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"'Imaging' as we know it doesn't matter in a PPM world. To those of us who grew up with radio, it matters deeply. To our ears, it's 90% of the total package. But to a generation who is accustomed to hearing their music without hype in-between (iPod, etc.), it matters little. Now if [you're] saying that the message between the songs needs to change to suit this new environment (both in quality and quantity) then I wholeheartedly agree."
That's a comment that was left on Edison's Infinite Dial blog a few weeks ago. The author, Joe Greenlagh, was responding to veteran programmer Michael Steele's disappointment with the imaging on Los Angeles radio. The role of imaging is a longstanding debate, but it's one that has taken on a new currency with the decidedly more streamlined presentation now audible on most Clear Channel music FMs. (Neither comment mentions Clear Channel explicitly but many other recent posters on this topic do address those changes specifically and sometimes vehemently.
Greenlagh is right that imaging — usually of the more aggressive variety — was very much a part of the radio that today's managers and programmers grew up with, whether it's the Bill Drake-era legal ID ("And now, ladies and gentlemen …") of the '60s or the "Lock it in and rip the knob off" sweepers of the '80s. Any composite aircheck put together by a radio station production director is likely to be 70% imaging, 20% morning show, and 10% anything else. So there is a certain amount of unavoidable nostalgia in this debate. And after a decade of being told to focus on what goes between the records, it's hard to accept that what goes between the records should be so minimal.
There are really two questions here: "Does imaging still matter?" and, if so, "What kind of imaging?" The first one is a little easier to figure out when you consider that even a minimally produced radio station can be heavily imaged. And one clue is to look at the imaging on WRFF (Radio 104.5) Philadelphia, the Clear Channel Modern Rocker that has become a showplace both for its new streamlining and for how to program in a PPM world. WRFF isn't strictly jockless; it has brief, unobtrusive backsells. But imaging plays a heavy role in explaining what the station is and how to use it.
On Radio 104.5, very conversational imaging is used to thank the listener for trying the station (something most stations should do but don't), to point out the shorter stopsets, to billboard the "oh wow" songs, to point out that the Alternative format is back in the market ("something's been missing from Philadelphia radio–was that you?"), and even to position the station as an answer to satellite radio and iPods ("why pay for music?").
Radio 104.5 even goes as far as one drop that says, "We're not going to explain Radio 104-5. If you like it, that's explanation enough, isn't it?" That may be a little coy, given that many of the station's best selling points (a lot of uninterrupted music, playlist depth, etc.), are indeed discussed on the air. But there is indeed no traditional attempt to explain the station in one slogan, possibly because "Mass-Appeal Alternative Rock Of The '70s, '80s, '90s and Now with a Lot of Music and Some Hot AC Functionality" would be as long as some of the songs.
In that regard, Radio 104.5 is doing the same thing that the jockless, American versions of Bob- and Jack-FM did so prominently for a while, using imaging both to explain the station and, at the same time, place the station above anything as mundane as radio positioning. It's the radio equivalent of Bud Dry's "Why Ask Why" — which was still an advertising slogan. Jocklessness and being less produced are often thought of as a similar aesthetic, but regardless of how a station is produced, if you're not letting the jocks do a lot, you're probably relying on imaging even more.
It is worth noting that, ultimately, both the staffed and jockless versions of Bob- and Jack- had similar ratings peaks and life-cycles. You can look at either jockless KCBS-FM (Jack FM) Los Angeles or the higher-profile WARH (the Arch) St. Louis as "the right way" to do the format. And given the hole for both an Alternative and a Modern AC station in Philadelphia, it's possible to argue that presentation is secondary to whether there's a hole in the market for the music in question. That said, Radio 104.5 also came along at a time when another music-intensive station (WBEN) had added jocks. And it's hard to imagine WRFF now with any other presentation.
As for the second question, about what type of imaging can still work in 2008, there are very few briefs filed on behalf of "hype." It's a sufficiently tempting target that every now and then, radio stations go after it, whether it's WCGY Boston's "no hype" automated Top 40 format in the '70s or KRBE Houston's "Hits without the Hype" in the early '90s. In those periods when "hype" is out of favor, it's hard to imagine that anybody is going to want to hear high-energy DJs or in-your-face production or jingles between every record again.
But it has often happened in radio that when "clean" is in — unobtrusive imaging and formatics — "hype" is waiting in the wings. The most influential radio station of 1980 was AOR WLLZ (Wheels 98.7) Detroit with its low-profile "first name only" jocks that wouldn't be out of place on Radio 104.5. But the most influential station of 1981 was its polar opposite, Mike Joseph's "Hot Hits" Top 40 WCAU-FM. And KRBE eventually evolved very successfully to an innovative, highly-produced presentation that still didn't sound cheesy to anybody who had liked the "no hype" version.
You don't have to deny the appeal of WRFF to suggest that listeners might also respond to another way of doing radio as well. There is certainly a case to be made that what will set radio apart from iPod and barely-produced Internet radio is to do something different by sounding big and exciting again. Both imaging styles have a place on the radio, and as history shows, when you hear too much of one, you eventually need the other as a change of pace.
So then the question becomes who would be willing to go first? Clear Channel's existing large-market Top 40s usually cover the franchise to the extent where no operator is eager to go after them; (Pittsburgh is a recent exception). Even if WXKS-FM (Kiss 108) Boston is more streamlined these days, you'd probably need more than just a presentational difference to take on the station with the Kiss Concert. But if I were going to launch a Mainstream Top 40 station in Denver or Las Vegas or Baltimore, markets that haven't embraced the format in a while, I'd go the foreground route. And if I could play a lot of music that I knew the market wanted, that would be good, too.
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Does Imaging Still Matter?
"'Imaging' as we know it doesn't matter in a PPM world. To those of us who grew up with radio, it matters deeply. To our ears, it's 90% of the total package. But to a generation who is accustomed to hearing their music without hype in-between (iPod, etc.), it matters little. Now if [you're] saying that the message between the songs needs to change to suit this new environment (both in quality and quantity) then I wholeheartedly agree."
23 Responses to "Does Imaging Still Matter?"
imaging your station is part of your "product."
too many stations – and it seems to be clear channel – have very very few pieces about the product. sometimes 2 or 3 songs in a row seems a bit odd. and hearing no more than the frequency and station slogan seems even more odd.
sure, ppm devices may actually detect what a person is listening to…but there must be something there to attract the person.
let's face it…radio is (or at least should still be) entertainment…now how are you going to entertain them so they know what you are?
As always, great stuff. Indeed, there are varying levels of imaging depending on the reason for it. If you want to compete with the ipod, online, or any other of the multiple ways you can hear music only clearly it should be lower key.
However, imaging is more than just a way to identify your station. It's about setting a tone. It's about highlighting all elements of the station. In a world where I can hear "jukeboxes" everywhere radio needs to create entertaining and compelling content and showcase it in an entertaining and compelling way. Let's not forget…this is show biz.
As far as imaging for the PPM, outside of the top 50 markets (and at the rate it's going, the top 10) it isn't relevant.
Do Believe In Hype
A few weeks ago, the comments in our series on the Ten Best Markets For Radio Listeners sidetracked into a discussion on the importance of imaging and whether it will matter to iPod-era listeners in a PPM world. Some thoughts…
Imaging is the message you are sending to your listener to elicit an emotional response to your station. Whatever that message is it needs to be creative,entertaining and strategically correct.
Can you imagine the success of the IPOD without those "cool" black sillouettes of Bono and Eminem?
That was their imaging. Lose that and you lose sales.
Lose it and you lose listeners. Clear Channel is not trying to eliminate this. They are trying to get everyone else to eliminate it thus making it easier for them to succeed.
Listen to WEBN in Cincy. Awesome imaging.
I think that there has to be a happy medium between barely any imaging at all and the overdone, ram the positioning statements down the throat imaging that too many stations were doing, particularly ACs (if I never have to hear again "favorites of the 90s and today with no rap, no hard rock and no lite 'n' sleepy elevator music" again, especially with the lasers in the background, I'll be very happy).
And if we can get out of the new stations slamming the competition, I'll also be happy, especially when they're lying (Fresh 105.9 Chicago, uh, WLIT hasn't played John Denver or Gordon Lightfoot in over a decade). Does competition-slamming ever made a difference, other than the Power Pig in Tampa in 1990? It sure didn't make a difference when Michaels tried it in Chicago in 1991.
1) What Ed Hill said.
2) The old mechanics of calls and dial position will become unnecessary in the PPM-world, but I think there will always be imaging. You gotta set yourself apart. We'll just be freed from the boundaries of having to say the call letters and dial position all the time.
Buzz @ KIIM Tucson
Does imaging matter these days? The simple answer is to some programming leaders it does and to some it doesn?t. As a programmer and former imaging geek, the promos and stationality that stick out in my mind are the ones that were written in creative manner and were not over produced. When Wired 96.5 in Philly received a C&D from Clear Channel for using the name "Wild," Jerry Clifton voiced a promo that made the audience feel sorry for what this "poor little station" was going through. When the NFL first cracked down on radio stations for using the word "Super Bowl," I remember hearing a promo on Wild 98.7 in Tampa that made fun of that fact. Think about the "I am 99X" campaign from Atlanta; it was about making the audience part of something, not a piece of overproduced imaging. Simple imaging has always existed. Don't get me wrong, there were many nights where as a producer I heard something that Eric Chase or Jeff Thomas had produced and I ran in to the studio trying to mimic it (with NO success). Bottom line, if what the imaging says connects on an emotional level with your audience (just like Ed Hill said above) you've done a great piece of imaging.
Well, it's taken me most of our first PPM year in Philadelphia to figure it out, but in the all-news world, imaging is not only important but has to evolve in an important way.
KYW Newsradio is probably one of the best-branded products in Philadelphia, but in a world where a moment can mean a sudden, measurable influx of thousands of listeners who could sway your PPM rating dramatically, you need to be steering your listeners.
Probably the most important adjustment we've made is to be more topical in our imaging, making sure we're promoting snow storm coverage heavily the moment it gets chilly, etc. And we've concentrated on imaging the "always changing" nature of what we're doing. In other words, what you heard this morning will be different than what you'll hear this afternoon.
The moment a rumor of breaking news creates a need to learn more, you've imaged your station as the place to be — immediately. I've never been a big fan of "proof of performance." Just tell me how you can help me learn more when I need it.
If a listener wanted to be entertained by something more like her iPod – then she would listen to her iPod more. Radio has to set itself APART from all the choices people have today by bringing energy, relevancy, trained communicators and compelling content. More segues are a sell out.
But "content" costs money to produce…
Ditto for Ed.
Free music to the public, aka broadcast radio, is in a tailspin as a business, but the question is, will it completely die out as an entertainment platform? Should we, the Old Guard, keep alive the "sound" of radio, or fall on our swords and say we put up a good fight?
After 31 years in radio I got out in February of 2007. I didn't listen to any station until September of 2007. I felt like Rip Van Winkle, the guy from the fable that slept for 100 years. When I turned the radio on again it was like someone had castrated the entire industry.
Hearing he lack of any meaningful imaging was like eating a meal without salt; flat, bland and boring.
In my opinion radio has once again thrown the baby out with the bath water by swinging the pendulum too far to one side. Imaging does not equal hype. Hype equals hype. Imaging is as important to differentuating a station from it's competition as is the music and the on-air personalities. They're all part of a three legged stool. Cut one leg off and someone's going to fall flat on their butt.
If imaging is dead, so will be the stations that eliminate it. Successful radio has never been a jukebox except in markets where there was no competition. Likewise today, successful stations aren't merely mp3 players. Here are a few things that imaging accomplishes:
1) Mentions benefits that the listener cares about and is likely to recall
2) Drives Web traffic
3) Helps make promotions successful
4) Assists word-of-mouth
5) Identifies your station to non-listeners who, once exposed, may decide they like what they hear
Imaging isn't bad. BAD imaging is bad. Music alone won't win; entertainment does.
If everything is loud nothing is loud.
If everything is quiet nothing is quiet.
Breadth in the self indulgent world of myspace, youtube, ipod and every other me me trend would be refreshing. Making thoughtful provocative imaging that is relevant to the demographic a station appeals to – yes this is important. Saying flat across the board that jockless will work for all formats, or a whisper only format will work – is cutting short your expectations.
The imaging on an oldies station, a chr, ac, classic rock, and alternative station should all be different, because different formats have different listener bases. Perhaps the challenge more people in radio need to think about is what is relevant to their audience for each particular station. Considering who you work for and with – if you're outside of your stations demographic, research or bringing on someone who can relate may be a step in the right direction. Learn what's relevant and how to appease each stations core audience instead of trying to keep up with different forms of media.
Radio is not tv, radio is not a computer, radio is not a news paper. Radio is radio, listeners understand this concept….no comment on those who don't.
Station imaging has to be re-thought. Every element has to sell the difference between your station and the competitor. The days of "prowlin' and growlin' from the top of Misletoe Mountain" are over. Sell HD and web along with the personality of your station versus the competitor. Ed talks about WEBN, I always thought KROQ was the defining station for how imaging should be applied to the product. In Country radio most of the material was and still is cookie-cutter with no regard to the copy and waht the message is. Part of the Clear Channel "RADIO" or "MY" concept is to apply listeners talking about the station. This has been around since the old WQAM air check of 1976 that went around in the day where listeners shouting the calls were used to post songs after the jock sold the song.
Ditto, Ashley! (Here I scrolled all the way down thinking I had a fresh thought to contribute. Damn)!
"Imaging" has always meant very different things in each format, because each audience group has identified themselves by their varying tastes.
Eighties-style Top 40 imaging remains relevant in Hot AC, its cultural successor, much the same way that the anti-imaging (anti-format) style of today's indie radio mirrors Progressive Rock of the late sixties, its cultural ancestor.
And there remain some great "imaging artists" in radio today, but they aren't the One Trick Ponies. They're the chameleons.
So then the question becomes who would be willing to go first? Clear Channel's existing large-market Top 40s usually cover the franchise to the extent where no operator is eager to go after them; (Pittsburgh is a recent exception).
I dont get that comment. Can someone explain?
I baffled a few people in-house with that line as well. What I meant is that in markets where a CHR already exists, few operators have wanted to launch a second Top 40 station. Even if the existing Top 40 has a six share, it's rarely tempting to have half of that. Even if you look at a four-share Top 40 and think, "I can do the format better," you pretty much have to set out with the goal of eliminating the other station. And few broadcasters are willing to do that for a younger targeted format.
Guys, come on. If any of this surprised you, you've been stuck in the prod room too long.
So we're lamenting the loss of 'hype' and wishing for its re-introduction? It's never really left us in the CHR realm, has it? The music is what it is (85% of your music station product), and the image presentation may have changed slightly, but the jocks still for the most part sound the same as they did in the 90s, and maybe even the 80s, and the basic tenets of the presentation haven't changed in my lifetime.
Let's take this off the "national" level though, cause ultimately we're about "live and local," right?
I was born the year MTV signed on. 90% of my peers, both in my hometown and where I live and work, don't remember radio as ever having been "cool." They see it as a utility that they can sometimes get concert tickets or cash from, and that plays annoying commercials their iPods don't. Is it entertaining to them? Outside of morning drive, usually no, occasionally yes. Sometimes it makes them laugh. Most of the time it's not giving them they can't get somewhere else, without interruptions.
Oh, I mentioned MTV up there? While almost universally they lament that MTV has "fallen off" when it comes to showing music videos, my peers still watch The Hills and The Real World and, God forbid, Shot At Love with Tila Tequila. Hell, our morning shows are TALKING about The Hills, and not only so they can get interviews with the stars of the shows, but because it's a hot button with their audience. MTV might not show videos anymore, but they DO supply content their audience will ingest.
Note the key word there. CONTENT. Their "imaging" has always been weird, and it's obvious that some clicks and some doesn't. But the imaging on MTV only really stuck out when it was new. It's just like a station launch. I'd bet all of us remember the Moon Man from 1985. Very few of us remember Poop Hat from 2005.
And back to my peers: when they're looking for music, they've got their iPod (yes, you're more than likely giving away your competition to your listeners). The more adventurous/traveled of them have tried XM or Sirius (and hats off to them on calling attention to everything that is/was wrong with terrestrial radio). They can burn their own CDs, and most of them have more than one 10-slot holster on their car visor full of burnt CDs. And even in my own building, some of them listen to Pandora or last.fm while at work (!).
I'm a 25 year old male, and my most listened to radio station, besides my own, is Radio 538. In the Netherlands. Granted the image presentation is neither appealing (circa 1994) nor understandable (Dutch) to me, but the CONTENT is why I go. It plays what I like (and yes I'm not "normal" but none of us reading this are), and it has specialty programming I enjoy.
Sorry kids, but it's not entirely the imaging, or lack thereof, that has caused radio to blow. The industry's had bigger problems for years. How about giving them a reason to listen? Giving them CONTENT that they react to PASSIONATELY?
Who's gonna take THAT on?
In listening to Clear Channel's UAC 95.7 The Party in Denver, I find myself wanting to hear some compelling content between the songs as opposed to a barage of back to back segues. Where is the emotion? The passion? The desire to stay locked into 95.7 rather than punching up Alice 105.9 or KS 107.5? While I strongly believe in embracing new concepts in this ever changing industry, I agree with the comment made by E. Curtis Johnson on the Edison Blog "Imaging is as important to differentuating a station from it's competition as is the music and the on-air personalities. They're all part of a three legged stool. Cut one leg off and someone's going to fall flat on their butt." And while Imaging may not matter in the PPM world, how am I going to tell a friend about this radio station when I can't even recall the station I'm listening to?
All interesting comments. I would add that they are all from a "radio person" point of view and not from our listeners.
I'll disclaimer what I'm about to write by saying I am a child of 70s and 80s Top 40…a student of radio- there are few things from the past I love hearing more than classic CKLW and WCFL/WLS airchecks or pulling out a legendary Drake jingle package…they really cooked and are a wonderful part of our radio history.
"History" being the key word. I'm definitely not for no-imaging-at-all; concise, brief Imaging messages written FOR THE LISTENER and how they live their lives can still be powerful and effective. Yet, for years, we've been really good at telling and selling listeners what WE'RE all about and how great we think we are. The good news is: they get it.
The "if we build it they WILL come" mindset of radio is arrogant and archaic. Our listeners have lots of choices and that number is increasing every day. The question is, "are we prepared to adapt to THEIR lifestyle and expectations" or will we continue to shove what WE think sounds best down their throats?
I believe many radio stations have largely dumbed-down their talent and let their Imaging say it all. There are wonderful radio talent all around us if we're willing to scout them out and hunt them down and then give them the platform to create that "radio magic" we've too often depended on flashy imaging to do. Finding great talent, teaching and coaching them about the vision and goals for the sounds of our stations and helping them paint the picture will help keep radio topical, relevant, entertaining and refreshing a lot longer than Imaging pieces that may win your Creative Services Guy an Addy Award but have become, in the end, mostly "noise" to your listeners.
No offense and with all due respect to the distinquished panel of "experts" above but the one idea that cuts through the most, in my most humble opinion, is the comment above from JJ Duling. All are excellent points from everyone but it seems like once again, "we" as an industry just keep staying inside this "box" we've created that says that anything outside of that box isn't good for whatever reason. Imaging is important but I agree with JJ. It's not the thing that will bring listeners to your radio station and it's not the thing that will keep them interested. The only thing that will do that is talent…real talent. Not some disc-jockey trying to imulate what radio sounded like back in the day but true "personality". Where do you find those? Just like any great treasure, it takes time, effort and a lot of hard work but they're out there if we just look. Too often radio has been afraid of personality for whatever reason and just like JJ says, the programming eggs have been placed inside the imaging and music baskets leaving the listeners with nothing more than a jukebox. How many stations today are nothing more than imaging and music?
I would argue since the imaging pretty much sounds the same for every format. Yes indeed, imaging has been "dummied down", and therefore doesn't really cut through with the listeners anymore. Do phrases like "greatest hits of all time", "the home of rock and roll", "your favorites songs of yesterday and today", "another 10 in a row with less talk"…do they still have any impact after millions of impressions? Radio people on the other hand are getting a woody every time we hear some great jingle or imaging piece. Who cares other than us? The listeners don't. Like JJ says, it's become noise and research is showing this. I'm not a fan of the "Jack" format but one thing they did right was to pretty much throw out all that cookie cutter crap and thank God! We're still holding on to our CKLW and WLS airchecks thinking that was "magic". Well yes, it was "magic" back in 1975 but come on people, it's 2008…can't we continue to move the ball down the field instead of losing yards? We're not scoring any touchdowns here!
The listeners want to be entertained when they turn on the radio. Do great jingles entertain them? In the words of Borat…"not so much". Does great imaging entertain them? Come on now..stop thinking like a DJ! The only thing that the listener wants is to be entertained. What's left…the music? Well of course silly but they can get that anywhere. Just like a great hit song, it's what's between the grooves that makes it a hit. With great radio, it's what's between the songs that make it great and I'm not talking about imaging or anything else other than great personalities. Everything else is secondary.
Great radio is a balance of both art and science and the pendulum sadly for great radio has swung too far over to the science and sales side. Don't get me started on sales! That's a whole other can of worms. In the words of my friend Dan Mason, it's all very simple. At the end of the day, it all comes down to the three R's…ratings, revenue, and return and in that order. Programming must come first i.e. ratings and the rest will follow. Too often in today's radio, the paradigm has shifted.
The best news of all is that our industry is resilliant and nimble and it to will survive. The future couldn't be brighter. I look at all the great minds who've responded here and that is just a glimpse of hope and light in what many nay sayers have dimissed as a lost and dying medium. That couldn't be any further from the truth. My prediction and my hope is that radio will not only survive but it will thrive because it attracts passionate creative people. The only fly in the ointment is this little thing called ego. It's always been an ego driven business. I watched the ego driven music industry die because they refused to change. Radio needs to stay humble because that humility will be the fuel for continued change. That change is happening right now. We're an industry that's embracing future technoligies and we're realizing that we need more than just our great science to make great radio. The show must still be the first word in "show business". Yes, we're a business but not before the show.
Sean, I am sitting hear laughing about the debate of imaging. One of the pioneers of carving out your station from the others was the legendary "Frankie Crocker". Urban jocks, PD's and consultants would try to emulate his signature warm sounding "Stereo effects" along with the left-right ping/pongs. While providing me with an education of a lifetime about what he did at radio and why, the image piece comes to mind.
This was his thought, if I'm playing the same songs as KTU I want people to know that they are listening to WBLS or me. There should be "no doubt" as to what the product is.
I was so amazed by the passion he had about the imaging conversation I went as far as meeting with the studio owner/engineer who recorded the infamous ping/pong (by the way it's still on the air 26 years after it was created). The engineer informed me that to produce those pieces Frankie spent countless hours setting up the exact sound that he wanted via a 48 track recording. So important was the sound that he used every available piece of equipment, talked to countless singers and studio musicians and had it mixed several times in his mind before he put it on the air.
Astounded by the response of the engineer I went back to Frankie and asked; why did you put so much work into a couple of 8 second pieces? His response was, listen to the drops and tell me if you were confused or absolutely sure about what you were listening to. Yeah he was right because as soon as you hear the "W" you already knew it was BLS.
Image is not everything its the "only thing", think about this what is an IPOD?
Of course imaging is important, especially on personality radio stations. It is part of the identity of the station, just like hair styles and fashion choices are part of a person's personality. These things tell people you meet a lot about you. You probably befriend people who share tastes similar to your own. How people choose to express their identity is wildly variable. You might have a shaved head, or purple hair, or a crew cut. You might wear a 3 piece suit, or used military clothing, or low rise jeans and a tube top. Radio stations express their identity in many ways. Imaging is an important one. It can be loud and complex, soft and understated, funny, modern, old fashioned, clean, dirty, conformist, or rebellious. But if you want to attract people, you need to give them some information to tell them a little about yourself. Imaging does that. The personalities and the music are more like a persons politics, philosophy, opinions and character. They embody the true values and the soul.


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Fastenal Company /quotes/zigman/71860/delayed/quotes/nls/fast FAST -0.53% 's CFO purchased 2,600 shares at an average price of $41.50. This was particularly interesting because another insider had bought shares in late November; while that buy had been small,consensus insider buying is particularly bullish. See more on this topic.
SAC Capital Advisors, which is managed by billionaire Steve Cohen, bought 1 million shares of Fastenal between July and September . Fastenal reported double-digit growth rates in revenue and earnings in its most recent quarter compared to the same period in the previous year, but at a trailing P/E multiple of 30 we think that it's too expensive for us.
/quotes/zigman/203975/delayed/quotes/nls/xom XOM 98.80, -0.14, -0.14%
/quotes/zigman/247026/delayed/quotes/nls/bp BP 49.00, +0.03, +0.06%
At Occidental Petroleum Corporation /quotes/zigman/236880/delayed/quotes/nls/oxy OXY +0.18% a board member recently bought 5,000 shares at an average price of $73.43 per share. The $61 billion market cap oil major had made our list of the most popular energy stocks among hedge funds for the third quarter of 2012 and carries trailing and forward P/E multiples of 10. See the full rankings of hedge funds favorite energy shares
Unfavorable price trends in natural gas have caused Occidental's net income to decline over the last year, though the same is the case for many other large oil and gas companies which trade at low multiples as well. We'd consider Exxon Mobil Corporation /quotes/zigman/203975/delayed/quotes/nls/xom XOM -0.14% or BP plc /quotes/zigman/247026/delayed/quotes/nls/bp BP +0.06% to be better buys.
The CEO of Curis Inc. /quotes/zigman/83229/delayed/quotes/nls/cris CRIS -1.03% , Daniel Passeri, bought 25,000 of his firm's shares on December 6th at an average price of $3.03 per share. Curis is a $250 million market cap cancer drug discovery company (an average of 320,000 shares are traded daily, and the current stock price is about $3.15, creating about $1 million in daily dollar volume). The stock is down 22%, and analysts expect Curis to be unprofitable both this year and next year. There's also considerable short interest, but apparently the company's CEO thinks the stock has been too beaten down by the market and his buy is worth noting.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services /quotes/zigman/73439/delayed/quotes/nls/jbht JBHT -1.32% had a family trust connected to one of its Board members buy 2,600 shares of the company's stock at just under $59 per share. J.B. Hunt has an advantage over other companies in the trucking industry in that it has a very strong intermodal business, which has boosted its growth rate- earnings last quarter were up 14% from a year ago. Billionaire Stephen Mandel's Lone Pine Capital had initiated a position of 3.8 million shares during the third quarter Check out Mandel's stock picks.
Still, the stock is valued at 23 times trailing earnings, considerably higher than many other trucking companies. When we had looked at J.B. Hunt (read our analysis of the company) , we had found peers Swift Transportation Co /quotes/zigman/2993940/delayed/quotes/nls/swft SWFT +0.10% and Old Dominion Freight Line /quotes/zigman/76496/delayed/quotes/nls/odfl ODFL +0.24% to be more intriguing value prospects.
Gary Wescombe, who sits on the Board of Directors at Healthcare Trust of America Inc /quotes/zigman/10379386/delayed/quotes/nls/hta HTA -1.18% , bought 20,000 shares at an average price of $10.10 per share. Healthcare Trust of America is a real estate investment trust which invests in healthcare-related real estate (such as office buildings), and like many other REITs pays a substantial dividend yield. The $2.1 billion market cap company went public in June and is about flat since that time.
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Justin Bieber's week is going from bad to worse. The Boyfriend singer was pulled over in his white Ferrari for making a dangerous left turn in West Hollywood last night and was then issued a ticket after police officers discovered his registration for the supercar had expired. This event comes on the tail of reports that Bieber's girlfriend of two years, Selena Gomez, broke up with the singer last week because she felt she couldn't trust him to be faithful. Maybe she couldn't trust him to yield to oncoming traffic.
Law enforcement sources confirmed to TMA that the 18-year-old popstar, who was driving with a friend at the time, was completely compliant with police and was issued a ticket for not having valid registration. Justin didn't appear to be too concerned about his minor brush with the law as he posted a picture of the police car on his Instagram site. Now the real question – filter or no filter?
Meanwhile, sources close to the star have dismissed reports he proposed to 20-year-old Selena twice prior to their high profile split. PerezHilton.com claimed that a source revealed "They have agreed to never, never, ever talk about the proposals! It would be far too damaging to his reputation if people found out that a smaller star turned down a bigger star." But rival website GossipCop.com later claimed the story was "completely false" and also said that Selena dumped Justin because he was "too needy".
Gomez is reportedly struggling to get over their break-up, but is happy to have the support of her family and friends. A source told EOnline.com "It's hard for her. It's really good she's with family and friends."
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If a student has a complaint, they must provide a written description of the complaint, including the date and time of the event, the person or group with whom the student has the complaint, and the names of any witnesses. The written complaint must be submitted to the Office of the Dean of Students within 30 days of the event. Complaints about academic matters also may be submitted to the deans and department chairs.
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Section 3333.2 of California's civil code offers a level of specificity not seen in many parts of the state's laws, a fact that's been debated for months behind closed doors in the Capitol... and now poised to spark an expensive political war in 2014.
The law in question, the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA), limits malpractice lawsuit awards for pain and suffering to $250,000.
"That $250,000 is a joke," says Rob Downey, a Rancho Cordova quadruple amputee who lost all four limbs after a monthlong coma caused by MRSA bacteria in 2011.
Downey, 49, has amalpractice lawsuit now pending and has been left largely unable to care for himself since the infection that took his hands and legs.
"How am I going to make up for what I've lost, what my kids have lost, what my wife has lost?" he says. "It would make a difference."
The MICRA cap does not cover malpractice awards for medical costs or possible punitive damages. In current dollars, the 1975 limit would be worth more than $1 million.
But that's about the extent of what's not in dispute. The 38 year old law's relevance and impact, among other items, have been the subject of intense political negotiations that seem to all but officially be over.
"There is no middle ground," says Dr. Paul Phinney, president of the California Medical Association. The doctors organization has been one of the strongest defenders in a coalition that warns a lifting of the MICRA cap will only raise costs and fuel the paydays of attorneys.
"Where does that money come from?" says Phinney. "It comes from the patients, what patients pay physicians to provide care. Or what systems, or insurance companies pay physicians to provide care."
Doctors also point out the influx of new patients under the federal health care law will further exacerbate the high costs of malpractice policies should the cap be removed or tied to the cost of inflation.
Critics of the insurance industry and trial attorneys, though, insist the MICRA limit counter by sayingit's insurance companies that gain the most by keeping the 1975 cap in place. They also argue that the $250,000 capdisproportionately hurts the poor, the elderly and disabled, and children who are injured in a medical mishap -- none of whom have much, if anything, to gain in uncapped trial awards for things like lost wages.
Last month, an outspoken Bay Area father -- whose children were killed in 2003 by a driver under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs -- filed a ballot initiative (PDF) to lift the MICRA cap. The measure also would enact a series of drug testing requirements on doctors.
The initiative, which some observers saw as a plan B for backers of lifting the cap should legislative efforts come up short, may have itself squelched any chance of Capitol compromise.
And if the political campaign moves to the electorate, it's going to be an epic battle.
"This is easily a $100 million dollar campaign," says Democratic strategist Steve Maviglio, who is not involved with either side's efforts.
It's also a campaign, if it happens, that could leave Democrats -- the long time beneficiaries of political cash given by both attorneys and the medical community -- in a quandary.
"Money is going to be diverted from helping elect Democrats" in 2014, says Maviglio. "And these are the two biggest givers to Democrats."
Back in his suburban Sacramento are home, Rob Downey doesn't have much use for talk of the politics of the medical malpractice fight. He sees the issue as one of fairness.
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A 19-year-old Scottsburg man, Allen Dale Burton Jr., was indicted Thursday by a Halifax County Circuit Court grand jury for larceny-related offenses.
An indictment is issued by a grand jury against an individual who is charged with a crime. Before the individual may be convicted, the charge must be proved at trial beyond a reasonable doubt.
The purpose of an indictment is to inform an accused individual of the charge against him or her so that the person will be able to prepare a defense.
The grand jury indicted Burton for grand larceny, breaking and entering, possession of stolen property with intent to sell and obtaining money by false pretenses.
The alleged offenses against Burton occurred in a period from Aug. 18-Aug. 21, 2012, according to court records.
Other Indictments
• Darryl Lawrence Acree, 47, of Halifax was indicted Thursday for construction fraud.
The alleged offense occurred March 27.
• Justin Allen Adkins, 20, of Nathalie was indicted Thursday for possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance.
The alleged offense occurred Sept. 20, 2012.
• Christopher Alan Ammons, 24, of Halifax was indicted Thursday for two counts of possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance.
The alleged offenses occurred May 30, 2012.
• Andre Lamont Andrews, 27, of Rustburg was indicted Thursday for driving on a revoked operator's license in violation of the terms of a restricted license where such a revocation was based on at least one conviction of an offense committed after July 1, 1999.
• Gregory Clayton Moore, 26, of South Boston was indicted Thursday for possession of cocaine.
The alleged offense occurred May 13.
• Steven Lee Brooks, 31, of South Boston was indicted Thursday for failing to register as a sex offender.
The alleged offense occurred Dec. 10, 2012.


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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced the arrest of Shahab David Youshei, 36, of Brighton.
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More than a year ago Cook County sheriff Tom Dart became aware that former Chicago Police detective Bill Dorsch has long suspected there might be additional Gacy victims buried at Miami and Elston. But there were other unsolved mysteries about the case as well.
Dart knew that eight of Gacy's known victims had never been identified, and that technology had progressed so far since 1978 that those victims could now possibly be tied to their relatives through DNA. The sheriff began the process of exhuming their remains from several local cemeteries.
The project to identify the eight was announced, and more than a hundred families across the country submitted DNA in hopes of finding young men who had disappeared in the 1970s.
The University of North Texas was enlisted to help with the DNA, and as forensic pathologist Dr. Arthur Eisenberg told ABC News, "It's not so much that it was a high-profile serial killer, but the fact is these families have gone this long without knowing."
Eisenberg tells us that the pool was narrowed to around three dozen families whose DNA would be analyzed and compared to the unidentified remains. And in November, one of the victims was positively identified as William Bundy, whose Chicago-area family had long suspected he had died at Gacy's hands.
Some of the same families who submitted DNA also contacted Detective Bill Dorsch, as stories had been showing up in local and national news media about his work. That same news coverage finally prompted Dart to apply this spring for a search warrant that would allow an excavation at the private property at 6114 W. Miami.
Unfortunately, his application had to be approved by Cook County state's attorney Anita Alvarez, and she turned him down, citing a lack of evidence to justify a search.
We wanted to know how Dart planned to respond, considering how much evidence Dorsch has made available to him.
As you can see in this video, Dart agrees that a dig is clearly the way to go: that people still looking for their missing loved ones deserve to know once and for all who is or isn't buried at Miami and Elston. These people have been waiting for information for more than three tortuous decades.


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by joelado, Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 06:33:36 PM EDT
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I was asked to respond to the following statement. "Joseph, would you address the issue that electricity is a secondary energy source? While its use would lead to cleaner cars, it will still be necessary to generate the energy to be converted to electrochemical form. The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that energy is lost at each stage when we transform energy from one form to another. The heavy reliance upon personal vehicles will still demand a greater and greater consumption of energy. We will simply move the source of local pollution away from drivers, but how will [it] bring energy consumption down and minimize environmental destruction? "
First of all energy is found in many forms, many of which we name and think of as substantive, but they are not substantive. Electricity is equal to the movement of your hand, is equal to sun shine, is the heat coming off the highway, the differences are just spectral.
In the hydro-energy cycle the sun heats up water that converts to vapor, vapor is less heavy then air so the vapor travels up into the atmosphere where its heat energy is dissipated into the atmosphere, and it condenses back into water and ice around small particles of dust, once heavy enough it returns to earth in the form of rain and snow it collects in the streams and flows down hill by the force of gravity. We capture gravitational energy and covert it to mechanical energy as in the form of a flour mill or in the turbines that produce electricity. Huge dams don't have to be built to capture this cycle. It is humans who have built dams. By making small structures over various places along a river that allow the river to flow freely and yet capture its movement we can harness the power of the hydro-cycle with minimal impact to the environment and without endangering wildlife and vistas. It is only poor engineering and shortsightedness that has given us the giant hydro-electric dam.
Solar panels are truly one of the most benign forms of energy capture. You have a roof that gets sunlight on it anyway. Why not use the surface to make electricity? In my solar electric car I have two solar toys in window, a little fan to keep the car cool and a garden light. If they weren't there the sun's rays would just go to waste? Yes. Any where that sun isn't captured to make electricity or hot water it is going to waste. Kind of.
Winds in many areas tend to be so consistent and strong that bend trees like the one above
Wind power makes sense since the wind blows trees, leaves and dust around. In Ocean City, Maryland near where I live the trees are all bent over in one directions because most of the year the wind blows constantly and in one direction. Going to the beach in the winter is amazing. All the flags are tattered because of the constant heavy wind. I looked at the power lines coming from some far away power plant where literally tons of coal is burned every day to produce electricity for these sea shore edifices, all the while through and over and around the buildings flows thousands of watts of wind power only being used to provide the flapping motion in flags. There are other sources of energy that have minimal environmental impact and have gone largely unused. There are wave action conversion systems, tide conversion systems, systems to take advantage of the steady ocean currents, harnessing the power of the jet stream and ambient temperature conversion systems. WE ARE BATHED IN ENERGY. We don't have to burn a single thing to get useful energy, and ELECTRICITY is the cleanest and most universally useful form of energy. It can produce heat, light, radio waves, microwaves, electron beams, motion and on and on. The greater reliance on personal vehicles in an ever growing population does create other problems such as traffic congestion and with out good recycling programs vehicles become trash, but out side of that electric vehicles are good.
The World Solar Challenge has just finished in Australia. If you have never heard of this it is the "Super Bowl" race of cars that run only on solar power through photovoltaic cells. These vehicles ran for more than 30 hours at average speeds of around 60 miles an hour, powered only by sun light. 30 hours was only the length of the race, these vehicles can travel continuously on the power of the sun. For example, The Power of One (xof1) project will demonstrate this by traveling 14,230 miles (22,900 kilometer) through Canada using only the power of the sun and traveling almost continuously. What this proves is that we can make vehicles that can get most of their electricity from their surroundings. We just have to think about energy in a different way.
The xof1 can travel continuously using only the sun's rays landing on its surface.
Energy is found in many forms but only a tiny fraction of a percent is convertible into electricity. Regenerative braking is part of that out of the box thinking. Before regenerative braking stopping a car meant converting momentum energy into heat energy through brake pads and transferring it to the air. Brakes stop cars by turning the friction of the brake pads and disks to hot air. With the advent of regenerative braking, currently only used with hybrids and some experimental electric cars, now braking means taking momentum energy and converting it into electric energy, depositing that energy in the batteries or a super capacitor and then using that energy to over come inertia at startup again, which then deposits the energy in momentum energy again. When I look at the Metro rail trains around Washington the most evident feature of their undercarriage is their huge disk brakes. I look at those and think what an absolute waist. The Metro trains using regeneration could help power the trains going up hill with the energy from the trains trying to slow down going down hill. They just don't seem to get it.
The idea of one central location providing the energy needs for a wide area, especially by using fossil fuels, to me seems ludicrous. Tesla made it possible with AC power, but energy is abundant and all around us. We don't need to do it that way anymore. The water movement in your pipes when you are taking a shower has energy in its motion. Recaptured it could power a clock. We see the heat of the day move Mercury up the thermometer, ambient heat turned into the motion energy of an expanding fluid. To capture the movement of expanding fluid you would just need a float on top of the Mercury as temperatures go up or down the float could pull on a cord that would turn a turbine. This is only theoretical mind you, but the energy is there. It goes on and on. To solve the power plant problem we need to arrive at a more distributed or self generated form of energy. This new way of thinking of and capturing energy can be for all of us. It is only a matter of investment, smart design and strong political action. Even if we don't fully move to a renewable and distributed form of energy production, it is infinitely easier to regulate and convert a single power plant then millions of power plants traveling our roads and highways in our cars, and electric cars, even when being powered by coal in a power plant are about far more efficient then gasoline powered cars. More efficiency means less pollution.
Public transportation is a collective way to reduce the harmful ways that we produce and use energy, but it is not the sole solution. Public transportation is not in the equation for those of us who do not have easy access to it. Powering public trains with the energy gleaned from fossil fuels is not really that much better than an efficient electric automobile. In fact big trains have to run whether there is only one passenger or 50 to meet a schedule. Isn't it a waste of energy to run a big train for only one passenger? Wouldn't it be better if the energy used for motive power be more personal? One person uses the energy needed for one person and 50 for 50? There is a fusion concept that combines the efficiency of public transportation with the convenience of personal transportation that would be easy to implement, but that is my invention. Safe it to say, there are solutions that can be a win-win for all parties. As a debate point we can go on and on, but forcing people to use public transit and not solving the huge amount of pollution coming from cars is not a solution.
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This year, Amway continued its support of the AC Milan Junior Camps in Denmark and Sweden, giving 2,500 kids a unique opportunity to learn soccer from some of the best coaches.
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The net is alive, with details of Windows Blue.Rumored to be the next OS from Microsoft due out Mid to Late 2013.
Dont know what other Members of FE feel about this?
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Posted November 30, 2012 at 8:38AM
Seems like a good idea especially as it may be free.
Everyone that uses Microsoft would need to use Windows Blue it would probably save them a fortune with no more upkeep of XP.Vista.W/7 and W/8 to worry about.
Whether it happens or not will be another thing,But sounds like a good idea.
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I found " The Verge " had more information than many of the others. Somehow I dont think it will be free but subscription. Howeve I agree its worth watching to see if its the same as Win 8 ( which I have not upgraded to ) Or more in line with previous OS.
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Interesting piece at PC World.
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In the scale of big Hong Kong martial arts films, where does Japan stand? In contemporary Japanese cinema, there's no close equivalent to Donnie Yen, and Sonny Chiba has long been relegated to small roles in American movies… and I'm not even talking about Kill Bill or his stunt in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. No, his latest movie is called Sushi Girl. So I can't really complain too much when Japan gives me a movie with a butt-kicking girl lead to boot! High-Kick Girl! is a low budget action Z movie that follows Kei Tsuchiya (Rina Takeda) a crazy talented black belt karate pupil that has one major flaw: she's full of arrogance. Her sensei Yoshiaki Matsumura (Tatsuya Naka) doesn't appreciate that his star student is so insolent with everyone else who doesn't "reach" her level of karate, daring to fight and beat up all the students from all the other karate schools. One day, she mixes with the wrong sort of people… an evil organization known as The Destroyers, who seem to be more interested in getting to Kei's sensei instead of her.
I gotta admit. The trailer won me over with the "No wires. No stuntmen. Literally… really kicking." texts over Rina Takeda doing all sorts of kicking. But guys, be warned. This is TRULY low budget, and the worst of all was director Fuyuhiko Nishi's bright idea of repeating every single fight scene he ever included in his movie right after he had just shown it. Worst of all, he repeats them in torturing slow-motion, so whatever fun and excitement you had is immediately sucked from you. It's as if Nishi needed to make High-Kick Girl! a feature length film, and he only had material for a short, so he decided to show everything twice. I wonder if someone could take the actual movie, cut all the slo-mo repeats, and render a regular version, because that one will actually be… kind of decent.
If your brain somehow manages to ignore all the repetition, like the human brain usually does when confronted with trauma, you will find good elements in High-Kick Girl!. For starters, star Rina Takeda IS actually a black belt and seriously kicks some major butt in the movie — for pure laughs and in all her seriousness — Please, someone take her to Hong Kong for some one-on-one tutoring with Donnie Yen and make her an action star already! Also, there's some earnest teachings about karate not seen often enough in martial arts films, which my dad loved to point out. One never gets to see arrogance getting what it deserves. Seeing Rina Takeda butt-whooping is cool, but you don't learn martial arts to get back at your bullies, you Karate Kid punk.
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After a brief spell on autumn on Saturday with 12 degrees and heavy rain, the summer returned to Bavaria right in time for the 2nd Nordbad SUP Contest in Tutzing, Lake Starnberg. Over 60 riders were greeted with cloudless sky and zero wind, this meant the lake which can be really mean and choppy was flat and peaceful - perfect conditions for the racers but also the general public who could try out SUPs from leading brands for free.
After the registration and the skipper's meeting the event kicked off with the sprint race in knock out format. 4 racers were competing against each other, with the winners advancing to the next round.
Spanish Fanatic Rider Ramon Blanco Sainz-Rosas made it to the final on the 12'6 Fly Race Carbon (the 14' Flatwater was not yet available), but ultimately the guys on 14' were faster.
The winner of the Ladies Final was German Champion Sonja Duschek, closely followed by locals Andrea Moracova (Bavarian Waters), both on 14' and Petra Offermanns (Fanatic Fly Race Carbon 12'6) and Kimberly Crelling from the UK (Fanatic Fly Race Carbon 12'6).
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1 Moritz Martin (Starboard Custom 14')
2 Stefan Gölnitz (Naish Javelin 14')
3 Guido Meier (Imagine Carbon Sprinter 2010 14')
4 Ramon Blanco (Spain, Fanatic Fly Race 12'6 Carbon)
1 Sonja Duschek (Starboard 14')
2 Andrea Moracova (Imagine 2011 Carbon Sprinter 14')
3 Petra Offermanns (Fanatic 12'6 Fly Race Carbon)
4 Kimberly Crellin (UK, Fanatic 12'6 Fly Race Carbon)
The finalists of the Sprint Race only had a 15 Minute break to quickly eat and drink something, before the start of the long distance Race, this time all the racers started at the same time, the course was a round course around 2 bouys parallel to the shore, with the start and finish being right in front of the Nordbad, so it was great action to watch for the spectators, especially the mass start, which got quite chaotic. Again, nobody could beat former Windsurf Champion Moritz Martin (3rd German SUP Championships, 9th Hamburg SUP World Cup) but Fanatic Rider Ramon Blanco finished 2nd on the Fly Race 14'.
Kimberly Crelling from the UK won the Ladies' Long Distance Race on her Fanatic Fly Race Carbon 12'6, an amazing achievement beating the other girls on 14. Petra Offermanns had chosen the 14' Downwind board for that distance, which turned out to be supoptimal for the flat conditions, but had some fun catching a wave when a motorboat passed by.
"Long" Distance Race Results (ca. 4km):
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2) Ramon Blanco (Spain, Fanatic Fly Race 14')
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4) Guido Meier (Imagine Carbon Sprinter 2010 14')
1) Kimberly Crellin (UK, Fanatic 12'6)
2) Andrea Moracova (Imagine 2011 Carbon Sprinter 14')
3) Sonja Duschek (Starboard 14')
4) Petra Offermanns (Fanatic Fly Race 14')
There also was a kid's race, it was amazing to see so many kids get on a SUP and have fun, each developing their very own technique on how to handle the SUP. Of note is also the oldest participant of the race, who was 74 years. SUP really is for everybody!
The day ended with the price giving in front of a gorgeous sunset, tinting the mountains behind the lake in spectacular orange plus some great food from the fabulous Nordbad Crew and a party with live music.
The fun did not end here for Fanatic Riders Ramon, Kimberly and Petra, they headed further South into the Bavarian mountains for a spectacular paddle on Walchensee, but that's antoher story for another day.
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It's hard to believe that Tax Day was just a couple of weeks ago, and now many of you are waiting for your state and federal tax refunds to arrive. According to the IRS, the average tax refund for 2013 is approximately $2,800. As tempting as it would be to spend it all on a vacation or go on a shopping spree, here are some other ideas on how to make the most of your tax refund this year:
Pay off Your Credit Card: Take advantage of extra cash to pay down any outstanding balances you may have. Financial advisors suggest you pay off the card with the highest interest rate first and then work your way through the other cards until they are paid off.
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Give to a Charity: If you've been aching to support a favorite cause or organization, this is a great time to do so. Not only does it feel good to donate to something you care about, but you can also claim a tax deduction next year.
Save for Retirement: Retirement may seem like a million years away, but any money you can put away while you are young will grow substantially because of compound interest. If you're not already contributing to your retirement account, consider starting or making a contribution to your 401(k) or SEP IRA plan if you already have one set up.
Splurge on Yourself: Have all of the above covered? Maybe that means it's time to treat yourself to something special. New clothes or that smartphone you've been dying to upgrade to, or even money towards a big vacation in the future.
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That will definitely be a bad news for all jailbreak lovers. Sony has just released the 3.42 software update for Playstation. owners should update their Playstation to latest software update so they will be able to access Playstation store or Playstation network.The news is reported on playstation japan website. the american site isn't saying much about it but the playstation japan saying they are fixing hardware security issues issues which sounds like a patch for PSjailbreak.
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