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Rumour has it that Chris Chelios recently turned down his former Chicago Blackhawks boss Darryl Sutter and declined an invitation to join the Calgary Flames.
The scuttlebutt comes from Andy Strickland, who has an extremely high batting average and a very low B.S. factor when it comes to this sort of thing. So if we take it for granted this is true, we can only guess at what Sutter had in mind when he gave Chelios, currently playing for the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves, a ring.
Was the GM looking to add some experience to his blue-line? For that matter, Sutter could have been looking to add a pinch of seasoning to his coaching staff — Calgary assistants Dave Lowry, Ryan McGill and Jamie McLennan are three, seven and nine years younger than Chelios. Head man Brent Sutter, who was a Chelios teammate before he retired a dozen years ago, is five months the defenceman's junior.
So just how old is Chris Chelios? Well, as of Jan. 25, if you hack off his leg and count the rings, you'll get 48. But let's look at his age another way. Remember Brian Bradley? Drafted by the Flames in 1983. Made his debut in the organization a year later, made the big club two years after that, made a cameo appearance in the 1986 playoffs (the Steve Smith own-goal year), traded to Vancouver (a trade with Vancouver?) with Peter Bakovic (Peter Bakovic?) for Craig Coxe (Craig Coxe?) in 1988, went on to play for Toronto and Tampa Bay and retired a full dozen years ago after a solid if unspectacular 651-game career.
Anyway, that largely forgotten or barely remembered Brian Bradley is almost exactly three years younger than Chelios. Dan Quinn, the Flames' leading scorer 24 seasons ago, is also three years younger than Chelios.
While we're at it, the following ex-Flames from the '80s, many of whom have been out of the NHL for quite a while and some as long as two decades, all have fewer life kilometres on them than Ol' Chuckles Chelios.
- Doug Gilmour
- Joe Nieuwendyk
- Gary Suter
- Mark Hunter
- Dana Murzyn
- Ric Nattress
- Perry Berezan
- Serge Pryakhin
- Shane Churla
- Paul Ranheim
- Stu Grimson
- Mike Vernon
- Carey Wilson
- Brett Hull
- Dale DeGray
- Kevan Guy
- Doug Dadswell
- Richard Kromm
- Steve Konroyd
- Gino Cavallini
- Mark Lamb
Heck, dandy defenceman Paul Reinhart, who played for the Atlanta Flames for cryin' out loud, is only two years older than Chelios.
For that matter, you don't even have to go the full distance on the Kevin Bacon game to connect Chris Chelios to Aurel Joliat. There's only five degrees of separation between Chelios and Joliat, the Hall-of-Famer who was born in 1901 and retired in 1938 — Chelios was a teammate of Guy Lafleur who was a teammate of Henri Richard who was a teammate of brother Maurice Richard who was a teammate of Hector (Toe) Blake who played with Joliat.
The headline on this entry, by the way, refers to a classic sign once held up by a Flames fan during a visit by Chelios' Red Wings a few years back.


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I'm currently trying to get a java program to store lines of text from a CMD operation ( ping test ) in a String variable so I can preform checks on it. I unforunatly have no clue how to read said operation in a java program ( I'm fairly new to java ). Any ideas?

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Because gross and unsettling things rarely seem to clear up on their own, 41-year-old James Hooker and 18-year-old Jordan Powers, the couple who met when Powers was enrolled in Hooker's classroom at a Modesto, California high school, have continued their awful media circus, this time going on Dr. Phil to be confronted by Powers' mother, Tammie. So many terrible things! A high school teacher having a relationship with his student! A family torn apart! Dr. Phil!
There is one good thing to come out of this, however, and that is a chance to see the Good Morning America crew's amazing reactions to the story, particularly those of George Stephanopoulos and Josh Elliott. Throwing any illusion of journalistic impartiality out the window, both anchors, who are the fathers of young daughters, went into full-on knuckle cracking mode, inviting Hooker to the show so that they could have a go at him. Robin Roberts seems really into the idea.


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The increasingly acrimonious debate over the construction of the so-called Ground Zero mosque in Manhattan, about two blocks away from the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed by Al Qaeda on Sept. 11, 2001, echoes similar debates in Europe and could, if the rhetoric becomes commonplace, have broad and negative ramifications for the integration of America's growing Muslim population.
Though some opponents of the Muslim community center say they are simply worried about the feelings of 9/11 relatives, since the men who carried out the attacks were Muslims, others see the attempt to build the center in a former Burlington Coat Factory outlet as an offensive in what they view as a cultural war.
The United State's experience with its Muslim citizens, and vice versa, has been a profoundly different and more positive one than that found in most of Europe, where countries with largely homogeneous ethnic and religious identities first started to grapple with large influxes of Muslim immigrants after World War II. In Europe, Muslims are more likely to report feeling alienated from society, and tend to have fewer economic opportunities -- all of which has, on the margins, led to a greater relative number of young European Muslim men being attracted to the violent ideology espoused by Al Qaeda and its fellow travelers.
Is Ground Zero mosque part of culture war?
The US, by contrast, has always been an immigrant nation, and one in which newcomers have been able to find their feet and their own "American-ness" far more quickly than immigrants in other parts of the world. While in parts of the Netherlands, Britain, and France, there are largely homogeneous Muslim communities from Pakistan or Algeria that seem to live apart from broader society, the source populations of US Muslims have been more ethnically and linguistically diverse, and they've been more geographically integrated into the nation at large.
Ihsan Bagby, a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Kentucky, says that the United States has been fortunate in that its earlier Muslim immigrants were better educated and more prosperous than their counterparts in Europe, and that the presence of the African-American Muslim community already provided a template for an "American" Islam when they arrived, however small. But he also says integration was built into the fabric of America itself.
"It is the philosophy that religion is accepted, and people no matter what their background and religion are to be excepted as full citizens... a positive understanding that America is open," says Dr. Bagby. "Muslims regularly fall back on that to not only justify their activities in the public square and to bolster them when they're under attack, similar to African-Americans who used that wedge for 300 years to say 'hey, America is supposed to be founded on freedom and equality for all citizens.' To me, that's the greatness of America, that the underlying principles are tools for those who want to carve out their freedom and find their place. European Muslims can't lean on that narrative of why they belong there."
A two-year study released this month by Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and the University of North Carolina found that despite fears over the potential "radicalization" of Muslim-Americans after 9/11, "the record over the past eight years contains relatively few examples of Muslim-Americans that have radicalized and turned toward violent extremism."
Why? Largely because of Muslim-American engagement with the political system, self-policing to identify at-risk youths, and robust Muslim-American communities centered around mosque and meeting complexes like the proposed Cordoba House in lower Manhattan.
The "research reinforces the generally accepted observation that Muslim-Americans with a strong, traditional religious training are far less likely to radicalize than those without such training," the authors write. "One possible reason for the small number of radicalized, violent Muslim-Americans involves the demographics of the Muslim-American population in the United States. Unlike Muslim minorities in many countries of Western Europe, Muslim-Americans have attained higher education and middle-class incomes at roughly the same rate as society as a whole. Their lives are less segregated than in Western Europe, and their political views on most issues are similar to other Americans."


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NORTH HAMPTON — The North Hampton Youth Association, a volunteer group that runs baseball, basketball and soccer programs for local children, was the victim of a burglary over the weekend.
Equipment was stolen from the group's concession stand at Knowles Field, which doubles as a storage building for soccer and baseball gear.
A youth association volunteer discovered the theft early Saturday morning after finding the door to the concession stand smashed open, NHYA President Lisa Martin said.
North Hampton Police Sgt. Joshua Stokel said the field was in use Friday evening, and police believe the theft occurred sometime overnight.
"We're still talking with folks that were at the field the night before to get our window down, but we don't have an exact time at this point," he said.
Stokel declined to comment publicly on the equipment stolen, explaining police can use the information to corroborate tips about the theft. The value of the equipment hadn't been calculated as of Monday afternoon.
NHYA is an all-volunteer group funded by registration fees and donations. It runs programs for children in kindergarten through grade six.
Martin said the group estimates between 60 percent and 80 percent of all North Hampton school children take part in one of its soccer programs.
Program fees and donations help to pay not only for NHYA's athletic equipment, but also for the restoration of Knowles Field, which is owned and maintained by NHYA. Residents and businesses came together to support fundraisers for the replacement of Knowles Field after severe flooding several years ago, Martin said.
"It's sad because, you know, it's not stealing from a company — it's not stealing from me," Martin said of the weekend burglary. "It's stealing from stuff that's funded by the kids."
Anyone with information about the theft is asked to contact the North Hampton Police Department at 603-964-2198.
Information can also be provided anonymously to the Hampton Crimeline by calling 603-929-1222 or by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. The Hampton Crimeline Facebook page is located at http://www.facebook.com/hamptoncrimeline.
Equipment stolen from North Hampton youth sports group
NORTH HAMPTON — The North Hampton Youth Association, a volunteer group that runs baseball, basketball and soccer programs for local children, was the victim of a burglary over the weekend.


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Categories: Estate Planning/Elder Law
Instructor(s) Erlanger, Howard
TNE II focuses on issues related to community property and federal gift and estate tax. Since it is only a two credit course, the material is still essentially introductory, although it is covered in substantially more depth than in TNE-I. Note that only TNE-I, not TNE-II, satisfies the diploma privilege requirement for Trusts and Estates.


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We Stopped Publishing New Blog Posts For Three Months. Here's What We've Been Doing Instead.
One of Expats Paris's marketing implicit values is trying to challenge assumptions and one of the assumptions we do have about our content (mainly blogging) marketing is that we should curate and publish original content to the blog at least twice each week.


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LRS and mobile devices: Please join us in exploring…
Please join us in exploring our mobile devices.
Minutes from the April 23, 2014 meeting
Pamela, Greg, Rachel and Plamen met at 3pM in MC 205 and discussed:
- ebooks
- different OS and gadgets – iOS, Windows Surface, Android Galaxy, Kindle
the differences. We determined that it is up to the user which one she/he prefers.
- what can be frustrating
Android – more difficult to organize. For an novice it is more difficult
- WIndows Surface come with Office and Surface has a mouse pointer and USB port, which makes easy connect external mouse.
- Pamela will buy different types of dongles (USB, VGA) for iOS, Android Galaxy and WIndows and they will be available to loan from the dean's office.
- Siri, consensus on the poor quality. Cortana on WIndows is to be seen. Somebody on campus using Siri to text. Google Now is the Siri equivalent.
- Google Glass. waste of money? it has potential thought. battery is very limited. we are not sure if it connects to iPAD
- meet once a month. ask what worked from the last group and what didn't to determine what can be discussed. Carol Rose has an app for passwords. How many people do NOT have access to a mobile device. What people do here, work related stuff (email, notes, calendar). A coordinator of this group monitoring free apps and suggesting to be tested in LRS. List from the former group with the apps for iOS, Android, Windows.
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When I'm on my officer I use the dictation option on the iPad keyboard to answer some emails. Wish I had that feature on my personal iPad as it is my main email device and I get tired of having to correct typing errors and autocorrects.


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I just completed a bachelor degree in molecular biology. I will probably continue will biochemistry. However, I've always spent most of my time in front of the computer. For a week I looked at perl and I learned to translate DNA into amino acids, calculate GC content and similar easy tasks. However, there are numerous web sites that can do such tasks if you google. So now I again think of learning some programming, this time python because it seems to be more future proof than perl, but I'm wondering if its really worth it. As I study biochemistry my time with programming will be limited, and what can you as a biochemist do with low level python? Being a "jack of all trades" has always tempted me, but only if it has an advantage compared to websites I can bookmark.
the question is, whether you have where to use it. If you have access to some server, where you could run your analyses, that would be fine. You can always modify your input to get exactly what you want.
And at least, that will help you to understand how these programms works, a little.
You have to focus first on your biological question. So many times I talked with students around the world struggling with the learning of a programing lenguaje without any idea about data structures and algorithms design, So ask yourself Why do you want to learn to program?.
As an advice, I recommed to you continue mining the perl lenguaje following an order in your learning curve. Perl is the lenguaje for bioinformatics it has a long history in the field and perhaps a shine future.
So start with the basics… some good books
Begging perl for bioinformatics
Mastering perl for bioinformatics
Learning perl
Perl for biologist
It will be take 6 months at least to learn the fundaments of the lenguaje and 10 years to become an expert
If you have any doubt about or If you think I can be of hlep do not hesitate in contact to me.


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Day before yesterday, during Steve Ballmer's keynote at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced Windows 8's release timeline. Microsoft's latest and greatest operating system will be available in retail stores towards the end of October, in time for the US holiday season. In addition to Windows 8, Microsoft will also bring Microsoft's Windows 8 RT tablet—Surface and Windows Phone 8 phones by OEM partners. This holiday season will be Microsoft's biggest season for the home consumer, and Microsoft realizes this.
To get these products to the end-user, Microsoft will leverage their Microsoft Stores. So far, the few stores that Microsoft has seem to have less footfall compared to Apple Stores on a daily basis but that can be attributed to the lack of attention-drawing devices—there's only so much Xbox & Kinect can do. Microsoft's Surface will be exclusively available through Microsoft Sotres (brick & mortar and online) and Kevin Turner announced that for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 & Surface launch, Microsoft will have several small pop-up stores to showcase their products and reach more customers. (There will be a Microsoft Store in Toronto, Canada and somewhere in Puerto Rico.)
The strategy is genius and should help Microsoft reach more customers to promote and sell their products.
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i think that NY will not make the play offs! the teams before us are better!!
and it is not necesary to go and be sweeped 3/0 by new-jersey or detroit
i think that NY will not make the play offs! the teams before us are better!!
and it is not necesary to go and be sweeped 3/0 by new-jersey or detroit
East coast West coast run wild.....
theoretical, we still have chancess
small, but there are. the better q would be, do we need to make the playoffs? no, of course, we can't blow this chance to get a high pick, and get thrashed by NJ or detrit in first round
chaney still believes we can actually make the playoffs
"Our guys last year, when they were down, they basically threw in the towel," Chaney said of his 30-52 flops. "This year they still have fight. They get knocked down a couple of times but they get back up. Last year, they were down but stayed down."
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these are the last games, i don't think there are to many chancesNew York Knicks Tue. Mar. 4 7:30 p.m. ET Cavaliers
New York Knicks Wed. Mar. 5 7:00 p.m. ET at Celtics
New York Knicks Fri. Mar. 7 7:00 p.m. ET at Magic
New York Knicks Sun. Mar. 9 1:00 p.m. ET Wizards
New York Knicks Tue. Mar. 11 7:30 p.m. ET Grizzlies
New York Knicks Fri. Mar. 14 7:30 p.m. ET at Hawks
New York Knicks Sun. Mar. 16 7:00 p.m. ET Bucks
New York Knicks Tue. Mar. 18 8:30 p.m. ET at Spurs
New York Knicks Wed. Mar. 19 8:30 p.m. ET at Hornets
New York Knicks Fri. Mar. 21 8:00 p.m. ET Pistons
New York Knicks Sat. Mar. 22 8:30 p.m. ET at Bulls
New York Knicks Mon. Mar. 24 7:30 p.m. ET Raptors
New York Knicks Wed. Mar. 26 7:30 p.m. ET at Nets
New York Knicks Fri. Mar. 28 8:00 p.m. ET Nets
New York Knicks Sun. Mar. 30 1:30 p.m. ET at Raptors
New York Knicks Wed. Apr. 2 10:30 p.m. ET at Nuggets
New York Knicks Fri. Apr. 4 9:00 p.m. ET at Jazz
New York Knicks Sat. Apr. 5 10:30 p.m. ET at Clippers
New York Knicks Tue. Apr. 8 7:30 p.m. ET Hawks
New York Knicks Fri. Apr. 11 8:00 p.m. ET 76ers
New York Knicks Sat. Apr. 12 7:30 p.m. ET at Cavaliers
New York Knicks Mon. Apr. 14 7:00 p.m. ET at Wizards
New York Knicks Tue. Apr. 15 7:30 p.m. ET Pacers
of course there is!! these are not THE big teams from the NBA!
East coast West coast run wild.....
yes, but the knicks have a habit to lose against the smaller teams, and win the other games, against much better teams
we couldn't handle the hawks and we want to make the playoffs?
i don't think so
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leave the playoffs for the next year, i'm not in the mood to get embarrased by being KO by the nets
do what you gotta do!
East coast West coast run wild.....
ah c'mon
what arew the chances of getting there, when we can't even beat the bulls ?!
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i don't understand anything!! :shock: :shock:
we beat the pistons but we lose against the bulls????????????
East coast West coast run wild.....
the bulls are not that bad as their record shows
they have great players, and maybe with a better coach.. who knows... might be back into playoff run again..
as i said before.. win games against big teams, lose against small teams...Originally Posted by 6thman
...knick mentality...
if knicks loses the clipper game and bucks win. it's all over
chancess to make, 5%
do what you gotta do!
It's usually not a good sign when a player quotes a Jim Carrey movie to describe his team's playoff chances, but Allan Houston's description was strangely appropriate.
"If it's a longshot, you've still got a chance," Houston said after the Knicks practiced yesterday. They host the Hawks tonight at the Garden in what could be the last meaningful game of the year. "What was it the woman said in 'Dumb and Dumber?' 'One in a million.' "
Houston laughed, recalling Carrey's loser-like character in the film and knowing his team's likelihood of success isn't much more promising than Carrey's was.
"It's crazy, but you never know," said Houston, who was held to eight points in the team's loss to the Clippers on Saturday. "You can't go into games saying it's over when, mathematically, it's not. I don't even like talking about it."
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The FOX network's "Road to the Octagon" pre-fight special returns ahead of next week's UFC on FOX 5 event.
UFC and FOX officials recently announced an hourlong special, "UFC on FOX 5: Road to the Octagon," which will air on Sunday either prior to or following the network's NFL broadcast. Times will vary depending on the start time of each market's NFL game.
"Road to the Octagon" previews UFC on FOX 5, which takes place six days later on Dec. 8 at Seattle's KeyArena. The card features a main event lightweight title fight between champion Benson Henderson, making his second defense, and top contender Nate Diaz. In addition, former two-division champ B.J. Penn meets rising star Rory MacDonald at welterweight, former light heavyweight champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua meets Alexander Gustafsson and Matt Brown takes on Mike Swick, all on the four-fight main card on FOX.
FOX also aired a "Road to the Octagon" special prior to UFC on FOX 4 this past August.
A replay of "UFC on FOX 5: Road to the Octagon" will air Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on FUEL TV ahead of the cable network's weekly "UFC Tonight" news magazine show.
In addition to the "Road to the Octagon" special, FUEL TV will air an hourlong documentary on Henderson on Wednesday at 11 p.m. ET. "Benson Henderson: Rising Up" will go behind the scenes of the champion's life outside the octagon.
Henderson (17-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC) won the lightweight title in February in a close five-round war with Frankie Edgar. A rematch was given to Edgar, but Henderson won that fight, as well, this past August at UFC 150. Diaz (16-7 MMA, 11-5 UFC) comes in on a three-fight win streak since his return to lightweight – with three straight fight night bonus awards. In May, he submitted Jim Miller in the main event of UFC on FOX 3.
The full UFC on FOX 5 card includes:
MAIN CARD (FOX, 8 p.m. ET)
- Champ Benson Henderson vs. Nate Diaz (for lightweight title)
- Alexander Gustafsson vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
- Rory MacDonald vs. B.J. Penn
- Matt Brown vs. Mike Swick
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX, 5 p.m. ET)
- Mike Chiesa vs. Marcus LeVesseur
- Raphael Assuncao vs. Mike Easton
- Nam Phan vs. Dennis Siver
- Ramsey Nijem vs. Joe Proctor
- Yves Edwards vs. Jeremy Stephens
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook, 3:30 p.m. ET)
- Daron Cruickshank vs. Henry Martinez
- John Albert vs. Scott Jorgensen
- Tim Means vs. Abel Trujillo
For more on UFC on FOX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Kemp improving as time to rehab runs short
LOS ANGELES -- Matt Kemp had a productive day testing his sprained left ankle on Friday, and the Dodgers are holding out hope the outfielder can start a rehab assignment before Minor League seasons end the first week of September.
Kemp, on the disabled list for the third time this season, tested his ankle running and making turns. He also took a few rounds of early batting practice, with hitting coach Mark McGwire feeding the pitching machine.
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly watched Kemp's workout and was encouraged by what he saw.
"They said that was the best he's ran," Mattingly said. "You still see a hitch now and then on certain steps and when he's slowing down. He's getting better, but he's not there yet."
Kemp said last week he wanted to play in a few rehab games, and there's still a chance that could happen.
"I'm hoping he can get in to a game or two," Mattingly said. "If not, we'll have to work something else out and set some stuff up."
Kemp injured his ankle in an awkward slide at the plate July 21 in Washington and has not played since. He's been limited to 62 games this season.


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SOURCE: Carnegy, Patrick. Review of Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3. Spectator 285, no. 8995 (30 December 2000): 32-3.
In the following review, Carnegy praises director Michael Boyd's 2000 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 as a compelling and faithful staging of plays.
These three plays are the least known and indeed often dismissed parts of Shakespeare's series of eight histories running from Richard II through to Richard III. In his magisterial survey, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1999), Harold Bloom offers them no more than seven pages in a book of doorstop proportion. For him all that is memorable is, grudgingly, Joan of Arc in part one, Cade the Kentish hoodlum in part two and in part three Richard Gloucester's apprenticeship in butchery. Bloom saw that all three were 'vivid comedians', but as the drift of the plays in which they appear could be described as 'The Invention of the Inhuman...
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Tap the power of Flash's ActionScript capabilities to build a simple game with animated characters. We have already shown you how to create a character in Illustrator and animate it in Flash.
This month, we're going to take our animation one stage further, and create a simple game using the character. Flash's ActionScript language allows us to program MovieClips to have specific behaviours, events and properties.
By leveraging the flexibility of external classes, we'll create a reusable set of code that can be applied to any number of MovieClips, allowing for swarms of independent gameplay objects that each report back to the main timeline and allow for straightforward game-status management.
This approach will also let you add extra elements to the game easily, and the technique can be applied to a variety of different game types: the principles are largely the same whether you're creating a driving game or a shoot-'em-up. If that all sounds a bit scary, don't worry – it will start to make sense as we work through the steps.
01. Open your FLA from the previous tutorial. First, we need to allow the player to control our character, Madame Octopus (MO). We need to control her using ActionScript, so open your library (Cmd/Ctrl + L) then locate your Madame Octopus MovieClip. Right-click (Ctrl + click) on the MovieClip, choose Properties and then under Advanced, tick the Export for ActionScript checkbox. Give it an Identifier of 'MO' and a class of 'MO'.


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Our store next to the farm sells home-grown produce and a lot more.
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If you follow the girls of Fifth Harmony on Instagram, then you know that they LOVE to take selfies. While you're used to seeing the girls looking super glam, Lauren, Normani, Dinah, Ally, and Camilla have been going makeup-free lately, rocking their natural beauty in #UnPrettyMonday pics. "It has a lot to do with people being more aware of themselves and more confident," Lauren says about the trend. "There's a whole movement right now where women are more empowered with who they are inside, not who they are pretending to be on the outside. Some people wear makeup for themselves, but sometimes it comes from insecurities and covering up. It's about getting rid of that insecurity and know that you are beautiful just the way you are."
To help spread that message, 5H has teamed up with Clean & Clear's #SeeTheRealMe campaign. Search the hashtag on Twitter, and you'll find pics and videos of the Fifth Harmony ladies and real girls, sharing stories and posting pictures that show their natural beauty, inside and out.
Now, the girls are sharing their tips for looking and feeling your best.
Good skincare starts from the inside.
"I hate looking at myself in the mirror and seeing a mountain landscape on my face, so I have to eat healthfully and drink a lot of water!" Camilla says about how she keeps her skin clear on tour.
Never got to bed with your makeup on.
"It's so important to wash your face every night. I always wash my makeup off before I go to bed," Dinah says. "Clean & Clear makeup wipes are great for cleansing since they take your makeup off without scrubbing."
Normani's secret to keeping her skin clear, and zit-free? "Exfoliating two or three times a week," she says.
Protect your skin from the sun.
"It's so important to use sunscreen all the time," Camilla says.
Leave your skin alone.
"Don't pop your pimples. It's so hard, but it will leave scars," Ally warns. "The Clean & Clear spot treatment is great for dealing with an annoying zit on the go."
Try a mask.
"If you can, do a mask once a week," Lauren says about the secret behind her glow-y skin. And you don't have to spend a ton! "When I was 11 or 12, I would make oatmeal masks with eggs," Dinah shares.
Are you into the #NoMakeupSelfie and #UnPrettyMonday trend? Do you feel comfy going makeup-free? Sound off in the comments!
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Boston: Behind The Scenes at Clio's 15th Anniversary, 15 Chef, 15 Course Blowout Dinner
I'm not going to pretend I don't have a personal stake in writing about chef Ken Oringer's flagship restaurant Clio in Boston. It's not the first restaurant I worked in, but it was certainly the most influential.
It was the kitchen where I learned to think creatively and critically about food, where I learned that a strong work ethic and a passion for the food is more important than experience or education, and where I met many of the greatest cooks and chefs I've ever known, and as evidenced by the blowout 15th anniversary meal Clio hosted on Tuesday night, I'm not the only one who felt this way.
For the event, Ken invited back 15 former Clio cooks who have gone on to make big names for themselves in cities across the country. Each chef was asked to prepare one course for a four-hour, 15-course meal. You'd think with that many cooks (not to mention egos) in the kitchen, there'd be a few logistical hitches here and there getting the food out to the over 100 hungry guests (who included friends of Clio: Ming Tsai, Matthew Jennings, and Jamie Bissonette, among others), but I have never seen a kitchen run so smoothly and professionally. Every course went out without a hitch, and man, what a meal it was.
If food is really the new rock (as some claim it to be) and chefs the new rockstars, this was like the Bonnaroo of meals (which would make me the roadie of the meal, lending a hand here and there, mostly just honored to get to work with such talent). With only one course to focus on, each chef pulled out all the stops, making for a meal of one big hit after another.
There was no shortage of flavor (or sea urchin, for that matter) on the plates. Here's the course-by-course breakdown:
- Caviar "Bon Bons" with white orchid root, allium blossoms, and black cocoa, from Ken Oringer and Douglas Rodrigues of Clio in Boston, MA
- Sorrel Ice Cream with smoked wild char roe, kasu curd, and rhubarb glass, from Alex Talbot and Aki Kamozawa of Ideas in Food
- Chilled Yellow Tomato and Watermelon Gazpacho with spicy peekytoe crab and avocado, from Todd MacDonald of Villa Pacri in New York, NY
- Plankton Conchiglie Pasta with sea urchin and guanciale, from Tony Maws of Cragie on Main in Cambridge, MA
- Ruby Red Shrimp with crispy masa, sea urchin mousse, and lettuces, from Alex Stupak of Empellón and Empellón Cocina in New York, NY
- "Ode To The Cassolette" with king crab, calamansi, and chili jam, from Sam Gelman of Momofuku, Toronto, CAN
- Hearts of Palm with artichokes, white anchovy, bottarga-preserved lemon and pecorino vinaigrette, and chickweed, from Phillip Kirshen Clark formerly of Vandaag and currently of Demi Monde in New York, NY
- Salsify and Laitue de Mer Porridge with chicken jus, brown butter, and crispy farro, from John Paul Carmona, formerly of Manresa, Los Gatos, CA
- Abalone Sunomono with hon shimeji, pickled ramps, freeze-dried shiitake, sukiyaki gelée, homemade tofu, and tosa bonito powder, from Chris Chung of AKA Bistro, Lincoln, MA
- Island Creek Oyster Stew with clack roux, coconut, and kumquat kosho, from John Critchley of Urbana, Washington, D.C.
- Hudson Valley Foie Grast Torchon "Sandwich" with strawberries, chartreuse, and wild herbs, from David Varley of the Mina Group, San Francisco, CA
- Black Sea Bass with crispy rice and nameko mushrooms, from Justin Hua of The Dutch, New York, NY
- Veal Breast and Sweetbread Parmentier with braised fava beans and nasturtium, from Andres Grundy, A. Juli & Ebru Restaurant Consultant, New York, NY
- Mango Sticky Rice 2.0, from Rick Billings, José Andrés Think Group and Chris Cordeiro, Clio
- Bomba Di Ciliegia with malt crema, poached cherries, birch, and amaro gelato, from Renae Herzog of Marea, New York, NY
For more on the event, read a great interview with Ken, Chef de Cuisine Douglas Rodrigues, Alex Stupak, and others over on Today.com from former Serious Eats intern-turned-superstar Katie Quinn.
Peep through the slideshow for a course-by-course behind-the-scenes breakdown.
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More about Helen
Excuses aside, I sort of left our vacation posts hanging, so here is more about our vacation in Helen, GA:
On day 2 we spent the morning lazily tubing on the Chattahoochee River. It was overcast and very pleasant, not too hot. We obviously didn't take the camera with us (didn't want any water mishaps), but Zakir snapped a couple of photos of me and Bilal, since we were the last to make it down the river.
And where did we eat?
It just sounded like a novel idea. And browsing the menu, there was cheese, cheese and more cheese.
As we walked around after lunch we found wild bunnies everywhere. Just chilling.
Then we drove around for a while. And we found goats! On a roof! Really!
And if that wasn't enough to pack into one day we drove to Cleveland where we went panning for gems. The kids had a blast and found some goodies in the process too!
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Between trades and buyouts, more than 50 players will be wearing jerseys they weren't wearing a week ago. Fifty. Five-oh, my! We've had three of the league's top 20 players switch conferences (Aw, shucks. You still consider me top 20? Easy, Gerald Wallace. I'm going by my preseason rankings. Oh. Still. Thanks just the same.) The fantasy picture is as clouded as the whiskey sour haze Baron Davis drank himself into at about one yesterday afternoon when he found out that not only would he never throw Blake Griffin another alley-oop, but that only oops left in his season would probably result in a Cleveland turnover. Things just got real in the league, but not so real that our little fake basketball world should ignore it. So I won't. And you won't. And the royal We won't. We will however, ignore last night's rundowns. Only two games. Two of the teams were dealing with unpredictable rosters. LeBron dunked, Rose is fast, I miss Kendrick's sour pucker, I'm going to call Denver the Knuggicks for at least another week. There. Done.
And now onto fantasy basketball trade deadline talk:
Nenad Krstic – It's a shame Semih Erden was traded to Cleveland, because I really think they would have formed a bond while sitting on the bench.
Jeff Green – I said over and over during the preseason that Green was overrated. Then I got berated for saying it. Then he played significantly worse in the first 2/3 of the season than he had in either of his previous two seasons. Now, Green has downshifted from third fiddle to fifth (at best). So … not looking too good for that upswing.
Troy Murphy – I hate to do this to you. I really do. I pushed my luck with Ty Lawson and that mostly blew up in our face, didn't it? So, I'm really, really sorry to suggest you stash Troy Murphy in case the Celtics buy out his contract. I'll tell you what, stash Murph and if it doesn't work out, I'll totally let you punch me in the arm once as hard as you can.
Kendrick Perkins – Perkins to the Thunder surprised me more than the Deron Williams trade. I would have said that Ray Allen was more dispensable than Perkins. Whoops. This doesn't do a whole lot for Perk good or bad. He's still playing among a crowded center position, still likely to start. Serge Ibaka, on the other hand … well, I'll put it this way, if you had to play behind someone, would you rather play behind Perkins or Nenad Krstic? Exactly.
Nate Robinson – He's behind Sefolosha and Harden on the depth chart now. Then again, Harden should be in front of Sefolosha, so maybe Sugar Nate's got a shot (Editor's Note – He doesn't). In other news, Nate's totally gonna cream Durant in Call of Duty as soon as they get back to the hotel bunk beds.
Chase Budinger – Dropped 30 points a night before his immediate superior was traded away. That's like questioning your boss during a meeting, then hitting him in the mouth with a whiffle bat. Actually, it's nothing like that. Still, I'd add him in anything deeper than a 12-team league.
O.J. Mayo – Still a Grizzly.
Rip Hamilton – Still unhappy.
Gerald Henderson – Paul Silas said Henderson was in for some big minutes now that the Bobcats are wholly unwatchable. Have you ever heard Paul Silas speak? Dude's, like, a double-baritone. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, I just know I added Henderson in three of my leagues.
Boris Diaw – 10.2/6.3/4.2, while shooting .464 from the field while Gerald Wallace was out with injury. I imagine he won't do much more than that now that Crash is on his way to another injury (It's Portlandia – call it a hunch). Also, does anyone in Oregon actually refer to Bridge City as Portlandia?
Joel Przybilla – Should be a decent source for rebounds, blocks and ineffective FG%, though he'll still be coming off the bench behind Kwame. Think Andris Biedrins minus the perfectly manicured hair.
Dante Cunningham – Oh, good. Another guy to take Tyrus Thomas' place. How many guys in this league have made a living being the guy they get when they don't get T-Time?
Hasheem Thabeet – He went from playing backup center for a borderline playoff contender, to a … well, another borderline playoff contender where he'll play backup center. But it's different. It is. It just is.
Shane Battier – Back to Memphis. If you own Come Back, Shane!, Tony Allen or Sam Young it's likely that the value of all three are going to dip a bit. On another note, I like the Grizzlies' thinking here. They won't make up for Rudy Gay's offensive weapons, so they pick up a defensive guy in hopes of boring opponents into losses.
Gerald Wallace – This has gotten a bit lost in the massive shuffle of the day, but Crash off-season or no Crash off-season, he's played better than Nicolas Batum or any other Blazer playing the three this season. If you've been patient with Batum, you should probably go ahead and stop being that way. You got to figure some of Wallace's struggles have come from having to play in the apathetic Bobcats camp. I like Wallace's season from here on out. I like throwing him in a situation in which he's necessary, playing for something, energized. He's a maneater (but not in the Nelly Furtado sense), he's a heartbreaker (but not in the Pat Benatar sense), a barracuda (but not in the Heart sense) who simply takes my breath away (totally in the Berlin sense). He's healthy, he's hungry, maybe now he'll be happy.
Marquis Daniels – To the Kings. That is all.
Mo Williams – Dollars to donuts says he's healthy in a week and playing the best ball of his season. Until then, Eric Bledsoe is about as solid a pickup as he was back in November. Which is to say, meh.
Baron Davis – Aaaand Boom-Dizzle goes the dynamite. He's hurt, he's fat, he's on the worst team I've ever seen and it was the most appropriate trade all day.


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I have had a very close experience to this. Different, but one that allowed me to stop looking so hard for answers that really aren't important. Great piece.
I've always been plagued with having a horrible memory. I know people who can recall every detail from elementary school, every friend they sat with at lunch and every birthday gift they ever received. If it wasn't for one of my best friends who has that kind of memory, my high school years would be a blur. If it wasn't for my journals, my past would be mostly lost. My childhood memories are even more splotchy and since I didn't grow up with people who like to talk about things, I've been left to fill in the gaps with snippets of memory and innuendo. My dad can give you an entire history of our family on both sides of the ocean but he shies away from the kind of questions I've always wanted to ask.
Why did you marry my mother? What did your 20 year old self see in a 25 year old woman with 4 kids? Why did you get divorced?
Since I didn't feel comfortable pressing my dad for answers, I asked people on the periphery, who weren't even there when it all happened. They shed some light but I always felt like my story was incomplete. When I'd ask similar questions of my mom, the timing was always off. I'd ask her when she was drinking, or when I was drinking and I never felt like I had the puzzle pieces I was looking for. Eventually I stopped asking.
I have a big family and 6 half-siblings. I have cousins I've never met and nieces and nephews I barely know. I remember being at a family gathering a little over a year ago and watching one of my nieces sit awkwardly and uncomfortably in her chair. I always thought I was the resident outsider but as I looked around, I saw that in one way or another, we were all awkward and uncomfortable with each other.
Not too long ago, that same niece sent me an email asking me if I was willing to answer some questions about our family. I could feel her trepidation through her written words and they felt so familiar; that need to find answers, the hope that those answers will make her feel whole and complete. I know those feelings well. I was so proud of her for having the courage to seek the answers and I wanted to help.
I did my best to provide information but realized that I didn't know all of the answers myself. I had stopped asking long ago or had been afraid to ask in the first place for fear of bringing up sensitive subjects that would upset everyone. As we corresponded, it occurred to me that there was nothing holding me back from asking those questions now.
I'm 44 years old and it's time I get some answers. I'm considerate and caring and I can approach this in a loving, healthy way. I'm going to do it. I'm going to ask every question I've ever wanted to ask.
I decided to start with my mom because we've grown very close over the years. She stopped drinking nearly 18 years ago, me nearly 3 and I knew this conversation would be different from the kind we used to have. I didn't want to jump right out of the gate and ask, "Why did you divorce my dad? Why did you drink?" I started slowly, asking about my grandparents.
We talked about her parents and how Granddad placed an ad for a wife and Mamo responded, about how they moved from Indiana to Arizona to ease Mamo's arthritis. She reminisced about the family road trips back to Indiana that they used to take each summer and the friends she played with. We talked about what it was like for my mom to be pregnant at 15, living in a 2 room shack behind her in laws' 4 room shack, about how much she loved her in laws despite the fact that they didn't speak the same language and about how she had to cut her new husband down after he tried to hang himself for the first time. I found myself asking questions about her life that I had never thought to ask before, questions that had nothing to do with me or my upbringing yet the answers revealed everything about where I came from and told me more about myself than I ever knew was possible.
The questions that I originally came to have answered didn't seem relevant anymore. They didn't weigh as much as they did when I first walked in the door and seemed to float away into insignificance. Unwittingly, I had allowed those old questions to define me and let the lack of answers tell me that I was incomplete. Now, a whole new set of questions and answers set me free from the idea that there would ever be conclusive evidence for why my life was the way it was when I was a kid or why it had turned out the way it had. My life began to look more like a tapestry where each individual thread had little significance on its own and where the beauty could only be seen by stepping back from it. Interestingly, it was the back side, with all its bumpy nubs and poking threads that was the most revealing of all.
I left my mom's not knowing if I would ever ask either of my parents the questions I thought I wanted to ask. After all, I lived those experiences and even if I didn't remember the details, they were inside of me and somehow still accessible. I left knowing that I knew enough and that I am enough.
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I have this memory from when I was 2 years and my mum left home with another man. I remember because I was so young my mum decided to take me with her and they put me in the back of what I recognized as I got older and noticed the symbol, was a Honda car. Once I asked my mother did this happen as I could remember being in the amongst multiple bin bags full of stuff and she was so shocked at this story which I thought was a dream but turned out to be a memory from when I was so little. Amazing?
Sorry! I forget to mention your writing was a super good read. Thank you for sharing it 🙂


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Alexander Skarsgard is now apparently the top runner to take the lead in "The Crow" remake. Please update your t-shirts accordingly, Hot Topics of the world.
I'm not the least bit ashamed that I am petrified of Eric Bana. Olivia Munn not so much. But the two of them together will leave me feeling just fine when they hit the big screen on January 16, 2015 in "Beware the Night". The film is Scott Derrickson's follow up to "Sinister" and follows a New York cop who investigating real life demon possessions, exorcisms and werewolves after dark. So that's just shy of two years away. Get pumped kids.
"The Town That Dreaded Sundown", a remake of the 1976 film with the same name, has found it's leading youngster in the form of newcomer Travis Tope. Tope will plat a high school student who lives in a town that is tormented by a serial killer. He's never done anything before. I have no ammo here. Well played Hollywood.
Rob Zombie was miserable making the "Halloween" remakes, he wanted to make "The Blob" remake dark and gritty and he actually paid some poor company to have "Freebird" in a movie of his. That and other exciting news in this new interview.


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(HealthDay News) -- Beans are a high-fiber source of protein that contain little fat and cholesterol.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests how to prepare and cook beans:
- Add beans to your favorite soups, stews or casseroles, or serve them as a side dish.
- Reduce cooking time by as much as half by soaking beans in advance. To soak them overnight, place them in a large pot with plenty of room-temperature water.
- To soak dried beans more quickly, bring a pot of water to a boil and then add beans, allowing them to soak for up to four hours.
- To ease digestive gas, discard the soaking water, rinse the beans and cook them in fresh water.
-- Diana Kohnle
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BestBlackFriday.com found 96 percent of the top 25 retailers are repeating Black Friday offers from last year, and 80 percent are repeating five or more (they stopped counting at five). Sears was the most likely to recycle — 28 percent of the offers advertised this year were advertised last year, too) — followed by office supply stores Office Depot/Office Max (20.5 percent) and Staples (18.2 percent).
The retailers with the "freshest" deals in 2016 were Dell Home (2.7 percent recycled), CVS Pharmacy (3.4 percent) and Target (4.1 percent).
But if you didn't take advantage of those deals last year, hoping the price would go down, you'll be disappointed to hear it's likely to cost you an average of $11.88 more per item than last year.
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C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the nation's surgeon general by speaking frankly about AIDS and the dangers of smoking, has died in New Hampshire. He was 96.
An assistant at Koop's Dartmouth institute, Susan Wills, says he died Monday. She hasn't disclosed his cause of death.
Surgeons general before Koop were low-profile, but Koop operated from a bully pulpit for seven years during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidencies.
He endorsed condoms and sex education to stop the spread of AIDS, a disease that was identified the same year he was nominated in 1981. The efforts met substantial opposition from conservatives and countered widespread disinformation on the new disease.


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The Last Story is easily one of the last great games that will come to the Wii before the console's lifespan ends. The Mistwalker-developed title is already a success in Japan, and it's currently being localized by XSEED for North America, something a lot of gamers didn't think would happen. Directed by famed Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, The Last Story will offer a grand RPG experience for Wii owners. I had the chance to talk to the game's lead designer, Takuya Matsumoto, and let's just say I left the XSEED meeting room even more excited than I already was to play the upcoming JRPG.
David Sanchez: All right, so the first thing I'd like to talk about is the localization of The Last Story. Was it challenging localizing the game for North American Wii consoles?
Takuya Matsumoto: Well, not necessarily because we already had the Nintendo of Europe English [version]. We were considering doing voice overs and whatnot, but considering the atmosphere — since it does take place in a more European environment — and that's what [Hironobu] Sakaguchi had in mind when he created this game, so we decided to leave everything in as the European version.
DS: What was a major factor in the decision to finally bring The Last Story to North America?
TM: Basically, the stars had lined up perfectly for us. We knew Nintendo had just announced that they were thinking of bringing it over, and our president at the time had connections with the NOA people, and he was sending them love letters. So we were fortunate enough that they agreed — they liked what we were doing.
DS: Obviously, RPGs — and JRPGs in particular — are geared toward a niche crowd, and the Wii is also kind of a niche console, but RPGs and the Wii both have their followers. So what are you hoping to achieve with The Last Story here in North America for JRPG fans and for Wii owners?
TM: Usually when people think about Wii or Nintendo consoles and action-RPGs, there are a lot of games like Zelda that come to mind, but with that crowd in mind, we wanted to create something that's more of a core or niche type of title, because it is more JRPG-ish, but [developer Mistwalker] did have a lot of influences like Gears of War and Assassin's Creed, but we wanted to extend our horizons to people who usually don't usually play these games but can dive into an RPG world.
DS: So it's almost like you're creating something that appeals to the RPG fan and the action-RPG fan, but also bringing in fans of action games and fans of cover-based games.
TM: Usually when it's a JRPG, you get to really strategize what you're about to do because it's turn-based, so you get a lot of time to think about it, but the developers wanted to have that strategical aspect and also a third-person shooter/action game [style], so that's why you see a lot of the covering system, giving allies orders, but also cooperation between your team members within the RPG world.
DS: Is the game going to have a rich story, a lot of character development, and plot twists?
TM: Like a lot of Sakaguchi titles, it does have a grand and really deep story within it, and something that Sakaguchi-san usually does is having a fantasy world but with highly advanced technology within that world. As a story, it is grand, but world-wise, he wanted to concentrate more on the individual characters so you'll see a lot of conversation dialogue and voice-overs that aren't directly linked to the whole of the game, but it really concentrates on the characters.
Another part within that [aspect of the game] that we wanted to do to have more details for the characters — it's a real-time combat system, so unlike a turn-based combat system, they're fighting but you'll see them talking to each other like right now there on the screen (points to The Last Story gameplay footage). Everything is happening at the same time, but you'll hear your teammates talking to you and supporting what to do and what's going on. Like in shooters, it happens all the time, like in Gears of War where you're doing it but you hear other people talking to you, but we implemented it in the RPG world.
So within that, say a cutscene occurs, it won't feel awkward, like you're stopping the game and then you have to watch it. We wanted to have more of a flow: The characters are talking to you in a battle, and then in the cutscenes they're talking to you again.
DS: In terms of the visual style, The Last Story seems to have a very strong graphical presentation. It has that fantasy aesthetic and it's very classic-looking. Was combining that classic look with the more high-tech elements like the weapons an easy decision to come to?
TM: To tell you the truth, The Last Story was originally supposed to be a science-fiction game, not a fantasy game, so that's where we started, but later we switched over to the fantasy side. So we already had the concept of making it more like a shooter game, so not only swinging your sword around but using crossbows, using magic spells — there was more of those actions already implemented into the game, so it wasn't a fantasy world we were adding highly advanced technology to; it was already formed that way, and we just added more fantasy into it.
DS: So it's almost the opposite, a sci-fi world where you added fantasy?
TM: Basically, yeah. Originally, the sci-fi [aspect] of the story didn't work out, but we kept the game system and drastically placed the story into it, so we added more guns and more futuristic events.
DS: Could The Last Story possibly lead to more action-RPGs — not necessarily in this franchise — but maybe some action-RPGs for the Wii U with a similar style from the same development team?
TM: The development team and Sakaguchi-san are looking forward to making more, especially for the Wii U because it has another [screen] right in front of you that will add another level of strategic elements into the action-RPG. So we are really looking forward to it, but we haven't really planned anything.
DS: How many hours are we looking at in terms of gameplay for The Last Story?
TM: About 30 hours.
DS: Are there plenty of side quests and extra things to do in the game?
TM: There's this hub world or hometown [the characters] go through, and in this story they're mercenaries, so there are a lot of quests that people will ask them if they want [to complete]. There are a lot of quests within the city, but even if you go in a different dungeon or a different place to fight, there are always different side quests that you can take on there, as well.
DS: Is The Last Story getting a limited release in North America? There was word about that surfacing on the internet, so could you give us information on whether the game will only be available at select retailers or only for a certain period of time?
TM: We don't have a specific retailer that we're just going to go after. It's not a GameStop exclusive or anything. We did just announce that the first run will be a special pack that comes with the art book.
DS: I saw that and it looks really cool! One last question. Any info on the game's launch window?
TM: Right now we're just saying summer. We're aiming for August/September-ish, but yeah, right now we're just saying summer.
DS: So if The Last Story does hit the Wii by then, gamers can have a pretty cool action-RPG to enjoy this summer.
TM: I hope so!
DS: Well, it looks really good!
TM: Thank you.
DS: Thanks for taking the time to speak with me. I appreciate it!
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When my wife and I got married, we sent friends and family a simple wedding invitation with a response card. Guests could choose between beef and fish. We mailed them a few weeks before the big day, informally tallied the RSVPs, and kept a running tab of entree selections.
Like a lot of things, weddings aren't that simple anymore. We have a save-the-date magnet on our fridge for an upcoming wedding that's a full year away. We know the bride and groom's names, their wedding date, and where the celebration will be. There's even a link to a custom wedding website that details the proposal, the venue, and their love story.
But wedding save-the-dates, like anticipated retirement dates, are just that—placeholders until you're closer to the real thing. As the date approaches, your perspective can change. You may want to move up your wedding date to take advantage of an opening at your venue, or push up your retirement date to travel. Either way, you need to be flexible, understand your options, and adjust your plans (and expectations) as you go along.
The magic number for early retirement
There's no universal definition of "early retirement." Some pension plans allow individuals penalty-free access to their retirement funds as early as age 50. But in terms of Social Security and Medicare, the early retirement ages—when you're first eligible to receive benefits—are 62 and 65, respectively.
Early retirement sounds pretty good to most people. But the discipline and sacrifice needed to adequately prepare for it may be significantly less appealing. Here are some questions to ask yourself to determine if you're up for the challenge. The sooner you know if early retirement is a worthwhile (and realistic) goal, the easier it will be to prepare.
Can I save about a quarter of my income during most of my working years for retirement?
Vanguard generally encourages people to save 12% to 15% of their income, including employer contributions, for retirement. If you want to retire early, that range jumps to 20% to 25%.
If your annual income is $75,000 and you contribute 20% a year to retirement savings, you'll reduce your take-home pay by $15,000 a year (almost $600 a paycheck if you're paid biweekly). Only you can determine if that's a pay cut you can live with long-term.
Am I willing to compromise on big-ticket items?
I don't mean choosing a 60-inch TV over an 80-inch TV. I mean controlling the biggest expenses—housing, cars, and vacations.
For example, most mortgage lenders believe your monthly mortgage payment (including principal, interest, taxes, and insurance) should be 28% or less of your total income before taxes. This is a generous guideline.
If your mortgage takes up 28% of your income, and you save 20% of your income for retirement, you'll only have 52% left to pay for your daily living expenses (utilities, food, clothing, entertainment, child care, health care, transportation, etc.) and save for other goals, such as padding your emergency fund or paying for a child's education.
If you want to retire early, there's not much wiggle room in the percentage of income you have to save during your working years. But you can spend less on housing and other big-ticket items to give yourself a greater percentage of income to live off of.
Will I have guaranteed income to rely on?
Guaranteed income, such as pensions and veteran's benefits, is a stream of money you can count on for the rest of your life. Guaranteed income generally isn't subject to market movements and may even be payable to your spouse upon your death.
You may also be eligible to collect Social Security. Just keep in mind that although you can file for benefits as early as age 62, waiting longer (up until age 70) will give you higher monthly benefits.
Some investors create their own source of guaranteed income by purchasing an annuity at retirement. While annuities pay monthly or annual income for life, there are a few potential drawbacks to consider. Annuities are insurance contracts, so it's important to understand all of the fees and charges before you commit. When you purchase an annuity, you surrender control of your money. This means it won't be accessible in an emergency, and in most cases, it can't be used to fund an inheritance.
It's also possible to draw down your retirement savings to replace your paycheck in retirement. Having a plan that factors in your goals, the percentage of your portfolio you plan to withdraw each year, and the order of your spending is key to making the best long-term use of these assets.
Am I willing to stick to my post-retirement budget … before I retire?
The average retirement spans 20–30 years. If you retire early, you'll be extending that timeframe—so it's important to think long-term.
I encourage clients to come up with a reasonable retirement budget that's designed to see you through your extended retirement. Then test it for a year or more. (You'll still be working, so it won't be a true test of your retirement spending habits, but it can still be a worthwhile exercise.)
For example, if you plan to live off about 80% of your pre-retirement income, you may find you can comfortably live on less. Or you may discover that your ideal retirement lifestyle is likely to be costlier than you anticipated.
Am I prepared to pay for health care?
If you retire before age 65, you won't yet be eligible for Medicare. But you'll still have a few options:
- You can extend your employer's insurance plan for 18 months after you leave your job under federal law (COBRA). Continuing your current coverage can be straightforward—but expensive. COBRA usually costs $400–$500 a month. You pay the same premium you paid while you were working), plus your employer's contribution, plus a 2% administrative fee.*
- You can obtain insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Depending on your income, you may qualify to save on an insurance plan or you can buy coverage on the Health Insurance Marketplace at full cost.
The month you turn 65, you'll be eligible for Medicare. Because much of the cost is subsidized by the federal government, it's usually less costly than private medical insurance.
Do I have a plan for my future free time?
I think it's safe to assume that everyone—even the most satisfied professional—dreams of early retirement at some point. When your work-life balance feels off-kilter, the prospect of having nothing but time can sound enticing. For some, the reality of early retirement lives up to the dream. But for others, it can present challenges.
Set yourself up for success by having an idea of what you want to do in retirement. How do you want to structure your days? Where will you spend your time? If you don't have a plan, you may feel lost in early retirement as you adjust to your new way of life.
There's no easy way to guarantee a happy retirement. But if you can put the qualities that served you well professionally to use when you're retired, you'll be more likely to maintain a strong sense of purpose and satisfaction—feelings that are linked with happiness in retirement.
Do I have support?
Timing your retirement is a big decision. It's a major event that requires years (likely decades) of planning. A financial advisor can help you not only determine a realistic target retirement date, but also help you create a plan (and stick to it) so you can meet your goal.
If you have a spouse, you'll need his or her support too. You don't necessarily have to plan on retiring at the same time, but the changes you'll need to make to your spending and saving habits to prepare for early retirement will affect both of you.
Save-the-date for retirement
I don't have any sage advice for planning a wedding. (I'm afraid I wasn't even much help planning my own.) But I do know that when it comes to planning for an early retirement, the earlier you start, the better off you'll be.
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ALLIANCE, Ohio – No. 1 ranked Mount Union generated 753 yards of total offense in a 72-17 rout of No. 9 ranked Widener (Pa.) in an NCAA Division III Football Quarterfinal Saturday at Mount Union Stadium in Alliance.
The Purple Raiders (13-0) advance to the national semifinals of the NCAA tournament for the 18th consecutive season and extend its home win streak to 67 games.
Mount Union plays No. 2-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas), a 32-20 winner over No. 6 Wesley (Del.), in a national semifinal game Dec. 8 at a site and time to be determined by the NCAA.
Sophomore quarterback Kevin Burke (Westlake/Lakewood St. Edward) accounted for 495 of those 753 yards as he ran for a career-best 115 yards and three touchdowns then threw for 380 yards and two more scores in the air both to senior wide receiver Jasper Collins (Geneva, N.Y./Geneva), who had 102 yards on six catches.
The Raiders top ranked defense held Widener, the nation's No. 4 scoring offense, to a season-low 17 points and total yards (293). Mount Union held Widener to minus-29 yards rushing which was a team playoff record for fewest rushing yards allowed.
Senior Isaiah Scott (Hamilton/Fairfield) had six tackles and an interception while All-American safety Nick Driskill (Wabash, Ind./Southwood) on special teams blocked two punts in the second quarter – including one he returned for a score to spark the Raiders.
Widener (11-1) quarterback Chris Haupt threw for 322 yards on 29-of-64 passing and Philip Ragona and Anthony Davis had 102 and 106 yards passing respectively.
After going three-and-out on the opening possession of the game, Widener then recovered a Mount Union fumble on the Raiders second play from scrimmage and drove 67 yards to take a 3-0 lead on a James McFadden field goal.
Mount Union answered in 1:07 as they responded with a five-play, 64-yard drive to take the lead on a 10-yard Burke pass to Collins.
Widener then drove to the Raider 36-yard line before Haupt threw an interception which Scott picked off at the five-yard line then Burke and the Raiders engineered a 15-play, 95-yard march which Blair Skilliter (Curtice/Genoa) finished with a five-yard TD run on the second play of the second quarter to make it 10-3.
Three plays later, Driskill had his first punt block which gave Mount Union the ball on the Widener 28-yard line and eight plays later Burke ran in from four yards out to extend the lead to 16-3.
Burke and Skilliter would each find the end zone on the next two possessions and Driskill's punt block for a score put the Raiders up 37-3 at the break.
After going up 3-0, Widener was held to seven total yards of offense the remainder of the first half.
Mount Union kept its foot on the pedal in the third quarter with three more touchdowns – a 10-yard rush by Jake Simon (Parma Heights/Holy Name), a Burke eight-yard touchdown and a 36-yard passing touchdown to Collins.
Haupt threw for two scores in the frame – a two-yard strike to Ragona and a 36-yarder to Steve Marrero which made it 58-17 after three.
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Europe - price available in Basket (from 2 working days)
Rest of World - price available in Basket (delivery time dependent on destination)
Please see our Returns Policy for more information.