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Want to be the next Warren Buffett? You could begin by clearing your schedule, buying some highlighters, poring over annual reports and hitting the 800-page tome "Security Analysis." And that's just for starters.
Would you rather simply be a great investor? Then learn to invest simply.
The big secret to successful investing is that it's actually not all that complicated. Most of the mumbo jumbo doesn't matter. You don't need to know the difference between a credit-default swap and a credit card, or between a convertible bond and a convertible sofa, to manage your own money. Common sense will get you further than an MBA.
Investors often sabotage their results when they try to get fancy. "When investors tinker, they tend to buy things after they've gone up and sell things after they've gone down, which is a terrible way to manage a portfolio," says David Swensen, the manager of Yale University's $19.4 billion endowment and the author of "Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment."
Over the past 10 years, for example, mutual fund investors have cost themselves an average of 2 percentage points per year by buying high and selling low, according to fund tracker Morningstar. Perhaps we would mend our ways if we could more easily see evidence of how much our follies cost. But complex investing often means cluttered accounts, and it's difficult to tell what your actual return is when your portfolio is a messy menagerie.
Among the few things that an investor can predict in advance are costs. "There's only one thing about investing that I am absolutely sure of: The lower the expense that I pay to the purveyor of an investment service, the more money there will be for me," says Burton Malkiel, a professor of economics at Princeton University.
Consider this example. Suppose you're preparing for retirement by saving $10,000 a year over the next three decades. Assuming your portfolio averages an 8% annual return before fees, you would retire with a nest egg of a bit more than $1 million if your costs totaled 1% a year. But if you paid 2% a year, you'd end up with $838,000. In other words, paying 1 percentage point less per year would translate into 21% more money at the end.
Never assume that a high-cost investment can justify its price tag with better returns. Morningstar's research has shown that returns from high-cost funds trail returns from low-cost funds, on average. And expenses are the single best predictor of whether a given fund will beat or lag similar funds over the long term. Moreover, new academic research suggests that hedge funds -- which typically charge 2% annually, claim 20% of any profits and are available only to affluent investors -- don't perform, on average, any better than the stock market.
Your mix is key
Beyond costs, what matters most is the variety of investments you hold and the proportions in which you own them. Holding both stocks and bonds and perhaps some other kinds of assets can reduce your risk and possibly even boost your returns. And if you own many stocks rather than just a handful, your fortunes aren't tied too closely to any one company, industry or region. Thankfully, you can achieve broad diversification with as few as two well-chosen low-cost funds. You can even get a well-diversified portfolio with a single target-date retirement fund.
Finding the right mix of investments may be your toughest challenge. Over the long run, stocks return more than bonds do, and riskier stocks, such as shares of small companies and of businesses that are based in emerging markets, tend to outpace stocks of safer, large U.S. companies. So generally you want to hold more money in stocks (and particularly in riskier kinds of stocks) when you're young and have a long time to invest, then shift gradually into bonds as you near retirement or the date when you'll start tapping your savings.
We say "generally" because you never want to hold more in stocks than you are comfortable with. Think back to 2008, when the stock market was crashing. If you sold shares abruptly that year, you may have gone into the debacle holding too much in stocks. The trick is to own enough risky assets to give yourself a shot at meeting your long-term goals, but not so much that you'll be tempted to jump ship in a crisis.
"Once you develop a plan, the most important thing is to stick with it," says Susan John, the chair of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors.
If you think you'll bail out during the next market downturn, don't go online every hour to check the value of your portfolio. As long as you have a thoughtful mix before a crisis hits, ignorance can be bliss. It may take time for the stock market to recover, but it will.
In the following pages, we've laid out three steps to get your portfolio on track and keep it there. We bet you'll be surprised to see how smart simple investing can be.
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Shortly after the end of Hinckley's news conference this afternoon, Whitehouse released a statement criticizing the GOP:
Today, for a second day in a row, Senate Republicans blocked debate on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill to end secret spending in elections by corporations and other groups. The vote failed to overcome a filibuster by a vote of 53 in favor to 45 against. 60 votes were required. Following the vote, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) released the following statement:
Democratic congressional candidate Anthony Gemma says his campaign account collected $242,000 during the quarter that ended June 30, from contributions and a personal loan of unspecified size.
"I am grateful to all who considered my candidacy and made the decision to support it financially," said Mr. Gemma. "I shall continue to demonstrate, through deed and word, that their confidence in me was well placed."
Republican Barry Hinckley continues to lag far behind the fundraising pace set by Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, but Hinckley says he'll have enough money to get his message out on the way to the November election.
Twin River has spent $578,741 since the start of March to encourage voters to support the expansion of gambling in Rhode Island during a statewide vote this November, state campaign finance records show. The comparable figure for Newport Grand is more modest: $21,400.
Congressman David Cicilline's campaign says it raised more than $300,000 during the second quarter, leaving it with a war chest of more than $825,000 as the First District race starts to heat up in earnest.
Republican Brendan Doherty's team said last week it expected a haul of about $200,000 during Q2. The campaign's cash on hand was put at more than $660,000.
Brendan Doherty's congressional campaign raised about $200,000 in the recently ended second quarter of 2012, leaving the campaign with a little more than $660,00o in its war chest, according to political director Robert Coupe.
I've made an inquiry about David Cicilline's comparable figures for Q2 and will update this post after getting that information.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was the headliner for a mid-day state GOP fundraiser at Hemenway's Restaurant in Providence.
State GOP chairman Mark Zaccaria says proceeds — which were expected to hit a target of $5000 — will go to Republican legislative candidates. The event was closed to media.
US Senator Scott Brown, who is casting himself as a centrist as he seeks re-election, is the headline for a July 2 fundraiser for GOP congressional candidate Brendan Doherty in East Providence:
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Ten Techniques for Getting Tension on Every Page
Thursday, December 13, 2012
By Jody Hedlund, @JodyHedlund
Is it possible to keep our readers interested with every page they turn? Or will there be times in our stories when their attention will naturally lag?
I recently got an email from a writer who was concerned about this very thing. She said: I know I'm interested in what I'm writing, but I want to make sure the reader is too. I don't want to describe everything so much that the reader gets bored with the story. Are there any ways to keep the story flowing and keep the reader's interest leading up to the intense scenes?
I'm not sure about you, but I'd rather not take any chances in losing my readers' attention. There are too many other things clamoring for their time and energy. We don't want to give them any excuse to put our book down and not pick it back up again.
But is it realistic to think we can rivet our readers on Every. Single. Page?
On the one hand, we probably can't have shootings and bombings and chases in each scene. And our antagonist can't show up with a knife every time our character turns around. We would tire our readers with so much drama, and our story might start to feel over-the-top.
Maybe we can't have action every single second, but it IS possible to have tension on every page.
Here are some techniques I employ in my books:
1. Tension through smaller scale drama. When we start writing a scene, we can ask ourselves what would make this scene more interesting or add more conflict. Maybe we won't light fireworks, but we can find the sparklers to add some pizzazz to the scene.
2. Tension through unanswered questions. It's all too tempting to explain every action and tell our readers exactly what's going on. We can stretch tension when we strategically leave questions or backstory unanswered so that our reader is wondering what happened in the past to shape current motivations and actions.
3. Tension through contrast. We can build up happiness, love, wealth or anything positive, but hint that something terrible is about to happen. Then when we take everything away from our characters and plunge them into despair, the contrast serves to create greater tension. The greater the joy, then the greater the sorrow when the joy is finally ripped away from our characters.
4. Tension through internal conflict. Maybe we can't have our external plot thread front and center with every scene, but we can use the "slower" scenes to highlight the internal or relational conflicts our character is facing. We can have our character agonizing over a decision, making wrong choices, or fighting inner demons. The internal battles can be just as powerful as the external.
5. Tension through hints of problems that are yet to come. We can also use the less dramatic scenes to set up the conflict that is ahead for our characters. Perhaps our characters can see the trouble coming. Perhaps they can't (and only our readers are privy). Whatever the case, we can start to make our readers anticipate a bigger future conflict so that they'll want to read further to get to that big show-down.
6. Tension through raising the stakes. We should look for ways to take more away from our character, make their choices more difficult, and/or increase what's at risk for them. We can let them have encounters with others or internal realizations that keep winding the noose tighter around their necks.
7. Tension through the ticking clock. Whether it's a looming deadline, a race against time, or even an effort to survive, when we weave in the ticking clock effect, our characters always have something hanging over their heads. The longer we can keep the clock ticking, the more the reader will be invested in the story to find out what happens.
8. Tension through mystery. Even if our story isn't a mystery or suspense, we can still weave in an element of mystery. For example in the opening scene of my spring release, A Noble Groom, the heroine stumbles upon her husband who has clearly been murdered. I leave clues about the murderer, but keep the reader guessing for most of the book until finally revealing the culprit at the end.
9. Tension through micro-tension. In his book, The Fire in Fiction, Donald Maass describes micro-tension as the moment-by-moment tension that keeps the reader in a constant state of suspense over what will happen, not in the story but in the next few seconds. Maass explains that we can do this by infusing conflicting emotion into our dialogue, action, and exposition. It's the conflicting emotions that keep readers invested.
10. Tension through a subplot. If we have a subplot, we can use the lags in main plot to bring out the conflict that's developing within our subplot. We can alternate the problems we're highlighting so that we continually portray some kind of conflict on the stage of our story.
Do you think it's possible to put tension on every page? Has the lack of tension ever made you put down a book?
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You know, I've probably put a handful of books down due to lack of tension over the years, but I'm much more apt to put a book down because the characters don't hook me. Why would I read about a character loosing a farm or husband or child or whatever, when I don't care about that character?
And yes, I think tension is possible on every (or nearly every) page. But as you said, it's got to be a wide, eclectic variety. Too much of the same kind of tension will make readers roll their eyes and put books down too.I believe we need tension on every page - not necessarily the same amount, it will vary by scene - but we do need it to keep readers interested. In my WIP I've had to cut large chunks of my story because of the lag. It took me awhile to get to that point as a writer. As a beginning sometimes I feel so attached to my story, even the first draft, I feel like I've wasted my time if I cut whole scenes or even whole chapters. But I've realized if I don't love every scene in my story what makes me think my readers would? Tension is essential, I believe. Right up there with characters you can love and relate to.
ReplyDeleteRepliesShelly, I've had a hard time learning to cut large chunks from my first draft too. Actually, I have a hard time cutting from second drafts or really any draft! :-) After taking the time to craft our stories and words, it's hard to let go, isn't it?
One of my solutions is that I open a brand new document and title it "Deleted Sections.Name of Book" Then I cut all of my deleted sections into the document chapter by chapter. Even though I hardly ever need to repaste those deletions, it makes me feel better about cutting them because I'm still saving that hard work, just in case. :-)
The lack of tension has definitely made me put down a few books. Normally I read books through to the end, even if I don't like them (partly because I'm hoping that the books will eventually surprise me or at least get better). But there are some that I just can't finish reading. Those are typically the ones that have unlikable characters or no tension at all. If there's no tension, then what's left in the plot? So your post has very good advice for making sure that readers actually want to read books through to the end.
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Great thoughts Judy. I guess you are referring to the literary equivalent of the Jaws music. There the tension is created by the apparent mismatch between the idyllic image of a midnight swim and the threatening scary music. If we can create the same sense of dissonance in our writing we will have cracked it! I am reading Brandon Sanderson's Well of Ascension at the moment and I have just counted nine threads of tension running at the same time, constantly weaving in and out of focus.
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Gazah (16 Occurrences)
Genesis 10:19 And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as one goes to Gerar, up to Gazah; as one goes to Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, up to Lesha. (DBY)
Deuteronomy 2:23 And the Avvites who dwelt in the hamlets as far as Gazah the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) (DBY)
Joshua 10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gazah, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon; (DBY)
Joshua 11:22 There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel; only at Gazah, at Gath, and at Ashdod there remained. (DBY)
Joshua 13:3 from the Shihor, which floweth before Egypt, as far as the borders of Ekron northward, and which is counted to the Canaanite; five lordships of the Philistines: of Gazah, and of Ashdod, of Eshkalon, of Gath, and of Ekron; also the Avvites; (DBY)
Joshua 15:47 Ashdod, its dependent villages and its hamlets; Gazah, its dependent villages and its hamlets, as far as the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea and its coast. (DBY)
1 Samuel 6:17 And these are the golden sores which the Philistines returned as a trespass-offering to Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gazah one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; (DBY)
1 Kings 4:24 For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the river; and he had peace on all sides round about. (DBY)
2 Kings 18:8 He smote the Philistines unto Gazah and its borders, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city. (DBY)
1 Chronicles 7:28 And their possession and dwelling-places were Bethel and its dependent villages, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer and its dependent villages, and Shechem and its dependent villages as far as to Gazah and its dependent villages. (DBY)
Jeremiah 25:20 and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gazah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; (DBY)
Jeremiah 47:1 The word of Jehovah that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gazah. (DBY)
Jeremiah 47:5 Baldness is come upon Gazah; Ashkelon is cut off, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? (DBY)
Amos 1:6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gazah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom. (DBY)
Amos 1:7 And I will send a fire on the wall of Gazah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (DBY)
Zephaniah 2:4 For Gazah shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up. (DBY)


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Limerick (poetry)
A limerick is a short, humorous, often ribald or nonsense poem,[1] especially one in five-line anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. The first two lines rhyme with the last line and the third and fourth line rhyme, and they are usually shorter. The form can be found in England as of the early years of the 18th century.[2] It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century,[3] although he did not use the term.
The following limerick is of unknown origin:
- The limerick packs laughs anatomical
- Into space that is quite economical.
- But the good ones I've seen
- So seldom are clean
- And the clean ones so seldom are comical.[4]
Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick as a folk form is always obscene, and cites similar opinions by Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw,[5] describing the clean limerick as a "periodic fad and object of magazine contests, rarely rising above mediocrity." From a folkloric point of view, the form is essentially transgressive; violation of taboo is part of its function.
The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables. The defining "foot" of a limerick's meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but catalexis (missing a weak syllable at the beginning of a line) and extra-syllable rhyme (which adds an extra unstressed syllable) can make limericks appear amphibrachic (ta-TUM-ta).
The first line traditionally introduces a person and a place, with the place appearing at the end of the first line and establishing the rhyme scheme for the second and fifth lines. In early limericks, the last line was often essentially a repeat of the first line, although this is no longer customary.
Within the genre, ordinary speech stress is often distorted in the first line, and may be regarded as a feature of the form: "There was a young man from the coast;" "There once was a girl from Detroit…" Legman takes this as a convention whereby prosody is violated simultaneously with propriety.[6] Exploitation of geographical names, especially exotic ones, is also common, and has been seen as invoking memories of geography lessons in order to subvert the decorum taught in the schoolroom; Legman finds that the exchange of limericks is almost exclusive to comparatively well-educated males, women figuring in limericks almost exclusively as "villains or victims". The most prized limericks incorporate a kind of twist, which may be revealed in the final line or lie in the way the rhymes are often intentionally tortured, or both. Many limericks show some form of internal rhyme, alliteration or assonance, or some element of word play.
Verses in limerick form are sometimes combined with a refrain to form a limerick song, a traditional humorous drinking song often with obscene verses.
A notable Limerick - which won an Irish 'Listowel Writers Week' prize in 1998 - exemplifies the structure:
- Writing a Limerick's absurd,
- Line one and line five rhyme in word,
- And just as you've reckoned
- They rhyme with the second;
- The fourth line must rhyme with the third.
Origin of the name[edit]
The origin of the name limerick for this type of poem is debated. As of several years ago, its usage was first documented in England in 1898 (New English Dictionary) and in the United States in 1902, but in recent years several earlier uses have been documented. The name is generally taken to be a reference to the City or County of Limerick in Ireland[7][8] sometimes particularly to the Maigue Poets, and may derive from an earlier form of nonsense verse parlour game that traditionally included a refrain that included "Will [or won't] you come (up) to Limerick?"[9]
The earliest known use of the term limerick for this type of poem is an 1880 reference, in a Saint John, New Brunswick newspaper, to an apparently well-known tune,[10]
- [Pie]:There was a young rustic named Mallory,
- who drew but a very small salary.
- When he went to the show,
- his purse made him go
- to a seat in the uppermost gallery.
- Tune: Won't you come to Limerick.[11]
Edward Lear[edit]
The limerick form was popularized by Edward Lear in his first Book of Nonsense (1845) and a later work (1872) on the same theme. Lear wrote 212 limericks, mostly nonsense verse. It was customary at the time for limericks to accompany an absurd illustration of the same subject, and for the final line of the limerick to be a kind of conclusion, usually a variant of the first line ending in the same word.
The following is an example of one of Edward Lear's limericks.
- There was a Young Person of Smyrna
- Whose grandmother threatened to burn her.
- But she seized on the cat,
- and said 'Granny, burn that!
- You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!'
Lear's limericks were often typeset in three or four lines, according to the space available under the accompanying picture.
The idiosyncratic link between spelling and pronunciation in the English language is explored in this Scottish example (where the name Menzies is pronounced /ˈmɪŋɪs/ MING-iss).
- A lively young damsel named Menzies
- Inquired: "Do you know what this thenzies?"
- Her aunt, with a gasp,
- Replied: "It's a wasp,
- And you're holding the end where the stenzies."[12]
The limerick form is so well known that it can be parodied in fairly subtle ways. These parodies are sometimes called anti-limericks. The following example, of unknown origin, subverts the structure of the true limerick by changing the number of syllables in the lines.
- There was a young man of Japan
- Whose limericks never would scan.
- When asked why this was,
- He replied "It's because
- I always try to fit as many syllables into the last line as ever I possibly can."
Other anti-limericks follow the meter of a limerick but deliberately break the rhyme scheme, like the following example, attributed to W.S. Gilbert, in a parody of a limerick by Lear:
- There was an old man of St. Bees,
- Who was stung in the arm by a wasp,
- When asked, "Does it hurt?"
- He replied, "No, it doesn't,
- I'm so glad that it wasn't a hornet." [13][14]
Comedian John Clarke has also parodied Lear's style:
- There was an old man with a beard,
- A funny old man with a beard
- He had a big beard
- A great big old beard
- That amusing old man with a beard.[15]
Web Cartoonist Zach Weiner, author of SMBC-Comics, wrote a reversed limerick that makes sense read top-to-bottom, and vice versa.
- This limerick goes in reverse
- Unless I'm remiss
- The neat thing is this:
- If you start from the bottom-most verse
- The limerick's not any worse[16]
See also[edit]
- Dixon Lanier Merritt, the author of a famous limerick about pelicans
- The Negotiation Limerick File, a song by Beastie Boys rapped in the form of a limerick
- There once was a man from Nantucket, a popular limerick subject
- Chastushka (Russian form with similar traits)
- Clerihew
- Double dactyl
- Light verse
- Quintain (any poetic form containing 5 lines such as tanka, cinquain, and limerick)
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition, 1989), s.v. Limerick.
Vaughn, Stanton. Limerick Lyrics. 1900. Retrieved from [1]. - ^ An interesting and highly esoteric verse in limerick form is found in the diary of the Rev. John Thomlinson (1692–1761): 1717. Sept. 17th. One Dr. Bainbridge went from Cambridge to Oxon [Oxford] to be astronomy professor, and reading a lecture happened to say de Polis et Axis, instead of Axibus. Upon which one said, Dr. Bainbridge was sent from Cambridge,—to read lectures de Polis et Axis; but lett them that brought him hither, return him thither, and teach him his rules of syntaxis. From Six North Country Diaries, Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. CXVIII for the year MCMX, p. 78. Andrews & Co., Durham, etc. 1910.
- ^ Brandreth, page 108
- ^ Feinberg, Leonard. The Secret of Humor. Rodopi, 1978. ISBN 9789062033706. p102
- ^ Legman 1988, pp. x-xi.
- ^ Legman 1988, p. xliv.
- ^ Loomis 1963, pp. 153–157.
- ^ youtube.com
- ^ The phrase "come to Limerick" is known in American Slang since the Civil War, as documented in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang and subsequent posts on the American Dialect Society List. One meaning for the phrase, proposed by Stephen Goranson on ADS-list, would be a reference to the Treaty of Limerick, and mean surrender, settle, get to the point, get with the program.
- ^ reported by Stephen Goranson on the ADS-list and in comments at the Oxford Etymologist blog
- ^ Saint John Daily News, Saint John, New Brunswick Edward Willis, Proprietor Tuesday Nov 30, 1880 Vol. XLII, no. 281 page 4, column 5 [headline:] Wise and Otherwise [2]
- ^ "Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis?". BBC News. 2006-01-10. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
- ^ Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature. Merriam-Webster, 1995. ISBN 9780877790426 p683
- ^ Wells 1903, pp. xix-xxxiii.
- ^ Gross, John. The Oxford Book of Parodies. OUP Oxford, 2012. ISBN 9780199639373, quoted in Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries in The Guardian | Books, 2 October 2010
- ^ SMBC-Comics #3201[3]
- Baring-Gould, William Stuart and Ceil Baring-Gould (1988). The Annotated Mother Goose, Random House.
- Brandreth, Gyles (1986). Everyman's Word Games
- Cohen, Gerald (compiler) (2010). "Stephen Goranson's research into _limerick_: a preliminary report". Comments on Etymology vol. 40, no. 1-2. (October–November 2010) pages 2–11.
- Legman, Gershon (1964). The Horn Book, University Press.
- Legman, Gershon (1988). The Limerick, Random House.
- Loomis, C. Grant (1963). Western Folklore, Vol. 22, No. 3 (July, 1963).
- Wells, Carolyn (1903). A Nonsense Anthology, Charles Scribner's Sons.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Limerick poetry. |
- Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense from Project Gutenberg
- OEDILF – A limerick dictionary
- 'Limericks (5-line verse)' file at Limerick City Library, Ireland
Limerick bibliographies:
- Deex, Arthur. Arthur Deex's comprehensive annotated Limerick Bibliography
- Dilcher, Karl The Karl Dilcher bibliography of limerick books.


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The point of the article is for ways to slow down, or stop, a person with severe mental illness from getting hold of weapons or ammunition. The mindset of a psychotic person is very different from the mindset of a criminal. It is extraordinarily unusual...I can´t even think of a case right now...where a psychotic person breaks into a home to get a gun. Instead, a psychotic person seeking a gun either tries to purchase it through normal channels or tries to get a gun from the home of a relative or friend, a gun that he already knows the location of. If you make such guns harder to access - additional background checks, delay in delivery of a purchased weapon, guns locked and hidden away and hopefully no guns in the place where the psychotic person lives...you just saved a lot of lives. Click Here if you Like this Comment
The shooter this past Friday in Newtown CT was not a gun owner. I believe he "stole" his mother´s guns. Background checks not relevant. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Fast and Furious was a way to get guns to criminals to make headlines. They need guns to be in the hands of the mentally unstable and mexican criminals, that way the media can pound the drums until they can finally get to what they wanted to do all along, sweeping gun regulation. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
The ´War on Guns´ will meet with the same smashing success that all the other recent wars have met with.Sadly, the actions of a few crazies serve to advance the federal agenda of citizen disarmament.The feds would willingly sacrifice ANY NUMBER of innocents to reach their goal of a docile and helpless population of worker bees. Click Here if you Like this Comment
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Milwaukee Admirals and the NHL Lockout
Nov 14, 2012
by Jason Karnosky
With the recent cancellation of the Winter Classic, the National Hockey League's lockout officially moved from a mere nuisance to a harsh reality. The standoff between NHL players and owners preventing games from taking place remains entrenched with no end in sight.
However, no such stalemate exists in the American Hockey League, which is rolling through November with a full slate of games. It is a welcome respite for the league's players, who unlike many of their counterparts aren't forced to sit around and wait for updates on the negotiations.
"It definitely frustrating for everybody as the owners want to see their teams play, while as players all we want to do is play hockey," Milwaukee forward Chris Mueller said. "It's a little bit deflating because we all dream of being an NHL player, but in North America the best league is the AHL right now and it's a privilege to be playing there."
First year Admirals coach Dean Evason agreed with Mueller, and emphasized the high level of play in the AHL as big draw for locked out NHL talent.
"The alternative for many AHL players is that might not be playing anywhere," Evason said. "I think the guys feel very fortunate that they have this opportunity to play in a high quality league, whose level of play isn't far off the NHL."
Surely Admirals like Mueller, Ryan Ellis, Gabriel Bourque and Jonathon Blum, would prefer to be skating in cities like Detroit, Columbus and St. Louis, but at least some of the frustration felt by teammates such as Shea Weber, David Legwand and Mike Fisher is being mitigated by the fact that they are still putting on a professional jersey night in and night out.
"I was hoping to have a good start to the year and get a good chance to stay with Nashville," said Blum of his aborted plans. "Instead I chose to sign an AHL deal and try to make the best of it with Milwaukee. Even though there is the lockout, at least we're still playing hockey and still doing what we love."
The lockout stung especially hard on Blum, who finished last season with Milwaukee after wearing a Predators jersey for 33 NHL contests. Following a great summer, the 23-year-old felt he was ready to stick with Nashville on a fulltime basis.
"Last year I ended up going up and down, so this year I wanted to prove I could stick in the NHL for a full season," Blum said. "The lockout is really frustrating from that stand point."
The potential NHLers suiting up for the Admirals have plenty of company in a league stocked with potential stars. Much of the game's future is suiting up in AHL uniforms, most notably for defending Western Conference regular season champion Oklahoma City (6-5-1-1), who Milwaukee (6-6-0-0) faces in a pair of road tilts this weekend.
"The AHL's very exciting this year," Ellis said. "There are a lot of great players down here (especially) in Oklahoma City, but it's not just that team. The competitiveness of the league provides a better chance for everyone involved here to develop."
The new look Barons boast talents like Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Jordan Eberle and former Wisconsin Badgers defenseman Justin Schultz, who currently leads the league in scoring.
Therefore, competition at the AHL level is even more intense than usual. That might not be a bad thing for young players looking to mature. Future NHL talent like Ryan Suter, Dan Hamhuis, Scottie Upshall and Jordan Tootoo cut their chops for Milwaukee in a 2004-2005 AHL stocked with top prospects and found the year beneficial to their careers.
"Because of the lockout, the AHL was full of the NHL's top young players which made for a really competitive league that was a lot of fun to play in," Suter said. "But that season I (also) got a lot of advice and guidance from the Predators organization because they were able to watch most of our games."
So far the 2012-2013 AHL season has played out along similar lines. The downside is that many players that would normally be suiting up for their respective AHL teams are left fighting for jobs in the ECHL. Same goes for players in the KHL and other leagues, where regular roster spots were unexpectedly taken away by NHL players looking for opportunities.
"The lockout affects everyone," Ellis said. "It's not just the NHLers who you think of as the ones directly affected. There are guys playing the ECHL that should be playing here, just as there are players in the AHL that shouldn't be here."
When coach Dean Evason signed on to the coach the Admirals, he was looking forward to taking the next step of his career after a long stint as an assistant with the Washington Capitals. Evason lacked professional head coaching experience, and this year he was expecting to be guiding prospects. Instead, he's game planning against familiar faces from a year ago.
"Right from the start of the year we decided to conduct ourselves under the assumption that no one was going to get called up," Evason said. "Fortunately, all our (potential NHL players) have been performing like professionals and we've had absolutely no issues with attitudes."
Considering this is Evason's first year in the Predators organization, Nashville's brass could be forgiven for being overly intrusive watching Milwaukee considering the amount of unexpected free time coach Barry Trotz and general manager David Poile have.
However, Evason and his assistant Stan Drulia have enjoyed much of the same autonomy that Admirals predecessors Lane Lambert and Ian Herbers in Milwaukee.
"It's definitely Dean and Stan (Drulia)'s team down here," Blum said. "We're getting a lot of good direction from them. The Nashville coaches are around, but we really don't see much of them on a daily basis."
Despite their differences, a new collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and NHLPA remains a possibility at any time as the two sides continue to negotiate. With the amount of time lost moving into months instead of weeks, any potential 2012-2013 NHL campaign would take on a condensed nature with an extremely short training camp.
With many of their competitors not playing anywhere, Admirals like Mueller see their position as beneficial compared to their counterparts.
"It's kind of a blessing for those of us playing in the minors because if the NHL does start up again we'll already have games under our belt," Mueller said. "A lot of us will be game ready so that will really force Nashville and other NHL cities to take a good long look at us AHL guys."
While none of the players want to the lockout to drag on, Mueller and his teammates are trying to make the best out of bad situation by getting better in the AHL.
"The NHL will be back soon and we all know that," Mueller said. "We definitely want to stay on top of our game and be ready when that time comes."


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i justs hope its worth the wait, besides that keep up the good work.
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#22 12/28/2012 9:03:25 PMWell it was clear to a lot of people that if pvp came out in the form it was previewed as it would have major problems or super challenging to make it so it isn't either pay to win or "X class can just do this and faceroll" etc etc. Also absence of rankings or ladders would leave it without many incentives to keep doing it at all.Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#23 12/28/2012 9:19:33 PMRead the blog and... To be honest I was very dissapointed. Blizzard seem like they have no idea how to integrate pvp and give people a reason to actually do it. They cannot make pvp good without changing things (pve), and they just are not willing to do that. So yeah i'll have some fun dueling but holy shit is this what we had to wait like 7 months for? duels..?Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#24 12/28/2012 10:16:12 PMAt least they provided some information in the PvP blog. They didn't have to tell us anything you know.Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#25 12/28/2012 10:41:51 PMI want moba style gameplay, push those towers, destroy that nexus. Angels vs demons hoooo!Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#26 12/28/2012 11:36:18 PMQuote from Kraglos
It's nice to see that we got more feedback on that matter. Although I don't share their point of view of "Make everyone happy with a single system". Why not release different systems that appeal to different people rather than scrapping what they've got after 7 months?
I totally agree, I didn't like TDM in BF3, but I still played it a bit here and there. It wasn't 1 hour and done forever, but more 1 hour, come back in a week and do another hour. If they want someone everyone will love and play forever, that's a really hard goal to hit. They could make a DoTA style game, or endless dungeon, or open world hostility ... but not everyone is going to like it.Rollback Post to Revision RollBack -
#27 12/29/2012 12:57:27 AMFor PvP to work in this game, it would have to be a completely different beast, i.e skills work differently, different damages, etc... Zones like battle zones would be perfect for this. If it ends up adjusting PvE for PvP balance, it will simply upset a lot of fans, especially HC players who would see nerfs/adjustments for the sake of PvP, which really would be sad to see.
I hope Blizz, if they do implement this, does it right. It cannot turn into WoW and seeing larger PvE changes due to PvP.Rollback Post to Revision RollBack -
#28 12/29/2012 1:05:49 AMBattlegrounds would be interesting but I hope it would be more than a 3v3 or something like that and closer to a 10v10.Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#29 12/29/2012 1:40:02 AMI hope they come up with some really awesome mode for pvpRollback Post to Revision RollBack
#30 12/29/2012 2:34:52 AMI know for sure that if they could not finish already existing PvP arena in 7 months, they for sure won't release new PvP system in upcoming 6 months or probably even until 2014. So you guys can forget about PvP for a whileRollback Post to Revision RollBackYou should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
#31 12/29/2012 2:53:30 AMI don't understand why they couldn't release TDM + some new modes? or extended releasing period with firstly adding TDM. They are overusing "Blizzard Quality" here. I hope we have something by February.Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#32 12/29/2012 2:55:04 AMI'm really courious, how long do we have to wait till we can pvp. And it's not so hard to see bg like pvp in d3.Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#33 12/29/2012 3:54:04 AMD3 pvp will be faceroll.... No gear balance, no class balance, no plvl balance... You will see;pRollback Post to Revision RollBack
#34 12/29/2012 4:18:02 AMI dont udnerstand how people think about battlegrounds in diablo 3 , can anyone explain ?Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#35 12/29/2012 4:25:07 AMQuote from Kraglos
It's nice to see that we got more feedback on that matter. Although I don't share their point of view of "Make everyone happy with a single system". Why not release different systems that appeal to different people rather than scrapping what they've got after 7 months?
I couldn't agree more. This way the pvp mode can better accepted and, as a bonus, there would be something new and different to do in pvp.Rollback Post to Revision RollBack -
#36 12/29/2012 4:26:21 AMThe battleground system cannot be done yet in d3. The reason is simple. There is NO WAY to balance sm1 who pays money for his gear, with sm1 who plays without the RMAH help. Always, the one who pays will have better gear and will win as d3 is a purely gear-depent game..Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#37 12/29/2012 4:34:49 AMBG in diablo 3 NO THXRollback Post to Revision RollBack
#39 12/29/2012 4:41:15 AMa 40 vs 40 arena would be fu**ing AWSOME!Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#40 12/29/2012 4:50:16 AMI wish they'd come up with a PvP scenario besides simple dueling before the game is 1 year old. They promised it!Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
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Thyroid disease, congestive heart failure, blood clots, anemia and rheumatoid arthritis are just some of the health problems Memphian Ann B. wakes up to every day. For 11 years, she has been covered under a class of TennCare called Supplemental Social Security, or the "Daniels" class. Ann asked that her last name be kept anonymous.
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Steve Brandt, president and publisher of The Greenville (S.C.) News, was elected president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association during the SNPA's annual convention Monday.
For hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs during the recession, there's a new twist to their financial pain: Even as they're collecting unemployment benefits, they're paying bank fees just to get access to their money.
Bill Duncan has been appointed senior vice president of brand management for Homewood Suites by Hilton and the newly launched Home2 Suites by Hilton.
It was built for less than $12,000 in the 1930s by the city of Memphis and the Works Progress Administration.
But to relaunch the Levitt Shell at Overton Park – which the city closed a few years ago after years of inactivity and disrepair – it took a $1.3 million renovation plus the addition of new equipment, volunteers, staff, an office space and much more. That effort was years in the making, and it culminates Thursday night with the kickoff of the new shell's inaugural concert season.
Forrest Stuart, director of financial aid at Rhodes College, recently received the Distinguished Service Award at the spring conference of the Tennessee Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (TASFAA).
NASHVILLE (AP) - Members of a Senate lottery subcommittee say they support legislation that would use excess lottery funds to allow honorably discharged Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to attend school.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson is shaking up his still-unofficial campaign, replacing his top aide with a former Michigan senator and a veteran Florida strategist.
In the annals of Memphis mayoral elections, it seems no candidate has run a race quite like Herman Morris Jr.
Morris - Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division's former top executive - has built a campaign operation that boasts the technological edge and efficiency of a small corporation. His supporters can sign up for cell phone text alerts and Internet podcasts. Videos are posted to his Web site.
If Memphis is a pond, and mega-banks such as SunTrust Banks, Wachovia Corp. and Regions Financial Corp. are whales, then local startup Triumph Bank is a goldfish.
Sometimes, a little fish can make its gargantuan counterparts look like fish out of water.


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Dear Friends,
I continue to be amazed at how the Nashville community continues to pull together in the aftermath of the flood. It is inspiring to see strangers helping those they find in need.
Nashville truly is a unique community. I often find myself saying "only in Nashville" in reference to events that happen here. Next Tuesday, June 22nd, Michael will be a part of one of thsoe events. It's a concert being held at the Bridgestone Arena that all proceeds are going to help the flood victims. I wish you could be here to see this one.
How about THIS line-up:
You can support this great concert event and own a piece of Nashville music history by ordering a commemorative backstage pass. The info is below.
Blessings to you all,
Chaz Corzine (Michael's Manager)
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How to edit photos within the Android gallery
Not every photo taken is a masterpiece; some are upside down, or sideways, or have extra "scenery" that you didn't choose to include. For these issues, the Android gallery app offers a few simple editing tools to help correct image orientation and tidy up photos.
Getting to the editing menu:Open a picture from the gallery and then press the menu button. This menu is only available when previewing a photo by itself. Now, select More from this menu.
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Starting from scratch
The first-of-its-kind PGA event, which begins Thursday at The Greenbrier's par-70 Old White Course, obviously has no defending champion and, minus a bookmaker, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a favorite.
Oh, there will be plenty of capable, veteran players on hand for the four-day, 72-hole event. But all those guys with all that PGA Tour experience, all that intimate course knowledge? They're like rookies again.
Very few of the golfers in the field of 156 have ever set foot on Old White, and it's been a scramble for information since players and their caddies got here.
"I think it's great, isn't it?'' said Matt Kuchar, at No. 7 on the PGA money list, one of the top-ranking players in the field. "A rookie's got just as much chance as a veteran.
"There's no real local course knowledge that anybody has any favorite on or real advantage for. It's kind of fun to have these weeks where we're all starting fresh and have got to figure it out from Monday. We have a couple days. I'll spend a couple days trying to learn the course a little bit and play the pro-am [today].''
Brendon de Jonge, 30, a former Virginia Tech and Nationwide Tour golfer, also likes the fact that the younger players aren't giving up much when it comes to course knowledge.
"Yeah, it's a little bit different,'' said de Jonge, one of the hottest players on the Tour with 12 of his last 15 rounds in the 60s. "You know, we go to the same venues every year. Some guys have been there 20, 25 years. So this will definitely even out the playing field in that regard.
"I'm sure some guys will take a little longer out there on the practice rounds trying to learn the course some more.''
One player who does have inside information on the course is West Virginia Amateur champion Jonathan Bartlett of Lewisburg, whose victory last month at Old White earned him an exemption into the Greenbrier Classic.
However, Bartlett, who is employed by The Greenbrier's Sporting Club, doesn't see that as much of an asset this week against some of the world's greatest golfers.
"Do I have an advantage against the world-class players? Absolutely not,'' he said. "I know the course, but these guys, unless they're giving me three a side, which is what I have to give to members, there's no advantage whatsoever.''
Many players sent their caddies out early this week to survey the course and figure out potential trouble spots.
"He'll go out and walk the golf course, him and a couple other caddies,'' said Boo Weekley. "They'll shoot yardages. They'll get it together. A lot of the caddies, they go out together and work together so they can get the ups and downs, how far it is to fly it over certain bunkers.
"Just different things. Where you want to miss it, where you don't. They'll check the rough out. They ain't gonna work no harder than they normally would. It's just a new golf course. That's the only thing different.''
John Daly, a two-time major winner and one of the more recognizable names in the field, also doesn't think it takes a crash course to succeed this week at Old White, which will play at 7,031 yards, the sixth-shortest course on the PGA Tour this season.
"We like courses like this, 'cause what you see is what you get," he said. "This kind of golf course, you know four days what you're going to hit off the tees.
"The par 3s are really, really good out here. Those are the ones - if you can play the par 3s even par this week and take advantage of some of the shorter par 4s and the two par 5s, guys are going to score low here.''
West Virginia golf fans are used to seeing their top amateur players struggle to maintain two or four rounds of even-par golf on Old White through the years, but expect those numbers to fall precipitously starting Thursday.
"I think [the winning score] will be between 20, 25 under par, to tell you the truth, if the weather stays like this,'' Daly said. "The greens are just too good. They're perfect. I actually even putted good [Monday], and I haven't been putting good all year, and I feel like I can make a few on them. They're not real, real fast, but they're true ... so guys are going to make a ton of putts out here.
"The defense is the greens because they're a little undulated, and the par 3s. But you've got to maneuver it around some of the fairway bunkers. I don't think I hit more than a 9 iron into a par 4 [in Monday's pro-am].''
Daly thinks the cut line after Friday's second round will eliminate some golfers with pretty good scores.
"I'm predicting probably 3, 4, 5 under makes the cut here,'' he said. "It's going to be one of those weeks that if you shoot 2 or 3 under each day ... it's not real long, but it's in such great shape that it's hard not to [score well].''
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Fabulous fall finds under $50
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Trendy accessories to try right now
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Fashionistas unite! Although Toronto's Fashion Week featured a range of designers as diverse as Canadians themselves, last week they spoke with one voice: Black-and-white looks, '60s throwback cuts and textured accents will be huge this fall.
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Jane writes: I have a brown suede suit that is embroidered with a rust, camel and khaki green paisley motif. The jacket is dated but the long A-line skirt is like new and fits me well.
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