Liberty of the Seas - Royal Promenade Tour
Royal Promenade Tour (Deck 5) on Royal Caribbean #39;s Liberty of the Seas. Footage shot on February 3, 2013. Music Wisps of Whorls - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org I own the rights to all the video and stills in this presentation.
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Adopt Liberty from Animal Friends!
This beautiful girl is Liberty (Libby for short). She appears to be a Spitz mix with some herding breed or maybe Jack Russell Terrier. She is around 2 years of age and has had a very rough start. She has been in a foster home for six months learning to become a normal dog. She has progressed tremendously from not being able to be touched to becoming a member of the family and pack. If you can help Liberty, please call Animal Friends at 412.847.7002 or visit us at 562 Camp Horne Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237.
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The Trinity of Liberty Q A, with Craig Biddle
This is the Q A from Craig Biddle #39;s speech "The Trinity of Liberty: Individualism, Individual Rights, and Independent Thinking," delivered at Hungry Minds Speaker Series, Denver, CO, Feb 2, 2013. Biddle answers questions about egoism, moral principles, the proper use of the term "selfishness," the nature of individual rights, and the logical foundations of morality. The speech itself can be found here: youtu.be Craig Biddle is the editor of The Objective Standard and the author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It, a highly concretized, systematic introduction to Ayn Rand #39;s ethics. The Objective Standard: http://www.theobjectivestandard.com Loving Life amzn.to
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As I watch the new World Trade Center climb into the sky, IM reminded of Jonathan Cahn #39;s book, The Harbinger. The extrapolation from Isaiah 9:11 to the present day provides a look at hubris in the United States.
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GTA 4: LCPD FR Season 2 : Episode 4 : Liberty City EMT With a side of Cops
This episode we will be with the Orange County Sheriff dept. And the LAFD please guys subscribe comment and give suggestions and what you want to see thx
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A West Liberty University professor bans Fox News and The Onion as reliable citing sources for her political science class.
Published: Feb. 15, 2013 at 9:46 AM
One professor at West Liberty University in West Virginia, has forbidden her students to cite Fox News as a serious academic reference because she considers the news channel too biased.
Stephanie Wolfe, a visiting assistant professor at WLU, allegedly issued a syllabus that banned a few organizations as reliable citing sources for her political science class.
According to Fox News, the professor's Syllabus reads:
"DO NOT use:
1) The Onion this is not news this is literally a parody
2) Fox News The tagline Fox News makes me cringe. Please do not subject me to this biased news station. I would almost rather you print off an article from the Onion"
Wolfe has caused quite a commotion among some of her students' parents who don't agree with her ban on the news channel as they perceive it as forced political bias and have taken their complaints to local media channels, WTOV reported.
Robin Capehart, the President at West Liberty University, was quick to side with the concerned parents.
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If Liberty Tax Service clients filed their returns with a Form 8863 attached before January 27, the IRS is now processing those returns. Taxpayers do not need to take any additional action.
Virginia Beach, Virginia (PRWEB) February 15, 2013
If an electronic tax return with a F8863 attached was filed on January 27 or later, Liberty clients do not need to take any additional action. Liberty Tax Service has sent those returns to the IRS.
If a paper tax return was submitted with a F8863 attached on January 27 or later, the IRS will now process those returns. Taxpayers do not need to take any additional action.
On February 10th, the IRS started processing tax returns that contained form 4562 for Depreciation and Amortization, another form that also delayed tax returns.
Liberty Tax Service has extended office hours to remain open longer to answer any questions and assist taxpayers with all of the current tax changes. Taxpayers can find a local Liberty Tax location by calling 866-871-1040. Liberty Tax does take appointments but they are not necessary.
About Liberty Tax Service
Founded in 1997 by CEO John T. Hewitt, Liberty Tax Service is the fastest-growing tax preparation franchise ever. Liberty Tax Service has prepared over 10 million individual income tax returns to date. Liberty Tax Service and its nationwide network of over 30,000 tax preparers are ready to offer their assistance at any time.
According to the International Franchise Associations Franchise Business Economic Outlook, the number of franchise units in the United States declined from 2009 until 2012. Currently there are approximately 27,000 fewer total franchise establishments operating in the United States than there were in 2008. (774,016 in 2008 compared to 746,828 in 2012). In spite of this downward trend, Liberty Tax Service increased its number of locations from 2,695 in 2008 to 4,183 in 2012.
Liberty Tax Service stands behinds community enrichment efforts by sponsoring various non-profit organizations and urging their employees and franchisees to give back to their communities. To extend that community support, Liberty also offers an online tax service, eSmart Tax, which enables some to do their own taxes wherever theres a computer. eSmart Tax is backed by the tax professionals at Liberty Tax Service and its nationwide network of over 30,000 tax preparers, ready to offer their assistance at any time.
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Liberty Tax Service Submits Tax Returns to the IRS Containing Form 8863
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Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA) must be crossing its fingers hoping that its proposition to acquire Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED) goes through. Virgin Media confirmed on Tuesday, Feb. 5, that it was indeed in talks with Liberty Global for a possible deal following a spell of media speculation. John Malones Liberty Global seeks to tap into the European market, currently dominated by Rupert Murdochs News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS).
News Corp is the owner of British Sky Broadcasting, the U.Ks largest media company. Virgin Media is based in the U.K, and the U.K is Europes biggest market for video streaming and services. The acquisition of Virgin Media will give John Malone the opportunity to compete against Murdoch in Europe.
The Deal
According to reports on Feb. 5, Liberty is expected to table a bid of $20 billion for the U.K.-based company, which operates under Richard Bransons brand, Virgin. However, the British billionaire is believed to own less than 3 percent in Virgin Media. The $20 billion (12.7 billion) valuation would mean a stock price of $42 per share. However, the latest reports indicate that the deal could be valued at about $47.87 per share, or a 24 percent premium on Feb. 4's closing price.
Virgin Media debt stood at 5.7 billion just before the announcement of a possible deal. Based on the initial speculation, this would mean that Virgin Medias equity is valued at about 7 billion. However, if the price of $47.87 as indicated in the follow-up reports happens to be final, Virgin Medias equity would be valued at just under 8 billion. Liberty Global and Virgin Media jointly issued a press release indicated a price of $47.87 per share.
Whether this happens to be cheap or expensive would depend on the post merger value. Analysts from Bank of America Merrill Lynch believe tha tLibertys chances of benefiting from the deal are attached to the consequential presence in Europe. The analysts believe that Liberty would not gain any tax benefits from the deal, despite the operating losses and capital allowances on Virgin Medias books.
Virgin: gold still in the mines
Virgin Medias operating losses of about 2.2 billion and capital allowances estimated at 12.9 billion would have provided immediate benefits to the acquirer if from the U.K. However, Libertys domicile, (UPC) based in the Netherlands, rules out immediate benefits. Liberty would have to register UPC as a Societas Europea (SE), in order to capitalize on Virgins tax assets and capital allowances.
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Liberty Medical Supply Inc., which lists Abbott Laboratories as one of its largest creditors, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to court documents.
Liberty Medical Supply Inc. lists assets and liabilities of between $100 million and $500 million. Abbott Laboratories of Abbott Park is owed more than $5 million, documents showed.
Liberty Medical listed CGS Administrators as its largest unsecured creditor, with a disputed claim of $137.2 million. Express Scripts Holding Co unit Medco Health Solutions Inc was next with a disputed claim of $14.2 million. Abbott was fifth.
Liberty is based in Port St Lucie, Fla. and provides home delivery of health care products. It said on its website more than 1 million Americans use Liberty Medical for daily diabetes supplies.
The company listed between 1,000 and 5,000 employees in its bankruptcy filing.
Nine affiliated entities also filed for bankruptcy, including Polymedica Corp and Liberty Healthcare Group Inc.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. A company that used to be Port St. Lucie's largest private employer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The filing comes less than two months after Liberty Medical Supply, Inc., announced it would lay off more than 200 of its 1200 employees from the Treasure Coast facility.
Frank Harvey, President and CEO, confirmed that the company filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code for the District of Delaware on February 15, 2013.
"It shouldn't have any effect on our day-to-day employees, or on our patients," Harvey said. "We're just taking a tool that's provided by the federal government to help us work through some of the things we do as a new company starting out."
Harvey said several unexpected events led to the bankruptcy filing, including a dispute with Liberty Medical's former parent company, Express Scripts, about tax liabilities, and the assertion of a significant liability for overpayment by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
"Some of the most successful businesses in the world have utilized this business tool of Chapter 11 to deal with some of the things faced short-term to come out more profitable on the back end," said Harvey. "They're tough decisions that you have to make. You never like to negatively impact an employee's life."
Bloomberg.com reports the company listed debts of as much as $500 million each.
When asked if the company could have done anything differently to prevent filing for bankruptcy, Harvey answered, "I don't think so, because when you look at the recoupment, the federal government is pulling back $3.2 million a month from us, and they will not even give us a court date. They could continue to do that for a long time, so this gives us the protection that we need to get those matters dealt with."
The Port St. Lucie facility serves as the core corporate headquarters for Liberty Medical Supply, Inc., which also employees several hundred workers in Salem, Virginia. The Port St. Lucie facility used to be the largest private employer in the city, with 2200 employees in 2011. Liberty Medical Supply human resources confirmed the Treasure Coast facility currently has 1200 permanent employees.
More than 200 Liberty Medical employees who were set to be laid off from the Port St. Lucie facility on February 16, 2013, were told on February 14 that their employment would be extended until March 2. The federal WARN Act requires companies that lay off hundreds of employees to give a 60-day notice. Liberty Medical notified the government of the layoffs on January 2, 2013, and the original set date for the layoffs was fewer than the 60 days required.
Harvey was asked if some employees new extension end date was simply to fulfill the governmental requirements. He said in response, "It had nothing to do with that. As a matter of fact, some employees are being let go today that were given the WARN notice back then. The reason we did that is because we haven't finalized the option agreement with Alere, and until we get that, we will continue to service those Medicare fee-for-service patients."
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- Liberty Global Inc., the international cable TV and Internet provider controlled by media mogul John Malone, said Thursday its fourth-quarter loss narrowed, helped by subscriber growth around the world.
Liberty posted a loss of $331.3 million, or $1.27 per share, compared with a loss of $435 million, or $1.58 per share, in the same quarter the year before.
Revenue increased 14 percent to $2.73 billion from $2.4 billion, boosted by contributions from acquisitions.
Analysts on average expected a profit, adjusted to exclude one-time items, of 13 cents per share on $2.66 billion in revenue, according to FactSet. Liberty Global did not provide an adjusted earnings-per-share figure.
The company added 465,000 subscribers during the recent quarter, representing a 22 percent increase from the same quarter in 2011, helped by acquisitions and strong consumer demand for bundles that include TV, phone and Internet services.
Last week, Liberty Global announced plans to acquire U.K.-based Virgin Media Inc. for about $16 billion in cash and stock.
For the full year, Liberty earned $322.8 million, or $1.21 per share, compared with a loss of $772.7 million, or $2.93 per share, in 2011. Revenue increased to $10.31 billion from $9.51 billion.
Liberty shares fell $1.05, or 1.6 percent to $65.99 in afternoon trading.
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Disagreeing with Libertarian Executive Director
--Carla Howell, Executive Director of the National Libertarian Party, joins David to discuss the Libertarian Party platform and more. --On the Bonus Show: David #39;s car accident story, Iran photoshops jet, lung cancer surpasses breast cancer for European women, more... If you liked this clip of The David Pakman Show, please do us a big favor and share it with your friends... and hit that "like" button! http://www.davidpakman.com Become a Member http://www.davidpakman.com Like Us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Follow Us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com Get TDPS Gear: http://www.davidpakman.com 24/7 Voicemail Line: (219)-2DAVIDP Subscribe to The David Pakman Show for more: http://www.youtube.com Broadcast on February 14, 2013
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2 talks have been posted. One on bitcoins the other on 3D printing. This is a sample of the talks Bitcoin: http://www.youtube.com 3D Printing: youtu.be Lunch with Walter Block: youtu.be
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Libra - The Libertarian Utopia in the Sky (1978)
Short clip from the 1978 film "Libra" by World Research Inc. Read more about the film at Paleofuture: blogs.smithsonianmag.com You can watch the entire film at AV Geeks: http://www.avgeeks.com
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5 After Libertarianism Ben The libertarian Banned
http://www.FreeStateProject.com http://www.GoodMenDoSomething.org From the 22 January 2013 episode. My father invited the A G crew to visit Beale AFB for the 1st Recon Squadrons 100th anniversary. 5 AFTER is the after show for the Armstrong Getty Show which can be found at 650 KSTE 910 KNEW from 6am - 10am Monday thru Friday http://www.armstrongandgettyradio.com http twitter.com http://www.youtube.com
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Robert Drapers New York Times Magazine story about young libertarian Republican operators sympathetically presents their side of a long-standing ideological divide. Republican elites in Washington and among the partys fund-raising base have always cared far more about taxes and regulation than have the partys voting base. The protagonists of the piece present the split as generational, but Im pretty sure that 30 years ago, Republican operators in Washington were more fired up to reduce government and less enthused about social issues than were the party voters. The youngsters also want to modernize the party's use of the Internet, which wouldn't help, but they seem to blend that into their ideological preferences, thus lending them the futuristic sheen of inevitability.
Draper quotes David Plouffe explaining that economic policy, not social issues, held together Obamas coalition. (Its their economic policies and health care. The group that supported the presidents health care bill the most? Latinos.) None of the Republicans in the story seem to engage with this at all. They obsessively decry the partys opposition to gay marriage, a marginal issue in the campaign, while avoiding any mention of the 47 percent comments, the partys opposition to regulating Wall Street, or the unpopular tax cuts for the rich Romney had to endorse in the primary. This quote actually reveals how misplaced their analysis is:
Did Jacobson really expect the Rick Santorums of his party to let a new generation of Republican leaders tell them what to accept and how to behave?
Okay, a couple things. First, the plural of Santorum is not Santorums. Its Santora. Come on, people. Didnt anybody take Latin?
Second, a sad little has-been in a sweater vest is not holding the Republican Party in his hands. Whose agenda defined the Mitt Romney campaign? Was it Santorum, with his immediately forgotten message of no gay marriage and manufacturing tax credits? No, it was Paul Ryan, the man who crafted the partys economic platform and had to be placed on the ticket.
One of the young guns confesses:
I hate all regulations, every single one of them including, he cheerfully admitted, minimum-wage and child-labor laws.
Yeah, go ahead and try running on a platform of that, plus support for gay marriage, in 2016. Let us know how it works out for you.
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Dan #39;s Backcountry Charters present #39;s Todd day in the 10000 Islands
Join Todd for a day in the backcountry of the 10000 Island Region of Florida. He #39;s fly fishing the mangrove edges for snook and redfish.
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Yabause, AE v2.0 - Bubble Bobble Featuring Rainbow Islands
I don #39;t own the pic(s)! With that being the case, I #39;d like to thank all of the authors of the pic(s) I used in the videos. Also, especially thanks to Sega and both Paul and Zack for producing this emulator. And I know, the on-screen button are big...
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A traffic island getting a facelift near the Coleroon checkpost in Tiruchi. Photo: A.Muralitharan
Beautification initiative through public-private partnership mode
Some of the traffic islands and roundabouts in the city are sporting a greener look over the past few days as work had got underway on the city beautification initiative taken up on public-private partnership mode.
The Corporation has identified about 28 roundabouts and traffic islands which are to be developed in the city. Apart from carrying out landscaping works, other necessary infrastructure would also be created. Appropriate lighting arrangements are also planned.
Civil works have begun to clearly demarcate the traffic islands in some parts of the city. Simultaneously, lawns are also being developed at some of the islands with grass patches being laid in some of the traffic islands, including the ones near Thiruvanaikovil, the Head Post Office and Palakkarai.
The initiative comes in the wake of a series of meeting to discuss the city beautification initiative through public-private partnership. N.R.Sivapathi, Minister for School Education, Law, Youth Welfare and Sports, chaired a couple of meetings to discuss the modalities over the past few months and the initiative has been taken forward under the supervision of Collector Jayashree Muralidharan and Corporation Commissioner V.P.Thandapani.
The Corporation has identified banks, hospitals, hotels and other commercial establishments to develop and maintain the structures. Specific traffic islands and roundabouts have been earmarked for the private sponsors, depending on their choice of location. Among the roundabouts identified for development are the ones around the Chathram Bus Stand, Head Post Office, Railway Junction, Central Bus Stand and Cantonment. Traffic islands on the Tiruchi-Chennai Trunk Road, Karur By-pass Road, Madurai Road, Bharathidasan Road, Puthur, Thillai Nagar and Palakkarai have also been identified and allotted for development to sponsors.
According to Corporation sources, the traffic islands and roundabouts would be given to the private sponsors for a three-year period. They would be allowed to put up advertisements as per specifications. When contacted, Mr.Thandapani said the works have already commenced in many islands and the civic body was planning to complete the works by the end of this month.
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Survey Results Support Bay of Islands Freedom Friday
Results from a survey released today back a call for employees to finish work early on Fridays as part of a new Bay of Islands Freedom Friday campaign.
Fullers GreatSights Bay of Islands, Northlands largest sightseeing tour and cruise operator, is spearheading the innovative new campaign. It is designed to reignite New Zealanders love affair with the Bay of Islands and increase visitor numbers to the region.
Research on workplace productivity patterns was carried out by Perceptive Research using a sample of 452 respondents. Findings are expected to be music to the ears of employees but may be greeted with less enthusiasm by employers.
Not unsurprisingly, 83% of workers surveyed believed that finishing work early on a Friday would decrease stress levels and increase workplace morale.
Research findings confirm that 70% of workers admit to being most easily distracted by non work activities on a Friday afternoon. 51% also owned up to giving priority to their social arrangements over work tasks on a Friday afternoon.
Charles Parker, General Manager, Fullers Great Sights Bay of Islands, says, This research confirms that two thirds of Aucklanders would be more likely to get out of the city for the weekend if they finished worked early on a Friday and a number of those have the Bay of Islands in their sights.
Savvy employers have the opportunity to motivate staff by allowing them to leave early on a Friday. The Bay of Islands is an easy three hour drive so whether you leave work at 1pm or 6pm on a Friday you can still get there in time for dinner before enjoying a relaxing weekend away.
Karen Sew Hoy, Human Resources Director, DDB Group New Zealand, says, Formalising the call for early Fridays with the Bay of Islands Freedom Friday Campaign is a fantastic idea. At DDB Group we have been trialling summer hours and not only do staff love it but overall staff engagement levels have increased. Our clients have also supported the initiative.
Leadership and people development consultant, Lesley Slade, says, Smart employers like advertising agency DDB Group have tapped into a motivator that is more powerful than money ie: time. Many organisations expect staff to work extra hours when required so this is a way of rewarding them.
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