USFJ Chief of Staff discusses Liberty Policy for US service members in Japan (09Dec14) – Video

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USFJ Chief of Staff discusses Liberty Policy for US service members in Japan (09Dec14)
The United States Forces Japan Chief of Staff, COL Cory Mendenhall discusses the new Liberty Policy on AFN Tokyo #39;s Morning Cruise Control.

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Let’s Play – StarCraft II Wings of Liberty [Part 3] Zerg Rushed! – Video

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I think it #39;s high time we got off this rock! STARCRAFT II WINGS OF LIBERTY PLAYLIST! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpub62bZb0dVHXJ04npCflgl2wd0GNcVS Welcome to my Let #39;s Play of ...

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Liberty Tax (TAX) Q2 Loss Widens on Higher Expenses – Analyst Blog

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Liberty Tax, Inc. ( TAX ) reported second-quarter fiscal 2015 adjusted net loss of 74 cents per share, wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 72 cents per share and 60 cents incurred in the year ago quarter. Higher losses were largely attributable to seasonality of the business as well as increase in expenses.

Including gain on available-for-sale securities, executive severance of 5 cents and litigation settlements of 10 cents, the GAAP net loss came in at 89 cents per share, wider than net loss of 66 cents in the year ago quarter.

Behind the Headlines

Revenues of Liberty Tax increased 5.7% to $7.7 million year over year. Results also outperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $7 million. The upside came on the back of a rise in franchise and transfer fees.

Operating expenses increased 24.2% to $26.0 million year over year in the reported quarter. Increase in employee compensation and benefits, selling, general, and administrative expenses, area developer expense, advertising expense and depreciation, amortization, and impairment charges resulted in the rise.

A higher magnitude of increase in expenses offset the increase in revenues, resulting in an operating loss of $18.2 million, wider than the year-ago loss of $13.6 million.

Financial Update

Liberty Tax exited the second quarter of fiscal 2015 with cash and cash equivalents of $4.6 million, up 76.6% year over year.

Total assets increased 6.8% to $186.6 million from the year-ago quarter.

Total long-term debt amounted to $22.1 million, as on Oct 31, reflecting an improvement of about 3.8% from $22.9 million at prior-year quarter end.

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EB56 Daniel Krawisz: Nakamoto Institute, Bitcoin & Libertarianism, The Problem with Appcoins – Video

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We are joined by Daniel Krawisz, the Director of Research at the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Daniel co-founded that organization last year with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard to educate...

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Nathaniel Branden, lover and disciple of novelist Ayn Rand, dies at 84

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By Matt Schudel December 9 at 7:59 PM

Nathaniel Branden, who became a chief disciple and lover of the writer and libertarian lodestar Ayn Rand until a turbulent falling out led to his new career as a best-selling writer of books on self-esteem, died Dec. 3 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.

He had complications from Parkinsons disease, said his assistant, Vivian Buentiempo-Johnson.

Mr. Branden was a 19-year-old college student in California in 1950 when he sent a note to Rand, the author of his favorite novel, The Fountainhead. She invited him for coffee.

I reached for the doorbell, Mr. Branden later wrote in a 1989 memoir, knowing without words and with irresistible certainty that nothing was ever going to be the same again.

He talked with Rand and her husband, Frank OConnor, through the night and didnt leave their house until 5:30 the next morning. He soon became part of Rands inner circle and one of her fiercest advocates. He changed his name from Nathan Blumenthal to Nathaniel Branden, deliberately incorporating Rand into his new surname.

After moving to New York, Mr. Branden and his young wife, Barbara, became devoted acolytes of the Russian-born Rand. The Fountainhead (1943) and another of her novels, Atlas Shrugged (1957), became seminal texts of an emerging school of thought that emphasized muscular notions of laissez-faire capitalism, self-interest and rational egoism, which might be described best by the title of another of Rands books: The Virtue of Selfishness (1964).

Rand scorned anything reeking of the communism she had seen during her youth in Russia. She was an outspoken opponent of taxes and welfare, which later followers made articles of faith in certain conservative and libertarian circles.

Mr. Branden helped develop Rands ideas into a philosophical construct that became known as objectivism. He organized meetings of Rands supporters in the 1950s, including Alan Greenspan, who later became chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 1958, Mr. Branden launched the Nathaniel Branden Institute, which presented seminars on Rands ideas around the world.

Mr. Branden was 24 when he and the 49-year-old Rand began an affair in 1954. Rand insisted that each of their spouses know of the relationship, but otherwise it was kept secret.

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