Energy stocks rose along with the market in its 500+ point rally yesterday, and Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE) did its part. It actually had a massive beta...
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Call them what you want - character actors, "That Guy(s)," scene stealers - I don't care. This is a regular feature where I spotlight one performer, whether they be longtime veterans like J.K. Simmons or Barry Corbin, or a fresher face just making their way up the stardom ranks. For previous FF-UNs, click here.Today's Familiar Face-Unknown Name:Mark Boone JuniorWhere You've Seen Him (high profile)
Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace Quaid turn one year old today, find out more about them:
Name: Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace Quaid
Birthday: 08 November 2008
Parents: Dennis and Kimberly Quaid
Siblings: Half-brother Jack Henry, 16
Facts about them:
• When the twins were 12 days old, they were given heparin 1,000 times the common dosage for infants [...]
I used to go to those fur-trading festivals you see every now and again during your vacations to rural “Real” America. They are called rendezvous and I used to even dress in costume and cook period appropriate foods and participate in all sorts of contests. My dad was really into all that, so that was [...]
I like the Pickens Plan. Nobody has a clue as to when Peak Natural Gas will occur but if the most thoroughly drilled continent on the planet is awash with natural gas then its fair to say we have a few gassy decades to go. I’m not sure if he is still running his TV [...]
New Jersey Nets center Josh Boone was held out of an exhibition game against New York on Monday night after experiencing a rapid heartbeat at practice last week.
Boone missed the Nets’ game at Boston on Sunday and had tests Monday, which were inconclusive. He is scheduled for further testing Wednesday.
THe UCONN grad hopes he can [...]
By Creaturo & AssociatesBecause I love to eat, the annual taste of Charleston event at Boone Hall Plantation is my one of my favorite Charleston events. Taste of Charleston has been named one of the “top 20 events in the southeast” by the Southeastern Tourism Society. And when asked visitors of Charleston name the food and the history as the main reasons they visit the area.This year the e
Boone Pickens’ BP Capital Funds is down. How far down is Boone Picken’s BP? About $1 billion! Boone Pickens BP hedge fund is down 30% through August
BP’s total losses this year: $1 billion, and $270 million of personal losses.
“It’s my toughest run in 10 years. We missed the turn in the market, there’s nothing fun [...]
If you are unfamiliar with T. Boone Pickens, he is an energy maverick and his fund returned 300% in 2005. He is a big advocate of Peak Oil Theory and runs an energy-centric hedge fund (BP Capital) based in Dallas, Texas. His energy stock fund has a compounded annual return of 37% over seven years. Although he typically holds numerous positions in oil, he is also big on alternative energy (except
Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens spoke before the National Press Club about his energy plan for America on Monday. Pickens who has created the “Pickens Plan” for alternative energy and cleaner energy answered questions about the current state of his plan. Pickens was asked if anything had changed since he told the New York Times a month earlier that he could never support a Democrat. Pick
(Note: Before reading this update, make sure you check out the preface to the series I'm doing on Hedge Fund 13F's here).Time to continue the Hedge Fund tracking series! If you've missed them, I've already covered Jeffrey Gendell's Tontine Partners here, Bret Barakett's Tremblant Capital here, Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital here, Stephen Mandel's Lone Pine Capital here, Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capit
TEXAS oilman T. Boone Pickens, a leading advocate for alternative energy sources, told a tale out of school yesterday about Rudy Giuliani at an energy summit in Las Vegas. While acting as an adviser to Giuliani’s failed presidential campaign, Pickens recalled, he warned the candidate not to make promises he couldn’t keep about weaning the [...]
According to Reuters and The New York Post, T. Boone Pickens' BP Capital hedge fund was down 35% in July. The fund manages $7 billion. Of course, that loss is...
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From Reuters:"The commodity half of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens's BP Capital hedge fund lost 35 percent of its value in July, the New York Post said, citing sources."Ouch. Sounds as if old T. Boone needs to spend a little bit less time campaigning for his PickensPlan, and a little more time running his hedge fund. (Okay, maybe that's a little harsh considering he is poised to make big $$$ should
I really think this guy has something good to contribute to the energy discussions. For and Okie, he's pretty intelligent. This guy also uses his money for educatin, as most of the OSU campus has his...
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There is a lot of intense rhetoric about gas prices from Republicans. As usual, they take a complex problem.... offer a one sentence solution.... and beat it to death.Are we really that naive?Michele Bachmann is "focused like a laser beam" on reducing the pump price. Maybe she needs fewer "laser beams" and more reality checks. MinnPost's Ron Way cites the real bottom line he
In a pretty classic case of putting the cart before the horse, Ron Harris, the Collin County judge who lost his re-election campaign in the 2006 GOP Primary and has since been serving as a consultant to T. Boone Pickens, has announced he will seek the District 8 seat in the Texas Senate presently held by Florence Shapiro (R-Plano).
Of course, Harris says, he’ll only seek the seat if Shapiro
OK, so he is a Republican. All for big business. He made his billions peddling oil. He plans to vote for BushMcCain. What is to like?He likes wind. He is willing to put up some money--a lot of it--to begin to move us to renewable energy. Check out the article about Pickens in today's USA Today. Visit the Pickens Plan.I have lived in Eastern Montana. There is nothing there, but the wind
Everyone wants to know if speculators are driving up oil prices. The answer from the speculators is "No, absolutely not! (wink, wink)" when they are asked. The...
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This is a classy, athletic black and white tobiano colt with great potential. He is by Stormin At Sundown, a double bred Sunny Boone,and out of Black Spanish Lady by Hank Domino. See his pedigree at www.allbreedpedigree.com/spanishsundown.
Joining Sammy Sosa in the “I am announcing my retirement even though most people thought I already had” club is three time All-Star Bret Boone. Bret, who had his best season with the Seattle Mariners in 2001 when he hit .331 with 37 homers and 141 runs batted in, also snagged four Gold Glove awards in [...]
CNBC just hosted oil magnate T. Boone Pickens this morning in a sit down interview with Becky Quick. Now that his $125 target on oil has been hit, he's making...
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T. Boone talks about auto's and alternative fuels. This is a great conversation (19 minutes).
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"I hear over and over again, ‘Mr. Pickens, America has changed. I’ll never be able to accomplish what you have.’ If that’s what you’re thinking, you are dead wrong. There’s more opportunity for sucess today than ever. America remains the greatest country in the world. There’s plenty of opportunity to go around."
"When you look at my record over the last half of the 1900s, a pattern of on-the-mark class emerges - sometimes my timing was off, but my intuition wasn’t. Whether the issue was the overcapitalization of the oil industry, shareholder rights, open trade policy with Japan, or a national energy policy, we did make sense, even if prevailing wisdom didn’t agree with us at the time.&q
Who doesn't like fresh picked strawberries? Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina has an annual event the kids and adults will just love. This year the Strawberry Festival starts April 19-20th. It is the 11th year for the Festival and this year there are more rides for the kids than ever before. There is a gigantic Ferris wheel, bounce houses, and a very special strawberry ride.
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Lil Jon is going into the Wine Businesses.And to quote Lil himself, “This is not no ghetto Boone’s Farm; this is some real wine.”(Quote of the week!!!)
“It kind of came out of nowhere,” Lil Jon tells AP moments ago about his new gig called Little Jonathan Winery.
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Imagine.....65,000 pounds of oysters. Two tractor-trailers full of oysters will roll onto the grounds at Boone Hall Plantation on Sunday, January 27, 2008 to kick off the 25th Annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival. This event has been named in the "top 20 events in the southeast" by the Southeastern Tourism Society.Held by the Greater Charleston Restaurant Association, the "Oyster Fest" gates open at
I’m sure it wasn’t actually a draw, still, the outcome of Medco’s decision to build it’s pharmaceutical distribution center in Boone County is a big win for both Boone County and the Indianapolis area. Medco will make it’s new home in AllPoints at Anson. The creation of employment in Anson fits right in with the [...]
Last week T. Boone Pickens offered to pay one million dollars to anyone who could disprove even a single claim from the Swift Boat Liars. I wish I had heard that as it sounds like easy money. Of course if you believe Pickens would actually make good on his offer there’s some email with business offers from some Nigerians which I’d like to forward on to you.
On Friday I posted John Kerry’s letter accepting this challenge. Pickens quickly reneged and has issued the following statement:
Dear Senator Kerry:
So glad to hear from you regarding the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth political ad campaign, and an offer I made public at an American Spectator dinner in Washington, D.C. last week. I am intrigued by your letter, and am certainly open to your challenge.
My concern at the Spectator Dinner was, and continues to be, that you and other political figures were and are maligning the Swift Boat Veterans, and I want to prevent this important part of American history from being
Nearly four years after being “swift boated,” former Democratic Presidential Nominee John Kerry has a public wager with Texas businessman T. Boone Pickens–one of the funders of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth about the group’s claims. Via KHOU:
Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas oilman’s offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
In a letter to T. Boone Pickens, the Massachusetts Democrat wrote: “While I am prepared to show they lied on allegation after allegation, you have generously offered to pay one million dollars for just one thing that can be proven false. I am prepared to prove the lie beyond any reasonable doubt.”
Kerry, a Navy veteran and former prosecutor, said he was willing to present his case directly to Pickens, a Dallas resident who provided $3 mill
There’s been increased mention of the Swift Boat Liars recently, especially with the report that Kerry has gathered further information to debunk their claims. The evidence against them was already overwhelming, making me wonder how much better Kerry’s current evidence is.
In the past the Swift Boat Liars and the Republicans who spread their lies acted with regard to the truth. Not only do they ignore all the evidence disputing the claims, but many continued to claim that Kerry hadn’t released his records even when they were posted on the internet for all to see. It also didn’t shut them up when the media reviewed the actual records and verified that they were no different from what was posted on line. AP now reports that Kerry is going on the offensive, taking up one of the backers of the Swift Boat Liars on their offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can dispute one of their claims. Kerry’s full letter on this offer has also been posted:
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Moody river, more deadly than the vainest knifeMoody river, your muddy water took my baby's lifeLast Saturday evenin' came to the old oak treeIt stands beside the river where you were to meet meOn the ground your glove I foundWith a note addressed to meIt read "Dear love, I've done you wrong""Now I must set you free""No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin""I just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend"I looked into the muddy water and what could I see?I saw a lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at meTears in his eyes and a prayer on his lipsAnd the glove of his lost love at his fingertips..
An investment from billionaire oil and gas tycoon T. Boone Pickens, sent shares of Interoil Corp. (IOC) up more than 20% on Thursday.A SEC filing showed Mr. Pickens has acquired 9.9% of Interoil's outstanding shares.His private investment firm BP Capital Management LP holds a 3.2% stake, as does its general partner TBP Invesments Management LLC.Mr. Pickens is considered one of America's top corporate raiders, reaping huge payoffs through takeover battles.Via: SeekingAlphaInteroil, BP Capital Management, IOC, energy stocks, TBP Invesments ManagementFound this post useful? Consider subscribing to The Energy Data Warehouse Feed/RSS. Advertise on The ENERGY DATA WAREHOUSEwww.BajaeNergyBLOG.com
Boone County school officials will meet with Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher's chief of staff this afternoon to discuss the district's financial viability following a new county property reassessment that could cost the district up to $5.2 million in state support.The hastily scheduled meeting in Frankfort is the latest development in the ongoing battle to get additional state funding for what has become - by far - the fastest-growing school district in the state.This week, that battle fast-forwarded when administrators got word that a state emergency reassessment of commercial property values in the county could cost the district $5.2 million in state funding."We live with the reality that for every two dollars we pay, only a dollar goes back to Boone County," said state Rep. Addia Wuchner Wednesday. "For the majority of the state's districts, they put in 75 cents and get a dollar back."After meeting with Boone school officials earlier this week, the Florence Republican arranged a mee
This from the Cincinnati Post.While it's good news for Boone County homeowners, a recent revaluation of commercial property could spell serious trouble for the county's school system.In fact, unless something changes, it will mean a $5 million budget shortfall for the Boone County Schools, officials say.They will be scrambling today to nail down the numbers and come up with options in preparation for a press conference on Thursday."We don't have a contingency fund of more than $5 million to make up for that particular deficit," Assistant Superintendent Randy Poe said.The problem began in October, after Boone County Property Valuation Administrator Ron Burch committed suicide, and state officials started an emergency reassessment of property.Their examination of all 2,400 commercial properties in Boone County resulted in an increase of $1.1 billion of property value over last year, a jump of more than 37 percent.The reassessment means that residential property owners will likely pay
Boone County School Superintendent Bryan Blavatt knows Frankfort's political landscape is as treacherous as a field full of holes.This isn't just any hole, though. Specifically, it's the one on Longbranch Road between Union and Burlington, where the district has finished excavating for a new elementary school but can do little more until more funding is secured for the project.The district, the fastest-growing in the state, has averaged 700 new students annually for about the past decade and is bracing this August for nearly 800 more. That will bring its total enrollment, now the third largest in the state, to nearly 18,000.Blavatt lobbied the legislature earlier this year for money from a state surplus to build new schools, but none was awarded.Since the district is also building a fourth high school to open in 2008 and has exhausted its bonding capacity, Blavatt had hoped the special session that began - and abruptly ended - Thursday in Frankfort might somehow have provided a wind
I'm not sure what's wrong with our dog but he kept throwing up. It happened yesterday afternoon. I didn't remember giving him anything that makes his stomach upset. I told my dear hubby about it and he will bring him to the vet today. Poor dog. He won't even eat his food :(
Lots and lots of people are very unhappy with NBA Commissioner David Stern over his handling of the Suns-Spurs mini-fight in which three players were suspended. It seems that professional baseball players are also a part of that group of unhappy campers.Aaron Boone in the Herald:“I’m livid. I went to bed in a bad mood and I woke up in a bad mood. I’d like to challenge either [NBA commissioner David Stern or league vice president Stu Jackson] to a fight for a blatant lack of human judgment.”Wow. We knew Boone was a big basketball fan (and has a hot wife). After all it was basketball he was playing when he blew out his knee, costing him an entire season with the Yankees. But we didn't know his passion for the Suns ran so deep.Of course, what all of this bravado really showed us is... Aaron Boone is still playing in the Major Leagues?(The Tip: SporTech Matter)
Republished Courtesy of African IndabaBoone and Crockett Club:Fair Chase and Conservation Since 1887By Jack Reneau, Director Big Game Records, Boone and Crockett ClubThe Mission of the Boone and Crockett ClubIt is the policy of the Boone and Crockett Club to promote the guardianship and provident management of big game and associated wildlife in North America and to maintain the highest standards of Fair Chase and sportsmanship in all aspects of big game hunting, in order that this resource of all the people may survive and prosper in its natural habitats. Consistent with this objective, the Club supports the use and enjoyment of our wildlife heritage to the fullest extent by this and future generations of mankind.Formation of the Boone and Crockett ClubTheodore Roosevelt, a dedicated sportsman and visionary, founded the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887. In 1883, Roosevelt, an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and explorer returned from his ranching days in North Dakota with a mission. He had
Superintendent: "You guys tell us to be patient, but it's been 16 years."Boone County Schools was given $1.2 million Tuesday by the state's School Facilities Construction Commission for operating costs of its $44 million high school, scheduled to open in August 2008 on Longbranch Road.Boone County is the third largest school district in the state and growing by 800 students a year. In 1998-99 there were 12,826 students. There are now nearly 18,000 with more enrolling daily.Roughly 4,500 students use portable classrooms each day in the district's 20 schools.But money from the state to help keep up with that growth hasn't been there.Blavatt said Boone is dead last of the 175 districts in state funding per pupil because of the way the funding formula is set up. He said Boone is three to eight schools behind what the state considers an appropriate number for the district's population.This from the Cincinnati Enquirer. More on recent growth in Boone County from the Cincinnati Post.
