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Fortis Inc. (FTS.CA) Shares Cross Below 200 DMA
It was one of the top-performing sectors in 2012, with many companies from the group hitting new 52-week highs. And with this bullish trend still in play, these stocks are in position for more of the same in 2013.
I'm talking about big technology.
With investors searching for stability in 2012, big technology was especially hot this year. That pushed mega-cap technology companies such as International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) to new all-time highs. It also lifted the Nasdaq 100, an index of major technology companies, to a new all-time high. Take a look at the chart below…
Simply put, big technology has never been stronger.#-ad_banner-#
The industry is sitting on record earnings. In fact, earnings of big technology companies are well ahead of 12 years ago, when the Nasdaq crossed the 5,000 mark. After 12 long years of a bear market in technology, strong earnings growth has many former high-fliers trading at record low valuations. The list includes Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), delivering full-year earnings of $2.69 per share in 2011, an all-time high and 28% increase from the previous year. Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) is on pace to deliver earnings of $1.77 per share in 2013, an all-time high as well.
Beyond earnings, big technology also has pricing power. With global markets, suppliers and distribution networks, there are few companies more equipped to handle economic volatility with pricing power than firms from this group. Not to mention, the technology industry is also swimming in cash. For the time being, these big cash positions are being managed conservatively. But longer term, this extra cash will likely create opportunities for big technology to invest in growth, pay dividends and buy shares back.
A lot of big technology companies actually pay a dividend now, too. Take Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) for example, which isn't typically thought of as a dividend stock. The company now sports a dividend yield of almost 4.5%, more than twice the return of a 10-year Treasury note.
And with the outlook for 2013 being murky at best, with tons of landmines just like we've seen in the past few years, big technology looks well positioned to navigate this volatility. And this trend should set the foundation for another strong performance in 2013.
In fact, these four stocks could shine even brighter in 2013…
|1. Oracle
|Oracle has been on a tear in 2012, up 31% on the year and trading within 8% of the March 2011 all-time high. These gains are being driven by more earnings growth, with full-year 2013 earnings expected to be increase 9% to $2.55 per share. That has shares trading at a discount to its peers and the market. With a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of just 13, Oracle trades at a discount to its 10-year average P/E of 16 and its peers P/E of 15.
|2. Cisco Systems Inc.
|Cisco was a big-time high flyer from the 1990s. But now, 15 years later, the company looks more like a solid blue chip in technology with a very respectable dividend yield of nearly 3%. Hardware has been a tough segment for the past few years, with the desktop space becoming largely commoditized. But Cisco's position in higher-end networking gear protected it from some of the price erosion in desktop hardware. Cisco is another big technology company that looks undervalued, trading with a forward P/E of 11, a nice discount to its peer P/E average of 15. With investors on the hunt for blue chips with yield, Cisco could become a hot destination soon.
|3. eBay Inc.
|This is looking like a solid turnaround story. Online auction website eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) saw its margins fall a few years back as it fell out of favor with loyal buyers and sellers. But in response to eroding market share and margins, management implemented new initiatives to become more profitable and boost growth. Those efforts are now paying off. The company continues to see good results in its core business, including its commerce and payments systems divisions. Looking forward, analysts are projecting year-over-year earnings growth of 17% in 2013, calling for full-year earnings of $2.40 per share.
|4. Amazon.com
|Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is easily the priciest stock on the list, trading with a forward P/E ratio of 60. But that hasn't slowed shares down one bit this year, up a market-crushing 44%. Amazon is doing a lot of interesting things right now. It's chipping away at big-box retailers such as Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) with their incredible online presence. It's also attacking Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) with its e-reader Kindle. In addition, the company is becoming a major player in the cloud space as a provider of web and cloud services. When you add it all together, Amazon is a top player in a number of major tech segments. Analysts are calling for earnings of $1.80 per share in 2013, which creates a lofty valuation. But if 2013 looks anything like 2012, then this tech mega cap should be in good shape.
Risks to Consider: Technology has seen market-leading gains in the last year. If investor sentiment cools, profit taking could drive outflows from large tech stocks.
Action to Take –> Big technology has never looked stronger. The industry is sitting on record earnings, record margins and record cash. And with investors looking for more stability in a market clouded with uncertainty, big technology looks well positioned for more gains in 2013. The four companies mentioned here are particularly set for a strong year ahead.
P.S. — It's finally here… our Top 10 Stocks for 2013. Since we first began publishing this annual report in 2003, our picks have beaten the market seven out of the past nine years… including average annual gains of up to 38.7% in a single year. Go here to learn more.


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Facebook + Sims + Kudos = SimSocial
This is fun. As part of the hype up to Sims 3's release, Electronic Arts have done a facebook app inspired by the Sims. Simsocial is basically a turn-based single-character life-simulator, which seems terribly derived from Positech's lovely Kudos 2. And for good reason, as the about file reveals: EA commissioned Cliffski to make something based on Kudos 2 for it. It's similar but different – there's Sims 3 elements plugged in plus some Facebook social networking, minus Jamie McKelvie's lovely art and a load of Kudos' complexities. Either way, it's accessible, free and only a click away. Assuming you've a facebook account, anyway. And, no, I won't be your friend. I'm barely my friends' friend.

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Nikon Coolpix P6000 pushes the advanced compact envelope
Headlining Nikon's latest batch of pre-Photokina announcements, the manufacturer has taken the wraps off its latest flagship Coolpix compact, the Nikon Coolpix P6000.
Designed with serious shooters looking for serious exposure control and processing options in mind, the P6000 carries over several key features – including EXPEED processing, manual exposure modes, advanced flash control, metal construction, and seamless GPS integration – from Nikon's consumer and professional DSLR lines.
Contrary to some persistent rumors, what the P6000 didn't get was an APS-C sized sensor from one of its DSLR brethren. Instead, a 1/1.7-inch CCD unit providing 13.5 megapixels of effective resolution is utilized.
The lens is a 4x Nikkor optic covering a 35mm-equivalent range of 28-112mm. A pair of ED elements control chromatic aberrations, and Nikon's VR image stabilization technology compensates for longer exposures or shaky hands.
Composition is handled via either a 2.7-inch LCD or an optical viewfinder. Additionally, P6000 shooters have the full range of P/A/S/M manual exposure modes as well as standard auto/scene presets at their disposal. On the processing side, Nikon's Coolpix Picture Control System allows users to select from a list of processing mode presets, or manually fine-tune parameters like contrast and saturation.
While the P6000 provides raw shooting, some uncertainty remains at this point as to what the latest Coolpix's limitations may be in this regard. The P6000 utilizes the new NRW file format for raw images. While NRW shots can clearly be processed in-camera using a version of Nikon's Picture Control System that mimics that found in the company's DSLRs, Nikon's press materials on the P6000 note that the new raw format is "not compatible" with the manufacturer's Capture NX or Capture NX2 raw conversion software. We'll have to wait for full specs to be sure, but it seems as though the latest Coolpix does not also support the more common and powerful Nikon NEF raw format.
If serious shooters may find themselves slightly disappointed by Nikon's raw implementation with the P6000, the camera's integration with Nikon's Creative Lighting System of flashguns should redeem the camera somewhat. Using i-TTL metering, the P6000 can wirelessly control one group of compatible Nikon Speedlights (including the brand new SB-900); an on-camera hot shoe allows for further flash system expansion.
Although it doesn't pack a Wi-Fi radio, the P6000 remains one of the most "'net integrated" new releases so far this year. A wired ethernet port on the bottom of the P6000 allows for fast, computer-less direct image uploads to Nikon's "my Picturetown" file sharing system.
Geotaggers will also be happy to learn that the P6000 integrates an in-camera GPS system, allowing shooters to instantly add shot location information to image EXIF data. A correlating feature on myPicturetown will allow uploaded images to be sorted by location on a map.
From all indications, Nikon has further refined the DSLR-like experience available in its flagship Coolpix P camera. With a suggested price of $499.95, look for the P6000 to rival the likes of the similarly priced Panasonic LX3 when it hits store shelves in mid-September.
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Last Friday, the Governor's Abortion Expansion Act was defeated. The final days of the legislative session were chaotic and hard to understand, and there were many behind-the-scenes maneuvers going on. But in the end, the Assembly voted — to their shame — for more abortion in our state, but the Senate refused to go down that path.
It was a close call. The change of only one vote in the Senate would have resulted in an expansion of late-term abortions, and permission for non-doctors to do abortions, among other things. Don't ever let anyone tell you that elections don't matter.
There were several key lessons that were learned in the last few weeks of this long effort — remember, we have been working against this bill for over six years.
Lies Don't Work — the Truth Will Come Out.
For months, the proponents of the bill were telling blatant falsehoods about what it was all about. They claimed — inconsistently — that it was a "historic" measure that would ensure abortion rights, and also that it did nothing to change New York law. They argued that it would not permit non-doctors to do abortions — although in the end, during the legislative debate, they finally admitted that it would. And they said that it wouldn't increase late-term abortions — although that was the only possible result of including a broad "health of the mother" justification for destroying viable unborn children.
These falsehoods were in the very heart of the Governor's proposal, and they couldn't be glossed over or ignored. Eventually the strength of the truth carried the day, and the key Senators were persuaded to oppose the bill.
Abortion law in general is based on a great lie — that human life is disposable. This bill built lie upon lie, and in the end couldn't stand.
Prayer and Witness are Powerful
There were powerful and wealthy forces promoting the Governor's "Women's Equality Act" — of which the abortion plank played the central role. The Governor himself is a potent political figure, and he had all his administration to rely on to promote the bill. The press was, as usual, not with us. Abortion advocacy groups were spending time, money and energy to push for the expansion of abortion.
Just to give you an idea of what we were up against, in May there were press reports that groups allied with the Governor were committing over $1,000,000 to run advertisements in favor of the agenda. And that was only a small part of the money spent by abortion advocates.
On our side, we had a coalition of committed but cash-poor organizations. But we had some things that our adversaries did not — the power of prayer and public witness.
So we concentrated on using inventive means of social networking, YouTube advertising, local prayer rallies, a candlelight vigil in Albany, Holy Hours, Rosaries. In the last, critical week, hundreds of pro-lifers went to Albany to give public witness in the hallways of the Legislature, cheering on the lawmakers who were standing up for life.
We must never underestimate the power of prayer and public witness. In any uphill struggle, we can always count on the power of God, and the impact of people who are willing to stand up and make their faith known.
Thanks be to God for the strength and support that He gave to us, and for the grace that He shone into the hearts of the legislators who stood with us. May that grace also convert the hearts of those in the grips of the Culture of Death.
Remember, "If God is for us, who is against us?" (Romans 8:31)
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The month of December is a time to relax and regenerate. We have all been through so much this year, more than anyone could have expected or anticipated, there is now the need to totally chill out. A deep rest is required, along with holiday festivities and social camaraderie. The number 3 of December (1+2=3) represents the themes of fun, humor, self-nurturing, and ease. It is actually okay, by the numbers, to eat a little more, dance a little more, and take chunks of time out to daydream, socialize, and sleep in late on the weekends.
December is a deeply sentimental time, and we will all find ourselves sifting through the pages of a picture book of recent and long forgotten memories, all connected to the themes of love and relationships. What people have meant to us, and where they are in our lives (or not), will occupy a steady train of thought for us all. This is actually a healthy process, we all need to engage in this, as it will allow space for new things in the coming new year.
It is essential to create a hibernation zone for yourself, a deep and undisturbed time of reflection, rest, and sleep. The reason for this, in part, is to sort through two important themes of 2013, which are, "Where is the love?" and, "Why don't you love me back the way I love you?" Nearly everyone has been struggling with one or both of these primary aspects, and we now need to let go of what is no longer working in our inner emotional landscape, or it will kill our life force vitality. It's all about the energy, my friends, and if you somehow got lured into a house of cards full of smoke and mirrors, hit the floor running and head for the door.
Part of the reason we need relax and hibernate in December is because the calendar year of 2014 starts off like a firecracker swirling through a cyclone. The overall number for 2014 is a 7 (2+0+1+4=7), however I am going to focus on the Gift number for the year, which is a 5 (1+4=5). Number 5 represents change itself, and since it is by way of Significant Number 14, there is an element of revolution to these changes.
Revolution has often historically meant violence and destruction, however the higher octave of revolution is in our ability to perceive where we are trapped, and how to creatively and consciously make a change. The ultra higher octave of revolution is when we own our own power and stop blaming others for being in the way.
2014 will gift everyone with the opportunity to explore where we have been held captive in our lives, not realizing that the key to liberation is in our own pocket.
The saving grace and jewel of the year is in one of the advanced calculations, which is called the Asset. (Asset is: Gift of 5 + Year of 7 ==12). No matter how crazy things get (and they will), know that help is just a heartbeat away, if you allow yourself to think outside the box. Twelve is the number of tribes, and the changes around the corner through climate and weather events, as well as other social phenomenon, will cause the cosmic deck of cards to be wildly reshuffled. Everyone will be getting the chance to meet new and different types of people that they haven't experienced before. There is real opportunity here if you can just break free of all the conditioning surrounding who you think could be your friend.
In the 2003 Indie film, "Pieces of April," a young Gen-X girl named April decides to invite her conservative, suburban family to her NYC Lower East Side apartment (not pretty), for Thanksgiving dinner. She's never cooked before, and Thanksgiving morning discovers that the oven in her apartment doesn't work either. This sends her off on a mission to find someone in her apartment complex willing to let her cook the turkey in their oven, which of course is a lot to ask. Because she has spunk she keeps trying, even after the turkey has been temporarily held hostage, and after other peculiar yet believable events. When her family arrives, they take one look at where she lives and turn around to go eat out at a restaurant, leaving her behind. Because April has connected with nearly everyone in the apartment complex on her turkey-baking quest, she turns around and invites them all over for the holiday feast. This film has a lovely ending to it, and is well worth watching, as it perfectly illustrates part of the transformational dynamic of 2014. That dynamic is, first it looks like a disaster, it's totally impossible, and then it works out brilliantly, better than what you could have planned.
This wave of tribal energy is where the real solutions are to everything. Yes, everything. Your loneliness, isolation, and lack of inspired action is, in part, because of a missing connection to a kindred spirit that your Soul is longing to meet. 2014 holds this magic for us all, and I look forward to seeing you there. Big Hug, and Sat Nam.
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Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The New Mexico State baseball team fell 6-1 to Wake Forest in the series opener, Friday, March 1 in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Aggies fall to 3-7 on the year after losing five straight on the road. The Demon Deacons are now 8-3 after today's win.
Freshman Derek Umphres accounted for NM State's only run as he hammered a solo-shot over the leftfield wall in the top of the sixth. Starting pitcher Christopher Bradley was credited with the loss on the afternoon and falls to 0-3 after working 4.2 innings, striking out three batters and giving up five runs.
Relief pitcher Evan Mott finished the fifth inning before Timothy Torsney entered the game to work three innings. He struck out five batters and allowed only one run on two hits.
After Wake Forest posted three runs in the top of the first, NM State held the Deacons scoreless in the second, third and fourth before taking a 5-0 lead with two runs scored in the bottom of the fifth. Five of the eight batters that got on base in the fifth reached on either a walk or by being hit-by-pitch.
"This hasn't been about our pitching," head coach Rocky Ward said. "It is about the fact that it has been a struggle to get a hit. We are having trouble to get the hits going."
The Aggies had a chance to squeeze the Wake Forest lead in the top of the fourth as there were two runners aboard with no outs, but the Deacon pitcher forced a pop-up to left that was followed by a double-play.
NM State finished with one run on five hits and no errors as the Demon Deacons tallied six runs on nine hits with no errors.
The Aggies take on Wake Forest in game two, Saturday, March 2 at 2:00 p.m. (MT). Fans can listen to the action live in Las Cruces on KSNM AM 570 with Jeff Matthews giving the play-by-play.


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Hivern Discs' new forthcoming material sounds great! It's their 006 release and I think it's amazing. We already featured Pional here, and this time I would like to remark the amazing and trippy Pional's remix for Stainboy's Sparks.
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The 53rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards are coming up on April 15, 2018, and if you're wondering how the voting process for the ACM Awards works, The Boot has got you covered. From eligibility dates to membership guidelines, to who decides the winners (and losers) of the ACM Awards, it's all right here.
In 2018, the ACM has switched up both the eligibility period and voting timeline for the ACM Awards, to aid in implementing changes that will take effect for the 2019 ACM Awards. For the 2018 ACM Awards only, submission eligibility dates are Nov. 24, 2016-Dec. 31, 2017 -- a longer period of time than usual so that, in 2019, the new eligibility period of Jan. 1-Dec. 31 can be put in place.
Who Makes Up the Academy of Country Music?
Academy of Country Music members make their living in the country music industry. To be eligible for membership with the ACM, according to the ACM website, applicants must "derive a significant amount of their income directly from country music; however, admission to membership is subject to the complete discretion of the ACM Board of Directors." The all-star membership roster includes artists, songwriters, producers, radio personalities and many more.
Who Can Vote for the ACM Awards?
The ACM Awards are voted on by members of the Academy of Country Music. All professional members of the ACM are allowed to vote once for each category during each ballot round. Votes are non-retractable and unchangeable once submitted.
Who Is Eligible to Win at the ACM Awards?
Eligibility varies slightly from one ACM Awards category to another based on airplay, chart placement, number of albums sold and more criteria. Songs and / or artists must have met these criteria during the eligibility period noted above.
Previously, the ACM used the Billboard Country Airplay chart to determine eligibility for certain awards, but they now use Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, as this chart takes into consideration not only airplay, but also streaming and sales. The ACM will continue to use airplay metrics from Country Aircheck's Mediabase chart as well.
The ACM decided to shift its eligibility calendar to the regular calendar year for two reasons, according to ACM Vice President of Awards & Membership, Nick Di Fruscia: firstly, because voting systems (i.e., old-school mailed-in votes) are no longer as time-consuming as in the past, and secondly, because the shift will align better with artists' release cycles.
How Does the ACM Awards Voting Process Work?
ACM Awards voting involves three ballot rounds. In 2018, the first ballot round took place Jan. 22-31, the second round ran Feb. 12-21, and the final round will last March 7-14.
During the first round of ACM Awards voting, the ACM's professional membership submitted one nomination in each of the award's shows categories; specialized categories for songwriting, etc., are narrowed down by a panel of professionals in the category before moving on to the main voting process. In the categories voted on by ACM members, the top 20 vote-getters will go before a review committee to ensure they meet all eligibility criteria, which are detailed on the ACM website. Additionally, to advance to the next round, those top 20 vote-getters must also have achieved a minimum of 2 percent of the vote within their respective category.
In the second round, each voting ACM member could cast up to two votes in each category. The five nominees receiving the most votes in each category will be placed on the third ballot for the final round. If there are fewer than five eligible nominees in any given category, the ACM's board may elect to allow the category to proceed to the final round with fewer than five, but no fewer than three, nominees.
In the final round, each voting ACM member will cast only one vote in each category. The nominee receiving the most votes in each category will be deemed the winner. In the case of a tie, all winners will receive an award.
How Can I Find Out the Winners of the ACM Awards?
The winners of the 53rd annual ACM Awards will be announced during the 2018 ACM Awards ceremony, which will take place at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 15, 2018. The show will air live on CBS beginning at 8PM ET.


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The undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing curriculum in the Bronson School of Nursing at Western Michigan University integrates knowledge from liberal arts, sciences and the discipline of nursing. The program emphasizes the development of skills and knowledge, as well as the clinical judgment that distinguishes the practice of a professional nurse.
B.S.N. program outcomes
- Provide holistic, caring and culturally sensitive nursing care for communities, groups and individuals.
- Develop community health partnerships with clients and other health providers in order to shape health policy, promote health and prevent disease.
- Analyze and apply nursing research and scholarly inquiry to inform professional practice.
- Accept responsibility and accountability for behavior consistent with the profession's code of ethics and standards of professional practice.
- Employ critical thinking to guide professional practice.
- Utilize effective human and technological communication in professional practice in order to enhance the health and well-being of diverse individuals, families and communities.
After earning a B.S.N. degree, graduates will be eligible to take the National Council Licensure Examination, the licensing exam that allows one to practice as a registered nurse.
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs are tailored for two populations:
- The Pre-Licensure B.S.N. program is for students going to college for the first time or coming to the WMU Bronson School of Nursing from another academic major program, college or university.
- The R.N.-B.S.N. program is for students who have graduated from an associate or diploma program and will have their R.N. license no later than three months after entering the program.
Health informatics and information management program
Health informatics and information management is a multidisciplinary program designed to provide balanced education in the health sciences, health care informatics, information technology and management. HIIM prepares students to manage the acquisition, storage and retrieval of health information. Health informatics and information management majors are specialists in managing electronic medical records, design health information systems and lead value added activities for health administration.


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I don't know if we'll play him or not [in the weekend games in Tampa Bay]. He might be able to pinch hit. He might be able to play. We don't quite know. Any time you get an injection, we'll see how he wakes up and feels. ... [H]e'll either come down tomorrow, if he feels good. If not, he'll stay and meet us when we get back [to Fenway on Monday (an off-day)].John Lackey suffered a bruise on his left calf when he was hit by John Jaso's line drive. ... Before Friday's game, Josh Beckett (sprained right ankle) was riding an exercise bike and Clay Buchholz (stress fracture in his back) made 70 throws from 120 feet.
Francona, on Buchholz:
It's encouraging when he starts getting out that far and he still feels better and better. ... [Throwing off a mound] will be the biggest test, because that's where it hurt before. Tomorrow, we'll back off a little bit and then we'll start putting a program together for the next couple of weeks. ... If he feels well, him pitching in our season hasn't been ruled out.


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Let's get the praise out of the way: I liked what they did with the flashbacks. It's a neat trick to kill off a major character — a beloved major character — earlier in the season and then shove him back in front of an unsuspecting audience after they've made peace with his loss. Never did I like Hershel as much as I liked him last night; it was a clever way to make the viewer feel Rick's own grief. At first I was left wondering why, after the encounter with the rednecks, Rick would be flashing back to life at the prison rather than to the serenity of life before the zombie apocalypse with Lori and Carl. Then I remembered: No one liked Lori, Rick apparently included. He'd actually rather daydream about growing vegetables while surrounded by flesh-eating monsters than about his dearly departed wife. I also admired their guts in broaching the subject of rape in the redneck scene. There'd be a lot of that in a world as brutal as zombie Earth but the writers, for understandable reasons, have stayed away from it for fear of being accused of exploitation. (Offhand, Shane's attack on Lori a few seasons ago is the only instance that I can remember.) Making a child the intended victim was even bolder, although you knew the attempt would be thwarted somehow.
So much for that. I feel like a chump after having wondered last week whether, maybe, possibly, if we're lucky, Rick might be the major character who ends up dead in the season finale. In hindsight, that was foolish. Last night's episode made clear that this isn't a show about the zombie apocalypse or even about how people deal with the zombie apocalypse. It's a show about Rick, whom the writers love unapologetically no matter how bored the rest of us get with him. The theme of last night's ep was supposed to be Rick's psychological journey from reluctant leader to coldly ruthless survivor, a la Walter White. But the big set piece, in which poor Carl nearly gets the "Deliverance" treatment from some hooting redneck, didn't really bring that home. We were, I think, supposed to be horrified on some level at what Rick's become (again, a la Walter White), but the circumstances of that scene didn't lend themselves to that. Of course Rick would behave viciously, including tearing out a guy's jugular with his teeth, to save himself from being shot in the face. Of course he'd savagely murder a man who intended to rape his child. None of this signals a mental or moral break of any kind; it's all self-defense or defense of an innocent. If he'd had a gun in his hand and had declined to use it because he wanted to use his teeth on the redneck-in-chief, that would have meant something. As it is, what was he supposed to do?
The real significance of that scene to me was as a declaration by the writers that they will not, under any circumstances, kill Rick off. No matter how difficult the situation, no matter how implausible that anyone could survive it, Rick's coming out alive. Absorb this: You had a gang of battle-hardened men armed to the teeth ambush him, Michonne, and Carl, hold guns held to their temples, and actually begin a countdown to blowing Rick's brains out — and somehow Rick's entire crew emerged unscathed while the rednecks were disarmed and slaughtered. They might as well have had a bullet bounce off his chest. The final line in the train car at the end was almost a joke on his own invulnerability: Of course the Terminus gang messed with the wrong people — they messed with Rick from "The Walking Dead." He could kill all of them with his bare hands and still have enough left to knock Batman out, and probably will before next season's opener is over. It got so bad last night that at first I thought the snipers at Terminus were trying to kill Rick when they were shooting at him from the rooftops; it seemed perfectly logical on this show that a guy armed with a machine gun firing from 15 yards away somehow wouldn't be able to hit Our Hero despite using his best aim. I finally realized that they were shooting at him simply to make him run towards the train car (hence the heavy-handed metaphor about the rabbit trap earlier in the show), but that's where we are on this show now. It's a Rambo movie with Rick in the title role. I actually thought at one point last night, when he was burying the arms cache outside the walls of Terminus and looking a bit too long at some of his guns, that maybe he was thinking about suicide. That would have been a gut-wrenching but satisfying end to the character; no one could stop the show's hero except himself, once he'd been irretrievably shattered by the brutality of the world around him. I don't think there's been another show on American television that's had its main character commit suicide. This would have been pioneering. But no, nothing so interesting as that. Rick just wanted to protect his guns before another raid on another defended site.
As it turned out, no one of consequence was offed. (On the contrary, Hershel was brought back to life, so to speak.) I kept thinking it was coming — first during the redneck scene, then when the Terminus crew was herding Rick et al., into the train car, and then inside the train car itself. When they first went into the car, I thought the big reveal was going to be the rest of the gang — Glenn, Maggie, etc — dead and hanging from meat hooks, prepared to be turned into supper for the camp. Imagine that uppercut. Then, when someone began moving in the shadows, I thought maybe Glenn and the rest had turned into zombies and had been corraled by the Terminus people in the train car for whatever reason. That would have been a killer cliffhanger, Rick and Michonne forced to kill their now-dead friends in order to save themselves. Nope. Turns out Glenn and the gang are perfectly fine, just hanging out until Rick gets there and they hatch a master plan to somehow disarm and kill a few dozen heavily armed captors that'll definitely work. (Maybe a major character will die in next season's opener, a la the amazing head fake with Kate Mara's character in season two of "House of Cards.") It occurred to me that one satisfying ending that would have been true to the "Rick has changed" theme would have been to have Rick, Michonne, and Daryl kill a bunch of Terminus people on suspicion that something evil was going on — only to find out that the people there were sincere in wanting to help new arrivals find safety and sustenance. It would have been Rick's paranoia, fostered by endless brutality, that blew their chance at what would have been a welcoming community. But no, clearly there is something evil going on — cannibalism was implied with a brief shot of human skeletons — and now we're left to wonder for months. That's supposed to be a cliffhanger but it really isn't because Rick's already promised to kick ass and take names and, per the rules of the show, when Rick's in beast mode he's as irresistible as a tornado. It's not a cliffhanger, it's a Rickhanger. Meh.
I checked Twitter after the show expecting to find grumbles about how nothing was resolved, no one died, and we didn't find out a thing about the big mystery of Terminus after a season-long tease, but all it was was a bunch of "CAN'T EVEN CATCH MY BREATHE" [sic] tweets. The ratings are stratospheric. Nothing's going to change. Why would it?


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My family from London is still here so yesterday we went to Venice beach, the Santa Monica pier, and Third Street Promenade. It's been years since I've visited any of these places so it was fun seeing how things have changed.
I'm a little bummed I didn't take as many photos as I wanted to but sometimes I feel like a jerk when I bust out my DSLR. I know it's something I have to get over. It's not like I'll see any of these people again. An iPhone would make it so much easier though.
Can't wait 'til I get my legs tattooed. The lone calf piece looks so static.
MR. QUIGGLY! Lily could totally be Mrs. Quiggly.
And at the very end of the Santa Monica pier a guy used a flash mob to propose to his girlfriend (far right with the sunflowers). It was so cute! She said yes and everyone screamed, hollered, and clapped for the happy couple.
We ended the night with burgers at The Golden State Cafe. I think I still prefer Umami Burger but both places are good and worth checking out if you're in L.A. They have vegetarian options, too!
March 4, 2012 4:05 pm
i love how the tattoos look on the front of your legs! i know this can't be true, but i feel like i never see them on the front. so awesome.
March 4, 2012 6:52 pm
i feel like a dork with my camera too. i always feel like people are thinking 'oooh look at her. that's gonna be a good/stupid/pointless picture' because i think the same haha
March 4, 2012 7:29 pm
I'll bet there was some awesome people-watching there! I hear you on the camera conundrum. I always feel so conspicuous & sheepish & then kick myself later for not taking more shots.
March 19, 2012 9:06 am
Ah! Awesome…I love those flash mobs. 🙂
I'm going to Santa Monica in June, cannot waitttt!


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Again, in 1774, the Academy submitted the same subject, a third time, for the prize; and again Lagrange failed to detect a cause in gravitation.
Laplace" now took the matter in hand. He tried the effect of a non-instantaneous action of gravity, to no purpose But in 1787 he gave the true explanation. The principal effect of the sun on the moon's orbit is to diminish the earth's influence, thus lengthening the period to a new value generally taken as constant. But Laplace's calculations showed the new value to depend upon the excentricity of the earth's orbit, which, according to theory, has a periodical variation of enormous period, and has been continually diminishing for thousands of years. Thus the solar influence has been diminishing, and the moon's mean motion increased. Laplace computed the amount at Io" in one century, agreeing with observation. (Later on Adams showed that Laplace's calculation was wrong, and that the value he found was too large; so, part of the acceleration is now attributed by some astronomers to a lengthening of the day by tidal friction.)
Another contribution by Halley to the verification of Newton's law was made when he went to St. Helena to catalogue the southern stars. He measured the change in length of the sec
ond's pendulum in different latitudes due to the changes in gravity foretold by Newton. Furthermore, he discovered the long inequality of Jupiter and Saturn, whose period is 929 years. For an investigation of this also the Academy of Sciences offered their prize. This led Euler to write a valuable essay disclosing a new method of computing perturbations, called the instantaneous ellipse with variable elements. The method was much developed by Lagrange. But again it was Laplace who solved the problem of the inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn by the theory of gravitation, reducing the errors of the tables from 20' down to 12", thus abolishing the use of empirical corrections to the planetary tables, and providing another glorious triumph for the law of gravitation. As Laplace justly said: "These inequalities appeared formerly to be inexplicable by the law of gravitation —they now form one of its most striking proofs." Let us take one more discovery of Halley, furnishing directly a new triumph for the theory. He noticed that Newton ascribed parabolic orbits to the comets which he studied, so that they come from infinity, sweep round the sun, and go off to infinity for ever, after having been visible a few weeks or months. He collected all the reliable observations of comets he could find, to the number of twenty-four, and computed their parabolic orbits by the rules laid down by Newton. His object was to find out if any of them really travelled in elongated ellipses, practically undistinguishable, in the visible part of their paths, from parabolae, in which case they would be seen more than once. He found two old comets whose orbits, in shape and position, resembled the orbit of a comet observed by himself in 1682. Apian observed one in 1531; Kepler the other in 1607. The intervals between these appearances is seventyfive or seventy-six years. He then examined and found old records of similar appearance in 1456, 1380, and 1305. It is true, he noticed, that the intervals varied by a year and a half, and the inclination of the orbit to the ecliptic diminished with successive apparitions. But he knew from previous calculations that this might easily be due to planetary perturbations. Finally, he arrived at the conclusion that all of these comets were identical, travelling in an ellipse so elongated that the part where the comet was seen seemed to be part of a parabolic orbit. He then predicted its return at the end of 1758 or beginning of 1759, when he should be dead; but, as he said, "if it should return, according to our prediction, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." [Synopsis Astronomiae Cometica, 1749.] Once again Halley's suggestion became an inspiration for the mathematical astronomer. Clairaut, assisted by Lalande, found that Saturn would retard the comet Ioo days, Jupiter 518 days, and predicted its return to perihelion on April 13th, 1759. In his communication to the French Academy, he said that a comet travelling into such distant regions might be exposed to the influence of forces totally unknown, and "even of some planet too far removed from the sun to be ever perceived." The excitement of astronomers towards the end of 1758 became intense; and the honour of first catching sight of the traveller fell to an amateur in Saxony, George Palitsch, on Christmas Day, 1758. It reached perihelion on March 13th, 1759. This fact was a startling confirmation of the Newtonian theory, because it was a new kind of calculation of perturbations, and also it added a new member to the solar system, and gave a prospect of adding many more. When Halley's comet reappeared in 1835, Pontecoulant's computations for the date of perihelion passage were very exact, and afterwards * This sentence does not appear in the original he showed that, with more exact values of the masses of Jupiter and Saturn, his prediction was correct within two days, after an invisible voyage of seventy-five years!
Hind afterwards searched out many old appearances of this comet, going back to 1 I B.C., and most of these have been identified as being really Halley's comet by the calculations of Cowell and Cromellin' (of Greenwich Observatory), who have also predicted its next perihelion passage for April 8th to 16th, 19 Io, and have traced back its history still farther, to 240 B.C.
Already, in November, 1907, the Astronomer Royal was trying to catch it by the aid of photography.
9. Discovery of NEw PLANETs — HERscHEL, PIAzzi, ADAMS, AND LE VERRIER.
It would be very interesting, but quite impossible in these pages, to discuss all the exquisite researches of the mathematical astronomers, and to inspire a reverence for the names connected with these researches, which for two hundred years have been establishing the universality of Newton's law. The lunar and planetary theories, the beautiful theory of Jupiter's satellites, the figure of the earth, and the tides, were mathematically treated by Maclaurin, D'Alembert,


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Both chambers of the Illinois Legislature voted Wednesday to create a bipartisan committee to try to solve the state's worst-in-the-nation pension crisis, but some lawmakers expressed skepticism that the effort would be any more fruitful than previous unsuccessful attempts.
After the House and Senate approved the procedural steps Wednesday afternoon, the four leaders of the General Assembly announced their picks for the panel that will try to forge a compromise to fix the pension programs, which have saddled the state with $97 billion in debt.
Most of the members selected so far are legislators who have strongly supported one of two rival bills backed -- one backed by House Speaker Michael Madigan, and the other by Senate President John Cullerton.
But Gov. Pat Quinn keeps pushing forward. The Democratic governor has announced he will reconvene the Legislature on July 9, presumably to hear the results of the conference committee formed to find a solution.
"This is an emergency, and the taxpayers of Illinois are depending on the General Assembly to produce a real solution that erases our pension debt and supports economic growth," Quinn said in a prepared statement. "As I've repeatedly made clear, taxpayers cannot afford gridlock on this paramount issue."
Committee member Elaine Nekritz, a Northbrook Democrat who has been the pension point person in the House, agreed lawmakers should hasten a deal. But it's not easy to get the numbers necessary to back up a compromise plan, she said.
"He needs to take account of the fact how difficult it is to get numbers and have evidence and data to move ahead," Nekritz said. " ... I don't think the July date is real."
Cullerton said the committee could begin meeting as early as next week. He expected the committee would hold some public hearings to take testimony as part of the process.
The committee approach was announced after it became clear that lawmakers would not overcome their impasse this week, and after Madigan — determining he didn't have the votes in the Senate to pass his preferred legislation — warmed to the idea of a bipartisan committee.


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a little girl I was,
waiting all along for my time to be the grown up,
to enjoy, the lusts and lures of the world,
all by myself.
to let go of my intimidations,
and get in touch with my passions.
the wait stayed long,
beside me as a protective warrior.
time took its own time,
never finding a way to reach me.
I stood where I was
a little girl, I'm no more,
but my wait for my own time,
turned into a never ending one.
I wonder, how am I not a little girl?
where is my time to let go of my intimidations,
to enjoy the lure of my passions,
to learn to fly,
to fall and cry,
to fly and soar,
deep in the sky,
to see the world upside down,
and the world waiting for me!
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Peter Schiller of Baseball Reflections asked a handful of bloggers what they thought of interleague play and a few other things. Read the discussion here (note: an ungodly amount of widgets/advertising means the page may be slow to load).
Evan at Fire Brand interviewed Peter Gammons last week. ... Randy at Over the Monster chats with the Globe's Tony Massarotti. ... YFSF: Brian Cashman, CC Sabathia and the Larry David Stare Test.


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When Students Get Stumped—Changing Textbook Illustrations that Confound
RIT professor studies visual communication in biochemistry
Success or failure in chemistry class has a lot to do with how students "read" their textbook illustrations—from simple schematics to pictures packed with detail.
Scale and representation of chemistry images challenge students' visual-spatial skills. The complexity of biochemistry leads to textbook images that convey thousands of atoms on different scales that could confuse the inexperienced student.
"In order to be fluent in chemistry, you have to be able to move between these different representations," says Thomas Kim, associate professor of biochemistry at Rochester Institute of Technology and a member of the Science and Mathematics Education Research Collaborative, a group of RIT faculty who pursue discipline-based education research in physics, biology, chemistry, biochemistry and mathematics.
This academic year, Kim will study how undergraduate biochemistry students at Michigan State University glean information from simple illustrations and highly detailed representations of biochemical concepts. He will conduct his educational research at Michigan State's CREATE4STEM institute—the Collaborative Research for Educational Assessment and Teaching Environments for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The institute awarded Kim a fellowship and a $40,000 stipend.
"I want to see what the students get out of the two different kinds of images and whether or not they can make sense that this is a scaled-down picture and this is a detailed picture. My hypothesis is that students don't see the same thing when they look at two different levels of scale in a representation of the same idea."
The problem illustrates a disconnection between the expert who renders the drawing and the novice, the student, who overlooks the salient features.
"That's not a skill we explicitly teach," Kim says. "It's assumed that students will know how to look at a picture and makes sense of it. Or that they know how to draw the structure and they know what the structure means."
Kim says the issue is pervasive in higher education. "Faculty select textbooks based on the fact that everything looks fairly obvious to them. But they have overcome the hurdle of how to make sense of these representations."
His study seeks to gain an understanding of how students approach these complex images. His target population consists of approximately 300 biochemistry students at Michigan State. He will partner with Julie Libarkin, a professor of geology at Michigan State who has explored similar concepts pertaining to climate change graphs. Together they will use eye-tracking technology to identify where students look when they are presented with images that have different complexity levels based on scale. They are curious if students hone in on the germane and relevant portions of the image or if nonessential information in the picture distracts them. Interviews, transcripts and qualitative analysis will complement the investigation.
"The idea of reconstructing how we present illustrations is a new idea," Kim says. "So is the idea of examining them rigorously in an evidence-based manner to determine what we need to incorporate into scientific illustrations. Affording to the things that make sense and blocking out the things that don't is not a skill that students come in with. Students lack the skill because they are not experts yet.
"The outcome we're looking for is to hopefully redesign some of these representations to make them more explicit and more accessible to novices putting in the layers of representation we take for granted at the expert level."


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Moscow, Russia, 19/05/2012..Russian grandmaster and former World Blitz Chess Champion Alexander Grischuk plays a demo match against the German-built KUKA Monster chess robot. The match was a warm up before the main contest between KUKA Monster and Russia?s CHESSka robot for the title of Absolute World Robot Chess Champion. KUKA Monster easily beat the human Russian grandmaster, but was in turn comprehensively defeated by the Russian robot.
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ENVIRONMENT Agency workers have prevented a brook near Droitwich Spa being polluted by 100 litres of oil that was illegally dumped.
Staff received reports on Monday, January 14 of a fly-tipping incident on a disused spur road next to Elmbridge Brook on the outskirts of the town.
A spokesman from the Environment Agency said: "A number of 25 litre plastic drums had been illegally dumped and contained what is believed to be waste oil. All the drums were tipped over and the ground was covered in the substance."
Spilt oil can pollute streams, rivers and groundwater supplies. It is toxic and harmful to plants and animals, and can pollute public water supplies.
The Environment Agency employed an oil spill contractor to carry out an emergency clean up of the site to prevent the oil flowing in to the brook.
However, on returning the following morning, it was discovered that the perpetrators had returned and poured more oil on to the ground. Contractors and staff again worked to clean up the site.
"We are now trying to find out where the fly-tipped oil came from. We would like to appeal to people to call our 24hrIncident Hotline on 0800 807060 if they know anything about this," added the spokesman.
Garages and hauliers need to remember that they may be criminally liable if they pass waste oil to someone who later disposes of it illegally. They must check that they person they give it to is a registered waste carrier, and provide a waste transfer note.
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The four day Mumbai International Boat Show, held from 21-25 February, was a huge success with reported confirmed orders taken for over 300 boats. The dramatic growth in leisure spending fuelled by an economic boom has raised interest in leisure boating and sailing in particular. The challenge now is to rapidly create the infrastructure to support that interest. Although India has a strong marine heritage and is a leading ship building nation there are currently limited facilities for the recreational boater. Most of the facilities that exist for entry to sailing are managed by the Navy and historically have only been available to navy personnel. The meeting Chairman, Vice Admiral Sangram Singh Byce, has committed to change this and has announced plans to assist the development of the sport with a subsidy scheme for boat purchase. His vision is that sailing will become a sport for all and that India will have a participation programme to provide a strong base from which to develop.
COVENTRY met with the YAI Council during their meeting to discuss Connect to Sailing. Connect to Sailing is officially recognized by the YAI and ISAF will work with Joint Secretary General, Ajay NARANG to develop a three year plan that will be presented to the YAI Council at their next meeting in May 2007.
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Providing The Know-How
The task for Connect to Sailing is to help provide know-how for the development of the sport at grass roots level and in particular to help plan and implement a training programme. Working with local sailing providers, the development of commercial sailing schools will be a key part of this plan. There are a number of strong sailing countries in Asia and Connect to Sailing will help the YAI to establish strategic partnerships.
COVENTRY also made the key note address to the Marine Industry Conference held during the boat show. Commenting on his visit he said that he was excited by the opportunity for the development of sailing in India and impressed with the enthusiasm of all those that he had met, 'The YAI has recognized the dramatic changes taking place in India and will work with ISAF Connect to Sailing to realize their ambition of a growing sport with access to all.'
Connect to Sailing also visited the training ship Jawahar, the Mumbai headquarters of the Sea Cadet Corps, a youth organization headed by ISAF International Judge Rabi AHUJA. The organization, founded by AHUJA's father in 1938, is a non-government charitable youth organization that has provided thousands of young people with the opportunity to go sailing. There are currently over 6,000 cadets between the ages of 10 and 18 under training in 15 centres. The organization is totally inclusive being non-political, non-sectarian and with no distinction of caste, creed or social background. This visit and an interview with Rabi AHUJA will be featured in a separate Connect to Sailing article
About Connect To Sailing
Connect to Sailing is a global initiative led by ISAF to increase participation in sailing. It is based upon grass roots activities with a focus on youth. Connect to Sailing is supported by six Sailing Industry partners: the European Confederation of Nautical Industries, Performance Sailcraft Europe, Hyde Sails Ltd, Neilson Active Holidays Ltd, Tack Tick and Ron Holland Design.
For more on the initiative visit the ISAF Connect to Sailing microsite - www.sailing.org/connecttosailing or contact the Connect to Sailing team by CLICKING HERE.
For all the news on Connect to Sailing CLICK HERE.


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Kroboth driven crazy
Your cover story about the masked would-be murderer [February 16: "Horror in the hallway: Masked assailant faces sentencing"] is terrifying, both in the reality of what took place and in the realization that what caused Mr. Kroboth to lose his mind could happen to almost anyone who is faced with supporting a family after divorce.
How reasonable is it for a court to order a man to pay "more than 100 percent of his after-tax, take-home pay"? How many men (or women) would not be "extremely upset to the point of being obsessed with the court's determination," as the Commonwealth's Attorney puts it?
How could anyone expect this man to deal reasonably with such a ridiculous court order– in essence, an order that he could not possibly fulfill?
It is well known that extreme stress can send anyone over the edge– and yes, even to the point of murder. The court system is just as guilty, if not more so, for the trauma to Mrs. Kroboth, because it exerted such extreme and uncalled-for stress upon her husband by the issuance of such a ludicrous order. It is unjust and downright inhumane to put someone into this type of situation.
I do not know Mr. Kroboth, but I do know a lot of spouses who have tragically suffered due to dated divorce laws that create situations of extreme emotional distress. Our divorce laws need to be overhauled and made to work for both parties in a divorce. Perhaps this case will finally push legislators to do something about our marriage/divorce laws.
Marlene A. Condon


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The only thing this video is missing is Meek Mill as a muppet. I'm sure he would have refused that idea in the name of keeping it "real" though. There are a lot of muppets in it anyway, and that makes an infidelity song way more weird. Take a look for yourself after the jump.
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YA Scavenger Hunt Spring 2016!
February 11, 2016
Welcome to the 12th YA Scavenger Hunt!
Hello! I am Colleen Houck,
your hostess for this leg of the hunt.
About Me
My favorite holiday is Halloween.
I have eleven Koi fish.
My food therapy is a cheeseburger
I love the store Charming Charlie's to accessorize
Gardenias are one of my favorite things to smell
And I may or may not have an obsession with holiday decorations
You are currently hunting on TEAM GOLD.
Looking for my exclusive bonus content? You'll have to keep searching.
Somewhere on this blog hop, I've hidden three things; the title for book three in the REAWAKENED series, a steamy sneak peak from RECREATED and a screen shot from the upcoming RECREATED book trailer! Before you go looking for it, check out the amazing author I'm hosting.
But, first, a few rules.
DIRECTIONS: Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on TEAM GOLD, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!)
ENTRY FORM: Once you've added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.
RULES: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian's permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by SUNDAY, APRIL 3rd, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.
On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each participating YA author, you also get a secret number. Add up the numbers, and enter it for a chance to win a major prize–one lucky winner will receive at least one book from each author on my team in the hunt! But play fast. This contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online until noon PST on Sunday, April 3rd!
There are NINE contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the GOLD TEAM but there is also a RED TEAM, BLUE TEAM, ORANGE TEAM, PINK TEAM, PURPLE TEAM, TEAL TEAM, SILVER TEAM & GREEN TEAM! Check out each team for a chance to win nine different sets of signed books!
If you'd like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.
Now that all the technical stuff is out of the way, I'll introduce the author I am hosting on this hunt.
I am super excited to be hosting…
Pintip Dunn!
About Pintip: "When my first-grade teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I replied, "An author." Although I have pursued other interests over the years, this dream has never wavered.
I graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with an A.B. in English Literature and Language. I received my J.D. at Yale Law School, where I was an editor of the YALE LAW JOURNAL. I published an article in the YALE LAW JOURNAL, entitled, "How Judges Overrule: Speech Act Theory and the Doctrine of Stare Decisis," and received the Barry S. Kaplan Prize for best paper in Law and Literature."
Colleen here-True, and much less impressive, school story, I once was forced to eat a huge pile of fish sticks before being dismissed from the elementary school cafeteria, I swear it was like 46 fish sticks! As you'd expect, I felt sick to my stomach and threw up everywhere!"
The book Pintip is showcasing is book one in the FORGET TOMORROW series,
In case you're as curious about the story as I am, you're in luck!
"Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided…
by your future self.
It's Callie's seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she's eagerly awaiting her vision―a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they're meant to be. A world-class swimmer. A renowned scientist.
Or in Callie's case, a criminal.
In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in Limbo―a hellish prison for those destined to break the law. With the help of her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn't spoken to in five years, she escapes.
But on the run from her future, as well as the government, Callie sets in motion a chain of events that she hopes will change her fate. If not, she must figure out how to protect her sister from the biggest threat of all—Callie, herself."
Logan opened his eyes. He'd been lost in a memory from his future — THE memory, the one for which he'd been preparing for seventeen years — and it took him a moment to readjust to the present. His surroundings melted into his consciousness like one of those screenshots that slowly came into focus. He saw color first, wide swaths of grays and silvers, which unfurled into the ordinary objects of the memory room. Dark, shiny tiles. A lounge chair with hard cylindrical cushions. White sheets hung on the walls for privacy.
Privacy. Ha. Like that meant anything when there was a guard next door, peering into his head, seeing everything he saw, feeling everything he felt.
He ripped the metal helmet-like contraption from his head, fighting the urge to fling it across the room. He'd told his parents he didn't want this memory. All these visions had done for the people he loved was cause them terrible grief. He'd be just fine without his glimpse of tomorrow.
But his parents had insisted. They said it would arouse too much suspicion if he refused his memory. It might even clue in ComA, or the Committee of Agencies, to the existence of The Underground, the clandestine group of psychics working to escape the government's persecution. The last thing Logan wanted was to threaten the group that kept his brother safe.
So he came, and he received the memory from his future self.
It was exactly what he expected — and exactly not.
The female guard rushed in just as he was winding his arm up for the throw. "So, a gold star swimmer, huh?" she cooed, taking the metal contraption from his hand and running the pads of her fingers across his knuckles.
He swore to the Fates she hadn't been cooing a few minutes ago, before he received his memory.
"How does it feel knowing you're going to be someone so . . . important?" Her cool, cool fingers traveled up his arm, inch by crawly inch, like a spider he wanted to flick away.
Yep, she was definitely hitting on him, never mind the years separating them. Who knew that a gold star status could render a ten-year gap irrelevant?
"Fine," he said, trying to sound bored, even though his insides sizzled and popped. It wasn't the gold star status that made him mad. That's what his parents had been dreaming of ever since they tossed him into the swimming pool when he was three.
It was the part . . . after . . . that made him feel like a flame was being held to his toes. That part had him reliving memories of his childhood, memories he thought he had long since buried. (And, if he were being honest, that part also made something leap in the vicinity of his chest. But he wasn't about to confess that particular truth, not to anyone.)
"Oh, I like that attitude." The guard's spider fingers reached his bicep and wrapped around it. "The confidence.
The arrogance. Why, you must've known this was your destiny, didn't you?" She batted her tattooed eyelids at him. Was this suppose to be sexy? By Eden City's standards, she was perfectly attractive. But the change in her attitude made the bile rise in his throat.
Just once, he'd like a girl to be interested in him for him. Not for his swimming, not for the body that came along with his hours in the pool. But him. Logan Russell. His thoughts, his wants, his feelings.
The way she used to be interested in him. The girl whose name he hadn't allowed himself to speak for the last five years.
The one who had just appeared, unfathomably, in his future memory.
Callie Stone.
You can now add FORGET TOMORROW to your TBR list on Goodreads!
Are you as interested in this book as I am?
Here's how you can get your hands on it!
You can buy her book HERE!
Check out more on her Website, Twitter, or Facebook pages
and sign up for her Newsletter so you'll never miss out
on any important book news or updates.
And don't forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of signed books by me and many more! Just check out all these books on team gold,
To enter, you need to write down my favorite number, find all the other numbers on TEAM GOLD, add them up, and you'll have the secret code to enter for the grand prize!
Thank you so much for visiting my website! While you're here don't forget to enter the Rafflecopter bonus contest I am running exclusively during the YA Scavenger Hunt. Ten lucky winners will receive the first book in both my series, TIGER'S CURSE AND REAWAKENED! Good luck everyone!
Enter the rafflecopter below for a chance to win,
Ready to move on to the next link in the hunt? Then head on over to visit author Dhonielle Clayton's page.
This entry was posted in Featuring Authors, Uncategorized, YA Scavenger Hunt.
This is so exciting! What a cool giveaway! I'm a huge fan of your books, and I am gonna follow these scavenger links like crazy!
Thank you so much for hosting this Scavenger Hunt! I look forward to it every time. Looking forward to seeing where Lily and Kelsey go next!
I found out about the hunt through this blog 🙂
So excited!!!
Yay, loving this hunt!
I found out about it today, when some authors talked about it on twitter.
I"ve known about YASH for about 2 years…. I can't remember where I learned it from… this will inevitably bug me through out the rest of the hunt.
I found out about the scavenger hunt through Brenda Drake!
I just ordered Reawakened today and I can't wait to have you sign it at RT Convention!!
I found out about YASH from this blog about 3 years ago, maybe longer. 🙂
I learned about it from my best friend (soon to be sister in law) Katherine Adams!
I don't remember how I learned about it – it was a long time ago! Maybe from Beth Revis' blog.
I've been doing YASH for years now, and can't remember how I first discovered it!
I learned about YASH from author Gina Damico 😀
I learned about YASH from Colleen's YouTube intro video!
Someone I follow tweeted about it last year. I thought it was the coolest thing ever! Now I'm obsessed.
Madeline Dyer, a YA author on the red team, posted about YASH on twitter and I had to jump into the whole event. Thank you for the giveaway!
I learned about YASH from a participating author's blog – so glad I saw that post! 😀
This is my 4th time participating in YASH!!! I originally heard about it from other bloggers,
i learned about yash from following you on twitter
I'm not 100% sure but I think I learned about it on Twitter or Goodreads. I've been participating for a while now, if not since the beginning!
I've actually been participating in YASH for a while, so I don't quite remember how I first found out about it. But I probably saw an author whose blog I followed post about it and was quite intrigued 🙂
I'm loving YASH – there's so many new stories that I'm discovering! My TBR list is growing so fast.
I found out about YASH from Colleen Houck's Facebook page! So excited to participate in this scavenger hunt!! ^^
Funny thing is, I don't exactly remember how I discovered YASH! 🙂
I think it was while I was reading up on YA books on Goodread, or maybe Twitter?
I think I learned about YASH from the author Beth Revis. I love it!
Thank you for organizing the scavenger hunt! I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into this 🙂
I found out about the hunt on Twitter
I discovered YASH through Jennifer L. Armentrout's blog post a while back. I have been participating ever since. 🙂
I was invited to the hunt and have been doing it a couple times. I love it
I entered it last year. Before that I saw it in one of the participating author's newsletter
I learned about YASH from a goodrrads entry of yours a few years back- at least I'm pretty sure that's how I found out😂
I learned about it from Twitter! 🙂
I'm not sure where I first heard of it…probably from one of the blogs or authors that I follow.
I've been doing this for years and love it. I get email notifications from different authors plus Facebook.
I get newsletter and see it on Twitter.
my friend told me about it
My friend dragged me into YASH kicking and screaming. 🙂
I either learned about YASH from a tweet or I stumbled upon it on my own. I can't remember which though.
I learned about it via Colleen's blog.
I learned about YASH from a tweet that I happened to see a few years ago!
I started last year and have been obsessed since- i get so many new book recomendations from it!
Oh wow! I don't think I remember… Okay let's see. My first hunt was spring 2012. I'm pretty sure I found out from either Stacey Kade or Joy Preble. Maybe Stacey? I feel like I remember getting really excited when Mrs. Preble joined for the first time…
Thanks so much for the giveaway and for all the effort you put into YASH! I've been participating in the hunt for a few years now after seeing a post on TLC's blog and it is so much fun each time.
I found about YASH from an author newsletter, and I enjoyed it.
I received an email from YASH, because I am on their email list.
Thanks for creating YASH! I learned about it from one of the authors on a listserv I'm part of
I've been doing YASH for a couple of years now! I think I found out through twitter. 🙂
Thanks for starting the hunt! I actually discovered it through your website a few years ago and am so happy at how big it has gotten
I found out about the hunt from a post on Instagram from author Jennifer M. Eaton. Thanks for hosting and thanks for the extra giveaway. ❤
Thank you Awesome prizes. My first YASH entered was 2 years ago and I found out about it on Twitter
I learned about it from you. I remember the first YA Scavenger Hunt we had to 'hunt' words and not numbers. And it wasn't easy!
I stumbled across it on a blog one year. It's been so long I can't remember who's!
I do not remember how I found out about the hunt, but I look forward to spring and fall because of it!
Thanks for starting YASH. I found out about it after I happened upon the Tiger's Curse book when I was in dire need of a new book. I found out about it from your web site and started participating. It's a lot of fun!
Found out from Wendy Higgins on twitter! I adore this author so I had to check it out. This is such a fun idea!
I learned about the hunt from an email.
I learned about the most exciting scavenger hunt ever through Twitter! 🙂
i discovered YASH years ago thanks to a friend and since then i always took part even if i was never lucky to win anything so far
I discovered YASH though you and your awesome blog!
I found out about YASH through FB and Twitter
I learned about the YASH back in 2013, I think Tera Lynn Childs posted something about it and I clicked on the link and here I am. I've been participating ever since. I really love it! :3
through your FB page
Tera Lynn Childs's website
I was sent an email this morning tell me about the giveaway (: I am very grateful for this wonderful information.
I saw it on Wendy Higgins Facebook page 😀
oh man i don't even remember it's been a while…
It was on Twitter the first time I've heard of it. I think it was the time I started following you 🙂
Colleen I love and adore your books! They are amazing!!
I learned about the YASH through your website, Colleen. It's my first time participating and I'm so excited about it 🙂
Authors I adore and follow announced they were participating before, so then I signed up to receive emails from the YA Scavenger Hunt blog to be notified every time they do it!
I am a huge fan of your books! I got an email and checked it out and now I've been hunting all morning!
I learnt about YASH through some of the authors I follow! 🙂
This is such a cool giveaway! I've always wanted to read this series!
I found YASH through Alyx Harvey's facebook
I learned of the giveaway from the YASH newsletter!
one of the authors i was looking for was involved last year so i found yash on her page on facebook. it lead me to winning one of your books for free and i went and bought the others great series =)
I really can't remember how I found out about YASH. I've been a participate for about a year. I think I most likely discovered YASH through one of the authors on the teams.
I learned about YASH through your website and I have been doing this for a few years.
My co-blogger was VERY excited about the YASH and encouraged me to take part too! Thanks for this amazing giveaway!
through twitter
I think I learned about YASH on twitter, this is my second one as both and author and a hunter, and I really love it! Thanks so much for providing this great way to expose readers to talented authors and win awesome prizes!
I found out from Sara B. Larson's blog!
I learned about YASH the hard way…
Nope, just kidding. 😉 I think I first heard about it during its first or second round from a fellow book-blogger.
Thank you for this awesome extra giveaway! <3
I learned about the YASH through my email. I love doing these, thank you for your time and effort you put into putting this together.
I have been following your newsletter for a long time so the first time I came across YASH though you 🙂
i LOVE THESE SCAVENGER HUNTS! IVE BEEN PARTICIPATING FOR 4 YEARS!
Thanks for the great material and I've been dying to start your series for a while. Love how this hunt reminds me of books I've meant to read and new ones too! I've met several authors over the years and I forget who introduced me to the scavenger hunt, probably Paula Stokes, and I haven't gotten to participate as much as I'd like, so was thrilled to get to this time!
I was visiting your site for the monthly giveaway when I found out about this! I love your books, and I've found so many other amazing titles since then!
Are you from India Bhavneet?
Randomly on the internet, possibly on one of the authors facebook account 🙂
I feel like it was TA Mclaggen during the last round of YASH.
Hi Colleen first of all thank you very much for creating and organizing YASH! Thank you for making YASH international! Is your personal giveaway international too? I wanted to make sure before I enter.
I learned about it the first time by cheking out one of the contestant pages cause i love her!!
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂 I have been participating in YASH for so long now I can't even remember where I heard about it! I think it was probably twitter but I can't even be certain 😛
Thank you for hosting the YA Scavenger Hunt!
I found out about YASH through a blogger's website. I got so excited now I can't remember who.
I learned about it about 3 yrs ago from facebook
I can't remember how I found the hunt. I think I found it from an author I was following. Thanks for participating in the hunt!
I've been participating since the first one 🙂
I've been doing this since the first or second hunt; I saw it mentioned in a Facebook post and have been doing it ever since!
I found the hunt through this blog actually! 🙂
several of the authors i follow posted about it. 🙂 always love the hunt!
I actually learned about it from one of your newsletters and have been doing it ever since. Still haven't won, but it is exciting to discover new authors and add more books to my want to read list.
I've been doing YASH for 2 years now. I've found out about it in your FB account. 🙂
Thanks for creating YASH! This event is really exciting, and this is the third time I participate in this event. I think I know this event from fellow blogger and from twitter 🙂
I learned about it via twitter! This is the first time I've been able to participate and it's been so much fun!!!
I've been following the YASH since the very first event! I think I found out about it through Josephine Angelini's blog whose books I adore, though it could've been any other author!
My 2015 PitchWars mentor. =)
LOVE the #YASH!! Have been doing the author round-robin since it's inception. Colleen has been my FAV author since I first laid eyes on the cover of Tiger's Curse in 2011!!
Colleen . . . Thank you sooooo much of all the hard work done my you, your family and the army of authors who devote their time and effort to showcase their work to us eager bookish fan!! It is ALL muchly appreciated!!
Have been doing the #YASH author round-robin since it's inception. It's been LOVE-at-first-sight since I laid eyes on the cover of Tiger's Curse in 2011. Colleen is my FAV author and have been following her blog, FB, etc. for seems like for always.
Colleen . . . THANK YOU for all you do for your fans. We, as fans, appreciate ALL the effort and time that goes into putting on the #YASH twice a year.
THANK YOU to you, your family and ALL the authors for the time and effort they put in to showcase their work and the opportunity for you bookish fans to find new treasures to add to our TBR lists.
I first learned about the YASH when I visited the Tiger's Curse website Colleen Houck created. It was mentioned in a post she created, and I have been entering the contest ever since.
I first learned about YASH spring of 2015 from one of the authors (don't remember which one) I follow on Facebook.
I discovered YASH through Twitter. My goodreads profile name is Sophia…my profile pic is an anime pic (Detective Conan).
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Asus has launched its latest set top box in the form of the O!Play Mini Plus, an internet-enabled receiver that can play HD content from the web.
It offers access to Mediafly, DailyMotion, Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and internet radio stations.
Asus reckons it's also the first HD media player to support Acetrax, a highly popular on demand video service in Europe.
Streaming content from the internet should be a painless experience thanks to Wireless N and Gigabit Ethernet LAN support, while the Wi-Fi connection means you don't need to mess around with any wires to do it.
Hard to port
You can also use a USB hard drive, flash drive or an SD card to play stored videos and play content from PCs, smartphones or tablets.
It supports all the major video, audio and image formats, as well as offering USB 2.0 and HDMI ports.
Asus is staying all coy and shy about the O!Play Mini Plus's UK release date and pricing, but we'll keep you posted on both fronts.


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by Adam Marks on 11/30/2012 | ; Tags: tip a day, photos, file manager, Gemini File Manager, Oma Studios | 0 comments
The Photos app on the TouchPad is great for viewing all the photos on your device (and your synergy accounts), but it's not always the most efficient way to browse or find that one picture you may be looking for. If you have Gemini File Manager, by Oma Studios, installed on your device, you have another option that may just work for you.
Upon loading up the app, you just need to browse to the folder that you want to view and then either tap on the icon along the bottom of the screen or directly tap on any image in that folder. This will bring up a new interface with a large view of the pic on the left side of the screen and smaller images on the right that you can scroll through. Whenever you tap on a photo, you will see the name of the photo on the bottom-right of the screen, along with buttons on the bottom-left to go back to the file manager view or set the photo as your device's wallpaper.
While you don't have as many options as the Photo app in terms of sharing or printing the photo directly from the photo browsing view, you can go back to the file manager view and find the photo again (remember, you can identify the filename, as mentioned above) and the tap-and-hold on the photo to get a pop-up to rename or delete the photo, or get more info where you can email it from there
Gemini File Manager is available in the webOS App Catalog for $2.99 and is compatible with all webOS devices running webOS 3.0 or higher.