Russia has solved global warming.
Great.
Now all they have left to solve is INDOOR PLUMBING.
These are the same scientists who made their sputnik spacecraft land ON LAND.
So this is TOTALLY believable … particularly the sulfur sprayed into the atmosphere part.
Now let me get this straight .. sulfur is one of the elements most spewed out by volcanic activity … and universally has been proven to poison the atmosphere and has AIDED in planet-wide greenhouse issues after major eruptions. I realize that ash also plays a role, but really .. are these guys serious?
Russia knows how to prevent global warming - academic
from The Drudge Report - SOCHI2014
30/ 05/ 2007
MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian scientists have found a way to prevent global warming of the Earth, the director of the Global Climate and Ecology Institute said Wednesday.
Russian Academy of Sciences Academic Yury Izrael told a news conference that the method envisions air spraying of a sulfur-containing aerosol in lower stratosphere layers at a height of 10-14 kilometers (six to 10 miles). Sulfur drops would then reflect solar radiation.
According to scientists, one million tons of aerosol sprayed above the planet would make possible a reduction of solar radiation by 0.5-1%, and a reduction of air temperature by 1-1.5 degrees Celsius.
Unseasonably hot May weather with temperatures at 32.1 degrees Celsius (89.7 degrees Fahrenheit) beating a 116-year-old maximum has already seen last year's energy consumption for this time of year surpassed by about 8% in Moscow and 12% in St. Petersburg, a spokeswoman for the UES electricity monopoly said earlier.
Izrael said the method demands more detailed development, and that a relevant decision on the international level should be made for it to come into force.
However, the academic said the method is not an alternative to measures to fight climate change envisioned by the Kyoto Protocol, which contains commitments by some countries on specific volumes of greenhouse gas emission reductions.
"I don't want any contradiction of the Kyoto Protocol, but in parallel with existing methods, cheaper ones should be developed. I am advocating that work be conducted simultaneously on several methods," Izrael said.
He also said the Russian scientists' method will make the fight against warming faster and cheaper. "It is also good that it can be stopped at any moment," Izrael said.
The Russian academic said global temperature in the coming 100 years could rise by 1.4-4 degrees Celsius, which, he said, will cause droughts, floods and cyclones. He said Russia could face the extinction of 20-30% of its animals and plants if temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius.
However, Izrael said the current high temperatures in Moscow are not connected with a global climate change.
"Any fact, even the most acute should not be directly linked to climate change, but should be considered as part of temperature fluctuations," he said.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Get in Early on this Blockbuster Deal !!!
Yes... waterfront property at EXTREMELY affordable rates. $39.95 in fact.
In Hawaii no less !!!
These people WILL make some money from this ... How cool is that? LOL
check out the site. Oh, and make sure to check out the links to their sales office, etc.
I like the idea of the yearly 'homeowners association' meeting, where you take a boat ride over the site on April Fools Day each year. HA !!
http://www.petroglyphs.com/loihi/default.htm
$39.95 for Hawaii real estate: Waterfront is still underwater
By JAYMES SONG
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — Real estate is often a long-term investment. But 10,000 years?
Lo'ihi Development Co. will soon start offering ocean-view lots that speculators won't even be able to stand on for many millennia. That's because they're currently submerged more than 3,000 feet below sea level — on an underwater volcano called Lo'ihi, about 20 miles southeast of the Big Island.
The company's Web site will be renovated in the next couple of weeks to officially begin selling parcels for an introductory price of $39.95. Buyers will receive a "deed," but as with Internet groups claiming to sell stars, they probably can't call themselves owners.
"What's the scam?" asked Norm Nichols, co-developer of the online venture. "If you really think there's something here that you can't live with, nobody's forcing you to buy it. It's meant to be fun."
The Web site (http://www.petroglyphs.com/loihi/default.htm) advertises, "Lo'ihi Seaview Estates: Real Estate for the Future. Grand Water Front View Lots." A photo of the sales office is a raft in the middle of the ocean.
Nichols and business partner Linda Kramer, both Honolulu entrepreneurs, envision online chat rooms and newsletters to discuss everything from street names to what kind of government to set up. They want to hold a "homeowners association" meeting — a boat ride over the volcano — every April Fools' Day.
Scientists don't really know when, or if, Lo'ihi will break the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Many guess about 10,000 years, but it could take much longer than that.
Stephen Levins, head of the state consumer-affairs office, said the offer could be a problem if it were serious. "However, if the Web site is clear it's a parody and you're not going to be receiving an actual interest in real estate, that's something else," he said.
In Hawaii no less !!!
These people WILL make some money from this ... How cool is that? LOL
check out the site. Oh, and make sure to check out the links to their sales office, etc.
I like the idea of the yearly 'homeowners association' meeting, where you take a boat ride over the site on April Fools Day each year. HA !!
http://www.petroglyphs.com/loihi/default.htm
$39.95 for Hawaii real estate: Waterfront is still underwater
By JAYMES SONG
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — Real estate is often a long-term investment. But 10,000 years?
Lo'ihi Development Co. will soon start offering ocean-view lots that speculators won't even be able to stand on for many millennia. That's because they're currently submerged more than 3,000 feet below sea level — on an underwater volcano called Lo'ihi, about 20 miles southeast of the Big Island.
The company's Web site will be renovated in the next couple of weeks to officially begin selling parcels for an introductory price of $39.95. Buyers will receive a "deed," but as with Internet groups claiming to sell stars, they probably can't call themselves owners.
"What's the scam?" asked Norm Nichols, co-developer of the online venture. "If you really think there's something here that you can't live with, nobody's forcing you to buy it. It's meant to be fun."
The Web site (http://www.petroglyphs.com/loihi/default.htm) advertises, "Lo'ihi Seaview Estates: Real Estate for the Future. Grand Water Front View Lots." A photo of the sales office is a raft in the middle of the ocean.
Nichols and business partner Linda Kramer, both Honolulu entrepreneurs, envision online chat rooms and newsletters to discuss everything from street names to what kind of government to set up. They want to hold a "homeowners association" meeting — a boat ride over the volcano — every April Fools' Day.
Scientists don't really know when, or if, Lo'ihi will break the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Many guess about 10,000 years, but it could take much longer than that.
Stephen Levins, head of the state consumer-affairs office, said the offer could be a problem if it were serious. "However, if the Web site is clear it's a parody and you're not going to be receiving an actual interest in real estate, that's something else," he said.
Outrageous...
The more that comes out, the more incensed I become over the way things have been run.
In the past I have put a concerted effort into listening to views and arguments OTHER than what I've felt. I wanted to understand and wanted to believe that my President and his administration would listen and heed all the information available and make any decisions based on the opinions of those whose job it is to analyze myriads of pieces of intelligence.
I had been consistently told that the US was lied to by Iraqis who promised that they wanted freedom from the oppression of Sadam, and that all they wanted was the opportunity. It was frequently argued to me that the way things worked out could not have been foreseen. my initial response to that has been surprise that our intelligence community would not feel that there was a strong possibility of sectarian violence, leading to infighting and possibly civil war.
As more and more time has gone by I have been increasingly disillusioned and angered by the statements by the President and his people ... and wonder how so many Americans have been willing to accept being spoken to as if we were totally unintelligent.
And now I read that these possibilities, in fact, WERE among the things that the administration was told.
Words cannot express my anger at the way Mr. Bush and his administration have acted on our behalf. HOW has the Iraq situation aided his 'war on terror'? Last week, he even declassified some specific pieces of intelligence in order to use it as "evidence" that al-Queda used the degradation of civility in Iraq to try to set up an operations base there. It smacked once again of manipulation for his public relations agenda. How could it be that someone uses the result of poor war performance to bolster his reasoning of why we should be there. We CAUSED it! It wouldn't have happened if we hadn't created a vacuum there.
Was Sadam any kind of a good guy? Of course not. He did horrific things. But we as a people were lead into this conflict through hand-picked, manipulated reasoning.
And we now find out that specific predictions of what became reality WERE provided ... but ignored.
How has this been intelligent, wise, prudent behavior and leadership?
This Is MY opinion, and I am tired of having to listen to people say that I just don't understand and that we weren't lied to in order to forward a terrible agenda and plan.
For God's sake, they TOLD HIM that this is exactly what might happen!!!
From US News & World Report's Daily Overview:
This weekend it was also learned that the US intelligence community had warned president Bush that an invasion of Iraq could lead to exactly the type of sectarian violence that has plagued Iraq since 2003. On Friday night, NBC Nightly News led off reporting, "We are only now learning that the Bush Administration was warned by the US intelligence community four years ago that Iraq could unravel and turn disastrous no matter how quick, no matter how successful the initial invasion had been. This is all in a rather damning new report on Iraq by the Senate Intelligence Committee." According to a front-page article in Saturday's Washington Post, "Months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies predicted that it would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... Analysts warned that war in Iraq also could provoke Iran to assert its regional influence and 'probably would result in a surge of political Islam and increased funding for terrorist groups' in the Muslim world." The Los Angeles Times, in an article headlined "Spy Warnings On Iraq Turn Out To Be True," said the Senate Intelligence Committee report "brought to light once-classified warnings that accurately forecasted many of the specific military and political problems the Bush administration and Iraqi officials have faced since the invasion in March 2003. The report also details that these warnings were distributed to senior officials with daily access to President Bush and others at the very top of the administration."
In the past I have put a concerted effort into listening to views and arguments OTHER than what I've felt. I wanted to understand and wanted to believe that my President and his administration would listen and heed all the information available and make any decisions based on the opinions of those whose job it is to analyze myriads of pieces of intelligence.
I had been consistently told that the US was lied to by Iraqis who promised that they wanted freedom from the oppression of Sadam, and that all they wanted was the opportunity. It was frequently argued to me that the way things worked out could not have been foreseen. my initial response to that has been surprise that our intelligence community would not feel that there was a strong possibility of sectarian violence, leading to infighting and possibly civil war.
As more and more time has gone by I have been increasingly disillusioned and angered by the statements by the President and his people ... and wonder how so many Americans have been willing to accept being spoken to as if we were totally unintelligent.
And now I read that these possibilities, in fact, WERE among the things that the administration was told.
Words cannot express my anger at the way Mr. Bush and his administration have acted on our behalf. HOW has the Iraq situation aided his 'war on terror'? Last week, he even declassified some specific pieces of intelligence in order to use it as "evidence" that al-Queda used the degradation of civility in Iraq to try to set up an operations base there. It smacked once again of manipulation for his public relations agenda. How could it be that someone uses the result of poor war performance to bolster his reasoning of why we should be there. We CAUSED it! It wouldn't have happened if we hadn't created a vacuum there.
Was Sadam any kind of a good guy? Of course not. He did horrific things. But we as a people were lead into this conflict through hand-picked, manipulated reasoning.
And we now find out that specific predictions of what became reality WERE provided ... but ignored.
How has this been intelligent, wise, prudent behavior and leadership?
This Is MY opinion, and I am tired of having to listen to people say that I just don't understand and that we weren't lied to in order to forward a terrible agenda and plan.
For God's sake, they TOLD HIM that this is exactly what might happen!!!
From US News & World Report's Daily Overview:
This weekend it was also learned that the US intelligence community had warned president Bush that an invasion of Iraq could lead to exactly the type of sectarian violence that has plagued Iraq since 2003. On Friday night, NBC Nightly News led off reporting, "We are only now learning that the Bush Administration was warned by the US intelligence community four years ago that Iraq could unravel and turn disastrous no matter how quick, no matter how successful the initial invasion had been. This is all in a rather damning new report on Iraq by the Senate Intelligence Committee." According to a front-page article in Saturday's Washington Post, "Months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies predicted that it would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... Analysts warned that war in Iraq also could provoke Iran to assert its regional influence and 'probably would result in a surge of political Islam and increased funding for terrorist groups' in the Muslim world." The Los Angeles Times, in an article headlined "Spy Warnings On Iraq Turn Out To Be True," said the Senate Intelligence Committee report "brought to light once-classified warnings that accurately forecasted many of the specific military and political problems the Bush administration and Iraqi officials have faced since the invasion in March 2003. The report also details that these warnings were distributed to senior officials with daily access to President Bush and others at the very top of the administration."
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Troubled Youts?
From MSNBC today:
Rising crime blamed on youth violence, gangs
WASHINGTON - Increasing violence among teenagers and other youths
appears to have contributed to a nationwide crime spike,
the Justice Department said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18671013/
Really? Ya THINK? From a new study, you say? WOW.
That's such a shocker.
This was put out as: BREAKING NEWS, by the way.
Rising crime blamed on youth violence, gangs
WASHINGTON - Increasing violence among teenagers and other youths
appears to have contributed to a nationwide crime spike,
the Justice Department said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18671013/
Really? Ya THINK? From a new study, you say? WOW.
That's such a shocker.
This was put out as: BREAKING NEWS, by the way.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
A Weak Moment in Snark-ville
OK, so mostly this dumb-ass blog is me trying to be overly cranky or funny. Only every once in a while I stumble on something better than that. I saw a new article posting on CNN.COM today (copies below) and randomly clicked on it. don't know why - it's not one of the types of headlines that I generally look at at all. but the article was interesting. It's about a kid who has what they say is terminal cancer and who has been blogging about the experience. Miles Levin is his name. And what he's written has gotten attention.
From what I've read of his stuff, he seems to have a perspective that few of us that are supposedly older and wiser could have.
And sometimes it's important for us to hear from people like this. To make us think.
Anyway... this posting isn't in the vein of a chain-letter or spam-email or anything.
It's just something I have started reading and thinking about.
Go get 'em Miles.
It might be worth signing up (free) for carepages ( http://www.carepages.com/ )and reading some of them. Miles is under: LEVINSTORY.
I wish I could be as brave and supportive as these people.
OK .. 'Nuff about that. This will serve as a balance to my next post, 'cause I think that I will be doing a smackdown on the overall attitude of a local Rhode Island philanthropist.
Nice guy, me, hunh?
==========================================
Teen cancer patient's blog celebrates life
POSTED: 2:39 p.m. EDT, May 9, 2007
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (CNN) -- From Miles Levin's big smile, you'd think he was just another happy teenager. He nods supportively when his pals brag about their college acceptances and throws a gentle arm around a girlfriend who has ringlets of long, brown hair. But at night, this 18-year-old blogs from a world as sobering as his chalk-white skin and shiny bald head.
"All that stressing about which Ivy League they'd be going to while I'm stressing about whether those suspicious scans meant cancer and The End or not," he writes. "That everyone would be moving on to the next stage of life ... the whole College Experience ... onwards to young rising professionals and newly weds and fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers and retirees ... but my life ends here; this is my stop, a couple months short of graduating high school."
His bloggings, posted on his hospital Web site at http://www.carepages.com/ (register, then type LevinStory) have reached well beyond the world of high school. He e-mailed with a woman in the Philippines, then another in Brazil, with teens dying in the Midwest and mothers losing children in the Northeast. His thoughts were aired on the radio, and on the cover of the Detroit News. He has become a magnet for people searching for ways to relish the simplicity of a single good day.
Chemotherapy has made him gaunt, even sallow, though he smiles from ear to ear and his baldness has given him a Dalai Lama look. Even the Dalai Lama himself might be brought down by something as mundane as cancer or a fire from a worn-out extension cord, Levin muses on his blog. And in the randomness of life, firefighters would race in to rescue him, "not just because he's the Dalai Lama, they would do the same for you." (Read more from Miles on living with cancer on the 360 Blog)
If we're all the same, why can't a kid from suburban Detroit say a few deep things on his way out? So Levin, all striped pajamas and socks with treads, settled down in a recliner one day and declared that perhaps he was put on Earth "to get Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Why? So that I could show the world how to have stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Or rather how to handle what is close to the worst thing that could possibly happen to me, with as much strength and grace as I could manage."
Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare cancer that causes cells to run amok in bones, muscles, connective tissues and tendons.
He got his diagnosis in 2005 after seeing a doctor for belly pain. It ruined his plans for a movie date, he says. Since then he's been in and out of Beaumont Hospital in Michigan. Numerous doctors and tests haven't provided anything other than a terminal diagnosis.Then cancer stole him away from school. In late 2006, he ended up at Ronald McDonald House near New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, forced to take the ACT while fighting nausea, any faint hopes of making the Cranbrook football team pretty much dashed. The blog started as his way of keeping touch with the teen world while fighting cancer in chemo world.
Kids he didn't even know started to write back. He felt he had a connection to home, so why not provide a connection to his world, to the alphabet soup of medications, the weird medical scene, the strange sight of kids fighting illness in a place so alien to children.
His mom blogged, then his dad. Time passed, and his cat got cancer too -- irony not lost on Levin. He lost a lot of weight while the chemo attacked the cancer cells running amok in his muscle tissues, bones and tendons. His voice became light and breathy from the cancer, but he still could blog. He wrote an essay that earned him an admission to Kalamazoo College.
At some point, his words pushed past the pen-pal stage. He began to write about the deeper questions he faced and the meaning of life. "He's ageless. He has no malice. He doesn't seem to have the kind of human conflicts internally," says his mother, Nancy, of the son she fears she may lose before his scheduled June graduation. As a child, he was like a "space alien," exhibiting early signs of attention deficit disorder, focusing on simple pleasures and showing an early talent for writing. She wonders aloud how a kid like that could die so soon.
In late April, Levin came home from Sloan-Kettering to Bloomfield Hills. The kids at the Cranbrook School did a "Miles for Miles" walkathon fundraiser and wore T-shirts with his slogan: "Keep Fighting. Stop Struggling." Oddly, he kept comforting them.
And he kept blogging: "So often we use lazy words which fall to the ground and never get up, but those can change the world, or at least a person.
"I've been at my computer too long now. It's a beautiful day outside and I don't have time to miss it."
From what I've read of his stuff, he seems to have a perspective that few of us that are supposedly older and wiser could have.
And sometimes it's important for us to hear from people like this. To make us think.
Anyway... this posting isn't in the vein of a chain-letter or spam-email or anything.
It's just something I have started reading and thinking about.
Go get 'em Miles.
It might be worth signing up (free) for carepages ( http://www.carepages.com/ )and reading some of them. Miles is under: LEVINSTORY.
I wish I could be as brave and supportive as these people.
OK .. 'Nuff about that. This will serve as a balance to my next post, 'cause I think that I will be doing a smackdown on the overall attitude of a local Rhode Island philanthropist.
Nice guy, me, hunh?
==========================================
Teen cancer patient's blog celebrates life
POSTED: 2:39 p.m. EDT, May 9, 2007
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (CNN) -- From Miles Levin's big smile, you'd think he was just another happy teenager. He nods supportively when his pals brag about their college acceptances and throws a gentle arm around a girlfriend who has ringlets of long, brown hair. But at night, this 18-year-old blogs from a world as sobering as his chalk-white skin and shiny bald head.
"All that stressing about which Ivy League they'd be going to while I'm stressing about whether those suspicious scans meant cancer and The End or not," he writes. "That everyone would be moving on to the next stage of life ... the whole College Experience ... onwards to young rising professionals and newly weds and fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers and retirees ... but my life ends here; this is my stop, a couple months short of graduating high school."
His bloggings, posted on his hospital Web site at http://www.carepages.com/ (register, then type LevinStory) have reached well beyond the world of high school. He e-mailed with a woman in the Philippines, then another in Brazil, with teens dying in the Midwest and mothers losing children in the Northeast. His thoughts were aired on the radio, and on the cover of the Detroit News. He has become a magnet for people searching for ways to relish the simplicity of a single good day.
Chemotherapy has made him gaunt, even sallow, though he smiles from ear to ear and his baldness has given him a Dalai Lama look. Even the Dalai Lama himself might be brought down by something as mundane as cancer or a fire from a worn-out extension cord, Levin muses on his blog. And in the randomness of life, firefighters would race in to rescue him, "not just because he's the Dalai Lama, they would do the same for you." (Read more from Miles on living with cancer on the 360 Blog)
If we're all the same, why can't a kid from suburban Detroit say a few deep things on his way out? So Levin, all striped pajamas and socks with treads, settled down in a recliner one day and declared that perhaps he was put on Earth "to get Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Why? So that I could show the world how to have stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Or rather how to handle what is close to the worst thing that could possibly happen to me, with as much strength and grace as I could manage."
Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare cancer that causes cells to run amok in bones, muscles, connective tissues and tendons.
He got his diagnosis in 2005 after seeing a doctor for belly pain. It ruined his plans for a movie date, he says. Since then he's been in and out of Beaumont Hospital in Michigan. Numerous doctors and tests haven't provided anything other than a terminal diagnosis.Then cancer stole him away from school. In late 2006, he ended up at Ronald McDonald House near New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, forced to take the ACT while fighting nausea, any faint hopes of making the Cranbrook football team pretty much dashed. The blog started as his way of keeping touch with the teen world while fighting cancer in chemo world.
Kids he didn't even know started to write back. He felt he had a connection to home, so why not provide a connection to his world, to the alphabet soup of medications, the weird medical scene, the strange sight of kids fighting illness in a place so alien to children.
His mom blogged, then his dad. Time passed, and his cat got cancer too -- irony not lost on Levin. He lost a lot of weight while the chemo attacked the cancer cells running amok in his muscle tissues, bones and tendons. His voice became light and breathy from the cancer, but he still could blog. He wrote an essay that earned him an admission to Kalamazoo College.
At some point, his words pushed past the pen-pal stage. He began to write about the deeper questions he faced and the meaning of life. "He's ageless. He has no malice. He doesn't seem to have the kind of human conflicts internally," says his mother, Nancy, of the son she fears she may lose before his scheduled June graduation. As a child, he was like a "space alien," exhibiting early signs of attention deficit disorder, focusing on simple pleasures and showing an early talent for writing. She wonders aloud how a kid like that could die so soon.
In late April, Levin came home from Sloan-Kettering to Bloomfield Hills. The kids at the Cranbrook School did a "Miles for Miles" walkathon fundraiser and wore T-shirts with his slogan: "Keep Fighting. Stop Struggling." Oddly, he kept comforting them.
And he kept blogging: "So often we use lazy words which fall to the ground and never get up, but those can change the world, or at least a person.
"I've been at my computer too long now. It's a beautiful day outside and I don't have time to miss it."
Friday, May 4, 2007
Hey England! BITE ME!
It was 231 years ago today (May 4th) that the Rhode Island General Assembly renounced allegiance to the British crown and declared Rhode Island sovereign and independent.
Rhode Island was the first of the 13 colonies to declare its independence – two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
Small, yes. But feisty.
Besides...what were they gonna do? It probably wasn't even worth sending a ship over to slap 'em down.
http://www.sec.state.ri.us/library/riinfo/riinfo/knowrhode
Rhode Island was the first of the 13 colonies to declare its independence – two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
Small, yes. But feisty.
Besides...what were they gonna do? It probably wasn't even worth sending a ship over to slap 'em down.
http://www.sec.state.ri.us/library/riinfo/riinfo/knowrhode
Thursday, May 3, 2007
I HATE When This Happens ...
Found this online while randomly searching for something else. I have to say, if you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of having to ask for money ... well, do it with aplomb.
Be original, maintain a sense of humor, and, above all, BE HONEST.
This is SO worth a few bucks, wouldn't you say?
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
There is No God
Is this kind of thing my personal payment for being born with 10 fingers & toes? Or for the Red Sox finally winning it all? It's because I didn't follow through and go to a Catholic college, isn't it?
News Corp. Makes Bid for Dow Jones
May 1 12:02 PM US/Eastern (AP)
NEW YORK (AP) - Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Tuesday it has received an unsolicited bid from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to buy the company for $60 per share, or $5 billion.
Shares of the financial news publishing company soared after the cable news channel CNBC reported news of the offer earlier Tuesday.
After opening at $37.12, the shares jumped $20.95, or 58 percent, to $57.28 before being halted on the New York Stock Exchange for news pending. They had traded in a 52-week range of $32.16 to $40.08 before Tuesday's news.
Dow Jones said in a brief statement that its board had received the proposal from News Corp. to buy the company with either cash or a combination of cash and News Corp. stock.
Dow Jones is controlled by the Bancroft family through a special class of shares and cannot be taken over without their consent. The company said in its statement that its board and members of the Bancroft family were evaluating the proposal, and that there was no assurance it would lead to a transaction.
Spokesmen for Dow Jones, News Corp. and the Bancroft family did not immediately return calls seeking additional comment.
Like other newspaper publishers, Dow Jones' shares have been beaten down over the past few years amid sluggish advertising and as more readers and advertising dollars move to the Internet.
News Corp. Makes Bid for Dow Jones
May 1 12:02 PM US/Eastern (AP)
NEW YORK (AP) - Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Tuesday it has received an unsolicited bid from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to buy the company for $60 per share, or $5 billion.
Shares of the financial news publishing company soared after the cable news channel CNBC reported news of the offer earlier Tuesday.
After opening at $37.12, the shares jumped $20.95, or 58 percent, to $57.28 before being halted on the New York Stock Exchange for news pending. They had traded in a 52-week range of $32.16 to $40.08 before Tuesday's news.
Dow Jones said in a brief statement that its board had received the proposal from News Corp. to buy the company with either cash or a combination of cash and News Corp. stock.
Dow Jones is controlled by the Bancroft family through a special class of shares and cannot be taken over without their consent. The company said in its statement that its board and members of the Bancroft family were evaluating the proposal, and that there was no assurance it would lead to a transaction.
Spokesmen for Dow Jones, News Corp. and the Bancroft family did not immediately return calls seeking additional comment.
Like other newspaper publishers, Dow Jones' shares have been beaten down over the past few years amid sluggish advertising and as more readers and advertising dollars move to the Internet.
Miss America Got Me Off ...
OK. So you are an internet pervert who stalks underage girls. You make contact with someone ... think you are going to meet her for insidious & inscrutable purposes (well I guess YOU aren't thinking of it that way) ... and when you arrive, your prey turns out to be none other than Miss America. Now.... in YOUR head, for a brief moment, you can't believe your luck... and then WHOMP !!!! Police ~ Handcuffs (in a BAD way) ~ Arrest ~ Court ~ Jail time ~ Prison boyfriends and all the joyousness that goes along with THAT...
Way to be deviant.
But wait! It's all good!
Not only will you get off, so to speak, but this little hottie Miss America will be the cause.
And why is that?
Because of of everything that is wrong about media, TV, and morals comes to light with this one little story.
In order to promote herself, the advertising power of the ridiculous pageant, a stupid low-budget, lame-ass, self-serving television show and, of course, the FOX network, this twit's handlers persuade the Suffolk County Police Dept to include her in a sting operation. Oh, wait... I forgot. THEY are to blame as well. Because everyone wants their little moment of fame...their grab for the almighty dollar. "Let's have Miss AMERICA on and host America's Most Wanted... We'll get famous and be seen on TV and schmooze with John Walsh, and flirt with the shallow media-trollop while we all pretend we are doing wonderful things for society." Woo Hoo! New laptops for the cruisers, with WiFi setups installed, so we can use 'em INSIDE Dunkin' Donuts now.
Way to be deviant.
But wait! It's all good!
Not only will you get off, so to speak, but this little hottie Miss America will be the cause.
And why is that?
Because of of everything that is wrong about media, TV, and morals comes to light with this one little story.
In order to promote herself, the advertising power of the ridiculous pageant, a stupid low-budget, lame-ass, self-serving television show and, of course, the FOX network, this twit's handlers persuade the Suffolk County Police Dept to include her in a sting operation. Oh, wait... I forgot. THEY are to blame as well. Because everyone wants their little moment of fame...their grab for the almighty dollar. "Let's have Miss AMERICA on and host America's Most Wanted... We'll get famous and be seen on TV and schmooze with John Walsh, and flirt with the shallow media-trollop while we all pretend we are doing wonderful things for society." Woo Hoo! New laptops for the cruisers, with WiFi setups installed, so we can use 'em INSIDE Dunkin' Donuts now.
Only now that it's all done and we caught these 11 losers, little princess vapid has said she won't return to testify in court against any of these defendants. Excellent. Idiot.
I'm especially impressed by the fact that when I look your sorry ass up online, it says your "platform issue" in becoming Miss America was "Be NetSmart – Protecting Kids Online", and that you received a $50,000 scholarship award along with the title.
Way to go.
I can't make up stuff like this ~ everyone would say it's too unrealistic.
Oh, and will this situation change? Of course it will. Why? Not because it's the right thing to do. No way. But because the bad press will cost the involved parties money. And, in the perfect progression of things, this will now allow a bunch of other uninvolved posers to forward THEIR careers and earning (read: fund raising) power by speaking out about this "horrible travesty and Miscarriage of Justice".
Of course it will be discussed and debated in full on FOX NEWS.
Full Circle.
But I'M the cranky one, right?
Prosecutor: Miss America won't testify
May 1, 2007 (Associated Press)
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. --An undercover sex sting that used Miss America as bait may be in trouble after the beauty queen told prosecutors that she does not plan to testify against the men she helped arrest.
Lauren Nelson, 20, of Lawton, Okla., worked with police in Suffolk County to target would-be Internet sexual predators, taped for an episode of the TV show "America's Most Wanted."
She posed as a teenager and lured men into chatting online and meeting her at a home, where police and crews were waiting. Eleven men were arrested in the sting.
But one or all of the cases against the men could be in jeopardy after Nelson told prosecutors she did not plan on returning to Long Island to testify, said Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota in Newsday's Tuesday edition.
"Her agents have told us that she's not coming back to testify," Spota said. The Miss America Organization did not return calls for comment Monday from a Newsday reporter.
Given that Nelson actually spoke with at least one of the men arrested during the operation; Spota said he had instructed prosecutors not to present any more cases to the grand jury until they can "determine her involvement." One case already presented may falter, he said.
Attorney Michael Brown, who represents one of the 11 men swept up in the sting, said he had the right to cross-examine the beauty queen if she contends that she spoke with his client.
"You've now made Miss America a witness," he said.
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