Bank fraud by an oil company president? Yes, indeed. The president – Christopher T. Carr – has pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud stemming from a scheme to defraud Citizens Bank of millions of dollars.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Carr was the president of F&S Oil Company Inc., which was in the business of providing heating oil to residential and commercial customers in the Waterbury, Conn., area. As primarily a seasonal business with fluctuating cash flow, with growing cash deposits when prepaid contracts were purchased by customers and declining cash flow as inventory was purchased and delivered, F&S Oil needed access to a banking line of credit to conduct its business on an ongoing basis. As a result, F&S Oil had a banking relationship with Citizens Bank, which included three outstanding lines of credit or loans secured by the assets, inventory, and receivables of F&S Oil. Citizens Bank would routinely extend funds to F&S Oil under the existing line of credit based, in part, on information provided by F&S Oil in periodic submissions of borrowing base certificates to Citizens Bank. The borrowing base certificates would itemize F&S Oil’s total gross accounts receivable and would include a listing of the aging of the receivables and a total fuel inventory.

In 2007, F&S Oil sought to construct a local biodiesel plant that, once completed, was projected to be able to produce heating oil with significantly better operating margins than that provided by simply purchasing heating oil from third parties. F&S Oil funded the construction primarily through its line of credit with Citizens Bank, as well as monies obtained by the prepayment of oil contracts by residential and commercial customers. During 2007 and early 2008, the biodiesel project ran into unanticipated construction and permitting problems that delayed its completion and significantly increased the cost of construction.

In pleading guilty, Carr admitted that, as the biodiesel plant’s construction costs mounted, he defrauded Citizens Bank into further extending monies under the line of credit by repeatedly falsifying the borrowing base certificates provided to Citizens Bank by overstating F&S Oil’s accounts receivable and inventory. As a result, the government contends that Carr caused losses of between $2.5 million and $7 million to the bank. At sentencing, Carr faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years and a fine of up to $9 million.


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Oil Company President Admits Defrauding Citizens Bank

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo tied the knot with pageant queen and TV reporter Candice Crawford on Saturday, in a Dallas wedding reportedly attended by 600 guests.

Among those in attendance, according to multiple sources, were singer Ashanti and former Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman, as well as Chace Crawford -- 'Gossip Girl' star and brother of the bride -- and Jerry Jones, the Cowboys' owner (who sought league approval to attend the event during the NFL lockout).

The couple got engaged in mid-December; they reportedly began dating in the summer of 2009. Romo ended his nearly two-year romance with Jessica Simpson in late July 2009. His other famous exes include Carrie Underwood and Sophia Bush.

The bride, 24, and groom, 31, followed the tradition of registering for gifts, according to E!, creating a wish list at Crate & Barrel and Macy's.

The wedding celebration took place at Arlington Hall, a historic mansion on the grounds of Dallas' Lee Park. Crawford recently told Dallas Cowboys blog Blue Star, "You dream about this as a little girl...You don't dream, though, that Badgley Mischka is going to do your bridesmaids' dresses, and you don't dream that people are going to give you the support that they have. So we're just really thankful...Getting married is an exciting, sacred thing."

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Hip-hop star Sean Kingston is in critical condition in a Miami Beach hospital after being injured in a bad jet skiing accident Sunday evening ... TMZ has confirmed.

According to Local10.com, the "Beautiful Girls" singer had a female passenger on board his watercraft when it crashed into a bridge around 6 PM local time.

We're told both Kingston and his passenger were rescued from the water by a good Samaritan.

The Miami Fire Dept. responded to the scene and both Kingston and his female passenger were transported to nearby Jackson Memorial Hospital. We're told Kingston's injuries are so severe, he is being treated in the trauma ward.

We're told ... at this moment, officials do not believe alcohol played a role in the crash.

Kingston's rep tells TMZ .... "Sean Kingston was in an accident today. No further details are available at the moment. He and his family thank everyone for the well-wishes."

Officials are investigating the cause of the crash.

Story developing ...

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Sean Kingston Badly Injured In Jet Ski Crash

When 39-year-old, Laura Vikmanis abandoned her husband. She felt sad, upset and frustrated. Her husband left her for a younger woman.

One time she came to, he can not dissolve in grief, she needs to get up and do something fun to fill his days. Understandably, the two daughters are teenagers.

The idea came from sister Laura. When they are both middle of watching a football game, Bengals Cincinnati. Her sister threw a proposal to Laura, why do not you become Cheerleader (cheerleaders) only.

Three years later, Laura realize the idea. At the age of 42 he became a cheerleader. Laura recorded the oldest cheerleader in the United States football league. "Until now I still can not believe," he said.

To be a cheerleader, she needs to fight hard. He was rejected at the first audition. "I felt intimidated, all age 20 years younger than me," said Laura.

The following year, she returned to audition. After practicing hard, he managed to beat hundreds of candidates whose age is much younger. He was elected to the Cincinati Bengals cheerleader.

Laura's family supports what he did. "At first they did not think, they just say, it is interesting to try," he said. "But once I am elected they cry."

New Line Cinema, the production house that made ​​the film The Hobbit, Sex and the City, interested in raising this story to the big screen. "It's an interesting story, he got up and found himself again," said the playwright, Emily Cook.

Best Cheerleader Old But Still Beautiful and energetic.

SAN FRANCISCO - A few days ago Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that it will launch the next generation Windows platform that is temporarily referred to as Windows 8 in 2012. But this is directly contradicted by the official Microsoft itself.

"There seems to be a false statement. Currently we are excited to welcome the latest generation of Windows 7 which will come in the next fiscal year," wrote Microsoft as reported by ZDNet, Sunday (05/29/2011).

"As for now, we have not issued a formal announcement related to the name and time of arrival of the latest generation Windows OS," he added.

In fact, in a statement, Ballmer also uses the name 'Windows 8 ' related to the operating system. "You will hear a lot about Windows 8, whether it is tablet, PC or other variations,"says Ballmer.

Previously also, Microsoft is reportedly preparing to bring the tablet version of the Windows operating system next week, in an event that has been prepared.

Unfortunately, Microsoft is reluctant to comment on such rumors. Especially after other newspapers said, the OS for the tablet will be holding a microprocessor Tegra.

Windows 8 Not Present in 2012

Google in Finland have a unique new way to cool at the same time environmentally friendly Centernya data. The giant search engine that will utilize sea water.

Hamina data center is being built is not going to use a chiller in the cooling system. Instead, water from the Baltic Sea was deliberately flushed to keep the servers stay cool.

Reported by Digital Trends and quoted on Sunday (29/05/2011), Google paid USD 52 million to the Summa paper mill which has a land area of ​​410 hectares. And this, Google's new data center was built.

In the footage showing how the data center Hamina, it appears that the data center is to collect cold water through a pipe diameter of 2 meters. The water flows through a channel that previously have been built by paper mills and water pumps use 20-year-old.

Water will run through the four systems and meet for a 'hot swap'. Water is a heat exchanger will cool the separate flow and leading to the data center.

"We minimize the impact on the environment in this region," said Google's senior director of data centers that handle construction, Joe Kava.

Reportedly, the overall construction of these structures cost up to USD 260 million, this has included the purchase of land. But Google's rate is very reasonable price considering the long term, the company can cut costs for cooling significantly.

In addition to utilizing sea water, data center Hamina also reportedly going to use wind power from the Wind Park is located not far from the data center.

Google's Data Center Cool Sea Water Use

Holiday weekend should get people back in shape for the move next week. But after the holiday, some people even experience 'jetlag' namely lackluster so sleepy and less productive on Monday.

Usually people experience jet lag after traveling by plane to a certain area with very different time zone. Jetlag on Mondays only term to describe someone who is sleepy at inappropriate times.

Sleep disorders expert from Edinburgh Sleep Centre, Dr Chris Idzikowski said one of the triggers 'jetlag' on Monday is too much sleep on the weekends. As a result, the biological clock or body clock to slow down and take time to adjust.

"It's kind of a mild form of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Biological clock is slowed down if it had worked hard all week, then suddenly slept on the weekends," said Dr Idzikowski as quoted by the Guardian, Monday (30/05/2011).

SAD itself is a mood disorder that often appear in some people every change of seasons, especially winter and summer. Appropriate season, SAD is characterized by symptoms of depression often called Summer Winter Blues or Blues.

Same as SAD, symptoms of sleepiness on Monday also be caused by changes in biological clock. If the SAD difference in the length of the trigger is the sun shining, sleepy on Monday more driven by changes in one's activity follows the pattern of sleep.

On weekends, most people choose to get up day than usual and even went to bed after activities such as bathing and light breakfast. More and more time devoted to sleep, body rhythms adjust more difficult when I had to go back to routine.

On the other hand, lack of rest over the holiday can also trigger a sense of tired when I had to back the move. This condition will worsen the stress that has accumulated over the previous week, and cause intolerable drowsiness.

Whatever the trigger, employees who are always in need of adaptation at the beginning of the week is considered very disturbing productivity. A manpower consultancy firm in the UK, Office Angels record losses due to falling asleep on Monday could reach Rp 1.6 trillion each year.

Some people do have a biological clock that is flexible, so seldom sleepy or have trouble with adaptation at the beginning of the week. But for those who are always problematic, in the following ways this can be done to reduce its impact.

1. Get used to repay the job
If it is difficult to overcome drowsiness every week, doing what can be done before the holiday weekend. To some extent this will reduce the burden on the beginning of the week so no problem if a little sleepy, because his rhythm became more lax.

2. Departing early on Monday
In a hurry at the beginning of the week will only increase the level of stress, especially if you have to get stuck traffic jams. By arriving early, the rhythm can be more loose and avoid congestion.

3. Ensure adequate rest at weekend
Enough rest is nothing less and not excessive. As much as possible not to alter sleep patterns, for example by not waking up too late and sleeping too late on weekends.

4. Be positive in the beginning of the week
Stress on Mondays often will take place throughout the week, because it is prevented by always thinking positive. Enjoy the work and do whatever it takes to not complain at all, because complaining will only increase the stress which in turn make more sleepy.

5. Short break
If the sleep was unbearable, rest to avoid mistakes or carelessness. Doing light activities such as going to the toilet or chat briefly with co-workers can reduce stress and drowsiness.

Drowsiness on Monday due to this'jetlag' Weekend

It’s not defeat that hurts most. The jealousy of victory causes more pain. Longing for what could have been is more poignant than loss.

Seeing the joy that you so craved, seeing their players dancing where United players could have done.

You lose games, it happens, but rarely after a loss do you see such an outpouring of joy from the opposition like at the end of a European Cup Final. What would we have been doing in the aftermath? What would I be singing now?

Yes it irritates when we get messages from supporters of our neighbours in blue and our foes from up the East Lancs Road but it all seems a bit of a blur. A blur lost in the clarity of knowing you’re not now waving a flag and screaming ‘obla di obla da Man United, European Champions’. They would be mistaken for thinking their quips and remarks were anything more than an irrelevant footnote.

I wasn’t there last night, my error for opting out of the Carling Cup games for the first time. It makes it slightly easier. In Rome to see their supporters in the flesh at close quarters was cutting. I didn’t want to massacre them en masse, I was simply incredibly jealous. Standing in the stadium and feeling the waves of joy coming straight across the pitch from their end was difficult. The long walk back into town was needed and then to rest on the Spanish Steps whilst watching their fans dance and sing and do all the things I so longed to do was the worst part. It’s the nice comments and gestures which are the worst, the Catalan equivalent of ‘chin up’.

A no doubt delicious slice of pizza tasted like razor edged cardboard and was swapped for a tepid can of continental beer to be ‘enjoyed’ whilst watching the festivities continue. To this day I don’t know why we sat there watching them for so long.

Oh it hurts but its only football isn’t it. On our way back to Manchester from Rome we found out at Schiphol Airport that my husband’s grandmother had passed away. We found out she was gravely ill after the game and had changed our flights to get back early, but obviously not early enough. On enquiring where we were in hospital she was told we’d followed United to Rome and remarked ‘oh that bloody football team’. The whole family supports United but at the end of the day it’s not life and death regardless of what Bill Shankly said and the level-headed amongst Liverpool supporters would agree.

So before we let our emotions run away and start a blame game. Before we look for fault where perhaps there is none. And before we turn on each other’s opinions like rabid wild-dogs, let’s realise that we were simply beaten by a better team.

Every supporter questioning tactics now would have been doing the same had we packed the midfield and still lost. Yes, we could have played better. Yes things may have been different but does anyone think a change here and there would have handed us victory?

We notice mistakes our own players make more, we analyse them. Imports from far or near seem clean in comparison without the baggage of ‘that bad performance’ or ‘that game they cost us’ or a poor run of form. When as a supporter we want a player bought these things are not concerns, their weaknesses at another club either unknown, ignored, or excused.

The incumbents struggle to compete with such observations. Absence makes the heart grow fonder even before the romance has begun. Yet there are some players who usually escape this handicap, our first football loves. Getting too metaphorical? Well it just shows how we mere human beings are always subject to the irrationality of emotions, in football as in life.

We lost. Let’s deal with it. If you can be there to cheer the boys through the streets of Manchester tomorrow then make sure you are. They’ve just won our nineteenth league title so let’s show them just how proud they make us.

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Actress Lucy Liu feel challenged while playing the character viper snake in the animated film 'Kung Fu Panda 2'. According to Lucy, was involved in the production of animated films is not as easy as imagined.

"I think that working on the animated series or movie (as the voice) is challenging because you do not get the opportunity to work with other actors," he said as quoted by Female First, on Friday (05/27/2011).

Lucy is famous for her role in 'Charlie's Angels' was calling her role very challenging and fun. The 43-year-old actress was also felt to have an attachment in any diperankannya character in the movie.

"When I watch my own movies, I am very attached to it, and really liked it. I can not imagine that others do not feel the same way," he said.

'Kung Fu Panda 2' was released in the United States on Thursday (05/26/2011) yesterday. The film cost U.S. $ 150 million, it displays the actor Jack Black as the voice of Panda character, Poo.

Lucy Liu Challenged We played Viper 'Kung Fu Panda 2'

Sir Paul McCartney took lead vocals on Steve Martin's track Best Love, telling Steve he has a 'terrible' voice.

Music icon Paul teamed up with Steve for the song, which appears on the latter's latest album Rare Bird Alert.

As much as Paul appreciated the track, which is about marriage, he didn't think too much of actor/musician Steve's vocals and decided he should take lead.

"Paul arrived [at the session] and said, 'You know, when you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble, but you weren't,'" laughed Steve in an interview with guardian.co.uk.

Steve enjoys singing, although his true talent lies in playing the banjo and piano. He is also a famously gifted comic, achieving success in stand-up and appearing in hits such as The Pink Panther movies. The star always tries to bring a little humour when he performs, although insists music is at the heart of every concert.

"I've never advertised that it's comedy," he added. "I'm sneaking in a bit more because I never want people to be disappointed. And I don't feel that they do. They leave in a really good mood, and informed, in some way."

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Paul McCartney slams Steve Martin's vocals