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The 7 best stocks for a lifetime
'Forever' isn't just for stamps. A long-term investor's portfolio needs a solid core of keepers, and these proven companies fill the bill perfectly.
Related topics: dividends, stocks, Warren Buffett, Exxon Mobil, McDonald's
Is there anything worse than buying into a stock that was sure to go up and then holding on for years as the price erodes? It's gut-wrenching. I've done it. I used to trade in and out of risky companies, refusing to take a loss, hoping the shares would come back someday.
Usually, that "someday" didn't arrive. But I've reformed. I now buy for the long term, and let the businesses work for me.
Allow me to explain, and offer seven stocks that make an airtight core that can generate wealth forever.
Are you really investing for the long term? Answer this question: "Do I buy stocks on the assumption that it'd be fine if the market closed tomorrow and didn't reopen for five years?" That's the buying strategy that works for legendary investor Warren Buffett. If you're prepared to buy and hold for five years, nothing but the best-positioned companies will do.
A long-term perspective changes everything. You'll need to rely on companies that have dominant franchises, absolutely indispensable products and services, and managers capable of driving consistent returns.
That positioning (and the confidence that comes with it) means you don't have to worry about next week. You can even take a stock's decline in stride and realize that it makes a great buying opportunity.
Below are stocks you can hold forever. And if the markets did close for years, well, all but one of these companies pay solid and growing dividends. So let these guys do the work for you.
These stocks make a fantastic core for any portfolio, and they are divided among industries, providing you with diversification by sector and country. But two threads run throughout: These companies provide goods or services that are in constant demand regardless of the economic climate, and their businesses are resistant (though not immune) to technological innovation.
|To buy and hold
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|McDonald's (MCD)
|World's largest restaurant chain, just getting started in China and India.
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|Exposure to emerging markets, with ''sticky" products.
|Weight Watchers International (WTW)
|Operating margins of 27%.
|Brookfield Asset Management (BAM)
|Management has acquired strategic assets.
|Markel (MKL)
|Book value grew by 22% over recent 20-year period.
|Exxon Mobil (XOM)
|Access to resources the world can't live without.
|National Grid (NGG)
|Locked-in returns as a regulated utility.
That's probably as diversified as seven stocks can get. Their blended yield comes out to 2.6%, so you're getting an above-market payout to keep or reinvest. The histories of these businesses are nothing short of remarkable, but the future looks pretty compelling, too.
Everyone knows McDonald's (MCD) as an American restaurant chain, but the company derives more sales from Europe than from the United States. And that's part of the huge opportunity here -- the Oak Brook, Ill., company has plans for rapid growth in India, China and other emerging economies.
Add hidden assets and management's commitment to return free cash to shareholders, and you have a dividend play for a lifetime.
Colgate-Palmolive (CL) also provides investors with the chance for robust gains in emerging markets. The global maker and marketer of toothpaste, soap and other cleaning products generates 40% more of it revenue in Latin America than in the United States. The New York company has 80% of the toothpaste market in Mexico and 70% in Brazil.
Because consumers tend to stick with trusted personal-care brands -- and pay more for them -- Colgate-Palmolive should have the ability to drive its fast-growing dividend even higher.
Weight Watchers International
The cash-generating power of Weight Watchers International (WTW) is truly remarkable. For every dollar it allocated to capital investment over the past five years, the New York company pulled out $19 from the business.
Even modest growth rates would bulge the coffers here. And with waistlines across the world expanding, the company's growth opportunity appears to be more than modest.
Brookfield Asset Management
Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) invests in real estate, but you'd hardly know it, given the performance of the stock, which is up 25% over the past 12 months.
That's a testament to the savvy of its management team, which owns some of the choicest real estate assets in the world's leading cities. The Toronto company is also invested in infrastructure and power assets, meaning this is a defensive stock par excellence.
The strength of specialty insurer Markel (MKL) is demonstrated by its long history of value creation. Its ability to grow book value year after year is a credit to Thomas Gayner, who has been the president of the Glen Allen, Va., company for nearly a year and its chief investment officer for about a decade.
But the company also has other long-tenured managers, as well as strong underwriting practices and solid relationships with key suppliers. The stock is priced at 1.3 times book value. It's not mortgage-the-house cheap, but great businesses rarely are.
Exxon Mobil
With energy becoming such a strategic asset, Exxon Mobil (XOM) should be able to deliver solid returns despite its massive size. Wherever the future of energy lies, this company will be there.
The Houston company made a big bet on domestic natural gas with its $41 billion all-stock deal for XTO Energy in late 2009, and that deal is looking better as gas prices rise following the recent nuclear disaster in Japan.
National Grid
Regulated returns, a nice payout, stability -- there's a lot to like about National Grid (NGG). This utility player has inflation-protected rates in the United Kingdom, where it earns 60% of its operating profit. Its toll-road-like assets provide an inflation hedge, too.
The London company's management has committed to 8% dividend jumps for the next couple of years.
Ride the gains
The way to wealth involves finding great businesses at reasonable prices, watching as management gets comfortable with the ebbs and flows of the business, buying in when the price is right and letting those gains ride.
These seven stocks fill the bill, and their solid and growing dividends give you even more reason to hang on to these stalwarts through the years.
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New EPEC report "Managing PPPs during their contract life"
Sound management by the public contracting authorities from signature until the end of the contract life is crucial to the success of PPPs over the long run. To do so, the public contracting authorities "deal" focus needs to shift to a long-term "management" culture. New EPEC guidance on the matter will hopefully raise awareness and reinforce the ability of Authorities to plan their own operational management strategy and execute it without missing out any important steps that they will not be able to make up for. You can find the report here.
The EPEC team has completed a review of the European PPP market in 2013.
The European PPP market showed signs of improvements in 2013. 80 PPP transactions reached financial close for an aggregate value of EUR 16.3 billion.
New EPEC paper on "Financing PPPs with project bonds in Germany"
EPEC and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have just published a paper on financing PPPs with project bonds in Germany. The paper provides an analysis of procurement issues that authorities in Germany need to address when financing through project bonds is contemplated.
The paper is available in English and German.
Report on the treatment of Value Added Tax within PPPs
The treatment of Value Added Tax within PPP projects presents a range of sometimes complex issues for procuring authorities and providers alike. This paper strives to explain, in relatively straightforward terms, the basic principles around VAT in PPP projects, how it is treated at different stages of the project cycle and gives examples of how some Member States have handled these issues. You can find the report here.
Private Sector ForumThe Private Sector Forum, a semi-annual event organised by EPEC in co-operation with DG ECFIN from the European Commission, has proven to be a valuable source of information for the private sector both on EPEC's and the Commission's work on PPP and a sounding board for new ideas.
The last Private Sector Forum took place in Brussels on 10 December 2013 with a view to share knowledge and best practice on PPPs and Innvoation.
New funding available to support transport PPP investigation and preparation
TEN-T Executive Agency has announced that it will make funding available to give "support to Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and innovative financial instruments."
Details of what projects are eligible and how to apply are available in the 2012 Annual Call for Proposals under the third priority area.
As part of a recent agreement with DG Energy, EPEC now has a small team dedicated to awareness raising of Energy Efficiency (EE) issues. Alongside raising awareness with regard to Structural and Cohesion fund utilisation, and financial instruments available to support Energy Efficiency, the team will also focus on supporting DG Energy's new campaign to promote Energy Performance Contracts, particularly within its Members at the national level. As part of this work, a dedicated website is now available specifically to address EE issues. The website is a work in progress and new material will be added on an ongoing basis, so keep checking here!
European PPP market in H1 2014: 34 deals
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See sectorial breakdowns by volume and by number of projects
Termination and Force Majeure Provisions in PPP contracts
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PPPs in Next Generation Access
EPEC has issued a new report on Delivering next generation access through PPP. Read the report here.
The European Commission is holding a public consultation to gather information from stakeholders on the revised Broadband Guidelines, which lay down how the Commission will apply the EU state aid rules in relation to public support granted for broadband network infrastructure deployment. More information can be found here.
New EPEC Guidance on Energy Efficiency in public buildings
EPEC has completed its Guidance on Energy Efficiency which provide information on the structuring of EPCs for public buildings and refers to additional sources of good practice, in context of the work stream "PPPs in Energy Efficiency".
Read the Guidance.
State Guarantees in PPPs
State Guarantees have been a feature of PPP programmes for many years. However, with the onset of the credit crisis in 2007, their use has become more prevalent and varied in nature. Based on the now widespread experience of EPEC members in this field, EPEC has produced a paper on this issue (also available in italian). It is designed to help policy makers in evaluating whether State Guarantees are an appropriate tool for their PPP programme and, if so, by providing guidance on how best to implement and manage them.
Combining EU funds and PPPs
At the end of 2009, the European Commission released a communication on public-private partnerships (PPPs). In this context, it declared that it would support the financing of PPPs by introducing new financial engineering instruments. It also indicated that it was looking for ways to make the combination of EU grants and PPP structures more attractive and accessible. This EPEC report presents the instruments currently available for combining PPPs with EU Funds and it highlights the main challenges involved in blending and offers conclusions.
A new version of EPEC's PPP guide "The Guide to Guidance - How to Prepare, Procure and Deliver PPP Projects" is now available for download. The EPEC executive team has worked to improve its readibilty and further update the guidance material.
PPPs on or off the balance sheet?
EPEC has produced guidance on the definition, purpose and methodology of PPP accounting and statistical treatment and explains their impact on government deficit and debt. It provides an insight into the purpose and fiscal impact of as well as new trends in accounting and statistical treatment of PPPs. The statistical aspects of this paper were developed in dialogue with Eurostat. The paper reflects the new "Manual on Government Deficit and Debt - Implementation of ESA 95 - 2010 edition" published on 29 October 2010.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- The first new distillery built in Lexington in more than a century is the newest member of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
Alltech's Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co. on Thursday showed off its new $6 million distillery that's scheduled to open in September. The company makes Town Branch bourbon, a small-batch bourbon with production that's a fraction of such venerable brands as Jim Beam and Wild Turkey.
But Alltech's limestone distillery is taking its place alongside the world's best-known bourbons as part of the trail that's become a leading tourist attraction in Kentucky. The trail meandering through central Kentucky now has seven stops. In the past five years, the distilleries have attracted more than two million visits.
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Intel needs new markets, not new chips
The company needs to reinvent itself as IBM did under Lou Gerstner.
Just as Wall Street has focused over the last decade on Too Big To Fail (TBTF) banks, Silicon Valley has faced its own crisis -- what I call the Too Big To Succeed (TBTS) companies.
Intel (INTC) is a classic example of the phenomenon. The company has become so focused on its "product roadmap," and on the internal signals coming from that roadmap, that it wound up ignoring the changes in the market beyond for over a decade.
In the shift from PCs to clouds and devices, which has been underway now for a decade, circuit count, Gigaflops, and compatibility mean less than what the finished product does.
A decade ago original equipment manufacturers were telling Intel that they needed finished designs and customers, not hardware and "software ecosystems." But Intel didn't listen. It didn't have to, because the PC business kept growing and Intel ruled it.
Those days are over. The stock fell hard on its fourth-quarter results, and is now at barely one-fourth the level it stood at in 2000, the time of its last stock split.
The problem for Intel isn't just on the sales floor. Clouds don't need high-powered hardware, they need the lowest possible price, and buyers there don't care if your hardware is optimized for a particular operating system -- hypervisors take care of that. That, and not the consumer end of the PC market, is the real problem for Intel. There is no longer a premium on the high end.
CEO Paul Otellini seems to have recognized this, which is why he decided to retire "early," at age 62, rather than at Intel's mandatory 65. Otellini has suggested that Intel will look for a successor inside the company, and this could prove fatal.
Yes, I wrote fatal. Intel's moat has been breached on both sides -- consumer and business. The company is taking on water quickly, having already set out a new capital spending "road map" built on the idea that better chips are the answer to its problem.
Better chips are not the answer. New markets are the answer. Intel needs to discover big, new markets. It needs to look at itself from the outside, not the inside, and either figure out what people need before they need it, or go whole-hog into the third-party foundry business. Probably both find new markets and focus on the foundry business.
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Lou Gerstner, the now-legendary IBM (IBM) chairman, came to the company from RJR Nabisco, the cookie company. He found a way to re-invent IBM around services, around the results computers can produce rather than computers themselves. He was ruthless in this reinvention, laying off thousands, and while IBM trailed its peers during the Internet decade, it has since become their quiet leader.
The reinvention of IBM has been continued under successors Sam Palmisano and Virginia Rometty. You no longer read about the company much in the technology press, and that's deliberate. The company has become far more oriented around software, most recently open-source cloud software, and has been using these tools to build out its own cloud capacity.
I write a lot about cloud, about companies like Google and Amazon that sell cloud capacity. But IBM does much more. It sells secure systems and it sells entire clouds, all around the world. It's already where its louder rivals are headed. This means it can keep delivering steady gains year-after-year, writing down used assets, buying more, and investing in leading-edge technologies that mainly tell customers their technology partner is not asleep at the wheel.
Gerstner retired from IBM in 2002, and the Carlyle Group in 2008, but there are other Lou Gerstners around in the business world, there always are. (Full disclosure. I have held IBM shares since the middle of the last decade. They have done very, very well for me.) If Intel can't find a talented business executive from the outside, if it does indeed hire an insider again, I'd not only be selling my few remaining shares, but selling the company short.
Intel's reinvention
What might a reinvented Intel look like?
I think that, like IBM, it would be more customer-focused. Its interests in foundries and new designs would be set on one side of the ledger, and its interests in creating the next-generation of devices and cloud server racks would be put on the other. It would be more sales oriented, and more of its salesmen would have designers on staff who would work directly with colleagues in Taiwan, China and Japan. And instead of just selling Intel Inside, the company would also be selling some of its own designs -- there would be Intel Outside.
So do yourself a favor. Don't listen to the fools who are pounding the table for Intel right now, claiming that its "road map" shows promise or its capital is deployed efficiently. I listened to them for the last decade, I only got out of part of my position last year, and I have paid a price for that. If you can't pull demand out of the back-end, it doesn't matter how good your factory is.
If Intel won't look at itself from the outside, and focus on building new markets for its products based on the market realities of 2013, it will be bringing itself nowhere but down. And you don't want to be part of that.
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Obama, Kerry give 5 percent of salary to Treasury as charity
Washington, DC, United States (4E) – United States President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday announced they will each give five percent of their annual government salary to charity.
The move came in a bid to show sympathy towards federal workers who receive leaves without pay due to recent budget cuts.
President Obama receives $400,000 annual salary – an amount set by law and cannot be changed, said a White House official. Obama is expected to cut checks every month to reduce the effect of sequester, which became effective from March 1.
Kerry, considered the wealthiest cabinet member with $125 million in personal wealth, followed Obama's lead in returning part of his salary to the Treasury.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, in a statement, said that Kerry would donate a little more that $9,000 as donation besides the substantial contributions he already makes to different charities.
"In recognition of the special circumstances of sequester, the secretary does intend to give the equivalent of five percent of his government salary to an appropriate charity that will benefit employees of the State Department," she said.
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Just like the iPhone 5 for Verizon and Sprint, the iPhone 5S won't be able to simultaneously browse the Internet while making a call, unlike the AT&T and T-Mobile versions.
This Chrome extension splits the browser into two windows, letting you open links from the left window in the right window. It will change the way you browse Reddit and other sites.
That contrasts with the current PS3, which can handle up to seven controllers concurrently.
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This article describes how to save a workflow task workspace as a template, and then import the template to a different site collection.
A workflow task workspace is a SharePoint site that hosts all the tasks for a SAP workflow task type. You can create the workflow task workspace in a development environment. After all customizations and testing are completed, you can save the workflow task workspace as a template and deploy it in a production environment.
Important To perform the steps in the following procedures, you must be a site collection administrator on the site collection where the root workflow exists.
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What are your party's legislative priorities for 2008?
|The coming legislative session will face significant opportunities as well as challenges. The need for decisive leadership is a clear priority because the issues before us demand it. The state's economy is at a critical juncture. Its capacity to meet the immediate needs of Hawaii's people will be defined in part by the budget decisions the Legislature makes in 2008.
At the same time, we cannot neglect our responsibilities to Hawaii's future generations and here is where I think Democrats will make the greatest difference.
As a party, we have a rich history of advancing the cause of a just, free and fair society. We have fought and won the battles that count: civil rights, equal rights, environmental protection, labor and education reform, the creation of a social safety net for those in need. All of these advances happened because Democrats acted.
Our Legislature and our people face a new set of challenges today. Population growth and development strain both Hawaii's natural resources and its infrastructure. Forces outside the state put at risk what is perhaps our greatest asset: the ability of a diverse people to live and work together.
Soaring energy costs will remain beyond our control unless the state accelerates programs to speed the development of locally produced energy alternatives.
Food prices and available choices will be threatened unless we act decisively to protect our agricultural lands and "grow local." Gains in education and quality of life will suffer if we don't help create a wider field of opportunity for all our people, especially the young. Hawaii must offer more opportunities for its people to make living wages.
In the coming legislative session, let us all come together with open hearts to vigorously debate the issues, and to set a course that both meets our challenges and seizes upon our opportunities in the finest of democratic traditions.
Do you remember the days when Forbes magazine called us the "People's Republic of Hawaii?" We've come a long way since then, but there is still more to do. Hawaii's economy and the confidence of Hawaii businesses have increased significantly since Gov. Linda Lingle declared in 2002 that Hawaii was "open for business."
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Brenham Maifest | Brenham, Texas | May 2-4
Celebrate the annual Brenham Maifest, May 2-4, at historic Fireman's Park in Brenham, Texas. This is one of the oldest heritage festivals anywhere in the south. Celebrate the heritage of German settlers in Texas with free live music, dancing, arts and craft vendors, food vendors and Saturday morning's elaborate downtown parade.
Cinco de Mayo Austin | Fiesta Gardens Park | May 3-4
Fiestas Patrias of Austin invites you to its 9th Annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, May 3-4, at Fiesta Gardens. The two-day event includes a variety of Tejano and Conjunto bands. An all-day Conjunto Festival takes place on Sunday. The event also includes dancing, a car show, food and family activities.
Cinco de Mayo Downtown Austin Block Party | May 4
La Condesa is hosting their free Sixth Annual Cinco de Mayo Downtown Block Party on Sunday, May 4, 2014, from 1-9 pm, in celebration of the rich heritage and culture of Mexico. The annual downtown festival covers features food and free activities for the whole family. Music lineup includes Este Vato, Bombasta, DJ Chicken George & Chorizo Funk, Celsius, Vitera and more.
Polish Film: "Shivers / Dreszcze" @ Austin Public Library Manchaca Branch | May 4 | 3:30 p.m.
Austin Dance India Annual Showcase @ Asian American Resource Center | May 4 | 11 am – 1 pm
Austin Dance India's Annual Showcase features the full student ensemble and Artistic Director, Anuradha Naimpally. Enjoy traditional Bharata Natyam as well as contemporary dances in colorful costumes by students of all ages. $5 Admission. All are welcome.
Spring Supper Club: From Italy with Love @ Olive & June | May 6
This sumptuous feast will kick off with Italian bubbles and serve an abundance the seasonal, vegetable-driven dishes that have made Shawn Cirkiel's restaurant a beloved favorite. Nibble crostini, antipasti, green garlic risotto, a hearty ragu and other seasonal favorites—and end the evening with a dolci that promises to bring out the kid in everyone.
Austin Latino New Play Festival | May 8-10
Teatro Vivo presents the Austin Latino New Play Festival, May 8-10, at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. The festival brings together Texas playwrights and audience members for staged readings and rich conversation about three Latino plays, each running just one night. After each reading, the playwright, director and actors participate in moderated talk-back sessions with the audience so attendees can provide feedback. Though the productions have Latino roots, they explore cross-cultural age-old themes and modern dilemmas that will surprise, challenge, engage and push the dramatic envelope for audience members accustomed to one-way conversations at the theater.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger said at the annual shareholders meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday that the company is developing "some standalone movies" featuring Star Wars characters.
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BioWare, the developers behind the Mass Effect franchise and The Old Republic MMO, are set to unveil their next unannounced project at the Spike TV Video Game Awards next month. To tantalize fans, the company has revealed one teaser image of their new project, and it looks unlike anything the studio has produced.
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Inbred Redneck Vampires finds sexy vampire Catherine, played by Felicia Pandolfi (The Evilmaker, The Seekers, Alien Conspiracy: Beyond the Lost World), and her familiar Lendel, played by Warren E.B.B. (Abomination: The Evilmaker 2, Werewolf Tales) on the run from a ruthless vampire hunter. They hide out in the small redneck town of Backwash, where Catherine hatches a plan to turn the backwoods folk into an army of her vampire slaves.
Beer drinking, bean eating, tripe cooking, shower peeping, competitive farting, strip poker playing and all manner of insanity follow, all leading up to the town's annual Tripe Days Festival. Combine the gross-out and physical comedy of Animal House and American Pie with the country humor of Hee Haw, toss in some vampires and you've got the riotous romp Inbred Redneck Vampires.
Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of U.S. Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a bunch of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realize that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film's special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The plot doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, but the movie's so exciting and tightly paced that its weaknesses seem irrelevant
When twelve nude models for the infamous SuicideGirls.com begin disappearing from a remote cabin, the calendar video they are shooting becomes the first reality horror movie.
After a heavy night out with the girls, Isabel, and attractive young professional woman catches an illegal mini-cab home. Things take a turn for the worse when the cabbie pulls her into an ally and violently forces himself onto her, taking her life. From high above on the rooftop, an ancient female Vampire notices. Taken in by Isabel's beauty and innocence, she dispatches the Cabbie and feeds Isabel a drop of her immortal blood. Isabel awakes with 48 hours to decide whether to embrace immortality, or kill herself before she becomes undead
This 2010 remake of a somewhat obscure 1973 George Romero picture injects a mysterious virus into the water supply of a small Iowa town, and the consequences are… well, you didn't expect the consequences to be positive, did you? The movie is called The Crazies, after all. So when local folk begin acting a mite peculiar, it just means they've gone to the well too often--literally. Borrowing the structure of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the remake gets off to a clumsy start, but as the noninfected rally around the sheriff (Timothy Olyphant) and his doctor wife (Radha Mitchell), the action becomes streamlined and reasonably inventive. Director Breck Eisner has a particular knack for finding ingenious ways of killing people (a knife through the hand becomes a useful tool for the sheriff in one turn-the-tables moment), and he's been wise enough to hire respectable actors for the top-lined duties; along with Olyphant and Mitchell, there's also Joe Anderson (Across the Universe) as a loyal, amped-up deputy. If the movie misses the tart social-context stuff that Romero does so well, it at least fills the bill when it comes to the chase-and-escape business of a contemporary horror picture. The spate of such 21st-century remakes of 1970s horror pictures misses the raw, raggedy unease of those low-budget projects, but if you're going to make a slick new update, The Crazies is the way to do it.
This G.I.-zombie tale, smartly scripted by exploitation auteur Larry Cohen (It's Alive, God Told Me To) and directed by William Lustig (Maniac, Vigilante), straddles the line between antiwar satire and slasher-movie silliness. American soldier Uncle Sam, as he's known to his hero-worshipping young nephew, is a bullying homicidal misfit too ornery to die. His bloodied and burned corpse, sent home from Kuwait for burial, crawls out of his casket and declares war on punks, crooked politicians, draft dodgers, and pretty much anyone who wanders into his path. There are some interesting ideas floating around--a pointed commentary on the attraction of violence under the flag of patriotism, an undercurrent of psychosis and sadism in Sam's home life, and a clever twist on all-American iconography--which get lost in the Fourth of July reign of terror. Body-count fans will appreciate victims hacked with hatchets, cleavers, and garden shears, teenagers buried alive, and a severed head found smoking in a barbecue pit. David "Shark" Fralick stars as Sam, with Isaac Hayes as a crippled Korean War vet and small roles by cult stars Bo Hopkins, Timothy Bottoms, P.J. Soles, and Robert Forster, a smarmy governor given a fireworks sendoff he'll never forget.
Deep within the mysterious Forest of Resurrection, the spectacular battle between good and evil has gone on since the dawn of time. When Prisoner KSC2-303 escapes from a maximum security jail, he enters the forest believing it will lead him to a safe haven. Instead, he finds himself a pawn in an endless struggle played out against an ever-changing background across multiple temporal planes of existence. His opponent: a mysterious man who seemingly cannot be killed. The battle to be waged between these warriors: Good versus Evil in the pursuit of a beautiful woman who holds the power to grant eternal life. But what Prisoner KSC2-303 cannot remember is whether he is the personification of good or the very essence of darkness.


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While not a "bad" food per se, the juice often offered to toddlers (apple, orange, grape) provides water, sugar, vitamin C but little else in the way of nutrition. The same volume of whole milk offers more calories, vitamin D, and calcium. The bottom line is that juice should not replace milk, but should be considered more of a bonus food, a good source of vitamin C given on top of a healthy milk and solid intake. A 1- to 2-year-old child should be getting about 24 to 32 ounces/day of milk, a 2- to 3-year-old child should get between 16 and 32 ounces. (More than that can constipate and lead to iron deficiency.) Excessive juice in a toddler's diet can also lead to waterry stools. A rough guide for a toddler would be from none to 8 to 12 ounces a day.


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(WMC-TV) – The Memphis Police Department is investigating a robbery at Wells Fargo Bank located on the 3600 block of Hacks Cross Road, near Winchester Road.
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The call came in around 9:15 Friday morning. Police say a man wearing a mask and a green coat walked into the bank and demanded money.
The suspect implied that he had a weapon, but witnesses did not see one. He fled the scene in a gray Cadillac CTS.
Police say that a female customer sustained minor injuries, when she fell running from the scene.
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- Beyond the Stack (Mike Loukides) — tools and processes to support software developers who are as massively distributed as the code they build.
- Mary Meeker's Internet Trends 2014 (PDF) — the changes on slide 34 are interesting: usage moving away from G+/Facebook-style omniblather creepware and towards phonebook-based chat apps.
- Introduction to Software Engineering Ethics (PDF) — amazing set of provocative questions and scenarios for software engineers about the decisions they made and consequences of their actions. From a course in ethics from SCU.
- Open Government Data Online: Impenetrable (Guardian) — Too much knowledge gets trapped in multi-page pdf files that are slow to download (especially in low-bandwidth areas), costly to print, and unavailable for computer analysis until someone manually or automatically extracts the raw data.
ENTRIES TAGGED "gov2"
Four short links: 29 May 2014
Modern Software Development, Internet Trends, Software Ethics, and Open Government Data
Four short links: 25 April 2014
IoT UX, Tilty Library, Local Govt Dashboard, and SF Dreams
- UX of the Internet of Things — a Pinterest board of IoT designs and experience.
- parallax.js — Javascript library for tilt, shake, etc. interactivity on iPad. NICE demo.
- Gov.UK Local Government Dashboard Prototype is Live — not glorious, but making the move from central to local government is super-important. (via Steve Halliday)
- How America's Leading Science Fiction Authors are Shaping Your Future (Smithsonian) — SF writers create our dreams. "Techno-optimists have gone from thinking that cheap nuclear power would solve all our problems to thinking that unlimited computing power will solve all our problems," says Ted Chiang, who has explored the nature of intelligence in works such as The Lifecycle of Software Objects. "But fiction about incredibly powerful computers doesn't inspire people the same way that fiction about large-scale engineering did, because achievements in computing are both more abstract and more mundane."
Four short links: 22 April 2014
In-Browser Data Filtering, Alternative to OpenSSL, Game Mechanics, and Selling Private Data
- LibreSSL — OpenBSD take on OpenSSL. Unclear how sustainable this effort is, or how well adopted it will be. Competing with OpenSSL is obviously an alternative to tackling the OpenSSL sustainability question by funding and supporting the existing OpenSSL team.
- Game Mechanic Explorer — helps learners by turning what they see in games into the simple code and math that makes it happen.
- HMRC to Sell Taxpayers' Data (The Guardian) — between this and the UK govt's plans to sell patient healthcare data, it's clear that the new government question isn't whether data have value, but rather whether the collective has the right to retail the individual's privacy.
Four short links: 1 August 2013
Open Hardware Designs, Kickstarting SDR, Go Best Practices, and US Code
- Tindie Launches Open Designs and Kickbacks (Tindie) — businesses can manufacture the open design as is, or create products derived from it. Those sellers can then kickback a portion of their sales back to the designer. Tindie will handle the disbursement of funds so it's absolutely painless. For designers, there are no fees, no hosting costs, just a simple way to reap the benefits of their hard work.
- HackRF (Kickstarter) — an open source software-defined-radio platform to let you transmit or receive any radio signal from 30 MHz to 6000 MHz on USB power.
- Twelve Best Go Practices — to help you get the mindset of Go.
- US Code for Download — in XML and other formats. Waaaay after public resource showed them what needed to be done. First slow step of many fast ones, I hope.
Four short links: 10 July 2013
Technical Bitcoin, Tracking News Flow, Science Advice, and Gov Web Sites
- 6 Technical Things I Learned About Bitcoin (Rusty Russell) — Anonymity is hard, but I was surprised to see blockchain.info's page about my donation to Unfilter correctly geolocated to my home town! Perhaps it's a fluke, but I was taken aback by how clear it was. Interesting collection of technical observations about the workings of Bitcoin.
- NIFTY: News Information Flow Tracking, Yay! — watch how news stories mutate and change over time. (via Stijn Debrouwere
- EO Wilson's Advice for Future Scientists (NPR) — the ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper. (via Courtney Johnston)
- Healthcare.gov New Web Model for Government (The Atlantic) — The new site has been built in public for months, iteratively created on Github using cutting edge open-source technologies. Healthcare.gov is the rarest of birds: a next-generation website that also happens to be a .gov.
Four short links: 30 May 2013
Inside NASDAQ's Failbook, SimAustralia, Distraction Attraction, and Big Brother Says "Wash Your Hands!"
- Facebook IPO Tech Post-Mortem (PDF) — SEC's analysis of the failures that led to the NASDAQ kicking Facebook's IPO in the NADSAQ. (via Quartz)
- Run That Town — SimCity for real cities, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and using real census data. No mention of whether you can make your citizens shout "Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!" after three cans of lager at an Aussie Rules game. (via John Birmingham)
- Maintaining Focus (The Atlantic) — excellent Linda Stone interview. We may think that kids have a natural fascination with phones. Really, children have a fascination with what-ever Mom and Dad find fascinating. If they are fascinated by the flowers coming up in the yard, that's what the children are going to find fascinating. And if Mom and Dad can't put down the device with the screen, the child is going to think, That's where it's all at, that's where I need to be! I interviewed kids between the ages of 7 and 12 about this. They said things like "My mom should make eye contact with me when she talks to me" and "I used to watch TV with my dad, but now he has his iPad, and I watch by myself."
- Networked Motion Sensors in Hospital Bathrooms (NY Times) — At North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, motion sensors, like those used for burglar alarms, go off every time someone enters an intensive care room. The sensor triggers a video camera, which transmits its images halfway around the world to India, where workers are checking to see if doctors and nurses are performing a critical procedure: washing their hands. [...] the video monitoring program, run by a company called Arrowsight, has been adapted from the meat industry, where cameras track whether workers who skin animals — the hide can contaminate the meat — wash their hands, knives and electric cutters.
Four short links: 5 November 2012
Psychology in a Nutshell, IRS Data, Fulltime Drone CEO, and SQL Injection
- The Psychology of Everything (YouTube) — illustrating some of the most fundamental elements of human nature through case studies about compassion, racism, and sex. (via Mind Hacks)
- Reports of Exempt Organizations (Public Resource) — This service provides bulk access to 6,461,326 filings of exempt organizations to the Internal Revenue Service. Each month, we process DVDs from the IRS for Private Foundations (Type PF), Exempt Organizations (Type EO), and filings by both of those kinds of organizations detailing unrelated business income (Type T). The IRS should be making this publicly available on the Internet, but instead it has fallen to Carl Malamud to make it happen. (via BoingBoing)
- Chris Anderson Leaves for Drone Co (Venturebeat) — Editor-in-chief of Wired leaves to run his UAV/robotics company 3D Robotics.
- pysqli (GitHub) — Python SQL injection framework; it provides dedicated bricks that can be used to build advanced exploits or easily extended/improved to fit the case.
Four short links: 25 May 2011
DoD Open Source Report, Kinect Javascript, Open Core, and Anti-App Store
- OTD Lessons Learned v1 (PDF) — Dept of Defense report on use of open technologies. Advocates against forking open source projects, and provides specific guidance for groups looking to use OSS so they can navigate the military's producement policies and procedures in a way that'll deliver the best chance of success for the project. Imagine if only the manufacturer of a rifle were allowed to clean, fix, modify or upgrade that rifle. The military often finds itself in this position with taxpayer funded, contractor developed software: one contractor with a monopoly on the knowledge of a military software system and control of the software source code. (via John Scott)
- depth.js — Javascript for Chrome and Safari that lets the Kinect interact with web pages. (via Javascript Weekly)
- A Liberating Betrayal (Simon Phipps) — Microsoft have told Digium (makers of Asterisk) that they can't sell their Asterisk-Skype interaction module after July 26. Simon notes that this reveals the fundamental problem with "open core" approaches to open source business. The proprietary interests hold all the cards here. The community can't just "rehost and carry on" because the crucial add-on is proprietary. Even if wasn't, the protocol it's implementing is proprietary and subject to arbitrary change – very likely to happen if anyone attempts to reverse-engineer the interface and protocol. Asterisk may be open source, but if you're dependent on this interface to connect with your customers on Skype you've no freedoms – that's the way "open core" works.
- Zero Install — Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Just hit 1.0. (via James Williams)
Four short links: 17 March 2011
Data Manual, Data Processing, Piracy Report, and Fragile Free
- The Open Data Manual — a HOWTO for organisations wanting to open up data. This report discusses legal, social and technical aspects of open data. The manual can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data — why to go open, what open is, and the how to 'open' data.
- MDP — Modular Toolkit for Data-Processing. Open source Python toolkit embodying a pile of machine learning and signal processing algorithms. (via Joshua Schachter)
- Media Piracy in Emerging Economies — SSRC report. The study finds no systematic links between media piracy and organized crime or terrorism in any of the countries examined. Today, commercial pirates and transnational smugglers face the same dilemma as the legal industry: how to compete with free. (via BoingBoing)
- The Fragility of Free (Ben Brooks) — The fragility of free is a catchy term that describes what happens when the free money runs out. Or—perhaps more accurately—when the investors/founders/venture capitalists run out of cash, or patience, or both. Because at some point Twitter and all other companies have to make the move from 'charity' to 'business'—or, put another way, they have to make the move from spending tons of money to making slightly more money than they spend. It's at this moment that we begin to see the fragilities of the free system. Things that never had ads, get ads—things that were free, now cost a monthly fee. We have all seen it before with hundreds of services—many of which are no longer around. (via Marco Arment)
Four short links: 13 January 2011
Strict Javascript, Data Corporation, Business Models, Graph Visualization
- Public Data Corporation — UK to form a corporation to centralize both opening and commercializing government data. "A Public Data Corporation will bring benefits in three areas. Firstly and most importantly it will allow us to make data freely available, and where charging for data is appropriate to do so on a consistent basis. It will be a centre where developers, businesses and members of the public can access data and use it to develop internet applications, inform their business decisions or identify ways to run public services more efficiently. Some of this work is already taking place but there is huge potential to do more. Secondly, it will be a centre of excellence where expertise in collecting, managing, storing and distributing data can be brought together. This will enable substantial operational synergies. Thirdly, it can be a vehicle which will attract private investment." Did I wake up in crazyland? Private Investment?!!
- What If Flickr Fails — thoughtful piece about business models. Among all the revenue diets a company might have, advertising equates best with candy. Its nutritive value is easily-burned carbohydrates. A nice energy boost, but not the protein-rich stuff comprised of products and services that provide direct benefits or persistent assets.
- Arbor.js — graph visualization library in Javascript.


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TSN.ca NFL Editor Justin Boone runs down the top waiver wire pickups with a focus on the coming week and the rest of the season.
Josh Freeman (at Vikings)
When a quarterback throws for 420 yards and three touchdowns, even if it is against the Saints' embarrassingly generous defence, you have to take notice. Freeman almost had a fourth touchdown at the end of the game, but it was called back. With two good receivers in Vincent Jackson and Mike Williams, as well as a talented pass catching back in Doug Martin, Freeman has the tools to put up excellent fantasy days. This week, he gets the Vikings on a short week, so expectations should be lowered slightly, but he is still a strong QB2 the rest of the way.
Sam Bradford (vs. Patriots)
It's great to see the effect that a veteran coach like Jeff Fisher can have on a team. The Rams have played every game tough, while battling through offensive line issues and the loss of their top receiver Danny Amendola. Bradford has shown that he will be a solid quarterback in the NFL and has managed to put up decent stats this year amidst the injuries around him. Now he faces a New England defence that just let Mark Sanchez torch them for 328 yards.
Others to consider - Christian Ponder (vs. Buccaneers), Carson Palmer (at Chiefs), Brandon Weeden (vs. Chargers)
Rashad Jennings (at Packers)
While we await word on whether Maurice Jones-Drew will be out for a few games or the rest of the season, Jennings becomes the top waiver wire target this week. Jennings has shown the ability to be a three-down back and will be the new focal point of the Jaguars' attack. This also good timing for Jennings, who becomes a free agent at year's end.
LaRod Stephens-Howling (vs. 49ers)
The matchup with San Francisco isn't what you like to see, especially if you're picking up Stephens-Howling for a bye week fill-in. However, after looking overwhelmed two weeks ago, LSH was comfortable in Week 7, rushing for 104 yards on 20 carries, while adding four catches for 45 yards and finding the end zone once. With no one else establishing themselves in the Cardinals' backfield, LSH is definitely worth an add.
Others to consider - Daryl Richardson (vs. Patriots), Jonathan Dwyer (vs. Redskins), Shane Vereen (at Rams), Montario Hardesty (vs. Chargers), Kendall Hunter (at Cardinals)
Chris Givens (vs. Patriots)
Givens has been dependent on the big play, but that's worked out just fine the last four games as he's hauled in at least one pass of over 50 yards each week. In his last two games, he posted six catches for 158 yards combined. You're rolling the dice with a player like this, however a skilled deep ball receiver is always a threat to score, making it a worthy risk.
WR Santana Moss/WR Leonard Hankerson (at Steelers)
We don't have any more clarity when it comes to the Redskins' receiving corps without Pierre Garcon. Robert Griffin III has been making plays with all his pass catchers, including Moss who caught three passes for 67 yards and two touchdowns on limited snaps out of the slot. Hankerson had six catches for 70 yards, but was held out of the end zone. With Garcon not likely to return for a few more weeks, both receivers are good bye week options.
WR Titus Young/Ryan Broyles (vs. Seahawks)
In a similar situation to Washington, the Lions have lost Nate Burleson to a broken leg and now two receivers will battle it out to fill his production. The Lions' offence hasn't found its form yet, but with Calvin Johnson drawing double teams, whoever plays across from him stands to benefit. Both Young and Broyles are talented young receivers and either could emerge down the stretch.
Others to consider - Brandon LaFell (at Bears), Cecil Shorts (at Packers), WR Vincent Brown (at Browns)
TE Dustin Keller (vs. Dolphins)
Welcome back Keller. There isn't much on the waiver wire when it comes to tight ends in the middle of the season, but Keller has battled injuries and he may still be available. In a wild game that nearly saw the Jets upset the Patriots, Keller had seven catches for 93 yards and a touchdown. The Jets' passing game isn't always going to be that efficient, but Keller is a streaky player that can put up TE1 stats any given week.
Others to consider - Coby Fleener/Dwayne Allen (at Titans), Brandon Myers (at Chiefs), Dallas Clark (at Vikings)


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Hey guys,
We're proud to present Newgrounds with our first game, Super Drift 3D.
Running on our own 3D engine and physics engine, our mission was to create a proper 3D driving game, with console sized levels and proper 3D handling and physics.
We're huge fans of arcade racers, and we were mainly inspired by Ridge Racer, Daytona, Outrun 2, and Initial D.
For my fellow Flash devs interested in 3D game development, I'm currently in the process of doing a Super Drift 3D making of series, which should hopefully be very useful to some of you - all published on my blog here - http://rumblesushi3d.com/
Use the arrow keys to control the car.
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Menu - Avex Trax / Trust / Ayumi Hamasaki
Cherry Mountain - Sugar & Spice / DJ Dougal and DJ Hixxy
Coastal City - Rainbow in the Sky / DJ Paul Elstak
Neon Good Times - Crowd Pleasures / DJSS
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 5, 2011
omg >_<
my brain is dead :D
holy *#$% :) "Neon good times" is crazy!
styled game with perfect soundtrack.
and its very hard to drift on expert, cause 1 second is tooo long.
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 10, 2011
Reminds me a lot of the old times, games I grew up to, really nice.
Thanks, and that's the idea, to emulate the classic 3D arcade racers back in the day.
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 6, 2011
This was bloody amazing! As someone who has played Rage Racer many times this really did bring back fond memories. :D
I can see this engine being used for some great retro PSX styled games.
Haha, thanks. I do love Rage Racer, I forgot to mention it. Underrated game, one of the best in the Ridge series. The hilly aspects of Rage Racer served as inspiration for Coastal City.
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 10, 2011
Love this game!
I love this game so much ^_^ I think I'm addicted, also I really wish there was a medal for completing a race backwards :D because I totally just did that :3 Loving the graphics especially looks amazing and runs smooth as ever keep up the good work! :)
Cheers - and apologies for that, I underestimated people's desire to complete a race backwards ;)
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 10, 2011
Playing this throws me back in time to playing the Cruisin' games on N64. Its simply amazing. Its worth paying money to play.
The one thing that would make it perfect would be a multiplayer mode.
Thanks a lot, and it was originally intended to be multiplayer, but too much dev time had gone into it already, and we just wanted to release it :)
I'll probably make our next driving game multiplayer, it would obviously add a huge amount of replayability and fun.


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Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that our baby girl, Ava, was born yesterday afternoon! I had to get an induction at 38 weeks due to mild preeclampsia superimposed on chronic high BP. Ava weighed 6 lbs 1 oz and was 20 inches long. She had an Apgar score of 9, no problems with breathing, and seems to be nursing well so far. I had to receive mag sulfate after the delivery but did not experience a lot of the side effects that others have spoken about. My BP is still high, not surprisingly, so I will be speaking to the doctors here at the hospital about finally starting some medication. Hopefully Ava will continue to do well and mommy can get some treatment as well. Thanks to everyone here for your support throughout the later part of this pregnancy!
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(ABC News and WHAS11) -- It looks like surveillance video from a grisly crime, but it's actually an ad campaign for a company that does pretend kidnappings.
Customers can pay $500 for a four hour session where they're abducted at gunpoint, blindfolded and tied to a chair.
"Extreme kidnapping" is growing in popularity. The company said for some, it's all about losing control.
Of course these imaginary scenarios aren't actually dangerous, but neighbors have been fooled by the very realistic looking scenes and have called police.