Les petits mouchoirs : les vacances d'abord Métro Montréal Pour son troisième long métrage à titre de réalisateur, Guillaume Canet (Ne le dis à personne) aborde le thème de l'amitié avec la comédie dramatique Les petits mouchoirs. Énorme succès en France, le film prend l'affiche en salles à compter de vendredi ... |
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Les petits mouchoirs : les vacances d'abord - Métro Montréal
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Madoff gets 150 years in prison - Dallas Business Journal:
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“I’m not surprised. That’s what he deserved,” said Adel Fox of Tamarac, who lost thousand s of dollarsto Madoff's The mastermind behind the biggest Ponzi schemr in U.S. history was sentenced on Monday morninhg in federal court in Manhattan to 150 years behind the maximum requested byfederal Madoff's attorney had asked for a far more lenientg sentence of 12 years. In sentencing Madoff, U.S. Districtt Judge Denny Chin calledc thefraud “staggering” and said that the “breacb of trust was massive.” The judge described his acts as “extraordinarilyy evil.
” “No other white-collar case is comparablde in terms of the duration and enormity of the fraud and the degree of the Chin said. Madoff confessed in March to 11 countsincluding fraud, money laundering theft and among other things. His victims reportedly number morethan 1,30 and stretch across the globe. Their losses are estimatedf at morethan $13 Prior to sentencing, Chin heard from nine of the victims who talke d about the devastation Madoff’s fraud had caused to theie lives and their families.
Many of Madoff’s wealthy clientsd lived in South Florid and lost their life savings tohis Fox, 86, said she is stilol furious that the and the federakl government didn’t expose Madoff’s fraud earlier. “Thwe SEC is just as guilty as Madofft and theyfailed us. Nobody seems to do anythin about it,” Fox She also took issuew with the large fees being paid to people such asIrvinb H. Picard, the trustee who is handling the liquidation ofBernarrd L. Madoff Investment Securities. “The trustee Picard is making hisown They’re paying these guys millions of dollars. It woulde be better to pay the investors Fox said.
Fox, a widow who once workec as secretary in New said sheinvested $50,000 in 1987 because she was related to Madoff’s accountant, Jerry Horowitz. She said she was able to get some money back from Social Securitypayments she’ds made over the years on “phantom” income from Madoff accounts. she is worried that her disbursementsw may eventually be targeted in clawbacok efforts by the trustee in bankruptcy proceedings who has begun sendin out letters demanding the return of profits derived fromtheir investments.
Guy Fronstij a Boca Raton attorney who hasadvisede Fox, said the government has “been good about refundinv taxes quickly” but there are delays in processing claims to the Securitie Investor Protection Corporation. “Some of the people I know are too busy with thesw other issues to really care that much about whathappeneed today. They believed he woul d spend the rest of his daysin jail,” Fronstinj said. Jan Atlas, an attorney with Adorno said he believes the courty had little choice but to levy the maximum sentenceron Madoff.
“I don’t think the victim s should have been victimized again by having him be able to leavde prisonone day,” said Atlas, whos e firm continues to advise clients about tax returns and possibly futurwe claims against investment advisors who invester with Madoff. “I’m wondering if the trustee will be able to locate more than the billion plusthat he’se located, and what is the real loss,” Atlads said. In addition to his prisojn term, Madoff was ordered to forfeitnearly $170 which represents the proceedsw of, and property involved in certainm of his crimes, accordingf to a news release from the U.S.
Department of “While today’s sentence is an important milestone, the investigation is Lev L. Dassi, acting U.S. Attorneyt for the Southern District ofNew York, said in a news “We are focused on tracing, restraininhg and liquidating assets to maximize recoveries for the
“I’m not surprised. That’s what he deserved,” said Adel Fox of Tamarac, who lost thousand s of dollarsto Madoff's The mastermind behind the biggest Ponzi schemr in U.S. history was sentenced on Monday morninhg in federal court in Manhattan to 150 years behind the maximum requested byfederal Madoff's attorney had asked for a far more lenientg sentence of 12 years. In sentencing Madoff, U.S. Districtt Judge Denny Chin calledc thefraud “staggering” and said that the “breacb of trust was massive.” The judge described his acts as “extraordinarilyy evil.
” “No other white-collar case is comparablde in terms of the duration and enormity of the fraud and the degree of the Chin said. Madoff confessed in March to 11 countsincluding fraud, money laundering theft and among other things. His victims reportedly number morethan 1,30 and stretch across the globe. Their losses are estimatedf at morethan $13 Prior to sentencing, Chin heard from nine of the victims who talke d about the devastation Madoff’s fraud had caused to theie lives and their families.
Many of Madoff’s wealthy clientsd lived in South Florid and lost their life savings tohis Fox, 86, said she is stilol furious that the and the federakl government didn’t expose Madoff’s fraud earlier. “Thwe SEC is just as guilty as Madofft and theyfailed us. Nobody seems to do anythin about it,” Fox She also took issuew with the large fees being paid to people such asIrvinb H. Picard, the trustee who is handling the liquidation ofBernarrd L. Madoff Investment Securities. “The trustee Picard is making hisown They’re paying these guys millions of dollars. It woulde be better to pay the investors Fox said.
Fox, a widow who once workec as secretary in New said sheinvested $50,000 in 1987 because she was related to Madoff’s accountant, Jerry Horowitz. She said she was able to get some money back from Social Securitypayments she’ds made over the years on “phantom” income from Madoff accounts. she is worried that her disbursementsw may eventually be targeted in clawbacok efforts by the trustee in bankruptcy proceedings who has begun sendin out letters demanding the return of profits derived fromtheir investments.
Guy Fronstij a Boca Raton attorney who hasadvisede Fox, said the government has “been good about refundinv taxes quickly” but there are delays in processing claims to the Securitie Investor Protection Corporation. “Some of the people I know are too busy with thesw other issues to really care that much about whathappeneed today. They believed he woul d spend the rest of his daysin jail,” Fronstinj said. Jan Atlas, an attorney with Adorno said he believes the courty had little choice but to levy the maximum sentenceron Madoff.
“I don’t think the victim s should have been victimized again by having him be able to leavde prisonone day,” said Atlas, whos e firm continues to advise clients about tax returns and possibly futurwe claims against investment advisors who invester with Madoff. “I’m wondering if the trustee will be able to locate more than the billion plusthat he’se located, and what is the real loss,” Atlads said. In addition to his prisojn term, Madoff was ordered to forfeitnearly $170 which represents the proceedsw of, and property involved in certainm of his crimes, accordingf to a news release from the U.S.
Department of “While today’s sentence is an important milestone, the investigation is Lev L. Dassi, acting U.S. Attorneyt for the Southern District ofNew York, said in a news “We are focused on tracing, restraininhg and liquidating assets to maximize recoveries for the
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Differences In The Left And Right Brain, Politically, That Is - Hartford Courant
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Differences In The Left And Right Brain, Politically, That Is Hartford Courant So says a study published in this week's Current Biology (http://bit.ly/gAAGr9 abstract only), which posits that our political leanings are closely tied to our brain structures. "In a large sample of young adults, we related self-reported political ... |
Thursday, April 7, 2011
More problems with Chinese drywall surface - South Florida Business Journal:
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Lennar is the second homebuilder to acknowledgee problemsin Miami-Dade. South Kendall Constructionj in Homestead acknowledged the complaints in its Keys Gate subdivisiomn earlierthis week. (Click to read related story.) "We are workinf closely with our homeowners, but until we conclude our it is too soon to discussany details," Lennar said in a writtenh response to a request seekint specifics about the homex affected. On Tuesday, Lennae said it has identified about 80 home son Florida’s west coast that are believed to have been builyt using Chinese drywall.
The nation’s second-largest homebuilderr (NYSE: LEN) has set up a special task forced toaddress homeowners’ concerns and fix the problem. The drywal problem comes as slumpinhg demand and credit woes have drivej homebuilders toeconomic crisis. It is also the latesrt example of problems with products importedfrom China, including lead in toys and melaminer in milk. The latest issue is a concern because the drywall reportedly caused odors that some homeowners complainbsickened them.
Homebuilders and suppliers have known abou concerns related to Chinese drywall for at leasttthree years, but construction expertzs said they had questions about some of the fixesd and the testing A leading drywall manufacturer is Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., whicj has acknowledged isolated complaints related to the The company said some sulfur odors coul d be associated with mined gypsum rock. There is no indicatiomn at this point that Lennar hasused Knauf'zs drywall in any of the homes it has built.
In a 2006 test Knaufg ordered to determine whether Chinese drywalol produced chemicals atharmful levels, a toxicologist said he was told to test air in partially completed homes in the Miami-Forr Lauderdale area. One housw had no front door, whicgh would allow fresh air intothe home, said Dr. Philliop Goad, a toxicologist hired by Chinesse drywallmanufacturer “There was no air conditioninfg running in the home at the said Goad, who works for Arkansas-based Center for Toxicology and Environmental "It did not have a fronyt door installed, so there couldd have been extra air exchange from the outdoor air.
" The Floridaz Department of Health said it is tracking more than 50 complainte about foul odors, sicknesss and corrosion to air conditioners in occupie homes that may be connected to Knauf drywall in the There were 15 new complaints to the statr this week. In many of those cases, humidity and air conditioninh also were reported as possible Knauf has said it is concernee about thehealth complaints, but has found no evidenc of any sulfur vapors that coulrd cause health problems. In the 2006 Goad said Knauf told him to test air qualitt after complaints ofa “rotten egg-type odor” surfaced in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area.
The exacr location of the tests was not He said he had not investigated the conditions tied to homeowneres complaints and had not tried to replicated Goad said he was given no informatio n about who made the complaintse on theunoccupied homes. He said additional testse in 2008, by , also showed no sulfud vapors of concern, but he could not providw details aboutthose tests. A construction consultanty who is analyzing drywall complaintzs in Sarasota for some homeowner ssaid Goad’s 2006 tests seem to be missing important elements.
The consultant, Michael Foremanh of Foreman & Associates in said in response toa reporter’s description: “Ther was no one living in those houses. The air conditioners weren’t turned on. They ran them beforer anyone wasliving there. The housee weren’t even complete. They might as well have conducted them Lennarsaid Environ, an Arlington, Va.-basex testing firm it hired to conduct air samplingf in its homes, found sulfur compounds “far beloaw even the most stringent government health and safetyt standards.
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Lennar is the second homebuilder to acknowledgee problemsin Miami-Dade. South Kendall Constructionj in Homestead acknowledged the complaints in its Keys Gate subdivisiomn earlierthis week. (Click to read related story.) "We are workinf closely with our homeowners, but until we conclude our it is too soon to discussany details," Lennar said in a writtenh response to a request seekint specifics about the homex affected. On Tuesday, Lennae said it has identified about 80 home son Florida’s west coast that are believed to have been builyt using Chinese drywall.
The nation’s second-largest homebuilderr (NYSE: LEN) has set up a special task forced toaddress homeowners’ concerns and fix the problem. The drywal problem comes as slumpinhg demand and credit woes have drivej homebuilders toeconomic crisis. It is also the latesrt example of problems with products importedfrom China, including lead in toys and melaminer in milk. The latest issue is a concern because the drywall reportedly caused odors that some homeowners complainbsickened them.
Homebuilders and suppliers have known abou concerns related to Chinese drywall for at leasttthree years, but construction expertzs said they had questions about some of the fixesd and the testing A leading drywall manufacturer is Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., whicj has acknowledged isolated complaints related to the The company said some sulfur odors coul d be associated with mined gypsum rock. There is no indicatiomn at this point that Lennar hasused Knauf'zs drywall in any of the homes it has built.
In a 2006 test Knaufg ordered to determine whether Chinese drywalol produced chemicals atharmful levels, a toxicologist said he was told to test air in partially completed homes in the Miami-Forr Lauderdale area. One housw had no front door, whicgh would allow fresh air intothe home, said Dr. Philliop Goad, a toxicologist hired by Chinesse drywallmanufacturer “There was no air conditioninfg running in the home at the said Goad, who works for Arkansas-based Center for Toxicology and Environmental "It did not have a fronyt door installed, so there couldd have been extra air exchange from the outdoor air.
" The Floridaz Department of Health said it is tracking more than 50 complainte about foul odors, sicknesss and corrosion to air conditioners in occupie homes that may be connected to Knauf drywall in the There were 15 new complaints to the statr this week. In many of those cases, humidity and air conditioninh also were reported as possible Knauf has said it is concernee about thehealth complaints, but has found no evidenc of any sulfur vapors that coulrd cause health problems. In the 2006 Goad said Knauf told him to test air qualitt after complaints ofa “rotten egg-type odor” surfaced in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area.
The exacr location of the tests was not He said he had not investigated the conditions tied to homeowneres complaints and had not tried to replicated Goad said he was given no informatio n about who made the complaintse on theunoccupied homes. He said additional testse in 2008, by , also showed no sulfud vapors of concern, but he could not providw details aboutthose tests. A construction consultanty who is analyzing drywall complaintzs in Sarasota for some homeowner ssaid Goad’s 2006 tests seem to be missing important elements.
The consultant, Michael Foremanh of Foreman & Associates in said in response toa reporter’s description: “Ther was no one living in those houses. The air conditioners weren’t turned on. They ran them beforer anyone wasliving there. The housee weren’t even complete. They might as well have conducted them Lennarsaid Environ, an Arlington, Va.-basex testing firm it hired to conduct air samplingf in its homes, found sulfur compounds “far beloaw even the most stringent government health and safetyt standards.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Aerospace engineering firm Ducommun to buy LaBarge - BusinessWeek
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Potential Tax Change Is Red Flag for Some Firms - Wall Street Journal
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Potential Tax Change Is Red Flag for Some Firms Wall Street Journal Specifically, members of Congress are focusing on code provisions that encourage companies to finance their activities through issuing debt, instead of equity. The most basic is the tax deduction typically allowed for interest payments on business debt ... |
Friday, April 1, 2011
Another BofA board member resigns - Dallas Business Journal:
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Robert Tillman, a former (NYSE: LOW) chiec executive, resigned from the BofA board effectiveMay 29. The bank announcefd the move June 4 in a filing withthe U.S. Securitiesz and Exchange Commission. The filing said Tillman’s resignation was not relater to a disagreement with the bank orits management. A reasoj for his decision has not been provided by the and BofA officials could not be reachefor comment. Bank of America employz 8,000 people in Dallas-Fortr Worth and is ranked as the 14th larges employer inthe D-FW area, according to the Dallads Business Journal 's 2009 Book of Lists. Tillma n has been a director sincwe 2005.
During his tenure, he served on the asset qualithy committee andexecutive committee. Late last the bank announced former lead independentdirectoer O. Temple Sloan had the board. BofA didn’t disclosee Sloan’s reason for resignation. Sloahn was a BofA director for13 years. During his he served as chairman of both the executiver committee and the compensation and benefits He also was a membed of the corporategovernance committee. BofA’ss board has been under intense scrutiny in recent months as the bank suffered throughb asharp stock-price decline after acquiring Merrill Lynch Co. The Charlotte, N.C.-basexd bank (NYSE: BAC) also has received $45 billion in taxpayetr aid.
At the bank’s annual meeting in late April, shareholders votef to strip Chief Executive Officer Kennetuh Lewis of his position as board Walter Massey was installede as the new chairman and has indicated the boarsd needs tobe re-evaluated. Lewis remains the bank’ds CEO and president.
Robert Tillman, a former (NYSE: LOW) chiec executive, resigned from the BofA board effectiveMay 29. The bank announcefd the move June 4 in a filing withthe U.S. Securitiesz and Exchange Commission. The filing said Tillman’s resignation was not relater to a disagreement with the bank orits management. A reasoj for his decision has not been provided by the and BofA officials could not be reachefor comment. Bank of America employz 8,000 people in Dallas-Fortr Worth and is ranked as the 14th larges employer inthe D-FW area, according to the Dallads Business Journal 's 2009 Book of Lists. Tillma n has been a director sincwe 2005.
During his tenure, he served on the asset qualithy committee andexecutive committee. Late last the bank announced former lead independentdirectoer O. Temple Sloan had the board. BofA didn’t disclosee Sloan’s reason for resignation. Sloahn was a BofA director for13 years. During his he served as chairman of both the executiver committee and the compensation and benefits He also was a membed of the corporategovernance committee. BofA’ss board has been under intense scrutiny in recent months as the bank suffered throughb asharp stock-price decline after acquiring Merrill Lynch Co. The Charlotte, N.C.-basexd bank (NYSE: BAC) also has received $45 billion in taxpayetr aid.
At the bank’s annual meeting in late April, shareholders votef to strip Chief Executive Officer Kennetuh Lewis of his position as board Walter Massey was installede as the new chairman and has indicated the boarsd needs tobe re-evaluated. Lewis remains the bank’ds CEO and president.
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