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Weasal Words!
Are you implying that I am weasle! Just kidding nice edit. 02:12, 11 March | toxic | en |
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Hopsin
Hello,
you reversed this edit of mine:
I'd like to know on what planet are court records not a source. Please feel free to link me to NASA's profile of such planet. You mean to tell me ""there is a mugshot of his arrest but no charges available"" is much better than actually listing the correct charges, and date the prosecutor decided not to file the information? There is no way I can direct link to court records considering the URLs are generated by session(visitation). I'm gonna re-enter the information. Perhaps I can add a mention about the court records indicating this. " | toxic | en |
Thank You
Thanks, Ed. I did not realise that. Honestly, it is very hard to play by the rules when there are none!
Cheerio,
217.44.9.134 | toxic | en |
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Kraftlos ADMITS FREELY that he didn't read the news sources on the article. I have repeatedly said that he was a busybody slapping on tags without doing his homework. THAT IS NOT A GOOD FAITH EDIT! That's a self-important I CAN CHANGE ANYTHING ON WIKIPEDIA WITHOUT HAVING HALF A BRAIN edit. With appearances on MTV, membership by Robert Anton Wilson, Ken Kesey, Pee-Wee Herman, and Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO, as well as references in the New York Times, appearances on Mtv, and numerous recent news articles regarding First Amendment freedoms in the case of Rev. Magdalen. Not only does the article have notability, it has relevance to Wikipedia, freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand in hand. I repeat, Kraftlos didn't read the news sources on the page before he slapped a tag on it, he didn't have the cultural knowledge to be aware of the media blitz that the Church of the Subgenius recieved in the 90s, and he was so busy slapping tags on the page and defending them that he didn't look up the references ON THE PAGE! I'm justifiably angry! I'll be the first to admit that the Church of the Subgenius article is disorganized and tries to put way too much information in a limited space, with thousands of creative artists in a group its tough to categorize all their work. Were we not a 'joke religion' each individual piece of art that our members have created could merit a page of its own, the Goat's Head of Rev. Magdalen, the Dobbshead (as opposed to ""Bob"" himself), The Bleeding Head of Arnold Palmer (mentioned in 3 books, a film with high critical ratings and cult exposure and a national magazine that has since gone belly-up, The Stark Fist of Removal, It is at LEAST as relevant as Factsheet Five and 4 chan to modern culture. This is an extreme case of niche editing, an editor who thinks his limited worldview has substance allowing him to edit the articles of another worldview that may or not be equally limited but has a wide-ranging cultural base among a generation. As I stated on the talk page, its like some dork coming along and vfding Joan Baez because he wasn't reading the newspapers in 1965. 71.102.2.128 " | toxic | en |
POV
This edit by MrT3366 is extreme and unabashed povpushing that cannot be allowed in the article. It is basically turning the article into a platform for inciting new communalist riots. I am reinserting the pov tag again.·snunɐw· | toxic | en |
Yes. Also encyclopaedias like Brokhaus and DTV have decided to do so and heed SPK.
Have you found the entrie aimed to Brockhaus, etc. ? | toxic | en |
"In addition, Ngrams shows that ""sticking plaster"" has been more common than ""adhesive bandage"" in total usage for ages, barring a decade. Now, the two titles remain neck-and-neck, with ""adhesive bandage"" declining in total usage. Overall, there are many reasons why sticking plaster must remain the title, least of all MOS:RETAIN. " | toxic | en |
YOU JUST CREATE THE BEST JOKE ON XBOX ONE TODAY! D | toxic | en |
Contested deletion
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (your reason here) 86.163.66.88 | toxic | en |
It's called common sense... I guess having a Phd. doesn't make you that smart after all... | toxic | en |
it support for research weather group
mark ,
first let me say thank you for your assistance in making it possible for
meteorologists tony hamilton and stephen bennett to hit the groung running
this week when they came over to london from houston . when we came into our
offices in houston monday morning , tony and steve had already gathered and
analyzed their data , prepared reports and were ready for the avistar
briefings ! the cross - atlantic communication and data - sharing and manipulation
went seamlessly ! we have great expectations for continued synergy with this
new set - up .
the research weather group is excited about our expanded responsibilities in
london . we are committed to maximizing the value added we can provide to the
weather derivatives , crude & products , uk trading , continental power , and
analytics efforts . we are , however , also extremely dependent on computers
and communication , associated software and peripherals . plus the datastreams
we access and the reports we generate are very time - critical in their value
to traders . we need a very stable environment , with reliable back - up and
24 - hour support to fulfill our commitments to providing the trading operation
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so , thanks again , and please do whatever you can to continue this high level
of support by passing this letter of praise and thanks to your team , and show
them our appreciation for your efforts .
mike roberts | scam | en |
Hello, 24-7水野, and welcome to Wikipedia! While efforts to improve Wikipedia are always welcome, unfortunately your contributions are not written in English that is good enough to be useful. You appear to be more familiar with Chinese; did you know there is a Chinese Wikipedia? You may prefer to contribute there instead. In any case, welcome to the project, and thank you for your efforts!
您好，24-7水野。歡迎來訪英文版的維基百科。雖然我們隨時歡迎你在英文版維基百科編輯，但是你這次執筆所使用的英文並未達到英文版維基百科所需求的水準。若是你們不介意的話，你們可以在中文版維基百科編輯。感謝你們參加維基百科。 | toxic | en |
Not to mention, there's still more info available on the main page then there is here. Whoever opened this page didn't even bother with a copy/paste, I guess? Anyway, Halo for Xbox and PC share a page if I'm not mistaken, so there's precedence not to start a page like this, especially not until there's more than one paragraph of information out there. Just delete this page and the link- there's no merging necessary. | toxic | en |
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::I'm not ""starting again"", you are . Mentioning that Thrace was the main theater is more than sufficient, our readers aren't as stupid as you seem to think. You are clearly trying to push the POV that ""Teh Bulgarians did all the fightintg!!!1"" as many times as possible in the article. Well, it won't work. Once is enough, three times is rididculous. This is tendentious. " | toxic | en |
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QVVERTYVS, I also disagree with your edits. Please move on.Talk " | toxic | en |
Well, at least one sheriff has come to his senses, but the piece of crap sheriff (Scott Israel) in Broward County is a liberal first, an ass second, a moron third, and will NEVER recommend this. [URL] | adult_sexism | en |
Lý Biện đã đặt cơ sở cho sự mở rộng quốc gia sang Đông Bắc Trung Quốc, đánh chiếm các vùng đất của các bộ tộc núi rừng và thành lập nhà nước Đại Việt. | toxic | vi |
Vandalism
Your edit to Millersville University of Pennsylvania at constitutes vandalism. I'm pretty sure this was a joke, and thank you for reverting it by yourself, but please do not vandalize Wikipedia articles. Further vandalism can result in blocking or banning. Thanks | toxic | en |
This picture makes it look like they're trying to destroy our Constitution. Then again, that's what they want, so there's no irony to them in doing this. | adult_sexism | en |
COUNT DANKULA & THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH Mr H [URL] | adult_sexism | en |
[URL] I just do not think like that woman.. I think it is stupid af to worry about that crap. | adult_sexism | en |
PS: in case I'm mistaken, I've asked for a second opinion at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard. | toxic | en |
New Image Copyright I am new to this I really want my image to be kept. That image came from my blog at and I uploaded it myself. I have tried to denote this in the copyright and it won't work. Can someone help me put it as free use or CopyrightedFreeUse-Link|Your website}} | toxic | en |
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GA review of Schindler's List
Hello, you nominated Schindler's List for GAC. I have have reviewed the article at talk:Schindler's List/GA1, and it's currently on hold it has been for four days, in fact. Unless my concerns are adequately satisfied in three days' time, I will have to fail the article. Like I said in the review, a lot of work needs to be done in order for it to fulfill the criteria, but because this film is so important, I was willing to help rather than simply failing it. I hope I won't have to do that. Please get back to me if you need more time. (habla conmigo) " | toxic | en |
Deletion of Criticisms of Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Would you please explain how you considered my beginning article,
to be a copyright violation. Or was your stated reason,CSD G12, just an excuse? | toxic | en |
Warning about this editor
DMacks is proving to be an extremely biased Jewboy editor, bringing Wikipedia into more ridicule. Ignore his posts. | toxic | en |
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You are wrong, my dear Fralembert: Ahunt split the article and achieved what he felt to be a ""balance."" So we now have an article with a ""snapshot"" of previously hidden park history (Alissa Apostle in her 1997 Queen's University Thesis says the park's history was erased and re-writtenand my research pretty well confirms her conclusion.) as well as a brief discussion of sites and activities. Moreover, there was almost nothing on the ""wildlife, the flora, the forest, the geology, the hydrology and the climate"" before I edited the article. So why did you not make a point of it when the article was very poor/sketchy? Besides, you are free to add such material, should you be so inclined.
And where else, in the whole world will you find such a clear and condensed overview of the park's history as well as threats facing the park? The point of my contribution is to help wikipedia visitors understand what is ""really"" going on in Gatineau Park.talk" | toxic | en |
Well, looks like the FBI backs that book up. | toxic | en |
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*Comment - what is the point to show all Syria as ""RED"" or ""BLACK"", when ""Syria"" is partially red (Baathists), partially green (muslim brotherhood), partially black (Daesh), partially yellow-red-gree (Kurds) and partially another black (al-nusra)? " | toxic | en |
Agreed. I'll make an effort to do some work on this article over the next several weeks and months, but I really want to hit the library first and get some real sources for the article and porn/erotica section in particular. | toxic | en |
Request to participate in University of Washington survey on tool to quickly understand Wikipedians’ reputations
Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington. In April, we met with Wikipedians to learn what they would like to know about other editors’ history and activities (within Wikipedia) when interacting with them on talk pages. The goal was to gather feedback to help design a tool that could quickly communicate useful information about other Wikipedians. We have now created a few images that we feel represent some of what our participants thought was important. We would appreciate it if you took a few minutes of your time to complete an online survey that investigates whether or not these images would be useful to you. Your quick contribution would be very valuable to our research group and ultimately to Wikipedia. (When finished, the code for this application will be given over to the Wikipedia community to use and/or adjust as they see fit.)
We are particularly interested in feedback from new editors! We want to make sure this tool meets your needs.
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Please feel free to share the link with other Wikipedians. The more feedback, the better!
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Yeah, sorry about that. I didn't look closely enough and initally thought it was a checkuser request. After I saw my error, I still left it on thinking someone should move it over to RFCU, and looks like EdJohnston handled it. Very sorry I didn't have time to do it correctly myself. Thanks for the following up. — " | toxic | en |
This silly nonsense about him going to a school in Jersey is back. There is no referenced material to this effect anywhere | toxic | en |
re : enron / stanford program
vince ,
are we on for dinner on sunday at 7 pm ?
best regards ,
nick
nick bambos wrote :
>
> vince ,
>
> i have managed to change my ticket and we can meet for dinner on sunday
10 / 15 / 00 .
> shall we say at 7 pm ?
>
> > > > > giuseppe : can you please join us for dinner on sunday 10 / 15 . we ' d like
to briefly
> discuss the project too . could i please ask you to make reservations for 3
at
> il fornaio or some other nice place in palo alto ? preferably a quiet place
where
> we can talk .
> thanks ,
>
> nick
>
> vince . j . kaminski @ enron . com wrote :
> >
> > nick ,
> >
> > dinner on sunday would work for me . i shall stay
> > in the bay area till monday morning .
> >
> > vince
> >
> > nick bambos on 09 / 28 / 2000 08 : 33 : 38 pm
> >
> > to : vince . j . kaminski @ enron . com
> > cc :
> > subject : re : enron / stanford program
> >
> > hi vince ,
> >
> > i am on the technical program committee of the infocom 2001 conference ,
> > and we are meeting in new york city on saturday , october 14 th , to select
> > papers for the conference program . i ' m leaving stanford on friday and
> > getting back on sunday .
> >
> > it might be a possibility to have dinner together on sunday , if that would
> > work for you . in that case i would have to reschedule my flight to land
> > in sfo earlier than i ' m currently scheduled to land .
> >
> > would dinner on sunday work for you ? any chance we can meet monday for
> > lunch ?
> >
> > i look forward to seeing you .
> >
> > best regards ,
> >
> > nick
> >
> > vince . j . kaminski @ enron . com wrote :
> > >
> > > nick ,
> > >
> > > i shall be in stanford oct 14 - 15 , visiting my family .
> > > i would be glad to meet you ( and possibly giuseppe - your call ) for
> > lunch .
> > > please , let mer know if you are free on one of these days . saturday
would
> > > work better for me .
> > >
> > > vince
> > >
> > > nick bambos on 09 / 21 / 2000 02 : 09 : 46 pm
> > >
> > > to : stinson . gibner @ enron . com
> > > cc : vince . j . kaminski @ enron . com
> > > subject : re : enron / stanford program
> > >
> > > stinson ,
> > >
> > > great ! i ' m looking forward to a very productive collaboration .
> > > i ' ll immediately start doing giuseppe ' s papers , for him to work
> > > on the enron / stanford program .
> > >
> > > many thanks to you and vince , and i hope to see you soon at stanford
> > > or enron . if i remember correctly , vince is visiting stanford in
> > > october .
> > >
> > > best regards ,
> > >
> > > nick
> > >
> > > stinson . gibner @ enron . com wrote :
> > > >
> > > > nick ,
> > > >
> > > > i spoke with paul racicot , head of trading for ebs , north america
this
> > > > morning . he said that he is happy to send the $ 100 , 000 for your
> > program
> > > > from his budget . i have forwarded to him the draft letter to
> > accompany
> > > > the funds and will try to follow up to make sure that the money is
sent
> > > > promptly .
> > > >
> > > > - - stinson | scam | en |
What about the Luddite rebellion? | toxic | en |
Malta Nazi Party
According to Wikipedia's reliable sources policy:
Posts to bulletin boards, Usenet, and wikis, or messages left on blogs, should not be used as sources. This is in part because we have no way of knowing who has written or posted them, and in part because there is no editorial oversight or third-party fact-checking.
A self-published source is a published source that has not been subject to any form of independent fact-checking, or where no one stands between the writer and the act of publication. It includes personal websites, and books published by vanity presses. Anyone can create a website or pay to have a book published, and then claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published books, personal websites, and blogs are largely not acceptable as sources. | toxic | en |
re : a request
vince ,
i will supply a generic example .
zimin
vince j kaminski
03 / 06 / 2001 09 : 31 am
to : zimin lu / hou / ect @ ect
cc :
subject : a request
zimin ,
it seems that the academia is catching up .
do you have a realistic case we can show them ?
something generic .
vince
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - forwarded by vince j kaminski / hou / ect on 03 / 06 / 2001
09 : 31 am - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
ds 64 @ cyrus . andrew . cmu . edu on 03 / 02 / 2001 09 : 39 : 43 am
to : " vince j kaminski "
cc :
subject : a request
vince ,
i am writing to ask for your help with some research i am doing with john
lehoczky and a phd student . we trying to apply recent advances in monte
carlo for american options to value swing and other options with multiple
early exercise decisions that are important in energy markets . i know in
general that early exercise shows up in a wide range of energy contracts ,
both real as welll as financial . would it be possible for you , either via
email or on the phone , to give us some examples of typical terms for such
instruments ? we would like our examples to look realistic . we also want to
make sure we are focusing on the right sorts of optionality .
thanks in advance ,
duane
* * * * * * * *
duane seppi
graduate school of industrial administration
carnegie mellon university
pittsburgh pa 15213 - 3890
tel . ( 412 ) 268 - 2298
fax ( 412 ) 268 - 8896
email ds 64 + @ andrew . cmu . edu | scam | en |
Thats from a speech by LK Advani. Not NPOV at all, and not a reliable source. 05:06, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC) | toxic | en |
MENZIES, Rowan Gavin Paton
The note does not show that the MENZIES, Rowan Gavin Paton listed by HM Court Service as a vexatious litigant is the same person as the author of 1421: The Year China Discovered the World. 84.23.155.88 | toxic | en |
Suggestion for Edit = | toxic | en |
::::I'm not yet a WP:AVATAR member yet. P | toxic | en |
Thanks!
For reverting the vandalism on my talkpage ;) | toxic | en |
Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to BOO LONGHORNS, without resolving the problem that the template refers to may be considered vandalism. Further edits of this type may result in you being blocked from editing Wikipedia. | toxic | en |
The unfairness continues
there are 1000 ways to p*ss someone off in Wiki.
beckjord 18:48, 29 December 2005 | toxic | en |
"EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED, ANDREW. Coursed instruments are referred to as ""COURSED"", 5-COURSED, not ""10-string"". You seek to raise the IGNORANCE of manufacturers of folk and rock instruments to a virtue, to a new musicological convention. The centuries-old academic convention that obviously predates rock musicians maintains that a pair of strings is termed a course and instruments with courses are named for their number of COURSES. You ""convention"" you mention that contradicts this is nothing more than ignorance you wish to dress up as something more.
Tell me, Andrew Alder (church drummer and rhythm guitarist who has never in his life played an actual ""ten-string guitar""), if you notate music for a coursed instrument, do you write 12 or 10 separate lines in tablature? NO. You write one per course, which is in practical musical effect one string. If you write it in musical notation (can you even read this??? I doubt highly), would you use numbered circles up to 10 or 12 for each so-called individual string? NO! You would notate the first two strings as a circled number 1, the second pair of strigns as a circled 2, the 5th and 6th strings as a circled number 3, etc. These instruments are COURSED! For all practical purposes these instruments are NOT ""ten-string guitars"" (with the hypen) a term that has come to signify a specific instrument, an instument you are obscuring and confusing by introducing misinformative garbage. You deserve no less than uncivility. I wil let you play at being a musicologist for a few weeks/months until I have the time to undo your work. So play ahead.129.94.133.166
" | toxic | en |
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== WT:RFA ==
So, roughly speaking: I'm not arguing ""viewdeleted good, buttons bad"", it's just that this question of which userright is the least toxic is a question I don't have the luxury of having an opinion on, because there are so many other opinions out there ... I just have to go with the flow, or nothing will get done. Countless RfCs have shown that what most voters care most about is actual admin buttons, and from their rationales, it's clear that this has something to do with a perception of fairness and not wanting people to have power over other people unless they're well-trained and it's absolutely necessary. We don't get those complaints with viewdeleted, we get different complaints, but there's a chance something can be done about those complaints. It wouldn't bother me at all if the consensus tilts largely in your favor, and this userright is handed out rarely, though I doubt ""rarely"" will become ""never"", because many candidates who fail RfA fail over technical issues that have nothing to do with trustworthiness or dedication (as perceived by the voters ... again, I don't have the luxury of personal opinions on much of this stuff). - Dank " | toxic | en |
achievements
What did the Luddites achieve by machine breaking and sending threatening letters? Did they reach theur goals? Did they get their pay rise? Why aren't any of these questions answered in this website? | toxic | en |
POTD notification
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Hi Tomer,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Jalovec northside MC.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 14, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-04-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — | toxic | en |
==Your edits to Lakhva==
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, }} you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. | toxic | en |
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Well, here for example, you removed all the text on the page and replaced it with your sig in what I can only assume was a test. As I said, if you wish to test, you should use the sandbox. If you wish to know more about editing, and what is right and wrong, see here. Thanks ≈ " | toxic | en |
appologies for that. was not intentional. -steve. | toxic | en |
This is a dispute at Raspberry Pi, so I have corrected the name of the article in the last user's message. See WP:AN3#User:121.72.121.67 reported by User:Guy Macon (Result: ). There may still be time for you to avoid a block from Wikipedia if you respond there and agree to stop edit warring. Thank you, | toxic | en |
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> * The good news: attackers that want to trojan your software have to
> reboot, at least.
> * The bad news: administrators that want to update your software
> have to reboot, at least.
No reboot is required, you just need to remount it:
# mount -o remount,rw /usr
This requires root access, but presumably /usr is safe from non-root
users anyway.
Only way to disable this is to have the kernel compiled with something
that compartmentalizes capabilities (LIDS/etc on Linux for example) or to
remove CAP_SYS_ADMIN with lcap, which would definately require a reboot,
and possibly break some other functionatily to boot. (Pun intended. My
apologies.)
--
Brian Hatch "Are you expected?"
Systems and "No. Dreaded."
Security Engineer
www.hackinglinuxexposed.com
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:I've made most of these changes. For 1, it might be visually clearer as =-R', but R' has partial positive charge compared to a vinyl group, and reactants are usually written with the more positive part on the left. In the products, the way it's drawn there makes it clear that R was an electrophile and R' was a nucleophile that underwent substitution at the vinyl group. For 2, neither of those degrees really are ""in"" something. The major biographical detail is the doctoral advisor. I added Saul Winstein to the infobox. For 3 and 4, I made those additions. " | toxic | en |
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Good! A friendly thank-you. talk " | toxic | en |
A bot sounds like a great idea. Any bot writers out there? ·:· ·:· | toxic | en |
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the eyeforenergy team . | scam | en |
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:If you think writing ""having no scientific or intellectual qualifications "" about a blp is OK you are in for a rude awakening. Read WP:BLP " | toxic | en |
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BRAVO SANDRA SS!!!!!!! Finally the voice of reason!!! I would only make *one* tiny correction ... that CAN be fully verified (even via their OWN sites) The ""other"" ""registries"" did NOT start 10 years ago .. .. If I recall correctly, the NOW DEFUNCT ISSDC/r started in 1998, and closed shop in 2000? Since that time the other ""registries"" were formed by various ""breeders"" that could not agree with each other. The *new* ISSDC was not started until the summer of 2004.
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friend, i want him to have his own wikipedia page, he is very well known throughout our town | toxic | en |
Có, Sào Nguyên Phương còn có tác phẩm khác là Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư. | toxic | vi |
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At 12:26 PM 7/24/02 -0400, rODbegbie wrote:
>Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> > And where does it say production-ready? http://razor.sourceforge.net
> > says at the top of the page:
> >
> > June 13, 2002 - Vipul's Razor v2 released! The first beta of Vipul's
> > Razor v2 is now available for public download.
>
>1) I think the code is still very much pre-beta.
>
>2) When you go to the "Download" page, it tells you "Fetch the latest
>versions of razor-agents and razor-agents-sdk packages" It is not at all
>clear that these are development packages.
>
>The site is badly designed, and very misleading. IMO. The fact that the
>word "beta" appears in the middle of some introductory text on the front
>page is hardly a valid argument. (Well accepted software design "fact":
>USERS DON'T READ *ANYTHING*)
>
>I get the impression that Vipul & co are deliberately trying to mislead
>users into downloading the dev code in order to get more unwitting test
>sites.
>
>But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
>
>rOD.
>
>--
>Anyway... long story short...
>...is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling.
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Hi, add me to Casliber's welcome above. It's great all the work you're doing with the common name redirects, and it helps to standardize the growing number of mushroom species articles. Hope to see you around at the WikiProject. | toxic | en |
Why must we sit around and wait for summer days to celebrate. Such a magical sight when the worlds dressed in white. Oooooh let there be snow. | scam | en |
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Take This to Your Grave, you will be blocked from editing. " | toxic | en |
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The same user stated ""Almost since I met Andy, I said that every day, every minute, even every second he is allowed to go unchecked on Wikipedia is a ticking time bomb that will go off in the face of a user.""
Shame is I'd love to add to the North Worcestershire and UK Transport history articles - but many of the interesting articles are on his watch list and he'd soon un-cover me, like he's uncovered other user's aliases. And a quote from User:Leonig Mig himself in the same section - ""Funny thing is this all started because he thinks my writing style is too florid!!!! Hardly crime of the century! This man is a socio-path!!"".
This user as stated has form, and has scared one user away. In the words of one user (sadly unsigned comment) he is a ""ticking time bomb"" and has committed ""The wikipedia version of murder"". Please do not lambast me for quoting (which I have attributed twice. wot|I did " | toxic | en |
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:::Amiram, you've edited your own article (Amiram Goldblum) extensively. Are you sure you want to be complaining about COI and violations of wikipedia policy? (And before the ""outing"" police jump up with knee-jerk reactions, have a look at and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A7)
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etc. This person should be blocked from Wikipedia. | toxic | en |
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DYK credit for Bardstown
You did not credit me for Bardstown Historic District when you did the DYK credits; it was a double hook. Seek his grace " | toxic | en |
The worst part is that she's fucking fifteen and her bf (hopefully ex by now) doesn't even have a fucking job yet. She's hoping her mom will pay for the baby. These are the kind of people that deserve to have complications during birth. | adult_sexism | en |
RACISM
A word describing characteristics of a person on there looks and religion. Racism is often used to harm someones feelings. The most common type of racism used today is about skin colour | toxic | en |
Journal of the Whills
Why isn't there any mention of the Journal of the Whills? | toxic | en |
Apologies - its not you specifically - I have come across some intractable must have em all category makers who include parent grandparent and child cats with some level of insistence, who dont seem to understand or learn even after being alerted to the issue - hey good stuff if you can work it out - and hope you enjoy your stay on wikipedia! Suro | toxic | en |
This is clearly necessary. We are dealing with a high degree of ignorance, vulgarities, harassment, and in the end, if we give up, two innocent people will end up painted as guilty before a final determination of guilt or innocence is ever rendered by any court. I do think the higher ups in Wikipedia would appreciate knowing of this situation and being afforded the opportunity to take steps to protect their website for misuse like this. | toxic | en |
Cut to inside board room: Libtard 1, " Okay, now we have to look at Ken....Do we make him "Gang Rape" Ken! Comes with all new disgusting neck beard!" Libtard 2: Oh, how about he comes with a child bride!? Libtard 1: AMAZING! #GabFam #WTF #BanIslam | adult_sexism | en |
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Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. " | toxic | en |
:Thanks for your comment. Per Wikipedia policy, the phrasing of our articles follows reliable sources; can you give some sources for your statement? Right now that statement from the article is based on the BBC. | toxic | en |
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FYI, there is a discussion on the article's talk page, which I've previously made Jakeleereed aware of, but which he has chosen not to participate in. The consensus of that discussion is that Technicolor and Vitaphone were not studios or production companies, and therefore should not be included in the ""studio"" parameter of film article infoboxes. If Jakeleereed has arguments or, even better, evidence otherwise, he should bring it to that discussion. " | toxic | en |
Will do so.
And someone really needs to write something real about the festival.
No doubt there are famous gigs, artists breaking after Hultsfred,
a general, lasting effect on music in Sweden and so on ... | toxic | en |
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::Yep... I've reported the error @ . Thanks, – " | toxic | en |
Question Is this the clear primary topic over Chengguan, Chamdo, which is evidently also referred to as Chamdo or Qamdo? (let's chat) | toxic | en |
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The comment that ""several variants of the Condorcet method (including Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping and Maximize Affirmed Majorities) are monotonic"" is misleading since there is no connection between the Condorcet criterion and the Monotonicity criterion. If you only want to say that the Condorcet criterion and the Monotonicity criterion are compatible, then it is sufficient to say that Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping and Maximize Affirmed Majorities are monotonic." | toxic | en |
Actually Mary II was Queen of Scotland as Mary II. Monarchs stopped being called king/queen of s only afte 1707. And the UK is only used after 1801 for the UK of GB & I. So Mary II was Queen of England & Scotland, not of the UK. 06:32 Mar 3, 2003 (UTC)~ | toxic | en |
Does It Really Matter?
Does it really matter how long an article is? I mean, how long do things have to be in order NOT to get deleted? | toxic | en |
There's Karma for you! A big Liberal mother having a Conservative son, HAHA. | adult_sexism | en |
I find his motivations to be valid enough to warrant a discussion on the topic, at the very least.
He thinks if you say he is wrong, that equals harassment. That does not fly at Wikipedia. If you want to publish here, prepare for your work to be scrutinized. | toxic | en |
: Lewis, who was given a lethal injection, was pronounced dead at 9:13 p.m. Eastern Time. ) | toxic | en |
ĉ Ê ê Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ Î î Ĵ ĵ Ô ô Ŝ ŝ Û û Ŵ ŵ Ŷ ŷ Ä ä | toxic | en |
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== File:Yves Montand promo photo.jpg listed for deletion ==
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Yves Montand promo photo.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. supports NonFreeWiki " | toxic | en |
s death as Israeli assassination | toxic | en |
The examples exemplify the language. Few articles of languages in wikipedia be full of similar examples. talk | toxic | en |
- If you check the history on the Sugar Ray Robinson page, you'll see that the vandalism that you're referring to was left there by 2602:306:374A:E960:A5CC:30DB:F4FA:4618, which is not my IP address. I saw it, and I removed it. I may have missed some information that was outside of my scope of knowledge on the subject, but I made the appropriate changes wherever I could. My apologies with regard to the edit summary. | toxic | en |
enron mentions
a dynegy - enron deal faces significant regulatory review
dow jones energy service , 11 / 08 / 01
us physical gas prices mostly down ; no demand
dow jones energy service , 11 / 08 / 01
usa : newpower shares advance on revised guidance .
reuters english news service , 11 / 08 / 01
enron investors still perplexed - and stock shows it
dow jones news service , 11 / 08 / 01
usa : update 1 - firstenergy sells $ 4 . 0 bln in 3 - part debt sale .
reuters english news service , 11 / 08 / 01
usa : wrapup 1 - enron , dynegy confirm possible merger talks .
reuters english news service , 11 / 08 / 01
in the money : enron transparency not transparent enough
dow jones news service , 11 / 08 / 01
s on watch negative
pr newswire , 11 / 08 / 01
rpt dynergy sharply higher , enron lower on merger talks
afx news , 11 / 08 / 01
us spot coal : prices weaken as buying for 2002 slows
dow jones energy service , 11 / 08 / 01
stockwatch dynergy sharply higher , enron flat on merger talks
afx news , 11 / 08 / 01
uk : rivals eye enron ' s metals trading business .
reuters english news service , 11 / 08 / 01
wrap : enron to restate results ; confirms dynegy talks
dow jones news service , 11 / 08 / 01
usa : enron fires two employees linked to partnerships .
reuters english news service , 11 / 08 / 01
enron restates net income for periods from 1997 to q 3 2001
afx news , 11 / 08 / 01
enron restates earnings as company confirms talks with dynegy
associated press newswires , 11 / 08 / 01
usa : update 1 - enron provides financing data , restates earnings .
reuters english news service , 11 / 08 / 01
is enron too big to fail ? bailout seen unlikely
dow jones energy service , 11 / 08 / 01
enron bonds give back gains as firm restates profit ( update 3 )
bloomberg , 11 / 08 / 01
apache to cut 2002 drilling budget 70 % on gas prices ( updatel )
bloomberg , 11 / 08 / 01
enron fires treasurer , alleges improper investment ( update 2 )
bloomberg , 11 / 08 / 01
dynegy rises on optimism it may get enron for bargain ( update 2 )
bloomberg , 11 / 08 / 01
newpower 3 rd - qtr loss narrows after adding customers ( update 4 )
bloomberg , 11 / 08 / 01
enron restates years of profits , in talks with dynegy ( update 4 )
bloomberg , 11 / 08 / 01
dj faber report : more on enron / dynegy > ene
bloomberg , 11 / 08 / 01
dynegy , enron negotiating merger
enron fires two officers ; financial results to be restated
cbsmarketwatch . com , 11 / 08 / 01
a dynegy - enron deal faces significant regulatory review
by bryan lee
11 / 08 / 2001
dow jones energy service
( copyright ( c ) 2001 , dow jones & company , inc . )
of dow jones newswires
washington - ( dow jones ) - any merger deal that may emerge between dynegy inc . ( dyn ) and enron corp . ( ene ) will face a complicated and time - consuming regulatory - review process , legal experts said thursday .
any equity deal would require approvals from numerous u . s . federal regulatory agencies and state utility regulators , as well as survive canadian and european antitrust reviews , energy attorneys contacted by dow jones newswires said .
a merger would require approvals from the federal energy regulatory commission , securities and exchange commission , department of justice and federal trade commission . and the illinois commerce commission likely would weigh into the mix , since dynegy owns illinova ' s illinois power co .
any effort to strike a deal quickly also could be complicated by enron ' s ownership of portland general electric co . while enron has entered into an agreement to sell the utility to northwest natural gas co . ( nwn ) , a previous attempt to sell the company fell through because of regulatory complications .
a key issue for federal regulators scrutinizing a potential enron - dynegy merger will be the degree of electricity market concentration such a transaction would entail , the attorneys said .
financially wounded enron is the nation ' s largest electricity and natural gas trader with an extensive network of gas pipelines .
dynegy is ranked sixth nationally in both electricity and natural gas marketing .
the transaction would receive the greatest scrutiny at ferc , where the merger application would challenge the commission ' s merger - review policy , attorneys said .
copyright ? 2000 dow jones no demand
11 / 08 / 2001
dow jones energy service
( copyright ( c ) 2001 , dow jones john . edmiston @ dowjones . com
copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved .
usa : newpower shares advance on revised guidance .
11 / 08 / 2001
reuters english news service
( c ) reuters limited 2001 .
new york , nov 8 ( reuters ) - national power and gas marketer newpower holdings inc . revised its 2001 loss guidance downward on thursday and saw its stock post its best one - day gain in two months .
the projection came in newpower ' s report of a third quarter net loss of $ 67 . 1 million , or $ 1 . 15 per share , compared to a net loss of $ 69 . 9 million , or $ 2 . 96 per share for the third quarter of 2000 .
analysts had expected a per - share loss of $ 1 . 15 to $ 1 . 18 , according to research firm thomson financial / first call , which put the consensus at $ 1 . 16 .
purchase , new york - based newpower is the parent of the new power co . , which says it is the first national provider of electricity and natural gas to residential and small commercial customers in the united states . it said total customers increased 155 percent to 805 , 000 compared to the third quarter of 2000 . revenues were $ 54 . 7 million in the latest quarter , an increase of 201 percent from the third quarter of 2000 .
during the third quarter , newpower said , it gained about 80 , 000 new customers through the company ' s marketing efforts , primarily in the residential sector . newpower recently increased its emphasis on small business customers and at the end of september had over 25 , 000 small business accounts . newpower expects this to increase to more than 35 , 000 by the end of the year .
providing revised guidance for the rest of the year , the company said it expects a net loss of $ 41 million to $ 46 million or a loss per share of 65 cents to 73 cents for the fourth quarter . the full year net loss is estimated to be between $ 210 million and $ 215 million , or $ 3 . 55 to $ 3 . 63 per share .
analysts ' estimates of the year per share loss range from $ 3 . 68 to $ 3 . 74 , resulting in a consensus per share loss projection of $ 3 . 71 .
newpower said it projects the year - end customer count will be between 840 , 000 and 860 , 000 , of which the fourth - quarter increase is expected to be achieved entirely through marketing .
it said the revised forecast reflects a reduction in the number of customers the company expects to acquire through portfolio acquisitions and the impact of delays in switching texas customers to newpower , partly offset by the company ' s modified marketing strategies and continued cost reductions .
newpower shares reached a high of $ 1 . 25 in thursday afternoon trading and were still up 48 . 15 percent , or 39 cents , at $ 1 . 20 in the final half hour of trading .
the company is 44 percent owned by enron corp . , newpower ' s largest provider of electricity and natural gas .
copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved .
enron investors still perplexed - and stock shows it
by christina cheddar
of dow jones newswires
11 / 08 / 2001
dow jones news service
( copyright ( c ) 2001 , dow jones 201 - 938 - 5166 ; christina . cheddar @ dowjones . com
copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved .
usa : update 1 - firstenergy sells $ 4 . 0 bln in 3 - part debt sale .
by dena aubin
11 / 08 / 2001
reuters english news service
( c ) reuters limited 2001 .
new york , nov 8 ( reuters ) - utility holding company firstenergy corp . sold $ 4 billion of five - , 10 - and 30 - year debt on thursday , helped by investors ' preference for defensive sectors as the u . s . economy stalls .
firstenergy was able to lower its borrowing costs , trimming yields from initial indications . the sale originally was expected to offer generous yields as heavy bond issuance , weak wholesale power prices and investor jitters over the troubles of energy trading firm enron corp . weighed on the utility sector .
akron , ohio - based firstenergy will use proceeds for corporate purposes and to help pay for its recent purchase of morristown , new jersey - based gpu inc . . firstenergy purchased gpu for about $ 4 . 5 billion in cash and stock , plus the assumption of about $ 7 . 2 billion in debt . the sale closed on tuesday .
utility bonds are typically viewed as a conservative investments because of the industry ' s stable income during uncertain economic times . the sector has been under a cloud , though , as houston - based enron has struggled with a cash squeeze and writedowns from off - balance - sheet transactions .
" enron was held up as a model , growing extremely quickly , and the recent financial disclosures are just a shock , " said kelly perl , a project director at new york utility consulting firm applied economic research .
spreads , or the yield gaps between utility bonds and u . s . treasuries , have widened about 0 . 15 to 0 . 20 percentage point over the past two weeks , while spreads on gas and pipeline companies have widened about 0 . 30 percentage points , strategists said .
sale terms
firstenergy sold $ 1 billion of 5 . 5 percent five - year notes at 99 . 888 cents on the dollar , yielding 5 . 526 percent or 1 . 98 percentage points more than similar - maturity u . s . treasuries . it also sold $ 1 . 5 billion of 6 . 45 percent 10 - year notes at 99 . 651 cents on the dollar , yielding 6 . 498 percent or 2 . 25 percentage points more than treasuries , and $ 1 . 5 billion of 7 . 375 percent 30 - year bonds , yielding 7 . 389 percent or 2 . 45 percentage points more than the old long treasury bond .
initial price guidance had called for spreads as high as 2 . 20 , 2 . 35 and 2 . 60 percentage points more than treasuries for the five - , 10 - and 30 - year debt .
firstenergy ' s sale was helped by a 0 . 50 percentage point interest rate cut by the u . s . federal reserve on tuesday and signs that the fed could cut rates again .
" there is the perception that the fed is going to aggressively ease and err on the side of caution , " said peter palfrey , portfolio manager for loomis sayles & co . in boston . investors are betting that the fed will engineer an economic recovery , helping corporate profits and spurring price gains in corporate bonds , palfrey said .
analysts said firstenergy ' s acquisition of gpu should benefit its credit quality .
" it adds further diversity to their cash flow from regulated distribution companies , " said fitch analyst robert hornick .
falling wholesale power prices also should benefit firstenergy , hornick said .
" they ' re not a big seller of wholesale energy at this point , " hornick said . " they don ' t own generation facilities and need to buy ( electricity ) in the market , so to the extent wholesale prices are lower , they can benefit , " he said .
standard & poor ' s rates firstenergy ' s senior unsecured notes " bbb - minus , " its lowest investment grade . moody ' s investors service rates firstenergy ' s long - term debt " baa 2 , " roughly one notch higher , while fitch rates them " bbb . "
salomon smith barney , barclays capital and morgan stanley arranged the sale .
copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved .
usa : wrapup 1 - enron , dynegy confirm possible merger talks .
by jeff franks
11 / 08 / 2001
reuters english news service
( c ) reuters limited 2001 .
houston , nov 8 ( reuters ) - enron corp . , plagued by investor doubts and under the gun to shore up its crumbling finances , said on thursday it was talking with power trading rival dynegy inc . about a possible merger .
the company , whose stock and credit ratings have plummeted amid an uproar about questionable business transactions , admitted it made bookkeeping errors and restated earnings for the last four years .
it also said former chief financial officer andrew fastow , who abruptly left the company last month , had made $ 30 million managing partnerships linked to the deals . the deals , which were off the balance sheet , are now under investigation by the u . s . securities and exchange commission for possible conflict of interest .
two other executives , managing director and treasurer ben glisan and enron division general counsel kristina mordaunt , were both believed to have links to the fastow - led partnerships and have been fired , the company disclosed .
the announcements threw a spotlight on enron ' s stark situation , in which the nation ' s top energy trader has gone from wall street darling to pariah in a few weeks and now faces a cash crunch so dire it is seeking a merger with the much - smaller dynegy .
its credit ratings have fallen to near - junk levels in recent weeks , making it difficult to get money to boost investor confidence and back the trading operations that provide 90 percent of enron ' s income . the company reportedly has been seeking investors to provide a cash infusion for an equity stake .
moderate premium
word about a possible dynegy - enron deal leaked out on wednesday , and on thursday the two companies confirmed talks about a possible " business combination " were underway , but said no agreement had been reached .
sources told reuters that the two texas rivals , whose headquarters are a few blocks apart in downtown houston , were talking about a stock swap with a moderate premium for shareholders and a $ 1 . 5 billion capital infusion from chevrontexaco corp . , which owns 26 . 5 percent of dynegy .
the stock swap is valued at about $ 8 billion , or about $ 10 a share , the new york times reported on thursday .
a merger would catapult dynegy to the top of the energy trading industry now dominated by enron . last year , the company had $ 29 billion in revenues , compared to $ 100 billion for enron .
for enron , it would cap an astonishingly rapid fall from grace .
enron stock has lost $ 19 billion in market value since its crisis began in mid - october and was down another 45 cents to $ 8 . 60 in thursday trading . dynegy shares rose $ 3 . 87 to $ 36 . 87 .
enron restated its earnings going back to 1997 , saying its auditors advised that the off - the - balance sheet deals in question should have been included in the company ' s financial statements .
the restated results reduced enron ' s net income by $ 591 million , or 22 percent , from 1997 to 2000 , and increased its debt by $ 628 million , or 6 percent , after two of the partnership ' s financial statements were consolidated into enron ' s earnings .
enron said the restatement reflects a $ 1 . 2 billion reduction to shareholders ' equity that touched off the current controversy when the company offhandedly disclosed it last month . angry shareholders suddenly worried that enron was hiding other liabilities in its complex financial statements and began demanding more information .
in a statement , enron chief executive ken lay said the company hoped it had allayed wall street fears with thursday ' s announcements .
" we believe that the information we have made available addresses a number of the concerns that have been raised by our shareholders and the sec about these matters , " he said .
analysts , wary after last month ' s surprise revelations , said enron may have more to release , but they were pleased it was finally coming forth with information .
" it ' s an attempt to come clean , " said raymond moore , an analyst with weatherly securities .
copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved .
in the money : enron transparency not transparent enough
by michael rapoport
11 / 08 / 2001
dow jones news service
( copyright ( c ) 2001 , dow jones 201 - 938 - 5976 ; michael . rapoport @ dowjones . com
copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved .
s on watch negative
11 / 08 / 2001
pr newswire
( copyright ( c ) 2001 , pr newswire )
new york , nov . 8 / prnewswire / - - standard & poor ' s today lowered its rating on yosemite securities trust i to triple - ' b ' from triple - ' b ' - plus and placed it on creditwatch with negative implications ( see list ) .
the lowered rating and creditwatch placement reflects the nov . 1 , 2001 rating action taken on enron corp . , which was based on standard & poor ' s belief that enron corp . ' s plan to employ asset sales and other means to repair its damaged balance sheet will be insufficient to restore its long - term credit quality to the historical triple - ' b ' - plus level . also , the creditwatch placement reflects the uncertainties surrounding the company and its credit quality in the short run due to the possibility of further unanticipated developments in the capital markets .
yosemite securities trust i is a synthetic issue that utilizes a credit default swap referencing enron corp . the rating on the credit - linked notes reflects the current senior unsecured rating of enron corp . yosemite securities trust i
$ 750 million credit linked notes
rating
to from
bbb / watch neg bbb +
/ contact : mary ryan , + 1 - 212 - 438 - 2090 , or frank j trick , + 1 - 212 - 438 - 1108 , both of standard & poor ' s / 13 : 26 est
copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved .
rpt dynergy sharply higher , enron lower on merger talks
11 / 08 / 2001
afx news
( c ) 2001 by afp - extel news ltd
( repeating to show in headline , lead that enron is trading lower )
new york ( afx ) - shares of dynergy inc were sharply higher , while enron corp lost ground in midsession trading after the two companies confirmed that they are holding merger talks .
at 12 . 25 pm , dynergy was up 3 . 17 usd , or 9 . 6 pct , at 36 . 17 , enron fell 0 . 34 usd , or 3 . 7 pct , to 8 . 71 usd and chevrontexaco dropped 0 . 18 usd to 87 . 10 . the djia was up 110 . 22 points at 9 , 664 . 59 , the s & p 500 index gained 12 . 88 points to 1 , 128 . 68 and the nasdaq composite rose 34 . 35 points to 1 , 871 . 88 .
enron share price today was hurt after the company announced a restatement of its net income from 1997 to the third quarter of 2001 . the revisions were , for the most part , reductions in the bottom - line figure .
the 8 bln usd tie - up talks , which come at a time when enron is being investigated by the us securities and exchange commission and the markets are losing faith in the energy trader , are seen as particularly positive for dynergy .
analysts see a tie - up as highly accretive for dynergy , which is 26 pct owned by chevrontexaco , with many synergies also possible .
banc of america analyst william maze , who rates dynergy ' strong buy ' , said : " if this transaction comes to fruition , we would be aggressive buyers of dynergy given its accretive nature as well as the lifting of enron ' s credibility issues that has been plaguing the entire industry . "
cibc world markets analyst william hyler , who rates enron ' buy ' , added : " the move would also catapult ( dynergy ) into a leadership role at what could prove near the bottom of the gas / power pricing cycle . "
on the other hand , enron ' s position would improve as its credibility within the trading world and in the face of its trading counterparties would recover somewhat .
to that end , dynergy would provide a yet unspecified cash injection , believed to be approximately 1 . 5 - 2 . 0 bln usd , to improve enron ' s standing and shore up its finances .
chevrontexaco , which is expected to provide a substantial part of the financing needed for the merger , also stands to gain from the situation as it would retain effective control of the combined company .
rdc / lj
for more information and to contact afx : www . afxnews . com and www . afxpress . com
copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved .
us spot coal : prices weaken as buying for 2002 slows
11 / 08 / 2001
dow jones energy service
( copyright ( c ) 2001 , dow jones averages not volume weighted
4 q ' 01 lq ' 02 cal 2002
central appalachia low sulfur
f . o . b . barge $ 31 . 75 - 32 . 00 $ 32 . 00 - 32 . 25 $ 32 . 00 - 33 . 00
average / change 31 . 90 / - 1 . 85 32 . 12 / - 1 . 63 32 . 50 / - 1 . 00
f . o . b . rail $ 36 . 00 - 38 . 00 n / a $ 36 . 00 - 38 . 00
average / change 37 . 00 / - 1 . 25 n / a 37 . 00 / - 0 . 75
powder river basin
8400 b . t . u . $ 5 . 75 - 6 . 00 $ 6 . 45 - 6 . 60 $ 6 . 35 - 6 . 45
average / change 5 . 85 / - 0 . 15 6 . 50 / 0 . 00 6 . 40 / - 0 . 10
8800 b . t . u . $ 7 . 25 - 7 . 75 $ 8 . 10 - 8 . 40 $ 8 . 10 - 8 . 20
average / change 7 . 50 / - 0 . 10 ' 8 . 25 / 0 . 00 8 . 15 / - 0 . 15
note to u . s . spot coal prices :
prices are dollars per short ton , based on actual deals done during the month for the delivery period indicated .
averages are straight mathematical averages and aren ' t volume weighted .
change is from the average of deals done in the previous month .
the central appalachian low - sulfur category uses benchmark of 12 , 000 british thermal units per pound . barge delivery is to the big sandy river . rail delivery is to the norfolk southern .
for central appalachian coal , prices are accepted for coal within 500 btu of the benchmark btu and standardized adjustments are made .
powder river basin categories are quoted fob mine .
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stockwatch dynergy sharply higher , enron flat on merger talks
11 / 08 / 2001
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new york ( afx ) - shares of dynergy inc were sharply higher , while enron corp continued to lose ground , in midsession trading after the two companies confirmed that they are holding merger talks .
at 12 . 25 pm , dynergy was up 3 . 17 usd , or 9 . 6 pct , at 36 . 17 , enron fell 0 . 34 usd , or 3 . 7 pct , to 8 . 71 usd and chevrontexaco dropped 0 . 18 usd to 87 . 10 . the djia was up 110 . 22 points at 9 , 664 . 59 , the s & p 500 index gained 12 . 88 points to 1 , 128 . 68 and the nasdaq composite rose 34 . 35 points to 1 , 871 . 88 .
enron share price today was hurt after the company announced a restatement of its net income from 1997 to the third quarter of 2001 . the revisions were , for the most part , reductions in the bottom - line figure .
the 8 bln usd tie - up talks , which come at a time when enron is being investigated by the us securities and exchange commission and the markets are losing faith in the energy trader , are seen as particularly positive for dynergy .
analysts see a tie - up as highly accretive for dynergy , which is 26 pct owned by chevrontexaco , with many synergies also possible .
banc of america analyst william maze , who rates dynergy ' strong buy ' , said : " if this transaction comes to fruition , we would be aggressive buyers of dynergy given its accretive nature as well as the lifting of enron ' s credibility issues that has been plaguing the entire industry . "
cibc world markets analyst william hyler , who rates enron ' buy ' , added : " the move would also catapult ( dynergy ) into a leadership role at what could prove near the bottom of the gas / power pricing cycle . "
on the other hand , enron ' s position would improve as its credibility within the trading world and in the face of its trading counterparties would recover somewhat .
to that end , dynergy would provide a yet unspecified cash injection , believed to be approximately 1 . 5 - 2 . 0 bln usd , to improve enron ' s standing and shore up its finances .
chevrontexaco , which is expected to provide a substantial part of the financing needed for the merger , also stands to gain from the situation as it would retain effective control of the combined company .
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uk : rivals eye enron ' s metals trading business .
by andy blamey
11 / 08 / 2001
reuters english news service
( c ) reuters limited 2001 .
london , nov 9 ( reuters ) - u . s . energy trading giant enron corp . , whose shares have tumbled amid a regulatory probe and doubts about its ability to raise cash , may lose or offload its metals business , senior industry sources said on thursday .
in the wings are several interested parties looking to snap up the company ' s metals customer base .
" there are people out there with the experience and the contacts who see this time as a good opportunity to get into the market , " a senior metals market source told reuters on thursday .
such a move for enron ' s metals portfolio would involve the acquisition of an existing organisation as a vehicle , the source added .
" we do not comment on rumours , " an enron spokeswoman said , declining further comment .
other enron metals assets were also said to be in play , including the henry bath warehousing company , which operates lme - registered warehouses in the uk , the netherlands , singapore and the united states .
major player
houston - based enron became a major player in the metals trade in may last year when it acquired mg plc , a leading independent international metals dealing firm in london , in a deal worth around 300 million pounds .
the company is a ring - dealing member of the london metal exchange ( lme ) , able to participate in open - outcry floor trade , and is active in screen - based metals trade via its enrononline platform ( www . enrononline . com ) .
the company no longer has a stake in online metals trading platform emetra ( www . emetra . com ) , having sold its holding to other emetra shareholders this summer .
but while enron may be a heavy hitter in the metals sector , base metals trading could hardly be regarded as one of its core businesses .
the company ' s third - quarter 2001 results statement shows income before interest , minority interests and taxes ( ibit ) from " europe and other commodity markets " - which includes metals and steel alongside european gas and power , among others - of $ 53 million , unchanged from the year - earlier period .
this compares with ibit from enron ' s gas and power market - making operations and merchant energy activities in north and south america of $ 710 million over the same period .
but the third - quarter figure that has slashed the value of the company ' s shares is a $ 1 . 2 billion write - down of shareholder equity related to off - balance sheet transactions .
on thursday the company said it would restate its earnings for 1997 to 2001 to reflect the transactions - a move which wipes $ 613 million of the company ' s reported net income from 1997 through the first half of this year .
the company ' s stock has dropped by almost 78 percent since enron released its earnings results on october 16 , falling to nine - year lows amid concerns about the company ' s ability to raise cash .
the story added an extra twist on wednesday as news broke that u . s . - based energy trading and marketing firm dynegy inc . was in talks to buy out enron .
against this background speculation is rife about the future of the metals operation , fuelled by the company ' s decision last month to trim between 10 and 20 percent of its metals workforce as part of a wider staff reduction by enron europe .
unlikely to remain intact
any decision by enron or a possible future purchaser to offload its metals operations would be unlikely to see enron metals remain intact , traders said .
" they paid $ 450 million for mg . would they get $ 450 million for enron metals ? i don ' t think so , " said one .
" why buy the whole concern when you can cherry - pick the best traders and the clients will follow ? " added another .
an increasing emphasis on screen trading at the expense of personal contacts may already have persuaded some enron clients to jump ship .
" we ' ve picked up a fair amount of small and mid - sized trade - type business in europe from people who ' ve said ' i ' m not going to be told just to trade on a screen , ' " said one trader .
another trader said : " a lot of this business revolves around who you ' ve been trading with and talking to over a period of time . it ' s about individuals , " he said .
" enron online . . . should be seen as an ' added value ' product , not as the only way of trading . customers still want to talk to their broker , and are willing to pay commission for the service , " the senior source said .
enron ' s financial position could also prompt customers to consider other options , the first trader said .
" as a customer , you want to place your business where there ' s financial stability . if a company isn ' t financially stable , you ' ll move elsewhere . "
enron ' s trade counterparties are also keeping a close eye on the company ' s financial situation , said a trader at one lme brokerage .
" people aren ' t particularly concerned about short - term trading ( with enron ) , but when it comes to otc business done outside the clearing market they ' re backing off a bit , " he said .
( additional reporting by martin hayes ) .
copyright ? 2000 dow jones confirms dynegy talks
11 / 08 / 2001
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houston - ( dow jones ) - enron corp . ( ene ) said it will restate its financial results from 1997 through the second quarter of 2001 , as the embattled energy company and dynegy inc . both confirmed they are in talks on a possible business combination .
in a filing thursday with the securities and exchange commission , enron said its financial and audit reports are unreliable for those periods .
enron said that three " unconsolidated entities should have been included in its consolidated financial statements , " based on generally accepted accounting principles . these entities are chewco investments lp , joint energy development investments lp and a wholly owned unit of ljm cayman lp .
enron said it has established a special committee to review all transactions . the committee will specifically review all " economic results " related to transactions between enron and ljm .
last month enron took a $ 1 . 01 billion charge in the third quarter related to write - downs of investments . of this , $ 35 million was attributed to partnerships run until recently by chief financial officer andrew fastow , who has since been replaced . enron also disclosed it shrank shareholder equity by $ 1 . 2 billion , as a result of several transactions including ones undertaken with fastow ' s investment vehicle .
later , enron said the sec would investigate the company ' s " related party transactions , " including those with the fastow partnerships .
the restatement will reflect the $ 1 . 2 billion reduction in shareholders ' equity , as well as various income - statement and balance - sheet adjustments determined by enron and its auditors .
" we believe that the information we have made available addresses a number of the concerns that have been raised by our shareholders and the sec about these matters , " said chairman and chief executive kenneth lay
over the past couple of days , enron has been scrambling to line up quick financing from a prominent outside investor and has been in discussions with private - equity firms and power - trading companies .
earlier , the wall street journal reported that dynegy was trying to buy enron for $ 7 billion to $ 8 billion in stock . both are houston - based energy - trading and power companies .
because any combination of the two would likely be scrutinized for many months , and enron needs to shore up its finances now , dynegy reportedly is expected to inject $ 1 . 5 billion into enron immediately , people familiar with the matter said .
chevrontexaco corp . ( cvx ) , which owns a 26 % stake in dynegy , is expected to provide dynegy with the funds for the cash infusion and is playing a significant role in the negotiations , the journal said .
the boards of dynegy , chevron and enron reportedly met wednesday to discuss a potential deal . enron ' s stock has plunged since oct . 16 , when the company posted a $ 618 million third - quarter loss and revealed that its shareholder equity had been reduced .
the talks between enron and dynegy follow a sharp decline in enron ' s stock over the past several weeks .
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usa : enron fires two employees linked to partnerships .
11 / 08 / 2001
reuters english news service
( c ) reuters limited 2001 .
new york , nov 8 ( reuters ) - enron corp . , the embattled energy trader , said on thursday fired its treasurer and a counsel who the company said were part - owners of one of its off - balance sheet partnerships now under investigation by u . s . regulators .
enron said it was terminating the employment of ben glisan , managing director and treasurer of enron corp . , and kristina mordaunt , a managing director and counsel of an enron division .
enron said it believes that these two employees , along with four other former enron employees , were involved as partners in a limited partnership called the ljml that had dealings with enron .
shares of enron were trading down 5 cents or . 55 percent at $ 9 on the new york stock exchange .
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enron restates net income for periods from 1997 to q 3 2001
11 / 08 / 2001
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houston ( afx ) - enron corp announced it is restating its net results for 1997 to 2000 and for the first three quarters of 2001 to take account of various related party and off - balance sheet transactions in which the company was involved .
the restatement have no effect on enron ' s current financial position , it said .
in its restated figures , enron posted reductions to net income of 96 mln usd in 1997 , 113 mln usd in 1998 , 250 mln in 1999 and 132 mln in 2000 , as well as increases of 17 mln usd for the first quarter of 2001 and 5 mln for the second , but reduced the third quarter figure by 17 mln usd .
the restatement will have no negative impact on the company ' s reported earnings for the nine month period ending sept 2001 , however , it said .
the company said its changes to net income are the result of the retroactive consolidation of joint energy development investments lp and chewco investments lp beginning in november 1997 , the consolidation of the ljml subsidiary for 1999 and 2000 and prior year proposed audit adjustments .
the jedi and chewco consolidations will increase enron ' s debt by about 711 mln usd in 1997 , 561 mln in 1998 , 685 mln in 1999 and 628 mln in 2000 , the company said .
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enron restates earnings as company confirms talks with dynegy
by brad foss
ap business writer
11 / 08 / 2001
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new york ( ap ) - beleaguered energy trading giant enron corp . announced thursday it would restate its earnings since 1997 , in part to reflect a controversial dlrs 1 . 2 billion reduction in shareholder equity that has sparked a securities and exchange commission investigation .
enron , whose stock price has fallen roughly 80 percent in the past three weeks , also said it was holding talks with dynegy inc . relating to some form of business transaction . the new york times reported that dynegy was considering buying enron , its larger hometown rival for dlrs 8 billion .
in a filing with the sec , enron said financial statements from 1997 through the first half of 2001 " should not be relied upon " and that partnerships run by enron officials during that period should have been consolidated into the financial results of the houston - based energy trading giant .
these partnerships are chewco investments l . p . , joint energy development investments l . p . , and a wholly owned unit of ljm cayman l . p .
" we believe that the information we have made available addresses a number of the concerns that have been raised by our shareholders and the sec about these matters , " said kenneth lay , enron ' s chairman and chief executive .
by its own assessment , enron ' s restatement reduces previously reported net income by roughly dlrs 586 million and increases its debt by dlrs 2 . 59 billion . the change reflects the financial impact of retroactively consolidating the partnerships .
the company also fired two executives on thursday : ben glisan , its treasurer , and kristina mordaunt , general counsel for one of its divisions . previously , enron had ousted chief financial officer andrew fastow , who was in charge of some of the partnerships .
shares of enron were off 10 cents to dlrs 8 . 95 in heavy trading on the new york stock exchange .
enron said it believes the restatement will include a reduction to net income of about dlrs 96 million in 1997 , dlrs 113 million in 1998 , dlrs 250 million in 1999 and dlrs 132 million in 2000 , increases of dlrs 17 million for the first quarter of 2001 and dlrs 5 million for the second quarter and a reduction of dlrs 17 million for the third quarter of 2001 .
enron , the top buyer and seller of natural gas and the top wholesale marketer in the united states , had become one of the nation ' s 10 largest companies , recording revenue of dlrs 100 . 8 billion in 2000 .
but the company has been beset by huge investment losses and questions about its financial stability . in particular , its stock has plunged since oct . 16 , when the company posted a dlrs 618 million third quarter loss and revealed that its shareholder equity had been reduced .
enron ' s woes have prompted considerable speculation about a possible takeover of the company .
besides dynegy , companies mentioned as possible suitors included general electric ' s ge capital unit and royal dutch / shell group .
on thursday , both dynegy and enron released statements confirming they were in talks , but declined to provide any details .
the new york times reported earlier that dynegy is considering paying about dlrs 8 billion in stock , or roughly dlrs 10 per share .
under the terms of the deal , enron would receive an immediate dlrs 1 . 5 billion cash infusion from oil giant chevron texaco , which holds a 27 percent stake in dynegy , the times said , citing executives close to the discusssion .
chevron texaco would provide an additional dlrs 1 billion injection at a later date , the times reported , while dynegy would assume dlrs 12 . 8 billion in enron debt , plus billions of dollars in other debt that has been kept off the beleaguered company ' s balance sheet and has been a significant contributor to its current problems .
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usa : update 1 - enron provides financing data , restates earnings .
11 / 08 / 2001
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houston , nov 8 ( reuters ) - enron corp . said on thursday it provided u . s . regulators with more information about off - balance sheet deals , and other transactions that led to a shattering of the company ' s credibility and to an investigation by the u . s . securities and exchange commission .
enron , the once high - flying houston - based energy trading company , also confirmed it was in talks with its hometown rival dynegy inc . over a possible business combination . terms of any deal have not been agreed on , the two companies said .
enron said that it will restate its earnings from 1997 to 2000 and the first two quarters of 2001 as the company addresses concerns raised by the sec and shareholders .
shares of enron dropped 20 cents , or 2 . 2 percent , to $ 8 . 85 in thursday morning trading on the new york stock exchange .
enron , the largest trader of electricity and natural gas in north america , said the required restatement reflects the surprising - and controversial - $ 1 . 2 billion reduction to shareholders ' equity the company recently disclosed .
the restatement also reflects adjustments to the company ' s income statement and balance sheet , now that enron has decided that the financial activities of chewco investments , l . p . , joint energy development investments limited partnership ( jedi ) and a wholly - owned subsidiary of ljml should indeed have been included in the company ' s consolidated financial statements .
as a result of the restatement , enron is reducing its 1997 net income by about $ 96 million , 1998 net income by $ 113 million , 1999 net income by $ 250 million and 2000 net income by $ 132 million .
it is also restating first quarter 2001 results with a $ 17 million net income increase , second quarter 2001 results with a $ 5 million increase and third quarter 2001 results with a $ 17 million net income decrease .
consolidating chewco and jedi also increases enron ' s debt by about $ 711 million in 1997 , $ 561 million in 1998 , $ 685 million in 1999 and $ 628 million in 2000 .
" we believe that the information we have made available addresses a number of the concerns that have been raised by our shareholders and the sec about these matters , " said chairman and chief executive ken lay in a statement .
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is enron too big to fail ? bailout seen unlikely
by jason leopold
11 / 08 / 2001
dow jones energy service
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( this story initially ran late wednesday . )
los angeles ( dow jones ) - - maybe enron corp . ( ene ) is just too big to fail . maybe not .
is the embattled energy trading company important enough to qualify for a federal bailout ?
not likely , according to a number of analysts who believe that there are enough big energy companies in the u . s . to keep markets liquid if enron goes under .
for that reason , a federal bailout is probably not in the cards , even though enron controls about 25 % of u . s . natural gas and electricity markets , they added .
" a bailout would only occur if needed to maintain liquidity in the energy markets in order to avoid potential for skyrocketing prices and avoid reliability risks , " said merrill lynch 323 - 658 - 3874 ; jason . leopold @ dowjones . com
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enron bonds give back gains as firm restates profit ( update 3 )
2001 - 11 - 08 16 : 40 ( new york )
enron bonds give back gains as firm restates profit ( update 3 )
( updates bond and stock prices . )
new york , nov . 8 ( bloomberg ) - - enron corp . bonds pared
earlier gains as the biggest energy trader said it restated
earnings for more than four years , increasing concern that dynegy
inc . won ' t buy out the company .
enron ' s 7 . 88 percent coupon notes due in 2003 traded at 77
cents on the dollar to yield 27 percent , down from a bid of 82
cents this morning , traders said . the debt , which was trading near
100 last month , was bid at 77 cents yesterday . enron shares , down
75 percent in the last month , fell 64 cents to $ 8 . 41 today .
dynegy said today it ' s in talks to acquire enron in what
people familiar with the situation said would likely be a stock
transaction worth $ 8 billion . an acquisition would bolster enron ' s
credit rating , which was recently lowered , traders said .
` ` enron bonds justifiably rallied on the good news of dynegy .
they naturally settled back down as the market assesses the
significance of the restatement , ' ' said glenn reynolds , an analyst
at creditsights inc . ` ` the whole problem goes away and sighs of
relief all around if they come to terms with dynegy . ' '
enron ' s 6 . 4 percent notes due in 2006 were bid at around 70
cents , down from this morning when the debt traded at 84 cents .
yesterday , the notes were priced between 72 cents and 74 cents .
the difference between bid and ask prices for enron debt
widened to about 4 cents to 5 cents - - ` ` monster ' ' spreads ,
reynolds said - - from 2 cents this morning , indicating few
investors are willing to buy or sell the bonds without more news .
while moody ' s investors service rates enron ' s credit as
` ` baa 2 ' ' , one rung higher than its ` ` baa 3 ' ' grade for dynegy ,
other ratings companies including standard & poor ' s and fitch inc .
have assigned dynegy a higher rating . also , enron ' s ratings have
been cut in recent weeks and face further reduction , while
dynegy ' s credit outlook is stable .
enron bonds and shares have tumbled in recent weeks on
concern about partnerships run by the company ' s former chief
financial officer and concerns the company ' s trading business will
be hurt by the credit downgrades . enron and dynegy are both based
in houston .
enron has $ 15 . 8 billion of bonds outstanding , more than
double the $ 6 . 8 billion market value of its stock , according to
bloomberg data .
apache to cut 2002 drilling budget 70 % on gas prices ( updatel )
2001 - 11 - 08 16 : 34 ( new york )
apache to cut 2002 drilling budget 70 % on gas prices ( updatel )
( updates with closing share price in fifth paragraph and
closing nymex gas price in last paragraph . )
houston , nov . 8 ( bloomberg ) - - apache corp . , an oil and
natural - gas producer , plans to cut spending on drilling next year
by 70 percent , blaming wide swings in gas prices caused by traders
such as enron corp . and dynegy inc .
the company will trim spending to $ 300 million from $ 1
billion this year , chief executive officer raymond plank said in
an interview . gas on the new york mercantile exchange reached
$ 10 . 10 per million british thermal units in late december and
touched $ 1 . 76 per million british thermal units in september .
the market for gas derivatives is 15 times the cash market
for delivery to customers , and broad price changes make it
difficult for oil and gas companies to set budgets , plank said .
` ` you ' ve got a 150 - pound tail wagging a 10 - pound dog , ' ' plank
said . ` ` you can ' t predict what your cash flow may be . therefore ,
your budgeting is difficult . ' '
shares of apache were unchanged at $ 50 . 73 . they have fallen
28 percent this year . apache , dynegy and enron , the biggest energy
trader , are based in houston .
` ` we can always go back and take another look at ( spending )
later , ' ' apache spokesman tony lentini said . ` ` we look at our
( budget ) regularly , and we ' re known for moving pretty quickly . ' '
enron , whose plunging stock price forced it to begin merger
talks with rival dynegy , today restated earnings for more than
four years because of losses from partnerships under investigation
by the securities and exchange commission .
fearing an enron collapse might cripple the gas - derivatives
market , apache said yesterday it traded out of most of its gas
hedges , making $ 70 million so far .
` ` apache is trying to conserve cash and retain the maximum
amount of flexibility , ' ' said irene haas , an analyst at sanders
morris harris inc . ` ` apache has been traditionally very nimble in
responding to these cycles . there ' s something to be said for being
cautious and conservative when the visibility is bad . ' '
haas rates apache ` ` accumulate ' ' and doesn ' t own its shares .
nymex gas has averaged $ 2 . 7 per million british thermal units
so far this quarter , down almost half from the same time a year
earlier . it rose 9 cents to $ 2 . 96 per million british thermal
units today .
enron fires treasurer , alleges improper investment ( update 2 )
2001 - 11 - 08 16 : 31 ( new york )
enron fires treasurer , alleges improper investment ( update 2 )
( updates with closing share prices in ninth paragraph and
information on board approval starting in 17 th paragraph . )
houston , nov . 8 ( bloomberg ) - - enron corp . , which today
reduced its earnings for the last four years by $ 552 million
because of accounting errors involving affiliates , also said it
fired its treasurer and a corporate attorney for making improper
investments in one of the affiliates .
enron fired treasurer ben glisan and kristina mordaunt , the
general counsel of an unspecified enron division . the two invested
in an affiliate created by enron to buy and sell the company ' s
assets , the houston - based company said in filings with the
securities and exchange commission .
the transactions also involved two former enron employees and
former enron chief financial officer andrew fastow , who was
replaced two weeks ago , the filing said . the former employees were
kathy lynn , vice president of an unnamed enron division , and anne
yaeger , identified by enron as a non - officer employee .
lea fastow , andrew fastow ' s wife , referred all questions to
her husband ' s attorney , who couldn ' t immediately be reached for
comment . glisan wouldn ' t comment . attempts to reach mordaunt
weren ' t successful .
$ 30 million profit
fastow made more than $ 30 million by managing and investing
in two private limited partnerships called ljm cayman lp , known as
ljml , and ljm 2 co - investment lp . enron said on oct . 24 that fastow
had been replaced as cfo and put on leave . the filing said he is
no longer with the company .
enron said it believes lynn and yaeger remain associated with
ljm 2 .
the sec began a formal investigation into some of enron ' s
partnerships last month , causing the stock price to plummet from
already low levels . shares of enron had fallen 89 percent this
year , as of the close of trading yesterday .
enron , short on cash , began merger talks with dynegy inc .
yesterday , it failed to reach an agreement with dynegy to sell
itself for about $ 8 billion in stock . chevrontexaco corp . , which
owns 27 percent of dynegy , is also involved in the talks . dynegy
is concerned credit rating companies may downgrade enron ' s debt ,
people familiar with the situation said .
enron shares fell 64 cents , or 7 . 1 percent , $ 8 . 41 . shares of
dynegy , which is also based in houston , rose $ 3 . 50 , or 11 percent ,
to $ 36 . 50 . chevrontexaco rose 31 cents to $ 87 . 59 .
restatement
enron restated its earnings for the past four years and the
first three quarters of 2001 to incorporate the first ljm
partnership , as well as chewco investments lp and joint energy
development investments lp , known as jedi .
enron calls them special purpose entities , or spes . they are
vehicles for getting access to capital or hedging risk that can be
moved off the books under some circumstances . enron established
more than 30 spes .
the company reported that enron and ` ` enron - related
entities ' ' participated in 24 ` ` business relationships ' ' in which
ljml or ljm 2 participated . they included the sale of asset such as
unused fiber optic cable , the purchase of debt or equity interests
in enron affiliates , and the sale by ljm 2 of a call and a put
option on some assets .
in addition to chewco and jedi , a wholly owned subsidiary of
lmjl that ` ` engaged in derivative transactions with enron to
permit enron to hedge market risks of an equity investment in
rhythms netconnections , inc . , ' ' which provides high - speed
networking to businesses .
enron said in the sec filing that those hedging transactions
should have been consolidated into its 1999 and 2000 results
because the ljml subsidiary was inadequately capitalized . enron
did not specify why transactions by chewco and jedi should have
been included on its balance sheet .
enron said it believes that michael j . kopper , a former
company employee , managed a chewco general partner and invested in
it . the company said it also believes that kopper was the
controlling partner of a limited partnership that ( through another
limited partnership ) in march 2000 purchased interests in
affiliated subsidiaries of ljml . ' '
the company said that it believes the limited partners in
that deal also included glisan , mordaunt , lynn and yaeger . an
` ` entity associated with ' ' fastow was also a limited partner ,
enron said .
enron said that its board approved fastow ' s initial
transaction with ljml and put controls in place that required the
review and approval of each transaction by the office of the
chairman , the chief accounting officer and the chief risk officer .
lay and skilling were for many years the only members of the
office of the chairman . after skilling ' s resignation in august ,
enron promoted greg whalley to president and chief operating
officer and mark frevert to vice chairman . both became members of
the office of the chairman .
lay , as chairman , also had the authority to require fastow to
resign from the partnerships at any time . the board also directed
that its audit and compliance committee conduct annual reviews of
transactions between enron and ljml and ljm 2 completed during the
previous year , the filing said .
dynegy rises on optimism it may get enron for bargain ( update 2 )
2001 - 11 - 08 16 : 28 ( new york )
dynegy rises on optimism it may get enron for bargain ( update 2 )
( updates with closing share prices . )
houston , nov . 8 ( bloomberg ) - - dynegy inc . shares rose
11 percent on speculation that the company may be able to buy
enron corp . , the biggest energy trader , at a bargain price .
dynegy said today it ' s in talks to buy enron . dynegy , a rival
houston - based energy trader , is considering an acquisition of
enron for stock valued at almost $ 8 billion , people familiar with
the situation said . with 850 million shares outstanding , enron has
a market value of about $ 7 . 7 billion .
enron was forced to consider a sale after its stock plunged
this year and its credit ratings were cut amid a securities and
exchange commission investigation into partnerships run by a
former executive . enron shares yesterday touched $ 7 a share , their
lowest level in more than a decade . a year ago , the stock traded
at more than $ 80 a share .
` ` if dynegy can get enron for $ 10 or $ 11 a share , it ' s a heck
of a good deal , ' ' said sanders morris harris analyst john olson ,
who owns enron shares . ` ` that ' s why the shares are up . ' '
dynegy rose $ 3 . 50 a share to $ 36 . 50 . enron fell 64 cents , or
7 . 1 percent , to $ 8 . 41 .
enron failed yesterday to reach an agreement with dynegy ,
which is concerned that credit - rating agencies may reduce enron ' s
debt to junk status , people familiar with the situation said .
enron today restated earnings for more than four years to include
losses from investment partnerships .
` ` the lack of ( enron ) investor confidence at this point makes
it likely that dynegy could buy enron and pay little or no
premium , ' ' said commerzbank securities analyst andre meade . dynegy
` ` is unlikely to pay significantly more than enron ' s current share
price if it does make a bid , ' ' he said .
an acquisition of enron would make dynegy the biggest energy
trader , eliminating its largest rival , analysts said . dynegy also
would get the leading energy manager for commercial and small -
industrial customers , and an internet energy - trading operation
many times larger than its own , analysts said .
` ` people are betting for or against a deal with enron , ' ' said
meade , who rates enron shares ` ` accumulate ' ' and doesn ' t own them .
newpower 3 rd - qtr loss narrows after adding customers ( update 4 )
2001 - 11 - 08 16 : 08 ( new york )
newpower 3 rd - qtr loss narrows after adding customers ( update 4 )
( updates with closing share price in sixth paragraph . updates
enron ' s share decline in fifth paragraph . )
purchase , new york , nov . 8 ( bloomberg ) - - newpower holdings
inc . , a venture formed by enron corp . to compete with traditional
gas and electric utilities , said its third - quarter loss narrowed
after cutting costs and adding customers .
the loss was $ 67 . 1 million , or $ 1 . 15 a share , compared with a
loss of $ 69 . 9 million , or $ 2 . 96 , a year earlier . revenue tripled
to $ 54 . 7 million from $ 18 . 2 million , the company said . newpower
was forecast to have a loss of $ 1 . 16 a share , the average estimate
of three analysts polled by thomson financial / first call .
newpower added 80 , 000 customers in the third quarter and
expects to have 840 , 000 to 860 , 000 customers by the end of the
year . the company , based in purchase , new york , reduced sales ,
general and administrative costs by 41 percent , primarily by
cutting systems - development and professional expenses .
the company is eliminating 40 jobs , or 22 percent of its
workforce , to cut costs , chief financial officer william jacobs
said on a conference call . newpower expects costs of $ 16 million
in the fourth quarter for severance and to end a business alliance
with aol time warner inc . , spokeswoman gael doar said .
enron , the largest energy trader , owns about 44 percent of
newpower . houston - based enron , whose shares have fallen 75 percent
since oct . 16 amid concern over affiliated partnerships run by its
former chief financial officer , said it had $ 544 million in losses
on investments including newpower in the third quarter .
shares of newpower rose 42 cents to $ 1 . 23 . the company first
sold shares to the public in october 2000 for $ 21 a share . the
offering increased the number of shares outstanding to about
58 million from 23 million .
fourth quarter
excluding costs for severance and to end the aol agreement ,
newpower expects a fourth - quarter loss of $ 41 million to
$ 46 million , or 65 cents to 73 cents a share , and a full - year loss
of $ 210 million to $ 215 million , or $ 3 . 55 to $ 3 . 63 .
the company was expected to lose 74 cents in the fourth
quarter , according to first call ' s average of three analysts '
estimates . the full - year ' s loss was expected to be $ 3 . 71 , the
average of four analysts ' estimates .
in 2002 , newpower expects to have a loss of $ 100 million to
$ 125 million , or $ 1 . 59 to $ 1 . 99 a share . the average estimate of
four analysts polled by first call was $ 2 . 26 .
newpower expects to be profitable in 2003 with 1 . 5 million
customers . the company is focusing more on small businesses . it
now has 25 , 000 small - business customers and expects to have more
than 35 , 000 by the end of the year .
international business machines corp . owns 1 . 5 million shares
of newpower , less than 5 percent of the company .
enron restates years of profits , in talks with dynegy ( update 4 )
2001 - 11 - 08 15 : 41 ( new york )
enron restates years of profits , in talks with dynegy ( update 4 )
( adds dynegy share price in sixth paragraph . )
houston , nov . 8 ( bloomberg ) - - enron corp . , which began
merger talks with dynegy inc . after its stock plunged , restated
earnings for more than four years to include losses from
investment partnerships arranged by senior executives .
the largest energy trader failed yesterday to reach an
agreement with dynegy to sell itself for about $ 8 billion in
stock . dynegy is concerned credit rating companies may downgrade
enron ' s debt , people familiar with the situation said . a reduction
to junk status would precipitate a cash crisis by requiring enron
to repay early $ 3 . 3 billion of bonds .
` ` restating earnings for the past five years is suggestive of
fraud , which in itself is justification for a downgrade , ' ' said
donald coxe , who manages 78 , 000 enron shares as part of the harris
insight equity fund . ` ` i ' d be surprised if they ' re not
downgraded . ' '
the decision by chairman and chief executive officer kenneth
lay to reduce earnings by $ 586 million since 1997 is part of
enron ' s efforts to regain confidence among investors stung by the
89 percent plunge in the stock this year and a securities and
exchange commission investigation into how the company accounted
for partnerships it sponsored .
enron fired treasurer ben glisan and kristina mourdant , a
lawyer for an enron division . the company ` ` now believes ' ' glisan ,
mourdant and two other employees no longer working for enron
bought interests in subsidiaries of a partnership run by former
chief financial officer andrew fastow .
dynegy ' s shares rose as much as 14 percent on speculation
that it may decide not to buy cash - strapped enron , or , if it did ,
wouldn ' t pay much of a premium .
` ` people are betting for or against a deal with enron , ' ' said
andre meade , an analyst with commerzbank ag who rates enron
` ` accumulate . ' ' dynegy ` ` is unlikely to pay significantly more
than enron ' s current share price if it does make a bid , ' ' he said .
shares decline
enron shares declined 40 cents to $ 8 . 65 after the company
determined it violated generally accepted accounting rules when it
failed to consolidate results for three so - called special purpose
entities , vehicles for getting access to capital or hedging risk
that can be moved off the books under some circumstances .
enron ousted fastow last month after revealing an accounting
error for transactions with a group of the partnerships resulted
in a $ 1 . 2 billion reduction in shareholder equity in the third
quarter . arthur andersen llp was enron ' s independent auditor .
the company today reduced 1997 net income by $ 96 million ,
1998 earnings by $ 113 million , 1999 results by $ 250 million , and
2000 earnings by $ 132 million . in 2001 , the changes resulted in an
increase to net income of $ 17 million in the first quarter and $ 5
million in the second quarter , and a reduction of $ 17 million for
the third quarter .
enron bonds pared gains after the earnings were restated , as
the threat of a credit downgrade dimmed a rally sparked by the
dynegy talks . enron ' s debt doubled in the past four years to $ 13
billion at the end of the third quarter . both standard & poor ' s
and moody ' s investors service are considering lowering their
ratings , which are two levels above junk .
` ` enron is running out of time and that ' s what ' s pushing them
to the bargaining table , ' ' said zach wagner , an analyst with
edward jones joint energy development investments , known as
jedi ; and a wholly owned subsidiary of ljml that ` ` engaged in
derivative transactions with enron to permit enron to hedge market
risks of an equity investment in rhythms netconnections inc . , ' '
which provides high - speed networking to businesses .
some companies that trade natural gas , electricity and other
commodities with enron may pull back if enron ' s finances
deteriorate to the point that it loses its investment - grade credit
rating , investors say .
atlanta - based mirant corp . , a top u . s . energy trader , has
moved most of its trades away from enron to other exchanges , such
as intercontinenal exchange , a venture it formed in march 2000
with other partners including bp plc and goldman , sachs & co . ,
mirant spokesman james peters said . ` ` we are still trading with
them , but on a very limited basis , ' ' said peters .
` ` dynegy has to act fast , ' ' said roger hamilton , a money
manager with john hancock advisers inc . , which sold its enron
shares in recent weeks . ` ` if enron can ' t get financing and its
bonds go to junk , they lose counterparties and their marvelous
business vanishes . ' '
dynegy would gain a wholesale energy business , the leading
energy manager for commercial and small - industrial customers , and
an internet energy trading operation many times larger than its
own , said ubs warburg llc analyst james yanello .
` ` if history is any guide , dynegy is stingy when it comes to
acquisitions , so i don ' t expect them to do anything stupid ' ' such
as overpaying for enron , said yanello . ` ` a deal could provide
dynegy with tremendous opportunity . ' ' he rates dynegy ` ` strong
buy ' ' and doesn ' t own shares of either company .
chevrontexaco corp . , which owns about 27 percent of dynegy ,
is considering adding $ 1 . 5 billion to the transaction to help
enron . it would provide another $ 1 billion when the purchase is
closed , the new york times and wall street journal reported .
breakup fee
the companies agreed on a breakup fee providing dynegy with
about $ 400 million if enron accepts a higher offer , people
familiar with the talks said .
dynegy ' s shares rose as much as $ 4 . 30 , or 13 percent , to
$ 37 . 30 . the stock had dropped $ 3 yesterday when news of the enron
talks was first reported .
dynegy spokesman steve stengel , enron spokesman mark palmer
and chevrontexaco spokesman fred gorell declined to comment .
enron plans to meet with j . p . morgan chase financial results to be restated
cbsmarketwatch . com
lisa sanders
new york ( cbs . mw ) - - enron ' s troubles deepened thursday as the energy merchant confirmed it ' s in merger talks with dynegy and announced , in a securities and exchange commission filing , that it fired two officers and is restating financial results for four years and two quarters .
both dynegy and enron confirmed thursday that they ' re in negotiations following a published report that an $ 8 billion deal was close to being finalized .
the new york times reported that dynegy ' s board approved a stock offer worth $ 10 a share for enron .
while confirming the talks , the companies released no further details . dynegy had no additional comment . an enron spokeswoman stonewalled reporters thursday by saying the company was requiring all questions to be submitted in writing . enron did not respond to the questions .
shares of enron ( ene ) initially rallied but closed at $ 8 . 41 , down 64 cents , or 7 . 1 percent , while dynegy ( dyn ) tacked on $ 3 . 50 to close at $ 36 . 50 .
chevrontexaco ( cvx ) , which owns 27 percent of dynegy , will contribute $ 2 . 5 billion to the deal , the times reported . chevrontexaco , which added 31 cents to close at $ 87 . 59 , declined to comment .
also thursday , enron in an sec filing said it has fired its treasurer , ben glisan , and the general counsel of an enron division , kristina mordaunt . earlier in the month , enron fired chief financial officer andy fastow for his role in limited partnerships that are now under investigation by the sec . enron restated its financial results for the years 1997 through 2000 and the first two quarters of 2001 . enron has lost most of its market value over the past month after the sec launched a probe of some transactions by company executives .
enron would bring huge debt
a merger of dynegy and enron would require the smaller company to take on the $ 12 . 8 billion in debt that ' s now on enron ' s books . the acquisition would likely lead to the sale of additional enron assets to pay down the debts , the times reported .
boards of both companies were meeting in houston on wednesday night , according to the paper .
" if you look at the balance sheets of dynegy and enron , ( a merger ) would be a tough deal , " jeff dietert of simmons & co . he noted that dynegy ( dyn ) has $ 3 billion worth of debt and a market capitalization of $ 11 . 7 billion .
" enron ' s debt load is likely to be too significant for dynegy to step up and swallow , " dietert said . for dynegy to make the deal , it would have to issue equity , he added .
it would make more sense for dynegy to consider buying some enron assets , dietert said . that would also help enron clean up its balance sheet .
chris ellinghaus of williams capital group said that chevrontexaco ' s involvement would make a dynegy - enron combination more realistic .
" we would view this transaction favorably assuming dynegy intends to dispose of enron ' s myriad of non - core businesses , " ellinghaus said . dynegy and enron together would dwarf other natural gas and power marketers in the u . s .
ellinghaus said the possibility that dynegy would buy enron is " staggering . "
" however , the failure of enron to procure an outside equity infusion has apparently severely limited enron ' s options , " he said . " we do not believe the potential demise of enron invalidates the merchant energy model or suggest deeper problems within the wholesale energy markets . "
gregory phelps , vice president and portfolio manager of john hancock ' s patriot group of closed - end income funds , said enron , even in its current state , retains some intrinsic value .
" enron still has an incredible number of contractual trading arrangements out there that can ' t be allowed to crumble and fall , " he added . " i think that a firm like dynegy with a firm like chevrontexaco as partner adds the credibility that enron needs . "
dynegy gets to buy " assets on the cheap " that it can tie into its own growth - oriented operations , he said .
phelps has never owned enron stock in his funds because he says it ' s too volatile and the company makes it too hard to understand how it generates revenue .
bush ties
enron ' s chairman and ceo kenneth lay stepped back into the ceo spot following the abrupt departure of jeffrey k . skilling , who left after just six months on the job for " personal reasons . " skilling was called to testify in washington , d . c . , this week , though the sec would not confirm whether it was before their agency .
in a conference call with investors wednesday , el paso energy chairman and chief executive william wise said his company would consider buying some of enron ' s assets , though he declined to specify which ones .
" we are an asset - oriented company , and we would look at their assets , " wise said . " rather than list any of them for you , you can make your own judgments . "
wednesday , a . g . edwards cut its rating on enron to " sell " from " hold , " saying the only reason to own the stock now would be to bet that some company would bid for enron or a large part of its wholesale trading operations .
azurix divestiture
also thursday , azurix corp . , an affiliate of enron , said it sold its azurix north america and azurix industrial to american water works for $ 141 . 5 million in cash and the assumption of $ 6 . 1 million of debt .
azurix is a water and wastewater company . in the third quarter , enron took a $ 1 billion charge , which included $ 287 million for asset impairments at azurix .
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