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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Happy Holidays!
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Merry Christmas Prajakta. have a great time.ReplyDelete
loved the tree and wanted to make it this year but dint get the time....may be next year.
lovely tree....happy new year dear!ReplyDelete
looks amazingReplyDelete
Very colorful and beautiful tree! Happy New Year dear...ReplyDelete
Gosh! Your fruit tree is soooo cute.ReplyDelete
Happy Holidays!
Amazing babes !ReplyDelete
Tree looks awesome .. happy holidays :))
Happy Hoolidays to you too PJ...Beautiful tree..ReplyDelete
Beautiful tree.Bookmarked for next years party.Happy holidays!!!ReplyDelete
This is one beautiful and delicious tree!ReplyDelete
Edible xmas tree looks pretty and damn cute..ReplyDelete
Beautiful and colorful tree.. amazing job !!ReplyDelete
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Merry Christmas and happy new year; what a wonderful change from all the rich and fattening desserts! Love it~ReplyDelete
wish you and your family a very happy new year! and come back soon with regular posts PJ.ReplyDelete
Wish you a very Happy New Year! and waiting for you to restart blogging!ReplyDelete
Hey that looks amazing, real art!!!ReplyDelete
Very artistically done
Hi PJ how are you >>its been long time i did not see any updates..hope everything is fine at ur end.ReplyDelete
knock knock...whats cooking in 2011?!ReplyDelete
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"Bruce Almighty" Sequel in the Works13 Jan 2012
By Lucas Allen (Web correspondent)
As the studio unveils its plans for its 100th anniversary, Variety reports that Universal is planning on a sequel to the 2003 hit comedy "Bruce Almighty". In the film, Jim Carrey played a reporter named Bruce Nolan, who's fed up with the way his life goes and curses God. But then the big guy himself (played by Oscar winner Morgan Freeman) shows him how his life would be better when He gave Bruce His powers.
The film marked Carrey's biggest worldwide hit to date grossing about $500 million! It spawned a less-than-stellar 2007 sequel/spin-off titled "Evan Almighty" with Steve Carell reprising his role as Evan Baxter in a story inspired by Noah's Ark. It only grossed $175 million worldwide. Both films were directed by Tom Shadyac, director of Carrey's earlier hits "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Liar Liar".
The studio is currently in talks with screenwriters Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel, who scripted the hit comedies "Hot Tub Time Machine" and Carrey's "Yes Man". No word yet if Carrey nor Shadyac will return as Carrey is currently filming "Burt Wonderstone" in Las Vegas opposite Carell. However, he has been in talks to reunite with the Farrelly brothers and Jeff Daniels for New Line's proposed "Dumb & Dumber" sequel.
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(Pocket-lint) - Asus has launched a bevy of tablets at this years CES in Las Vegas and we tracked down the Asus MeMo to find out what it's all about and whether you should start saving up for it.
Taking on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Asus Eee Pad MeMo is a 7-inch 1024 x 600 resolution capacitive display, powered by a dual core 1.2GHz Qualcomm 8260 processor.
Other hardware specs include 512MB of RAM, 8GB to 64GB of solid state storage, GPS, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, 3G, a 1.2MP front-facing camera and a 5MP rear-facing camera with an LED flash. There's a G-sensor, e-compass, proximity sensor, and light sensor. There is also mini-HDMI to hook up to your TV.
Running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) the new tablet will offer 1080p playback and offer support for a digitiser pen (stylus) that lets you write rather than having to rely on your finger typing skills with the on board keyboard.
The metal stylus features a rubberised tip that works by pressing down onto the keyboard and convincing the device that it's your finger. The harder you press the thicker the pen's ink. It's going to be great for those who like to draw or illustrate their ideas.
The stylus does stand the Asus MeMo apart from the other Android powered tablets like the Motorola Xoom and the Toshiba tablet also launched at CES this year.
When not in use it slides into the design so if you really aren't fussed you can forget its even there.
Build quality is good, although the design doesn't stand out from the crowd and the truckload of other tablets also released at the show.
Software wise the device we were playing with had Android 2.2 installed. It's been a common occurrence at the show. With Asus promising Honeycomb for the launch you theoretically shouldn't see Froyo on the device at all.
What you will see though is the Asus WaveShare experience. WaveShare brings with it plenty of dedicated apps like an ebook reader as well as funky feature like a battery meter and accelerometer built into the wallpaper if that's your thing. The higher the water level the more battery power you have left. It's clever.
With a June launch slated for the Asus Eee MeMo it's a long time to wait for the tablet to come out and their will be plenty of choice that the Asus model will have to compete against.
Whether it will have the power and the desirability factor from consumers to succeed is going to be a tough call.


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J.M. and Opal B. Peyton to PBK Real Estate LLC, 3.125 acres at 1780 Running Deer Drive, Running Deer subdivision, $206,000.
John F. Gaffney to Scott H. Thorp, 0.061 acres at 3389 Worth Crossing, Forest Lakes townhouses, $178,000.
R. W. Mawyer Inc. to George C. and Rosalyn Hohner, 2.926 acres at 540 Tanager Woods Court, Tanager Woods, $507,981.
Philip J. and Mary Jane MacMichael to Judith A. Curry-El, 115 Commonwealth Circle, Berkeley, $230,000.
Forest Lakes Associates to Timberwood Grill Associates LLC, 1.435 acres at Forest Lakes, $687,764.
Matthew J. and Michelle A. Wright to Daniel K. and Lori C. Brady, 482 Savannah Court, Brownsville Heights, Crozet, $375,000.
Albemarle Housing Improvement Project to Eleuterio and Martha Gomez de Campos, 5.302 acres at 2850 Camp Springs Road, Camp Spring, $153,000.
Stephen B. Evans to Michelle A. Prosser-Evans, 977 Grayson Lane, Redfields, gift.
Clarence H. Swift to Todd M. and Shelby C. Cosgrove, 1.208 acres at 1330 Heavenly Lane, Keswick, $35,000.
James E. and Joann S. McMahon to Randy S. and Daphne Rider, trustees, 2.35 acres at 101 Overlook Drive, $95,000.
Barry Meade Homes LLC to Robert E. Davis and Wendy M. Novicoff, 2.560 acres at 1543 Church Plains Drive, Church Hill, $594,585.
Martha A. Kulp to Kenneth and Gina J. VanWickler, 3.550 acres at 3405 Ridge Road, Brinnington, $210,000.
Andrew R. and Jennifer M. Heck to Michael D. and Alicia M. Milligan, 7.993 acres at 2500 Free Union Road, Owensville, $2,450,000.
Hurt Investment Company to Michael S. and Mari K. Kelly, 99.55 acres at Westview subdivision, $353,000.
Mary P. Jones Haffner, trustee, to Ingle Hill LLC, 65.19 acres at 1319 Ingleridge Farm Road, gift.
Donald Mark and Jane W. Webb to Donald F. Webb, 106 Harvest Drive, Huntington Village condominiums, $250,000.
Elizabeth A. Erwin to Jamie K. Reaser, 212 Greentree Park, Greentree, $162,900.
Church Hill Development Co. to Anne O. and Virgil Lee James III, 0.280 acres at 1103 Autumn Hill Court, Western Ridge, $247,000.
Walter J. and Martina Fuller to Keith T. Long and Lisa J. Chadderdon, 0.369 acres at 1608 Stoney Creek Drive, Mill Creek south, $240,000.
Peggy Anne Wescott to James B. and Diane P. Hurt, 5005 Fairwinds Court, Western Ridge, Crozet, $283,500.
Virgil Lee James III to William E. and Kristine E. Parker, 0.213 acres at 1136 Amber Ridge Road, Highlands, $183,900.
Charles F. and Patrice H. Tucker to Shawn and Katherine Haltiwanger Birchenough, 0.759 acres at 687 Tilman Road, $435,000.
C. Joon Choi and Ryung J. Kim to Walter J. and Martina Fuller, 2815 Stratford Glen Way, Stratford Glen, Forest Lakes south, $444,000.
M. Gabrielle Hall to Koo H. and Sin Ok Jung, 0.324 acres at 1365 Amber Ridge Road, Highlands at Mechums River, $285,000.
Earl H. Burton, trustee, to Church Hill Development Co., lot in Deerwood Village, $150,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Arthur H. and Diane S. Symmes, 3286 Turnberry Circle, Springridge at Forest Lakes, $435,000.
Peter J. and Margaret E. Schmidt to Meghan A. Custer, 1598 Garden Court, Gardencourt Townhouses, $200,000.
Joan G. Phelps to Mary O. Holden, trustee, unit in Worthington Place condominiums, 635 Worthington Drive, $700,000.
Garry L. and Diane L. Gibson to Leigh Ann Haney, 2.009 acres at 3994 Burnley Station Road, Barboursville, $140,000.
Arthur Feiner to Seth and AnnJeannette Feiner, 2.363 acres at 2651 South Haven Acres Lane, $119,000.
Dong Sheng and Nan Mou Fan to Katherine S. Clark, 2102 Timber Pointe Road, Forest Lakes, $240,000.
Wendell W. Gibson Inc. to Diklar and Eunice Makola, 1000 Canvasback Drive, Redfields, $329,364.
Eam Services LLC to Kathleen A. and Ward G. Gypson III, 51 percent interest in 700 Martingale Lane, Hickory Ridge, Earlysville, $232,050.
Farmer Cox Huff Associates to Heather L. Estes, 1585 Birnam Drive, Birnam Wood townhouses, Birnam Wood, $162,500.
Kevin L. Mustain and Jennifer Y. Moreman to Komail and Salma Saifee, 429 Maple View Court, Willow Lake, $182,500.
Vern and Laura Jeul to Richard M. and Christine P. Wiggans, 845 Caitlin Drive, White Oaks, Crozet, $550,000.
Brian W. and Jean E. Mandeville to Carol Sue Whitehouse, trustee, 14.2 acres in four tracts at 4780 Catterton Road, $2,585,000.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to Gregory H. and Tracie T. Harvey, 0.267 acres at 430 Grayrock Drive, Grayrock Orchard, $328,013.
Alexis C. Cabell to John A. and Maureen M. Galdamez, 524 Whitcover Circle, Stonehenge, $155,000.
Church Hill Development LLC to Jeffrey E. and Katherine Hughes, 2.146 acres at 2440 Cascades Drive, Free Union, $316,625.
Matthew D. Davisson to Luke S. Choi, 136 Quince Lane, Willoughby, $173,500.
Christine C. and James L. Camblos III to Jonathan and Shelley Sackier, 3360 Camden Court, Glenmore, Keswick, $577,500.
David T. and Margaret Rose Doherty to Stephen R., Stephanie E., and Karen K. Thomas, 0.401 acres at 5743 St. George Ave., Crozet, $238,000.
Russell E. Strait to Forrest G. and Joyce B. Walton, 0.87 acres on State Route 810, 3034 Boonesville Road, Free Union, gift.
Jerry I. and Gloria D. Baber to Mark S. Brown, 1.39 acres at 1732 Stillhouse Creek Road, Batesville, $90,000.
Medallion Enterprises LLC to Harold J. and Melissa R. Hairston, 3120 Morewood Lane, Highlands, $275,000.
Timothy L. and Joann J. Noel to Ramon R. and Guadalupe Rayas Cervantes, 511 Woodmont Drive, Rio Heights, $225,000.
Brian J. and Christine J. Lazorishak to Patrick Paczkowski and Jane McBrian, 5.0 acres at 1095 Buck Mountain Ford Lane, Earlysville, $274,500.
Paul M. and Jeannie N. Guiliano-Dunn to Daniel A. and Lanier W. Rossignol, 393 Wildwood Court, Wildwood, $236,900.
Jane P. Birckhead, trustee, to Michael E. Bellot and Leslie A. Jones, 2.040 acres at 1981 Lonicera Way, North Pines, $345,000.
JaZan LLC to Shi Zhen Li and Chaufong Sui, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, 122 Turtle Creek Road, $119,500.
Ralph A. and Wendy L. Schultz to Jeffrey A. and Jessica V. Chitester, 2.121 acres at 1506 Buck Road, Crozet, $315,000.
Mir Tagi and Fazila S. Ahmadi to Peter B. and Ann VanGaever Toman, 432 Wynridge Drive, Minor Townhouses, $175,000.
John F. and Motana K. Gaffney to Kathleen J. Coker, 0.109 acres at 2612 Ravenscroft Way, Ravenscroft, Forest Lakes South, $206,000.
Jonathan T. Wren, special commissioner, to Vernon Cobbs, three parcels on Brown's Gap Turnpike, $22,750.
James E. Duncan to Cade and Karen Lemcke, 1043 Highlands Drive, Highlands at Mechum's River, $206,000.
Fieldstone Builder Inc. to Helen Swift-Dovel and Thomas J. Dovel, 3.204 acres at 580 Tanager Woods Court, Tanager Woods, Earlysville, $652,320.
The Rocks LLC to MacMillan Pace LLC, lot in the Rocks, $275,000.
David A. and Ann M. Crochet to Brian J. and Christine J. Lazorishak, 1815 Creekview Lane, Forest Lakes South, $419,900.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to James E., Walker H. and Sargent Duncan, 5457 Hill Top Street, Parkside Village, Crozet, $255,362.
James E. Duncan to Cade and Karen Lemcke, 1043 Highlands Drive, Highlands at Mechum's River, $206,000.
Ralph E. Main Jr., special commissioner, to Carroll W. Shifflett, 29.888 acres at 2980 Burnley Station Road, $450,000.
Browncroft Homes LLC to Michael R. and Lynne M. Ross, 2.835 acres at 925 Nether Springs Road, Wavertree Hall Farm, $115,000.
Walter J. Camp to Blue Ridge Homecrafters Inc., 4.295 acres, $165,000.
Louis W. and Elva Trevino-Hart to Elva T. Hart, 0.398 acres at 477 Fontana Drive, Fontana, gift.
Nancy C. Mazzei to Paula G. and Robert E. Frazier Sr., 0.376 acres at 810 Norwood Lane, Norwood, $218,000.
Barry Meade Homes LLC to Jeffrey S. and Amy C. Boyer, 0.198 acres at 542 Rolling Valley Court, Foxcroft, $257,585.
Aaron P. and T. Suellen Hill to Heather D. and Holly J. Newman, 1645 Cool Springs Road, Townwood, $165,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Robert and Maria Porter, 2530 Leafton Crossing, Walnut Hills, Earlysville, $760,926.
Harrison F. and Norma A. Bartle to Srikanth and Sushmita S. Chinnamatur, 3323 Turnberry Circle, Springridge, Forest Lakes Townhouses, $222,900.
Roger L. Lennon to Armin and Ahmed Smajic, 2307 Williamsburg Road, Berkeley, $165,000.
R.W. Mawyer Inc. to Eric J. and Julie H. Lindenbaum, 2.119 acres at 5270 Tanager Woods Drive, Tanager Woods, Earlysville, $555,000.
Martin M. Treu, trustee, to Peter F. and Barbara W. Rapp, 620 Harrison Street, Scottsville, Tipton House, $410,000.
JaZan LLC to Carolyn C. and Brittany F. Bell, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, 110 Turtle Creek Road, $119,000.
Redlands LLC to Kathleen A. Conderato, 1345 Amber Ridge Road, Highlands at Mechums River, $229,000.
Kevin E. and Petra C. Dowlin to Tyrone B. and Simone E. Tarver, 203 East Monacan Drive, Carrsbrook, $370,000.
Frog Pond LLC to David A. Huynh and Ahn H. Ly, 1032 Carrington Place, Rio Square, $239,950.
Redfields Development Corp. to Craig Enterprises Inc., lot in Redfields, $52,486.
Chad A. and Keri L. Crum to Christopher P. Collins and Natalie R. Bucheimer, 387 Wildwood Court, Wildwood, $249,900.
Southland Homes Inc. to Gary Brent Hartwell, 28 Boxwood Court, Village Homes, $215,950.
Pamela Bosworth to Donna R. Frantzen, 6656 Mountain Light Place, Crozet, gift.
Peter J. and Doris H. Hoehn to Elizabeth W. Lewis, 2.020 acres at 2275 Whippoorwill Road, Whippoorwill Hollow, $410,500.
Samuel I. White, trustee, to Barbara Thompson, trustee, 8.0 acres on State Route 600, $413,413.
Carol H. and Alonzo W. Carruth Jr. to Jeanette M. and Robert F. Babyok Jr., 621 Nettle Court, Redfields, $329,000.
Monica M. Morris to Amy A. and Gregory J. Cooley Jr., 25.28 acres at 626 Beaver Dam Road, Keswick, $376,500.
Betty Jean and Clarence W. Clayton Jr. to Brooke Price-Kaufman, 0.611 acres at 5498 Three Notch'd Road, Crozet, $89,000.
Kenneth W. Akers Jr. to Maureen R. and Jon L. Spokes Jr., 2711 Brookmere Road, Woodbrook, $244,777.
Hong Pei and Runpei Wu to Mark R. Payne, 292 Albert Court, Camellia Gardens, $155,000.
Barbara A. and Sue W. Collins to Loren E. Wolf, 2270 Sparrow Lane, Briarwood, $205,000.
Big Deal
Brian W. and Jean E. Mandeville to Carol Sue Whitehouse, trustee, 14.2 acres in four tracts at 4780 Catterton Road, $2,585,000.


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This post was originally published in The Daily Collegian, Penn State's student newspaper. It was cross-posted to The Huffington Post with permission.
Imagine running for president of the United States in 20 or 30 years.
Your activity on social media in past years will be heavily scrutinized. Perhaps especially from your younger years. What types of things did you post about in college? Who did you most interact with? What were you like?
Of course, not every job out there goes under the magnifying glass like running for president does. But applying for just about any job in the 21st century will subject you to Google searches, social media visits and blog hits. (Not to mention meeting new people, dating and other things you'll do in the future.)
What will searchers see? It depends what you do online every day. That's what shapes your personal brand. It's how people see you. You develop a digital persona over time by what you post, how you post it, and when. Every word can have an impact.
And with the Internet, any word, combination of words, video or photo can be amplified at any time. So you have to keep that in mind as well.
All of your activity on social media and the Web, even right now, even when sharing privately, can re-surface later and have implications years down the road. Private messages to one-time friends could be shared publicly in the future if the friendship fades. Every post, status update, tweet or photo could reappear, and all it takes is one mistake that "goes viral" to haunt you. You want your digital record to appear clean. For it to seem spotless, ideally, or at least as tidy as possible.
Some tips for keeping your digital presence clean?
1. Avoid trolling on the Web, even though it's so easy to do and it's so common. Try not to put other people down. You never know when you'll encounter someone again in the future. Treat others well on the Web, and others will often return the favor, giving you a positive digital identity.
2. Consider staying clear of certain topics that could put you in danger. For instance, use caution when posting about politics, religion or other issues that people typically have strong opinions about; in the heat of the moment, you might say something you'll later regret. Or if you do post about these things, if you want to let people know where you stand, just know you may have to answer to that later.
3. Watch closely for anything you're tagged in. With facial recognition technology of the future, any photo of you at all — even if not tagged — could resurface, so use your best judgment in "the real world" too.
4. Beware of the mentality, "Oh, I can just delete that later." Screenshots can happen at any time. You never know.
5. Take a deep breath every time you're about to hit "Post" or "Tweet" or "Send" (email is part of your Web presence too). Think about how you're identifying yourself to the world, even if it is to just one person because you never know — if not now, years from now.
6. Don't be fake and don't lie. Make sure you're proud of what you're sharing and that it is authentically you. While they often involve fleeting moments, posts to social media can be pulled up again later and make you look foolish.
7. Careful not to be too silly. Understand the offline consequences of treating the Web as a joke — even if you mean something as a joke, it can be interpreted differently, especially when re-visited at a different time. In a lot of contexts, you can get away with jokes, but sometimes they can come back to really bite you.
With some effort, you can go above and beyond tidiness to make your online presence stand out — not just maintaining an active social media presence, but utilizing digital products in creative ways that make you unique. In job searches, for instance, this can really help set you apart.
It's not always easy to see the impact of your online activity, especially when you're young, having fun, experimenting in the world and figuring out your life. It's so easy to get lost in the moment. But what you do online, every moment of every day, can have consequences; you have to take responsibility for it.


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HEADLINE: California ushers in new era with Democrat super majority in Legislature.
How much of a stunner is this really? While it gives the Democrat-controlled Legislature almost unfettered power to enact all manner of laws that affect the average guy, "both chambers of the California Legislature have been dominated by the Democratic Party since 1959 except in 1969 to 1971 when the Republican Party held both chambers and from 1994 to 1996, when they briefly held a majority in the Assembly." (http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_State_Legislature)
The real headline should read: The mess in California is NOT the fault of Republicans.
California was once the darling of the country — the world's fifth largest economy, a magnet for business and innovation, an education system that was the envy of the world. In the past few decades, California has been in steady decline and now ranks among the lowest in education and business climate, its economy has slipped to ninth largest, housing values are prohibitively high, food and oil are among the costliest and excessive taxes and regulations force businesses to seek greener pastures elsewhere at an exodus rate of five per week.
(But the Golden State's weather and scenery are unrivaled!)
What the California dude on the street hasn't realized is that the Democrats he votes for are the very same Democrats who are giving him the shaft.
Here's how. Proposition 30 has been positioned as the last savior for education by imposing higher sales taxes on Californians and a heavier tax burden on higher incomes-supposedly the richest among us, but it really hits small business and some in the middle class hard. As sales taxes creep even higher, consumption will continue to plummet and negatively impact tax revenues. This will not cure education's budgetary ills.
Unlike states with high sales taxes that do not have an income tax — like Washington — California hits citizens with the double whammy — high sales and income taxes. This hurts the little guy, the one the Democrats are supposedly looking out for.
We are over-taxed on virtually everything we do, buy, eat or sell and yet, California is broke. Although it was great to have a whipping boy during the election, it just can't be the fault of the "rich" failing to pay their fair share.
Couldn't our tax revenue problem be the result of profligate spending in our Democrat-controlled Legislature? Couldn't it be that Democrat policies and legislation have pushed away the state's main source of tax revenue by driving off business? Couldn't it be that Democrat policies actually hurt the little guy (and the schools)?
Proposition 30 will supposedly cure our education ills but how many bills, bond measures, propositions and annual funds targeting education have we been asked to support over the years? How much longer must we allocate money to an education system that isn't working until we realize this is insanity? When will Californians understand that Democrat-sponsored taxes, fees and penalties create disincentives to work, produce and live in California and cause tax revenues to dwindle?
California will continue to falter as the Democrats continue to squeeze as much money from the little guy to fund its spending addiction. Eventually, only the wealthiest and the most indigent will remain. California will look and function like a third world country — not the envy of the world. And no amount of good weather or beautiful scenery will attract enough of the hard-working, middle class to stay. And one thing will be certain — it will rest on the shoulders of the Democrats.
Sally Zelikovsky of San Rafael, a leader in the local Tea Party movement, was a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Fla.


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Michael Finke co-authored a study showing that a fiduciary standard was not a barrier to offering financial advice to clients of varying wealth levels, a view that the financial services industry has strongly denied. While Finke (left) found middle-class clients were served no less in fiduciary states like California than similarly situated consumers in non-fiduciary states, the Texas Tech professor told AdvisorOne that non-fiduciary financial services are to some extent associated with increased consumer demand.
He cited a study by two Wharton professors of a remarkable episode in India, where through some regulatory quirk, closed-end mutual fund companies were allowed to amortize their expenses, akin to 12B-1 fees in U.S. open-end funds, for about two years. "Producers responded to take advantage of this window," Finke said.
The Texas Tech finance professor, also a CFP, summarizes the study's finding as follows:
"In markets where some prices are shrouded, the less sophisticated consumers gravitate toward the products with higher prices while the more sophisticated see through opaque pricing and make better choices. This serves the industry [which] can segment the market by sophistication and sell different products to different consumer groups—for example commission funds to less sophisticated customers and lower-fee, direct channel to the more sophisticated—for example, Merrill Edge."
So, while Finke acknowledges that commissions motivate the industry to serve middle-class clients, the questions he asks are whether different compensation schemes could provide that motivation and whether consumers should have precise information about what they're paying for financial advice. And he answers affirmatively to both.
"There are plenty of professions that seem to have been able to withstand consumers' ability to recognize how much they're paying for that service," Finke says.
As an example, he adds that he can't drive two blocks in downtown Lubbock, Texas, without seeing various advertisements competing to offer accounting services. Like law or accounting, "there's enough of a need that they will be able to sell" investment advice.
Moreover, the dominant industry method of providing such services has a demand-depressing effect that is often not considered.
"One of the most important marketing problems that the brokerage industry has is a general lack of consumer trust," Finke says. "There's no question that consumers want professional advice; they need help. Being able to assure a customer that the rep is looking out for their best interest just seems like common marketing sense. If you look at any survey of consumers that asks why they don't seek services, the No. 1 answer is trust. This is an important barrier for the industry to surmount."
Besides restoring trust, the industry must do more to professionalize the provision of financial planning advice, Finke says. "We [need to] train people either at universities or through some sort of continuing professional education format to be able to provide advice that is science-based and unambiguously in the interest of the client," he says.


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Posted on: 11 January 2013
Devon County Council is gearing up for the onset of freezing conditions and possible wintry showers this weekend, and motorists are being advised to take extra care on the county's roads.
Rain is forecast across the county tomorrow, but once that clears there may be sleet and snow showers on high ground, followed by temperatures dropping below zero overnight on Saturday and into Sunday morning.
With run-off from the rainfall, widespread ice and frost is likely across Devon and the County Council's gritters are expected to be out treating more than 2,000 miles of the county's primary and secondary salting network in the early hours of Sunday.
The County Council is warning that driving conditions could be hazardous, particular off the main precautionary salting routes, and freezing temperatures are set to continue into next week.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Highways and Transportation, said: "Our teams are prepared and ready to respond. There is some uncertainty at this stage over how likely it is to snow but we will be monitoring the conditions. We can certainly expect temperatures to tumble over the next few days.
"With roads remaining wet and possible water run-off from fields, particularly on more minor roads, I would urge everyone to be prepared for icy conditions on Sunday morning. Ice can form even form on treated roads, so do take care when travelling."
Motorists are being reminded of the following advice:
• Avoid overnight travel unless absolutely essential as roads will always be more hazardous at night with less traffic and colder temperatures;
• Never assume a road has been salted. Remember that showers or rain will wash salt off roads leaving them prone to ice, and in extreme cold even salting will not stop ice from forming;
• Allow additional time for your journey and reduce your speed;
• Drive with care and according to the conditions;
• If you have vulnerable or elderly neighbours, check to see how they could possibly be helped through the cold spell;
• Listen to local radio for updates on current weather conditions.
For more information and travel advice visit: www.devon.gov.uk/winter
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Microsoft has announced a series of deals which will bring around 40 established media outlets to the Xbox 360 console. The list is long and varied and includes HBO Go, Bravo, Comcast, Crackle, SyFy, and more. The entire list can be seen on Major Nelson's blog, with information on which properties will be available in which regions, and which will require an Xbox Live Gold account. This is an impressive announcement and should help make the Xbox 360 a more powerful force in home entertainment, not just games.
What's unclear is how each media company will offer their content on the system. Some may give up their on-demand services, while others may allow live streaming, and subscription channels will most likely continue to require a standard subscription to the channel via your cable package before you're allowed to watch the content on your console, which would act as your cable box. The real power Microsoft is offering with the 360 is the ability to unify these content providers under one large umbrella.
"Gone are the days of managing a handful of remote controls, trying to remember what movies are available from what service, and hunting back and forth across television inputs," Microsoft explained in a statement released today. "Using voice search with Bing on Xbox, easily look across a variety of branded services and play the programming you want without ever raising a finger. Having trouble finding last night's episode of "The Office"? It's now only a voice command away. Just say "Xbox, Bing, 'The Office,'" and Xbox finds it."
Instead of digging across all the media outlets you have access to looking for a single piece of content, the console itself can do that for you, effectively piling all the different movies and television programs into one big pool that's easily searched. While there are bound to be more details and limitations announced before all this content is added to the system—which is expected to take place before the holidays—Microsoft is making serious moves in the world of entertainment.


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Facebook, Microsoft, IBM and BT have been signed up by the Education Secretary Michael Gove - who thinks Tim Berners Lee is the "creator of the internet" - to offer industry insights into the type of computer science skills British school kids need to be equipped with for the workplace.
A £20,000 scholarship was also announced for graduates with a 2.1 or first class degree to train as teachers in the CompSci field, which is currently suffering from a major skills gap. But the criteria don't exactly appear to be very strict.
It would seem that English Literature grads, for example, can also apply for a scholarship to do a Computer Science Initial Teacher Training (ITT) course. Which isn't a problem for the DfE, apparently, because private companies such as Facebook and Microsoft will do the heavy lifting. They will effectively have a say in how the CompSci curriculum should be shaped by offering "expert" opinions to those individuals training to teach such lessons to school children.
Meanwhile, Gove has completely failed the CompSci exam by proudly proclaiming that Berners Lee invented the internet. Silly boy! We all know that was Al Gore...
The Secretary of State made the gaffe this morning when he said:
If we want our country to produce the next Sir Tim Berners-Lee – creator of the Internet – we need the very best Computer Science teachers in our classrooms. They need to have the right skills and deep subject knowledge to help their pupils.
The cabinet minister is also axing funding for teacher training courses in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), which the DfE has labelled as "outdated". ICT will be replaced by Computer Science lessons from September next year.
According to the DfE, Facebook, Microsoft, BT and IBM will expect fresh-faced teachers trained in the CompSci discipline to demonstrate an understanding of concepts and approaches that include algorithms, data representation and logic.
While the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) is looking for scholarship candidates who can show "exceptional knowledge" and "enthusiasm" in Computer Science, it also gives a nod to the Silicon Roundabout by noting the need for "technology creators and entrepreneurs".
As for the teachers out there who already give schoolkids their ICT lessons, the government has put forward a £150,000 grant that will partly pay for the CompSci re-training of those educators.
Earlier this week, Facebook confirmed it had finally hired 12 engineers at its UK adland office in Covent Garden, London. The company's director of public policy Simon Milner said of Gove's CompSci plan:
It is a positive step to help get high quality computer science teachers in schools, and therefore ensure more young people gain the right skills to join and lead our digital industries.
We get excited by how the work of Facebook engineers and outside developers is transforming the way millions of people communicate, so we can't wait to share our passion and expertise in this area to inspire the next generation.
He might want to start with the Education Secretary, though, who clearly needs a history lesson about the World Wide Web. And given that Facebook has no plans to ever hire more than a handful of engineers in the UK, Mr Gove might ask himself whether the advertising giant should really be consulted on what the nation's schoolkids are taught in computing classes.
Oh, and the DfE may also want to kill off the external link to a fruity escort agency it's publishing on its data protection-lite website under the seemingly vanilla title "ICT Register" (on the right).
As the reader who tipped us off about this sagely noted: "The irony of this may be lost on the policy makers whose job it is to ensure our children don't access this type of material." ®


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'It Follows': Box office curse will only grow
It's best to be on the lookout for It Follows.
The new horror film by director David Robert Mitchell made a big mark during a very limited opening this past weekend — a weekend that featured a Friday the 13th.
It Follows opened on four screens, pulling in $163,453 for an impressive per-screen average of $40,863. It also created a tremendous amount of positive buzz and momentum.
Radius, the specialty arm of The Weinstein Company, will continue to roll out the film in weeks to come.
It Follows comes with rave reviews with a 95% critic score on RottenTomatoes.com, nearly unheard-of marks in the horror world.
"The best reviews of the year, smart horror fans, sex and Friday the 13th combined to deliver an extraordinary opening. We're looking forward to a robust theatrical expansion filled with dread and mayhem," Tom Quinn, co-president of Radius, said in a statement Sunday.
The horror film, first seen at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, follows 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe), who suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter. She can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her.
"It Follows is that rare breed of horror movie that boasts not only the perfect combination of indie street cred and critical acclaim, but it's also perfectly positioned to ride the wave of the growing positive buzz," says Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Rentrak.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – An Alabama man who held a boy hostage in a bunker warned authorities some "very bad things" would happen if they didn't meet his demands, a sheriff said Thursday, shedding more light on the final moments of the standoff.
Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said Jimmy Lee Dykes had two homemade explosives devices and authorities were worried he would set them off and kill the then-5-year-old boy. Officers raided the bunker Feb. 4 after a weeklong standoff and shot Dykes to death. The boy was rescued unharmed.
Olson said investigators still weren't sure of Dykes' motive.
"He kept saying he had a story that was very important to him and that he wanted to get out his story. But we've never been able to find out exactly what his story was. He would never really give us any insights into that," said Olson, who spoke to reporters after he gave a speech on gun legislation to lawmakers.
Investigators were reviewing writings found on Dykes' property to see if they offered any explanation into why he kidnapped the boy off a school bus Jan. 29, the sheriff said.
Dykes killed bus driver Charles Poland and took the child to an underground bunker near his mobile home. He had two explosive devices. One was set off in a PVC pipe but didn't harm anyone because authorities covered it with sandbags. The other device was more threatening, the sheriff said.
"If he had detonated that device, it would have killed him," Olson said of the boy. "We felt like his life was definitely in harm's way."
Dykes had been planning the event for weeks and became friendly with the bus driver, even clearing out a place close to his property where Poland could turn the bus around on the dead-end street.
Officers communicated with Dykes from the beginning by using the PVC pipe that led to the bunker. The sheriff said Dykes initially appeared focused on the child's safety, but that changed as the days passed and negotiations deteriorated.
He said Dykes gave officers a deadline to do things or else "some bad things would happen." The sheriff wouldn't say want those demands were.
Authorities, including the FBI and Alabama Bureau of Investigation, had developed different plans about what to do if that moment arrived, and they decided to act, he said.
The 40-year-old sheriff, who has two young daughters, said he handled the tense days with his children always on his mind.
"I don't want to look like a big boob and start crying. Now I do love my children, and I could only imagine what it would be like if that would have been my child. That's why I tried to do everything possible I could to make sure we had a safe return," he said.


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For some weeks now, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and most of the major Canadian banks have been warning that the record low interest rates of the past several years are over, and that a hike - perhaps even several - is on the horizon. At the same time, the banks have been offering truly incredible deals on longterm fixed rate mortgages, some of them barely higher than prime.
So all of this leaves the variable-rate mortgage holder with the inevitable question: Is it time to lock in from a variable to a fixed rate? Well, as it turns out, the answer is a indisputable, unequivocal - maybe.
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Both Governor Carney and Finance Minister Flaherty have repeatedly expressed concern at the level of consumer debt Canadians have racked up over years of low interest rates, and rate hikes can be an effective way of cooling excessive credit spending and encouraging us to pay down what we owe. Mr. Flaherty recently made some adjustments to the mortgage rules, designed to soften the rate of mortgage debt Canadians are taking on, though some bankers are arguing the new rules are comparatively toothless. (We'll explore this in more detail in a later column.)
If you're willing to shop around, it's possible to get some real deals on fixed mortgages right now. As of this writing, you can get a five-year closed for as little as 3.09%. According to David Potter, an independent financial planner and the principal of Potter & Partners in Toronto, these deals won't be around forever, and it's unlikely that you'll lose in the long run if you grab one of them, especially if you're taking out a new mortgage or renewing.
Mr. Potter is making the case with many of his clients that they consider locking in to the low long-term fixed rates. The most pertinent issue to ask yourself, he says, is how much uncertainty you can handle - since perhaps the only thing the experts agree on is that no one really knows what the world economy will look like even a year from now. The reassurance of a consistent mortgage payment, no matter where interest rates go from here, takes some of the worry out of being a mortgagee; and if you lock in to one of these bargain rates, you'll be sitting pretty when rates eventually do start to go up.
But before you go running to the bank, consider the other side of the coin. Kathryn Kotris, a mortgage broker with Mortgage Architects in Toronto, is recommending to at least some of her variable-rate clients that they resist the urge to panic. "Even though some indicators point to the possibility that rates are set to rise, I don't believe we will actually see a hike at least until the end of this year or early 2013," she says.
The principal reason for her skepticism, she says, has to do with the lacklustre state of the international economy; if we were to unilaterally raise our rates even slightly, the value of the Canadian dollar would automatically rise, hurting exports and possibly putting the brakes on the modest growth we've managed since the end of the recent recession. Add to that the simple fact that inflation, the prime target of Bank of Canada monetary policy, is virtually nonexistent at the moment, offering little pressure to move just yet.
If you have a variable rate at prime less a half-point or more, Ms. Kotris says, hang on to it; the banks are no longer offering these highly attractive rates. Current variables as of this week are at 2.79% to 4%. (For new or renewal mortgages, Ms. Kotris, like Mr. Potter, is recommending the long-term fixed rate products.)
Worried about your mortgage payment going up if there's a rate hike? Ms. Kotris has a simple answer. If you have prepayment privileges, and you can voluntarily raise your regular monthly payment by even a few dollars, go ahead and do it; the extra money will go directly toward the principal, and there's less shock to the budget if rates go up later. If you have a variable now and move to a fixed, you will be paying a higher monthly payment and that difference between the variable payment and fixed payment goes to the bank because of higher interest.
"If I needed help to sleep at night, I'd sleep a lot more soundly knowing those extra dollars were paying off my principal, rather than just enriching the bank," she says.


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PS4 won't support voice chat via existing headsets
Existing Bluetooth headsets won't work with the PlayStation 4, apparently, and even USB jobbies won't be compatible until after launch.
The news comes via GameInformer, which received its information directly from Sony. According to the platform holder, existing headsets just won't work for voice chat on the PS4 – not even the Sony Pulse or official PS3 accessories.
A system update issued sometime after the PS4's launch will make it compatible with current USB headsets, but existing Bluetooth headsets are not supported at all.
Presumably, new, PS4-friendly first- and third-party headsets will be released at or close to the console's launch – but that's no comfort for those who've recently splashed out on a new headset that won't work with their new hardware.
It's worth noting that the PS4 comes bundled with a mono headset, so you won't be left with no option for voice chat at all.
The PS4 launches in November.
Thanks, Polygon.


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- Partial-page rendering support for the entire component set
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Solange Knowles Reveals Her "Addicting Obsession" -- To Nail Art!
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She's proven herself to be adventurous with her nails, sporting manicures that feature everything from domino dots to the Union Jack. And now, Solange Knowles is fessing up to her nail addiction in her MySpace blog. The singer — and little sister of Beyonce — reveals, "For about the last 2 years I've had an addicting obsession with nail art and design. Call it 'Ghetto-fab' of me, but yo, I've seen some artists who need to have their [work] in museums." Click here to check out more of the newest celebrity nail trends. Then tell us: Do you rock nail art? What's the most original design you've seen?


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SPUR's housing agenda:
• Zone for more housing—in the right locations.
• Invest in permanently affordable housing.
• Enable more housing to be affordable by design.
• Rethink parking requirements.
• Encourage secondary units.
• Get housing development fees right.
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Our housing agenda for San Jose lays out 20 concrete steps the city can take to address the chronic housing shortage, ranging from fixing its planning process to finding more funding for affordable housing.Read More
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Following up on THIS EXPLAINER.
♦ Obviously Chairman Devin Nunes has placed himself outside the rails of Deep State. ♦ The UniParty now wants him removed. ♦ Nunes has become a risk. ♦ Brutally obvious questions being ignored by media become focus of wider electorate.
2017 Congressional Intelligence Oversight "Gang of Eight"
Chairman Nunes is the only member of the Intelligence Oversight Gang-of-Eight who has reviewed the executive level intelligence product which caused him concern. Nunes alleged in the last week he received evidence that Obama administration political figures gained access to unmasked American identities through foreign intercepts involving the Trump transition team between November 2016 and January 2017.
Media and congressional leadership intentionally skip the obvious questions:
♦ Why don't the other seven members also go look at the same executive intel?
• Why, instead of looking at the same data, does the entire UniParty political apparatus and DC media now seem intent on eliminating Devin Nunes?
• Why doesn't Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or Mark Warner simply go look at the same executive intelligence product?
• Why doesn't Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell or Richard Burr simply go look at the same executive intelligence product?
• Why doesn't any member of the DC media ask such brutally obvious questions?
• Why is the DC UniParty both intent on not looking at the intelligence and simultaneously intent on removing Nunes, and getting the investigation removed from the House Intelligence Committee (Nunes/Schiff) and over to the Senate Intelligence Committee (Burr/Warner)?
• What is it about that Executive Office Level Intelligence Product the gang-of-eight are all so desperately afraid of?
• Why would the Senate launch another entire congressional intelligence inquiry, when the head of the Senate Intelligence Committees, Burr and Warner, are desperate NOT to see the intelligence product that causes Nunes such concern?
• What does that say about the intent of a committee when they refuse to even look at the intelligence reports they are supposed to be investigating?
These are all simple questions that hang above the political chaff and countermeasures.
These are also simply questions that explain why President Trump made this simple request:
Notice how in the three months since that request was made by President-Elect Donald Trump, only one member of congress has actually done what was requested. That member is Devin Nunes.
Now look at what's happening around Devin Nunes.
The brutally obvious reality behind these simple questions highlights something much more than the simple SWAMP. The reactive behavior is not confined to current DC politicians or the media surrounding DC.
What we see now, is a response by multiple elements more aptly called "Deep State".
Carly Fiorina, a former member of the CIA advisory board, calling for an independent commission seems rather odd when you accept the reality that current congressional oversight officials are refusing to even look at the current intelligence.
Odd, that is, until you realize such a request is a way for a Deeper State to protect itself.
Devin Nunes is the only official who has viewed the intelligence, therefore Devin Nunes is now a risk – he must be removed. Similarly, the committee which Devin Nunes chairs is also a risk; because if Nunes is successful his committee will not be able to look away from the intelligence product(s) he puts in front of them.
Effective this week, the UniParty has deployed Senator Richard Burr and Senator Mark Warner as countermeasures. –EXPLAINER HERE–
Richard Burr needs to play the role formerly occupied by: Darryl Issa, Jason Chaffetz and Trey Gowdy:
The countermeasure or controlled opposition role was originally assigned to Chairman Devin Nunes.
Unfortunately Mr. Nunes did not comply with his role, he took a greater loyalty to the presidency, and to his oath-of-office, than to the UniParty/deep-state, and thus Nunes must be removed in favor of Senator Burr.
Senator Richard Burr will now play the role of political countermeasures.
Nothing more.
Once you see the strings on the Marionettes, it's impossible to go back to a time when you couldn't see them.


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Looking for changes:
Im working on washing clothing and keeping the apartment clean, those are two big ones , the biggest ones...
Ive used scattered avoidance to hide under. Now, Im slowly working my way out of it because I want relationships.
cloths need to be washed! I was at a meeting today, and I began to sense the guy behind me! It was gross, I ran to the other side of the room! if that is what Im like around others, I have to change things, specifically if Im going to get a girlfriend.
The apartment has to be organized and clean. Something has to change at home. Im hiding and avoiding.. Ive got to pray and come up with something other then a messy apartment!
Im working on art work again!
Social interaction has increased about 10% on a steady flow!
Im starting at zero! Im at that point of pure mental illness problems getting in the way! Im looking forward to changes in this area. Im looking forward to learning how to handle the PTSD dissociative problems when around people!
I have my work cut out for me! Lots of work in this area.
Looking back at my memories, I see all those years without knowing what was wrong with me, therefore, I could not work on the problem!
I have allot of retracing to do; lots of humiliating memories! I have to work past them or through them. I had my whole life ripped away, I remember up to the age of 9, then again, 11 I think, then 14, 15, parts of 16, then I was gone! Not sure.. So many blank spots... and not one person cared.
If you do not ask me who I am, or care about my story or you repress my identity, you are no friend of mine!
neglect is what the nazi's did to the jews in the ghettos of Poland; letting them wonder around the streets until dead! How horrible! and Ive been through my own version of this by those who had contempt for me and for children and for the human spirit, truth, honestly, God, and decency.
Is it not possible to find people or the right people to care about me!
I was driving with someone today! I do not drive, I do not have a car! I asked for a ride, that was a plus thing!
The person driving the car was OK. She allowed the conversations to lead into semi private areas, However, there was this feeling of keeping everything surface unless I was her friend. Obviously I was not her friend...
Im an intelligent man, I hate it when Im with someone that holds me out of the general group. I have no " in" Im left out!
Im, learning, Im slowly developing!
Im praying for the next 90 days or 6 months to uncover a stronger me!
I went through my own holocaust! and ive lived to tell about it! It was unfair! I did nothing to deserve what happened to me! It should have been illegal! I am just barely starting to have the strength to come out of it. The future will tell how well I do!


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The New York Times to sell The Boston Globe
LOS ANGELES The New York Times (NYT) said Wednesday that it is putting The Boston Globe and its related assets up for sale four years after it called off a previous attempt to sell the newspaper.
Mark Thompson, the Times' chief executive, said in a statement a sale would be in the best long-term interests of both properties, "given the differences between these businesses and The New York Times."
The newspapers' differences are stark. The Times has a national -even international- audience. Last year, it even launched a Chinese-language website. The Globe is focused on its readers in the New England region.
Thompson said the sale would help the company focus on The New York Times' brand and allow the company to devote more resources to journalism.
Along with the Globe, the Times plans to sell the Worcester Telegram & Gazette; the publications' related websites; the Globe's direct mail marketing company, GlobeDirect; and a 49 percent interest in Metro Boston, a free daily newspaper for commuters.
The Times bought the Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion from the family of Stephen Taylor, a former Globe executive. But the newspaper has faced difficulties in recent years as advertisers cut spending on newspapers and moved more ads online.
- Lessons from The New York Times cyber-attack
- The New York Times in talks to shed About.com
- The New York Times hires BBC chief as next CEO
A round of cost cutting in 2009, which involved pay cuts, helped put the newspaper on better financial footing. It prompted the Times to call off a planned sale and rebuff the offers of several bidders. In late 2011, The Globe started charging for access to its online version at BostonGlobe.com. The move helped boost circulation revenues.
Times doesn't separate Globe revenue from Times revenue in its financial statements. But The Globe had an average weekday circulation of 230,351 in the six months through September, up 12 percent from a year ago, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. The newspaper's increase in digital subscriptions more than offset declines in print.
Wednesday's announcement follows the sale of several Times assets in recent years.
In September, the newspaper company sold its About.com website and related businesses for $300 million to Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp. In January 2012, the Times sold its regional media group to Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million.
Analyst Edward Atorino with The Benchmark said he views the sale as part of a strategy by the Sulzberger family that controls the Times to delist as a public company and go private.
"They're selling everything not nailed down," Atorino said. "The family will simply take the Times private. That's the only logical end game."


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The Vulcan Science Academy (abbreviated as "VSA") was an educational institute located on Vulcan. As late as the 2250s of the alternate reality, no Vulcan had ever declined admission. (Star Trek)
Graduates could apply for the Vulcan Expeditionary Group. (DIS: "Lethe")
T'Pol's mother, T'Les, was an instructor at the Vulcan Science Academy until 2154, when she was asked to resign. (ENT: "Home")
In the mid-2150s, the Vulcan Science Academy was skeptical on the issue of time travel. (ENT: "Awakening")
The Vulcan Science Academy also spent a deal of time studying sub-quantum transporting but had little success. Earth's expert on transporters, Emory Erickson, had been trying to get his hands on some of the Science Academy's research for years to no avail, but later claimed that it was probably just as well, as it might have sent him down the wrong path. (ENT: "Daedalus")
Michael Burnham was the first Human to attend the Vulcan Science Academy. She attended the Science Academy from 2245 to 2249. (DIS: "The Vulcan Hello", "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry") Burnham studied quantum mechanics at the institute. (DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")
In 2249, Spock decided to join Starfleet rather than attend the Vulcan Science Academy, against the wishes of his father, Sarek. Spock's decision was motivated by the realization that he would never be seen as an equal by the staff, only as someone who had "overcome the handicap" of half-Human parentage. (TOS: "Journey to Babel") In the alternate reality, Spock likewise declined an invitation to study at the Vulcan Science Academy as they also considered his Human mother a "disadvantage". (Star Trek)
Prior to the sealing of the ruins in the mid-23rd century, the VSA excavated archeological sites on Tagus III. The Jacobson Excavation recovered artifacts from the Post-Ramirez Era and Sepulveda Period. (TNG: "Qpid")
From 2354 to 2369, the director of the Vulcan Science Academy was Dr. T'Pan. (TNG: "Suspicions")
In the late 2360s, the USS Merrimac was on special assignment for the academy. (TNG: "Brothers", "Chain of Command, Part I")
In 2387, the Vulcan Science Academy commissioned the Jellyfish. (Star Trek)
See also
External link
- Vulcan Science Academy at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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Vail's Scott Carpenter takes his last flight
VAIL — Astronaut Scott Carpenter flew to the heavens, and the top of Vail Mountain on a powder day was as close as he could get on this earth.
Carpenter, astronaut and Vail resident, died early Thursday morning. He was 88.
Carpenter was the second American astronaut to orbit Earth and lived in Vail for more than 25 years.
"He had that worldwide perspective of having seen the entire planet," Patty Carpenter, Scott's wife said Thursday afternoon. "After space and under water, the next best view for him was looking at the Gore Range."
"We'd stand at the top of Vail Mountain on a powder day thankful that we are lucky enough to live here," Patty said.
Carpenter suffered a stroke earlier and was in Denver Hospice at the time of his death, Patty said.
"They're a fantastic organization and helped us through our grief, and certainly helped Scott," Patty said.
Carpenter's death leaves John Glenn, 92, as the last living member of the Mercury 7 team, NASA's first group of astronauts. Carpenter was selected in 1959 from more than 100 candidates.
Carpenter was a Vail fixture, stunning people in recent years as they strolled through Vail's farmers market. They'd spot him sitting in a booth, greeting people who'd done a double take and could barely believe that there — right there! — was an astronaut and American hero, who was smiling at them and selling books on a warm, sunny Rocky Mountain afternoon.
"He loved Vail, not just for the skiing but for the wonderful people who live there," Patty said.
During his first trip to Vail, April 1963, Carpenter was making his way up Bridge Street to find a place to fix his torn ski pants. He strolled into Vail Blanche ski shop and was immediately recognized. One thing led to another, and two days later, Carpenter was skiing down China Bowl with Dick Hauserman and some other Vail pioneers — this was decades before China Bowl was open to skiers.
"Having been born and raised in Boulder, and having long-time family roots in Colorado, I didn't need to be reminded of the joys of skiing," Carpenter wrote in the forward to Hauserman's book, "The Inventors of Vail."
Carpenter was an accomplished horseman. His whole family plays the guitar.
He was a great athlete, gymnast and diver, and went to Russia with the national trampoline team after his space flight, Patty said.
He loved to camp at his ranch in Steamboat with his family, and he loved to ski, Patty said.
'God speed, John Glenn'
Carpenter is fondly remembered for his radio call, "God speed, John Glenn," when Friendship 7 lifted off and Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, Feb. 20, 1962. Carpenter was Glenn's backup pilot for that flight.
Three months later, May 24, 1962, Carpenter became the second American in orbit when he piloted his Aurora 7 capsule through three orbits around Earth.
That made him the fourth American in space, the second to orbit the Earth, and the sixth man worldwide to leave the planet.
During his Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, Carpenter circled the Earth three times. He was in space four hours and 56 minutes. He became the first American to eat solid food in space, energy snacks called Space Food Sticks, small square cubes composed of chocolate, figs and dates mixed with high-protein cereals.
Carpenter called the last 30 minutes of his flight "a dicey time." He landed 250 miles from his intended landing spot. Navy crews finally spotted the orange life raft he was floating in.
Shorty Powers, the voice of NASA's mission control, finally announced, "An aircraft in the landing area has sighted the capsule and a life raft with a gentleman by the name of Carpenter riding in it."
Lt. Cmdr. Carpenter and his family were guests of President Kennedy in June 1962 after the Carpenters were honored at parades in Denver and Boulder and honored at City Hall in New York.
At commencement a few days following his space flight, the University of Colorado gave Carpenter a degree in aeronautical engineering, citing his "unique experience with heat transfer during his re-entry." He had not completed a course on heat transfer as a CU senior in 1949.
Aurora 7 was Carpenter's only spaceflight. A motorcycle accident in 1964 left him with an injured left arm.
He moved from outer space to inner space when, in the summer of 1965 he became the first astronaut to become an aquanaut. He spent 30 days on board the Navy's Sealab II, an experimental habitat in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. He worked on the ocean floor, 205 feet beneath the surface.
When he returned to NASA, he helped develop underwater training to prepare astronauts for space walks.
Since Carpenter's stint aboard Sealab, 38 astronauts have followed him into the ocean.
Carpenter retired from the Navy in 1969 and pursued several private businesses, including one as a consultant for spaceflight and oceanography movies.
He wrote two novels as well as a memoir titled "For Spacious Skies," his 2003 autobiography written with his daughter Kris Stoever.
Carpenter was born May 1, 1925, in Boulder. His family moved to New York City when his father, Marion, got a job as a research chemist. His mother, Florence, contracted tuberculosis when Scott was a child, and she took Scott back to Boulder when she returned to be treated.
He joined the Navy as an aviation cadet in 1943, but World War II ended before he earned his wings. He entered the University of Colorado afterward and received a Navy commission in 1949.
He flew patrol planes in the Pacific during the Korean War, then trained as a test pilot. In April 1959, he was among the seven military pilots chosen as the Mercury astronauts.
He is survived by Patty Carpenter, his wife, and his children: Jay Carpenter, Kris Carpenter Stoever, Candy Carpenter, Matt Carpenter, Nick Carpenter and Zack Carpenter, one granddaughter and five step grandchildren.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continued to file a record number of enforcement actions against investment advisors this year and increased its pace of actions against broker-dealers.
The SEC filed 147 enforcement actions against advisor and investment companies in 2012, one more than last year's record number, and the number of actions this year against BDs jumped significantly—with the agency filing 134 enforcement actions related to broker-dealers, a 19% increase over the previous year.
The number of whistleblower tips is also on the rise. The agency announced Thursday in its 2012 Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program that it had received more than 3,000 whistleblower tips from all 50 states and from 49 countries. The report was required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and summarizes the activities of the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower.
"In just its first year, the whistleblower program already has proven to be a valuable tool in helping us ferret out financial fraud," said SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro, in a statement.
As to enforcement actions taken in all areas of the SEC's jurisdiction as of the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, the Commission says that building on last year's record results, it filed 734 enforcement actions, one shy of last year's record of 735.
Most significantly, the SEC says "that number included an increasing number of cases involving highly complex products, transactions, and practices, including those related to the financial crisis, trading platforms and market structure, and insider trading by market professionals." Twenty percent of the actions, the agency says, "were filed in investigations designated as National Priority Cases, representing the Division's most important and complex matters."
The SEC also announced that it obtained orders in fiscal year 2012 requiring the payment of more than $3 billion in penalties and disgorgement for the benefit of harmed investors, which represents an 11% increase over the amount ordered last year. In the past two years, the SEC says it has obtained orders for $5.9 billion in penalties and disgorgement.
"The record of performance is a testament to the professionalism and perseverance of the staff and the innovative reforms put in place over the past few years," said Schapiro. "We've now brought more enforcement actions in each of the last two years than ever before including some of the most complex cases we've ever seen."
Other areas of enforcement actions taken include financial crisis-related cases, which included 29 separate actions naming 38 individuals, including 24 CEOs, CFOs and other senior corporate officers, regarding wrongdoing related to the financial crisis.
The SEC also filed 17 enforcement actions related to municipal securities, more than double the number filed in 2011.
Check out last week's enforcement roundup: FINRA Enforcement Roundup: Hudson Valley CEO Barred Over Sneaky Day Trading, Fraud at AdvisorOne.


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I want to stream the audio off my tv(Using a soundCard Input) in my house to my phone and use the headphones on the phone!
I have tried to use IcestCast(http://icecast.org/) + darkIce(https://github.com/rafael2k/darkice) but i have a delay of 8 seconds!
Someone know a better way to stream the audio on RP3 without delays ?
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The Raceboard and Techno 293 South American Championships, hosted by Club Nautico Cordoba, takes place from 28th March to 1st April. The organization of this event is part of the celebrations for the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Windsurfing Club of Cordoba. Racing will take place on the waters of San Roque Lake, Cordoba, home to many of Argentina's top racers including olympian Mariano Reutemann.
Competitors will attend from many regions of Argentina including Mendoza and Buenos Aires. Entries are expected from Brazil, Uruguay and USA, plus a big team of young Techno racers from Peru.
Other raceboard competitors include, from Argentina: Marcelo "Chelo" Rodriguez Pons, 1990 Division II World Champion; Marcos Galvan, gold medal in the Pan-Americans of Winnipeg, Canada; Fernando Consorte, 2012 South American Champion.
The San Roque Lake is a reservoir (artificial lake) in the Cordoba region of Argentina. It was created by the damming of several rivers, especially theSuquia and the Cosquin. It is located next to the city of Villa Carlos Paz, about 600 m above mean sea level. San Roque Lake was for some time, the biggest artificial lake in the world.
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Check the Facebook page of the Cordoba Windsurfing Association, for all the news during the event.
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3taps Is Raring to Fight Craigslist Over Data Access
The CEO of a company sued by Craigslist earlier this week said he's armed (with legal precedents, not weapons) and ready to fight the local classifieds giant.
"We believe Craigslist is acting like a copyright troll," said Greg Kidd, who founded the data exchange 3taps in 2009. He contends that basic information in an exchange can't be covered by copyright. "Just because you can write a snarky TOU doesn't make it so."
Craigslist sued 3taps alongside PadMapper, a site that provides an alternate interface with sorting tools for apartment listings. That followed an earlier exchange in which Craigslist forced PadMapper to take down its Craigslist-sourced data, but then the site turned to 3taps to bring back Craigslist posts.
A week ago, Craigslist filed a lawsuit in federal district court against PadMapper and 3taps, alleging copyright and trademark infringement, breach of contract and unfair competition, among other claims.
But 3taps says it is specifically designed in order to not gather data directly from Craigslist — which has historically expressed concern about added pressure on its servers from aggregators. Rather, 3taps uses methods such as scraping cached pages on search engines.
The San Francisco-based company is quite focused on its crosstown neighbors at Craigslist. 3taps rather blatantly labels its service as "Your One-Stop Craigslist API," and it had built its own alternative interface to Craigslist, called Craiggers, which is still live but no longer linked from the 3taps front page.
It's clear that 3taps is raring for a fight. Here's Kidd's somewhat ominous description of the situation, in an email to AllThingsD:
"We may be tech geeks, but there's another side to our doings on the public policy side of the ledger.
"And bite they did."
Kidd — who was formerly an analyst at the U.S. Federal Reserve and was an early investor in Twitter and Square — said 3taps has retained Morrison Foerster's copyright team in order to fight Craigslist over the issue of what exactly is in the public domain.
Craigslist has a history of aggressively protecting its classified postings by sending cease-and-desist letters to outside developers and filing lawsuits against them. It will be interesting to see if 3taps taking the company head-on could help set a legal precedent on the matter.
For his part, Kidd clearly didn't give me the standard "we can't talk about pending litigation" line, instead rattling off references to a couple of Supreme Court decisions over whether facts can be copyrighted.
3taps as a company is working to prepare a set of public statements about its position that tries to paint Craigslist as anti-innovation and immensely profitable, despite describing itself as a benevolent community caretaker.
But the specific legal issue is about data access. Here's that talking point, as sent to AllThingsD in a draft Thursday night:
"Craigslist can't have it both ways; either they make their users' data available to search engines in order to drive website hits, or they keep it private. But not both."
To be fair, Craigslist does allow some developers access to its data, but that's specifically through a license for display on mobile devices.
Craigslist has not replied to requests for comment on the matter. A month ago, founder Craig Newmark tweeted a statement of sorts: "folks, please remember, #craigslist community feedback massively against the use of their stuff for the profit of others."
Meanwhile, PadMapper developer Eric DeMenthon was a bit more conciliatory when we talked with him about the lawsuit earlier this week. "I wish we had just been able to talk and reach a reasonable solution, but they weren't willing to talk with me about it," he said. "I would have been willing to do quite a bit, including shutting down whatever they thought was competitive about the site."
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