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Don't Rely On Your Emotions To Trade The Oil Patch [View article]
"Invest" on the basis of a few ephemeral spikes - that lasted brief moments in time during the last 10,000 days - or the other 9,900 days (99% of the previous 29 years) - when the ratio of crude to gold was lower than it is now?Jan 23, 2015. 05:40 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Emerging Markets At 5-Year Lows Are A Blue-Light Special [View article]Jan 21, 2015. 04:32 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Oil Stocks: Buy Low (Now), Sell High (Later) [View article]
That is why so few buy low and sell high. It's human nature to work with what you are given, rather than with what you "might" be given. Thus risk/reward is chosen according to each person's tolerance of probability.
I think this particular article is accurate, and speaks in simple layman's terms about what is transpiring in the oil patch. One can't know all there is to know about a subject - especially oil (which is why NO oil analyst has called a bottom); but one can know enough to dollar-cost average-in at extremes in valuation (like now).Jan 21, 2015. 04:18 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Oil Stocks: Buy Low (Now), Sell High (Later) [View article]
Yesterday you could buy 28 barrels of oil with a single oz of gold. The last time was 2008, and that just for a single day (like yesterday). Readings of 26-28 barrels per oz of gold have marked the tops of the last 3 great surges; and then the market turned. (See: http://bit.ly/1AOvecw).
The only other times in the modern period (1945-2015) where you could buy more barrels of oil per oz of gold were the crazy oil years of 1986 and 1988, when oil was priced in the $10-$15/bbl range.
The oil stocks have been putting in lower lows for about a week. Not a day goes by where there is not a major oil producer announcing Capex and labor cuts for 2015. Yesterday it was Baker Hughes, before that Schlumberger, today it's Total and ENT.
All this supply destruction - combined with the slight rise in demand which cheap oil will create via automobile purchases (US & Emerging market auto sales for SUVs are booming) - will put a floor under crude. By March, the rally should be in full swing.
My two favorites are:
1) ARP - for the dividend that will likely NOT be cut because of the company's superb oil and gas hedges for 2015-2017. (See: http://bit.ly/1AOvcBv)
2) GASL. 3x leveraged play on blue-chip E&P producers.Jan 21, 2015. 01:56 PM | 3 Likes |Link to Comment
It's Time To Buy The Oil Panic Of 2014 [View article]Jan 17, 2015. 12:30 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Oil is now down $4.84 in a single morning session of 5 hours (-9.5% since the pre-open, -4.2% since the open). I just read that oil is selling in North Dakota for under $30/bbl.
Yesterday's flash in the pan was truly an anomaly and nothing has changed in the relentless downturn story. One might wonder how an international commodity - that's used to the tune of 91 ML/bbl a day (-$445.5 ML loss today) - could lose that much value in a single session, let alone a half-session, but this is the current situation today. The commodity will probably turn when there is not a single person left standing. The best time to revisit this will likely be in March.Jan 15, 2015. 02:04 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Yesterday's rally may have been just one more head fake. A two-day 16% rally in crude, followed by an 8% drop from the pre-open today. All the oversupply news (it is virtually ubiquitous) again makes it seem like the $30s are an inevitable prospect.
Jan 15, 2015. 12:23 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Sudden rally today - out of nowhere it seems. Strange things can happen, but if you look at charts like this (http://bit.ly/1AgIGFX) and this (http://bit.ly/1AgIGFZ) you can see just how RARE an event we have just experienced.
The despair in my comment yesterday probably signaled the bottom, because these things end with the sign over the door that reads, "Abandon all hope, ye (oil investors) who enter here." I have not experienced something so relentless and one-sided, ever. By January 13th, there were only a few 20 minute periods during the day when oil would go up a little before it inevitably turned down. There has been weeks, months of this one-sided action.
But if gold is a measure of true value, then yesterday was the day that gold valued oil at the same ratio it had at almost every other bottom. Apparently we are now at an 80 year inventory high for crude. And drillers are going to keep drilling? There have been hundreds of negative pieces on oil. Not one positive that I can remember.
BTw..I added more today at 2.67 and at the close at 2.87. When the market opened today, I was wondering how low GASL would go if oil hit Goldman's figure of $41 ($2.20) and if it matched the 2008 low, then we would probably break $2.00 on the downside. I didn't consider what it would do if it went to zero, but the last time I had these thoughts were about the banks in 2009. Next time you get paranoid about GASL, look up the components in the FCG Revere Index (http://bit.ly/14liVVa). These are the best of the best in E&P companies.
What a slide since summer! From the $60 to $2s. That's a 98% drop.Jan 14, 2015. 07:28 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Straight-up and straight-down seems to be oil's way, so maybe GASL will work for this one. I really like the names in the FCG index and most of them are hedged.
Jan 14, 2015. 07:13 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
I noticed also that the yield on the 30 year treasury and on European and Japanese long-dated bonds are also approaching 10 year - if not all-time - lows in yield.
Jan 13, 2015. 01:26 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
I would like to add a few things this morning.
1) The purchases of GASL have continued, even down to the $2.70 mark: and BNO, down to $19. For some reason SA is not publishing my updates to this article anymore. Can't say I blame them. Oil is like a bottomless pit.
2) The technical superlatives that have occurred on the negative side now equal some of the worst that have ever hit the commodity. For example, this morning at $44.20/bbl, you could buy almost 28 barrels of oil with an ounce of gold. That's 7 more barrels than you could buy with that same ounce in December, a month ago. There has been only one brief window in the 70-year history of modern oil where you could buy more oil with an ounce of gold - 1987. That's going all the way back to WWII.
Also, the Oil/Gold ratio hit 0.0357 this morning, slightly lower than the other low-water marks of the last 30 years: the financial crisis, the Clinton Impeachment scandal, and the mini-bear market of 1994. Again, you have to go back to the 1980s to find valuations like this.
You might ask, "WHY does gold matter?" Because it's real money that can't be funny-monied. You plop that gold bar down at any time in history and it will buy what it will buy, and its value will not be questioned. Gold is golden when it comes to valuation.
3) But then again. has any of this mattered? No. It has not. Maybe I am just sensing my own tiredness, but the volumes of trading in oil stocks seem to have fallen off today, as if no one is willing to step in again, and have their head handed to them (again), by a purchase that will INEVITABLY turn to a loss within a matter of minutes, hours, or a day or so. Oil has dropped 20% in just the first two weeks of January.
That is probably why it is best to just put this trade on automatic, keep it small (maybe 50 to a 100 shares at a time), and wait it out til this interminably long cycle has run its course. I am really discouraged, and frankly, I can't see what government or economy anywhere on earth benefits by ruthlessly throwing-away a non-renewable fuel resource at prices below what it takes to produce it. It is the height of hubris and fool-hardiness on a global scale. The conservationists of the 1970s and 80s must be gnashing their teeth that after so much work and political action to raise people's awareness of global warming that it has come down to this: we now have a license to exploit oil resources at an unheard-of amount, and will be doing so for the foreseeable future,Jan 13, 2015. 12:45 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Blue ice - thank you! Best link I have received in a long time.
Take a look at this chart: http://bit.ly/1AFrSv3
I like charts because they graph previous sentiments at previous prices. 0.36 on the chart in the link is $44-45/bbl crude. We hit $47.16/bbl on Friday. Two or three more bucks down from here - after a $60 drop already - is a 3% to 5% margin of error.
Lastly, draw a trendline through the lows of this chart: http://bit.ly/1AFrSv4Jan 11, 2015. 04:05 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
"Safety" on the investment highway is entirely-based on what you are driving and when something occurs. The more steel, the safer you are before an accident.
But after a big "highway" accident - and after everything has been cleared away - all the cars drive will drive away - beginning (of course) from a standstill - at a different pace (units of distance traveled per unit of time).
For our analogy, the Big trucks (majors) lumber out slowly and steadily; and you will surely get to your destination safely and well-protected in that big truck. But you will get there twice as fast in a small to mid cap car. And in a leveraged fund? You will get there at Ferrari-speed.
TIME carries all the muscle. How much happens in what space of time. And there is an odd corollary to this too: by the "time" it looks good, you're too late.
That is why I dollar-cost average at the beginning point (and we are into this trade a full month now), based on my view of the fundamentals and technical patterns I see repeating.
Since the "when", the TIME is all-important (in terms of productivity $), my first consideration is to get that to work for me instead of against me.
I would say the entire human endeavor is based on what we do with TIME - the currency we have been given in this life, and it is the single most important thing in investing too.
Long-term? I don't know about that one. But production ($) per unit of TIME - I can wrap my head around that one easily. And if we are to drive away from this once-in-a-blue-moon oil debacle, I want to be in the first car and the fastest car heading onto an extremely uncrowded highway.
That's GASL, or something like LINE, NDRO, GDP, CRK, UPL, or MEMP. The value of BNO is it tells you how far you have to go before you get "there".Jan 10, 2015. 11:27 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Saw this new article today. *See (http://bit.ly/1FxnAvi) MOST of the GASL stocks are mentioned and their December/January performance is included (e.g., Apache, Matador, Stone, Devon, etc).
Jan 8, 2015. 10:48 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
It's Time To Buy The Oil Panic Of 2014 [View article]
And check out this page on the LINE website: http://bit.ly/wuLewg. While on that page, click on "Is LINN Energy a Master Limited Partnership (MLP) or a corporation?" You will notice that it has a unique tax-deferred status as a neo-MLP, which is perfect for investors in a taxable account.
In sum, there were financial questions (that had suddenly surrounded the company) "fixed" by a quick liquidating of assets to raise cash and pay down debt.
They also announced a 50% reduction in the dividend. Up until Dec 1, the dividend was not a problem. It had a been a reasonable 10% or so. But when the stock was cut in half, and then by another third, it was prudent they took action, which they did.
Remember, all this rapid card-shuffling took place in a matter of weeks. They also - in the near term only (2015) - have outsourced the financing of their new drilling projects to a hedge fund in exchange for 15% of the profits.
So on several fronts, they slashed their costs, raised cash, out-sourced the financing of near term drilling, and kept enough cash in their profile to take advantage of "stressed-asset sale" opportunities with other small oil producers if such assets became available in a fire sale.
Going forward? The stock is now near financial-crisis lows; oil has gone down 10% since January 1 and yet LINE is up 10% in the same time frame. As an investor, I get a rock-solid distribution of 10c/share per month (that I can reinvest in LINE shares); a likely capital gain in the next year or two, and yes, if profits return - an increase in the distribution.
That's a lot to like, and I think investors feel the downside is limited and the upside is substantial. On a technical basis, it made a perfect double bottom (almost to the penny) last week, and traded the most shares in the company's history on that day, in which it rose almost 30% off its lows in a single day.
I've watched LINE and NDRO carefully. Thus far, they have not been affected by the new Jan 1 downturn in crude oil. Another one to look at is BBG (down 7% today) which has one of the most complete hedge-books in the industry. Almost all of its production is hedged at $90. At $9.19, it would be a great ticker to sell puts on.Jan 8, 2015. 08:15 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
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ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to evaluate expression of COX-1 in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and its prognostic value. mRNA of COX-1 was detected in 42 paired RCC and adjacent normal tissues with quantitative real- time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Expression of COX-1 was also evaluated in 196 RCC sections and 91 adjacent normal tissues with immunohistochemistry. Statistical analysis was performed to assess COX-1 expression in RCC and its prognostic significance. The results of qRT-PCR showed mRNA levels of COX-1 in RCC tissues to be significantly higher than that in adjacent normal tissues (p < 0.001). Immunohistochemical assays also revealed COX-1 to be overexpressed in RCC tissues (p < 0.001). Statistical analysis demonstrated high expression of COX-1 was correlated with tumour size (p = 0.002), pathological stage (p = 0.003), TNM stage (p = 0.003, 0.007, 0.027, respectively), and tumour recurrence (p < 0.001). Survival analysis indicated patients with high expression of COX-1 had shorter survival time (p < 0.001), and COX-1 was an independent predictor. This is the first study to reveal overexpression of COX-1 in RRC and point to use as a prognostic marker in affected patients.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention: APJCP 06/2013; 14(6):3729-34. DOI:10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.6.3729 · 2.51 Impact Factor
Article: Effect of all-trans-retinoic acid on the expression of primordial germ cell differentiation-associated genes in mESC-derived EBs.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: atRA (all-trans-retinoic acid) is known to induce the differentiation of mESCs (mouse embryonic stem cells) into PGCs (primordial germ cells) in vitro. However, it is not clear as to what changes occur in PGC differentiation-associated genes or what mechanisms are involved when EBs (embryoid bodies) derived from mESCs are induced by atRA. EBs derived from mESCs were treated with 1, 2 or 5 μM atRA for 16 h, 2 days or 5 days. Real-time PCR and Western blot analysis were performed to detect the relative levels of PGC differentiation-associated genes (Lin28, Blimp1, Stra8 and Mvh) and the corresponding proteins respectively. Immunofluorescence was used to detect the protein location and distribution in EBs. The expression characteristics of genes could be divided into three categories: rapidly reached the peak value in 16 h and then decreased (Stra8, Lin28), initially low and then increased to reach the peak value in 5 days (Mvh) and relatively unchanged (Blimp1). A low level of Lin28 was expressed in EBs treated with atRA for 2 days or 5 days. The variation in the level of Lin28 mRNA did not influence the change in the level of Blimp1 mRNA. The changes in Stra8/Lin28 were consistent with the corresponding changes in the levels of their respective mRNAs, but the changes for Mvh/Blimp1 were not consistent with the corresponding changes in the levels of their respective mRNAs. Blimp1 expression may be independent of the effect of atRA on PGC differentiation. atRA may promote the start of a period in which there is a low level of Lin28 expression during PGC differentiation.Cell Biology International 01/2012; 36(5):491-5. DOI:10.1042/CBI20110423 · 1.64 Impact Factor
Article: [Mouse-induced pluripotent stem cells have the potential to differentiate into induced primordial germ cells].[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To investigate whether mouse-induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell line IP14D-1 has the potential to differentiate into induced primordial germ cells (iPGCs), and to explore the changes in the expression of iPGCs-differentiation associated genes and their possible mechanisms. Undifferentiated IP14D-1 was cultured to proliferate and then differentiated to form 4-, 7- and 9-day-old induced embryoid bodies (iEBs) in vitro, respectively. RT-PCR and immunofluorescence were used to detect the expressions of Lin28, Blimpl, Stra8 and Mvh, as well as the localization of the corresponding protein in iEBs. The expression of Blimpl was higher than that of Lin28 in the undifferentiated IP14D-1 and mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs). Mvh and Stra8 as well as mESCs and EBs were also expressed in IP14D-1 and iEBs, but with no significant differences. The expression of Lin28 was gradually increased in the IP14D-1-derived iEBs from 4 to 7 days, but decreased at 9 days, and the expression of Blimp1 was gradually reduced with the prolonged growing time of iEBs. A stable system was established for the culture and differentiation of IP14D-1 and IP14D-1-derived iEBs. The expressions of Lin28, Blimp1, Mvh and Stra8 were not significantly different between the undifferentiated IP14D-1 and mESCs, nor were the expressions of Mvh and Stra8 between iEBs and EBs. IP14D-1 and iEBs had the potential to differentiate into iPGCs, which increased in number in the 7-day-old iEBs, and the expression of iPGC-differentiation associated Lin28 became lower in the older iEBs.Zhonghua nan ke xue = National journal of andrology 11/2011; 17(11):966-72.
Article: [Extracellular matrix regulates expressions of germ cell differentiation associated genes in mouse embryonic stem cells].[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Interactions of cells with the extracellular matrix (ECM) are essential for cell differentiation. The authors sought to determine the roles of different ECMs in the expressions of germ cell differentiation associated genes after mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) differentiated into embryoid bodies (EBs). EBs derived from mESCs were maintained in suspension for 3 days and then cultured on the plates coated with various ECMs, including fibronectin (F), laminin (L), matrigel (M), collagen (C) and nonadhensive agarose (A), respectively, for 1, 2, 3 or 4 days, followed by evaluation of the expressions of the genes associated with germ cell differentiation by RT-PCR. The EBs of the F and L groups exhibited facilitated adherent differentiation. The expressions of the Blimp-1, Stella, Mvh and Stra8 genes were increased gradually in the F and L but not obviously in the M and C groups. The overall gene expressions were low in the A group, but high and then gradually decreased in the blank control group. Endogenous fibronectin, laminin and integrin beta1 were obviously expressed in the L and control groups. Laminin /integrin beta1 signaling may play a role in regulating the differentiation of mESCs into primordial germ cells (PGCs). Exogenous laminin can facilitate the differentiation of mESC-derived EBs into PGCs by acting on the integrin beta1 subunit, while exogenous fibronectin may be involved in the regulation of the differentiation through other integrin subunit. Endogenous laminin and fibronectin secreted by EBs may also facilitate cell differentiation in the absence of exogenous ECMs.Zhonghua nan ke xue = National journal of andrology 11/2009; 15(11):967-73.
Article: Gossypol repressed the gap junctional intercellular communication between Sertoli cells by decreasing the expression of Connexin43.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Previous studies showed that gossypol could block the gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) between cultured cells. The present study was designed to investigate the effects of gossypol on the GJIC and the expression of connexin43 (Cx43) in the cultured cells. A Sertoli cell line, TM4, was treated with different concentrations of gossypol 1.25, 2.5, 5, and 10micromol/L for 6, 12, 24, and 48h. Cell viability was assessed with CCK-8 assay. GJIC in the cells was determined using the scrape loading and dye transfer (SLDT) assay; the expression of Cx43 was detected by RT-PCR, immunofluorescence and Western blot analysis. The SLDT assay showed gossypol significantly decreased GJIC between adjacent cells. RT-PCR, immunofluorescence and Western blot analyses demonstrated the expression of Cx43 in TM4 cells. The expression of Cx43 was gradually decreased with the increasing concentrations of gossypol, and the effect occurred as early as 6h after the treatment and continued until 48h. These results suggested that gossypol impaired GJIC by decrease of Cx43 expression in the cells, which is important for Sertoli cells to regulate spermatogenesis.Toxicology in Vitro 08/2008; 22(7):1719-25. DOI:10.1016/j.tiv.2008.07.012 · 3.21 Impact Factor
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Senior Dance Concert set for Feb. 20, 21
After living and breathing dance for the past four years, three Sweet Briar seniors will share the results of their hard work in a joint concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, and Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Upper Dance Studio in the Babcock Fine Arts Center.
IHSA team maintains regional lead
Sweet Briar's Intercollegiate Horse Show Association team took the championship at Randolph College Saturday, Feb. 8, and finished fourth at home on Sunday to preserve a 13-point lead in regional competition.
'She who has earned the rose …'
Each year, the College's Alumnae Association honors some of its most accomplished members with a select number of awards.
Recalculating route
Life doesn't always take us where we think we want to go, but its course has a funny way of self-correcting. We spoke to a few alumnae whose careers took a new or unexpected direction.
Painter chronicles everyday scenes close to home
Richard Crozier logs windshield time like an over-the-road trucker, except he hauls only what he needs to paint and he's usually stationary.
After 5: Faculty and staff reveal avocations
Sweet Briar's faculty and staff have many avocations outside of their work at the College. Here, four members of our community share more about their lives beyond campus.
Bunny snares professor, student
"I confess that hieroglyphic had me at the bunny," Eric Casey once said to explain his attraction to Middle Egyptian.
Lots of media in the mix at faculty art show
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Jennifer Grey Undergoes Successful Surgery
Jennifer Grey left Dancing with the Stars with more than just the Mirror Ball trophy; she also needed a bit of surgery, too. After rupturing a disc in her back during the finale of DWTS last month, Jen had to go under the knife last week. How'd she do?
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"…the brightly coloured world… is endearing… it's fun to pop into for a quick mission." – Pocket Gamer
"It plays and looks great, it has plenty of content and charm, and you can play it wherever you are, be it on your desktop or your phone." - Gamezebo
Get ready for the best FREE dungeon crawler ever! Create a character, grab a Buddy (or two) from your friends' character lineup, and go forth on Missions as you thwack ugly Oblins and other creepy-crawlies!
Buddy Rush is a cross-platform, action role-playing game (RPG) developed for Facebook.
Connect with your Facebook account and play through your internet browser or on your Android device.
You'll adventure through a beautifully rendered 3D world, taking along buddies that aren't just generic NPCs – they're computer-controlled characters that your Facebook Friends have created!
Earn experience points for Buddies just for bringing them along on Missions, and earn experience points for your own character just for getting taken along in your friends' own adventures!
The full FREE game features:
- A cute isometric 3D world to grab loot and level up in!
- 15 customizable characters: Choose a class and customize outfits, armor and weapons to help improve your character's talents and increase the chance that your friends will select your Buddy for their next Mission!
- Play with your friends' Buddy character: Form groups for Missions and Dungeons by selecting from Facebook friends' existing Buddies. Reward their Buddy with experience for bringing them along and they'll return the favor by inviting your Buddy for their own adventures!
- 10 different Chapters and 92 Missions: Each Chapter presents a new environment and soundtrack, with fresh objectives, monsters and bosses to overcome.
- Over 2000 items: Earn items that make your Buddy stronger by completing challenging Missions, Dungeons and Challenges, or by purchasing in the store.
Coming Soon! More Chapters, Missions, Characters and Gears.
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A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT is required.
Minimum requirements:
800x480 resolution / Android 2.2 Froyo
Tested devices:
Google Nexus One
Google Nexus S
Samsung Galaxy S
Samsung Galaxy S II
HTC Desire
HTC Desire HD
HTC Desire Z
HTC Droid Incredible
What's New
Looney Tunes Dash!
• Run as Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Road Runner, and other favorite Looney Tunes characters!
• Explore and run in iconic Episodes like Painted Desert, Tweety's Neighborhood, and more!
• Complete level goals to progress on the Looney Tunes map and unlock more zones!
• Unlock and master each character's Special Ability for extra running power!
• Grab Power-Ups to fly like a superhero, blast through obstacles, plus loads of other surprises!
• Collect Looney Tunes Collector's Cards to fill your Looney Tunes Bin and learn fun trivia!
• Prank other Looney Tunes characters for more coins and points!
Having issues with the Game? We would love to hear from you! Drop us a line at
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The game is free to play, however in-app purchases are available for additional content and premium currency. In-app purchases range from $0.99 to $99.99.
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Terms of Service for Social Networks you connect to in this game may also apply to you.You will be given the opportunity to participate in special offers, events, and programs from Zynga Inc and its partners.
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Agent P DoofenDash
An Agent's job is never done. Dr. Doofenshmirtz decides it's time to get rid of Agent P once and for all! To accomplish this, he unleashes every plot he can think of on the Tri-State area! Now it's up to Agent P and his fellow O.W.C.A. Agents to chase down the eccentric evildoer and save the people of Danville!
• Run, jump, roll, and dodge as you chase down Dr. Doofenshmirtz
• Dash through the Tri-State Area like never before, on the rooftops of Danville, inside Doof HQ, Evil Inc., and in the clouds in an official O.W.C.A. hang glider
• Battle Dr. Doofenshmirtz in boss battles as he unleashes his latest –inator to stop Agent P
• Survive Doof's onslaught or collect gadgets to foil his dastardly plots
• Challenge your Friends high scores to become the top O.W.C.A. Agent
Contact Majesco Entertainment: www.majescoent.com
Support: email@example.com
Thanks for downloading and please don't forget to rate our game.
Minion Dentist
Behold, the best dentist game has arrived. Minion Dentist is a whole new adventure with fun characters and breathtaking levels. You need a dentist crazy enough to take on these beasts.
Choose from 4 amazing characters. Treat your characters with so many amazing new treatments. You can even now pluck their teeth when needed and even scrape away their dirty little germs. Use from various tools such as drills, which can remove little holes in their teeth. Even use water sprays to clean and give them a special glow. Now also brush your minions teeth to fight those little monsters and have as much candy as you want.
Give unique looks to your minions. Become the best doctor in town and share your treatments with your friends on facebook or even save them in your gallery.
►4 different monsters to chose from
►Scrape dirty germs with special new tools
►Pluck unwanted and ugly teeth of your animals
►Drill your character's teeth to treat holes
►Color Monster teeth for some fun combinations
►So much equipment to choose from
►Attractive, colorful visuals
►Kids friendly content – A real eye candy for kids - Bring out the creativity in your children by helping them become a little doctor and start their very own dental business!
You are hired in a chain restaurant to serve clients as fast as possible to earn money and even tips for yourself. Take orders from your customers and make a recipe among sandwiches, garnishes, desserts and sodas. The more you will play, the more ingredients will appear in the fast-food !
Take up the challenge and try the Career Mode to cope with a higher difficulty each day of the year!
Work from Monday to Saturday and reach your goal to get more money and new ingredients for the service. Then if you are a great employee, you will even unlock a lot of achievements!
Time is money!
Try also to do your best in the Time Attack Mode to collect a maximum of coins within the time limit!
This time management game will definitely entertain and challenge you and your family!
Features of Burger:
-Ingredients' list : bread, meat, lettuce, tomato, cheese, onion, cucumber, mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, bacon, fish, muffins, ice creams, french fries, potatoes and sodas
-More than 300 levels and 40 achievements for burger's maniac
So come play Burger and become the master king of burgers!
Traffic Rush
RUSH HOUR is approaching and the traffic intensity is rising!
Get into the flow by strategically directing rushing vehicles that are crossing the intersection.
The rules are really easy, but keeping the roads and tracks CRASH FREE isn't.
We dare you to play Traffic Rush!
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TRAFFIC RUSH includes both the CAR MODE, the first traffic control game of its kind and ALL-TIME PAID IPHONE APP nominee, and the TRAIN MODE that was added later to raise the fun factor even higher.
Now also updated to take advantage of the multitude of aspect ratios available on Android.
Dumb Ways to Die
Enjoy 15 hilarious mini-games as you attempt to collect all the charmingly dumb characters for your train station, achieve high scores and unlock the famous music video that started it all.
From piranhas and platforms to snakes and level crossings—tap, swipe, and flick to safely escape a wide range of DUMB WAYS TO DIE™.
Download the FREE game now and remember, be safe around trains. A message from Metro.
- Why is his hair on fire? Who cares, just RUN!
- Quickly wipe your screen free of puke
- Balance that wobbling glue eater
- Flick the piranhas out of range of those precious private parts
- Swat wasps before it's too late
- Best not invite that psycho killer inside
- Carefully remove forks from toasters
- Help self-taught pilots
- Get back from the edge of the platform you fools
- Have patience at level crossings
- No crossing the tracks! Not even for balloons!
- Find true love during hunting season
- Duck the bear for a candy shower
- Go on, press the red button
- And who knew rattlesnakes were so picky about mustard?
Be safe around trains and watch the original Webby and Cannes award-winning video at dumbwaystodie.com
© Metro Trains Melbourne, Dumb Ways to Die™
Ranch Rush 2
8/10 Stars - Tapscape – "Ranch Rush 2 will keep you coming back to build your farming empire".
Let's Go Harvest Some Tropical Fun!
Sara is back in a brand-new exotic farming adventure! Along with her new friend, Coco, Sara embarks on a new tropical adventure. Will spunky ingenuity be enough to help Sara successfully launch her new tropical farming division, or will she be defeated by a diabolical menace? Challenges wait at every turn as you help Sara continue to grow her empire. An exciting, new fishing mini game adds to this amazing new adventure.
Key Features:
* 112+ - Super-Charged levels
* 2 - Gameplay modes
* 15 - Trophies to snag
* 8 - Crackerjack upgrades
* 7 - Fruitful crops to harvest
* 5 - Machines to make ice cream, fruit roll-ups & more!
SpongeBob Diner Dash
Mr. Krabs is expanding his Krabby Patty empire, one restaurant at a time. Help SpongeBob seat, serve and satisfy all kinds of fishy customers in wide array of colorful Bikini Bottom restaurants. Slide and tap to send SpongeBob to customers' tables. Take orders, seat customers, and collect big tips to upgrade your restaurants!
Dive into the undersea antics of SpongeBob and his crew with SpongeBob Diner Dash!
Sponge-tastic Game Features:
- Get 7 free levels of free, fast-paced and hilarious fun! Love SpongeBob Diner Dash? Upgrade the game for even more fun-filled levels and quirky restaurants!
- Explore fun and familiar restaurants from the SpongeBob cartoon, including the Krusty Krab, Dutchman's Inn, and more
- Look for special guest appearances from Patrick Star and other characters from the show!
- Shop for awesome power-ups at the store
- Unlock additional restaurants, including the Goo Lagoon and Crab Casino, through in-App purchase
PLEASE NOTE: SpongeBob Diner Dash is free to play, but charges real money for additional in-app content. You may restrict in-app purchases by adjusting your Google Play account settings.
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Tic Tac Toe Glow
The AI for this game is one of the best you will see. It adapts to your play style and is highly unpredictable. Unlike other Tic Tac Toe games on the market you will always find Glow Tic Tac Toe AI to be fresh and entertaining. If that is not all the AI skill can be adjusted on the fly ingame. So you can crank up the difficulty while playing or notch it down if you got cornered.
- Single and 2 player mode (Computer and human)
- 3 difficulty levels
- glow effects
Real Piano and Keyboard
Play and record songs on this free and beautiful piano app.
- No annoying banner ads
- Ability to record songs and play them back
- Different timbres Synth, Acoustic, Bright piano settings
Prom Spa Salon - Girls Games
In the luxuriant room, dress up her with so many nice prom queen dresses, you will find one dress which you like best, after spa, makeup, and dressup, she will be a wonderful girl and go to her Prom Dancing Party. That is really an unforgettable journey!
In the Facial Spa room, you could make the girl more relaxing and clean her face, this is really a Facial SPA experience like a realistic life. After that, she will come to a beautiful makeup room, choose your like or more suitable her style and makeover her. Really? That's more fun! You can do anything as your like and manually.
Don't forget to share your perfect prom queen via Facebook or E-mail, your friends will enjoy your work and this nice girl and kids game.
Game is ALL FREE! I have to tell you this at the last. You won't spend any money in this game and you could own so many nice items. How amazing? Yes, of course. It's a all free girl and kids games. So you parents don't worry about this and it's safe for girl and kids.
If you'd like my game, don't forget to rate us, thanks very much!
Paper Toss
This game is oddly satisfying . . . much like tossing a real ball of crumpled paper into a metal trash basket. So realistic, you will think you are stuck in an office killing time.
Amaze, share and compare your scores with friends and others on the online global scoreboard.
Game includes:
-Gorgeous graphics
-6 levels of varied difficulty
-Innovative flick control
-Hi-Res graphics for newer devices
-Animated paper
-Real office sounds
-Varying wind speed from fan impacts paper flight
-Verbal abuse from angry co-workers
Let us know what you think.
You can follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/backflipstudios
"Paper Toss" has been installed more than 35,000,000 times - give it a shot if you haven't yet. Also try "NinJump" our latest FREE game for Android.
After being locked away in the moon for centuries, Nightmare Moon is set free and spreading night across Ponyville! Only Twilight Sparkle and her friends can free Ponyville from her grasp and bring light and friendship back to the land. Help them rebuild the town and reach their dreams in exciting quests!
* Your favorite ponies are here: Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack and more!
* Make your Ponyville the most magical place in Equestria and explore Sweet Apple Acres and Canterlot.
* Play fun mini-games with your ponies: Ball Bounce, Apple-Picking, Magic Wings, Telescope, Crystal Mine and Equestria Girls Dance game!
* Enjoy official TV show voice talents featured in the game!
You can download and play this game for free. Please be informed that it also allows you to play using virtual currency, which can be acquired as you progress through the game, or by deciding to watch certain advertisements, or by paying with real money. Purchases of virtual currency using real money are performed using a credit card, or other form of payment associated with your account, and are activated when you input your Google Play account password, without the need to re-enter your credit card number or PIN.
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Princess Nail Salon
It's a kids games for girls!
Hair Salon - Kids Games
Let's play the Hair Salon . To be a barber and design various hairstyles for your customer.
It's a fun game for kids.
Farm Heroes Saga
From the makers of the hit game Candy Crush Saga, comes Farm Heroes Saga!
Switch and match the collectable cropsies in this fantastic adventure. Join forces with the Farm Heroes to stop Rancid the Raccoon from spoiling the precious farm lands. Switch and match three or more adorable cropsies to drive Rancid away for good! A farmtastic adventure filled with mixed fruit madness! Scrummy!
Farm Heroes Saga is completely free to play but some in-game items such as extra moves or lives will require payment.
Farm Heroes Saga Features:
● Gather all kinds of cropsies to win the level before you run out of moves.
● Easy and fun to play, but a challenge to fully master.
● Acres of luscious levels to complete and marvellous magic beans to collect.
● Take on your friends to compete for the best score and see who can switch their way to the fattest onions ever!
● Rechargeable boosters, extra moves and special power-ups to help with those challenging levels.
Play through hundreds of levels of strawberry switching, carrot crunching chaos to help our Farm Heroes save the day! Have you got what it takes to be the next Farm Hero?
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Three Ways to Spur
Creativity and Build Interest
in You and Your Music
WRITING GREAT songs is not just for generating
sales, commissions, and licensing deals—you can also use your songwriting skills to
increase exposure and stimulate interest in
your music. You can achieve these goals by
getting involved in song and album challenges
or contests with built-in communities,
audiences, and media interest.
The three opportunities described in this
article will not only help you promote your
music to new listeners, but also give your
songwriting skills a workout.
Songwriting competitions such as SongWriterWeekly challenge musicians to write a song
within a week, based on a posted lyric or song title.
Challenge Accepted Songwriting
competitions like Songfight! (songfight.org)
or SongWriterWeekly (songwriterweekly.com) challenge musicians to write a song
within a week based on a song title or lyric
they post. Songfight, for example, collects
all the song submissions for the week and
posts them for visitors to vote for their
favorite. The style, genre, and content of
the song are up to the musicians; the only
fixed part of the competition is the weekly
song title or lyric. Plenty of visitors check out the music each week, and that existing
community votes on the entries they like
the best. Songfight! in particular has quite a
following because it's been around since June
of 2000; SongWriterWeekly has existed since
September 2010.
The winners of these challenges don't get
anything beyond bragging rights. Participating
in these challenges is free but also requires
the songwriter to share an MP3 of the song
for free, so others can download and listen to
it. The songs you create and submit remain
yours—to sell, license, or otherwise use as you
see fit—but you won't make income directly
from these types of websites. That said, these
sites can generate exposure for you, as well as
motivate you to write more music.
There are two more features of these
challenges that are worth noting: Songfight!
has a news section for participating artists.
Just send them an email about album releases,
shows, or other news, and your item may be
posted on the site. There's also a community
message board that includes music critiques
for the submitted songs. Warning: Some of the feedback can be very direct and blunt, but
criticism can help refine your skills.
RPM lets you post music on the site's
jukebox, where it will be heard by other
musicians and fans.
Finish Your Album Fiction writers engage
in a yearly challenge called NaNoWriMo
(nanowrimo.org), which entices participants
to write a 50,000-word novel in the month of
November. Authors "win" just by finishing.
This has inspired similar challenges for
music. Some of the best known include the
Record Production Month (RPM) Challenge
(rpmchallenge.com), February Album Writing
Month (FAWM) (fawm.org), and National Solo
Album Month (nasoalmo.org).
Each of these contests is free and has its
own rules, but in general, all of them challenge
musicians to record and produce an entire
album (usually 10 to 12 songs, or 35 minutes
of music) within one month. For RPM, this
includes creating the album art and mailing an
actual CD to RPM headquarters, postmarked
no later than noon on March 1.
The finished music and album are yours
after the challenge is over, and you can either
refine your music over time or release it and sell it via digital music stores. With RPM,
there's also an option to post the entire album
on the site's jukebox, where it will be heard
by other musicians and fans alike. Even better,
the contests often attract media attention. For
example, NPR often features selected music
from the RPM Challenge on their radio stations
or via their All Songs Considered website.
Competitive Songwriting Songwriting
contests can generate a lot of exposure for the
winner, and to a lesser extent, some attention
for just participating. One of the best known
is the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (jlsc.com). There's a list of available contests at
Muse's Muse (musesmuse.com/contests.html).
These competitions often charge entry fees,
so you should carefully consider which are
worth your money and effort. Many promise
awards for the winner, such as gear, cash, or
even record label contracts. But also look for
the ones that can bring you exposure for just
participating, as there are so few winners.
By using these challenges and contests to
spur your songwriting, you'll not only help
generate exposure for you and your music,
you'll also increase your creativity. Note that
the challenges generally try to get you to write
and record songs in a hurry, within a very tight
time frame, but there's no reason for you to call the song "done" just because you entered it in a
contest. Take the best songs from the challenges
that you enter, and refine them into your next
album. That way, the fans that you've generated
by participating in the challenges will be the
natural audience for your final release.
Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan are
authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide (St.
Martin's Griffin), now in its second edition.
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Thanks but no thanks, AT&T;. They really upset me as a customer by lying to me repeatedly about my upgrade eligibility and how they would be handling it.
You were such sticklers about this in the past, you can kiss my butt offering this to me now right before a new model comes out.
The lost about $700 in data plan sales because of they wouldn't waive my upgrade eligibility. Jokes on them.
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I thought all owners of the original iPhone were eligible for the upgrade price at anytime due to the fact that our service plan would be increasing by $15 per month.
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My understanding was we (first generation iPhone owners) were eligible for upgrade at anytime because we never bought a subsidized phone in the first place….so likely this is directed at non-iPhone AT&T;customers.
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Also this just continues to show how Apple and AT&T;are trying to unload stock before a new device comes out in June/July…I can't wait
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Users are reporting problems getting the early upgrade deal.
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Or…they are trying to get Iphone users to renew before the Palm Pre is released…
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Sorry, no dice. I went to my AT&T;store in Miami, FL and mentioned this today. They had no clue. I'm 15-16 months into my current contract, and they were even reluctant to offer me the $399/$499 pricing deal, which I'm NOT paying.
My friend at work was able to get the 16GB for $299 a couple days ago at another AT&T;location in town, but I suspect his contract was up (he has no idea whether it was or wasn't).
I've never seen a company do such a good job of alienating its customers. Just when you think they can't possibly stoop any lower, AT&T;bends you over for yet another round.
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Adam Wainwright goes the distance and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1 in Game 5 of their Division Series. The Cards now face the L.A. Dodgers in the NLCS.
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Down-regulation of CK2 results in persistent γ-H2AX signal and reduced colony formation in human M059K glioblastoma cells. A. Cells were transfected with scramble siRNA (si-Scr), CK2α or -α'-siRNA for 72 hours. Where indicated, 0.5 μg/ml neocarzinostatin (NCS) was added to the medium in the last 24 hours of incubation. Fixed cells were subsequently labeled with anti-γ-H2AX antibody and with a FITC-conjugated secondary antibody. Nuclei were visualized by DAPI staining. B. Quantification of γ-H2AX-positive cells was performed by using ImageJ software and expressed as percentage of the total number of cells in each sample. Bars indicate mean values +/- standard deviation (SD) from three independent experiments. *P < 0.0001 indicates statistically significant difference in the number of γ-H2AX-positive cells in CK2-depleted versus si-Scr-treated cells. C. Cells were transfected with CK2α-, -α'-siRNA or scramble siRNA for 72 hours. 0.5 μg/ml NCS was added in the last hour of incubation. Control, refers to cell treated with transfection reagent only. Cells were allowed to form clusters for 14 days. Colonies were visualized by staining with crystal violet as described in Experimental Procedures. Bar graph shows cell colonies quantification. Average values +/- SD from three independent experiments are shown relative to control (i.e. transfection reagent-treated) cells. *P < 0.005 denotes statistically significant difference in number of colonies formed as compared to si-Scr-tranfected and NCS treated cells.
Olsen et al. BMC Molecular Biology 2012 13:7 doi:10.1186/1471-2199-13-7


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