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A colleague of musician Desmond Miles of the Mighty Vikings, who died December 11 in South Florida, remembers him as a dedicated family man and friend.
"He was very kind. I can remember him always coming to Orlando to visit me and giving support," said singer Sonny Wong, who leads a version of the Mighty Vikings in that Florida city.
"There is nothing bad that anyone can say about him. Music was his world," Wong added.
According to Wong, Miles, a bassist, was the driving force behind the Mighty Vikings. He was not only band leader but manager as well.
"I don't know how the remaining members will react with not having him there," Wong said.
A 12-piece, the Mighty Vikings formed in Kingston during the 1960s, playing at parties and in the city's clubs.
The band split in the 1970s when Miles and his family moved permanently to the United States. He reformed the Mighty Vikings in 1997 in Miami.
The funeral service for Desmond Miles takes place Saturday at the Kendall Community Church of God in Florida.
"We ask that everyone manage this as a celebration of his life. The event will include musical tributes and performances. Our family asks that donations be made to the Alpha Boys' School to benefit the music programme," his daughter Jennifer requested in a Facebook posting.
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Here's the link to an early (VERY EARLY) mock 2008 draft from the NFL Spot Draft page. (Our fearless leader, Brian, currently writes for the draft page, but I don't think he had anything to do with this particular mock.)
Bills information:
-they have predicted Buffalo to get the second pick in the draft, right behind the Vikings. I'm not expecting any Super Bowls from this team this season, but I'm certainly expecting more than the second-worst record in the league!
-With the #2 pick, the author has Buffalo taking WR DeSean Jackson from Cal. I don't know how I would feel about this pick if this did happen. I think it would be awesome to get a "sidekick" to Evans.

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NEW ORLEANS -- Get in the dance, the belief goes, and anything can happen.
For New Orleans, that's the hope.
It has to be.
The players know it and, in fact, are embracing it.
"I feel that everybody's going to approach this game as a very important game," running back Pierre Thomas said Monday. "And, you know, I feel like we're comfortable with our situation that we're in. It's gonna show what type of team we really are."
They know that three teams since 2004 have gone on the road for three games and earned a Super Bowl win (Pittsburgh, '05; New York giants, '07; Green Bay, '10).
They also have the experience to back it up the idea that playoff football is different football.
Thirteen players still on the roster were part of the 11-5 Saints team that went to Seattle and somehow lost to a 7-9 Seahawks team.
In all, 32 players on the roster have postseason experience. Thirteen were with the Saints during the Super Bowl season and three others have played in the big game.
And while most believe the Saints are an underdog heading on the road, where they're 3-5 this season and 0-5 in non-neutral venue playoff games, those inside the locker room do not.
Once again, Mr. Thomas.
"We're not gonna look above ourselves or anything else, or put ourselves down," the running back said. "We're gonna go out here and do what we have to do. We're gonna get the job done. We're gonna stay focused. We know everything is on the line at this point."
The subject of New Orleans' road issues has certainly been worn out but it will be, and should be, repeated often until it does something on the road.
The Saints were outscored away from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome by 37 points this season. They scored nearly half the points at an opponent's stadium this season. And New Orleans allowed 54 more points when it didn't have the benefit of the denizens of the Superdome roaring it on.
But they also believe they were close to breaking through on Dec. 22 in a 17-13 loss at Carolina.
New Orleans will go to Philadelphia a 2.5 point underdog Saturday.
Tell them that, if you want, but they won't care.
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PLATTSBURGH — After a one-year hiatus, the Saranac boys' indoor track and field team is back on top in Section VII.
Avenging a one-point loss to Ticonderoga a season ago, the Chiefs fended off the Sentinels, 204-128, to claim the sectional championship at the Plattsburgh State Field House Saturday.
"It was obviously a great season for everyone involved," Saranac coach Chris Verkey said. "I need to give a big shout-out to all my athletes and everybody involved in our program. Without them, nothing is possible.
"These kids work, day in and day out, as hard as they possibly can. They give everything they possibly can to the program. What we were able to establish and what we were able to do this year as a team, it's all on them."
Plattsburgh High (59), Beekmantown (40) and Seton Catholic (31) completed the top-five finishers. Westport (16), Moriah (13), AuSable Valley (11) and Peru (7) finished sixth through ninth, respectively.
A significant contributor for the Chiefs was Justin Liechty. Liechty helped his team win the 1,600-meter relay before claiming the 600-meter run. He also finished second in the high jump event.
"The 600, I really didn't know what was going to happen, considering that the top-three guys were all neck-and-neck," Liechty said. "So pulling out a win there was really great.
"The high jump, it's been a long road. I jumped 6'2" at the start of the season, so only jumping 5'08" is kind of upsetting, but you get over it."
Caiden Goodman was also a top competitor for Verkey's squad, finishing second in the long jump and 640-meter relay before finishing third in the 55-meter dash.
"Worked hard all week," Goodman said. "Didn't fool around, you know. In the 640-meter relay, we worked hard all week in practice. No one really eased up. It paid off (Saturday)."


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The sports media groupthink has officially been reversed. It's now a given that Georgia Tech wide receiver are coming out of Tech NFL-ready, and it's now a matter of asking why. The answer is our WR coach - Al Preston Recruits, are you reading this?! PLAY FOR TECH!
One of the stars of the NFL scouting combine, speedy Georgia Tech junior wide receiver Stephen Hill visited the Baltimore Ravens this week, according to Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times.
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Freshmen Lawmakers Get Crash Course in State GovernmentBy Jeffrey Hess | Published 06 Dec 2011 05:50pm |
When the Mississippi legislature goes into session early next year, more than a quarter of the Senators and Representatives will be new. MPB's Jeffrey Hess reports that the freshmen lawmakers in Jackson getting a crash course on jam-packed 2012 legislative session.
"You are part of the branch closest to the people. Folks will come to your door and as I saw blow the horn. They won't even knock on your door, they will blow the horn at you and have you come see them,"
Mississippi House Speaker Billy McCoy welcomes the new class of state legislators at the Capitol Tuesday morning.
There will be 47 new senators and representatives for the four-month session that begins January third.
The Institutions of Higher Learning brought in experts from all over Mississippi to bring the law makers up to speed on how state government works and the main issues facing the state says higher education commission Hank Bounds.
"Whether you are talking about education, health care, or our retirement system. We will give some revenue projections and we will also spend some time talking about the state's bonded indebtedness and what that looks like. Health care panels, education panels, just a good opportunity to get a head start," Bounds said.
A House clerk takes the new law makers on a tour of the Capitol introducing them to key locations.
Senator-elect Sean Tisdell of Gulfport says his biggest focus is the state's budget situation.
"Obviously we have got the big budget issues that are coming up. Just like across the country, most of the states are in a bind and we are in the same boat. So we are going to have to work hard on the budget and make sure stay within the parameters that we were sent here to do," Tisdell said.
The freshmen lawmakers are joining the legislature at a time of major change with Republicans controlling most levers of government.
Representative-elect Charles Young Junior of Lauderdale County thinks that level of turn over is the biggest challenge.
"We have a transition with the Governor, the Lt. Governor, the Speaker. So there are going to be transitions with many chair and I think the biggest area of transition that we are going to have to take is with people," Young said.
The new law maker training continues in Jackson through today.
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The UFC has officially announced the five-fight main card a single preliminary fight for its initial foray down under, when UFC 110 comes to the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia on February 21st. ...
Inside Fights gives a few updates on the UFC 105 card: A tipster has informed Inside Fights that Michael Bisping will meet Denis Kang at UFC 105. However, despite recent reports to the contrary,...
via img.thesun.co.uk The UK Daily Star caught up with Michael Bisping after his devastating knockout loss to Dan Henderson: "I honestly don't know what happened to me out there. I will just have...
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Granted, the calculator is targeted at SMBs, so it's conceivable that said targets will come away with at least a better sense of what their carbon footprint looks like -- and can use it as a starting point to reduce its size through better practices.
Forrester Research has also come out with a calculator for measuring your green IT baseline, a term coined by Forrester that represents an annual estimate of the energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and financial costs of operating your IT within and outside of the datacenter.
[ Learn more about calculating your green IT baseline. ]
The calculator has you enter the number of various IT equipment you have at your organizations, from PCs and peripherals to servers and networking equipment, as well as CRAC and lighting in the datacenter. You need to supply the watts per asset used and the number of hours per year each pool of equipment is up and running. You also enter your CO2 emissions and price per kWh. You're then given a chart showing annual CO2 emissions and costs associated with powering your IT gear; it will also measure your PUE and DCIE.
Like the Rackspace calculator, Forrester's isn't comprehensive, but I think it can provide some value for organizations planning to embrace sustainable technology practices at their organizations. Taking some time to calculate the baseline will provide a starting point from which they can work to improve.
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1195 Fewer Calories
321mg Less Cholesterol
Southern Fried Chicken "un-fried"
1195 Fewer Calories
321mg Less Cholesterol
8 skinless boneless chicken thighs, trimmed of all visible fat (about 1 1/2 pounds)
1/2 teaspoon Paula Deen's House Seasoning
1/4 cup light mayonnaise
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
1 1/4 cups cornflake crumbs
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Spray a large shallow baking pan with nonstick spray.
Sprinkle the chicken with the House Seasoning. In a large bowl, combine the mayonnaise, lemon zest, juice, egg white, and hot sauce. Add the chicken; toss to coat.
Place the cornflake crumbs on a sheet of wax paper. Dip the chicken into the crumbs pressing so the crumbs adhere. Place the chicken in the pan and lightly spray with nonstick spray.
Bake until the chicken is golden brown and cooked through, 40 – 45 minutes. Do not turn.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Yield: 8 servings
Per Serving: 227 Cal; 25 g Protein; 11 g Tot Fat; 3 g Sat Fat; 4 g Mono Fat; 5 g Carb; 0 g Fiber; 0 g Sugar; 13 mg Calcium; 1 mg Iron; 288 mg Sodium; 87 mg Cholesterol
Original Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Lightened Up recipe courtesy Bobby Deen and the Paula Deen test kitchen
Bobby and The Test Kitchen Notes: Although we all enjoyed this much lighter version and we hope you make it again and again, we decided there is something about an old fashioned fried chicken recipe. You just don't mess with it…we unanimously decided we would rather just eat fried chicken a little less frequently the way it was meant to be prepared.


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text: Minka Kelly Bikini Photos With Derek Jeter in St. Bart's Derek and Minka's Sexy Bikini Vacation! by POPSUGAR Celebrity 11/19/09 40 Reactions 8 Shares Print 0 0 8 0 0 Alex Rodriguez isn't the only Yankee with a hot girlfriend! Derek Jeter and his lady love, Friday Night Lights's Minka Kelly headed to St. Bart's this week where they were spotted having some serious bikini fun. Not a bad way to celebrate that World Series win, eh? Snorkel Time What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Derek and Minka got ready for some snorkeling in the ocean. 1 / 10 Laying Out What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Derek smiled big at his hot girlfriend. 2 / 10 Wading In What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The water looks lovely. 3 / 10 Long and Lean What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minka soaked in the sun. 4 / 10 Sandy Pants What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The beach is a perfect place to take a seat. 6 / 10 Piggyback What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minka held on tight to her World Series winner. 6 / 10 Footsie What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Derek tested the water from sitting on the dock. 7 / 10 Beach Bodies What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Derek and Minka showed off their bathing suit bods. 8 / 10 Going For It What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minka got ready to take a dive. 9 / 10 R&R What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fresh off his big win and with FNL finally back on DirectTV, Derek and Minka deserved the break. 11 / 10 0 0 8 0 0 Read More Pop SlideshowMinka KellyDerek JeterShirtlessBikini Bikini Gwyneth Paltrow Slips Into a Bikini For Her Ice Bucket Challenge 2 days ago Kim Kardashian Is the Queen of Sexy Swimsuit Snaps 3 days ago Reese Witherspoon Flaunts Her Bikini Body on Her Picture-Perfect Getaway 5 days ago Halle Berry's Hottest Bikini Moments! 6 days ago Alessandra Ambrosio's Vacation Is All About Bikinis, Family, and PDA 6 days ago Stay Cool and Get Six-Pack Abs With Our Pool Workout 1 week ago Shirtless Pick Your Favorite Shirtless Star! 21 hours ago These Shirtless Snaps Will Heat Up Your Summer 1 day ago The Ice Bucket Challenge Has Turned Hollywood Into a Wet T-Shirt Contest 2 days ago All the Hot, Shirtless TV Stars of 2014 So Far 6 days ago David Beckham's Abs Would Like to Make Your Day Better 1 week ago Sink Your Teeth Into This True Blood Hunk's Shirtless Body 2 weeks ago Minka Kelly Double Take: Celebrity Look-Alikes 4/19 Award Season Might Be Over, but That Didn't Keep These Celebs From the Gym! 3/07 The John Mayer Hookup Guide: The Ladies Who Led to Katy Perry 10/30/13 Half and Half: Whose Knotted Updo Did You Like Best? 8/18/13 Oprah Says She's "Sorry" For Racist Swiss Incident at the Butler Premiere 8/13/13 Oprah, Mariah Carey, and More Stars Collide at the Big Butler Premiere 8/06/13 Get a Personalized Celebrity & Entertainment Newsletter! Help us customize your newsletter by selecting your interests (optional): A Listers Young Hollywood TV Movies 4 years Just saw Minka's 5 minutes in 500 Days of Summer (she's gorgous) and just wanted to confirm this was the same girl Jeter is dating (or suppoesedly engaged to), but what I have confirmed is that Jeter has man boobs and needs a man-zeir or a bro, depending if it's Kramer or Frank Costanza you're speaking to. 4 years I think they look cute together!!! Lets hope they get hitched soon. 4 years Forget Minka...what's up with Jeter's pudgy man boobs? Where's the abs and muscles, man? CashBunny 4 years i loved her cameo in 500 days of summer! redchick152 4 years wow Keenan, if that is huge, then sign me up!!!i think she looks good! redchick152 4 years wow Keenan, if that is huge, then sign me up!!! i think she looks good! 4 years Minka has always been a cute girl in my eyes. BTW, This is the first time I see their pics 2gether having fun like this. I love them 2gether. 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So it looks like I'm going to be spending about 2/3 of the upcoming football season on the road stuck in training. That means lots of downtime. Per my engineering background, that means I'll likely be doing neckbearded-type stuff. One of the projects I started a while back was remaking a ROM of the1987 8-bit Nintendo classic "Mike Tyson's Punch Out!" into a college-football themed boxing title. I've already gotten started on a couple of the fighters.
Here's what we've got so far:
Easy enough. The toupee-looking hair & sunken eyes make this one easy.
The most obvious of the bunch.
I can make lots of text changes, and some graphical mods as well. I'm currently leaning toward using Charlie Weis for King Hippo, and Steve Spurrier as Don Flamenco (I'll add the visor; the image of him prancing around the ring before the fight should be worth the trouble alone).
Now I need suggestions for the rest. That means both the characters and the names of the circuits (originally "Minor", "Major", and "World". Be aware I'm limited to 5 characters for each circuit name. After I finish I'll post a link to an online, playable version.


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Everything that we have attempted in our lives has always focused upon doing the very best that we could to the glory of God. This focus is the center of Shekinah Farm's goals and the reason for our choosing the name "Shekinah," which is a biblical Hebrew term used to describe the presence of God's glory.
We believe this is God's business and we are to be good stewards of the cattle and other resources He has entrusted to us. Hence, one of our goals is to provide educational opportunities for young people and help meet the benevolent needs of families in our small community with the proceeds from the sale of our cattle. Our overall goal in operating Shekinah Farms is to breed and develop healthy, genetically superior, nutritionally sound cattle.


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Nearly 2,000 volunteers fanned out across the Birmingham metro area Monday to volunteer at more than 50 sites.
The day of service was part of Hands on Birmingham's MLK Jr. Day of Service.
Hundreds of students from Miles College, Lawson State Community College, and The University of Alabama at Birmingham, painted the bollards at Legion Field.
"It's important for the community to see that we can come together and give back," said volunteer Jerry Brooks.
Today mark's Hands on Birmingham's 14th Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
UA President: incident won't interrupt progress
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You aren't an Australian, so you wouldn't know how bad the maps are here... They're pretty freakin bad!
I'm a fanboy, but I'm not going to lie... Apple maps are hopeless down under.
Embarrassing for mindless idiots...? In Australia, we have 4+ hrs gaps between towns (even longer). If you don't know where you're going, you're going to rely on your maps. If they aren't accurate, that's the fault of the map provider, not the user.
It's not like he drove randomly into the outback. He drove along a highway to a town, and his maps told him to turn (there aren't a lot of signs on some of our roads) so he wouldn't have had any reason to assume he was going the wrong way.
I think the thing we all learn from this, is maps aren't perfect. I don't know why you're on the defence of Apple? They stuffed up... Apple are human too... Why do you think Apple apologised and a guy got fired over Apple Maps? Because they're really bad. lol
Kudos to you for trying to educate him about anything outside of the US but I think it's going to fall on deaf ears. He's too focused on defending his technology choice and his favourite company to understand the issues that the other 95% of the world are facing.


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NHS set up helpline to deal with breast surgeon concerns
An NHS helpline has been set up for patients of the breast cancer surgeon Ian Paterson who is being investigated for possible misconduct.
Dr Aresh Anwar, medical director for Solihull Hospital, said: "We have invited all of Mr Paterson's patients who underwent a mastectomy to see an alternative surgeon for a review of their treatment and care.
"We are keen to hear from any patient who may have concerns or further questions and have set up a helpline to ensure that these can be addressed quickly."
The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust advice line can be contacted on 0121 424 5473 between 9am and midday, Monday to Friday.
Thompsons Solicitors have also set up a helpline for women who may be affected on 08000 224 224.


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The tables are turned on Scott Baio's character in the hit show 'See Dad Run.' The TV star turned stay-at-home dad is getting more than he bargained for.
'See Dad Runs airs Saturdays at 8:30 pm on Nick at Nite.
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Multiple charges in Harford County hit-and-run
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BEL AIR, Md. - A Forest Hill woman has been charged with multiple charges, including driving under the influence, resulting from a hit-and-run accident on Monday.
State Police Bel Air barracks said they received a phone call from Jennifer Helen Brooks, 52, of Forest Hill, who told them she had been operating the striking vehicle.
Investigators interviewed Brooks and learned that she had been consuming alchohol at Jimmy's Old School Tavern at 303 Conowingo Road Street, Maryland just prior to the accident. A vehicle at the resident showed damage to the passenger side and mirror. Alcohol was determined to be a contributing factor in the collision.
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It's that time of year again! It kind of snuck up on me. No, not Halloween, but the week before Halloween — which brings us COFFIN HOP, the annual online event for indie horror and genre authors and artists to reach out to their fans and readers. Authors hold contests, gave away e-books, paperbacks, prize packages, autographed copies, toys, personalized writings, videos, themed jewellery, movie posters, and more. Visit www.coffinhop.com and follow the member links there to see what everyone has for all you trick-or-treaters this year.
This year, they're doing something special — the COFFIN HOP team has released a collection of some of the best stories from their members. COFFIN HOP: DEATH BY DRIVE-IN includes twenty-one B-movie inspired stories about "Brains from Space! Robot Squids Gone Wild! Radioactive Microwave Men! Monster Mash Massacres! Crotch Tentacles! Pinterest-loving Werewolves! Cannibal Bikers! Vampire Seduction! A man-eating Toilet! Robot Lincoln & Zombie Jackson!"
All profits from the anthology will be donated to LitWorld.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization supporting child literacy and social improvement the world over. The book is available here: KINDLE | SMASHWORDS | PAPERBACK
You can also win a copy right here! Just leave a comment on this post, and you'll be entered in a drawing for a free e-book of COFFIN HOP: DEATH BY DRIVE-IN, and a free e-book of my new novel, STILL LIFE! Good luck!
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Sure wish Coffin Hop could last longer!! I have your book "Slices"…creepifying :)
Hi Michael–looking forward to the chance to win"Death by Drive-in." It'll be cool to read something frightening and help kids' literacy all at the same time. See you around the hop!
First time coffin hopper here checking out everyone's site.
Thanks for the hop stop! Really loving the Coffin Hop this year.
Sure glad I found the coffin hop!
I wait all year for Coffin Hop. Thanks for the chance to win!
Hey, Michael. I'm glad to see you Coffin Hopping. I hope you're enjoying the event. I'm doing my best to get through the list. It's tough with that 11 hour day job I've got, but what can I do? I have emerged from writer's cave temporarily so I can participate as much as possible. After that it's right back in!
Thanks for the giveaway opportunities.
Stopping by from Coffin Hop!
Thanks for participating in the Coffin Hop. I hope I win your giveaway.
I love the Coffin Hop. I always have so much fun.
Happy Halloween!
Hi Michael,
Finally made it to your blog on the #coffinhop madness…
Great giveaway.
Hope you are having an awesome #CoffinHop.
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Q What is Macro Trend Investor and how is it different from other financial newsletters?
A The mission of Macro Trend Investor is to give investors solid, actionable portfolio recommendations that should do well in any economic climate. We intend to do this by focusing on key themes:
- Select growth-oriented investments that capitalize on durable, long-term macro trends. The themes that we intend to follow most closely are the rise of Generation Y (the "Echo Boomers"), the graying of the Baby Boomers, and the development of the urbanized middle class in emerging markets such as Africa, China, India and Brazil.
- High-quality income investments that should continue to generate consistent returns in even the most volatile of markets.
- Contrarian investments and trades that attempt to identify false trends and position portfolios accordingly—on the long or short side.
Q What kinds of investments will Macro Trend Investor recommend?
A We will be recommending individual stocks and bonds where appropriate as well as ETFs and mutual funds. Other, more exotic investments such as preferred stock, real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), and master limited partnerships ("MLPs") will also be considered when we consider them to be priced attractively.
Q Do the ideas behind Macro Trend Investor work?
A Absolutely. Let's start with the emphasis on income. In his excellent book Behavioural Investing, James Montier said that "Over the long term, dividend yield has provided over 50% of the total return to equities."
And if dividends are reinvested, the numbers get even better. In his groundbreaking book The Future for Investors, Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel found that "From 1871 to 2003, 97 percent of the total after-inflation accumulation from stocks comes from reinvesting dividends. Only 3 percent comes from capital gains."
Income investments can lose money, of course. Any investment can. But we firmly believe that a solid stream of income can mitigate the erratic booms and busts of the market over time and allow investors to generate a respectable return.
Academic studies also confirm that using demographics to identify growth investments is a winning strategy. In 2005, professors Stefano DellaVigna and Joshua Pollet published what we believe to be one of the most insightful academic papers in the history of academic finance: "Attention, Demographics, and the Stock Market" (available at the UC Berkley website).
DellaVigna and Pollet wrote, that "Cohort size fluctuations produce forecastable demand changes for age-sensitive sectors, such as toys, bicycles, beer, life insurance, and nursing homes. These demand changes are predictable once a specific cohort is born."
Using this insight, the professors proved empirically that changes in demand based on demographic trends can add 5%-10% in excess returns over the broader stock market.
So, we have based Macro Trend Investor on methods that have been proven to be effective over the long term.
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A I have two fundamentally different products with similar names: Macro Trend Investor (formerly the Sizemore Investment Letter), which is a paid investment newsletter, and Macro Trend Insights, which is a free e-letter.
When I recommend a stock or ETF in Macro Trend Investor, you can expect regular follow-up. I track the recommendations throughout the month and issue regular updates if anything material changes. These picks are intended for my regular subscribers, and I view the individual picks as pieces of a larger portfolio.
Macro Trend Insights, however, is written for a more casual audience, freely available to anyone browsing InvestorPlace.com. While it reflects my basic investment philosophy and strategy, it is less comprehensive and customized. There are no in-depth monthly issues, model portfolios, or promises of follow-up on stocks and funds I cover.
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However, I'm not suggesting you have to do that. If your portfolio is smaller than that and you do have to pick and choose, I would say this: diversify across strategy. So don't buy only emerging market stocks, or only energy stocks, or only income stocks—spread your bets across the different strategies we're pursuing.
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NEW DELHI: Open offers worth Rs 2,460 crore were made to buy shares from public shareholders in the first five months of the current fiscal.
Between April-August, shareholders have received a total of 33 open offers worth Rs 2,460 crore, Sebi has said in its latest monthly bulletin.
Of these, 16 open offers worth Rs 1,613 crore were made for substantial acquisition of shares. This is the highest number of offers made for this category since 2008-2009 fiscal.


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Patch 4.3.3 has brought some changes to the sound engine in WoW.
The most obvious is that sound replacements now have to be in OGG format exclusively, WAV files aren't considered as valid anymore [source]. This means that a lot of sound replacement addons might not work anymore out of the box.
The second, more subtle change is that the sound files now actually need a content. In the previous versions of my Muted Sounds Addon, I was using literally empty OGG files to replace the sound. They were valid OGG files (i.e. not zero-byte) but contained no sound whatsoever. This worked fine until the patch hit, but after that I had multiple sound dropouts (boss emotes, addon sounds, etc) that didn't happen before.
After some trial and error it turned out that I needed to insert 1ms of silence to make the sound files work again correctly.
To summarize:
- You now need (only) valid OGG files to replace sounds.
- .wav files simply renamed to .ogg will not work.
- Neither will files with a length of 0 (empty dummy files, e.g. an empty .txt file renamed to .ogg).
- These valid OGG files require an actual content. 1ms will do.
This may not be a problem when you only want to replace a few files, but at least for a large number of files (24,500 for my addon) it definitely is.
Also, if anyone could inform the poor blokes in the US forum about this, they haven't seem to found the answer yet, and I cannot post in the US forums.


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Referrals are required for authorized services provided outside a CampusCare Health Center. Unauthorized services provided elsewhere are the enrolled member's full financial responsibility. There are no exclusions for pre-existing medical conditions.
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This 4ft classic tree may be small in height, but it's full body gives it a realistic and warm feel - perfect for small rooms and giving office spaces a festive atmosphere.
With hinged branches on three pieces and a stand which slots together, setting up and putting the tree away for the summer months is quick and simple.
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Will Oracle be good to Java's developers?
That's the question on everyone's mind at this year's JavaOne developer conference, the last show before Oracle's planned $7.4 billion buyout of Java's creator, Sun Microsystems. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a surprise appearance at the show's opening keynote Tuesday and tried to assuage developer concerns. While he implied that there would be some changes, he said, essentially, that it will be business as usual for Java when the acquisition is concluded.
[ InfoWorld's Paul Krill raised a similar question when the Oracle-Sun acquisition was originally announced: Is Java as we know it doomed? | And Ed Snyder asks: Did the good Larry or bad Larry buy Java? | Keep up with app dev issues and trends with InfoWorld's Fatal Exception and Strategic Developer blogs. ]
But Oracle is no Sun. Sun has long struggled to keep its diverse community of developers happy, creating a burdensome bureaucracy to manage the development of Java standards and gradually releasing key components of the platform under an open source license. While Sun has made some money from Java licenses, it has missed out on big opportunities to sell lucrative Java development tools and middleware servers.
Sun remains, at its heart, a hardware company; Oracle sells software.
To some extent, Sun's failure to cash in on Java has helped it remain a neutral steward of the technology, but that dynamic will change under Oracle. At JavaOne this week, one Sun employee summed up the difference between the two companies, saying an Oracle staffer had told him recently, "We're not a nonprofit company like you guys."
Developers at the show are chiefly concerned with three things: Will Oracle keep Java open? Will it use its control over Java to favor its own products? And, finally, which Java technologies will be killed off after the merger?
Using its control over Java to favor Oracle's own products would drive developers away from the platform, show attendees said. "The worst-case scenario would be if Oracle did some tight integration, " said Kevin Hooke, a Java developer with a large technology consulting firm.
Similarly, rolling the annual JavaOne conference into Oracle's OpenWorld event -- a plan rumored to be in the works, according to show attendees -- would hurt the Java development community, which has pushed for independence from Sun ever since Java's inception. "If you fold JavaOne into an Oracle-only conference, you're going to harm the foundation of Java," Hooke said.
Publicly Sun executives are forging ahead as if the Oracle merger weren't happening. Aside from Ellison's brief appearance, Sun executives either made no mention of the acquisition or declined to comment on the issue at the show. Sun has acknowledged, however, that it can't say for sure whether Oracle will continue to develop things like its cloud computing services if the acquisition goes through.


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It's been a while since our last blog post and a lot has happened since then. Luckily, we still have a lot more we want to do and change. That is why we're hiring more talented people to help us build the future retail platform.
- DevOps Engineer: To help us scale we need an engineer who can maintain and develop our AWS infrastructure.
- Front-End Engineer: We love the web, and to keep pushing on this platform we need a kick-ass front-end engineer to be responsible for our single-page app.
- Data Visualization Front-End Engineer: The term "Big data" isn't necessarily a term of our liking but we do have a huge amount of data generated every day that we want to deliver in an engaging and useful manner to help retailers navigate the retail space.
In the coming days, we'll be adding two backend engineering job postings so be sure to check our always updated job page. We look forward to hearing from you.


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'Art is in Market' is home to over 150 local artists. The store has three convenient locations across metro Detroit. Twelve Oaks Mall in NoviLaurel Park Place in LivoniaThe Mall at Partridge Creek in Charter Township of ClintonVIDEO: Click on the video player above to see some of this year's featured items from the store's owner, Debbie La Pratt
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Director: Gakuryu Ishii
Writer: Gakuryu Ishii
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Masakatsu Funaki
Company: Discotek Media
For you DVD Collectors and "Dexter" fans out there, season 3 is now out on DVD and ready to grace your book shelf.
Just like the previous two sets, "Dexter Season 3" clocks in with pretty much the same package. You get all 12 episodes, a few cast interviews and a few extra episodes of other Showtime series such as "The United States of Tara" and the "Tudors".
Joe's going to hate this.
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Please join us Saturday February 1st for a stellar night of music featuring PillowTalk performing all new material from their forthcoming album live at Monarch. Also on the line up the mysterious and infectious sounds of dAvi A along with the the master blaster of Nite Moves Papa Lu. Of course Smoke n' Mirrors residents Shiny Objects and Trev Campbell will be in full effect dropping the very best deep house, disco and techno.
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Bread with soup. Bread for toast. Bread to sop up the last streaks of sauce or gravy or pan juices. I suppose you might be able to survive without bread, but you sure can't live without it. A big, fat, puffy, chewy, golden loaf of homemade bread is just about the best thing that could [Read On]
Braided Semolina Bread
Homemade Naan
Welcome to part IV of the series of component dishes to make the transcendent 'Second to Naanwich' that still has me obsessed almost three weeks after eating it. (Don't forget to peek at Part I, Candied Jalapenos a.k.a. Cowboy Candy, Part II, Homemade Greek Yogurt and Cucumber Yogurt Salsa [Raita] and Part III, Homemade Ghee [Read On]
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This past weekend I officially became my mother. If you've been reading me for a while, you're aware that I am the eldest child in a large family that includes a baby sister. This baby sister of mine is still in high school. Sadly, she is not hopelessly stupid. No, she's in high school because [Read On]
Grilled Pizza Dough Throwdown: Part III The finale Fried Pizza Dough
I fully expected that Peter Reinhart's grilled pizza dough (based on the famed Il Forno grilled pizzas) would spank my semolina dough six ways from Sunday. Here's the thing, though… It didn't. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying mine was superior. I have a long way to go before I can come near [Read On]
Grilled Pizza Dough Throwdown: Part II Mise En Place
To recap: In my first pizza dough throwdown post I pitted Peter Reinhart's grilled pizza dough from "My American Pie" against my very own Foodie With Family semolina grilled pizza dough recipe. The dough was prepared rested in the fridge overnight. Now we move on to preparing the pizza. Making sure you have everything [Read On]
Grilled Pizza Dough Throwdown: Part I Semolina Grilled Pizza Dough
I am, as you may have noticed, powerfully obsessed with pizza. The quest for the perfect pizza recipe is one that has dogged me my entire cooking life. I've made so many pizza dough variations that I've now lost track. Beer, semolina, all purpose flour, high gluten flour, whole grain flour, extra virgin olive oil, [Read On]


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Postgame: Lowell 4, Merrimack 0
- Updated: February 2, 2014
The Highlights
The Pressers
The Podcasts
John Leahy's pregame interview with head coach Mark Dennehy
Intermission with WBIN color analyst Don Cahoon
Intermission with Merrimack Director of New Media Ben Parker
Postgame with head coach Mark Dennehy
The Notebook
- Merrimack won 37-of-70 draws and held advantages in shot attempts in all three periods (8-5, 14-13, 11-6).
- Two different River Hawks – Michael Kapa and Chapie – each finished with multi-point nights.
- Senior Mike Collins led all Warriors with six shots, while Joseph Pendenza put up four shots on target for the River Hawks.
- Connor Hellebuyck is just one shutout away from tying the UMass Lowell career record of 10, previously set by Carter Hutton (2006-10). He improves his record to 10-5-1 in his 16th start of the season.
- Lowell senior forward Joseph Pendenza totaled a team-high four shots on goal and won 13 face offs on the night.
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Association of Stated Clerks
Analysis of Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the 2l9th General Assembly (2010)
As in prior years, the Association of Stated Clerks is publishing this Analysis of Amendments to the Constitution to assist presbyteries in studying and acting on the amendments proposed by this year's General Assembly (2010). The analysis includes a Brief Description ofthe amendment, the Assembly Action, Arguments Supporting an Affirmative Vote, and Arguments Supporting a Negative Vote.
This year there are three parts to the Proposed Amendments to the Constitution which are being forwarded to the presbyteries for their vote: Part 1 of 3, Form of Government; Part 2 of 3, Confession of Belhar; and Part 3 of 3, Amendments to the Book of Order .
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It gives us great pleasure to finally make Razuna 1.4 available in a general Preview Release. This release is meant for testing and it shouldn't be long before a final release. We kindly ask everyone to download and test this release. You can also upgrade your current Razuna 1.3.5 installation with this release.
Read on, what major features are available in Razuna 1.4 (we have over 100 changes for 1.4. Some of the highlights are below).
Option to catalog folders and assets on your server and from public URLs
The option to catalog folders and assets from your local server and from publicly accessible URLs is the one feature that we are most excited about and will turn your Razuna server into a cataloging server with a web front end. In order to understand this feature in full, we are giving here some examples;
- Catalog your File Server and share assets
Say you run an internal file server (be it Windows, Linux or MacOS X) and you want that your team and even clients have access to the same assets (always the same version of course) over the web. Something that would involve many different tools, plus a very skilled system admin will be an easy task with Razuna. Simply install Razuna on your network, point Razuna to your file server and it will recreate all the folders within Razuna, index all the assets and will make them available over a web front-end to your team and outside clients. All this with the same ease of use of Razuna, meaning you got permissions, folders & collections, sharing and collaboration and last but not least the option to convert your assets to different formats available.
- Add assets from outside your network into Razuna
Another option this new feature allows is to include assets from publicly available URL's to Razuna. Say you see an image on Flickr or Facebook and want to share it in a project. All you have to do is to simply copy & paste the URL to the image to Razuna and it wil behave just like any other image. The same goes for videos. You can include videos from Google Video, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Furthermore, you can include the whole embedded player in Razuna as well.
Search Improvement
Finding your valuable assets is one of the most important tasks of Razuna. We can say that we are able to index just about every asset you bring into Razuna and thus we have given the search & find function some more love in Razuna 1.4. You will now have the option to refine your search. That means, you can either search within the search results or conduct a new search again. Additionally you will see the description and the keywords with the option to click on the keywords itself to narrow down the search even further.
Extended Metadata reading and writing for all assets
Razuna was/is already capable of reading and writing metadata to JPEG images. We have extended this, so that Razuna will read metadata from all images (GIF, PNG, TIFF, EPS, PSD, AI, etc.) and will also write back to those image formats. Moreover, Razuna will read metadata of videos and documents and index and display them as well. Additionally, descriptions and keywords of PDF files will be written back to the PDF. Also, all converted images will inherit the metadata of the original file.
Backup & Restore
With 1.4 you have the option to backup your complete Razuna server and also restore it. Furthermore, you can backup your complete Razuna Server with all the available hosts or only backup/restore a single host (with it being available in the Administration of the DAM part). Moreover, this feature allows you to migrate from one server to another and also migrate between databases (say you want to go from the embedded one to MySQL, or MySQL to MS SQL or Oracle).
Rebuilding the search index
Rebuilding the search index allows you to keep your database, search index and assets in sync. Mostly, this is not needed, but if things go wrong or you feel like something is not included it is a nice option to have.
Administration overhaul
The main Administration of Razuna got some overhaul as that you don't need to select your host upfront anymore and will have the option to select it within the sections. Additionally, we made some design changes, which will ease the use of the Administration even more.
As mentioned there are over 100 changes in Razuna 1.4 and those above are the ones we thought are worth mentioning. Thus here is a short list of those "other" enhancements;
- Upgraded to JQuery 1.4
- Upgraded to Tomcat 6.0.24
- Upgraded to OpenBD 1.3
- Reorganized complete Database model for much better performance
- Many speed improvements could be gained from code streamlining
- All images are converted to RGB color space for Internet Explorer compatibility
- Rewrote the basket download for better handling of large assets
I hope you enjoy using Razuna as much as we have making it. Go grab your copy now over at http://razuna.org or sign up for a free hosted account over at http://razuna.com.


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It's a family affair... a brand-spanking new video directed by Jada Pinkett Smith, featuring music by AcE (aka Trey Smith, from Will Smith's first marriage), with vocals provided by Jaden Smith, and Willow Smith.
The track is called Find You Somewhere.
I'm not a big fan of Jaden's rapping, but I can dig the overall track; not bad. I like the instrumentals.
It's not Jada's first time behind the camera as a director; I expect we'll be seeing more "directed by Jada Pinkett Smith" projects in the future.
kyasiimire sarah | July 18, 2014 6:05 AM
thnx mum for the job
Prudence | June 4, 2013 1:45 AM
Willow is a very talented young lady!!
Alicia | June 3, 2013 2:08 PM
I thought it was excellent,,I can't believe all the negative comments. Will and Jada have a dynasty in their children. These kids are ALL very talented, lets applaud them. These babies are not making fools of themselves in public; not dope heads or vagrantly running around unmanaged (hint:JB)...stop hating!!!!!!
@Jw79bull (Twitter) | September 21, 2012 7:55 PM
What in the F**K is this?!?! Jaden "raps" worst than his dan ( imagine that) and i thought the older child, Tre had some good sense,, guess not..a mess.com!
B | September 18, 2012 7:41 PM
It's a great sound and an excellent video. But that boy is not a good rapper, at all. Willow was pretty awesome though.
Janelle | September 18, 2012 1:49 AM
Ugh can't they all just go away?!?!? I swear this family is worse than the Kardashians....
Taz | September 17, 2012 11:43 PM
I liked it. If I am not mistaken, Jaden's voice is changing and he has found the tone and pace that works for him.
JMarie | September 17, 2012 11:15 PM
Really enjoyed this! Jada is a great director and I love the way Jaden raps ... mellow and smooth.
other song | September 17, 2012 7:51 PM
this is actually a good beat.... Jaden's tone doesn't work as you said Tambay. If he had rhymed better, I might actually post this video on FB lol
Mama Mo | September 17, 2012 6:52 PM
That song is AWESOME! Will Smiths kids are carbon copies of him. Vid Cool to the 3rd POWWA! Nice Directing Jada!
johnalynn | September 17, 2012 6:27 PM
Nice song. the video is cool overall but i'm not big on the idea of sexualizing children. could have left out a few of those silhouettes of willow and the shot of jaden's abs.


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About this time of year the mind of a 6-year-old tended to turn to things more involved with outdoors rather than snow and ice. I would start to think about buying my yearly bamboo pole from Williams Hardware and the bobber and hooks from Western Auto and then fishing. From about 6 to 12 fishing was my main stay during the summer months. Did I ever love to fish and get ready to fish! Things were much more relaxed during this period of my life and I was not old enough to require a fishing license so all was well with me.
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As I grew older Dad did too and actually did eventually take some time off to take me fishing (at times) with other adults. Of course, our two weeks at Lake Douglas Dad and I fished a lot and he also fished a lot with other adults. At Douglas he would go out and troll for the big ones. He would get a good catch of Pike and Muskies and I would do well with blue gills and sun fish. If I managed to snag a crappie I was in hog heaven. I loved swimming and fishing and just boating on Douglas so I really looked forward to that each August.
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Now this leech thing was something no one had taken time to explain to me and something I did not care for at all. Dad, as most everyone else, smoked. So he and his buddies lit up and would take the glowing end of the cigarette and put it on the leech. This would make the leech very interested in letting go and getting away from that burning thing. We took turns burning leeches off each other then went home with our live bait for the next day. Dad told me on the way home that I could use salt and rub in into the leech and they would again give away and drop off. I did not care to get leeched again or try that out either.
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Here we are in the Bay Area, a place with lots of inteligent citizens, college students and hyperactive people who like to make noise, and yet we are pretty lame with the chants.
The Drummers have been helping a lot, and trying to get new chants started, mainly for individual players. But we need to go further.
All we really have are the standard "Lets Go Oakland", "Lets Go A's", "Go A's" and so on, chants that every team in every sport has. You can't say that it has any effect, because it sounds the same in every stadium. Sometimes, if you are watching a random game on TV, you hear it and immidietly think "Are they chanting Lets Go Oakland? No wait, that can't be right! Its the Orioles and the Devil Rays!"
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Take a pitching change, we could take a cue from College Basketball and start singing the "Na Na Na Na, hey hey hey, Goodbye, na na na na, hey hey hey, YOU SUCK!" chant they use for foul outs.
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The Marco-Scutaro chant will only take us so far, people! So get to it AN! Don't let us down!


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Lair says Cunningham removed his home confinement bracelet and attempted to mail it at the post office in the Elizabeth Kee Federal Building in Bluefield.
When workers heard noises coming from the package, the building was evacuated and a bomb technician was called in.
Cunningham was on pre-trial release for fraud charges.
Cunningham is described as a white male, approximately 5'10", 260 pounds. He may be driving a blue 1991 Mazda pickup truck with a West Virginia Centennial tag numbered 032160.
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BLUEFIELD (WVVA) - A "suspicious package" that disrupted business at the Elizabeth Kee Federal Building in Bluefield Tuesday wound up containing a home confinement bracelet.
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An X-ray of the package revealed an electronic device and wiring. Workers inside the building were then evacuated and Bland Street was closed to traffic.
A State Police bomb technician was called to the scene. The device turned out to be the home confinement bracelet that was being mailed back to the Mercer County Probation Department.
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Well, for almost two years the planning committee for the U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph has been meeting and praying and planning for an event that will start this Saturday. The committee is in the hotel now tending to all the final preparations. Here's a link to the Federation Event Daily Update page where daily updates will be posted. Take a minute to view pictures of today's behind the scenes preprations.
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SCAMP 2012: where were all the guys?
I went along to SCAMP 2012 yesterday and what a fantastic event it was. Friendly, inspiring, smart - there were some great speakers and just as interesting attendees. I particularly liked the format. The curators of SCAMP deliberately selected speakers who wouldn't just stand up and talk to some slides. Clare Reddington brought a lucky dip of props - the audience members picked one and then she spoke about it in relation to her work. Nange Magro presented a prototype of a dress which can be controlled with brainwaves. Salena Godden floored us with her fiery poetry performance. Mixing up talks with performances, conversations and audience participation gave the day a really nice rhythm and flow. One other conferences could learn from.
BUT. This is not what I want to talk about right now. There was one thing yesterday which irked me. Where were all the men in the audience? There must have been about 5 men there, 4 of whom were speaking. What's with this? No need to come because it's just for the ladies?