012, on racketeering, money laundering, copyright infringement and wire fraud charges. Relying on illegal warrants would have made the seizure of evidence illegal, potentially hampering the U.S. in its bid to extradite Dotcom from New Zealand.

Historically, if the New Zealand law prohibiting unreasonable searches is breached, the remedy “has been the prima facie exclusion of evidence in subsequent criminal proceedings,” according to the Ministry of Justice.

Dotcom’s legal team “is reviewing the rulings made by the Court of Appeal and will likely seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court,” Dotcom’s lawyer Ira Rothken said in a posting on Twitter today after the ruling was released.

‘Political Case’

Dotcom, who has started a political party in New Zealand, tweeted: “That’s why a political case needs to be fought politically. Not just in the courts.”

New Zealand police, acting on information from the FBI and with assistance from U.S. agents, used two helicopters and two SWAT-like special tactic group squads as well as five other teams of body-armored police to raid Dotcom’s mansion on the outskirts of Auckland. He was arrested and spent a month in jail before being released on bail.

Dotcom, born in Germany as Kim Schmitz, is a resident of New Zealand and legally changed his name. He faces as long as 20 years in prison for each conviction in the U.S. on the racketeering and money laundering charge.

“It is clear that Mr. Dotcom understood from the warrants and the police explanations that allegations of copyright infringement were involved,” the appeal panel said in its ruling. “The defects in the search warrants were not so radical as to require the warrants to be treated as nullities. Rather, they were defects in form, not substance.”

The U.S. extradition bid had stalled as Dotcom has challenged the legality of the raids, seizures and spying on him.

New Zealand High Court Justice Helen Winkelmann, who ruled the warrants were illegal, also ordered police to return some equipment to Dotcom and gave him permission to sue New Zealand’s spy agency for intercepting his communications.

The extradition hearing, initially scheduled for August, 2012, is now due to be held in April.

The case is Between Her Majesty’s Attorney-General and Kim Dotcom. 2014/NZCA19. Court of Appeal of New Zealand

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I have never shared my opinions regarding the environmental debate, and some readers have asked why. Considering I have taken on other controversial topics such as illegal immigration, gay marriage, abortion, Muslims, gun control, etc., it’s certainly a fair question.

I think the reason for not writing about this highly debated topic sooner is because it took me a long time to make up my mind about which side I could most logically support.

Whenever I see almost always passionate environmentalists discuss climate change, their arguments are usually quite compelling. After all, how can anyone ignore the explosive global expansion of burning fossil fuels without wondering if the exhaust might harm us and our planet?

Over a long life, though, I have been repeatedly reminded of the capacity for human greed to drive some individuals to inflame public debate for personal gain. Al Gore became wealthy touting climate change dangers. Ethanol, with government support, was invented by the corn and ethanol industries. It resulted in adding instead of reducing pollution, while increasing the wealth of both industries and their backers. The losers, of course, are consumers who now pay more to fuel their cars and for most food grain products. Solar energy corporate crooks lined up at the federal money trough to take advantage of environmentalist-driven concerns. It doesn’t appear many in that industry have remained in business once the taxpayer supports expired.

I have also been fortunate to travel throughout the world (61 countries at last count) and have driven extensively through every state in America. My travels have helped me realize how massive our planet is and how tiny a footprint humans actually make. For example, close to 80 percent of the U.S. is virtually uninhabited.

Most environmentalists naturally use human time frames like years, decades and even centuries in framing their arguments. They correctly say the world is warming, ice caps and glaciers are melting, and more frequent and severe droughts and forest fires are realities. However, little more than theoretical and anecdotal evidence connects these real events to human activities.

In general, environmentalists seem to purposefully ignore geologic time frames. The Earth is billions of years old, and evidence shows the planet has repeatedly had episodes of climate change during the millenniums. Each period of change was characterized by climate warming and cooling. Very few experts have argued that biological life forms had any relationship to those cyclical changes. Heck, the last ice age (more accurately referred to as a glaciation period) only ended 10,000 or so years ago. It lasted tens of thousands of years. Some experts believe the recent global warming observations may simply show that the ice age just hasn’t finished ending.

It seems unlikely that the many generations of humans who lived during the last ice age blamed themselves as they repeatedly relocated to warmer parts of the planet to survive. Perhaps they blamed it on some greater power we would call God. More likely, these ancient folks understood, better than modern environmentalists, that humans don’t control the planet’s weather — we only exist within it. Nature controls our planet’s cycles of warming and cooling.

Many environmentalists also protest unsustainable human population growth as a plunderer of our planet’s resources. Guess what? Since these concerns were first theorized, our global population growth rates have begun to decline. Birthrate declines have resulted from ordinary people worldwide, knowing they can’t afford large families and having greater access to birth control. Scientists are now expecting global population declines, which will help reduce demands on our planet’s resources — and shatter this argument.

We are now seeing increasing supplies of cleaner burning and less expensive natural gas replacing oil and coal consumption. We will continue to pursue and eventually develop truly cost-effective renewable sources of energy. Inevitably though, economics will guide these gains much more than environmental concerns.

Even if all Americans followed every suggestion to reduce our so-called carbon footprint, it would have little impact on reducing pollution compared to what is added by the much larger populations of China and India as they rapidly industrialize.

Humans with our short life spans shouldn’t waste time, energy and resources on perceived problems that we don’t have a remote probability of controlling. Mother Earth will continue to cycle through warming and cooling cycles until the sun finally and naturally burns itself out. We humans have as much of a chance of impacting short-term climate change as we do stopping the certain life-ending death of our sun. Human egos amazingly allow many to believe we can change the global environment when we can’t even accurately predict next week’s weather!

Frankly, I wish environmentalists would redirect their anger and incredible passion against the greedy who capitalize on their fears to make money, and on behalf of the hundreds of millions in the world who go to bed hungry every night.

Finally, we should all demand that our elected leaders unite to prevent the increasing likelihood of a global economic collapse. If and when such a collapse occurs, the last thing any of us will be worried about is climate change.

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People who know I am an advocate against illegal immigration ask me this one question, " Do illegal aliens have a right to vote under the "deferred action," under this administration?" The answer is NO.

By: 9mmhipchick on August 22, 2012 - 3:36pm - Add new comment

Must get on board with this. http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2012/08/20/perry_no_added_services_for_il.html and these Catholic Charities need to be investigated for aiding and abetting illegal aliens in our community as well.

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." George Washington

By: 9mmhipchick on August 24, 2012 - 10:54am - Add new comment

The SPLC is one of the groups that the Obama administration has a bleeding heart for.  They listen to their lies as well as other open border non-profits.

By: 9mmhipchick on August 25, 2012 - 11:19am - Add new comment

State legislators need to do the same thing because when bordering states pass more immigration laws the illegal aliens influx the surrounding states with no are few immigration laws. Besides this would open up alot of jobs and housing for american citizens and thier families. http://www.alipac.us/content.php?r=867-Court-Ga-police-may-verify-immigration-status

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By: 9mmhipchick on August 30, 2012 - 2:11pm - Add new comment

was a board member with The NCLR ( The Race ). For those of who who not know who she is, she is the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board. She was appointed by Obozo when he was fraudulently elected.

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Received awards from the NCLR of whom she is still affiliated with as well as MALDEF. http://www.saywhatsusana.com/taxonomy/term/11  Sorry to say but why on earth would the Republicans put her on stage to speak with her backround? Are they tring to appease the hispanic community? Why were there not any subtitles when Romneys eldest spoke? What did he say? Do they think that everybody who adores Romney can speak spanish?

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is now playing at the Northridge movie theater on HHI and the Cinemark theater in Bluffton. Go see the truth about the man in the Whitehouse who continues to rule by executive order and see why. This is not a comedy or love story it is more like a horror movie which is a documentary about Barry.

Then vote for freedom and OUST Barry !

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This man is a prime example of the kind of anti-americans the Obozo administration is listening to. La Raza (NCLR) derived form the MECHAS as well as MALDEF, LULAC, NALEO and now the ADL. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/03/DNC-Chairman-Villaragosa-extremist-past

These organizations receive billions of dollars from this administration to sue states that pass immigration laws.  They have yet to win.

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Juno was so much grieved when she saw Argus stretched dead in the grass on the hilltop, that she took his hundred eyes and set them in the tail of a peacock; and there you may still see them to this day.

Then she found a great gadfly, as big as a bat, and sent it to buzz in the white cow’s ears, and to bite her and sting her so that she could have no rest all day long.  Poor Io ran from place to place to get out of its way; but it buzzed and buzzed, and stung and stung, till she was wild with fright and pain, and wished that she were dead.  Day after day she ran, now through the thick woods, now in the long grass that grew on the treeless plains, and now by the shore of the sea.

[Illustration:  “She cried out to him and told him to let the cow go.”]

By and by she came to a narrow neck of the sea, and, since the land on the other side looked as though she might find rest there, she leaped into the waves and swam across; and that place has been called Bosphorus—a word which means the Sea of the Cow—from that time till now, and you will find it so marked on the maps which you use at school.  Then she went on through a strange land on the other side, but, let her do what she would, she could not get rid of the gadfly.

After a time she came to a place where there were high mountains with snow-capped peaks which seemed to touch the sky.  There she stopped to rest a while; and she looked up at the calm, cold cliffs above her and wished that she might die where all was so grand and still.  But as she looked she saw a giant form stretched upon the rocks midway between earth and sky, and she knew at once that it was Prometheus, the young Titan, whom Jupiter had chained there because he had given fire to men.

“My sufferings are not so great as his,” she thought; and her eyes were filled with tears.

Then Prometheus looked down and spoke to her, and his voice was very mild and kind.

“I know who you are,” he said; and then he told her not to lose hope, but to go south and then west, and she would by and by find a place in which to rest.

She would have thanked him if she could; but when she tried to speak she could only say, “Moo! moo!”

Then Prometheus went on and told her that the time would come when she should be given her own form again, and that she should live to be the mother of a race of heroes.  “As for me,” said he, “I bide the time in patience, for I know that one of those heroes will break my chains and set me free.  Farewell!”

Then Io, with a brave heart, left the great Titan and journeyed, as he had told her, first south and then west.  The gadfly was worse now than before, but she did not fear it half so much, for her heart was full of hope.  For a whole year she wandered, and at last she came to the land of Egypt in Africa.  She felt so tired now that she could go no farther, and so she lay down near the bank of the great River Nile to rest.

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In 1855 this Attalie Brouillard—so called, mark you, for present convenience only—lived in the French quarter of New Orleans; I think they say in Bienville street, but that is no matter; somewhere in the vieux carre of Bienville’s original town.  She was a worthy woman; youngish, honest, rather handsome, with a little money—just a little; of attractive dress, with good manners, too; alone in the world, and—a quadroon.  She kept furnished rooms to rent—as a matter of course; what would she do?

Hence she was not so utterly alone in the world as she might have been.  She even did what Stevenson says is so good, but not so easy, to do, “to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation.”  For instance there was Camille Ducour.  That was not his name; but as we have called the woman A.B., let the man be represented as C.D.

He, too, was a quadroon; an f.m.c.[30] His personal appearance has not been described to us, but he must have had one.  Fancy a small figure, thin, let us say, narrow-chested, round-shouldered, his complexion a dull clay color spattered with large red freckles, his eyes small, gray, and close together, his hair not long or bushy, but dense, crinkled, and hesitating between a dull yellow and a hot red; his clothes his own and his linen last week’s.

He is said to have been a shrewd fellow; had picked up much practical knowledge of the law, especially of notarial business, and drove a smart trade giving private advice on points of law to people of his caste.  From many a trap had he saved his poor clients of an hour.  Out of many a danger of their own making had he safely drawn them, all unseen by, though not unknown to, the legitimate guild of judges, lawyers, and notaries out of whose professional garbage barrel he enjoyed a sort of stray dog’s privilege of feeding.

His meetings with Attalie Brouillard were almost always on the street and by accident.  Yet such meetings were invariably turned into pleasant visits in the middle of the sidewalk, after the time-honored Southern fashion.  Hopes, ailments, the hardness of the times, the health of each one’s “folks,” and the condition of their own souls, could not be told all in a breath.  He never failed, when he could detain her no longer, to bid her feel free to call on him whenever she found herself in dire need of a wise friend’s counsel.  There was always in his words the hint that, though he never had quite enough cash for one, he never failed of knowledge and wisdom enough for two.  And the gentle Attalie believed both clauses of his avowal.

Attalie had another friend, a white man.

[30] Free man of color.

This other friend was a big, burly Englishman, forty-something years old, but looking older; a big pink cabbage-rose of a man who had for many years been Attalie’s principal lodger.  He, too, was alone in the world.

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“Just take anither wee rest, Mysie,” said Robert.  “I’ll keep pickin’ as hard as I can, an’ ye’ll no’ be sae muckle missed.”

“Oh, I’ll hae to keep on, too,” she replied, almost despairingly, with a hint of tears in her voice.  “Ye mind I promised to work hard, an’ ye said I was a guid worker, too.  If I dinna’ keep on I micht only get a shillin’ a day.”

“But I’ll pick as much as the twa o’ us can do,” pursued Robert, with persuasive voice.  “I’ll gang harder, until ye can get a wee rest.”

So Mysie, in sheer exhaustion, stopped for a little, and the dizzy feeling was soon gone again.  Yet the horrible pain in the back troubled them all day, and the dizziness returned frequently, but the others assured them that they’d soon get used to it.  Their hands were cut, bruised and dirty, and poor little Mysie felt often that she would like to cry, but “six and sixpence a week” kept time in her heart to all her troubles, and seemed to drive her onward with relentless force.

With rough kindness the women encouraged the two children, and did much to make their lot easier.  But it was a trying day—a hard, heartbreaking day, a day of tears and pains and discouragement, a horrible Gethsemane of sweat and agony, whose memory not even “six and sixpence a week” would ever eradicate from their minds, though it made the day bearable.

The great wheels groaned and swished like the imprisoned monster of Robert’s imaginings, and at last came to a halt at the end of the shift; but in the pattern which they had that day woven into the web of industry, there were two bright threads—threads of great beauty and high worth—threads which the very gods seemed proud of seeing there, twisted and twined, and lending color of richest hue to the whole design—threads of glorious fiber and rare quality, which sparkled and shone like the neck of a pigeon in the sunshine.  These threads in the web of industry, which had shone that day for the first time, were the lives of two little children.

Months passed, and Robert still worked on the pithead.  Much of the novelty had passed, and he was accustomed to the noise and clamor, though he never lost the feeling that he was working with, or, indeed, was part of, some giant monster, imprisoned and harnessed, it is true, but capable of titanic labors and fall of unexpectedness.  It was ever-present, implacable and sinister, yet so long as its fetters held, easily controlled.

The warm weather had come, and the lure of the moors called to him at his work.  Away out over there—somewhere—there were strange wonders awaiting him.  He watched the trains, long, fast, and so inevitable-looking, rushing across the moor about a mile and a half from where he worked, and often, he thought that perhaps some day one of those flying monsters would bear him away from Lowwood across the moors into the Big City.  What was a city like?  And the sea?  How big would it be?  It was a staggering thought to imagine a stretch of water that ended on the sky-line—no land to be seen on the other side!  What a wonderful world it must be!

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Émile Gaboriau
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 306 pages of information about The Mystery of Orcival.

Dr. Gendron had just finished his sad task in the billiard-room.  He had taken off his long coat, and pulled up his shirt-sleeves above his elbows.  His instruments lay on a table near him; he had covered the body with a long white sheet.  Night had come, and a large lamp, with a crystal globe, lighted up the gloomy scene.  The doctor, leaning over a water-basin, was washing his hands, when the old justice of the peace and the detective entered.

“Ah, it’s you, Plantat,” said the doctor in a suppressed tone; “where is Monsieur Domini?”

The doctor did not take the trouble to repress a vexed motion.

“I must speak with him, though,” said he, “it’s absolutely necessary— and the sooner the better; for perhaps I am wrong—I may be mistaken—”

M. Lecoq and M. Plantat approached him, having carefully closed the door.  The doctor was paler than the corpse which lay under the sheet.  His usually calm features betrayed great distress.  This change could not have been caused by the task in which he had been engaged.  Of course it was a painful one; but M. Gendron was one of those experienced practitioners who have felt the pulse of every human misery, and whose disgust had become torpid by the most hideous spectacles.  He must have discovered something extraordinary.

“I am going to ask you what you asked me a while ago,” said M. Plantat.  “Are you ill or suffering?”

M. Gendron shook his head sorrowfully, and answered, slowly and emphatically:

“I will answer you, as you did me; ’tis nothing, I am already better.”

Then these two, equally profound, turned away their heads, as if fearing to exchange their ideas; they doubted lest their looks should betray them.

M. Lecoq advanced and spoke.

“I believe I know the cause of the doctor’s emotion.  He has just discovered that Madame de Tremorel was killed by a single blow, and that the assassins afterward set themselves to disfiguring the body, when it was nearly cold.”

The doctor’s eyes fastened on the detective, with a stupefied expression.

“How could you divine that?” he asked.

“Oh, I didn’t guess it alone; I ought to share the honor of the theory which has enabled us to foresee this fact, with Monsieur Plantat.”

“Oh,” cried the doctor, striking his forehead, “now, I recollect your advice; in my worry, I must say, I had quite forgotten it.

“Well,” he added, “your foresight is confirmed.  Perhaps not so much time as you suppose elapsed between the first blow and the rest; but I am convinced that the countess had ceased to live nearly three hours, when the last blows were struck.”

M. Gendron went to the billiard-table, and slowly raised the sheet, discovering the head and part of the bust.

“Let us inform ourselves, Plantat,” he said.

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Kennedy Square eBook

Francis Hopkinson Smith
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 369 pages of information about Kennedy Square.

John Gadgem, Agent.

The darky, evidently, was not in a normal condition, for after a moment’s nervous hesitation, his eyes over his shoulder as if fearing he was being followed, he squeezed in the rest of his body, closed the door softly behind him, and said in a hoarse whisper to the room at large:

“Dat’s de same man been here three times yisterday.  He asked fust fer Marse Harry, an’ when I done tol’ him he warn’t home—you was ’sleep upstairs, Marse Harry, but I warn’t gwineter ’sturb ye—he say he come back dis mawnin’.”

“Well, but what does he want?” asked Harry, dropping a lump of sugar in his cup.  He had been accumstomed to be annoyed by agents of all kinds who wanted to sell him one thing or another—and so he never allowed any one to get at him unless his business was stated beforehand.  He had learned this from his father.

“I dun’no, sah.”

“What does he look like, Todd?” cried St. George, breaking the seal of another letter.

“Wall, he ain’t no gemman—he’s jus’ a pusson I reckon.  I done tol’ him you warn’t out o’ bed yit, but he said he’d wait.  I got him shet outside, but I can’t fool him no mo’.  What’ll I do now?”

“Well, what do you think he wants, then?” Harry burst out impatiently.

“Well,” said Todd—“ef I was to tell ye God’s truf’, I reckon he wants money.  He says he’s been to de big house—way out to de colonel’s, and dey th’owed him out—and now he’s gwineter sit down yere till somebody listens to him.  It won’t do to fool wid him, Marse Harry—I see dat de fus’ time he come.  He’s a he-one—and he’s got horns on him for sho’.  What’ll I do?”

Both Harry and St. George roared.

“Why bring him in, of course—a ‘pusson’ with horns on him will be worth seeing.”

A shabby, wizened-faced man; bent-in-the-back, gimlet-eyed, wearing a musty brown coat, soiled black stock, unspeakable linen, and skin-tight trousers held to his rusty shoes by wide straps—showing not only the knuckles of his knees but the streaked thinness of his upper shanks—(Cruikshank could have drawn him to the life)—sidled into the room, mopping his head with a red cotton handkerchief which he took from his hat.

“My name is GADgem, gentleman—Mr. John GADgem of GADgem & Combes.

“I am looking for Mr. Harry Rutter, whom I am informed—I would not say POSitively—but I am inFORMED is stopping with you, Mr. Temple.  You forget me, Mr. Temple, but I do not forget you, sir.  That little foreclosure matter of Bucks vs.  Temple—you remember when—”

“Sit down,” said St. George curtly, laying down his knife and fork.  “Todd, hand Mr. Gadgem a chair.”

The gimlet-eyed man—and it was very active—waved his hand deprecatingly.

“No, I don’t think that is necessary.  I can stand.  I preFER to stand.  I am acCUStomed to stand—I have been standing outside this gentleman’s father’s door now, off and on, for some weeks, and—”

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Magnum Bonum eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 664 pages of information about Magnum Bonum.

“Well, you’ve done something to-day.”

“That—-oh, that was nothing.  I shouldn’t have made such a fool of myself if I hadn’t been seedy before.  I hear the pony,” he added.  “Excuse me.”  And, with a murmured grace, he rose.  Then, recollecting himself, “No end of thanks.  I don’t know how to thank you enough.”

“Don’t; I’ve done nothing,” said Lord Fordham, wringing his hand.  “I only hope—-”

The words stuck in his throat, and with a sigh he watched the lad ride off.

Soldier now and servant true;
Earth behind and heaven in view.
                       Isaac Williams.

Marmaduke Alwyn Evelyn, Viscount Fordham, was the fourth bearer of that title within ten years.  His father had not lived to wear it, and his two elder brothers had both died in early youth.  His precarious existence seemed to be only held on a tenure of constant precaution, and if his mother ventured to hope that it might be otherwise with the two youngest of the family, it was because they were of a shorter, sturdier, more compact form and less transparent complexion than their elders, and altogether seemed of a different constitution.

More delicate from the first than the two brothers who had gone before him, Lord Fordham had never been at school, had studied irregularly, and had never been from under his mother’s wing till this summer, when she was detained by the slow decay of his grandmother.  Languor and listlessness had beset the youth, and he had been ordered mountain air, and thus it was that Mrs. Evelyn had despatched both her sons to Switzerland, under the attendance of a highly recommended physician, a young man bright and attractive, who had over-worked himself at an hospital, and needed thorough relaxation.  Rightly considering Lucas Brownlow as the cause of most of Cecil’s Eton follies, she had given her eldest son a private hint to elude joining forces with the family, and he was the most docile and obedient of sons.  Yet was it the perversity of human nature that made him infinitely more animated and interested in John Brownlow’s race and the distressed travellers on the Schwarenbach than he had been since-—no one could tell when?

Perhaps it was the novelty of being left alone and comparatively unwatched.  Certain it was that he ate enough to rejoice the heart of his devoted and tyrannical attendant Reeves; and that he walked about in much anxiety all the afternoon, continually using his telescope to look up the mountain wherever a bit of the track was visible through the pine woods.

In due time Cecil rode back the pony which John had taken up.  The alacrity with which the long lank bending figure stepped to meet him was something unwonted, but the boy himself was downcast and depressed.

“I’m afraid you’ve nothing good to tell.”

Cecil shook his head, and after some more seconds broke out—-

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Jean Shinoda-Bolen
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Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Artemis leave the city she lived in?
(a) She wanted to spend all her time with other women.
(b) She found it too tempting to be around men.
(c) She had an argument with the city's patron deity.
(d) She was banished.

2. How many goddesses are in the third group?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

3. From what culture did these goddesses originate?
(a) Mesopotamia.
(b) Rome.
(c) Greece.
(d) India.

4. When inhabitants of a city-state left to form a new village, what did they take with them?
(a) A piece of their temple.
(b) Their animals.
(c) A piece of sacred fire.
(d) A piece of stone from their home.

5. According to the author, when is tension a likely result?
(a) When personality types that tend to clash are confronted with one another.
(b) When a woman's inner goddess is not in harmony with her psychological state.
(c) When women who are dominated by two different goddesses meet.
(d) When a woman's emotional needs are not being met.

6. How long had the author had her own mental health practice when she wrote the first edition of Goddesses in Everywoman?
(a) She had her own practice for a while.
(b) She has never had her own practice.
(c) She opened her practice when the book was published.
(d) She had not yet opened her own practice.

7. According to the author, what should be considered for a healthy relationship?
(a) Behavior.
(b) Sexual natures and behavior.
(c) Sexual natures.
(d) Neither.

8. Why did the author of Goddesses in Everywoman choose to write this book?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) To help and empower women.
(c) To gain exposure for her own practice.
(d) To promote Jungian psychology.

9. What is the title of Book 2, Chapter 1?
(a) "Goddesses as Archetypes."
(b) "Goddesses in Everywoman."
(c) "Goddesses as Inner Images."
(d) "Goddesses in Everyday Life."

10. In what ways was Athena similar to Artemis?
(a) Her mother and father were not married.
(b) She also has a twin brother.
(c) She is wise and a huntress.
(d) She has the same mother.

11. Book 2, Chapter 2, focuses on a particular of what type of therapy?
(a) Limited exposure.
(b) Freudian.
(c) Behavioral modification.
(d) Jungian.

12. Who helped with Athena's birth?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Hephaestus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Artemis.

13. Who caused the male gods to fall in love with Hestia?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Hera.
(d) Aphrodite.

14. How many books did the author write before this one?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Many.
(d) A few.

15. How did Hestia respond to the advances of the male gods?
(a) She accepted both and split her time evenly between them.
(b) She accepted the first and rejected the second.
(c) She rejected them both.
(d) She rejected the first and accepted the second.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what weapon did Artemis ask her father?

2. The author differentiates between what two varieties of archetypes?

3. The theory discussed in Cook 2, Chapter 2 postulates that there are what types of patterns and qualities?

4. This edition of the text was written how many years after the first publication?

5. Hestia is described as what?

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Fear: My Nightmare

Poetry By: blackstar07

Tags: Poem, Fear, Death

Fear is only in our minds. We have to learn how to overcome it, especially the fear of death.

Submitted:Jan 15, 2012    Reads: 42    Comments: 17    Likes: 7

Fear is my weakness, also yours.

To be honest, I fear death.

But I want to fight all my fear.

I wanna see what death is.

I want to see his face.

I want to talk to you, death!

I want to know you more.

Oh, I fear of death.

I can't deny it.

I fear you!

Fear, save me

I need to overcome you.

For fear is only in our mind.

And only caused by ourselves

For I fear my own self.

I need to overcome myself.

I need to save myself.

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