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Battle of the Zac Posen: Miranda vs. Charlotte vs. Samantha
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In one scene from the Sex and the City movie they were filming last week — I won't give away more than that, wouldn't want to spoil the movie for anyone! — Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha all wear Zac Posen dresses. Miranda looks ravishing in a cobalt blue floor-length number and Samantha is radiant in red ruffles, both from Posen's Spring 2008 collection. Meanwhile, Charlotte went all-out in an architectural black mermaid gown from Zac's Fall 2007 collection. But most importantly: who wore Zac best?!
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liannecamille 6 years
I would've chose Sam, but she was wearing those sneakers! Yack!
tati33 6 years
Love Miranda's dress.. Charlotte - that dress is just bad for anyone!
jtaime_xoxo 6 years
Royal blue!!!!!!!!!
starkiss23 6 years
Poor Charlotte in that black disaster..
sexyeyes 6 years
I chose Charlotte b/c she finally steped out of her box.
fireyelectra 6 years
That black dress isn't doing anything for Kristen Davis other than making her look shorter and a lot plumper--which a black dress isn't supposed to do!
nikkih 6 years
anaid 6 years
Miranda's dress is best one, Samantha's is pretty nice too I think, Charlotte no comment.
graciepants 6 years
blue, miranda all th eway but the reds nice too. Black is yucky
graciepants 6 years
blue, miranda all th eway but the reds nice too. Black is yucky
candi_s 6 years
miranda! cuz can i just say that this movie is finally upping her in the style stakes!
lovethatbag 6 years
I voted Miranda. Charlotte's dress is like nails on a chalkboard. Hideous. & P.S. All I see are her arms and they look really bad in the photo. Not toned at all. You'd think she would be rock solid given this is THE movie for her.
nlw 6 years
Charlotte looks awful in this pic. But in other ones that I've seen of her in this dress, she looks just beautiful. But I still think Miranda looks better.
sofi 6 years
Ok, I saw another pic of Charlotte that was very lovely, but this is off. Doesn't this look kinda distorted like one of those fun house mirrors to anyone else? That photo is off.
alisonanne 6 years
that colour of blue is perfect on miranda. not sure if it's just the picture, but charlotte looks quite large in her dress and she is definitely not a big person. samantha was a close second for me, her dress fits her really well.
MDF20 6 years
Miranda FTW. That shade of Blue is striking!
gruaig_rua 6 years
Miranda, hands down! Samantha looks like she's entering "Dancing with the Stars". And Charlotte's about to go trick or treating.
GIOVS 6 years
well, i think miranda looks great in that color, but the shape of the red dress is better
yaddayaddayadda 6 years
i love the ornate structure of charlotte's but find something slightly off. it just doesn't seem to fit her... miranda is stunning! her ensemble is the most flattering by far.
any 6 years
thats 2 much for me
crazygirl93 6 years
nikecold 6 years
Yeah Charlotte is slightly pear shaped, and as a pear shaped woman all I can say is I would have thrown a hissy fit until they changed my dress.
littlemissme 6 years
Miranda's and Charlotte's are amazing :love: esp. Miranda's, so great on her! Don't like Samantha's :(
socialitebabe 6 years
What is going on with this movie?! I know SATC had a big effect on women's fashions but why are they taking it up ten notches? The outfits so far we have seen look so distracting even in a NY background!
shini 6 years
i must say miranda's colour of dress works REALLY well with her hair colour. Yah, what the heck is Charlotte wearing? :P
x_juicyfruit 6 years
Miranda. What the hell is Charlotte wearing? Ew.
rc630 6 years
Love Miranda's dress
bearrii 6 years
Bad, just bad
Kkkkkkkkkkk 6 years
I agree bp99, Charlotte looks REALLY hippy! And that necklace just kills it. Yeuch! Miranda wins, by loads! And Lenina... the answer to your question is, ack... you don't wanna know!
Amanda-La 6 years
All these dresses are so gross in my opinion. The fabric makes them look cheap and the black one looks like it was made out of that stuff they wrap reese's peanut butter cups in.
Roccoco 6 years
Kristin Davis is gorgeous, why did they have to spoil it by letting her wear that weird creation? Miranda looks fab!
Pepa 6 years
Miranda. Definitely.
looseseal 6 years
What do you mean red dress must be hard to wear for a blonde? Red dresses and blonde hair goes together like peas and carrots! The red dress is too crazy with the ruffles, though. All I can think when I look at that thing is "Ruffles! Ruffles! Everywhere!" Same problem with the bottom of the black dress. The blue one is the only one that doesn't let the ruffles take over the dress.
veronicaraye 6 years
Miranda definitely looks the most FAB. :star: I found out on ANTM that blue complements red hair/fair skin tones.
Lilavati 6 years
The blue dress has the best cut and looks goergous, so I voted for it. However, the red dress must be hard to wear for a blonde, but Samantha looks awesome in it as well.
kersalli 6 years
Miranda by a landslide. That dress looks beautiful on her. Charlotte's dress is...unfortunate to say the least.
LeninaCrowne 6 years
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is saw what carrie was wearing in the newspaper! total spoiler and i kinda wish i hadnt seen it but....!
jen22 6 years
mominator 6 years
I chose Samantha but they all three are hideous. :)
bellanatella 6 years
I chose Miranda, but don't agree with the comments. I'm not so sure about it complimenting her hair, that is, but I love the dress on her. I bet Charlotte's scene is one where her actual dress gets torn or something wretched happens to it. Well, not bet, hope.
Dubn8tr 6 years
bp99 6 years
Charlotte's makes her look a little hippy.... Does anyone else think this? Maybe it's just the way shes holding her arms :(.
indielove 6 years
Samantha looks the most natural in her dress.
LuciLu 6 years
they all look FABULOUS! :)
iMpErFeCtIoNs 6 years
That color looks wonderful on Miranda. Charlotte's dress looks nice but it could've done without the necklace. Posen's a genius.
sugarthugs 6 years
I think only Miranda looks good is because of the way the photos were taken. So maybe Samantha could have looked better. As for Charlotte, I don't know what to say :\
jennybop 6 years
charlottes looks awful
marciana 6 years
I voted for Miranda, she looks amazing. I just don't know what to say about Charlotte, I love her, but I don't think that dress looks good on her at all..
glam-sugar 6 years
Miranda, that color is perfection on her.
catita85 6 years
i voted miranda.. that bright blue looks amazing against her hair and fair complexion.
LeninaCrowne 6 years
oooooh! what's carrie wearing?
pinkflats 6 years
i voted for miranda because i love how it does compliment her fiery red hair, plus her dress is simple but sophisticated enough that it's not too boring. moreover i like that dress, though would def stand out from the rest, it doesn't compete for attention as much as charlotte's dress with the bride's dress.
mommie 6 years
I chose Miranda but Samantha is a close second minus the sneakers. I can't imagine what Charlotte was doing. If I were her I would have refused to wear that.
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Complacency is a risky proposition, but there are some ways to hedge your risk.
As better economic data has streamed across the news wires over the past two months, and Europe has -- for the moment, at least -- put a ring-fence around its sovereign debt issues, the stock market has developed a troubling case of complacency.
There is little-to-no fear in the market, which to me is a blaring warning sign.
Case and point: The iPath S&P 500 VIX ETF (VXX) is trading at its lowest levels since last August and is near all-time low levels. This, combined with the exuberance in the market, and the fact that it has reached a support zone at the $22 level make it an especially intriguing buy here.
To be sure, the economic picture has improved in the U.S. Employers aren't laying off nearly as many people, and have indeed picked up the pace of hiring. What's especially encouraging is that global construction companies, such as Caterpillar (CAT), have been pushing the accelerator the hardest. The company recently announced that it was expanding operations in both Georgia and South Carolina, adding thousands of new jobs.
Technology is another area where hiring has picked up. Social media, cloud/SaaS, and IT security, in particular, have been areas of strong growth, and companies are ramping up their sales forces and research and development departments to meet higher demand. Sourcefire (FIRE) is a company that converges SaaS and IT security, providing on-demand intrusion and malware prevention software. It's coming off a strong fourth quarter, and its stock has been "on fire." The stock gapped sharply higher on Feb. 22, the day after the company's earnings report, consolidated in a sideways pattern for a couple of weeks, and now looks poised to pop to all-time highs. During its conference call, management stated that it, too, plans to appreciably bump up hiring this year.
While this is, of course, good news, it could come at a price in the form of corporate bottom lines, and consequently, stock prices. Companies are picking up hiring at a time when they are already going to feel the pinch from rising energy costs. Combine this with the fact that the American consumer is still very cost-conscious, not seeing their paychecks increase by a meaningful amount in years, and there is a recipe for significant margin/earnings pressure. The bet here is that companies will begin to scale back on hiring, and that the jobs numbers will begin to look less rosy next month. Either way, it's a negative for the stock market.
There are, of course, other worries outside the U.S. that have been shoved to the back-burner following the string of encouraging economic reports. Much of Europe is in a recession, which could deepen, and the euphoria over Greece getting its bail-out will wane once people again realize that the issue is one of economic growth -- and there isn't any in Greece or in many other countries in the region. Without economic growth, there is no chance for debt holders to be repaid in full, no matter who is holding the paper. China is also slowing, which has been the No. 1 driver for earnings growth for many large multinational companies.
So, while it's futile to argue against the clear improvements in the economic data, I believe that there is a sense of complacency and that the market is set-up for a pull-back. I see one of two things happening in the coming months: The hiring data is going to weaken as companies deal with rising commodity costs, or first- and second-quarter earnings are going to disappoint as companies got ahead of themselves with hiring.
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This project by JEN aims to organize volunteers for providing soup kitchens to displaced people and moving sludge inside of houses devastated by tsunami in Ishinomaki City, Sendai Prefecture, Tohoku Region. This will support displaced people in food shortage in camps and promote their return from camps to their own houses. We will also assess needs to improve quality of life of people affected by earthquakes and tsunami in terms of long-term view points.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
Tohoku - Pacific Ocean Earthquake and tsunami devastated vast coastal areas of Tohoku. In Ishinomaki City in Tohoku Region, 10,000 people are dead or missing because of tsunami, 20,000 people are in camps, and 20,000 people stay in destroyed houses out of 120,000 population. Those even living on the 2nd floor of own house do not have food, water, clothes and fuel for stoves. The 1st floor is covered by sludge brought by Tsunami, and threatening the families with diseases.
How will this project solve this problem?
JEN will provide soup kitchen to displaced people in camps who do not have proper access to food to live. JEN will prepare tools and sand bags and organize volunteers to remove sludge from houses with accumulated sludge to enable families to return home. JEN will meet the urgent needs of displaced people in evacuation centres by providing most needed items.
Potential Long Term Impact
Displaced people will start to return from camps to their own houses. For that, houses must be in livable condition. Providing soup kitchen will support displaced people in food shortage to survive, and sludge removal will promote displaced people to return their own houses.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $46,241
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,759
Total Funding Goal: $50,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).


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Quality of life is composed of small elements. Of being able to work close to home. Of being absorbed by your favourite hobby or taking a relaxing stroll in the woods after a hard day at work. Of seeing your children grow up in a safe environment. Of living in a nice, quiet area.In Ostrobothnia, putting together the elements of a good life is easy. That's why the Ostrobothnians are such a happy people.
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Available today in 192 thousand neighborhoods across America, Yatown is bringing communities closer together by re-acquainting neighbors in providing a single, well known place for users to go and immediately "see" one another in an online "townsquare."
"Yatown was born out of our own frustration in connecting to our neighborhoods online. We had to locate obscure mailing lists or antiquated and poorly maintained websites," said CEO of Yatown, Christopher Nguyen. "People have been trying to solve this problem through services like Ning and other build-your-own-social-network sites, or Facebook groups. These approaches don't work for three reasons: they're too much work to set up, too difficult for neighbors to find, and people do not associate existing sites with their geographic neighborhood."
So who is Christopher Nguyen?
Christopher Nguyen is CEO & co-founder of Yatown. His expertise is in managing teams and large-scale systems. Christopher has co-founded two other successful start-ups, ACTGENT, and Agenda-Asia. He was CEO at Bluepulse, a venture-backed mobile start-up. At Google he was the Eng Director responsible for the operations of Google Apps (GMail, Calendar, etc). He is a recipient of the Google Founders' Award.
Christopher was also a professor at HKUST where he helped launch their Computer Engineering program. He was an undergrad at Berkeley and got his PhD from Stanford.
Check out Chill.com, the Turntable.fm of watching videos online with other people. The set-up is basically the same as Turntable.fm, but instead of somebody playing a song, they play a video. There already exist other services that allow you to do this, like Google Hangouts, but Chill makes it more fun and easier.
The service will search YouTube, Vimeo, and Hulu to find the video you are searching for.
Everything else is pretty similar to Turntable.fm. If you have Facebook friends using Chill already, you can sign up. Note: After a disagreement with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg about the service auto-posting a pro-Chill message to people's accounts, they have limited the number of new signups currently allowed.
Facebook has released a standalone mobile messenger app called Facebook Messenger to facilitate group messaging via Facebook accounts on mobile phones. It also features location-based maps to see where your friends are.
Why is Google+ designed the way it is?
Back when he worked at Google, Facebook product manger Paul Adams did a bunch of research that he says "formed a cornerstone of the Google social strategy." That research culminated in a presentation called "The Real Life Social Network." Its basic premise was that while "the social web is not going away," Facebook and other social networks "don't match the social networks we already have offline." Sounds a lot like Google's Google+ pitch, doesn't it? Lucky for all of us, Adams says we can reproduce the presentation here, for you.
Back when he worked at Google, Facebook product manger Paul Adams did a bunch of research that he says "formed a cornerstone of the Google social strategy."
That research culminated in a presentation called "The Real Life Social Network."
Its basic premise was that while "the social web is not going away," Facebook and other social networks "don't match the social networks we already have offline."
Sounds a lot like Google's Google+ pitch, doesn't it?
Lucky for all of us, Adams says we can reproduce the presentation here, for you.
As the fruits of Google's rush to build a social network are now achingly public, someone has asked a pretty apropos question on Quora, "How long would it take to build Facebook as of July 2011?" Former Facebook CTO and Quora founder Adam D'Angelo provides an informed answer, arguing that if we were just talking about the software and systems and not the company's user acquisition (which Google granted has a way easier time with), that the entire process would take two years, if undertaken by 175-250 people.
As the fruits of Google's rush to build a social network are now achingly public, someone has asked a pretty apropos question on Quora, "How long would it take to build Facebook as of July 2011?"
Former Facebook CTO and Quora founder Adam D'Angelo provides an informed answer, arguing that if we were just talking about the software and systems and not the company's user acquisition (which Google granted has a way easier time with), that the entire process would take two years, if undertaken by 175-250 people.
By Paul Carr, Tech Crunch, 7/30/2011
I know, I know. I'm old. Worse than that, I'm nostalgic. In the past few months, I've written about my love for fountain pens, and traditional publishers, and paper books, and handwritten letters, and live theater, and downtown Las Vegas. Those who follow me on Twitter will have read about my enthusiasm for the New York Times Crossword, and hotel writing paper, and socializing with friends sans mobile phones.
It's cute to be the token Luddite at TechCrunch — but it's also hugely disingenuous. I'm writing this stuff on Twitter, and on a hugely popular technology blog. You could cut the irony with a knife.
The truth is, I love technology. It's rare that I dismiss or disparage a new gadget, app or company without trying it out at least once; and I certainly believe that – on balance – the more technologically advanced we become as a society, the better the world becomes.
And yet increasingly I wonder whether, for the sake of humanity, it might not be a bad thing if the earthquake comes and tips all of web 2.0 into the sea.
I should possibly explain.
The Internet — particularly "web 2.0″, with its communities and tagging and reuniting and friending and liking — was supposed to civilize us all. The idea was that by connecting the whole world through a variety of social networks and crowd-sourced standards of behavior (from reputation scores on eBay to Yelp reviews for dog walkers) – people would be driven to greater empathy for, and responsibility towards their fellow man. When Randi Zuckerberg sat on stage at DLD '08 and told us the story of the Palestinian and Israeli children brought together through their joint membership of a Facebook group about soccer, we all shed a tear. Web 2.0 is working — it's really working!
In the early days, the entrepreneurs behind these services really seemed to believe the gospel they were preaching. Anyone who has met Craig Newmark will testify that he lives and breathes customer service — turning down acquisition offers and obsessing over how his eponymous List can help connect communities in ways that enrich society. When they invented Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin really did dream about making the world's data easier to access. Jimmy Wales, for all of his fixation with personal celebrity, really is passionate about a free and open encyclopedia, and has turned down a large amount of personal profit to realize that dream.
At first, Web 2.0 seemed like a perfect two-way street. Brilliant entrepreneurs who genuinely wanted to change the world built services that we all wanted to use. They became rich, and our lives became better connected. We were all in it together.
Fast forward just a handful of years, though, and something has gone very, very wrong with that particular social contract. We users have kept our side of the bargain — dutifully tagging our friends in artificially-aged photos, and checking in at bars, and writing reviews of restaurants. We've canceled our newspaper subscriptions, and instead spend our days clicking on slideshows of "celebrities who look like their cats" or obsessively tracking trending topics on Twitter. We've stopped buying books published by professional houses and instead reward authors who write, edit and distribute their own electronic works through self-publishing platforms. We've even handed the keys to our cars and our homes to strangers.
On the face of it, the entrepreneurs have continued down the same track too: inventing ever more Disruptive companies to further improve the world, and in doing so enjoying multi-billion dollar valuations and all the trappings of fame and fortune. Even richer have grown the angels, super-angels and VCs who carefully nurture young entrepreneurs, molding them into the next breed of Mark Zuckerbergs and Sean Parkers, reminding their charges that "what's cool" is a billion dollars — and that every new user acquired is another dollar added to their eventual high score.
And yet. AND YET. You only have to look at a couple of mini-outrages that bubbled up in the past few days to realize just how misaligned the interests of some entrepreneurs have become with those of the human beings they rely on for their success.
This time last week, the musical world mourned the death of Amy Winehouse. Almost immediately, the Huffington Post approved a post by unpaid contributor, Tricia Fox, entitled "Amy Winehouse's Untimely Death Is a Wake Up Call for Small Business Owners". We were all shocked, of course, by the callousness and cynicism of the headline — but we weren't really surprised. We take it for granted now that the most popular online publications rely on search engine traffic for their survival. We know that, in many cases, "content" sites don't employ editors to monitor what appears on their pages — and that those editors who are employed are encouraged to blindly approve any headline that name-checks a trending topic or two. Arianna Huffington talks a good talk about the democratization of journalism — but every so often we are reminded of the grimy truth: making money with online content is a question of attracting millions of eyeballs, whatever the moral cost.
An even more grotesque example of this was this week's Airbnb scandal — the so-called #ransackgate (ugh).
Having been convinced by the company's mantra of throwing open our doors to the world for monetary reward, a user by the name of "EJ" was shocked when a stranger comprehensively trashed her home. We'll have to await the outcome of the police investigation to understand what really happened to EJ's apartment, but what we know for sure is that Airbnb's immediate, and subsequent, reaction was grotesque in its inhumanity. I'm not talking about the company's initial apparent unwillingness to pay compensation — I'm talking about the behavior of the (unnamed) co-founder who wrote to EJ and asked her to remove her blog post about the incident, lest it affect the company's ability to raise millions more dollars. From EJ's blog…
'I received a personal call from one of the co-founders of Airbnb. We had a lengthy conversation, in which he indicated having knowledge of the (previously mentioned) person who had been apprehended by the police, but that he could not discuss the details or these previous cases with me, as the investigation was ongoing. He then addressed his concerns about my blog post, and the potentially negative impact it could have on his company's growth and current round of funding. During this call and in messages thereafter, he requested that I shut down the blog altogether or limit its access, and a few weeks later, suggested that I update the blog with a "twist" of good news so as to "complete[s] the story"'.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, we also know for sure that investors in the company leaned onpublications like TechCrunch to stop reporting the story. Their ludicrous wail of protest: AIRBNB IS RUN BY NICE GUYS! IT'S NOT FAIR TO CALL THEM OUT WHEN THEY SCREW UP!
The question of whether Airbnb is run by nice guys is irrelevant. For all I know CEO Brian Chesky is a modern day Mother Theresa who had to break off his important work curing kitten cancer to deal with this growing PR nightmare. What's relevant — and all too obvious — is that good old Brian and his co-founders stand to make millions, if not billions, of dollars from the success of Airbnb. His investors stand to make even more. That kind of wealth can easily drive the most saintly of us to behave in inhuman ways — to become so remote from reality and humanity that users like EJ become (at best) PR problems to be solved and (at worst) irrelevant pieces of data; eyeballs or clicks or room nights to be monitized in the pursuit of an ever greater exit.
And therein lies the real problem of web 2.0 — whether it takes the form of SEO-driven "news" or crowd-sourced accommodation. To make money — real money — at this game you have to attract millions, or tens of millions, of users. And when you're dealing with those kinds of numbers, it's literally impossible not to treat your users as pieces of data. It's ironic, but depressingly unsurprising, that web 2.0 is using faux socialization and democratization to create a world where everyone is reduced to a number on a spreadsheet.
Sarah Lacy has written about how many of the current breed of silicon valley wunderkinds have been conditioned to behave like the movie version of Mark Zuckerberg, eschewing humanity and decency for personal profit and glory. Nothing either she nor I can write will reverse the trend — there's simply too much money and power at stake. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't loudly call bullshit on those who use words like "disruption" and "revolution" and "democratization" as cynical marketing buzzwords simply to line their own pockets, only to retreat behind the barricades when the going gets rough. And it doesn't mean we shouldn't mourn a not-too-distant past where technology entrepreneurs created things to make the world a better or more interesting place, not just because they wanted to make a billion dollars.
And above all, it doesn't mean we shouldn't remind the current breed of entrepreneurs and investors that, in the final analysis, a billion dollars isn't actually all that cool. What's cool is keeping your soul, whatever the financial cost.
Very interesting article on the gamification of social media, why people get so excited by social media, and how sites like Twitter "pay you".
Here's an excerpt:
Essentially, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc all manipulate the egos of users in order to drive them into further interaction with the system. While the article addressed how these systems were put in place, it didn't explain why they worked at a fundamental level.
Gamers As Guinea Pigs
Game systems are just now being woven into the everyday lives of most people through social media and other gamified systems (loyalty reward cards, etc.). But gamers have been exposed to these systems for decades and provide examples as to why these systems are so compelling.
Just as gamers desire to find more "loot," users of social media services become conditioned to seek more "likes," and "re-tweets," and "plus ones." People become enthralled by the engagement statistics they receive by interacting with the system. But why? What is it that drives people to seek validation through these systems? And is it really about getting the "loot?"
Read the full article here.
My initial knock on the Google +1 button was that it rendered way slower than all the other social share buttons (Twitter Tweet this, Facebook Like/Recommend, etc.) Apparently this should be most of the way fixed by now. I'm still seeing it rendering slowly on my sites, but Google says they are rolling this out in phases so I will give it a little while.


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"Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy," documentary @ Mashpee High School Performin Arts Center
When: Sat Oct 19th
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The Woods Hole Film Festival, together with the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum, will present a special event screening of the documentary film LETTERS TO JACKIE: REMEMBERING PRESIDENT KENNEDY at The Mashpee High School Performing Arts Center, 500 Old Barnstable Road, Mashpee, MA on Saturday October 19, 2013.
A reception will be held at 6 p.m. and the screening will be at 7 PM., followed by a Q&A panel discussion.
The film by Academy Award and Emmy Winner filmmaker Bill Couturie is based on the 2010 book by college professor and historian Ellen Fitzpatrick. Bill Couturie will participate in a Q&A following the screening.
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated fifty years ago on November 22,1963, the world came to a standstill as the nation grieved for a leader whose promise of a brighter future was cut tragically short. Within the days and weeks following, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 letters from the public offering their heartfelt condolences.
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But, it is the heart-wrenching sentiments expressed in the letters from ordinary people that give this film such power. Written long before the era of electronic communication such as email, twitter and text, the letters convey they deep personal connection that the writers felt with the President and Jackie Kennedy. "I have grown up without a father. Last year, the head man on my list, my grandfather, passed away. Since then your husband was the man I looked up to. I feel that I knew him," confided student Nancy Ashburn of Beacon, N.Y. "As I write this letter I burst into tears, over the loss of a great man. His memory will last forever. That you for listening."
Tickets prices are $35 for preferred seating and $25 for general admission and are available in advance at Eight Cousins Bookstore, 189 Main St. Falmouth (508) 548-5548 and at the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum at 397 Main Street, Hyannis, MA (508) 790-3077. They are also available online at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org. If available, tickets may also be purchased at the event on the day of the screening. For more information, call (508) 495-3456.
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Giovanna d'Adda is a development and behavioral economist whose research focuses on the analysis of how formal and informal institutions can foster pro-social behavior, measured using original survey and experimental data. She received her PhD from Bocconi University before becoming lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 2012.
Giovanna d'Adda is an applied microeconomist, investigating behavioural issues in developing country settings. Three main areas of her research are centered around the following questions. First, how can we foster contributions to local public goods using informal institutions? Second, what factors determine leaderhip effectiveness in different contexts? Third, what is the role of formal institutions in building societal trust and norms of behavior? In order to address these questions, she conducts laboratory experiments in the field, and combines them with more traditional sources of empirical data.
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In case you haven't heard, Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States on Tuesday. Despite the talk that this election was neck-and-neck or "razor tight" since October, I noticed Obama had a distinct advantage in the states that mattered most. Nate Silver, a statistician and blogger for The New York Times, gave Obama a 90.9% chance of winning the election going into Tuesday. This estimate was based on polling data from around the country. Sure enough, Silver correctly predicted all 50 states, and Obama won the election. Apparently, Mr. Market thought the election was more of a toss-up and had some interesting reactions on Wednesday morning.
Mortgage REITs (mREITs) declined sharply across the board Wednesday morning, as fears that QE3 will continue into perpetuity with the Obama re-election. With share prices significantly depressed, this presents a buying opportunity for long-term investors looking for high dividend yields.
Annaly Capital Management's (NYSE: NLY) new CEO, Wellington Denehan-Norris, said earlier this week that an Obama re-election would be bad for the company. She fears Obama's Federal Reserve board will cause more "meddling" than Romney's would have. In particular, she's referring to the continuation of quantitative easing, the policy in which the Fed purchases MBS to drive down yields.
Certainly, in the short-term QE will have a negative effect on all mREITs. However, as housing prices continue to rise and the number of defaults falls, the book value of their holdings will surely increase. Additionally, QE3 is not going to last forever despite the nickname "QE-infinity." When the program ends, long-term rates will rise and Annaly and friends will regain the spread they once enjoyed.
Overall, Annaly's latest earnings report showed a lot of positive signs. Net income growth from the same period a year ago has far exceeded that of the industry as well as the S&P 500. The company maintained its high margins, and earnings showed quite a bit of improvement even with a decline in revenues.
Despite those numbers, the market pushed shares down on lower than expected EPS and a shrinking net interest spread. The significant drop in share price over the last few trading days now presents, what I believe to be, an excellent buying opportunity for NLY.
On the other hand, American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC) reported excellent earnings. Among other things, the earnings report indicated the company is prepared to buy back shares when the price is below book value. Interestingly, with the drop in price this morning, share prices are trading significantly below the company's book value of $32.49.
The company also reported a great prepayment rate of just 9% and an interest rate spread that fell 13 basis points to 1.5%. These are industry leading numbers, and a great sign that the company has aggressively managed its portfolio of MBS. However, the company is deleveraging due to worsening rates, thus return on equity is falling.
Of course, the main reason investors buy mREITs is for dividends, not capital gains. Disappearing spreads and higher prepayment rates threaten to cut those dividends. mREITs make their money off of interest. If people are refinancing mortgages at lower interest rates, revenues and cash flows go down.
A dividend cut may be on the horizon for both Annaly and American Capital. Despite that, I still believe in the strong management from both companies to survive through tough times and flourish when interest rates pick up again. QE3 won't last forever. Dividends may come down short-term, but will come back up along with interest rates. Yet, by that point, the buying opportunity may be gone. With both companies currently trading below book value it looks like a good time to buy.
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This week's Mainstream Media Scream features NBC's "Today" hosts expressing surprise that Fortune Magazine's new list of the 50 greatest leaders didn't include President Obama.
From the Thursday, March 20 "Today" show on NBC:
Savannah Guthrie: "We are back now at 8:14 with ?What's Trending Today.' And this morning, Fortune magazine is releasing its first list of the world's 50 greatest leaders. The issue's out tomorrow. We're going to get an exclusive look right now at who makes the list. Bill Clinton comes in at number five and makes the cover. There are a lot of other notable names here.
"Tell you what, though, there may be some talk about one leader who did not make the list, the leader of the free world, President Obama. Fortune tells us he was not overlooked, he just did not make the cut."
Natalie Morales: "In the top 50."
Matt Lauer: "Yeah, that's surprising."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: "Another example of how out of touch the media elite are from the rest of America. Obama's approval rating is cratering, well below 50 percent, as his foreign policy experiences setback after setback. Yet Guthrie and Lauer are surprised he's not automatically considered one of the world's 'greatest' leaders.' "
Rating: Three out of five screams.Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at email@example.com.


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Gun rights groups made a familiar argument as they testified this week in opposition to a measure that would require criminal background checks for all gun sales in Washington.
They're worried about more government intrusion into the right to keep and bear arms.
KING 5 took at look at what the government learns about you and your firearm when you buy a gun.
"There's no such thing as a centralized data base of gun ownership," says Special Agent Cheryl Bishop of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). She says it's a common misconception that people believe that the feds have records they use to track guns.
Bishop says the federal government requires gun buyers to fill out an ATF form when they buy from a licensed firearm dealer. She also says that information is forwarded to the FBI only for the purpose of an instant criminal background check.
If you pass that background, the information is erased from federal records.
"You're allowed to take possession of the firearm," says Bishop. "The record that the government has of you taking possession of that firearm is destroyed. That is gone within a 24-hour period."
At a hearing in Olympia on Wednesday on the universal background checks bill, gun owners worried that the state would not destroy gun records after gun sales.
"I fear you. I fear the government," one man told lawmakers.
The legislators modified their bill after the hearing to more closely mirror federal law when it comes to warehousing information on guns and gun owners.
Agent Bishop says the bottom line is that the federal government is prohibited from keeping such records.
"The only way the government would know about a gun you own is if that gun is at a crime scene or recovered stolen property and we begin the trace process," says Bishop.


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Vice President Joe Biden recently canceled the Panama leg of his trip to Latin America, citing the need to be in Washington, focusing on Syria. He did not, however, cancel his visit to Mexico.
Biden arrived in Mexico late Thursday night and is due to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, and kick off the U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED). There were plenty of reasons for the vice president to stay home — including the brewing budget battle, and the shootings in Washington's Navy Yard — in addition to Syria. So it is worth asking why he didn't.
Biden had both political and economic reasons to visit Mexico. On the political front, he is seeking to strengthen his credibility with the businesses that can benefit from strengthened trade and investment with Mexico. But perhaps Biden's most important reason is the power of Latino voters. The 2012 election made it clear that any viable Republican presidential candidate would need to win the support of close to 40 percent of Latino voters. President George W. Bush did this in 2004; Mitt Romney got 27 percent last year.
The corollary, of course, is that a Democrat needs around 60 percent of the Latino vote to win the White House. Should Biden decide to run in 2016, his credibility with Latino voters is likely to be strengthened by a focus on relations with Latin America in general and Mexico in particular — given that 63 percent of U.S. Latinos are either originally from Mexico or their families are. This is, in fact, the vice president's second trip to Mexico, and third trip to Latin America, in a year.
On the economic front, Mexico's new president has generated significant momentum with a flurry of reforms that promise to boost growth in the years ahead — and create opportunities for U.S. companies operating in the United States and Mexico. Even before taking office, President-elect Peña Nieto partnered with the party he ousted, the PAN, to pass a major labor law reform. This added flexibility to the labor market, making it easier for companies to hire and fire. Its provisions are also expected to improve productivity and worker protections.


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Question: I need to create a PowerPoint presentation quickly for a presentation at the end of the week. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it look professional?
Answer: If you have just a short time to create a PowerPoint, most people are limited to using bullets. However below are a few quick tips to dress it up a bit.
- Go to http://info.unmc.edu/brandingresources.htm and select a PowerPoint template from the UNMC Branding page. Then use that template to create the presentation with bulleted items.
- After you have all of your text entered onto the bulleted pages, consider adding SmartArt for a slide that introduces, concludes or serves as the most important information in your presentation. Convert the bullets to SmartArt diagrams by right clicking your selected bullets and click Convert to SmartArt. If you don't like the first style you select, you can select a different layout from the SmartArt Design tab.
- Add large dynamic photography – Either search Microsoft's photos using a keyword appropriate for your presentation by going to Insert > Clipart and under Results should be, select Photographs and click Go. I also recommend searching through wonderful dynamic UNMC photographs at the branding resources page toward the top of the page.
Often great photographs will be more memorable than a bulleted list of text. I have suggested presenters try using only photos and copy their bulleted text to the notes section of their presentation. This requires you to know or rehearse your topic well, but is often more effective.
ITS is offering a PowerPoint Basics class showing some of these features on Thursday, Dec. 13 from 1-4 p.m. Click here to register.


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Florida Ready to Execute Another Prisoner
STARKE, FLA. (970 WFLA)- The leader of an escape attempt that left a prison guard dead is set to be executed.
William Van Poyck is scheduled to die Tonight at Florida State Prison for the 1987 murder of guard Fred Griffis.
Van Poyck and Frank Valdes ambushed a prison van outside a West Palm Beach doctor's office in a failed attempt to free James O'Brien. Griffis was fatally shot after he threw the van's keys into the bushes to foil the escape. Van Poyck and Valdes were captured following a car chase. Valdes was stomped to death in prison in 1999. Seven guards were charged with his death, but none were convicted.
The 58-year-old Van Poyck has claimed Valdes fired the fatal shot. Prosecutors say that's irrelevant since Van Poyck planned the attack.


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To scenic spots as listed in the itinerary.
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All meals as specified in the itinerary.
If the restaurant indicated is not available on the day, your guide will arrange another restaurant from our list of approved restaurants. Breakfast is usually a western style buffet. We endeavor to ensure that a choice of western and Chinese breakfasts is supplied, however there may be occasions when only a Chinese breakfast is available in some remote locations.
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CARTWRIGHT, OK - They risk their lives serving our country, and now they're dying in record numbers, and not in combat.
The Pentagon says in 2012 there were nearly 350 military suicides.
A number that far exceeds American deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Experts say the burden of more than a decade of combat and a military facing budget cuts could be to blame.
We sat down with a local veteran who was willing to talk to us about the shocking trend, and the problems he's been facing.
"It's the X factor, which you really can't worry about a lot of times."
Veteran Colt Floyd is trying to describe his experience with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
He was diagnosed with PTSD in 2007 after his first tour with the Oklahoma National Guard.
"Combat it definitely changes you a lot, in whatever capacity you serve in. It's being away from the comforts of home, and having to buckle down and it's serious business, and in my opinion as an infantryman, it's life or death," said Floyd.
And death is something that hit way too close to home for Floyd, on his last tour in Afghanistan, when one of his close friends was killed.
"You know he was one of mine, one of my younger team leaders and my platoon in general we never got over it, it's something that's always going to be in your mind, he was one of our best buds, a good soldier."
Floyd agreed to talk with us about the challenges he's been facing, when he heard about last year's record number of military suicides.
He says since he's been home from his last tour, there have been multiple suicides just within the Oklahoma Guard.
They sacrifice so much to serve our country and now the alarming number of veterans committing suicide has places like the Bonham VA here taking notice and trying to make a change.
"All of us are desperately hoping we can make a dent in this, or a difference."
Psychologist, Steven Bender helps veterans facing challenges like transitioning back to civilian life.
He says the hardest part is getting them to admit they need help.
"We actually think that it's the courageous thing to do, to know what your weaknesses are and to seek out help," said Dr. Bender.
"The therapist has been really good for me, I was concerned at first if she'd ever be able to relate to some of the things that I deal with," Floyd said.
Floyd says thankfully his leaders pushed for him to get help, and now his therapist is one of the most influential people in his life.
"One suicide is too many, we want it to be at zero, and we won't rest until we're there," Bender said.
If you're a veteran needing someone to talk to or a family member trying to get help for a loved one click on the link below.