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Title: Dragons
Publisher: Pavane & Galliard Press
Author(s): Joanne Summers
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Date(s): September 1990
Medium: print zine, fanfic
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Language: English
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Dragons is a 170-page slash Star Trek: TOS novel published in the UK. It is by Joanne Summers.

Summary from Gilda F: "Stranded in a planetʼs far future, Kirk and Spock become part of a Warrior group that allows the love affair between them that, in Starfleet, was about to drive them apart."

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My guess is that very few K/S fans have even heard of this 1990 British novel. It's pretty obscure. A friend and 1 have been searching for it for a while, not even knowing if it was a novel or anthology, when we suddenly found it in another friend's collection. In the wonderful way of this fandom, she graciously lent it to us.

I'm glad I read it. It's unique. It's a long, solid novel, written with considerable skill. But if I don't sound terribly enthusiastic, it's just that I'm primarily puzzled. If you read this story as a K/S effort, it's... okay. Almost but not quite satisfying in terms of the relationship. If you read this story as a science fiction/historical effort, it's pretty good. I have the feeling the author wasn't really committed to either way to approach her work, and as a consequence neither emerged with any conviction.

Kirk and Spock and two security guards who are women are returning in a shuttlecraft from some planetary conference. Suddenly the Enterprise disappears, and they're forced to return to the planet, which has also radically changed. You never know for sure what's happened, although Kirk occasionally asks Spock to speculate: time shift, either forward or back, or a move to another universe. Whatever, they're in a world that has been decimated by a disease that's killed many more women than men. The technically advanced world K and S left is now almost feudal, with the few women kept secluded and artificially inseminated, and many of the men are scouts/warriors who protect the cities amidst vast wastelands, and also occasionally raid their neighbors for more women.

Add to that the presence of a second race, the "wraiths", who happen to be Vulcanoids who are quite similar to but not exactly like Spock, who live in the wastelands, and who are feared almost, enemies of the cities, and you've set up a very interesting world.

The problem is that the author never really exploits the situations she presents. One example is that the two women who crash land on this world with K and S disappear into a city center early in the story and are only peripherally heard from again once. We are never presented with anything from a women's point of view, although the potential is vast. And I find it very peculiar that K and S basically dismiss their crew, for whom they're responsible, from their minds.

This happens again and again. There's an exciting rescue from the shuttlecraft when some sort of sand worm attacks it and the crew. I kept expecting to see the worms show up in a significant way later, perhaps in the climax, but they're just another feature in the landscape most of the time.

Then there's character development. The author does some atypical things with Kirk. He and Spock predictably enter the warrior corps, and they make absolutely no attempt to find their way "back", wherever that might be. They adjust to their new environment with considerable ease, and the author never lets us see Kirk yearning for the stars, for the life he left behind. Incredibly, two - thirds of the way into the story, K and S discuss what they would do if the Enterprise came back for them, and Kirk says he wouldn't go back. He's perfectly content where he is, taking orders and loving Spock, (Well, I can almost understand part of that. I'd be pretty content loving Spock too! But, heck, there is more to life. Sometimes.) This is not the dynamic captain I know and love.

Early in the story, Spock is out on patrol with another man, S encounters some plants that produce temporary pon farr symptoms. Although Spock and Kirk have been intimate, they haven't progressed to penetration yet. Because this is an almost exclusively male society, these warrior guys know all about that, and the warrior - companion in this case actually has a great affection for Spock. He helps Spock through the situation in the expected way, teaching our Vulcan a great deal. When the two of them return to Kirk and the first warrior's lover on patrol, everybody, somehow, is completely aware of what has happened. Although Kirk wrestles with his feelings for about one - quarter page, he ultimately decides that since he loves Spock, he is happy about what happened because Spock is happy. And heck, he loves the fellow who helped him out. He's not going to succumb to petty jealousy.

The implications are clear. The author clears the way for an open sexual relationship between our guys, makes the emotional boundaries among the four men unclear, I kept expecting Kirk to go off with somebody, or a menage scene, or some way that the true affection among the four to be expressed physically, (these other fellows were admirable men), even if it were by some sort of rescue scene in a battle. (Of which they were many towards the end.) But the thread was never taken up, and confusingly, once Kirk decides on monogamy isn't what he wants or will insist on, both Kirk and Spock become strictly monogamous in a society that certainly doesn't demand it.

One thing that I admire about this story is that it manages to weave Kirk and Spock through the many twists and turns it takes; it doesn't abandon our guys for other characters. That's a relief, for even though the plotline is very interesting, I can read other books for this kind of story. I read K/S for Kirk and Spock. And even though there wasn't nearly enough, er, intimacy between the two to satisfy me, at least they were primary characters.

This emphasis is on Spock, his changes, and I'd recommend it to thoses who can read it with an open mind. [1]
Have you ever heard of a K/S novel called Dragons? Most fans haven’t, but it was published in 1990. It’s by Joanne S. and it’s English, so there wasn’t much circulation in the U.S. The American and the European branches of the Kirk/Spock Zine Library have copies, though. (If you are interested in the library, go to www.beyonddreamspress.com and click on the link for the library at the top.) I found Dragons to be a really different kind of story because there are science fiction elements to it that aren’t present in most other K/S novels. In it, Kirk and Spock are stranded for the rest of their lives on a planet much more primitive than they are accustomed to, but where a relationship between them is possible, even honored. In Starfleet, that relationship was about to tear them apart. I found there to be somewhat less emphasis on Kirk and Spock than usual in this novel, but it’s so different that I think it’s worth a read. [2]

  1. from Come Together #11
  2. from The Legacy of K/S in Zines, 1990: Years Since "Alternative" and Still Going Strong
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High Temp: 75.9°F *
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High Temp: 50°F
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Kowalczyk in qualifying. Photo: Fischer/Nordic Focus.

Justyna Kowalczyk (POL), who also won the classic sprint in Drammen, Norway, last week, cruised to another victory on Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden, at the World Cup Finals opener. Photo: Fischer/Nordic Focus.

Before the women’s classic sprint final got underway on Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden, Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) had won the last three races in the classic discipline on the World Cup calendar. Apart from World Championships, where she was shut out of a gold medal in every event, the 30-year-old Polish star had already established herself as an odds-on favorite whether the race on tap was a sprint or distance event. Sometimes she has to fight for her wins, and for others it looks almost looks easy for her.

The latter was true in front of the Royal Palace in Stockholm, where she won her fourth World Cup classic race in a row by 2.2 seconds on a 1.1 k course. She made no bones about it after finishing: it had been a piece of cake.

“It was a relatively easy victory today,” Kowalczyk told the FIS interviewer. “I had great skis. I like such cold conditions. I felt very strong.”

Clearly. After a reserved start in the qualifying round, where she placed fifth behind Anne Kyllönen (FIN), Kowalczyk proceeded to demolish her quarterfinal and semifinal heats, leading from the first hill and never relinquishing the position despite a strong headwind on the back half of the exposed waterfront course. She would increase her lead both on climbs and descents, blessed with fast skis and a strong diagonal stride. Kowalczyk won her quarterfinal by 1.7 seconds against Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg (NOR) and her semifinal by a closer 0.7 seconds over Katja Visnar (SLO), who was the only one that came close to pushing Kowalczyk all day.

Even Marit Bjørgen (NOR), who took a break from racing for the Oslo 30 k in order to recover from a cold, couldn’t match her Polish rival’s pace. Bjørgen looked more mortal than usual in the heats on Wednesday and barely made it into the final as a lucky loser. Despite feeling fresher than those who competed in Holmenkollen, her hopes to challenge Kowalczyk were quickly dashed in the final when an early fall from Kyllönen forced the back of the pack to maneuver around her, slowing Bjørgen’s progress as Kowalczyk began her typical surge off the front.

Bjørgen moved up from her position near the rear as the group neared the last gradual climb to the finish, passing two Finns, but Kowalczyk’s lead was already too great. Bjørgen took second, 2.2 seconds back, and Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) held on for third (+3.1) for her first individual World Cup podium.

As Kowalczyk’s win was not a surprise and Bjørgen’s failure to stop it was likely a disappointment, Niskanen appeared to be the happiest person on the podium.

“A really great day,” she told “I got to the podium in the end, and this is indeed expected.”

Kyllönen, at a loss to explain exactly how she tripped herself up on the 180-degree turn, was generally happy with how the day turned out for her team. There were three Finns in the final despite two crashes from Krista Lähteenmäki and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen in the quarterfinals, and in the qualifier Kyllönen posted the fastest time by 1.7 seconds.

“Today was a really super day,” Kyllönen told via translation. “If I would have stayed upright… I got a Sprint Cup fifth place, which is a very important achievement. I’m still in a position to improve the condition of the end of the season, I’ve been waiting all the time. This is great to go to the last three races.”

Stockholm is the very last sprint on the World Cup calendar, so in addition to the regular podium ceremony the end-of-season sprint leaders were awarded their crystal globes. Kikkan Randall (USA) and Emil Jönsson (SWE) locked down these respective titles in Lahti, Finland, two weeks ago, but “World Cup Sprint Champion” became official for each of them on Wednesday.

As the opening event of World Cup Finals, the mini-tour that constitutes the last four races of the season, Kowalczyk next heads to Falun as the series leader. She has already secured the overall World Cup title and merely widened her margin of victory on Wednesday, so the drama yet to play out in the women’s field is essentially limited to who will take the mini-tour title. With bonus seconds from her most recent victory taken into account, Kowalczyk leads by 7.1 seconds after the first stage.

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Thursday, Aug 29, 2013

UFC FN 27: Abel Trujillo to Receive Win Bonus Despite No Contest Ruling

Trujillo (photo via Ryan Loco)

By FCF Staff

Abel Trujillo’s UFC Fight Night 27 bout with Roger Bowling may have ended in controversy and a no contest ruling, but the lightweight is reportedly going to collect his win bonus any ways.

Speaking at the post-fight, press conference, UFC President Dana White announced that he plans to pay Trujillo’s win money, due to the fact he believes the lightweight “should’ve won that fight.”

The entertaining scrap was brought to a halt in round two, after Trujillo landed two knees and a follow up punch to Bowling as he was down. The referee intervened and claimed the second knee had landed to Bowling’s head, which is an illegal strike. After doctors examined Bowling, they determined he could not continue and the fight was declared a no contest.

White, however, believes the knees landed to Bowling’s chest and shoulder, and therefore the strikes were not illegal. As a result, Trujillo will receive his entire purse.

If the no-contest ruling stands, Trujillo’s record will sit at 10-5 and 1 NC, and Bowling’s will be 11-4 and 1 NC.

Trujillo was coming off a unanimous decision loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov in May, and Bowling was looking to recover from a KO defeat versus Anthony Njokuani in April.

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Beware the mobile threat

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Life was much simpler in the days of flip phones and Wi-Fi-free coffee shops. Back then the biggest worries were scams involving people using a mobile device to surreptitiously make international phone calls or using unfamiliar computers to send important information.

As technology has changed, however, so too have the threats. Now a lost smartphone can result in a major network compromise, and laptops left in taxis or dropped thumb drives can trigger data-breach notification requirements — assuming, of course, that the IT department knows whether devices carried by employees are connected to the agency’s network or contain sensitive or classified information.

And the problem is only getting worse. Trend Micro’s 2013 second-quarter Security Roundup report identified a dramatic increase in the amount of malware aimed at mobile devices that use the Android operating system. The report shows that the number of malicious and high-risk Android applications had grown to 718,000 in the second quarter of 2013, up from 509,000 in the previous quarter. Trend Micro expects the total number of malicious applications to exceed 1 million by year’s end.

McAfee, in contrast, identified a much smaller but still eye-popping number of mobile malware threats. For the first quarter of 2013, it identified 50,926 pieces of mobile malware. In contrast, for all of 2011, the company gathered only 792 samples. Most of the mobile malware was aimed at Android devices. (McAfee’s malware figures were lower due to the different way it categorized mobile malware.)

The types of threats are evolving as well. Kaspersky Lab recently identified mobile malware that is designed to leap to desktop devices.

And the threats don’t just come from mobile malware. Security researchers recently identified malware installed in USB ports that issues malicious commands to mobile devices plugged in for recharging. And then there are the concerns about connecting to unsecured public Wi-Fi signals, which can easily be monitored for valuable information.

This list of threats is far from complete or static. But it illustrates that mobile devices pose a serious cybersecurity threat to IT enterprises, and as other devices are locked down, attacks involving mobile malware will only increase. All of this is compounded by the “bring your own device” revolution, which has given employees access to company or agency networks via their personal devices.

Admitting that we have a security problem is the first step to mitigation. By recognizing the threats posed by mobile devices, administrators can now turn to security measures. Obviously, every agency is going to need a specialized approach, but some basic security steps would include:

  • Develop and implement a specific BYOD policy to manage personal devices connected to the agency’s networks.
  • Lock down agency-issued laptops and other mobile devices so that only certain programs can be downloaded and only specific information (if any) can be removed from the device.
  • Institute policies regarding connecting to networks when traveling.
  • Enforce strict policies regarding the carrying or use of mobile devices when traveling overseas, especially in areas where thefts of mobile devices or deliberate breaches are commonplace.
  • Inventory mobile devices regularly; knowing which devices should be connected to a network will help administrators manage the security process.

Mobile devices must be treated with the same responsibility and security measures as any other electronic device. Although they can dramatically increase efficiency and even employee satisfaction, they are yet another threat vector to worry about. Failure to do so could lead to unwanted results.

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Fri, Oct 25, 2013 Brian Rivas Rockford, IL

This is WAY overblown, especially with regard to Android. There are more than a billion devices in use right now and only a small fraction will ever get infected. Google, Airpush, Lookout, Samsung and a host of other highly responsible hardware and software solutions providers have reached deals, created safeguards and raised public knowledge to such an extent that mobile consumers are now, in my opinion, safer than they have ever been.

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Due to a winter storm, the Office of Personnel Management announced that all federal offices in the Washington, D.C., area will be closed today. Emergency employees or those who are telework-ready are required to follow their agencies’ policies and written telework agreements.

Non-emergency employees and employees on pre-approved paid leave will receive an excused abscence or administrative leave for the hours they were supposed to work unless they are:

  • “required to telework,
  • “on official travel outside of the Washington, D.C., area,
  • “on leave without pay, or
  • “on an alternative work schedule (AWS) day off.”

Employees who are telework-ready and were scheduled to telework today must work the whole day or request leave, according to OPM, “or a combination of both, in accordance with their agency’s policies and procedures, subject to any applicable collective bargaining requirements.”

Unless otherwise directed by their agencies, emergency employees must report to their worksites on time.

In addition to the Washington area closures, the Federal Executive Board in Baltimore has closed agencies in that region.

Snow is expected continue throughout the day. Five or more inches of snow is expected in D.C. and its immediate suburbs, according to the National Weather Service.

As much as 6 to 10 inches of snow are expected in the counties a bit farther out including Frederick County, Md., and Loudoun, Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange, Nelson, Albemarle, Greene and Rappahannock counties in Virginia.

Federal News Radio will keep you updated throughout the day online and on the radio (1500AM in the D.C. region) as new information becomes available.

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Sunday, May 4, 2014

A great feature hosted by Tynga's Reviews where bloggers get to feature the new books they received over the past week.

Sweet Reckoning (The Sweet Trilogy, #3) The Windflower Seduction in Death (In Death, #13)
Sweet Reckoning (Sweet #3) by Wendy Higgins (YA paranormal)
I love this series and am excited (and a little sad) to see it come to an end.

The Windflower by Laura London (historical romance)
This is a book that has been on my wishlist since I started reading historical romance and I am so happy that it has been re-released.

Seduction in Death by JD Robb (romantic suspense)
Onward through the ever-ending In Death series...this time dealing with cyberdating.

Bitter Spirits (Roaring Twenties, #1) Winger (Winger, #1)
Bitter Spirits (Roaring Twenties #1) by Jenn Bennett (paranormal romance)
I love books that mix history with the supernatural and I've heard great things about this series.

Winger by Andrew Smith (YA contemporary)
I got this based on a great review from Quinn at Quinn's Book Nook.

I READ...
Interlude in Death by JD Robb
Royally Lost by Angie Stanton
Dangerous Seduction by Zoe Archer

  1. Sweet Reckoning was very good. I enjoyed that book a lot. Hope you will as well.

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  2. Great books for you this week! Sweet Reckoning was great! I hope you enjoy them!
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  3. Nice haul!! I'm very interested in "Sweet Reckoning" and "The Windflower". "Bitter Spirits" looks good, too! I'll check out the others, except for "Seduction In Death", which I already know is good. If it's by Nora Roberts (pen name J.D. Robb), it's got to be good!!

    I see you've been pretty busy this week, too! Gee, you read FAST. I'm lucky if I can read two to three books a month.... I can't read any faster than I do, though, now that I'm only working part-time, I think I'm getting through more books.

    Thanks for commenting on my STS post!!

  4. I hope you like Sweet Reckoning more than I have seen around the blogosphere.

  5. I loved Bitter Spirits-hope you enjoy it too!

    Just found your blog and now following through bloglovin :)
    Finley Jayne

  6. I look forward to your thought on Winger! it is not out until July here in the UK and I have an e-arc on my kindle!

    I know a lot have been waiting for the end of the Sweet Evil series to see how it comes to a close! I hope you enjoy it! :) It is yet another series I need to get in to! :)

    Enjoy all of your books!

    Alex @ The Shelf Diaries

  7. Bitter Spirits and Winger both sound great. Enjoy them :) My STS

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SCOTUS seems to have racist Arizona immigration law’s back

Yesterday, SB 1070 — the highly controversial Arizona law that would legalize racial profiling in the state – was challenged in the Supreme Court by the Obama administration. In the meantime, opponents and supporters mobilized outside to protest, and while supporters were outnumbered, they certainly made their stance clear:

Songs, chants and signs telling undocumented immigrants to “go back to your third-world armpit,” as well as woes of gang violence, terrorism and Obama’s birth certificate made a strong presence outside of the courthouse. In house, Chief Justice Roberts’ said to the Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. upfront:

“I just want to make clear what this law is not about…No part of your argument has to do with racial or ethnic profiling, does it?”

Now it’s true that the central argument that the administration has brought to SCOTUS is not about racial profiling, but about the federal government’s authority to control immigration policies. Yet Roberts’ statement and the other conservative justices’ following remarks during the hearing almost sounded as if in harmony with the supporters outside. Adam Serwer reports:

Although most of the justices took pains to avoid discussing the law’s actual impact on the population it targets, they were comfortable describing that population in the most unflattering terms possible. The justices—including Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s first Latina—frequently referred to unauthorized immigrants as “illegal aliens” or an “illegal person.” Justice Antonin Scalia defended Arizona’s right to “defend its borders,” echoing the rhetoric of the law’s champion, now-deposed Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, who refers to illegal immigration as “an invasion.” Going even further, Scalia offered an analogy in which he compared unauthorized immigrants to armed thieves, suggested that the Obama administration’s prioritizing of undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes was like saying “we may only want to go after the professional bank robbers.”

This obviously sets a really problematic tone for any future cases where racial profiling is the central argument — because amidst the racist cumbaya songs outside and justices comparing undocumented Americans to thieves, yesterday made one thing very clear: this law is absolutely about race and racial profiling, and there is no amount of denial that can be made to escape it. I second Jamil Smith’s sentiments:

Unless Roberts has a Spidey Sense for detecting them (and expects Arizona law enforcement to share that supernatural ability), racial and ethnic profiling is precisely what the “papers, please” law is about. It literally is part of the law itself. We can talk about the problem that SB 1070 is allegedly supposed to address. But in order to deal with that problem — undocumented immigration — the method the law employs is legalized racial profiling, done under the auspices of enforcing immigration law.

This court’s decision is expected by June, and anticipated to be ruled in favor of the law, or possibly a split decision. We’ll keep you posted.

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Hornberger's Blog

Hornberger's Blog is a daily libertarian blog written by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of FFF.
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Goldman Sachs and Federal Fraud

Commentators are debating whether the Justice Department will be able to prove its civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs. Unfortunately, they’re missing the point. The Justice Department didn’t bring its suit with the aim of proving that the company committed fraud. It brought its suit to get a massive amount of money for the federal government in a pretrial settlement of the case.

Here’s how the racket works. The government knows that its litigation will cost Goldman Sachs millions of dollars in litigation costs, including attorney’s fees, deposition expenses, bad public relations, and loss of revenues. So, the government calculates that the company will be willing to settle for a large amount of money to save itself from all that aggravation. The government accepts the settlement. The Justice Department lawyers celebrate that they’ve “won” the case. Federal officials, ever more desperate for more revenues to pay for their out-of-control spending, are exultant over the “free” monies that have been deposited into the government’s coffers.

Many years ago, I was a young lawyer practicing law in my hometown of Laredo, Texas. One of my clients was the owner of a local trucking company. One day, he got served with a notice from the State of Texas assessing him with an enormous fine. The fine, the notice stated, represented the amount of extra burden that my client’s trucking business was placing on the roads and highways of the state. The state was claiming that because the trucking industry used the state’s roads and highways more than other people, it was more responsible for their maintenance costs.

I told my client that the state’s claim was ridiculous. The state collects gasoline taxes to cover such maintenance costs. When trucking companies purchase gasoline, they’re paying what the legislative branch has determined to be an appropriate amount. I advised my client to fight the lawsuit in that it was nothing more than extortion.

But there was one big problem with my advice. I don’t recall the exact amount that the state was demanding, but let’s say it was $200,000, which would have been an extremely large sum for my client, a small trucking company. The problem was that the state was offering to settle its proposed lawsuit for, say, $25,000.

So, my client was in a quandary — whether to pay the $25,000 and get rid of the suit or fight the state on principle and possibly end up losing $200,000. My client chose to settle the suit. The state received a “free” $25,000, plus all the other settlement money that was being paid by other trucking companies that had received the same notice.

In the Goldman Sachs case, government regulations and regulators failed to prevent what they now claim is civil fraud. If economic regulations and government regulators can’t prevent such things from happening, especially in one of the largest financial companies in the world, then what good are they? Isn’t that the purported purpose of regulations and regulators?

The feds aren’t going after Goldman Sachs on criminal charges of fraud, which would fall within the ambit of proper governmental powers. Instead, they’re only going after the company on civil charges of fraud. They’re seeking money, not jail time.

What’s that all about? If investors have been defrauded, why can’t they sue for their damages? Why shouldn’t they, not the government, receive the money for damages they’ve allegedly suffered? What business does the government have suing for civil damages? It hasn’t suffered any injury.

It’s all about money. As the deficit becomes larger and larger, we can expect to see the federal government desperately looking for more ways to extract money from private businesses. Look at the record fine they just levied against Toyota — $16.4 million, an amount that Toyota has agreed to pay rather than incur expensive litigation. No doubt federal officials are celebrating this large amount of “free” money that will soon be deposited into their coffers. And don’t forget: all those automobile regulations and regulators failed to prevent the Toyota accelerator problems from occurring.

The real fraud is the whole idea of a regulated economy. When public officials assumed the power to regulate economic activity many decades ago, they expressly represented that it would protect people from bad things happening to them. That representation was false and fraudulent. Regulations and regulators don’t protect people. They simply lull people into thinking that the government is taking care of them. The regulated economy simply provides the government with another means of legally stealing or extorting money from the private sector to satisfy the ever-voracious financial needs of a bankrupt government.

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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at LewRockwell.com and from Full Context. Send him email.


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Golf Rankings for Sony Open in Hawaii

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25. Jimmy Walker [Yahoo Class B] - World Ranking: #12

Walker ended the Fall Series with T10 and T4 finishes. He has now made nine straight cuts, but missed the cut at the Sony last year. In 2011 Walker left the Sony with a solo fourth.

26. Matt Every [Yahoo Class A] - World Ranking: #43

Every was all over the place in 2012, but landed a T6 in his Sony debut. He's an erratic player, but one worth mentioning to start the year.

27. Vijay Singh [Yahoo Class B] - World Ranking: #155

Singh hasn’t done much of anything at Waialae since 2006. After winning the event a year prior, he recorded a solo sixth result. Singh made some small runs in recent years, but hasn't shown here. Don't start him on name and reputation alone.

28. K.J. Choi [Yahoo Class B] - World Ranking: #128

From 2002-09 Choi finished inside the top 15 in five of his six trips to Waialae. He won the event in 2008 after a T4 a year prior. However, Choi has now finished outside of the top 35 in three straight starts at the Sony.

29. Luke Guthrie [Yahoo Class C] - World Ranking: #118

Guthrie won twice in 2012 on the PGA's top developmental series, the Nationwide Tour (which is now the Series), and ended the season with another top-10. Guthrie made three summer starts on the PGA Tour and finished inside the top 20 in each event, landing one top-five. Given his short resume, Guthrie should come at a great value.

30. Kyle Stanley [Yahoo Class C] - World Ranking: #165

Stanley finished dead last by five strokes last week at Kapalua. He’s finished T23 and T68 the last two years at Waialae.

Yahoo Golf Cheat Sheet

Class A

2. Webb Simpson
12. Ryan Palmer
26. Matt Every

Class B

1. Dustin Johnson
3. Matt Kuchar
4. Charles Howell III
10. Zach Johnson
20. John Senden
21. Jeff Overton
25. Jimmy Walker
27. Vijay Singh
28. K.J. Choi

Class C

5. Keegan Bradley
6. Carl Pettersson
7. Tim Clark
8. Brendon de Jonge
9. Michael Thompson
11. Ryan Moore
13. Scott Piercy
14. Brian Gay
15. Bud Cauley
16. Jonas Blixt
17. Kevin Na
18. Davis Love III
19. John Huh
22. Jerry Kelly
23. Chad Campbell
24. Johnson Wagner
29. Luke Guthrie
30. Kyle Stanley
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Review for Backstabber

(#) Chloeee_xx 2011-04-05

OhMyMikeyWayness! I couldn't stop crying at first when i saw the title i thought oh there friend is going to backstabb them but no, i couldn't stop crying in it, i can't believe Eve died! They loved each other so much though!This is a wonderful fanfic but so sad i think thats the most i've cried over a story!!! all my love goes to this storyy :) xx


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Categories > Original > Romance > There's A Joker In the Pack...

Chapter #6-The First Knight

by IceHeartFiresPassion 0 reviews

Ok so the end is cheesy but i'm tired.

Category: Romance - Rating: PG-13 - Genres: Romance - Warnings: [!] - Published: 2009-03-24 - Updated: 2009-03-24 - 545 words

Chapter #6- The First Knight
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I finally snapped myself out of the trance I was in and looked back to his eyes.
“So,” I said, “am I like, suppose to sleep on the floor or something? Cause I was kinda wondering if I could sleep with you?”
“Sleep with me?!” he said feigning shock, “but I thought you were an honest girl?!” and he laughed maniacally.
Then I realized what I said and how it sounded. “Oh Gawd! I didn’t mean it like that!” I shouted.
“Sure you didn’t… Whore.”
“Shut up.”
“You’re out of come backs, aren’t you?”
“Ya I am.”
“I said stop it.”
“Skank. Giggles
“ARRGH!” and with that I jumped on him, pushed him on the bed, and began smothering him with a pillow. We wrestled around for maybe three minutes, then he stopped moving. I waited a second then removed the pillow. He was lying limp with his head turned to the side. His eyes were glassy and his mouth was slightly open but no breath could be heard. I poked him in the arm. “Joker?” I asked shakily, no reply. I poked him hard in the ribs but still, nothing. “Great! I killed the most feared man in Gotham, and the surrounding areas, with a PILLOW! I had better get a medal or a plaque or something for this!” I said.
“Trollop.” He said with a grin.
I grabbed the pillow and started beating him with it, that is till he disarmed me, which basically means he stole my pillow.
“All right, Doll Face. Time for bed…Now.” The Joker said with a small smile, but not his normal psychotic one but an actual, genuine smile. I returned it and climbed up under the down cover.
“By the way, I like your P.J.s,” the Joker said with a smirk. They were a green tank-top with the words ‘In your Dreams’ in purple on them, and long purple pants with stars on them.
“Ya. I like yours to,” and I returned the smirk. He laughed long and hard, then he hit the lights. Everything went silent then I felt him cannon ball into bed. See I know it was a cannon ball because HE LANDED RIGHT ON TOP OF ME!
“OOF! Jeez man! Now I’ll never be able to have kids!” I huffed as I shoved his ass off my stomach.
“Oh sorry,” he said, not sounding the least bit sincere, “I thought you were on the other side of the bed.” he chuckled.
“You Liar,” I sighed under my breath.
“I am a man of my word,” he said, “So technically I don’t lie, I stretch the truth to it’s breaking point.”
“Umm, there’s a word for that. I think it’s LYING!” I argued back.
“Good Night, Tragedy.” He sighed.
“Good Night, Comedy.” I sighed back. Then I turned over, nestled my face into the crook of his neck, breathed in his clean scent, and drifted to sleep with him playing with my hair. And just before I lost consciousness I heard him say…
“See you in your dreams…” and my knight in purple armor kissed my forehead.
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Dana White is articulate

Someone get this guy a thesaurus! Big thanks to BloodyElbow for this vid … where would I steal content if not from them????

  • Lifer

    this is fucking hilarious. poor yellow peril.

  • Tommy

    That shit is fucking hilarious. Wanna be a fucking fighter mother fucker!

  • Mr. Theplague

    Fuckity fuck fuck. I love that little cut to Jens as White is cursing out Andy Wang.

  • Terrence Halladay

    LOL at dana white the pussy AKA dana white the tough guy:

    “Arlovski, who fights out of Chicago, is in a war of wills with UFC president Dana White. And as fierce as the 6-4, 240-pound Arlovski has been in the octagon at times, White is the toughest hombre in the UFC. You don’t take a nothing organization and build it into a Sports Illustrated cover story without being able to stare down formidable opponents.”

    i got that from:,CST-SPT-fite09.article

  • Xavier

    That video is exactly why Dana White rocks. You won’t see an asshole like Bud Selig be real like that, or David Stern. And you know Stern is sitting back cursing up a storm with the shit he’s just gone through. Dana might say some prickish shit you disagree with, but at least he gives it straight from his opinion.

  • fightfan

    Fuckin hilarious shit. Funniest motherfuckin shit I heard in a fuckin while. Couldnt stop fuckin laughing.

    Nice find.

  • EdenMachine

    I wouldn’t let my kid watch him but I think he’s entertaining as… well… entertaining as fuck! I think he’s perfect as the president for the UFC regardless of what people say about him. It’s my favorite thing to watch on TV (UFC) and I have to think that he had a little bit to do with the quality of the content (because going back and watching the same guys fighting in PRIDE is boring so it can’t be JUST the fighters that make it exciting but of course they have something to do with it).

    And OMG – guess what – I ALSO like Randy Couture!! WTF! How could that be possible??? How is it that I can like Dana AND Randy all at the same time??? Maybe the world is about to end or something. I just think it IS possible to think Randy’s argument about Dana is right or wrong and STILL not hate the other party in EVERYTHING they do.

  • Hywel Teague

    As my friend said, the pep-talk from White to Wang is like having a conversation with R2D2!

  • dignan

    I gotta admit, just because you curse like a fucking sailor doesn’t mean you’re not a smart guy…just an asshole.

  • operator

    hahahaha he swore like ten times in one sentence he is so real. I wish I could put the word fuck ten times in one sentence like him then I could be cool too. For a guy who is supose to be trying t clean up the image of mma he cusses like he came straight out of the trailor. Yeah I would sighn my name on the dotted line. If I didn’t he would probly give me the DO YOU WANNA BE A FUCKIN FIGHTER speech. I be he uses that one all the time.

  • Dru Down

    Xavier, really? I agree that the figureheads for other sports are way too stiff and scripted, but you can be real without going crazy with vulgarities- its more about being honest than about not censoring yourself.

    I honestly don’t know anyone who swears even close to as much as Dana White, regardless if he turns it up for the cameras. To mean it seems a little disrespectful to hurl that many vulgarities at someone, even if your aren’t directly insulting them.

  • intenso

    That’s just Dana bein’ Dana!!

  • Ason

    I must be low class because I like how Dana tells it like it t-i-is.

  • Terrence Halladay

    cuz saying the F WORD ten times is cool/funny? what are we, in like fifth grade?

  • Xavier

    “I honestly donâ€™t know anyone who swears even close to as much as Dana White, regardless if he turns it up for the cameras. To mean it seems a little disrespectful to hurl that many vulgarities at someone, even if your arenâ€™t directly insulting them.”

    I swear more than Dana White does. He doesn’t even swear at people 99% of the time, he uses them as emphasis much as many people do.

    The only people that consider such language “vulgar” are people that haven’t lived anything equating to a real life or haven’t dealt with the real “vulgarities” in life.

  • Matto

    I really need to know how you guys edit Xvid clips… It takes me ages to convert them into a format that Premiere can import.

    What program do you use? Is there a decent editing program that will import the various compression codecs straight off?

    Oh and, um, fuck.

  • Swedish guy

    At least White isn’t a pussy like Matt Hughes being almost all up in tears about Serra cussing at him on national TV. Big fuckin deal. Make him SHUT… HIS FAT… PIEHOLE, I say.

  • The Truth

    Dana White blows! He is a puss…where is the fight with Tito?

    He would get SPANKED!

  • operator

    I am not a fan of Matt Hughes but I would hardly call him a pussy. If Dana wasn’t Matts boss and Matt told him to tone the language down do you think Dana would tell him to go fuck himself I doubt it.

  • fightlinker

    We didn’t put this vid together, but our vids are made with Sony Vegas.

  • marshal

    Dana White fucks Sony Vegas in it’s tight fucking ass bitch. GOD DAMMIT, GO FUCK YOURSELF! At least Dana doesn’t take the lords name in vain, he would quickly be dispatched Jesus Christ.

  • Swedish guy

    I don’t for a second get what ‘operator’ is talking about, but Matt Hughes IS a pussy for whining about cussing. It’s just… words. Big deal.

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Studio: Touchstone

Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, language, sexuality and a drug-related scene.

Starring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Ving Rhames and Boris Kodjoe

Directed by: Jonathan Mostow

What it’s about: In the not-too-distant future, people use robotic surrogates to interact with the world. However, when two surrogates are destroyed – and their operators are killed in the process – the police open the first homicide investigation in years. It’s up to Bruce Willis – and his full head of surrogate hair – to track down the killer and uncover the mystery of why the murders took place.

What I liked: I’ve always liked these sort of off-season science fiction action movies. While they wouldn’t survive in a tentpole summer release, Surrogates is like Demolition Man, Virtuosity, Paycheck and this spring’s Next. They’re fun action flicks, and they can also be thought-provoking.

Surrogates is based on a graphic novel, and for the most part, it retains the feel (or at least it retains that of which I’ve read). It’s not as dark and grim as the graphic novel, but the concepts are in place.

The coolest part of the film was its commentary on our current state of technological affairs. With people using various social media services, we’re not that far away from the surrogate users who stay at home and let the robots do all the interacting for them. Of course, there was a certain irony when I tweeted out a quick positive review after seeing the film.

What I didn’t: While this movie is fun, it’s not without its flaws. There’s a greater human story that the film attempts to tell between Willis’ character and his wife. This is where the film bogs down and becomes uninteresting. Plus, there are some pretty huge plot holes, but I was willing to overlook them because I enjoyed the film.

Oh, and one more thing. What the frak is up with Ving Rhames’ hair? Go back to the Marsellus Wallace days, man!

Who is gonna like this movie: Fans of off-season sci-fi action.

Grade: B+

Studio: MGM

Rated: PG for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and language.

Starring: Asher Book, Kristy Flores, Paul Iacono, Paul McGill and Naturi Naughton

Directed by: Kevin Tancharoen

What it’s about: The original high school musical from 1980 gets remade with a modern face. Rather than repeating the characters, this modern version of Fame follows a new group of teens as they make their way through the four years in the New York School of Performance Arts.

What I liked: I didn’t see the original Fame when it was released in 1980 because I was nine, and it was rated R. However, I did watch the television show when it ran through the 80s. Overall, this new movie captured the spirit of the original material by showing snapshots of the lives of the kids in the school.

The stories are held together with a series of production numbers and songs, which is really the strong point of the film. Some are better than others, and I could do without all the hip-hop (’cause I’m an old fuddy duddy, apparently). But some numbers are pretty neat.

What I didn’t: With its PG rating, this new version of Fame is aimed at a much younger audience than the R-rated original. Tweens and teens into the performance arts should eat this up, but there’s really not enough story to make it appeal to anyone else.

With a dozen or so characters, and each getting his or her own arc, the plot is whisper-thin. Instead of being anyone’s movie, Fame becomes a patchwork of the various stories, each having about five to fifteen minutes of screen time.

Who is gonna like this movie: Teens and tweens in the performance arts.

Grade: C

Studio: Overture Films

Rated: R for strong horror violence and language.

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue and Cung Le

Directed by: Christian Alvart

What it’s about: A skeleton crew on a spaceship wake up from hyper-sleep with no memories of who they are and what their mission is. As they try to piece together their lives, they discover a ship full of mutants that want to eat them… and they struggle to survive.

What I liked: There’s a mood in this film that makes it work really well, at least for half of the movie. It has some very scary and disturbing moments, and that can be fun for an audience. The acting is decent from both Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid. And Cam Gigandet (from Twilight fame as well as Never Back Down and The Unborn non-fame) does an okay job in his little role.

I’ve always enjoyed haunted house movies in space to a certain degree, and this definitely delivers on that front… at least a bit.

What I didn’t: Ultimately, this film boils down to a hodge-podge of different films. I’ve seen all of this before in Alien, The Road Warrior, The Descent and even a recent Batman cartoon. While the movie gets points for concept, it loses quite a bit for originality.

I’ve never been a big fan of movies that feature people reverting to a tribal culture. Nothing against tribal cultures, but I’ve just seen too much of it in films over the years. And to make things worse in this film, even 200 years in the future, apparently the agricultural workers are people of color. Go figure.

Who is gonna like this movie: Fans of haunted house movies in space.

Grade: C-

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Eric Rohmer’s La Collectionneuse (1967) serves as a purposeful point of reference for writer-director Will James Moore’s Satellite of Love — not only does Moore cast the lead actor of La Collectionneuse (Patrick Bauchau) as an eccentric friend, but Moore even mimics the tranquil Mediterranean atmosphere of La Collectionneuse by setting Satellite of Love in the vineyards of the Texas Hill Country. Satellite of Love maintains the visually vibrancy of the French New Wave, particularly with its impeccably crafted mise-en-scène. Satellite of Love is absolutely gorgeous, from the oh-so-beautiful cast to Steve Acevedo’s masterful cinematography. Rohmer would probably be very proud that he inspired Moore’s film.

Moore and I have been in correspondence ever since the film’s world premiere at the 2012 Dallas International Film Festival; but it was not until the 2012 Austin Film Festival that I finally had a chance to sit down with him and Jonathan Case (co-writer and music supervisor) to talk about Satellite of Love and making films in Central Texas.

What attracted you to Eric Rohmer, specifically his film La Collectionneuse (1967), as an influence on this film?

Will James Moore: I went to Jonathan [Case] with the idea for a film that I wanted to make. This was about ten years after Jonathan, Mike Lutz and I had lived together in Santa Monica. I was reflecting on where each of us were in our lives. I was married and had a kid in Austin, while Jonathan was touring the world playing music, and Mike was married and living in Santa Monica as a costumer. So, I was thinking about the different paths you can take in life; the idea was to make a film about friendships and how the choices we make in life affect us long-term. I brought this idea to Jonathan and I told him that I wanted to keep it very simple. I wanted to keep it mostly at one location. The other two films that I had directed [Wesley Cash (2004), Cowboy Smoke (2008)] were very big — well, big in terms of being low budget but having a lot of action. So, Jonathan said that I had to see La Collectionneuse. I couldn’t find it anywhere, but I eventually found it on YouTube and watched it in five minute increments. That gave us the idea to base the film at a vineyard and create the love triangle. That’s where the similarities of the scripts end.

Jonathan Case: We just used La Collectionneuse as a reference point in terms of vibe and trying to tell a story as simply as possible.

Satellite of Love deals with a lot of the existential issues that people tend to deal with during their post-collegiate years. How does this film reflect your personal realities?

WM: We really turned the mirror on ourselves and used that as source material. I am definitely Blake and Jonathan is definitely Samuel and there was never any attempt to hide that. That was our goal, to dig into the experiences that we’ve had and the choices we’ve made, and try to understand them. It was a discovery mission as much of a process for writing the script.

JC: I had some real difficulty going from what we had written to seeing what we were filming. There were just so many necessary compromises that we had to make and that troubled me greatly. I thought we were going to lose the essence of the screenplay. Then, Shannon [Lucio] had seen an early cut of the film and said something like “it feels honest and it feels human.” The actors brought so much real truth to the film, and even though a lot of the scenes were slashed and burned, it still has the humanity and honesty that was in the spirit of our original conversation. It does feel autobiographical for both of us. I think of it as Will and I having a conversation on film.

Visually, Satellite of Love conveys a certain European aesthetic — you essentially transform the Hill Country of Central Texas into a Mediterranean oasis.

WM: My favorite director is Terrence Malick. All of his films are very meditative, very visual and visceral. You feel because of the images, rather than the action of the film. Steve Acevedo is an amazing Director of Photography and Director, and when we work together we are able to talk in short form on set. He knows exactly what I want. We spent a lot of time on locations. We weren’t going to use a space only because it was available to us, we are going to find the best locations we possibly could. We had such a short schedule, and we were shooting eight to ten pages per day, with multiple locations.

How did you approach shooting this film in Central Texas, especially with bringing professional actors in from outside the area?

WM: Very carefully. Zach [Knighton] had a window of time; Nathan [Phillips] had a pilot that he was shooting in Nashville that was getting pushed back. We didn’t have the film fully cast until a week before we started shooting. We had all of the locations and the crew, but it was difficult to do much more planning than that. We had tons and tons of notes, and we knew what we wanted to do. Once we finally got the okay from Nathan, we knew we had to do it right away and get it done. Then Nathan’s manager called four days into shooting — they needed him for the pilot ten days sooner then they had initially told us. We were in second position, so we couldn’t do anything about that. So we had to cut a bunch of scenes and run around and shoot what we could as quickly as we could. These guys were troopers because it was over 100 degrees every single day.

One of the biggest hurdles for Central Texas filmmakers is financing their films and Satellite of Love at least looks like it was shot with a decent budget.

WM: That depends on your idea of what a big or small budget is. We really didn’t have any money. One thing I feel really confident in is being about to make something that will look and sound good. I think I have a really good idea of what will give us production value and what will not. That was really important to this project in particular because we wanted it to look really beautiful. We wanted people to respond to the images that they were seeing on screen. Our budget was under $100,000 and we shot in 13 days. Luckily the film is mostly dialogue, which allowed us to do a lot more than if we were shooting action. In a perfect world, our schedule would not have been dictated by the actors’ availability; but it was, because of budgetary restraints. You are trying to balance everything out, and when you can’t pay people a lot of money you are at the mercy of their schedules. That is what happened in this situation.

What are the advantages of living and making films in Austin?

WM: Something I love about Austin is that the other filmmakers are so supportive. Filmmakers in Austin are not negative. They want you to succeed. So there’s that great support network. I’ve been here for a while — I went to school here and this is where I’ve been making films. I feel like I have a really strong network of people who I work with here. I love Austin. Its a great city and I love making films here.

Austin Movie Events This Week

10/29 – Alamo Ritz – Music Mondays presents Phantom of the Paradise. (More info)

10/29 – Paramount Theatre – Pub Run from the Paramount to Takoba for a complimentary pint of locally-brewed beer from Twisted X Brewing Co., then back to the Paramount for more beer and a screening of Juan of the Dead. (More info)

10/29-10/31 – Blue Starlite at AFS – The Blue Starlite’s Halloween series continues with screenings of Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead (double feature); BeetlejuiceMonster Squad/Frankenstein (double feature); and Halloween. (More info)

10/30 – Alamo South Lamar – AFS’ Essential Cinema Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not To Be. (More info)

10/30-10/31 – Paramount Theatre – Halloween Film Fest double feature of Poltergeist and Alien. (More info)

10/30-10/31 – Stateside at the Paramount – Halloween Film Fest double feature of The Omen and The Fly. (More info)

10/31 – AFS Screening Room – AFS’ Avant Cinema presents a rare screening of Downtown 81. (More info)

11/3-11/4 – Alamo South Lamar – Two screenings of Pip Chodorov’s personal window into the history of experimental cinema, Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film. (More info)

11/3-11/4 – Alamo South Lamar – Two screenings of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s documentary, Detropia, which won the Editing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. (More info)

The very first films that Don remembers seeing are Star Wars IV: A New Hope, The Black Hole, and Moonraker. He also recalls watching The Elephant Man at way too early an age, having a demented effect on his psyche for several years. During his high school and college years, Don randomly selected film directors and rented every VHS tape he could find by them. His discovery of the amazing TLA Video stores (Philadelphia, PA) thrust this obsession into overdrive. Don then dove with eyes wide open into a Cinema Studies Master’s program at Temple University. He soon found himself covering film festivals for Ain't It Cool News, which got him started on the path he finds himself on today. Besides contributing to Film School Rejects, Don is also the Senior Editor for Smells Like Screen Spirit.

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   Yoplait Custard Style! I like my yogart thick.
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  • squeezetracker squeezetracker Feb 15, 2013 9:06 AM Flag

    New Orders and EU Growth all set Now?

    Again, those who think there is going to be a huge short squeeze here apparently don't realize that at least much if not most of that short interest is professional hedges to neutralize long positions in the event that EU remains dead for this company and the U.S. market saturation has no favorable resolution any time soon. Consider that without a huge surge in new orders for the equipment, the fat margin on these very expensive machines will be missing from this year's and forward revenue stream. So do they have 50 or so new orders in hand from the December Q budget cycle for hospitals in the U.S. or not? That is a very big question as the options dopes chase this up this week.

    In those circumstances, go utilization and disposables revenues? Some are gaming that orders will be up hard and that systems sold this year will be up strongly... interesting bet given what has been happening here, the new device taxes, and the changes coming for surgery reimbursement under OBamacare.

    Have any of the cheerleaders dissing our call to short this at $36 (on the way up last year) studied ISRG's dvp "procedure growth" of late? Seems they are having some problems trying to find people to use their machines for it here (reimbursement is part of the mix under coming rules and all that before the recent and very negative Citron publicity which goes to the heart of all "disruptive" medical technologies on various issues) and the EU is still a tough place to go for them -- and all device makers for that matter.

    The move on earnings next week will likely be up hard or down hard... absent info, that is a lot like throwing dice as compared with rational risk taking. Fun to watch though -- from the sidelines with no position pending data needed to make an assessment other than our view this management team is in over its head, that is.

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    • I think the earnings move has been mitigated by the pre-announcement of 15 units sold for Q4, resulting in 30 sold over the past two quarters. EU not a big part of MAKO's story and little emphasis has been placed on it. A long way to go there but encouraged that the first robotic assisted hip replacements ever performed outside the US took place recently in Italy using MAKO. This story is ongoing and won't be decided overnight. The pre-release of Q4's unit sales and procedure #'s now puts the emphasis on 2013 guidance and hip uptake. GLTA =)

      Sentiment: Strong Buy

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      • I think they need a quarter that sells 40,then she will pop.

      • I covered a lot of ground in that post above, but we agree that earnings for the last two quarters was/will be roughly in line with the units they knew they had locked down last Spring.

        As my comments began in the thread, you and I agree the only thing that will let this stock stay about flat is marginal guidance of at least 50 systems for 2013. If they can't confidently do that, it will be a great indication that U.S. saturation is the reality, the EU will remain DOA/flatlined at next to none for the foreseeable future and so the stock is dead money at best.

        If they have less systems to guide for the year? If they can only talk about orders for say half the 50 -- LOOK out BELOW! and get ready for another very dilutive secondary.

        About a year ago management concluded their third weak call in three by saying "Trust us, we're going to get this done." They haven't made any progress adding orders since, so we willl find out next week. We may even get back to long if the news is good, gladly paying a few bucks more for the comfort ofknowing there is no near term $5 downside -- the uncertainty present going into the call.


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