You can love me or leave me; but baby believe me when I say, you'll regret it either way.
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still haven't finished the office
It's a total mess now and I'm at the stage of "WTF did I start this project"
I told you to get a cheap landscaper. Steal one of your neighbors!
looked good
hope you and your lucky guests enjoyed :)
haha no
check out some of Z's other pics in the ibox. I'm thinking of renaming it Z's travel board!
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=7881
My first time going there and it was beautiful
I was suppose to go with my girl friend but she ended up having emergency surgery two days before!
I've been sick so went alone and just relaxed and read a lot.
I traded in the lobby with yak when it was storming but people kept coming up to me asking for tour information (took me a few hours to realize they thought I worked there lol)
Overall was nice
Eh he's a kid
Hell I cracked on him for his emotional BP rants before when he said RIMM was garbage.
By all means bust his ass for being an undeservingly arrogant ass (as he hasn't earned that right yet) but be cool with asking questions as others may feel stupid for doing so because they see someone else getting slammed. That's all.
Cute girls btw! Nice siggy pic
That's why he asked a question. Obviously he didn't know the answer.
I asked to have you unbanned dork why would you want to be banned again?
Just be considerate of people who ask something. I don't care if it's someone I like or dislike if they ask something it should be answered in a respectable manner and they shouldn't be made fun of or belittled for it.
Take lots of pics and post them on the HOP board Z!
That's where I want to go next! Just got back not long ago from St Thomas
All inclusive and didn't drink any alcohol but everyone else was drinking a whole lot of rum! One night there was a huge storm and silly people were out dancing to Reggae in the rain!
Pabst headquarters moving to Los Angeles
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pabst-brewery-20110514,0,3595265.story
Bang & Olufsen's 85-inch 3-D TV sells for $85,000
Bang & Olufsen's new 3-D TV has an 85-inch screen and a $85,000 price tag.
That comes out to about $1,000 per inch of display real estate for the high-end consumer electronics firm's BeoVision 4-85 plasma television, which Sound & Vision magazine described as an aspirational product.
"The massive, anodized aluminum–encased set -- all 359.6 pounds of it -- rests on a similarly massive motorized stand (the whole package weighs just north of a half ton), which raises and lowers the screen from a floorbound rest position and conceals an integrated BeoSound 10 center-channel speaker, which emerges gracefully from beneath the screen as the motor lifts the set to viewing height," Sound & Vision's Michael Berk wrote of the new TV.
"The actuators used have built-in sensors that automatically stop the stand from parking should they encounter an obstacle, preventing you from crushing an unwary guest's foot."
To see any 3-D images on screen, 3-D glasses that sell for $149 are needed, Berk said.
The picture displayed on plasma TVs tends to fade as the set ages, he said. But Bang & Olufsen has added what it calls an Automatic Colour Management system to offset the problem.
The system includes a "tiny camera-bearing robotic arm, concealed above the center of the screen" that "emerges every 100 hours of use to calibrate the device. No user input is required (though you can run the routine as often as you like)," Berk said.
The robotic calibration should allow the TV to attain a life of about 60,000 hours, he said.
While the TV is available to any consumer willing to drop $85,000, Bang & Olufsen won't sell the gigantic sets before its install team visits the location where the TV will end up, Berk said.
The B&O install team determines "the structural strength of your floor and walls; following the visit you'll go over a multi-page checklist with them detailing the installation options," he said.
Second marijuana growing operation discovered in the San Gabriel Valley
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May 14, 2011 | 4:29 pm
A second large marijuana growing operation was discovered in the San Gabriel Valley this week, this time in three warehouses near the City of Industry.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies found about 1,900 marijuana plants, valued at about $2 million, in a sophisticated pot-growing operation in the unincorporated community of Bassett. Deputies found rows of marijuana plants growing underneath bright lights on the 100 block of 8th Avenue, near Valley Boulevard.
Lt. Victor Sotelo of the Sheriff's Department's Industry station said the investigation began after a deputy smelled "a very strong odor" of marijuana from a warehouse. After identifying its address, investigators found through a utility company that "there was a large electricity usage from several of the small warehouses from that building."
A judge approved a warrant for deputies to search the warehouses, and deputies seized the plants Thursday morning. "It was good old-fashioned police work," Sotelo said Saturday.
He said deputies are seeing more pot-growing activity in warehouses, where growers don't have to jeopardize their own homes over criminal activities.
Four men were arrested at the warehouses: Colby Kelly, 39, of Santa Ana; Alfred Serrato, 39, of Tustin; Brandon Roberto, 27, of Aliso Viejo; and Theodoro Castro, 35, of Rowland Heights.
This operation had no connection to a separate illegal marijuana cultivation operation found in the western San Gabriel Valley this week. A marijuana cache worth about $2.5 million was found at a rented condominium in the 9100 block of Huntington Drive near Rosemead Avenue in an unincorporated neighborhood just west of Arcadia, and in a commercial building in the 800 block of Date Avenue in Alhambra, near Mission Road.
Joseph Hsu, 30, a convicted felon and suspected member of the Chinese street gang known as Wah Ching, was arrested Thursday, along with Pauline McDonnell, 22, of Redlands, at Hsu's rented condominium.
Wah Ching is a major Asian gang known for narcotics and weapons trafficking, along with extortion and other crimes. Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Kim said investigators believe the suspect was growing the pot to benefit the gang.
Marijuana operations are pretty common in the San Gabriel Valley, said Kim, of the sheriff's Asian Gang Team. Last year, his team seized nearly $5 million worth of marijuana at five locations in the western San Gabriel Valley area.
Obama announces steps to speed U.S. oil production
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amid growing public unhappiness over gas prices, President Barack Obama is directing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast and holding more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska. But the moves won't calm spiraling prices at the pump any time soon.
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Obama said Saturday that the measures "make good sense" and will help reduce U.S. consumption of imported oil in the long term. But he acknowledged anew that they won't help to immediately bring down gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon in many parts of the country, and an oil industry analyst agreed.
"There is practically nothing that Washington can do that would materially change the price of fuel in this country," said Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov, noting that the United States produces about 5 percent of the world's petroleum while consuming about 20 percent. "Given that imbalance, there is simply no policy shift that could plausibly come from the federal government that can significantly change that dynamic."
An oil industry group praised Obama's move as a first step with a "couple of positive nuggets" but contended that more was needed to boost oil production. Erik Milito, upstream director for the American Petroleum Institute, called in a statement for more access to key shale reserves and construction of a pipeline that would import crude from Canadian oil sands.
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who is opposed to drilling off the Atlantic coast, expressed concern about possible dangers to the environment. "I think it is disappointing he would pursue a strategy that comes with considerable risk while offering no hope of driving down gas prices," Menendez said in a statement.
Obama's announcement followed passage in the Republican-controlled House of three bills -- including two this week -- that would expand and speed offshore oil and gas drilling. Republicans say the bills are aimed at easing gasoline costs, but they too acknowledge that benefits won't come fast.
The White House had announced its opposition to all three bills, which are unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, saying the measures would undercut safety reviews and open environmentally sensitive areas to new drilling.
But Obama is adopting some of the bills' provisions.
Answering the call of Republicans and Democrats from Gulf Coast states, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address that he would extend all Gulf leases that were affected by a temporary moratorium on drilling imposed after last year's BP oil spill. That would give companies additional time to begin drilling.
The administration had been granting extensions case by case, but senior administration officials said the Interior Department would institute a blanket one-year extension.
New safety requirements put in place since the BP spill also have delayed drilling in Alaska, so Obama said he would extend lease terms there for a year as well. An oil lease typically runs 10 years.
Lease sales in the western and central Gulf of Mexico that were postponed last year will be held by the middle of next year, the same time period required by the House. A sale off the Virginia coast still would not happen until 2017 at the earliest. But Obama said he would speed up environmental reviews so that seismic studies to determine how much oil and gas lies off the Atlantic Coast can begin.
To further expedite drilling off the Alaskan coast, where such plans by Shell Oil Co. have been delayed by an air pollution permit, Obama said he would create an interagency task force to coordinate the necessary approvals. He also will hold annual lease sales in the vast National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska's North Slope. Officials said the most recent sale was last year, but that they had not been held on any set schedule.
The moves come as Americans head into the summer driving season and gas prices remain high. A gallon of regular cost $3.97 on average nationwide Saturday, according to the AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. That's up from $3.81 a month ago and $2.88 a year ago, but it's about a penny less than a week ago.
The price of gasoline increased every day between March 23 and May 6 for a total of about 30 percent, essentially tracking a 35 percent rise in crude oil prices that started in mid-February as investors pushed more and more money into commodities. Refinery shutdowns also contributed. And gas prices tend to rise every spring as refineries follow federal regulations to produce summer gasoline blends that evaporate less readily but are more expensive to make.
Molchanov said global oil prices also have risen because the global supply and demand picture has tightened the past few months due to volatility in the Middle East and North Africa.
Even if the U.S. government started offering new leases in Alaska and new areas of the Gulf or off the East Coast, it would probably take at least a year to start drilling and then another five years for that to translate into barrels of production, the analyst said. Wells that can produce quickly tend to be small.
"Even if all that works out, it still would not materially change global oil supply, and therefore would not materially change fuel prices in this country or any other," Molchanov said. "In the grand scheme of things, none of this changes the reality of $4 gasoline at the pump."
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings of Washington, sponsor of the three measures that recently passed the House, said it was "ironic" that Obama "is now taking baby steps in our direction" after the White House and congressional Democrats criticized the bills.
"The president is finally admitting what Republicans have known all along, that increasing the supply of American energy will help lower prices and create jobs," Hastings said.
Philip Johnson, a petroleum engineer and University of Alabama professor, cautioned that new leases offer no guarantee that a company will find oil. Leases give a company permission to explore an area and set limits for what the company can do.
"You've got strong suspicions because you know what the underground structure looks like," he said. "But until you stick a hole in it you don't know what's in that structure."
Johnson noted, for instance, that while there are about 3,000 producing wells in the Gulf of Mexico in U.S. waters, about 50,000 wells have been drilled including many that have been emptied.
Obama on Saturday also reiterated his call on Democrats and Republicans to vote to eliminate $4.4 billion in taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies. Industry advocates, including most Republicans in Congress, have argued that doing away with the tax breaks will raise companies' cost of doing business, crimp their investment in exploration and production and lead to higher gas prices.
The 41 U.S. oil and gas companies that break out their federal taxes said they paid Uncle Sam $5.7 billion in 2010, more than any other industry, according to data compiled by Compustat. Exxon alone paid $1.3 billion.
The industry's federal tax bill would rise 70 percent without the subsidies, but it would remain highly profitable: Oil companies' combined pre-tax profits could hit $200 billion this year.
In the weekly Republican message, Alabama Rep. Martha Roby said it's time for Washington to get serious about the challenges facing the country, including straightening out its finances and tackling the gas price issue. She praised the House for passing measures to expand domestic energy production "because when we're talking about energy, we're talking about jobs."
"The greatest threat to our economy, job creation, and the future of our children is to do nothing," Roby said. "We have to act. It is what we were sent to Washington to do."
Strauss-Kahn, France's would-be president
4:41am EDT
By Brian Love
PARIS (Reuters) - IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, facing sexual assault charges in New York, was the front-runner in the latest opinion polls to win next year's presidential election in France and replace incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
The 62-year-old Socialist, who served as French finance minister in the late 1990s, left for Washington in late 2007 to head the International Monetary Fund, just as the global economy was hit by the worst downturn since World War Two.
The polls have consistently shown Strauss-Kahn, who has yet to officially declare his candidacy, trouncing Sarkozy and leading all other potential challengers in the presidential election next April and May.
That was until the shock news of his arrest in New York over an alleged sexual assault on a hotel maid. Prosecutors charged him on Sunday with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. Strauss-Kahn's lawyer said he would plead not guilty.
No stranger to controversy, Strauss-Kahn was investigated by the IMF in 2008 over possible abuse of power involving a brief affair with an economist at the Fund. He was cleared of abusing power and apologized publicly for "a serious error of judgment."
News of his arrest at New York's JFK airport could hardly have come at a more critical moment.
France's Socialist Party, the main opposition party, holds a "primary" contest to pick a runner for the presidential race and candidates have to register soon. Strauss-Kahn was widely expected to declare his intentions by late June.
LACKING 'FIRE IN THE BELLY'?
He lost a similar primary selection test in 2006 to Segolene Royal in a disappointing performance that prompted the U.S. ambassador at the time to say Strauss-Kahn lacked the "fire in the belly" it takes to wage a presidential campaign.
Sarkozy won the ensuing 2007 election and is expected to seek a second term, though polls have shown him lagging behind Strauss-Kahn and struggling with a public image as a brittle, defensive personality the French find it hard to warm to.
Brought up in a secular and liberal Jewish household in Morocco and Monaco, Strauss-Kahn launched into an academic career before entering politics. Suave and multilingual, witty and self-confident, he built a reputation as a formidable public orator and a charming negotiator in private.
Like Sarkozy, he has been married three times, the first time to his high-school sweetheart at the age of 18.
To some Frenchmen of an older generation, Strauss-Kahn's third and current wife, Anne Sinclair, is arguably the bigger celebrity, despite having long ago swapped her job as the most-watched interviewer on French current affairs TV for the role of loyal spouse, and part-time blogger.
Sinclair, who married Strauss-Kahn when he was an industry minister in 1991 under the late Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, is granddaughter and heiress of one of France's biggest art dealers, and was born in New York where her father fled the war-time Nazi persecution of Jews.
When he had to make a public apology over the affair at the IMF, Sinclair stuck by his side in a way that prompted comparisons to Hillary Clinton, the U.S. secretary of state and wife of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
French voters are tolerant of their leaders' sex lives and their media tend to avoid the issue as a matter of principle. A child Mitterrand fathered outside his marriage was unknown to most people until she turned up at his funeral.
Far from French shores, Strauss-Kahn, the globe-trotting IMF boss, has carefully nurtured his left-wing credentials and built up a contact book that would put many a statesman to shame. He has also found plenty of time to visit his home country as well as a house in Marrakesh, Morocco, where his family and friends regularly reunite.
PREDICTED TRILLIONS SPENT IN CRISIS
When the global economic crisis struck at the end of 2007, Strauss-Kahn likes to let it be known he was the first to say world leaders would have to throw trillions of dollars into the pot to fight off depression.
That amounted to a small revolution for many at the IMF, hated in many countries like Argentina for ordering stringent austerity programs in return for its rescue loans.
In France, Strauss-Kahn was the architect of the economic policy that helped sweep the Socialists to power in 1997 and won him the job of finance minister. He is an economist by training and at one stage in the 1970s looked destined for a career as a major academic player in the field.
As finance minister, helped by an economic boom, he won praise for helping France qualify for the euro currency and launching a massive state-funded program to create 350,000 jobs. He claimed ownership of the shift to a 35-hour working week -- but left the fraught implementation to someone else.
His stint as head of a powerful finance, industry and budget ministry was cut short abruptly when he resigned in late 1999 over a Socialist Party funding scandal. He was later acquitted.
Years on, luck was on his side. He left French shores in November 2007 with a mandate to cut costs at an IMF whose role was widely seen as fading. Just as he got there, the great global recession gave the rescue-lending agency, and Strauss-Kahn, a new lease of life.
Good morning NYP
Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
I like the part where they said he left his cell phone and personal items like he was in a hurry to get out of there.
Yes, you do. You post them often so in essence you advertise your trades.
How is being sarcastic with someone asking a trading question benefiting them? Instead wouldn't you think that would make them hesitate asking anymore in the future? Or anyone else reading the board who might have something to ask "YAK" ?
I could see the other kid being immature enough to do that but you're older, more experienced and knowledgeable so was thrown back to see you respond like that to someone asking a question rather than helping.
You make too many to post?
Yak spends all night researching, has a training room, does one on ones, makes videos and does SEVERAL trades a day and yet he posts them.
Good morning
very true. Lots of experts with egos. but that's all over.
only hear about the great trades and never the bombs. IMO you learn more from the bombs than profitable ones. They're more humbling. People with over inflated egos tend to fall hard when they get over confident with their trades.
Have a good Sunday LM
looks good Yak
Is that fresh parsley or cilantro?
IMF chief detained on N.Y. sex assault charge
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off a plane bound for Paris, according to New York newspaper reports, after a hotel maid accused him of attacking her. He was being questioned, and charges had not been filed.
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The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris and was being questioned Saturday by police in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel maid, police said.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off the Air France flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport by officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and turned over to police Saturday afternoon, said Paul J. Browne, New York Police Department spokesman.
He was being questioned by the NYPD special victims office. No charges have yet been filed.
The 32-year-old woman told authorities that she entered Strauss-Kahn's room at the Sofitel near Manhattan's Times Square at about 1 p.m. Saturday and he emerged from the bedroom naked, threw her down and tried to sexually assault her, Browne said. She somehow broke free and escaped the room and told hotel staff what had happened, authorities said. They called police.
When New York City police detectives arrived moments later, Strauss-Kahn had already left the hotel, leaving behind his cellphone and other personal items, Browne said. "It looked like he got out of there in a hurry," Browne said.
The NYPD discovered he was at the airport and contacted the Port Authority, who plucked Kahn from the Air France flight that had not yet departed.
The maid was taken by police to an area hospital. John Sheehan, a spokesman for the hotel, said its staff was cooperating with the authorities in the investigation.
William Murray, a spokesman for the IMF in Washington, said the IMF had no immediate comment on the reports of Strauss-Kahn's arrest.
Strauss-Kahn was briefly investigated in 2008 over whether he had an improper relationship with a subordinate female employee. The IMF board found his actions "regrettable" and said they "reflected a serious error of judgment." The board found that the relationship was consensual.
The 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn, rejected by the French Socialists as their presidential candidate in 2006, gained international recognition as France's finance minister in 1997-99. He's a possible challenger to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 election.
He is credited with preparing France for the adoption of the euro by taming its deficit and persuading then-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to sign up to an EU pact of fiscal prudence.
A former economics professor, Strauss-Kahn joined the Socialist party in 1976 and was elected to parliament in 1986 from the Val-d'Oise district, north of Paris. He went on to become mayor of Sarcelles, a working-class immigrant suburb of Paris.
His first government post was industry minister under former President Francois Mitterrand. As finance minister, he reduced France's debt repayments through a raft of privatizations including the sale of shares in France Telecom SA and Air France.
Strauss-Kahn is a married father of four. His third wife, Anne Sinclair, is a former television presenter.
I don't trade options
I trade stocks and equities
So don't pretend to be an expert nor snub someone asking a question
And normally (as does yak) post screen prints proving my trades
Odd I don't recall saying you
Bravo! You're A OK Losingmoney.
Someone asks an educational question on here and 2-3 others respond trying to make him feel like a dipshit for it.
Everyone's an expert. Especially ones that say they had puts on SLV and $30 was the next support level right before it shot up over $35 and they conveniently got out right in time to make huge profits.
sigh
That's a matter of opinion
which everyone seems to have one of
Just like the fools that said BP was going to be a penny stock :)
>>I am often wrong,<<
Well that's reassuring! Good lord never start a sentence with a negative!
Here's a better way of writing it,
"I have a strange feeling this coming week is going to be a BIG week for JBI but I could be wrong."
Hey cute cheeks what's up?
I see you're back as spam cop at the other place
Groovy!
Oh no you must keep the assists!
And that cheeky kid is in tight with admin!
thanks for the warning!
Another great call!
last two days SLV has been a fun trade
I like silver jewelry but not holding this stock LT :)
Well there you are!
making $$ is always good :)
Good luck hope it moves for ya!
TGIF13th!
Have a good weekend SSS
he told me no indefinitely as long as I'm active and there's no minimum
the platform is free though for anyone who has an account no matter how much they trade or how much is in their account.
I'd call the 800 # and ask for the # to your closest office near you.
Loving me some SLV 2 days in a row now :)
woot!
Well good luck finding happy people any hour of the day on here.
Better off starting a new board titled "miserable bitchy and hates life"
Now that should really bring them here by the masses
I'm on my phone!
And not as coordinated as you are with it!
I think Chris says naughty words sometimes as well
Not often but every once in a while he will slip a curse word here and there
Oh come on Cramers sexy as hell lol
Giving my DAS up for Ameritrades new Architect platform
Much better and it's free
Look two posts back for pics in my history on the house of pain board
So using architect and laser now for my two trading a accounts. Dumped broadstreet and Tradeking.
Ameritrade came down considerably on commish and the platform is free. Best bet is to call 800 # and ask for a local branch
Good luck!
awwww poor girly!
go with pink that's always nice for little girls or even something sparkly.
and DONT you DARE get any on the cuticles!!!
Hope she feels better.
the guy was explaining to me that most people who use thinkorswim trade options whereas architect was designed more on the lines for stock/equity traders.
the guy at the local branch said they even have techs who will come out and show you all the tools if you want them to which I thought was kind of neat but it seems pretty easy to use.
has about everything on it which is why I was shocked it was free. etrade charges a fee unless you make a certain number of trades with them and their platform isn't nearly as nice as this one is.
Here's a few screen prints I just took: