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The Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe
Character Clues
Character Analysis
When it comes to our protagonist, it's a little hard to separate thought from action; yes, we hear him narrate events, but each step, each futile gesture in the dark, is accompanied by thoughts, right? Still, the narrator is defined by his unwillingness to give in. Even in his terror he manages to escape from the pendulum; even when the burning walls are pushing in on him, he considers dashing himself against them – he just will not resign himself to the pit. Having said all this, a much simpler example presents itself. General Lasalle is defined by a single action, a single movement: the thrusting forward of his outstretched arm. Done and done.
The narrator is defined by his surroundings in the most basic way possible. He is a prisoner because he's been thrown in prison. As he himself says, though, the curiousness of his prison is equally important. We never know what crime the narrator has committed; he neglects to mention even the smallest detail. And yet the dungeon itself, with its curious design and devious mechanisms of torture, sets him apart from those heretics burned at the stake. He's a special guy simply by virtue of his special cell.
Physical Appearances
This is all you need to know about the inquisitors: "I saw the lips of the black-robed judges. They appeared to me white – whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words – and thin even to grotesqueness; thin with the intensity of their expression of firmness – of immovable resolution – of stern contempt of human torture" (1). You know that golden oldie, "It's In His Kiss"? Well, with the judges, it's in their lips.


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(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- It's National Lampoon's Animal House at the poker table - National Lampoon's Strip Poker delivers bold antes & skimpy panties, chip leads & dirty deeds, and Nobody is going home with a short-stack! Filmed in its entirety at the infamous Hedonism II resort in Negril, Jamaica - the Western World's most notorious den of unabashed sexual indulgence - National Lampoon's Strip Poker deals hand after hand of quasi-supermodels in heated Texas Hold 'Em competition, shedding clothes, one-liners, and all inhibitions in an unscripted battle for poker supremacy.
Loaded with bawdy innuendo, sizzling bodies, and cut-throat card play, National Lampoon uncorks a scathing, uproarious parody of the Texas Hold 'Em poker phenomenon with its most daring, most revealing production in the company's 36-year history.
In each edition of National Lampoon's Strip Poker, six stunningly sensuous supermodels gamble their tops, bottoms, and G-strings against each other, until one grand champion succeeds in stripping her opponents down to an embarrassed smile and absolutely nothing else. But National Lampoon's Strip Poker is much more than full-frontal nudity and gambling - there's also original music from Metal Skool, twisted cartoons from the diabolical geniuses at Icebox, and the unpredictable brand of Machiavellian humor that National Lampoon has honed into an American institution.
"I've been around my fair share of media circuses," admitted actor/ personality Kato Kaelin, who interviewed the losing poker contestants in "Kato's Guest House" during National Lampoon's Strip Poker, "But I've never been around Anything as wild and unpredictable as this! You combine a dozen of the world's top models with professional comedians, Hedonism II, and National Lampoon - and the end-result is a film so outrageous, it would make Caligula blush!"
Normally, what happens at Hedonism II stays in Hedonism II, but National Lampoon's Strip Poker is one of the very first productions to receive permission to film all the sordid decadence and sexual wildness that Hedonism II strives to keep confidential. Amidst all these writhing bodies and mind-blowing distractions, National Lampoon's poker-playing goddesses are determined to reign supreme at the poker table, willing to do Anything it takes to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals - including lie, cheat, steal. And fondle.
National Lampoon's Strip Poker debuts on Video on Demand throughout the month of June. For a complete list of broadcast times, please contact your local cable provider.
For interview requests with National Lampoon's Strip Poker stars - including host Kato Kaelin - please contact Allison McGuire Young or George Cabico at B|W|R Public Relations (310) 550-7776.
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National Lampoon, Inc. Is active in a broad array of entertainment segments, including feature films, television programming, interactive entertainment, home video, audio CDs and book publishing. The Company also owns interests in all major National Lampoon properties, including National Lampoon's Animal House, the National Lampoon Vacation series and National Lampoon's van Wilder. The National Lampoon Network serves over 600 colleges and universities throughout the United States. The network reaches as many as 4.8 million students, or nearly one in four of all 18 to 24 year old college students. In addition, the Company operates a humor website, NationalLampoon.com , on the Internet. The Company has four operating divisions: National Lampoon Network, Entertainment Division, Publishing Division and Licensing Division. The official homepage for National Lampoon's Strip Poker is NationalLampoon.com/strip_poker/.
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Newman Clinches 4-3 Win At Stetson
DELAND, FLA. – The No. 72-ranked College of Charleston women's tennis team topped Stetson 4-3 in a very windy afternoon match at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center.
This was the first stop for the Cougars on their two-match Florida spring break trip. The win brings CofC's record to 5-3 while the Hatters drop to 3-2.
The College got off to a good start in doubles as senior Irene Viana (Paris, France) and freshman Katherine Schofield (Franklin, Tenn.) won their match 8-3 over Andrea Crespo and Diana Bukajeva of Stetson in the No. 1 position.
The sophomore duo of Jenny Falcone (Davidson, N.C.) and Samantha Maddox (Lexington, Ky.) also claimed a doubles victory over Sara Lazarevic and Rachel Luke 8-3 in the No. 3 slot to clinch the doubles point for the College.
Maddox stayed hot in singles play when she quickly dispatched Clarke Tatje of Stetson by a 6-3, 6-2 score in the No. 3 spot.
Schofield did the same as she took down Lindsey Cable of the Hatters 6-2, 6-3 in No. 3 singles.
Senior Christin Newman (Greensboro, N.C.) proved herself yet again to be an invaluable asset to the Cougars when she clinched the team victory by overcoming Andrea Crespo 6-1, 7-5 in the No. 1 position.
"This was the first time in a while that we had a healthy team," CofC Director of Tennis Angelo Anastopoulo said. "Both teams should be commended for playing in very tough conditions today and I'm proud of the way that our team fought through the 20 m.p.h. wind to come out on top."
Due to scheduling conflicts, CofC's match against South Florida that was scheduled for Monday, March 4 has been cancelled. Instead, the Cougars will enjoy two days off before they face off against the defending Atlantic-10 champions North Florida (5-3) on Tuesday, March 5 at the UNF Tennis Complex at 2 p.m. (ET) in Jacksonville, Fla.
March 2, 2013
Mandy Stoll Tennis Center
at DeLand, Fla.
Attendance: 50
No. 1 – Christin Newman (CofC) def. Andrea Crespo (Stetson), 6-1, 7-5.
No. 2 – Brooke McAmis (CofC) vs. Diana Bukajeva (Stetson), 4-6, 6-2, 1-0, unfinished.
No. 3 – Samantha Maddox (CofC) def. Clarke Tatje (Stetson), 6-3, 6-2.
No. 4 – Katherine Schofield (CofC) def. Lindsey Cable (Stetson), 6-2, 6-3.
No. 5 – Eveline Lepinay (Stetson) def. Olivia McMillan (CofC), 7-6, 6-4.
No. 6 – Jen Miller (Stetson) def. Irene Viana, 6-4, 6-1.
No. 1 – Irene Viana-Katherine Schofield (CofC) def. Andrea Crespo-Diana Bukajeva (Stetson), 8-3.
No. 2 – Lindsey Cable-Eveline Lepinay (Stetson) def. Christin Newman-Brooke McAmis (CofC), 8-3.
No. 3 – Jenny Falcone-Samantha Maddox (CofC) def. Sara Lazarevic-Rachel Luke (Stetson), 8-3.
Doubles: 1, 3*, 2
Singles: 3, 5, 4, 1*, 6


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Dual-Degree Program: ODU Requirements
Students transferring to Old Dominion University and successfully completing the curriculum will earn a Bachelor of Science degree in the chosen discipline.
What engineering disciplines are available?
- Electrical
- Mechanical
- Civil
- Modeling and Simulation
- Computer Engineering
- Environmental
- Design and Manufacturing
- Experimental Methods
What are the requirements for admission into the dual degree program at Old Dominion University?
The student should have a minimum grade point average of 2.5 to be accepted into the Bachelors program.
What additional courses are required before transfer?
It is highly recommended that all students take Longwood courses Math 343 (Linear Algebra) and CMSC 206 (C++ programming) before transfer. Also, ODU currently accepts only certain courses from several of the Longwood general education goals, so the prospective student should plan carefully with their academic advisor.


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Consider the description of the natural phenomenon of self-organized criticality (SOC) offered by Jensen:
"What kind of systems will evolve into a SOC dynamical state? A separation of time scales is required. The process connected with the external driving of the system needs to be much slower than the internal relaxation processes. The prototypical example is an earthquake. The stress in the earth's crust is built up on the scale of years owing to the motion of the tectonic plates. The stress is subsequently released in a few seconds or minutes during an earthquake."
This called to mind the famous metaphor for markets offered by Judge Learned Hand in the Schecter Poultry case:
"In an industrial society bound together by means of transport and communication as rapid and certain as ours, it is idle to seek for any transaction, however apparently isolated, which may not have an effect elsewhere; such a society is an elastic medium which transmits all tremors throughout its territory; the only question is of their size."
Judge Hand here is describing SOC dynamics. The metaphor may be more literal than he imagined. For there is some evidence of SOC dynamics in markets.
The implication is that the firms interact with one-another in the market the same way that tectonic plates rub against one-another under the crust of the earth. Most of the time, we're not even aware of the tension building. But every once in a while, our whole economy gets a good shake.
Incidentally, the Schecter Poultry case was the last in a line of Supreme Court cases stretching back to Lochner v. New York (1905) in which the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional various restraints of contract (such as minimum wage and maximum hour laws) enacted by Congress. The end of the line came in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parish (1937), when the Supreme Court upheld a minimum wage law in the shadow of threats by President Franklin Roosevelt to "pack the court" with additional justices who would be more favorable to his desire for a more powerful administrative state. At the time, the President and Congress felt that expanded Executive and Legislative authority were necessary to avoid the market failures of the Great Depression. Does this sound familiar? We should attend to these details of history, since good intentions like these often lead to unanticipated consequences.
Fortunately, unanticipated consequences are both good and bad. One uanticipated consequence of the expansion of Congressional authority under the Commerce Clause was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was probably the most important step toward reconciliation of racial conflicts in the United States since the end of the Civil War almost 100 years earlier. But the opaque and labyrinthine bureaucracies of Federal administrative agency authority is net a more negative consequence.


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Strasbourg, December 29th 2009
Indie French developer Press Start Studio announces Twin Blades : The Reaping Vanguard is now available for download on the Xbox Live Arcade Indie Games platform in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States.
Twin Blades is a frantic shooter set in a medieval-fantasy zombie-filled universe boasting unique manga-stylized graphics. Players incarnate the cute scythe-waving nun with a mission to clear the city of all its undead inhabitants. To do so they will have to constantly juggle between the slashing ability of the nun and her arsenal of ranged weapons while dodging enemy zombies, rendering a unique and palpitating gameplay.
The game features:
- 6 range weapons ranging from machinegun to explosive nukes
- Upgradable skills which can be bought and trained
- 7 different kind of zombies, mind the grabbers!
- 5 cool musics and exclusive sound effects which will immerse you into the epic slaughter
- A local Challenges&High-Scores system which keeps track of players' progress
Twin Blades: The Reaping Vanguard is available on the Xbox Live Indie Games at the retail price price of 240 MS points.
The game will feature free DLC in Q1 2010 with the addition of bosses, new environments and more animations. While this additional content will be free to players who have purchased the game, the retail price will be raised upon release of the DLC.
« Its a bit of an experiment, but its the best way we've found to reward fans who've supported us since the beginning» says Philippe Rapin, producer at Press Start Studio.« What typically happens in the industry -especially in the digital market where prices fluctuate almost on a daily basis- is that publishers regularly slash prices to manipulate the download charts and then raise it again. We're in the industry too, but we're players before anything else and we hate it when we're blatantly being milked. When someone buys Twin Blades he also buys both insurances that we won't cut its price the day after, and that we'll put his money to good use to develop more content that will come for free: it's a win-win situation, a sort of investment in gaming.»
About Press Start Studio
Founded in 2009 by 5 experienced professionals, Press Start Studio is an French independent game developer committed to delivering fun game experiences with a pinch of je-ne-sais-quoi to players all around the world. Our first game, Twin Blades: The Reaping Vanguard, comes packed full with zombies and a nun on the Xbox 360 and iPhone platforms. PSS is headquarted in Strasbourg, France. Visit us at www.press-start-studio.com !


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Episode 636 - Listener Questions
Wednesday, October 28 2009 @ 05:00 AM CDT
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Episode 636 is now available for download.
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Hosts: Matt Hochberg, Len Testa, Mike Scopa, Mike Newell, & The Fabulous Annette Owens
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- Roger from Oregon suggests some funny activities for the Reunion.
- Craig from Canada provides an update about checking-in the resort when going outside America.
- Melinda who asks whether upgrading from Port Orleans Riverside to Wilderness Lodge is a good deal.
- Chris from Connecticut asks whether the MYW tickets on the hotel keys can be transferred between resorts.
- Heather from TX asks what happens if she arrives at the end of the Free Dining Plan period.
- Kathleen from Massachusetts asks whether there are Annual Pass discounts to DVC; (other than Old Key West and Saratoga Springs) and 1- and 2-bedroom villas.
- Dave wants to go at a cheap time, spending under $200 a night, with hotel activities for the kids.
- Len comments on the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center.
- Christian from FL asks whether one could walk on the grass.
- Christa from Maryland wants a romantic; dinner for a WDW first-timer.
- Christa from Maryland asks whether there is an online community for Disney gays.
- Lorrie from CA asks how she can reconcile a planner and a non-planner at WDW.
- Brett from Louisiana asks how to get from the Polynesian; to the Boardwalk.
- Tom from NJ asks how the Crowd Calendar can cope without announced park hours.
- Connie refers to Episode 557: Favorite Hidden Attractions, and comments on noises at the Dawa bar in Tusker House.
- Craig wants the best restaurants on the Magic Kingdom monorail, not fish. The Panel like Kona first, then 'Ohana.
- Rob from Virginia refers to Episode 417: Disney MGM Studios (1995), and asks what is the biggest improvement, and the worst disappointment, in the past decade.
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Week of Feb. 7, 2013
The EGE Air Alliance got the support it needed from the town of Vail to get closer to its fund-raising goal to subsidize a nonstop Houston flight for the summer. The alliance was trying to raise $626,000 by Feb. 15 in order to secure the flight from one of Vail's top summer markets.
Mountain lion sightings in the area prompted wildlife managers from the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife to issue some safety reminders.
The estimated cost for a large expansion at the Eagle River Center had doubled as the firm tasked with presenting a conceptual site plan presented its findings to the Eagle County commissioners.
The Eagle Valley High School boys' varsity basketball team beat its rival, the Battle Mountain Huskies.
Eagle Valley Middle School and Gypsum Creek Middle School won Governor's Distinguished Improvement Awards, and Brush Creek Elementary earned the John Irwin Award for academic growth.
Week of Feb. 5, 2009
The blueprint for the Eagle Area Community Plan – a citizen-driven land use master plan – was presented. The final draft was set for debate before the Eagle Planning and Zoning Commission.
Brush Creek Elementary was experiencing traffic problems with drop-offs and pickups. The town of Eagle moved a police officer to the intersection of Eagle Ranch Road and Sylvan Lake Road to act as a crossing guard, and the school was working on some changes as well.
A "soup kitchen" style dinner was being offered at the Eagle River Presbyterian Church every Monday evening and the meal was drawing 30-40 people each week.
Gypsum resident Tina Clarke won a drawing at the Eagle Pharmacy for a flat screen television.
AutoZone, located between Eagle and Gypsum near Costco, opened its doors.
Eagle resident Hilary Henry earned a place on the Dean's List at Trinity College of Duke University for the fall 2008 semester.
Week of Feb. 5, 2004
A formal dedication ceremony opened the new $2.25 million, 115-foot high air traffic control tower at the Eagle County Regional Airport. The new facility was built to guide both commercial and private airplanes, with county officials noting that during the ski season, the county facility was the second-busiest airport in the state.
Local government leaders were discussing the need for assisted living and nursing home facilities in Eagle County.
The Eagle Valley High School nordic ski team was gearing up for the state meet. Jill Ewing, Katie Wick, Haley Didier, James Ewing, Kyle Simonet, Alex Gamble, Nate Hoza and Wes Minett had all qualified for the state competition. Jill Ewing was coming off a win in the combined classic/freestyle race at Eldora the previous week.
The first snowpack survey for the year showed numbers were up near Eagle and slightly down near Vail. At the McKinzie Gulch snow course, located on West Brush Creek, the average snow depth was 27.3 inches, 127 percent of the 30-year average.
Week of Feb. 3, 1994
Eagle police were ticketing motorists who persisted in blasting through town at speeds of up to 75 mph. Most were visitors to the county coming in via the Eagle County Airport.
The Enterprise featured a photo of nationally famous relationship advisor Dr. Ruth Westheimer reading the local newspaper. She was in Cordillera for a book signing.
The birth of Hayley Rae Beard marked the fifth generation of women for the Sansosti family. Newborn Hayley posed for a picture with mom Debby Beard, grandmother Roxie Deane, great-grandmother Lena Yost and great-great-grandmother Frances Sansosti.
Week of Feb. 9, 1984
A steering committee was formed to study economic development issues in Eagle. Members were Skip Richter, John West, Martha Wolfe, Susan Vaughn, Bill Dempsey, Rayl Zimmerman, Glen Lowe, Nancy Powell, Jack D'Orio, Dave Mott, Steve Isom, Mike Simonds, Rick Parker, Bill Erickson, and Gerald Rose.
Vandals shot a hole in a voltage regulator along Cottonwood Pass, cutting off electricity to Gypsum for two hours.
An Enterprise feature story profiled long-time resident Lucille Lieber, who helped institute the Eagle County Council on Aging.
Eagle pioneer Fanny Gamble died at the age of 79.
Colleen Hartle hit seven field goals and five three throws in a Devils basketball game against Hayden. Strong play by Jeff Myers and Rich Rodriguez brought the boy's basketball out of a mid-season slump.
Week of Feb. 7, 1974
The Eagle County Planning Commission rejected a request by numerous citizens for some "interim" zoning that would slow down development while the county worked on permanent zoning regulations. Local developers protested that such a move would completely stop construction in the valley.
A letter-to-the editor criticizing the gossip columns in the Enterprise was drawing a strong response from residents who wanted the columns to stay.
"We choose to live in this community and raise our children here because of its simplicity and quiet, less-complicated lifestyle. It irritates me to have people come in and try to impose their urban ways on our rural, but happy life here," wrote Eagle resident Laurene Knupp.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management shut down the town of Gypsum's dump, saying it was not being run to current standards.
Carolyn Longshore was installed as worthy advisor of the local Rainbow Girls chapter. Her twin sister, Sharolyn was the associate advisor.
EVHS cheerleaders Nancy Gates and Alexis Johnson were tapped for all-league honors.
Perfecto Rivera was the only Devils champion in the district wrestling tournament in Walden. Runners-up included Eddie Oyler, Bob Toomer, Tom Foral, Mark Long, Mike Luark and Tim Shankel.
Week of Feb. 6, 1964
Eagle resident Cecil Cole was credited with averting some burglaries. Cole called the sheriff after he noticed a suspicious vehicle driving through town in the wee hours of the morning. Sheriff Jim Seabry followed up, and discovered the occupants of the car were listed in Utah records as known burglars. Local police escorted the suspected burglars to the Utah border.
A special train moved through Bond carrying several large shipments of equipment for the new Colorado Ute Electric power plant at Hayden.
EVHS basketball player Buck Johnson had his best night of the season, scoring 19 points against the Plateau Valley Cowboys and earning "defensive player of the week" honors.
Edwards resident Hubert Peterson escaped serious injury when he struck a deer near Grand Valley while on a mail truck run, and crashed into a large semi-truck.
Week of Feb. 4, 1954
Enterprise editor Marilla McCain wrote a column lamenting the growing problem of underage drinking in "the village" (Eagle). The dining room of the Diamond J Restaurant east of Eagle was filled to capacity by a gathering of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The lower valley was experiencing "fishing weather" with highs in the low 50s and only a scant amount of snow. Pvt. George Macdonnell arrived in Eagle on a 10-day furlough from Ft. Ord, California.
Bob Trezise, organist for the Eagle Methodist Church, helped with dedication of a new organ by playing several special selections.
The Citizens' Party of Eagle was holding a convention for the purpose of nominating a mayor and six trustees for the town board. Grace Cowden was the secretary for the organization.
Week of Feb. 4, 1944
Public Health Nurse Rhoda Yoder reported some alarming figures: out of 827 school children who underwent dental examinations by Dr. O.W. Randall or Dr. Downs, only 53 needed no work. The other children had an average of seven cavities each.
Minturn pioneer Edward J. Ruder died at his home in Minturn. Word was received that Billy Belmire, the star football player of the Eagle County High School class of 1938, was killed in a Florida plane crash while serving with the Navy.
Harold Smith, son of Foster Smith of Eagle, was home on a short furlough from the Army.
Locals who bought war bonds were invited to attend the movie "Mrs. Miniver" at the Eagle Theatre, free of charge.
In girl's basketball, the Eagle team defeated Gypsum 32-20.
Sgt. and Mrs. Shirley Jodrie skied into the 7W Guest Ranch at Sweetwater. Sgt. Jodrie was a ski instructor at Camp Hale.
Joe Chockie reported two feet of recent snowfall at Sweetwater.
Week of Feb 9, 1934
Eagle Mayor A.B. Koonce was talking with Public Works Administration about possible federal funding for a local airplane landing field. A site five miles west of town on the Hemberger Spangler and Hans Oleson ranches was the preferred location.
Plane markers directing pilots to the field would be placed on the roof of the courthouse in Eagle and on the county high school building in Gypsum.
The Enterprise reported that for the first time in 21 years, locals were finding it impossible to locate ice of sufficient thickness and quality to harvest and store for summer use. Christensen's pond, the popular ice-gathering place in recent years, had not formed the required 11-inch thick ice.
The Legion Auxiliary in Gypsum held a "pep" meeting featuring a chicken and noodle dinner, an inspirational speech, and a dance. Mrs. Georgia Heyer Clark played the piano accordion for the dance; and Alvin Webb was at the piano.


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Thirty four years old. Never met an ice cream I didn't like.
Tall-ish, plumpish, hair like a shaggy lion, I currently live in that mystical Land of Entrapment, New Mexico.
If I'm not writing, I'm reading, cooking, and eating. Or I could be swimming, or shopping, or sleeping.
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A short story from the collection Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper.
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The After Effects Apprentice videos on lynda.com were created by Trish and Chris Meyer and are designed to be used on their own and as a companion to their book After Effects Apprentice. We are honored to host these tutorials in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.
- Understanding how keyframes work under the hood
- Controlling the Anchor Point to create more predictable animations
- Mastering the Graph Editor for the ultimate control over keyframes
- Animating parameters including motion paths
- Hand-drawing motion paths to simplify complex movements
- Applying and tweaking Motion Blur
- Using Hold keyframes
Skill Level Beginner
Normally, you would set up the Anchor Point and then leave it alone as you go animate the other Transform properties such as Rotation, Scale, and Position. However, there are some types of animation movements where you want to leave position alone and animate the Anchor Point instead; for example, if you're panning around on a large photograph, piece of video, or even another composition. If you have the project files that came with this lesson, first open Comp 02a-Motion Control*starter. It is large photos from cars on a racetrack, and to get a bit idea what this looks like I am going to double-click Auto Race.jpg, open it up in the Layer panel, say View, fit up to 100% and now I can see how big this photo truly is.
I've got a lot of real estate here I can go ahead and pan around and move around. Great! Let's say I've decided on a move where I first focus on this lime green car in front and then want to look at the back of the pack layer run. I might be tempted to be to go to my Comp panel and say okay, move, that's position. So I'll press P to reveal the Position parameter, click on its stopwatch to enable keyframing, and then for zooming in and out, I'll hold Shift and press S to reveal Scale. Click on its stopwatch. Now I can keyframe that. Let's get a good first pose. Let's see that green car is down here somewhere.
There we go, get it kind of put it in the screen where I want. It's too big. Now, I'll scrub Scale and hmm! It's sliding off the top of my composition. It's not supposed to be doing that. Well, actually it is. If you remember, all Transform properties are centered around the Anchor Point. That Anchor Point is up here at this red, white, and blue car, not down by the green car. Okay, I know Chris told me to set the Anchor Point first, but you know I don't have time. Let's just drag it onto Position. There we go, and let's scale a little bit more and oops! It goes off the screen, pull it down again.
Okay, I am happy with my first pose. It took little bit, but I am happy. Now I'm going to press End to go to the end of my Timeline and drag it to another position. I want to focus on these cars up here somewhere, and it's a nice arrangement there. And again, I think that could be scaled little bit to get a more inclusive view, so I'll scrub the Scale value, and it goes sliding off the screen again. Well, again it's sliding towards that Anchor Point, the center of all transformations. That's why I am fighting myself: whenever I move the position and then scrub the Scale, they're just working against each other.
It's because After Effects always scales around the Anchor Point. But you can go ahead and persevere until you get it the way want it to be, until it comes time to preview it. But I'll press 0 to get a RAM Preview, and my preview is also kind of sliding around in ways I don't want. Well, I can edit my position path, and my position path is kind of non-intuitive at this point. I mean my green car is here, but my position keyframe is over here because that's where my Anchor Point is. Trust me, you can go ahead and do this, but you're just going to be fighting it all day long.
There is a better way, and that better way is animating the Anchor Point. So let's start over. I'm going to open up a new blank comp 02b, nothing in there, go down to Sources, reveal Auto Race, Command+Forward Slash or Ctrl+Forward Slash, center it in the comp. Now remember, the Anchor Point is in the center of the layer. Now, when I add a layer using the shortcut, the layer is centered in the composition. That means its position value is in the middle. I don't want to edit this position value.
I want to resist the temptation to pick up and move this layer. Instead, I am going to animate everything using the Anchor Point. Shift+A will reveal that, in addition to position. Now, as you know from earlier movie, to edit the Anchor Point, you can open up the Layer panel. I'll double-click this layer, and I'll drag these side by side so I can see them both at the same time, and maybe do a little bit of rearrangement of my panels to get a bigger view on both. There we go. Now, rather than keyframing position, I will keyframe the Anchor Point, then hold down Shift, press S to reveal Scale, so do that as well.
I've moved my Layer panel. I'll change the View pop-up to Anchor Point Path because that's what I want to edit now. And now let's look at that Anchor Point. Remember before I said it looked like a crosshair? Well, that's exactly how you should treat it. This is the crosshair of your virtual camera. So I'm going to pick it up and drag it down to the screen car, which I want to focus on, and voila! The Comp panel is automatically updating to show this display. I center the Anchor Point on the car. The Anchor Point is centered in the Comp panel. I have got the view I want.
Now when I go scrub Scale, you'll notice it's scaling around the Anchor Point and therefore staying centered in my screen. It's a good pose I like. I can go ahead and play with the Anchor Point. Again, don't move position, just edit Anchor Point and drag it to get maybe a little bit more of a balanced photo, a little bit of the arc of the track coming from the frame on down and the car down on the bottom third of the frame. That's the nice pose. Okay, let's go down to the end and do the same thing. Don't pick it up and move it into the Comp panel, go to the Layer panel and move your crosshair to what you want to focus on.
Let's see, I was focusing on this group of cars before. Let's do that again. By centering the track, the car is pretty well centered in the view. I want to frame this a little bit better, so again I just scrub the scale, and now it behaves exactly the way I want it to. It's just like aiming my camera at the spot that I want and then zooming in and out to get the framing that I want. Notice how much faster and more direct and less frustrating it was to edit this way than to edit Position and Scale to do the same type of movement.
If you want to pan around a large source, be it the still image, video, even another composition, edit the Anchor Point in the Layer panel. Now there is an alternative using 3D cameras, and in the future lesson we'll get into 3D. But this is the way a lot of people create those so-called Ken Burns moves across photographs to give some movement to them. And speaking of animation, I am going to show you how to refine that Anchor Point animation in the next movie.


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Marmote SDR: Experimental Platform for Low-Power Wireless Protocol Stack Research
AbstractOver the past decade, wireless sensor network research primarily relied on highly-integrated commercial off-the-shelf radio chips. The rigid silicon implementation of the radio stack restricted access to the lower layers; thus, research focused mainly on the medium access control (MAC) layer and above. SRAM field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based software-defined radios (SDR), on the other hand, provide a flexible architecture to experiment with any and all layers of the radio stack, but usually require desktop computers and draw high currents that prohibit mobile or longer-term outdoor deployments. To address these issues, we have developed a modular flash FPGA-based wireless research platform, called Marmote SDR, that has computational resources comparable to those of SRAM FPGA-based radio platforms, but at a reduced power consumption, with duty cycling support. We discuss the design decisions underlying Marmote SDR and evaluate its power consumption. Furthermore, we present and evaluate an asynchronous and multiple access communication protocol specifically designed for data-gathering wireless sensor networks.
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Szilvási, S.; Babják, B.; Völgyesi, P.; Lédeczi, Á. Marmote SDR: Experimental Platform for Low-Power Wireless Protocol Stack Research. J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2013, 2, 631-652.View more citation formats
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A birth injury is an injury that is incurred by an infant during the birthing process. Birth injuries differ from birth defects, which are caused by genetics. Birth injuries usually result from medical complications that arise during the birthing process. For example, a doctor may inappropriately use a medical device, which results in the infant being injured. In some cases, these injuries may be unavoidable, and may be considered a risk associated with the child delivery process. These risks are things that most parents are aware of or even advised of by their doctors.
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Race to the trough
Here is how a piece in The Bond Buyer describes the kind of projects envisioned by the Obama Administration's idea for an infrastructure bank:
Obama's infrastructure bank is not just for transportation. Its loans could be used to finance highways, roads, bridges, mass transit, inland waterways, commercial ports, airports, air traffic control systems, passenger and freight rail, wastewater treatment facilities, storm-water management systems, dams, solid-waste disposal facilities, levees, power transmission and distribution, storing energy, and energy-efficiency enhancements for buildings.
In other words, the administration could pick winners and losers in business and commerce. The "bank" would be run by a CEO and Senate-approved board and, presumably, would use solid, verifiable data to decide whether certain projects are worth taxpayers' money.
Think Solyndra.
Think Race to the Top, the first-round stimulus program that gave Arne Duncan billions to hand out to states for education ideas that tickled him.
That's the same Race to the Top money that's now going to Charlotte-Mecklenberg, N.C., schools to fund PR positions to sell reform experiments to the public.
As if students don't have enough standardized tests, school officials in Charlotte-Mecklenberg want even more to help expand their performance-pay system for teachers, something the public is uneasy about. The goal is to add standardized tests to subjects including art and music so the district can figure out if certain teachers are worth extra money.
One student wrote a column for the Charlotte Observer in the spring titled: Why do I have to take a standardized test in Yearbook?
Here's an obvious question: Isn't that why you have principals — to assess teachers and decide whether they would merit pay raises? Is it worth the expense of even more testing materials, more teacher and student time and more central administration staff to chase the notion that everything can be reduced to the right answers on a multiple-choice exam?
It feels like my federal taxes have been put to use chasing a theory.


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|Frank Longo
|Produced by
|Werner Koenig
Warren Zide
Douglas Curtis
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|Stuart Gibbs
Russ Ryan
|Ali Landry
James Roday
Desmond Askew
Eugene Levy
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|Teddy Castellucci
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|20th Century Fox
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|United States
Repli-Kate is a 2002 sex comedy film from National Lampoon, directed by Frank Longo and starring Ali Landry, James Roday, Desmond Askew and Eugene Levy.
Max Fleming is a grad student who developed a powerful cloning machine for the egotistical Dr. Jonas who steals all the credit and leaves his student to toil in obscurity. One day, Max meets Kate Carson, a young and attractive magazine reporter doing a story on the cloning research at the university. During the interview, Kate accidentally cuts herself, and a few drops of her blood get on one of the cloning samples. Later that night, Max runs a test of the machine, and to his surprise he ends up with a replicant of Kate, which he names Repli-Kate.
Repli-Kate is fully adult, but knows absolutely nothing. Max and his roommate Henry thus set out to educate her, but with a male perspective. They want to turn her into the perfect woman: the beer-drinking, sport-loving, sexually aggressive girl of their dreams. However, when Max contemplates the resulting woman, he realizes that the girl of his dream was Kate all along, and not Repli-Kate.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jonas learns of the existence of Repli-Kate, and captures both her and the original Kate. He then decides to present the results of the human cloning in front of scientists from all over the world, with the aim of advertising "his" cloning machine. Fortunately, Max and Henry get wind of the plan, and set up a rescue mission. Using a newly created Repli-Jonas, the pair are able to create enough confusion to save Kate and Repli-Kate.
In the end, Jonas and Repli-Jonas are sent to a cloning research lab, as test subjects. Max inherits the university's cloning lab, and his cloning chamber brings him great fame and money. Max and Kate fall in love, as do Henry and Repli-Kate. Ultimately, Repli-Jonas manages to escape, and when Felix asks Max about what to do, he replies that Repli-Jonas is too dumb to go anywhere. The last image is Repli-Jonas, who is the new president. His discourse is just the word 'penis'.
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From the Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. The authors have no relevant financial interest in this article.
Human observations have shown different mortality rates between men and women with various pathological conditions, but this issue has not been widely studied in a heterogeneous population of critically ill patients.
Retrospective analysis of all patients admitted to a mixed medical-surgical, 31-bed intensive care unit (ICU) during 2 different years (1983 and 1995) to evaluate possible differences in mortality between male and female patients and between medical and surgical admissions and variations in these differences over time.
From a total of 4420 admissions (1587 women, 2833 men), women showed a higher mortality, with an odds ratio (OR) of 1.18 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02-1.38). This pattern was the same for the 2 periods, and all patient data were therefore analyzed together. After age stratification, the differences were significant for female patients older than 50 years (OR, 1.33; 95% CI, 1.12-1.58) but not in the younger age group. The subgroup of medical admissions had a higher mortality (24.4% vs 7.4%, P<.001) and a higher female proportion (37.9% vs 34.2%, P = .01) than surgical admissions. In multivariate analysis, female sex remained an important predictor of mortality (OR, 1.54; 95% CI, 1.25-1.89). Women had a higher mortality than men in the subgroup of cardiovascular diseases. The highest mortality in female patients was present in the first days after admission and decreased over time, showing a covariance of time and sex.
In a mixed medical-surgical ICU, older women have a higher mortality rate than men. This difference is not apparent for patients staying longer in the ICU.
Recently, there has been increased interest in the possible influences of sex on disease development and intensive care unit (ICU) survival. Women have a lower incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD), an effect that is blunted with aging.1 After an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), women have a higher rate of early mortality,2- 5 although long-term mortality after AMI is not different between the sexes.5 Higher mortality rates in men have been observed in some situations, including congestive heart failure6,7 and trauma,8,9 but in other areas, including sepsis,10- 16 mechanical ventilation,17,18 and burns,19- 21 the literature is conflicting.
The reasons behind possible sex differences have been explored in several experimental models, mainly focusing on the possible immunological effects of sex hormones. Numerous studies have shown that the immune response, including that associated with sepsis, may be modulated by sex hormones, with women and men treated with estrogens developing a more marked proinflammatory response22- 24 and having improved cardiac and hepatic function compared with men.25 These changes are influenced by the female reproductive cycle,26 and the cytokine response is reversed when older animals with decreased hormonal levels are compared.27 Indeed, higher male mortality rates have been observed,28,29 and treatment of septic male animals with dehydroepiandrosterone resulted in improved outcome.30 Whether these experimental findings can be translated to the clinical arena, however, remains unclear. The objective of this study was to observe if there were any differences in mortality rates and length of ICU stay between men and women in a mixed medical-surgical ICU population.
Records for all consecutive admissions to the ICU of Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, during 2 different years, 1983 and 1995, were retrieved by searching the unit databases. These years were chosen because they were readily available from our databases and allowed a comparison of mortality rates over time. Erasme University Hospital is a 900-bed, academic, adult hospital with a multidisciplinary, mixed medical and surgical, 31-bed intensive care department. Patients with acute, uncomplicated coronary disease are admitted to a separate coronary care unit. Patients admitted several times during these years were included as new admissions. Demographic data, including sex, admission diagnosis, medical or surgical status, age, length of ICU stay, and ICU outcome, were collected. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to determine predictors of mortality in this population using statistical software (SPSS version 10.0.5; SPSS Inc, Chicago, Ill). Categorical variables were assessed with the χ2 test. The 2-tailed t test and Mann-Whitney U test were used as appropriate for continuous variables. Stratified analysis was performed using the Mantel-Haenszel test. General linear model and time-dependent Cox regression model were also applied. The actuarial method was used to assess cumulative differences in survival. P<.05 was considered statistically significant unless a Bonferroni correction was applied to evaluate multiple comparisons. Data are presented as mean ± SD, excepted where stated otherwise.
Demographic data for the 2 years are summarized in Table 1. There were 4420 admissions (1587 women, 2833 men), 1950 admitted in 1983 and 2470 in 1995. The proportion of female patients increased throughout the 12-year period. There were no significant differences in the mean ICU length of stay when both years were compared. Since mortality rates were similar in the 2 different periods, data from the 2 years were analyzed collectively.
From the total number of patients, 595 (13.5%) died during their ICU stay. Survivors were younger than nonsurvivors (55 ± 18 years vs 61 ± 18 years, P = .006), and they had a significantly shorter length of ICU stay (3.5 ± 5.7 days vs 5.4 ± 7.6 days, P<.001). Mortality increased with age from 9.9% in patients younger than 45 years, 11.8% in patients aged 45 to 65 years, and 18.1% in patients older than 65 years (χ2 trend = 40.5, P<.001). Women had a higher mortality rate than men (15% vs 13%; odds ratio [OR], 1.18; P<.05). When the sample was stratified according to age, women older than 50 years showed the highest risk of mortality (OR, 1.33; P<.001). The crude OR and the Mantel-Haenszel adjusted OR were not significantly different, showing no evidence of confounding. However, the homogeneity test across strata confirmed the presence of a significant interaction between sex and mortality when age was controlled (P<.001).
Medical patients represented 35.9% of the population; differences between the medical and surgical groups are depicted in Table 2. There were no differences in age between the medical and surgical groups as a whole or when stratified according to diagnosis or sex. There were more female than male medical patients (37.9% vs 34.2%, P = .01). Surgical patients had a shorter mean length of stay than medical patients (3.6 ± 6.1 days vs 4.1 ± 5.9 days, P = .04). The mortality rate was higher in medical vs surgical patients (24.4% vs 7.4%, P<.001). Cardiovascular problems were the most frequent source of admission to the ICU for the medical group, accounting for 29% of admissions. The mortality rate of female patients with cardiovascular disease was higher than that of their male counterparts (23% vs 12%; OR, 2.07; 95% CI, 1.50-2.87; P<.001) (Table 3).
Using the actuarial method, life tables were used to assess the median length of stay in the ICU until death. The median length of stay was 26 days for surgical patients and 14 days for medical patients (P<.001). Differences in mortality were observed from days 3 through 6, favoring men (Table 4), but after this initial period, the mortality rate was lower for women, although not significantly, suggesting that survival for men and women is not constant over time. The plot of survival curves (Figure 1) shows the cumulative proportion of patients staying in the ICU until death. The curves eventually cross each other due to interaction of sex with length of ICU stay; therefore, a time-dependent Cox regression model was used to assess the joint effects of prognostic factors, such as age, sex, and medical-surgical status, on length of stay in the ICU until death. The model showed mortality for women to be associated with an OR of 1.54 (95% CI, 1.25-1.89) overall and an OR of 0.95 (95% CI, 0.92-0.98) for each day of increase in length of stay, suggesting a reduction in the OR for longer stays (Table 5). This confirms the significant interaction of sex and time that was already found with the stratified analysis.
Cumulative survival curves for female and male sex according to length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay (n = 595 patients).
More male patients are admitted to the ICU than female patients, with men accounting for approximately two thirds of admissions.13,31 Our study confirms this proportion, although suggests a slight increase in the proportion of female admissions in more recent years.
In experimental studies,28,29,32 mortality rates have consistently been shown to be higher in male than female animals in various disease models, yet our study showed no significant differences in mortality rates between sexes, except in women older than 50 years, who had a higher mortality rate. So why do our results and those from other clinical studies14,19 differ from what we would expect from these experimental observations? First, experimental data are generally based on young women in their proestrus state. Clinical studies usually involve populations of mixed ages, with some women in the proestrus state and others in the postmenopausal state; thus, the hormonal milieu will be different from the controlled animal experiment.26 The difference in ages may not only be important because of decreased estrogen levels in older women, but, as shown by Kahlke et al27 in mice, the cytokine response is reversed so that older male mice show a better proinflammatory response than female mice. This factor could explain why, in our results as well as others,14 differences were noted only in older patients and why women fared worse. Second, it is possible that a female sex advantage may prevent women from developing a more severe state to the same insult. Wichmann et al13 studied the development of severe sepsis and septic shock in the postoperative state. These authors observed that the mortality from severe sepsis and septic shock was similar for men and women, but more men needed ICU care, and in this subgroup, more men developed severe sepsis and septic shock. Male sex has also been observed as a risk factor for sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction after burns33 and trauma,34 as well as for infections after surgery.35 This fact may limit the detection of any direct sex-related differences in mortality if patients are studied only in the ICU.
The greatest paradox is seen in CHD, because female sex protects against its development but still carries a greater mortality risk for acute events. Several factors can account for this finding. First, the most important difference is observed for the younger groups3; thus, younger women may have a more severe form of CHD, as manifested by a greater tendency to show eroded plaques,36 higher platelet reactivity,37 fewer collateral vessels,38 and a higher incidence of AMI with normal angiogram.39 Second, women have been shown to have more complications, such as arrhythmia, acute pulmonary edema, and cardiogenic shock,3- 5,39 as well as more comorbid disease processes, such as congestive heart failure, arterial hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). There may be a relationship among sex, CHD, and DM. Diabetic women seem to have a higher mortality from AMI than women without DM, whereas in men such a difference is not noted.40 Most interestingly, the risk of fatal AMI in women without DM may be lower than for men without DM.41 Third, a possible survival advantage of women may allow more of them to reach the hospital alive, giving a biased population of more severely ill female patients. These data are suggested by 2 studies42,43 that confirm a higher AMI prehospital mortality for men, higher hospital mortality for women, and, subsequently, the same overall mortality.
Our study is, to our knowledge, the first report of differences in mortality in a large population derived from a mixed medical-surgical ICU rather than in specific patient groups. We observed a significantly higher mortality in women older than 50 years and in the subgroup admitted for cardiovascular diseases. Although more women were admitted for medical reasons, and this subgroup had a higher mortality, in multivariate analysis female sex remained an important predictor of mortality. Importantly, patients with uncomplicated acute coronary syndromes were not included but have relatively low mortality rates; thus, for differences in mortality to be shown, large patient populations may be required. The ICU mortality rates are more valuable when controlled for severity of illness; unfortunately, one of the limitations of our study was the lack of a severity score, not widely used in 1983, to further explore our data and perhaps provide some explanations for the observed differences in mortality.
Survival analysis showed that women's survival chances improve with longer length of stay, as shown by a decreasing hazard function for female patients, which crossed over the male hazard function. This finding is in parallel with studies that compare mortality in men and women after coronary events, which showed an increase in early mortality in women.2,44 This result could also be due to an enhanced initial proinflammatory reaction in women, as demonstrated in animal experiments,22- 25 followed by a more balanced reaction later, as indicated by a higher interleukin 10 level in women after 10 days.10 Hence, the timing of observations may be important when studying sex-related differences in mortality.
In conclusion, ICU survival depends on the effects of several predictors interacting with each other and with time. Clinical trials should consider that men and women respond differently to noxious stimuli, although the possible female advantages described in animals have not yet been confirmed in humans. Additional prospective studies observing not only sex but also hormonal status (including exogenous hormone use), associated with a better stratification according to age and disease state and severity of illness, are needed to further characterize these differences.
Corresponding author and reprints: Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Route de Lennik, 808, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium (e-mail: email@example.com).
Accepted for publication January 31, 2003.
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5 Dividend Stocks to Hold Into Retirement
Richard Cox: When building a retirement investment portfolio, low volatility stocks (stocks that do not post strong reactions to changes in the wider market) are generally preferred as they tend to provide reliable rates of return over longer term time horizons. Since these types of stocks also tend to offer high dividend payouts and see smaller declines during bear markets, they tend to be some of the most attractive choices for investors planning for retirement.
In terms of historical performance, some additional factors should be considered. In the last 50 years, low volatility stocks have tended to match the wider performance of the market but with much lower levels of risk exposure. These trends are matched in most global stock markets as well but it should be remembered that during bull markets, low volatility stocks tend to under-perform, and this can be seen this year as well, with the current rally in the S&P 500. But for those planning for retirement (or already retired) risk reduction should be a primary focus and here we will look at some stock choices to buy and hold for the long term (multiple market cycles).
Progress Energy (NYSE:PGN) has a market valuation of $16 billion, making it one of the larger utility companies in theUS. Merger plans with Duke Energy will likely increase the valuation and after approval the companies look to close by the middle of this year. Currently, the stock price in PGN is down 5 percent on the year, making it attractive at current levels given that the stock's three year average shows annual returns of more than 17 percent and a 10 year return of more than 5 percent. All of this is combined with a dividend yield of 4.7 percent. Analyst ratings call the stock a long term "hold" as PGN is poised to benefit from growth opportunities in regulated utility projects.
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Kraft Foods (NYSE:KFT) is one of the largest and most well-known brands in the world, with a $67 billion market value. Kraft Foods is the largest packaged foods company inNorth America and the second largest globally. With we-established brand names (such as Maxwell House, Nabisco, Oscar Mayer, and Chips Ahoy). Stock prices have posted gains of 3 percent this year, and a three year return of more than 20 percent. But even at these elevated levels, the dividend yield of 3 percent and its ten year returns of 2.5 percent help support the analyst "buy" and "hold" ratings that are currently seen.
Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) has a market value of $17 billion, with two regulated utilities under ownership (Orange andRockland, and Con Ed of New York). Company products include Natural Gas and Electricity toNew York,New Jersey, andPennsylvania. The stock price has seen a drop of nearly 6 percent so far in 2012 but this makes it an attractive buy at cheap levels, given that its 10 year annual return rate is above 7 percent. Dividend yields are also attractive, at nearly 4.2 percent, with most analysts calling the stock a "hold."
Kellog's (NYSE:K), valued by the market at $18 billion is another well-recognized brand name, producing cereal, crackers and cookies within the brand. Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Eggo, Pop Tarts and Keebler are some of the better known names under its ownership. International sales make up more than a third of the company's revenue as its products are sold in over 180 countries. The stock is up so far this year, matching its consistent annual returns, seen over a 10 year period at roughly 6.5 percent. Dividend yields are seen at 3.3 percent, with analyst ratings mixed with "buy" and "hold" ratings.
Procter and Gamble (NYSE:PG), the largest manufacturer of consumer products has a market valuation of $177 billion. The company's wide product line includes Tide, Charmin, Pantene, Cover Girl, and Gillette. So far this year, the stock price is seeing declines of nearly 3 percent but the 10 year returns show a very stable rise of 6.6 percent each year. The PG dividend is currently seen at 3.3 percent with analyst ratings spilt between "buys" and "holds." Current forecasts for earnings are also strong with earnings per share expected to see gains of 9 percent into next year.
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Definition of abnegation in English:
noun[mass noun]
1The action of renouncing or rejecting something: abnegation of political power
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- Though this has been portrayed as genuine consultation, in fact the lack of any real, driving ideas about educational reform is an abnegation of political responsibility.
- Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
- It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
renunciation, rejection, refusal, abandonment, abdication, surrender, giving up, relinquishment, abjuration, repudiation, denial, eschewal, disavowal, casting aside
1.1Self-denial: people are capable of abnegation and unselfishness
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self-denial, self-sacrifice, abstinence, temperance, continence, asceticism, abstemiousness, austerity, renunciation, resignation
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