By William Pentland, Contributor
Butamax, an advanced biofuels company founded as a joint venture between and DuPont in 2009, won a critical victory today in a lawsuit alleging that the Wilmington, DE-based company had infringed patents owned by a rival biofuels company. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
By NFL.com Much has been made of the Dallas Cowboys move from a 3-4 to a 4-3 defensive scheme. DeMarcus Ware said the move could actually keep him healthier and playing longer. …read more
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PBF Energy Announces Supply Agreement with Continental Resources for Bakken Crude Oil
PARSIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PBF Energy Inc. (NYS: PBF) announced today the signing of an agreement with Continental Resources Inc. (NYS: CLR) to supply PBF with Bakken crude oil, which will be delivered by rail to PBF‘s double-loop track at its refinery in Delaware City, DE.
Commenting on the transaction, Don Lucey, PBF‘s Chief Commercial Officer, said, “We are pleased to be working directly with Continental Resources, a leader in domestic crude oil production and a major producer and supplier in the Bakken play. We look forward to growing our relationship with them.”
Continental Resources is the largest producer and leaseholder in the Bakken, with significant supply arrangements with refiners on the West Coast, the Gulf Coast, and now the East Coast. Continental Resources President and Chief Operating Officer, Rick Bott, added, “This unique transaction illustrates the emerging shift in the light sweet crude market. In addition to diversifying Continental’s customer base and streamlining our value chain, it allows us to deliver unblended premium Bakken crude to the East Coast – a market that has historically been driven by imports of foreign oil.”
PBF‘s Chief Executive Officer, Tom Nimbley, said, “PBF has made significant investments in acquiring rail cars and developing our East Coast rail delivery infrastructure to increase our access to North American crude oil, which positions PBF to benefit from these cost-advantaged crudes. Delaware City‘s heavy and light crude rail discharge facilities allow us to work directly with producers in Canada and the Mid-continent, like Continental Resources, and provide us with a competitive advantage versus northeast refiners that rely on third parties to deliver North American crude oil.”
PBF also announced that the company opened a new office in Oklahoma City. This office, along with PBF‘s Calgary, Alberta office, will focus on sourcing North American crude oils and feedstocks for the company’s refineries.
PBF: Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release relating to future plans, results, performance, expectations, achievements and the like are considered “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which may be beyond the company’s (PBF Energy Inc. and subsidiaries) control, that may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results, …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
The industrial sector has been hot this year, always a percent or two ahead of the broad market. The reasons for optimism have been sound, from a turn-around in the Chinese economy to the US housing recovery gaining steam. But that optimism may be cooling off and we need look no further than two big name equipment manufacturers to see it unfolding: Caterpillar (CAT) and Deere (DE). And one company in the direct line of fire of a machinery slow-down could be Titan International (TWI) , a global manufacturer of off-highway steel wheels and tires in the agricultural, earthmoving/construction and consumer markets. The mining industry, from metals to iron ore, has also seen earnings and outlooks take a hit recently, with names like Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) and Joy Global (JOY) being sold as estimates soften. The gold miners are currently one of the lowest ranked industry groups in Zacks classification of 265 industries. Titan generally manufactures both wheels and tires for these markets and provides the value-added service of assembling the completed wheel-tire system. They offer a broad range of different products that are manufactured in relatively short production runs to meet original equipment manufacturers’ specifications and/or aftermarket customer requirements. Special Offer: What you don’t own is just as important as what investments you do own. Top investing experts named names when it comes to securities to avoid in the year ahead. Get the results in this free downloadable report, 24 Widely-Held Investments You Should Sell Now. Earnings Picture Rolling the Wrong Way Despite reporting record annual results on February 25, 2013, the hiccup in Titan’s growth outlook had been foreseen by the analysts since early this year. And missing the fourth quarter consensus EPS estimate of 47 cents by 80% didn’t help. Here’s the view from the Zacks proprietary Price & Consensus chart… Since that earnings report, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2013 has dropped by 10.4% to $2.41 per share while that for 2014 plummeted 16.6% to $2.75 per share. It’s worth mentioning the record revenue picture here too. Revenue of $493.6 million represented a 22.5% improvement over the year-ago quarter. The impact was, however, negated by a 28.4% increase in cost of sales that led to a 12.0% fall in gross profit, and a big drop from the year-ago quarter’s 37 cents EPS. Where the Big Wheels Meet the Dirt Decreasing earnings estimates together with a mixed bag of both positive and negative earnings surprise for the past year — producing an average of miss of -9.6% — raises skepticism over Titan International‘s performance in the quarters ahead. Titan is still projected by some analysts to have mid-teens earnings and sales growth. But until the estimate picture stabilizes, it’s probably best to stand aside. Watching how CAT and DE estimates shake out would be a good idea too. Kevin Cook is a Senior Stock Strategist with Zacks.com …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
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Comcast Promotes Both Jennifer L. Daley and James P. McCue to Vice President and Assistant Treasurer
PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), a global media and technology company, announced today it has named Jennifer L. Daley and James P. McCue as Vice Presidents and Assistant Treasurers of Comcast Corporation. Ms. Daley and Mr. McCue both report to William E. Dordelman, Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Comcast Corporation.
Ms. Daley and Mr. McCue are responsible for many of the company’s financing activities, including capital formation and allocation, liability management, cash flow forecasting and working capital management, financial derivatives, acquisition financing and financial modeling.
“Jen and Jim are highly respected and valued members of the Comcast team, and I am delighted to recognize them for their many contributions,” said Mr. Dordelman. “They have proven to be loyal and dependable contributors to the success of this company, most notably and recently highlighted by their significant participation in the financing activities related to the company’s acquisition of GE‘s 49 percent common equity ownership interest in NBCUniversal.”
Prior to joining Corporate Treasury in December 2001, Ms. Daley served as Director, Corporate Accounting for Comcast Corporation, where she was responsible for accounting, risk management and financial planning. Previously, she was with Ernst & Young LLP, serving public and private audit clients in a variety of industries. Ms. Daley graduated with a B.S. in Accounting from Widener University and earned an MBA in Finance from Temple University. She is also a Betsy Magness Leadership Institute Class X graduate and is active with Philadelphia Futures.
Mr. McCue joined Comcast’s Corporate Treasury department in 2010 and previously spent six years as President of Comcast Capital Corporation in Wilmington, DE. Before that, he was Senior Director of Financial Reporting for Comcast Corporation, where he was responsible for internal and external financial reporting for the company. Prior to Comcast, he was a senior manager with Arthur Andersen LLP, serving clients in the firm’s Emerging Growth Industry Group. Mr. McCue is a member of the National Association of Corporate Treasurers and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He graduated with a B.S. in Accountancy from Villanova University.
About Comcast Corporation:
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is a global media and technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is the nation’s largest video, high-speed Internet and phone provider to …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 3/26/13, Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.51, payable on 5/1/13. As a percentage of DE‘s recent stock price of $87.56, this dividend works out to approximately 0.58%, so look for shares of Deere & Co. to trade 0.58% lower ? all else being equal ? when DE shares open for trading on 3/26/13.
Click here to learn which 25 S.A.F.E. dividend stocks should be on your radar screen » or click here to find out which 9 other stocks going ex-dividend you should know about, at DividendChannel.com » …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Markets
Tluk – get desktop screenshot in web 1
(KDE File Sharing)
Original script was taken http://yaa.no-ip.org/~yaa/diary/20071108.html#p04 here.
This script creates screenshot of selected part of your desktop and sends it to server tluk.ru.
– Allows you to select an area of the desktop, then loads a screenshot to the server
– After logging on tluk.ru you can see your screenshots, delete them.
To take full advantage of script you should register on tluk.ru. This allows you to store your screenshots unlimited time, and the ability to see all your screenshots in the gallery and delete them. No registration screenshots will be deleted in 3 days after the last view.
Each user has 50 MB. of disk space.
Everything was done for myself, so, please don’t scold me =)
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INSTALLATION
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The script requires ImageMagick, ruby and Firefox
Work tested on Ubuntu and Kubuntu, the others should also work.
1. download the file
2. Put it in any directory
3. Register online (optional, but recommended)
4. Open the file with a text editor, and enter your user name and password within quotes (if not register – do not change anything)
username = ‘username’
userpass = ‘password’
5. Save the file and make it executable
6. Double click on the file to run grab a screenshot of the desktop.
You can also set hotkeys in your DE performance file: I have ctrl + print screen.
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The first rumblings of plans to resurrect the Detroit Electric nameplate surfaced back in 2009, when the group announced a partnership of sorts with Malaysia-based Proton Holdings (then-owners of Lotus) to produce a pair of all-electric vehicles. While many electric-car startups and their founders (paging Elon Musk) spent the following few years under the harsh scrutiny of the public eye and media at large, Detroit Electric maintained radio silence, eventually falling off the radar. In the interim, the company claims to have been carrying out “relentless research and engineering development,” all while many manufactures were beginning to scale back their EV efforts. Undeterred, Detroit Electric returned to the airwaves this week with several major announcements and a shadowy image of what it claims to be its all-electric, two-seat, limited-edition sports car.
Detroit Electric says the car, which we believe makes use of the Lotus Exige‘s foundation, is set to begin production in Michigan this August. The company, whose headquarters really are located in Detroit, says it plans to create 180 jobs in the region within the next 12 months. Detroit Electric has plans for a whole line of cars, too, its dedicated assembly facility capable of eventually supporting an annual production volume of 2500 units.
Chairman Albert Lam, who resurrected the Detroit Electric moniker in 2008, and CEO of North American operations Don Graunstadt both are former Lotus employees. Lam served as the CEO of Lotus Engineering and executive director of Lotus Cars, and Graunstadt was an executive at Lotus Engineering. Such lineage lends further credence to our belief that DE’s upcoming offspring makes use of Lotus components.
For now Detroit Electric won’t comment on, well, anything, except to inform us that it’s developed its “own EV-powertrain technologies that will feature in all future Detroit Electric products.” The brand says it’ll offer a sneak peak in Detroit in early April before the official unveiling a few weeks later at the Shanghai auto show, where it also will make an announcement about a major partnership with a global automaker. This ought be good.
By MarketNewsVideo Deere (DE) was downgraded by UBS (UBS) to neutral as the downward pressure on corn prices is likely to affect its pricing power and earnings. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Markets
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Agribusiness ETF (AMEX: MOO) where we have detected an approximate $55.1 million dollar outflow — that’s a 0.9% decrease week over week (from 105,850,000 to 104,850,000). Among the largest underlying components of MOO, in trading today Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) is off about 0.3%, Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) is up about 0.1%, and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (NYSE: POT) is up by about 1.1%. For a complete list of holdings, visit the MOO Holdings page » …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Markets
Disclaimer: This post just sums up a concept for a new distribution which matches certain ideals. It is not the announcement of a new distribution. These are just abstract ideas. (However, if there is high interest in a project like this, it might of course develop into something real…)
I have been involved in Debian and Ubuntu for a long time now. When Ubuntu started, I was a Debian Testing user, and I immediately switched to Ubuntu when it started, because I liked the idea of a short-release-cycle, user-centric company-supported Debian based Linux distribution. However, I am now back to Debian for a long time, because of many reasons which nearly all had to do with Canonical policy. But this is not a post to criticise Ubuntu, so I’ll leave out most of that part. I am highly disappointed on how Ubuntu develops – not only the technical decisions are at least questionable, but also the social and community part is not that great anymore. There is a high asymetry in the relation between Canonical and other developers, Ubuntu mailinglists basically don’t create meaningful results, they sometimes even mutate to a Canonical Q/A session. The community does not seem to have a large influence on decisions about core services, and it can’t have it if there are things developed behind closed doors. (This is all, of course my subjective impression)
But really nobody can argue against the basic idea of Ubuntu and the great things Ubuntu created Also, many of the processes Ubuntu uses to develop the distribution are just great and well-working, as well as there is a highly active community around it. As you simply cannot argue with Canonical to change their policy (they are a company and have hidden plans, also they have every right to apply whatever policy they want), the natural way in any OSS project would be to fork it. But doing that blindly would just create another distribution, which would almost certainly vanish again soon, since there are already many Ubuntu derivatives which cover many use-cases using an Ubuntu base.
I discussed this stuff with Daniel some time ago, and we did some kind of brainstorming about what a perfect distribution would look like, from the perspective of a developer who wants to use a Debian-based distribution.
Here is a list of points which would define such a project:
By Sessler, Marc LSU’s Barkevious Mingo didn’t play a snap of football until his junior year in high school, but a late start hasn’t done anything to hurt his stock ahead of this month’s NFL Scouting Combine. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at NFL
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Welcome to Brown Harris Wealth Management
We at Brown Harris take a personal approach to wealth management. Not simply an investment firm, Brown Harris works to help build and protect one's wealth through a variety of proven investment methods. Brown Harris clients may be saving for retirement, receiving retirement income, protecting an estate from taxes or perhaps providing for a grandchild's college education.
We specialize in the following:
We are interested in serious, longer term investment clients. For this reason, folks who prefer quick returns need not inquire into our services. If you are serious about your wealth management, come interview us, we would love the opportunity to earn your trust.
Mission Statement – To help our clients achieve their financial dreams by providing consistently superior service utilizing the most effective wealth management tools available.
Todd began his investment brokerage career in mid 1987 with Edward D. Jones & Co. By 1997 he became a “top producer,” representing the top two percent of the firm. He was also a Limited Partner with Jones.
On the first day of 2006, along with business partner Gillette Harris, Todd opened the doors to Brown Harris Wealth Management. Now with twenty-five years in the industry,
he brings a holistic approach to his practice, encouraging his clients to enjoy the fruits of their success while planning a family legacy for future generations.
Todd and his wife of twenty-five years, Michelle are originally from Richmond, Virginia. They have two children. He enjoys playing music and competitively driving his BMW race car on occasional weekends.
Todd has a B.A. spooge Laude from Washington and Lee University. Todd holds Series 7, 63, 66 with registrations held with LPL Financial and Series 24 with registrations held with LPL Financial.
For the last twenty-five years, Todd has been extremely active in the Culpeper Community. In …read more
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Remember that episode of Top Gear, where the notoriously anti-EV crew pushed a Tesla Roadster to show what would happen if the car’s battery had run out of juice? And then Tesla got all litigious and filed suit (which the company eventually lost)? Well, we might be in for another public scuffle about the merits of electric vehicles.
The New York Times recently sent John Broder out in a Model S between the two new Superchargers on the east coast, located in Newark, DE and Milford, CT. Since, as Broder notes, the stations are “some 200 miles apart” the 85-kWh battery in the Model S should be able to make the drive. The EPA rates this model at 265 miles, after all. Heck, even the 60-kWh mid-range model has a 208-mile range. The trick, as we all know, is that your mileage may vary.
Following a 49-minute visit to the Supercharger in Delaware for a full charge (well, at least seeing a screen that read “charge complete”), Broder kept on driving, but discovered that, after 68 miles of driving, he had lost 85 miles of estimated range. He shifted over to energy conservation mode (driving slow, turning off the cabin heat, etc.). He writes:
Nearing New York, I made the first of several calls to Tesla officials about my creeping range anxiety. The woman who had delivered the car told me to turn off the cruise control; company executives later told me that advice was wrong. All the while, my feet were freezing and my knuckles were turning white.
The report caused TSLA to drop 2.5 percent to $38.27 (it has since regained some ground and sits at $38.42) and got a response from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who tweeted that, “NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake. Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn’t actually charge to max & took a long detour.”
Tesla has promised it will post an article later today that “will refute Broder’s version of what happened, with data points pulled from the car’s logs.” Stay tuned for an update after that report is published.
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Welcome to Brown Harris Wealth Management
We at Brown Harris take a personal approach to wealth management. Not simply an investment firm, Brown Harris works to help build and protect one's wealth through a variety of proven investment methods. Brown Harris clients may be saving for retirement, receiving retirement income, protecting an estate from taxes or perhaps providing for a grandchild's college education.
We specialize in the following:
We are interested in serious, longer term investment clients. For this reason, folks who prefer quick returns need not inquire into our services. If you are serious about your wealth management, come interview us, we would love the opportunity to earn your trust.
Mission Statement – To help our clients achieve their financial dreams by providing consistently superior service utilizing the most effective wealth management tools available.
Todd began his investment brokerage career in mid 1987 with Edward D. Jones & Co. By 1997 he became a “top producer,” representing the top two percent of the firm. He was also a Limited Partner with Jones.
On the first day of 2006, along with business partner Gillette Harris, Todd opened the doors to Brown Harris Wealth Management. Now with twenty-five years in the industry,
he brings a holistic approach to his practice, encouraging his clients to enjoy the fruits of their success while planning a family legacy for future generations.
Todd and his wife of twenty-five years, Michelle are originally from Richmond, Virginia. They have two children. He enjoys playing music and competitively driving his BMW race car on occasional weekends.
Todd has a B.A. spooge Laude from Washington and Lee University. Todd holds Series 7, 63, 66 with registrations held with LPL Financial and Series 24 with registrations held with LPL Financial.
For the last twenty-five years, Todd has been extremely active in the Culpeper Community. In 2010 he was recognized for his years of service by receiving the …read more
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It was lobbying by the GNOME devs that made GNOME 3 the default on Fedora, but now it seems that somebody has had enough. That somebody has proposed making the Cinnamon the default desktop environment on Fedora 19.
I don’t blame him.
I’ve always been of the opinion that as far a desktop computing goes, and how people interface or interact with their desktop, that there’s something fundamentally wrong with GNOME Shell. It sits atop beautiful technology, but that UI just doesn’t compute. And the problem is that the GNOME devs are not willing to accept that simple fact.
But if this proposal is accepted, they will lose a major distro and, hopefully, will be forced to rethink the GNOME Shell.
According to Eric Smith, the guy behind this proposal:
The Gnome 3 interface is substantially different that the traditional desktop interfaces on both Linux and Windows. While it is good that there is research into new user interface concepts, many users prefer to have a traditional interface that they are accustomed to. … I’m not trying to start (or continue) a flame war here, so I won’t state any of my own criticisms of Gnome Shell here, but I will observe that a number of very high profile people in the Linux community, such as Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox, have publicly announce that due to problems with Gnome Shell they are switching to a different desktop and/or Linux distribution.
I submit the proposition that it is easier for a user doing a new Fedora install to start with a traditional desktop, and switch to the Gnome Shell if they prefer that, than to start with Gnome Shell and switch to a traditional desktop.
His proposal gets my vote.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at LinuxBSDos
Welcome to Brown Harris Wealth Management
We at Brown Harris take a personal approach to wealth management. Not simply an investment firm, Brown Harris works to help build and protect one’s wealth through a variety of proven investment methods. Brown Harris clients may be saving for retirement, receiving retirement income, protecting an estate from taxes or perhaps providing for a grandchild’s college education.
We specialize in the following:
We are interested in serious, longer term investment clients. For this reason, folks who prefer quick returns need not inquire into our services. If you are serious about your wealth management, come interview us, we would love the opportunity to earn your trust.
Mission Statement – To help our clients achieve their financial dreams by providing consistently superior service utilizing the most effective wealth management tools available.
Brown Harris Wealth Management • 311 S. East Street, Suite 100 – Culpeper, VA 22701 • (540) 825-1588 – (877) 825-1588 • fax (540) 727-8701
Who We Are
Brown Harris grew from a desire to provide unbiased, holistic wealth management. As local successful brokers at a major investment firm, Todd Brown and Gillette Harris teamed to form the largest independent brokerage firm in Culpeper by managing approximately two hundred and fifty million dollars. Brown Harris has built a reputation as a company successfully managing their client’s serious savings money.
About Todd Brown
  Todd began his investment brokerage career in mid 1987 with Edward D. Jones & Co. By 1997 he became a “top producer,” representing the top two percent of the firm. He was also a Limited Partner with Jones. On the first day of 2006, along with business partner Gillette Harris, Todd opened the doors to Brown Harris Wealth Management. Now with twenty-five years in the industry, Todd and his wife of twenty-five years, Michelle are originally from Richmond, Virginia. They have two children. He enjoys playing music and competitively driving his BMW race car on occasional weekends. Todd has a B.A. spooge Laude from Washington and Lee University. Todd holds Series 7, 63, 66 with registrations held with LPL Financial and Series 24 with registrations held with LPL Financial. For the last twenty-five years, Todd has been extremely active in the Culpeper Community. In 2010 he was recognized for his years of service by receiving the “Good Scout Award” given annually to a citizen who represents the ideals of community service. Todd also happens to be an Eagle Scout. He has enjoyed involvement with the Windmore Foundation for the Arts, the Chamber of Commerce, Culpeper Renaissance, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Knights of Columbus and The Culpeper Soap Box Derby. Todd is also the president of the non-profit organization, “Carol Anne’s Mission for Bipolar Disorder Awareness.” This began as response to the untimely passing of his daughter due to her difficult illness. Today the website, is one of the internet’s most visited sites on the subject of Bipolar Disorder. |
About Gillette Harris
  Gillette started his investment career in 2000 after three years with Omni Services. Prior to that he was a client of Todd’s for about six years and after three years of persuasion, finally took the plunge and moved into the investment world. In 2006, Gillette co-established Brown Harris Wealth Management. The partnership continues. . . Gillette is a native of Culpeper. He graduated from Radford University with a B.A. in 1997. Gillette holds Series 7, 63, 66 with registrations held with LPL Financial and insurance licenses in multiple states. He is married to Donna and they have two young boys. He enjoys playing golf, snow skiing, camping and time spent at the lake with his family. Gillette is also active in the community with interests in the local Chamber of Commerce, St. Luke’s Lutheran School and The Museum of Culpeper History. |
Brown Harris Wealth Management • 311 S. East Street, Suite 100 – Culpeper, VA 22701 • (540) 825-1588 – (877) 825-1588 • fax (540) 727-8701
Statistics: Posted by Michelle Brown — January 23rd, 2013, 9:05 pm
By MarketNewsVideo Deere (DE) was upgraded by JP Morgan (JPM) to neutral from underweight with a price target of $90 due to balanced global fundamentals.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Markets
