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A few days ago, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson proudly announced that nearly 95 percent of those taking the high school exit exam passed, eclipsing last year's record.
He also pointed out that Latino and African-American minorities were closing the gap with Whites.
Californians should feel good that the rate of high school students who pass the exit exam has crept up in recent years.
But at the same time we need to remember that the boost reflects improvements only among the group of students hoping to graduate, not those who have already left.
In other words, we're dealing with the cream of the education crop.
California Department of Education data compiled by kidsdata.org suggests that we're a long way from achieving parity with respect to those who drop out of high school before getting anywhere near the exit exam.
Among white students, 14.1 dropped out during the four-year high school period. Only Asian Americans did better, with a dropout rate of 9.6 percent.
But the stories are considerably different for other ethnic groups. African Americans had a dropout rate of 36.8 percent this past year. Native Americans were at 30.0 percent, Latinos at 26.7 percent, and Pacific Islanders at 25.4 percent.
Simply put, Asian Americans notwithstanding, nonwhites are still about twice as likely to drop out of high school as Whites.
Perhaps even more significantly, the numbers haven't changed more than a fraction of a percent for any group when viewed against the results of 2006, five years ago.
As nonwhites become the largest part of the K-12 public education population (they now approach 60 percent), the importance of the disparities will only grow.
Until we reduce these these unacceptably high rates of attrition, any successes by those who graduate will pale in comparison, for the real costs to society and our economy come from those who leave.
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India's Gold Demand to be 19 Percent lower in 2012: WGC
Bangalore: The country's gold demand is expected to be almost 19 percent lower in 2012 compared with last year mainly due to subdued consumption during first two quarters, World Gold Council (WGC) said.
"The demand for gold in India is likely to be 800 tonnes by end of 2012 in comparison with 986 tonnes in 2011," said WGC, director – investment, Amresh Acharya.
"During the first two quarters of this year, the demand for gold was low because of jewellers strike due to custom duty, weak monsoon, among other factors," said Acharya.
Though the demand for gold has seen an upward movement during festival season this year, he said the demand for yellow metal was 600 tonnes during first three quarters of 2012, which was lower than 800 tonnes in corresponding period last year.
He further said the demand for gold in India surged sharply by 39 percent during 2006 till 2011. The gold demand rose to 986 tonnes in 2011 from 710 tonnes in 2006, he said.
India and China are contributing almost 50 percent of total gold consumption, he said.
"Emerging markets, central banks turning net buyers of gold and more and more people investing in gold due to economic crises are pushing up the gold demand," he said.
Asserting that India would always have sustainable long term demand for gold, he said the aggregate consumption of gold in India is expected to grow to $1.73 trillion by 2025 from $420 billion in 2006.
He said there is also supply constraint of gold.
About the impact on gold demand after RBI asking banks not to lend for purchase of gold, he said this directive is not going to affect the demand as banks have very small exposure towards gold.
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I just had this nice little item that was going to discuss how much damage got added by gear. (summary – +damage * [cast time or time of effect or channel duration / 3.5]). It's immaterial – I realized adding damage adds damage, basically at a dps rate of 1/3 what it 'adds'. If I want to add +100, I need to add +350 in gear.
Instead, I had the opportunity to run about half an hour of damage testing. That is, get an 'absolute' dps rate with my current gear and spec casting various singles and combos. Remember I'm currently heavily shadow-spec, so I expect(ed) the shadow stuff to significantly out-do the non-shadow. Oh – I excluded SW:P. As a DoT, it adds to the rest. (Shadowform gives me 15% more, or approximately 15 dps.)
First surprise. I have two channeling spells – Mind Flay and Starshards (Yes, I'm a Night Elf). I knew that the latter was more mana efficient. What I didn't know was that without gear starshards does more damage than Mind Flay. I'm wearing got a set of gloves that added roughly 10 DPS to shadow only. Mindflay gave me a whopping +5 dps while wearing them, in shadowform. Out of shadowform, well, you can guess the drill – there went 15% bonus damage for MF.
Second surprise. I could beat both MF and Starshards by using MB, Smite, Smite, Smite, and repeat. I was getting a lot of interrupts on all these, so they're 'real world' values. But it led me to re-evaluate my set – yes, I'm getting ready to respec one more time.
1) All shadow gets a +35% from my current spec.
- SW:P is 69 dps base, 93 with shadow spec (97 all the way).
- MB is 485 dps base, 655 with shadow spec. Note the cooldown of 8 seconds, 7.5 with talents.
- MF is 176 dps base, 237.6 with talents (actually, 246 all the way).
2) Holy and Disc spells:
- Holy Fire is 133.4 dps, 163 with talents.
- Smite is 231.2 dps, 303.45 with talents.
- Starshards is 188 dps, and there isn't a darn thing we can do about it.
Let's look at the nominal shadow norm with SW:P running in the background. For 'best', this is MB, and 8 seconds of MF (interrupting it to cast the next MB). That's 9.5 seconds. 1.5 at 655, 7.5 at 246, and 9 at 97 (done due to the 'every three second' nature of SW:P) is 3700 damage (nominal). That's about 389.5 dps, sustained, before gear.
Let's take MB, S, S, S, S (because with talent we can put four in there), again with SW:P (but without talent) running in the background. 1.5 seconds at 485, 8 seconds at 303.45, and 9 seconds at 69 dps is 3776 for 397.5 dps sustained, before gear.
That's 8 dps more. Can we improve it? Let's try this. Darkness and Shadow Weaving always gives 10 and nominally 20% to shadow (which is 10% of what's in the full shadow spec calculations above). Let's use the 10% for shadow, plus the speed-up talent for smite, and see what happens.
- SW:P at 75 dps for 9 seconds is 675, overlapping with:
- a single MB taking 1.5 second doing 800, plus
- four Smites over 8 seconds doing 2312.
That's 3902.6 over 9.5 seconds doing 410.8 – call it 411 – dps. 13 more dps over the mixed class off shadow talents. 21 more than the "pure shadow" with shadowform. This is… enlightening.
The talent tree that'll do this is here. Thing is it's a glass cannon and does nothing else well. But it's quite literally the "best" for dps.


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So in the mass-grave sites where we find many skeletons, dozens—and each consisting of around 200 bones and 32 teeth—the complexity of the work and the fastidiousness of the technique with which it has to be performed is multiplied by many times because we have to find each bone and get it to its proper skeleton. We have to trace out the skeletons, and I was very pleasantly surprised by the Argentine team. They came up with an idea that I think is unique: using colored tape as you see in the slide. As you see—using colored tape, little tags of colored tape for each of the commingled skeletons, red for this skeleton, blue for this one, green, yellow, and so forth, and that way, you can keep the skeletons as you're exposing each one, uh…to their mark so that when they are taken up, we avoid the problems of commingling.
Once the bones arrive in the laboratory…they have to be very carefully…arranged. We arrange them in what we call "anatomical order" just as if the person was lying on the table, with his arm—or—with his or her arms extended. And then they have to be carefully cleaned, sometimes with just gentle running water to get rid of any adherent soil that might interfere with their inspection of the bones. And once that's done…then we begin our more detailed examination of the bones which takes—um—in a lot of careful measurements of the bones. Uh, for example, the bones of the arms and legs, we measure their length in millimeters and we have formulas that enable us to calculate the person's stature within a certain range of error. And other features on the bone tell us something about the person's age, gender and we also look—each bone—look at each bone very carefully, sometimes, often with a hand lens, to see if there are signs of old diseases and injuries that might be reflected in that person's medical history. And if we can find the medical records very often this helps in establishing that person's identification. And—um—so…and then finally, any evidence of trauma—gunshot wounds…in El Salvador and Guatemala very often we find machete cuts—uh—any evidence that can tell us something about how that person died…the final chapter—in their—what I call the "osteobiography". The "osteobiography" meaning the life history that's developed from the bones, from the evidence in the bone and it's usually pretty brief, but sometimes it can be very informative.


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Gov. Brown has refused to detail the cuts he might enact if the legislature and/or voters reject the extension of temporary tax increases that were part of his plan.
But the legislature's non-partisan analyst just did. In response to a request from a Democratic legislator, the Legislative Analyst's Office has detailed $13.5 billion in budget cuts that might result.
The highlight -- or lowlight, depending on your perspective -- would be $5.2 billion in cuts to schools and community college. This would eliminate class-size reduction in the early grades and require children to be 5 before starting kindergarten. Higher education would take a $1.1 billion cut -- on top of the $1 billion of cuts Brown is already proposing. The courts and criminal justice would be hard hit too.
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The idea of gluten free has been around for a long time now but I'm still quite not 100% sure what gluten free really means. Is it just no flour? What else has gluten in it? So when an invite to attend dinner at Wild, a gluten free restaurant in Williamsburg, I decided to go. I was curious about gluten free and was hoping to learn something.
We were treated to two gluten free pizzas, the Wild Mushroom Truffle pizza with ricotta and arugula and the Wild White pizza with mozzarella, ricotta, truffle oil and cracked pepper. There were also the house salad with beets, tomatoes, artichokes, and goat cheese, pan seared salmon, wild chicken parm, gluten free penne pomodoro, and couple bites of desserts.
I love that there is a gluten free centric restaurant for people that are allergic to gluten, a place to dine out. But this place isn't for me. I felt bad as I was eating the pizza because the entire time I was thinking about the slice of non-gluten free pizza I was going to eat when I get home. Am I bad? The flavors were there on the topping, I especially liked the white pie but I just love a good pizza crust way too much to give it up. There were hits and misses for the rest of the menu. The penne was over cooked but nice sauce and the chicken parm was pretty good.
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Based on the way I read how they've worded things, it's the "Insane Viking Pack" that is exclusive to preorders and possibly not the in-game character. The video says Tryggvi is an "exclusive character," but I'm not sure that actually means he's exclusive to preorders. Maybe it does, but I hope that he will be available as DLC for those who don't preorder.
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This little one was my favorite – the image is surprisingly small compared to other Magnolia's. It worked well with my Spellbinder oval dies. I got to get myself the small petite scallops set. I always have to double mat my images because I miss this set. Cant believe how many sets I have, which I never use anymore but such a basic set I miss in my collection *insert rolled eyes*.
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Baseball team offers Manti Te'o Girlfriend Bobblehead Night
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Too soon?
The Florence Freedom is planning to give the first 1,000 fans at their May 23 home game Lennay Kekua bobbleheads.
Lennay Kekua is the recently discovered fake girlfriend of Manti Te'o. The Florence Freedom is an Independent baseball team from Florence, KY. Somehow, the Freedom have managed to make the weirdest story in recent memory just a little bit more absurd.
From the Freedom's press release:
"This will be the best kind of bobblehead a fan could get," Freedom General Manager Josh Anderson said. "Because now fans can make the bobblehead out to be whatever they want it to be."
Yes Freedom fans, the boxes will be empty.
But wait, there's more!
To add to the imaginary fun, section 115 will be blocked and reserved only for fans to sit with their imaginary friends, girlfriends/boyfriends or spouses.
There will also be a pretend kiss cam.
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For their first visit to Kentucky, the three gents of The Real Nasty made quick friends in Louisville when they played at Uncle Slayton's Wednesday evening - after a quick dinner at Molly Malone's in the Highlands. The Real Nasty is on tour from Oakland, California in support of their third release, Dirty Dollars.
For this tour, The Real Nasty brought on a new drummer, Brian Huston with his full kit. With a new drummer, a new album, and a tour the cues could get a little off, yet the guys communicated well on stage and unless you looked for it, the cues were subtle. Jacob Groopman (guitar) used his guitar neck to help Brian with the changes while Ryan (bass/vocals) made eye contact to note any changes.
The hour long set opened with the title single, "Dirty Dollars", that talks about the reasons for playing music, "I don't play for no damn whiskey, Lord knows, I ain't know fool. I don't need your dirty dollars, I am just playing to get to you." "Dirty Dollars" includes sharp descending scales on the stand up bass with accompanying guitar.
Dirty Dollars is focused on rock n' roll sounds and with that, the songs are upbeat with prominent guitar in all, yet Ryan's bass is as strong or weak as it needs to be to make the song. The Real Nasty filled Uncle Slayton's with sounds from all three releases including "No Big Deal" from the 2010 Strangers and Friends, a rock song with a punk music base. The Real Nasty is versatile, changing from rock to country to blues, jazz, and funk. The concept may sound weird, but the music sounds great.
The single "Hey Pretty Baby" gives more of a hard rock sound, but brings an obvious blues influence. Mid-set, Ryan Lukas switched to his Fender bass for "Heartbreaker Blues", which is heavily influenced with blues and jazz. The Fender bass remained for "Whiskey Breakfast" that slowed the pace of the music with a funk feel and crisp percussion. The lyrics were spoken and clear about, "the sweet stink of liquor on my tongue"; a funny song. The Real Nasty closed their set with "Like Yo Body", a harder rock with strong percussion, on point guitar, and Ryan's voice doing it justice.
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'It really is something special.'
'Very compact for a 5.5-incher. '
'Great feel.'
'Stunning design.'
'But does all that on-board tech translate to a great smartphone camera' Of course it does. '
'Samsung's Galaxy Note series has never been for everyone, but the Note 5 just might change some minds.'
'With its slick, Galaxy S6-like body and brand-new S Pen, the Galaxy Note 5 is Samsung's best Note yet.'
'And it succeeded: the Note 5 is probably the most consumer-friendly Note ever. '
'If you want a phone that looks the business but you don't need all of the bells and whistles, the Samsung Galaxy A5 looks like a great choice at half the price of a flagship.'
'If you're looking for a slender, attractive phone that has the main necessary feature set on board then the Galaxy A5 does a grand job.'
'The A5 is a good phone for multimedia playback thanks to its vibrant display. '
'The new A5 feels more responsive, and overall performance is greatly improved - something that was mirrored in our benchmarks.'
'The S6's lead over other Android-powered devices is really significant, and I see this as a potential problem for Qualcomm and its customers.'
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'The Samsung Galaxy S6 is the best Samsung smartphone ever made. '
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'This is the best phone you can buy right now. '
'It's the best looking, most radical phone of the year. '
'This phone is gorgeous, powerful and has no major flaws.'
'Rugged, water-resistant build.'
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'massive 3,500mAh battery'
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'The Galaxy S5 was already great, but the Note 4 finds a way to push things even further.'
'It's powerful, the screen is gorgeous, there's a great camera and the battery life is massive.'
'Samsung can make truly great, uncompromisingly fantastic phones.'
'The earpiece gets loud enough to hear over noisy streets, with good depth and natural tones, even at maximum volume. '
'With a fingerprint reader and a slim 5.9mm frame, this phone looks and feels like it belongs up there with the best.'
'The Samsung Galaxy A8 is a great mid-range phone, no doubt about that. '
'The three keys are thin and have a rather flimsy press.'
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Heartbeats in the Muck: A Dramatic Look at the History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor (rev. ed.)
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Forty years after the Clean Water Act began to resurrect New York Harbor, John Waldman has delivered a new edition of his New York Society Library Award–winning book tracing the arc of the harbor's environmental history from pristine estuary to pollution-choked dump. This lively, accessible narrative of the animals, water quality, and habitats of the harbor includes accounts of the author's explorations of a shad camp near the George Washington Bridge; the Arthur Kill; the Hackensack Meadowlands; and the Gowanus Canal. A new epilogue details some of the remarkable changes in recent years: ultimately, environmental awareness and action has allowed the harbor to begin cleaning itself. Although it will never regain its native biological glory, the return of oysters, herons, and a host of other creatures is an indication of New York Harbor's rebirth. John Waldman (Prof., Queens) is on the doctoral faculty in biology and earth and environmental sciences.
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Rob Kardashian is reiterating that fiancee Blac Chyna left him and his home with their baby daughter Dream Kardashian. Despite him posting jokes about it, the drama is not "fake" or a "publicity stunt," he said.
The pair, who welcomed their child five weeks ago, made headlines with some family problems Saturday afternoon.
First, Blac Chyna said on Snapchat that her Instagram page was hacked and what was described as screenshots of her private text conversations were then posted and were deleted hours later. Some were allegedly with Jaden Smith and rapper Young Thug. In one, she allegedly calls Rob "lazy," "fat" and "insecure," adding, "Imma give Rob 1 year to get it together. Or I'm gone."
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Meanwhile, Rob went on his own Snapchat and Instagram pages and said Blac Chyna had left their home with Dream and her son King Cairo, 4, and cleaned out their rooms, as well as his kitchen pantry and fridge.
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"Chyna knew exactly what she was doing to get me. I can't believe she did this to me," Rob wrote on Instagram, alongside a clip of one of his Snapchat videos. "And this isn't for some ratings this is my real life so please understand I'm just being open right now. Cuz if it was for ratings I wouldn't explain all this here. And with Chyna's messages and her leaving with everything and the baby I am broken."
"I truly loved Angela," he added in another Snapchat video. "I gave everything I owned for her. Didn't know I was just part of her plan. I really believed she was in love with me the way that I was with her and I am so hurt and never felt this before."
He also posted fan-created memes, including one comparing his situation to Kevin's in "Home Alone" and Will Smith's character's in an episode of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
"People are tagging me in these memes and just cuz I'm posting them doesn't mean this wasnt all serious (sic)," Rob wrote on Instagram. "This is all very real and serious to me and I'm trying to cheer myself up with these and they are making me laugh. So relax. This wasn't fake or some publicity stunt. Trust me."
"My one month old beautiful baby girl got taken from me along with my wife who left me," he said. "Been upset for days so relax. This is all very real in my life. I don't play when it comes to my woman and my baby."
In another post, he wrote, "But she took the baby also and she took my eggos and my chips and my sweet baby rays BBQ sauce."
"Last one!" he wrote alongside a meme of How Chyna Stole Christmas. "But she really stole my eggos and BBQ sauce and the whole freezer was full of eggos."
"But bring Dream back to her Dad please," he said. "[Blac Chyna] blocked me or else I would ask to see her and she has the guard gate not letting me in the gate either. I just miss baby Dream."
He then posted a collage of screenshots of Dream, taken from Blac Chyna's Snapchat.
"Pretty Dream," he wrote. "Miss u pretty mama."
A message that appeared to have been written by Blac Chyna was later posted on her Instagram page.
"I'M DONE," she wrote, in a now-deleted post. "This entire year I have done nothing but help Rob! It's so SAD &PATHETIC how low he'd stoop to cover up HIS PERSONAL ISSUES! I have done nothing but help &loved him from the beginning! It's Chy here I got my own!!!"
"I was doing swell before I got with him!" she added. "I got him out of khloe's house, helped him lose all that f--ing weight for him to do nothing &gain it all back! Rob asked for all of this! Rob begged me to have Dream! He stressed me out my ENTIRE PREGNANCY!!! Accusing me of cheating, going crazy on me with massive text blast daily! being an absolute lunatic &then cover it up with gifts!"
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She also said she "NEVER NOT ONCE CHEATED ON ROB! EVER!"
"I gave him the passcode to my phone," she said. "I have nothing to hide."
"Those Messages OLD AF!" she added. "He only did this because when he went through my phone he couldn't find anything to be mad about! He's on snapchat acting hurt but he's yet to come see Dream yet! He knows where we are! Honestly it's only so much a person can take. Everyone has tried to help Rob. I've gone beyond to help &so has his family!""
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With digital PCR emerging as an exciting technology that is generating much attention in the industry for its precision, reproducibility, and promising potential in diagnostic and pharmaceutical applications, Bio-Rad is uniquely positioned to gain the strongest market share. Its QX100 Droplet Digital PCR system is the most popular dPCR platform on the market, with 56 percent planning to use it in 2013.
"The high sensitivity of dPCR makes it ideal for a growing number of applications, including copy number variation, rare mutation detection, and absolute quantification of nucleic acid sequences," said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Karolina Olszewska . "In this high-growth, promising market, Bio-Rad's investment in digital PCR will prove fruitful."
As the industry develops new applications for the technology, making it more valuable to the user, adoption rates are expected to increase. In fact, Frost & Sullivan expects the dPCR instrumentation market to grow at a tremendous compound annual growth rate of 52 percent from 2011 to 2016.
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text: Learning WPF with BabySmash - Manually Managing ClickOnce and some more Designer Goodness August 1, '08 Comments [22] Posted in BabySmash | Windows Client | WPF Sponsored By NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first, or check out the BabySmash category. Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts on learning WPF. I wrote an application for my 2 year old using WPF, but as I'm a Win32-minded programmer, my working app is full of Win32-isms. It's not a good example of a WPF application even though it uses the technology. I'm calling on community (that's you, Dear Reader) to blog about your solutions to different (horrible) selections of my code. You can get the code http://www.codeplex.com/babysmash. Post your solutions on your blog, in the comments, or in the Feedback and we'll all learn WPF together. Pick a single line, a section, or subsystem or the whole app! One of the pieces of feedback on BabySmash! was that even though people like that the application automatically updates (via ClickOnce) when they sit down to play BabySmash! their babies want to play it NOW. They didn't like that it tries to update itself when you launch it. When you setup a ClickOnce application, you get a few choices. You can have the application check for updates before it starts and applying updates before it starts, or you can have it check after it starts and install the updates the next time it starts up. Or, you can say Don't Check For Updates. I personally find this dialog a little confusing. What this really means is "I'll check manually in code." At this point, I'm still deploying my app as a ClickOnce app, but now the actual updating is up to me. I used to pop up the Options dialog every time the app started, but again, folks complained, so I had to figure out a way to let them know that an update is available without "stopping the action." When the app starts up now, it fires of a call to CheckForUpdateAsync from inside System.Deployment.Application and listens for a response. This happens in the background (hence "async"): if (ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed){ ApplicationDeployment deployment = ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment; deployment.CheckForUpdateCompleted += deployment_CheckForUpdateCompleted; try { deployment.CheckForUpdateAsync(); } catch (InvalidOperationException e) { Debug.WriteLine(e.ToString()); }} If there is an update, I show a label in each MainWindow: void deployment_CheckForUpdateCompleted(object sender, CheckForUpdateCompletedEventArgs e){ ClickOnceUpdateAvailable = e.UpdateAvailable; if (ClickOnceUpdateAvailable) { foreach (MainWindow m in this.windows) { m.UpdateAvailableLabel.Visibility = Visibility.Visible; } }} The label is really simple, just a label with a glow: <TextBlock x:Name="UpdateAvailableLabel" Visibility="Collapsed" Margin="15,0,0,0" FontSize="12"> <TextBlock.BitmapEffect> <BitmapEffectGroup> <OuterGlowBitmapEffect x:Name="UpdateGlow" GlowColor="Red" GlowSize="3"/> </BitmapEffectGroup> </TextBlock.BitmapEffect> <Bold>Update Available - Visit Options to Update BabySmash!</Bold></TextBlock> Except the glow "pulses" between three colors and repeats forever. I set the DesiredFrameRate to a low number like 10 fps rather than what WPF will attempt, which is 60 fps! I'll post later how we can detect how awesome the user's hardware is and scale or turn off animations and effects. <Window.Resources> <Storyboard x:Key="Timeline1" Timeline.DesiredFrameRate="10"> <ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" RepeatBehavior="Forever" AutoReverse="True" Storyboard.TargetName="UpdateGlow" Storyboard.TargetProperty="GlowColor" > <SplineColorKeyFrame Value="#FFCDCDCD" KeyTime="00:00:00"/> <SplineColorKeyFrame Value="#FFB92121" KeyTime="00:00:01"/> <SplineColorKeyFrame Value="#FF2921B9" KeyTime="00:00:02"/> </ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames> </Storyboard></Window.Resources><Window.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="FrameworkElement.Loaded"> <BeginStoryboard Storyboard="{StaticResource Timeline1}"/> </EventTrigger> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="FrameworkElement.Loaded"/></Window.Triggers> Now I've got a nice passive FYI that there's an update. I want to show an update button when the user visits the Options Dialog, which brings me to my awesome volunteer designer Felix Corke (blog). If you want a great WPF or XAML designer, give Felix money. Here's my original Option Dialog: And here's the Felix version: Seriously. It hurts. Brings a tear to my eye. When the user needs to update, I'll do two things. First, there will be a button that says UPDATE! Second, after they've hit Update there will be a Progress Bar and that will update as the new version is download in the background. The API is surprisingly easy to use. We check to see if we were launched from the Network, then I check again (really not needed since I did it earlier, but I like to double-check) for an update. This isn't asynchronous, but it's fast. I setup two event handlers to listen to the UpdateProgress changing, and to get notification when the system has completed the download of the update. Then I fire off an asynchronous update. private void updateButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e){ if (ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed) { ApplicationDeployment deployment = ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment; if (deployment.CheckForUpdate()) { MessageBoxResult res = MessageBox.Show("A new version of the application is available, do you want to update? This will likely take a few minutes...", "BabySmash Updater", MessageBoxButton.YesNo); if (res == MessageBoxResult.Yes) { try { deployment.UpdateProgressChanged += deployment_UpdateProgressChanged; deployment.UpdateCompleted += deployment_UpdateCompleted; deployment.UpdateAsync(); } catch (Exception) { MessageBox.Show("Sorry, but an error has occurred while updating. Please try again or contact us a http://feedback.babysmash.com. We're still learning!", "BabySmash Updater", MessageBoxButton.OK); } } } else { MessageBox.Show("No updates available.", "BabySmash Updater"); } } else { MessageBox.Show("Updates not allowed unless you are launched through ClickOnce from http://www.babysmash.com!"); }} The ProgressChanged event is really convenient because it includes the percentage complete! One less thing for me to do. void deployment_UpdateProgressChanged(object sender, DeploymentProgressChangedEventArgs e){ this.updateProgress.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;} The Completed event is also fairly tidy (this one is simplified, and you could always use extra error handling. Note that since this was an asynchronous call, any exceptions that might have occurred elsewhere will show up here in the Error property of the AsyncCompletedEventArgs parameter. void deployment_UpdateCompleted(object sender, System.ComponentModel.AsyncCompletedEventArgs e){ MessageBoxResult res2 = MessageBoxResult.None; if (e.Error == null) { res2 = MessageBox.Show("Update complete, do you want to restart the application to apply the update?", "Application Updater", MessageBoxButton.YesNo); } else { MessageBox.Show("Sorry, but an error has occured while updating. Please try again or contact us a http://feedback.babysmash.com. We're still learning!", "Application Updater", MessageBoxButton.OK); } if (res2 == MessageBoxResult.Yes) { System.Windows.Forms.Application.Restart(); }} I'll update this app to .NET 3.5 SP1 when it ships and I'll get a bunch of new features to make BabySmash! better like: Smaller Client Profile for machines without .NET on them. From like 75megs down to like 25megs with a 200k bookstrapper. Firefox Support for ClickOnce. Faster startup. More hardware accelerated effects in WPF. All in all, not much code for me to switch from an automatic ClickOnce Deployment that I had no control over to one I now have not only complete control over, but also one that fits in more nicely with our always improving UI. Also, an FYI, ClickOnce works with WinForms or WPF equally. « DasKeyboard - The Next Generation | Blog Home | Hanselminutes Podcast 124 - Tim Bray on ... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [22] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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A Cape Ann Big Band concert is one of those rare treats that comes along only a couple of times a year — and this Saturday, May 3, they're going over the bridge (for their only spring concert this year) to Beverly's fully restored, historic Larcom Theatre. Come Swing into Spring with Cape Ann Big Band playing hits from the swing, soul, jazz, and rock'n'roll songbooks as well as show tunes and pop songs.
If you haven't been down the road to the Larcom Theatre yet, this is your chance. It's the perfect venue for a big band. Built in 1912 (the same year as Fenway Park) by Vaudeville musicians, this gorgeous theatre has spectacular acoustics. And we just installed a new, top-shelf sound system for perfect sound in every seat! Get yours now.
This very special Cape Ann Big Band concert features guest vocalists, Renee Dupuis, John Rockwell, Carolyn Seavey & Nathan Seavey. Get a taste of what you'll hear in this video:


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No comment yet from the Republican side, but I'm thinking … this doesn't bode well:
Boehner staffers arrived back at the Capitol and said @speakerboehner is not coming back here today.
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) December 28, 2012
Pelosi said afterward that she thought the meeting was "candid" and "constructive" and "moved us forward, so yeah — bad vibes galore.
Oh, and contrary to this morning's expectations, Obama reportedly did not plan to float a new offer at the meeting. His strategy was to ask Boehner, McConnell, Reid, and Pelosi for a viable counterproposal and, if none was offered, to then request an up-or-down vote on his old offer of tax hikes on earners who make $250,000 or more. Which makes sense: As I've explained ad nauseam, he really has no incentive to compromise before January 1. He's now basically daring Boehner to let the GOP caucus vote down his plan before Tuesday — the "Obama middle-class tax cuts," as I assume he'll now be calling it — and then let the media go to work on them if they do. And if they don't, if he gets 30 Republicans to cave and join Democrats in passing this thing, then he'll have furthered his secondary goal of driving a wedge in the House GOP caucus.
Via the Daily Caller, here's Krauthammer last night grimly saluting Obama for his skill in achieving that secondary goal. Stand by for updates as congressional aides start whispering about what really happened at today's meeting.
Update: The One speaketh. 5:45 p.m. ET.
Update: Hmmmm.
GOP House member: $400K+ mini-deal "very achievable" if Boehner supports as last hope pre-cliff. After Plan B fiasco, would get most GOPers
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) December 28, 2012
Update: Looks like the baton has been formally handed to Reid:
Boehner aide: "The group agreed that the next step should be the Senate taking bipartisan action."
— Mike O'Brien (@mpoindc) December 28, 2012
Update: Key bit from O's presser: He'll let Reid and McConnell try to reach a deal on the income threshold for tax hikes, but if they can't then he wants Reid to bring the Obama plan for tax increases on everyone who makes $250K or more up for a vote. That's a win/win/win situation for him potentially if it comes to that. Could be that he'll get enough panicky Republican votes in both chambers to actually pass the thing at the last minute. Could be that Senate Republicans will filibuster it, in which case he gets to blame the GOP. Or it could be that the Senate will pass it with Republican votes and then the House GOP will kill it, in which case he gets to blame the GOP and tout the fact that those darned "tea-party radicals" wouldn't approve a bill that even Senate Republicans voted for.
Per that last point, the real angle here, I think, is to use the Senate as leverage against the House. If O's bill (or the Reid/McConnell bill) passes the upper chamber, it'll place all the pressure of avoiding the cliff on the House and give Republican fencesitters there some bipartisan cover to vote for it.
Update: A little extra pressure from O on Boehner and McConnell, bully-pulpit style:
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Back in the mid 1980s EECS faculty members Charles Leiserson and Ron Rivest along with then EECS graduate student Thomas Cormen, put their extensive class lecture notes for 6.046, Introduction to Algorithms, together to create a comprehensive text known by that name and finally published by the MIT Press and McGraw Hill in 1990. Now, on its second print edition (2001) and an added co-author (and former EECS graduate student), Cliff Stein, Introduction to Algorithms has reached its 500,000th copy sold -- a milestone that was celebrated at the Stata Center on August 4.
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On Thursday, Aug. 4, the MIT Press held a party in MIT's Stata Center to celebrate the sale of the 500,000th copy of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms. Written by two MIT professors of computer science and two graduates of the department, the book is MIT Press's bestselling title.
The book's sales figures are all the more remarkable given not only the ease of digital piracy in the Internet age but also the technical literacy of the intended audience. As Ron Rivest, the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and one of the book's four authors, said during a speech at the Stata party, "One surprising question I had from a student in September '06 was, 'Professor Rivest, where's the best place to download a PDF of your book?' She listed three sites: 'This one, this one or this one?'"
Introduction to Algorithms grew out of a course of the same name, known as 6.046 in MIT's course-numbering system. Responsibility for teaching the course rotated among professors in the then-Department of Computer Science, who shared and expanded a set of lecture notes, which were further organized and expanded by teaching assistants who transcribed their lectures. Rivest first taught the course in the fall of 1975, and his co-author Charles Leiserson, a professor of computer science and engineering, began teaching it soon after arriving at MIT in 1981.
But the decision to turn the notes into a textbook was precipitated by the arrival at MIT of Tom Cormen, a graduate student who, Leiserson says, "was just a very gifted technical writer. The level and quality of the notes one semester just shot right up." Beginning in 1986, Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest spent almost four years working on the book, which was jointly published by the MIT Press and McGraw-Hill in 1990. The book rapidly became known in computer science departments as CLR, after the authors' last names — or "the big white book," since it weighed in at more than 1,000 pages.
In 2001, MIT and McGraw-Hill issued a second edition of the book, which introduced substantial revisions, several new chapters and a fourth co-author — Cliff Stein, then a colleague of Cormen's in Dartmouth College's computer science department. Like Cormen, Stein had been a graduate student at MIT.
At last week's Stata Center event, Cormen joked that Stein had been selected as the fourth author because "in the theoretical-computer-science world, it's common to list author names alphabetically, so it was important to have somebody who didn't come before C, L or R." When Stein took the podium, he retorted by citing the song "Kill dash nine" by the "nerdcore" rapper Monzy (who also happens to be a Google engineer with a PhD from Stanford University). "Your s---'s old and busted, mine's the new hotness," Monzy raps. "You're like CLR, and I'm like CLRS."
Leiserson and Rivest point to several reasons for the book's success. One is what they refer to as the book's "smorgasbord" approach. "When I went around talking to my colleagues [at other universities], I asked them what they taught," Leiserson says. "Nobody taught the same algorithms course, because there are so many algorithms." That explains the book's length: Its authors wanted it to be as inclusive as possible.
At the same time, Leiserson says, "we tried to minimize dependencies between chapters," so professors can design courses to skip around within the book without worrying that their students will get lost. Moreover, each chapter is organized with the material intended for undergraduates at the front and more advanced material at the back. Teachers of undergraduate courses can go as deep as they want, while teachers of graduate courses can simply start in the middle.
Impeccable timing
Leiserson says he was also concerned with avoiding what he calls "deus ex machina" explanations, in which the text simply gestures at some arcane mathematics in order to justify a conclusion about an algorithm's performance. "If you're a student, that can really throw you for a loop, because it's sort of invoking magic," Leiserson says.
Leiserson suggests some other reasons for the book's success. One is its consistency of style: All three authors revised every chapter of the first edition, as opposed to the more common — and, Rivest points out, more efficient — practice of assigning each author a set of chapters. Another of the book's advantages is its exhaustive index: Rivest extended the typesetting program that the authors used for the first book so that they could use tags — much like HTML tags — to identify sections that dealt with a particular topic. A custom program would then compile the index, updating it automatically as page numbers changed and new terms were added.
But ultimately, Rivest says, much of the book's success derives from its impeccable timing. "If a field is in a state of turmoil and rapid advance, and you write a book, two years later it's obsolete," he says. "It's hard to get up the energy to write a book that you know is going to be obsolete in two years." But in the late 1980s, he says, "the field had settled down enough that a long-term book made sense, but the competition was still in a ragged enough state that our book could stand out."


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CoLab: Prague was host to two extended Q&A panel discussions—a popular feature that hadn't been seen since the days of WOC Nice in 2013—which always provide additional insight that we wouldn't have gotten to otherwise!
This week's video is the afternoon panel from CoLab: Prague with Adam Neubauer, Joanna Alm, and Christopher Hendon. Hosts Steve and Kalle kick off a somewhat free-wheeling discussion, staring with the coffee culture in Prague, taking us through a myriad topics we touched upon but didn't dig into earlier: the best ways to communicate delays to customers, coffee shots, the popularity (but seeming lack) of batch brew in shops, and why coffee research is a great use of government funding. Also covered: the barista's tool box, the all-important barista/roaster/farmer feedback loop, why water is still important, blends, sequencing the coffee genome, and ways in which we could continue to strengthen our coffee knowledge as a community (including a large-scale experiment, since started by Chris!).
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when I run the program the while loop never stops and i thought i had it right cause my while loop it says while(bookTitle!="done") this means while bookTitle is not equal to done than execute. but when i type in done it still goes into the loop. can someone tell me what i am doing wrong? Please
// BookSales.java - This program calculates the total of daily
sales for a bookstore.
// Input: Book title and book transaction amount.
// Output: Prints the total of your book sales.
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class BookSales
public static void main(String args[])
String bookTitle=""; // Title of book.
String stringAmount;
double bookAmount;
double sum = 0;
bookTitle = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter title of book or
the word done to quit.");
stringAmount = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter price of book");
bookAmount = Double.parseDouble(stringAmount);
bookTitle = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter title of book or
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System.out.println("Sum of daily book sales is $:
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Cleveland Chef Rocco Whalen to Speak at Kent State About His Journey, Love for Inventing New Cuisine
Former "Fat Chef" Rocco Whalen of Cleveland's Fahrenheit restaurant will speak about his journey as a chef and his love for inventing and sustaining American cuisine on Thursday, April 17, at 4 p.m. in the Ritchie Hall Theater at Kent State University. This free event is open to the public and is sponsored by the Schwebel Baking Company. It is organized by the faculty and students in the Hospitality Management program at Kent State.
Whalen credits his mother for his love of cooking. He has evolved from his mother's kitchen to owning several restaurants in the Cleveland area. After five years of cooking with Wolfgang Puck at nearly every one of his restaurants on the West Coast, to a stint as executive chef at Blue Point Grille in Cleveland in 2001, he jumped at the chance to open his own restaurant, Fahrenheit, in September 2002, at the age of 24. From the get-go, Fahrenheit has been an enormous success with a packed house on a regular basis, helping Whalen emerge as one of the best chefs in Cleveland. He has been busy showing off his culinary skills with Rosie & Rocco's Italian Eateries inside the Horseshoe Casino and FirstEnergy Stadium, and Rocco's at the Q inside Quicken Loans Arena.
Whalen's latest addition, "Fahren-Lite," are new menu items that are light in calories and fat; a deliberate spin-off of Whalen's role in the Food Network show, "The Fat Chef," that highlighted what he did to overcome his struggle with obesity. He lost 130 pounds and is updating his menus to fit his new lifestyle.
Whalen had been asked to open a spectacular new restaurant located atop a 20-story, mixed-use high-rise, dubbed Skye (www.SKYEcondos.com) in downtown Charlotte, N.C. Fahrenheit-Charlotte opened there on March 3. For more information about Whalen, visit www.chefroccowhalen.com.
For more information about a bachelor's degree in hospitality management or a master's degree in hospitality and tourism management from Kent State, visit www.kent.edu/ehhs/hm.
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After watching Tom Ford's A Single Man this Saturday I am feeling a fresh surge to revisit all things 60's Sex Kitten like. Hair subtly back combed and monochrome eye make-up like that of the drunkenly fabulous Charley (played by Julianne Moore). Enough flicks of eyeliner to rival Twiggy.
Yet Moore is not the only eye candy in this Film. It is visually perfect in every aspect. George (Firth) and his impeccable collection of formal wear of course, go without saying. But also, the innocence of Nicolas Holt's character (Kenny)and his mohair sweater. The precision in which George's belongings are arranged in his exquisite condo. And the subtle, yet intensely powerful way Ford uses colour to portray George's emotions during this picture. You feel every inch of his grief as the colour drains away to muted greys and browns. Yet, in essentially what is a film about mourning and suicide, there is a massive warmth as Firth brilliantly portrays a character who cannot help but find joy in the small things he sees in the world around him. And the colour quite literally, comes back to his face.
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Actor Rip Torn has been charged with drunken driving on three occasions in New York and Connecticut and also with breaking into a bank that he thought was his home.
On Tuesday, his lawyer applied for the 79-year-old star of Men in Black, NBC's "30 Rock" and Airplane II to be admitted to accelerated rehabilitation.
The probation program is for first-time offenders and allows for charges to be dropped after a probation period. Prosecutors say they plan to oppose Torn's request during another hearing on Aug. 11.
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Torn, whose real name is Elmore, is accused of breaking into a Salisbury bank after hours on Jan. 29, drunk and carrying a loaded gun.
Torn was confused and mistook the bank for his home, which is about a half-mile down the road in Salisbury, his attorney, A. Thomas Waterfall, said.
Torn pleaded not guilty to trespassing and other charges in connection and prosecutors also dropped a burglary charge, agreeing with Waterfall that there was no intent to burglarize the bank.
The arrest happened eight months after he was charged with DUI. In December 2008, he was stopped on Route 44 in Salisbury after leaving the White Hart Inn and entered a yearlong alcohol education program in May 2009.
In May of this year, a judge dropped a DUI charge against Torn after he completed the program.
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By providing the foundation for our strategy and approach to leadership, good governance ultimately helps us fulfil our vision to make food safe and available, everywhere. Our governance framework helps us deliver on our brand promise and comply with relevant regulations and legislation, as well as guiding us to behave ethically and responsibly. A Global Leadership Team is responsible for implementing the framework, supported by a Corporate Governance Office and a network of local governance and risk officers.
Our charter of responsibility outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Tetra Laval Board? and Tetra Pak. The framework also includes a comprehensive risk management methodology and system with related and mitigating policies, procedures and global processes for managing and responding to risks. To secure an effective and transparent internal control environment we have implemented a new Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) system. This creates a single platform for risk management, bringing mitigating policies, procedures and detailed controls together with assurance processes, assessments and reports.
In 2018, we started a major review and update of all our policies and procedures guidelines. We will complete this in 2019. Our new online register clearly outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Tetra Laval Group Board and Tetra Pak, and we reached near full completion on our mandatory corporate governance training.
We reached a satisfactory completion on our mandatory corporate governance training programme for all employees. We also continuously updated our risk management methodology and system, creating a single online platform that significantly increases risk visibility and improves how and when we respond to and mitigate risks.??
While core values shape our corporate culture and guide our behaviour internally and externally, our Code of Business Conduct sets out the company's position on working conditions, discrimination, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, financial reporting, compliance, corruption, bribery, child exploitation and environmental issues. We have established a Sustainability Forum to further support our strategic and cross-functional approach to sustainability. Reporting to the Strategy Council, its members are Vice-President and Director-level representatives from across the company.
To build trust and transparency with our customers and as part of our approach to responsible sourcing with suppliers, we are members of the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex), a not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to driving responsible and ethical business practices in the supply chain.
We are also part of EcoVadis sustainability ratings and scorecards to help our procurement teams monitor environmental, social and governance issues in the supply chain. We were granted a Gold recognition in the EcoVadis supplier assessment for our environmental and social performance, placing us in the top 3 percent of all companies evaluated. In 2018, we expanded our work with EcoVadis to help our procurement teams better monitor environmental, social and governance issues in the supply chain.?
We disclose our work on managing climate impact in the Climate Diclsosure Project (CDP) Supplier Climate programme and have been been A' listed on the CDP's Forest programme for the third year in a row, and achieved leadership score for both the Climate Disclosure (A- score) and for the Supplier Engagement rating (A Score).?
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As signatories to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) we are committed to the implementation, disclosure and promotion of its 10 principles on human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. We submit an annual Communication on Progress and also actively contribute to the UN and best practice standards of the Forest Stewardship Council? (FSC?), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.
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Anti-corruption is an important part of our corporate governance and we take a zero-tolerance approach to corruption, bribery and fraud. Corruption is unethical; it undermines the fairness of the market, distorts transaction costs, destroys an open, honest and decent society and harms economic, social and political progress. Combating corruption is an important part of building trust with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders and fostering a responsible, transparent business culture.
All employees, at all levels of the company, are responsible for complying with the governance framework in their everyday decisions and actions. Details of the framework are available on our intranet and a mandatory eLearning programme is in place.
Anyone in the company can anonymously report actual or suspected breaches of our Code of Business Conduct or any other unethical behaviour directly to either the Corporate Governance Officer or Head of Audit, without being penalised in any way. Every case of a breach of our Code of Conduct is handled individually and investigated appropriately, depending on its severity. If the incident is criminal, we report it to the relevant authority.
In 2018, Tetra Pak received our first Gold rating from the sustainability ratings platform EcoVadis?. EcoVadis evaluates companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance across 21 criteria around the four themes of environment, fair labour practices, ethics/ fair business practices and supply chain. As part of our customers' supply chain, we provide data on our CSR performance to a number of our customers. Our Gold rating means that we're in the top 3 percent of all suppliers evaluated.
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Way back in 1996, a movie shook the foundations of everything we thought we knew. We walked out shaken. Stunned. Confused.
"Wait, wait, wait..." We muttered. "Courteney Cox is dating David Arquette?"
Wes Craven's genre-redefining horror film "Scream" is where the couple met, so it's only fitting that one of the first images from the brand new "Scream 4" feature Cox's barracuda-like reporter Gale Weathers and Arquette's bumbling lawman Dewey Riley - together again.
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If Steve Jobs were still alive, it's easy to imagine that he wouldn't be happy with the recent news out of Apple. He, along with Warren Buffett, Michael Dell and other keen business minds, know that paying a dividend isn't the best way to add value to stockholders' shares, but that's what Apple did. At the current share price, the $2.65 quarterly dividend would equal a yield of 1.7%, nothing that would make hard core income investors place Apple at the top of their list, but there could be more than one reason why Steve Jobs would probably throw one of his famous temper tantrums if he were still here today.
Taxes!Dividends make us all feel good. They're called the only free lunch in the investing world, but if you were offered a free lunch providing you paid 15% of the check, would you still call it free? Along with dividends comes the dividend tax. On most cash dividends the tax rate is 15%, so if you're holding Apple in your non-tax deferred account, you're paying that tax each year.
If that isn't bad enough, unless Congress acts to change things, the dividend tax rate is set to triple. Now your free lunch is only free after you pay as much as 45% of the bill. The CEOs who have not bowed to public pressure understand that by paying a dividend they're giving the Federal government 15% of their cash hoard and possibly a whole lot more next year. In an economy where cash is hard to come by and investors measure a company's value by the amount of cash they have on their balance sheet, why give it away? In Apple's case the pile of cash was getting too high, causing investor outcry, but are there better ways to put that money to work?
Why Did They Do It?Rumors have floated around Wall Street that Apple's nearly 74% gain in the past year is largely due to the rumor that Apple would initiate a dividend. Could that be why the day the dividend was announced the stock was met with a tepid response from investors? Since the announcement, Apple's stock is up just over 1%, making investors believe that the dividend was priced in already.
Share BuybackDetermined to ask, "what would Steve do?" it appears that Apple got their answer, and it's a good one if you subscribe to the Warren Buffett ways of managing your stock. Along with the announcement of the dividend, Apple instituted a $10 billion share buyback that will start in October and last for three years, according to the March 19 announcement. By decreasing the amount of shares outstanding, the value of those shares rises, but the investor takes on no tax burden. Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, even went so far as to announce the maximum price they would pay for each share in their buyback program, providing an instant boost in value.
Does This Change Anything?A recent CNBC survey found that more than 50% of all American households have an Apple product, and with the New iPad setting a fresh round of sales records, there's little doubt that Apple remains a momentum stock. Morgan Stanley recently lifted Apple's price target to $720 and went as far as to say that we might see $960 sometime next year.
At those prices, the 1.7% yield would reduce to 1.1%, surely causing investors to call on Apple to increase its dividend and possibly accelerate its share buyback, but is Apple transforming in to an income stock?
The Bottom LineApple is still arguably the most popular stock in the world, not just because of its meteoric rise, but because it has changed the way we use technology. Old tech may have seen a resurgence as of late, but no tech name comes close to the quality of Apple - at least not right now.


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