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By Arden Dale
With capital-gains-tax rates at their lowest since 1941, advisers are urging clients to sell legacy stock. But many investors, like one man who held more than $100,000 in Chevron stock first bequeathed 20 years ago, take considerable convincing. Emotional ties may make it hard to let go.
Financial adviser Michael Carroll at Payne Capital Management, a fee-only adviser in Manhattan with $260 million in assets under management, recommended in August that the man part with some of his Chevron stash.
The man had reinvested dividends from the inheritance automatically, and the position grew. His cost basis in each share was only $15, so with Chevron trading near an all-time high (above $100) when he sold in November, he faced a large capital-gains tax.
Right now, the top federal long-term capital gains tax rate is 15%. That rate is set to hold through the end of 2012, unless Congress steps in. Advisers think rates are likely to rise to 20% or higher in 2013, or even sooner, given efforts to plug the deficit by the Congressional "super committee" in Washington.
"You could be looking at 25% or 30% capital-gains rates," Carroll says he told his client.
Another reason to sell: A volatile market makes it especially smart to diversify. And even companies with a long history of paying dividends, like Chevron, may cut or stop paying them when times get tough.
After three months, the man finally decided to sell some shares.
Old shares can take on symbolic meaning and become almost like an heirloom, says Marty Martin, an associate professor at DePaul University and financial psychologist at Aequus Wealth Management Resources in Chicago. Guilt or sadness may come up at the idea of selling.
Stephen Horan, head of Private Wealth at the CFA Institute, suggests asking: "If you were handed a check for the value of this stock, would you use the money to buy the same amount of the stock right now?"
Few people would choose their current old stock holding over cash, he says.
Alternatively, an investor with an old gift of stock from a parent sell some of it, and give the amount of the original gift to the parent's favorite charity.
Cost basis for inherited stock is the value of the shares on the death date of the person who bequeathed it. Old gifts of stock may yield even bigger tax savings because their cost basis derives from the price the original owner paid, taking into consideration mergers, spinoffs and stock splits that occurred at the company in the years since.


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A hidden mountain runway, probably used by shady folks to smuggle drugs or people or something.....a good excuse to paint that little Cessna plane from Goldeneye. 3 hours.
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I been doin it digitally since I was around 17 or so, but seriously since i was about 20. I been drawing all my life, used to draw comic/manga stuff load when i was a teen. Then went to college and uni to study art...yourself?
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Yeah money is money....we all need. You thinkin about applying for any art positions? Where abouts are you located?
Sure is. Not sure im ready to apply for any jobs just yet, still feel like theres somemore to learn and want to get a strong portfolio together first. I live in Norwich at the moment, but will go wherever the work takes me eventually. You work for a company where you live? or freelance?
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I am writing to express my concern that the YMCA pool is threatened with closure.
To the Editor,
I am writing to express my concern that the YMCA pool is threatened with closure.
I am in the pool twice a week with my children and have them in swimming lessons there an additional day each week. In the summer I had them in swimming lessons five days a week.
My five year old has totally overcome his fear of the water and is almost swimming and my three year old cries to go she loves the pool so much. If the pool closes, I will be directly affected.
Perhaps the more important point is that if we do not have a pool in this community every member of this community will be affected. It will affect our standard of living by its absence because without a pool our ability to attract physicians and business investment will be significantly diminished.
I grew up taking an old school bus weekly throughout the winter to Sackville, N.B., so I could learn to swim. I spent summers swimming and then lifeguarding at Dickey Park Pool. When the YMCA opened, I was among the first group of lifeguards and swimming instructors hired. I remember how happy we were that we had finally arrived - we were a real town with an indoor pool and everything.
I can hardly believe that my kids might be riding the bus to Sackville for winter swimming lessons and swimming I do not know where in the summer. Perhaps at the quarry like my father did when he was a boy?
I ask you to make the difficult, but necessary, decision to support the Amherst community pool.
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These drops are a life-saver. I didn't want to give my son any "medication" since he's only one month old and a preemie on top of that but I thought I'd give these a try since he has bad gas around the clock and the screaming drove me crazy and made me worried. I'm happy to report that they work every time and within 5 minutes. They also seem to have lasting effect of about 4-5 hours on my little one. Moreover, the taste seems ok for him. I can give those drops alone and he makes no funny faces. I highly recommend these drops. Only con for me? It's a bit difficult to get the exact measurement with the dispenser. The liquid is creamy white so it's a bit tough to see through and adjust when feeding only 0.3ml.
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My infant and toddler like the taste, and it does seem effective when gas is causing pain. But II was very disappointed to see sucralose as an ingredient. Artificial sweeteners are bad for you. It is getting tiring trying to find products without them. Even products and food with real sugar or high fructose corn syrup in them STILL contain sucralose to make them taste even sweeter. When I do end up having something with sucralose in it, I always get sick to my stomach and a headache. So I will be trying a different product not containing sucralose.
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I never have used this for my first son because I didn't know about it and then I found out about it but I thought it would be gimmicky. However, I started using it for my newborn and it works wonder. It gets rid of bubbles in the bottle so my baby rarely cries because of tummy ache. Amazing products!
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I use it on my 2 months old baby for her gas problem. It acts fast. I can easily burp The gas out of the baby after feed this drop. No side effect is found so far.
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the worlds greatest animal. this is so because jesus chose an alpaca to ride to the area we now know as the united states. the alpaca was his "godly animal" of choice because the alpaca could walk across water, fly if it really loved you, and could reach speeds up to the speed of sound on foot. be sure to get down and chant the following phrase if you see an alpaca: "shama ghala eh oh calla, shama ghala eh oh calla." the phrase means "pray to the almighty animal of god!"
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the greatest animal that will dominate the world after we destroy ourselves .the alpacas will create underground chambers to survive in while we destroy humans and all minor species. while in these chambers.they will discover cold fusion and and engineer new species to live on the earth
the narwhal will asist the alpaca in their universal conquest starting with the earth
by jeby144 April 28, 2009
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I saw an Alpaca being sherred for it's silky coat, then washed with expensive shampoo, after,they fed it African cheese as an award for its good behavior.
by Claire April 25, 2005
fluffy animals who love jazz, and jazz loves them.
the alpaca did not spit on jazz
by captain-awesome!!! December 20, 2011
An animal, usually mistaken with llamas, that seems very beautiful and will try to hypnotize you until they eat your brain
That girl was killed by an Alpaca yesterday, i told her to stay away from that devil
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Definition of pelargonium in English:
A tender shrubby plant which is widely cultivated for its red, pink, or white flowers. Some kinds have fragrant leaves which yield an essential oil. See also geranium.
- Genus Pelargonium, family Geraniaceae: many species and several hybrid groups, including the zonal pelargoniums (P. × hortorum), with rounded leaves bearing coloured zones, and the trailing ivy-leaved pelargoniums (P. peltatum).
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- I love plants in season - old roses are a summer favourite - and I've got delphiniums, pelargoniums, agapanthus, tulips, silver birch, to name a few.
- It looks good with hot pink pelargoniums and impatiens, and white nemesia to cool down the arrangement.
- I don't mean the common sort of bedding where dwarf box is used to make lettering and patterns are made of conventional bedding plants like begonias and pelargoniums.
Modern Latin, from Greek pelargos 'stork', apparently on the pattern of geranium (based on Greek geranos 'crane').
Words that rhyme with pelargoniumammonium, euphonium, harmonium, pandemonium, plutonium, polonium, zirconium
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Want To Save $215 Billion? Eliminate the Mortgage Deduction
Senate lawmakers said Thursday they want to be cautious about scaling back or eliminating the popular home mortgage-interest deduction to avoid further upsetting the troubled housing market.
The U.S. tax code provides generous subsidies to housing, including deductions for home mortgage interest, property taxes and an exclusion from all or part of capital gains taxes on many sales. Many academics favor eliminating or at least scaling back many of these subsidies, particularly the mortgage-interest deduction.
They argue that these tax incentives are expensive, provide an unhealthy subsidy to the housing sector, unfairly benefit the wealthy and fed the housing boom of the last decade. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that gradually eliminating the mortgage-interest deduction would save about $215 billion by 2021.
Lawmakers of both parties appear to be wary of taking steps that would further harm the depressed housing market. Any changes also are facing intense resistance from the housing and mortgage industries, a powerful lobby on Capitol Hill.
"With respect to the tax code, there are a number of proposals that would alter the treatment of housing, but any changes should happen only with the utmost care and significant transition periods," said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) in a written statement for a Senate Finance Committee hearing. And Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) said in an interview that "there is no question in a hard-hit economy…this has got to be done very sensitively."
More In Mortgage-Interest Deduction
President Barack Obama has proposed to limit the deduction for home-mortgage interest as part of a proposal to limit several popular deductions for families with more than $250,000 in yearly taxable income and individuals with more than $200,000.
The White House says that measure would raise roughly $400 billion over 10 years, including savings from limiting deductions for state and local property taxes and charitable donations. The proposal would limit the value of itemized deductions to 28 cents for each dollar of income deducted for those affected, down from the current level of up to 35 cents on the dollar.
Appearing at a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Richard Green, director of the University of Southern California's Lusk Center for Real Estate, said that eliminating the mortgage-interest deduction entirely would only lead to a percentage-point decline in the nation's home-ownership rate—currently at 65.9% of U.S. households.
That drop, he said, would be "hardly catastrophic." The existing deduction "moves money toward the housing sector [and] encourages people to buy larger houses," but does little to spur home ownership, he said.
Lobbyists for the housing industry, however, are fighting to preserve the current system. Eliminating the mortgage-interest deduction would "have a cascading and disastrous impact on the country, the economy and the American people," said Gregory Nelson, vice president of PulteGroup Inc., a major home builder.


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Choose Green Light Sabers Over Price
ED ZIMMERMAN: Matt Keiser, whose enterprise-focused startup, LiveIntent, received financing from Shasta Ventures in 2011 (and from me prior to that round), tells founders to focus on "venture math." Put simply, venture math means that VCs use this "need-to-own baloney" (quoting a 2009 blog post from Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures) to assert that their fund must own 20% or 25% of a company for it to be worth their while to spend time 'working' the investment.
Translation: If a VC invests $2 million, then he or she can afford to value the company at about $10 million, after the investment. If the company wants less money, the investor's percentage ownership stake remains the same and the valuation falls. Conversely, if the startup raises more money, the VC will invest more in the round and the valuation will increase — for the very same startup!
Matt asserts that the more you raise, the more the investors will pay in valuation. In fairness, Matt believes this to be true whether he's acting as a founder or as an angel. (He's backed 30 or so companies).
I ran that by Alan Patricof, founder of Greycroft Partners and the dean of the New York venture scene. Alan counters that raising less money at a lower valuation in an early round enables the founders to retain more of their company after several funding rounds. Here's how Alan's math works: Raising less at a lower valuation should permit the founder to achieve milestones entitling the company to a healthy valuation markup in the next round. The VC also benefits because the heightened valuation reflects an altered risk: reward ratio.
In my view, Alan's math is right, but not in every instance. He is right if (a) your startup achieves the milestones and (b) the Series A Crunch doesn't impact you. (The Series A Crunch, which I've previously written about, is the likelihood that many startups that have garnered seed funding will not be able to raise next round venture funding). If the startup either falters or hits the Series A Crunch, then having raised less money at a lower valuation has a pernicious impact — the company will have a terrible time raising next round money. Under those circumstances, even if the company attracts capital, it certainly won't be at a higher valuation than that low-priced prior round. The somewhat conflicting insights from Matt and Alan yield our next key takeaways:
At early stage, venture math tells you to raise more cash to ensure that you can safely hit the milestones needed to enhance your ability to raise subsequent capital at a substantially higher valuation. Secondly, founders who raise less money early, especially in a market that is or becomes choppy, will run the risk of hitting a wall or dropping the price if they don't hit their milestones.
See what other startup mentors have to say about why when and how to value your startup.
The notion of raising the price on VCs brings us back to Fred Destin of Atlas Venture. (Read more about Fred in my previous Accelerators essay, "Buy High, Sell Low"). While competitive pressure does add value for the founders, Fred cautions against getting aggressive term-sheets from second-tier firms to pressure tier one venture investors. According to Fred, it "makes the tier one laugh." While I shy away from describing some funds as tier 1 and others as tier 2, there's truth in Fred's position. Sure, in my experience — and I have recent data here — an aggressive term sheet from a fund that is meaningfully lower in stature will still have some beneficial impact on the competitive process. Nevertheless, the founders must be respectful about how they brandish any competing term sheet, and that provides our next takeaway: Founders who make investors feel like commodities traders bidding in the pit are making an enormous mistake about the nature of the VC/founder relationship.
Founders who approach the funding process, or make the VC believe that they're approaching the process, with a view toward taking any investor at the highest possible price, regardless of attributes like cultural fit, integrity and expertise, do themselves a real disservice. And here's where I wholeheartedly agree with Fred so I'll paraphrase him for our last takeaway: Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you to choose the investors with the green light sabers — the good guys with integrity who are a cultural fit – not the ones with the highest valuation.
May the force (and valuation) be with you!
(Read more from startup mentor Ed Zimmerman.)


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text: The Kite Runner (Blu-Ray) Studio: DreamWorks Home Video Rated: PG-13 (for strong thematic material including sexual assault of a child, violence and brief strong language) Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 HD Encoding: 1080p HD Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1; Spanish, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese; English SDH+ Time: 127 minutes Disc Format: 1 SS/DL BD Case Style: Keep case Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Blu-Ray Release Date: March 24, 2009 It was one of those instances of strange coincidences when two titles came for review that wound up having a lot in common. So much in common, in fact, that I have decided to meld together the reviews of The Kite Runner and A Mighty Heart since the two pictures combined provide a triptych of Afghanistan and Pakistan over 30 years. Part One is the first half of The Kite Runner, up until Amir and his father flee for America. Part Two is the second half of The Kite Runner, and Part Three is A Mighty Heart. They both show an evolving role of America and Americans in the fates of each of the countries as well as the protagonists of both pictures. The Kite Runner begins this journey in Kabul, Afghanistan in the late seventies, as we are introduced to two young boys, Amir (Zekeria Ebrahimi) and Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada). Amir's father utilizes Hassan's father as one of his chief servants, and the boys are best friends. As a team, the two spend their time in competition kite flying, utilizing the agility of these kites to cut the lines of their competitors. This is a big deal among young and old alike, and Amir's father, Baba (Homayoun Ershadi), takes great pride that his boy beat his record of eleven cut lines. Amir and Hassan are taunted by some older local boys who don't approve of Amir, a Pashtun, hanging around with Hassan, who is Hazara. These thugs, led by the older, far more dangerous, Assef (Elham Ehsas), commit a horrible act upon Hassan, which is witnessed by Amir. Scared for his own safety, but not enough to come forward, Amir can no longer be friends with Hassan, so he frames him, causing Hassan and his father to leave their home in shame. The Russians invade Kabul in 1978 and begin a decade's long occupation of the city and country, causing Baba and Amir to flee to the US, winding up in San Francisco. The story jumps ahead to the late eighties and early nineties, as Amir (now older, and played by Khalid Abdalla) graduate's from college, meets a girl and begins planning his life. He and his father are selling wares at a swap meet when they meet a general who served in the Afghan war with Russia. His beautiful daughter, Soraya (Atossa Leoni), catches Amir's eye and the two are married. We again jump in time to 2000 when Amir, now a successful author, receives word from a friend of his father's in Pakistan that Hassan is in trouble. He arrives in Pakistan to be told Hassan was killed, that there was more to their shared history, and Hassan's son is enslaved by their old nemesis Assef, now a leader in the Taliban. Amir must face Assef and his own past and sins if he will ever be able to live a peaceful life. Daniel Pearl was a journalist working for the Wall Street Journal when he is captured by Pakistani militants. He is held for ransom by these militants who want conditions of confinement improved for Pakistani POW's housed at Guantanamo Bay. A Mighty Heart, set in 2002, focuses on Pearl's wife, Marianne (Angelina Jolie) and her crusade, aided by the Pakistani police and just about every US law enforcement and anti-terrorism agency, to get her husband back safely. As viewers we are shown an over-populated Pakistan where everyone is on the take and even the police are portrayed as having shifting alliances from scene to scene. Pearl's story ended tragically and it was one of those moments for us as Americans that early on confirmed the viciousness of our new enemy, and just how difficult it was going to be to be successful in this new war on terror. I will try not to interject any political agendas into this review and stay focused on these two pictures. I watched them back to back over an evening and I was literally exhausted emotionally and mentally afterwards. Our initial introduction to Kabul in The Kite Runner shows us an almost idyllic urban landscape where the citizens are prosperous and the children can play safely in the streets, flying their kites and concerning themselves with little else than who will cut the next line. Amir is forced into situations far too big for him, and he cannot take the pressure, a theme that is reinforced as the Soviet occupation begins. Amir and his father flee their homeland and the country is raped over and over again, even up until the present day as various countries defile this once beautiful land. The rape theme plays out in several different ways through The Kite Runner and very subtly in A Mighty Heart, where Marianne's beliefs and faith in authority is challenged at every turn. Amir's demons transfer into the present day as he returns to Pakistan and eventually, Afghanistan, to search for his friend's son. He is confronted with a drastically different Kabul where Taliban soldiers drive through its bombed out streets and its citizens avoid direct eye contact. He goes to a stoning of an unfaithful woman and watches as her garments spring red with blood as she is pelted and killed. Amir flees from his birth country changed yet again, but this time freed from his sins and his atonement is in the form of his new "son". Marianne's struggle with the various forms of authority show us just how murky the new political, post 9/11 agenda has become. If Amir's story introduced us to today's Middle East, Marianne's story gave you the rest of the story. Her plight is compounded at every turn as more and more American government and news agencies muscle in to try to help, but may in fact be there only to save political face. The complexities of Amir's personal life mirror the complexities of the political landscape of Pakistan and America's role in it today. Both pictures are well served by their respective directors, Mark Forster on The Kite Runner and Michael Winterbottom on A Mighty Heart. Forster's ability to hone in on and define the relationship between the young Amir and Hassan hearkens back to his breakthrough work on Finding Neverland, showing a realistic portrayal of innocence lost and corrupted. Winterbottom seems to emulate who I would venture is one of his influences, Steven Soderberg, in making A Mighty Heart look like a borderline documentary. Winterbottom de-saturates the picture as if to suggest the absence of black and white distinctions in the story and how it lives in a world of gray and he mixes video footage from the networks with the narrative. He quick cuts his scenes, jumping around as the local cops search for various suspects and he lets the sounds of the city narrate the images. Winterbottom's faux-documentary style flies in the face of Forster's more romantic storytelling, but it helps to show the differences in these countries from their status in times past. Taking the two pictures together, you are given an incredible picture of a life so far removed from ours today, but both of our pasts, as Americans and Afghani's, show spectacular cultural, familial and political similarities. While each picture stands brilliantly on its own, the pairing of the two reveal a deeper level of thematic storytelling that provides a more whole and far richer viewing experience. Video: Note: I am watching this title using a Marantz VP 11-S1 DLP projector, which has a native resolution of 1080p. I am using a Sony Playstation 3 Blu-Ray player while a Denon 3808CI does the switching and pass through of the video signal. I am utilizing the HDMI capabilities of each piece of equipment. The Blu-Ray disc is encoded in the MPEG-4 AVC codec at 1080p with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The picture is shot very naturally and the colors remain bold and lush. From the colors of the clothes, kites and surrounding wares in the shops on the streets of Kabul, everything looks bright and clear. Flesh tones are accurate showing the differences in skin tones between the Afghani's and the Americans. Black levels are good showing some fine detail. Detail and sharpness is good, but there is minor edge enhancement. Audio: The 5.1 Dolby TrueHD soundtrack was attained by the HDMI connection of the PS3 to the Denon 3808CI. The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track is serviceable for this type of story as most of the action remains in the fronts and specifically the center channel. Surround channels sounded excellent in the couple scenes in which they were utilized but then they are relegated to conveying basic atmospheric information. LFE's come up infrequently and usually in support of the score. The soundtrack is clear, clean and free of any hiss or debris. Bonus Material: all items are in SD unless otherwise noted. Commentary by Directory Mark Forster, Khaled Hosseini and David Benioff: Forster does a lot of interviewing of the other two, but the whole track provides a nice look into the storytelling process between the two mediums. It does become a round table discussion eventually and it provides a great look into the process of making the movie. Words from The Kite Runner (14:25): Hosseini, Forster and Benioff, as well as the producers discuss the story, the adaptation and the themes of the picture. Images from The Kite Runner(24:39): the same participants as above discuss the shoot and how they all reacted to shooting in China. Theatrical Trailer (HD). Conclusions: Two great pictures showing various times in a region's history are even better when combined into a double feature. You should walk out of them exhausted, but enriched by the exposure to different cultures and the lay of the political landscape today. 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Tonight's Game
The Rangers face-off against the Washington Capitals tonight at Verizon Center (7:30 p.m.), in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference Quarterfinal matchup. On Saturday, the Blueshirts defeated the New Jersey Devils, 4-0, in their regular season finale. New York posted a record of 10-3-1 in the month of April, marking the third time the team has won 10 games in a month since October of 2008. The Rangers enter tonight's contest with a 208-226-8 record all-time in 442 playoff contests (116-88-2 at home; 92-138-6 on the road). New York has posted a 44-47-5 record all-time in Game 1 of playoff series.
Tune in Tonight
Tonight's game will be televised on MSG with pregame coverage beginning at 6:30 p.m. You can also catch the radio broadcast on ESPN New York (FM 98.7) and on satellite radio at XM 212.
Rangers vs. Capitals Pregame Notes
* The Rangers were 2-0-1 overall (1-0-1 at home; 1-0-0 on the road) against Washington in the 2013 regular season. Two of the three contests were decided by one goal, including one game that required the shootout. The Rangers outscored the Capitals, 5-0, after the first period, and outshot Washington, 102-81, in the series. The Blueshirts' power play was 3-9 (33.3 percent), while their penalty kill was 9-10 (90.0 percent) in three games. Derek Stepan led all skaters with three goals in the series, while Ryan McDonagh and Rick Nash tied for the series-high with three assists apiece. Carl Hagelin (one goal, two assists) and Brad Richards (one goal, two assists) also tallied three points in the series. Henrik Lundqvist was 1-0-1 with a 1.44 GAA and .942 save percentage, and Martin Biron was 1-0-0 with a 1.00 GAA and .966 save percentage.
* The Rangers have registered a point in eight of their last 10 regular season games against the Capitals (7-2-1 over the span), outscoring Washington, 34-19, over the span.
* New York lists two former Capitals on its roster: Steve Eminger (2002-03 to 2007-08); Roman Hamrlik (2011-12 to 2012-13).
* Washington lists two former Rangers on its roster: Tom Poti (2001-02 to 2005-06); Wojtek Wolski (2010-11 to 2011-12).
Rangers vs. Capitals Playoff History
The Rangers and Capitals are meeting in the playoffs for the eighth time overall and fourth time in five years, including a third consecutive season. Their last postseason encounter was in last year's Eastern Conference Semifinals, a series won by New York 4-3. Overall, the Blueshirts have a 3-4 playoff series record vs. the Capitals, posting a 19-22 mark in 41 postseason contests.
All Time Regular season -- Rangers vs. Capitals
Overall: 87-86-18-6
At MSG: 48-38-9-3
At Washington: 39-48-9-3
2013 Rangers vs. Washington
Feb. 17 Rangers 2, Capitals 1 at MSG
March 10 Rangers 4, Capitals 1 at Washington
March 24 Rangers 2, Capitals 3 (SO) at MSG
Rangers-Capitals Series Schedule
May 2 Rangers at Washington, 7:30 p.m.
May 4 Rangers at Washington, 12:30 p.m.
May 6 Rangers vs. Capitals, 7:30 p.m.
May 8 Rangers vs. Capitals, 7:30 p.m.
May 10 Rangers at Washington, 7:30 p.m.*
May 12 Rangers vs. Washington, TBD*
May 13 Rangers at Washington, TBD*
* -- if necessary
* Marc Staal missed the final 27 regular-season games with an injury, suffered on March 5.
* Brian Boyle has missed the final six regular-season games with an injury, suffered on April 16.
* Derek Dorsett has missed the final 13 regular-season games due to a broken clavicle, suffered on March 7.
* Ryane Clowe missed the final regular-season game with an injury, suffered on April 25.
* Michael Sauer missed the entire 48-game regular season due to a concussion, suffered on Dec. 5, 2011.
* The Rangers lost 134 total man-games to injuries or illness during the 2013 regular season.
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Sara Evans celebrated the success of her two-week No. 1 single, "A Little Bit Stronger," at an industry party at Nashville restaurant Cabana, Wednesday (May 25). Joining Sara in the festivities were the song's three co-writers, Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey and Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott, who became inspired to write the tune after a breakup.
Also on hand were Sara's husband Jay Barker, her brother Matt Evans, who also plays in her band, and Hillary Scott's fellow Lady A members, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood. Sara made sure to first thank the three co-writers of "A Little Bit Stronger," which became Sara's first No. 1 single in six years.
"The first time I heard it, I just knew that it was a hit," Sara recalled. "I loved everything about it. Thank you all for doing such a great job of writing it and letting me record it. And the next time you all get together," Sara added with a joking smile, "you'd better call me." Matt, Sara noted, has been with her on the stage since she was four years old. "Matt has been there for everything I've been through in my career," she said.
She also thanked Jay for his ongoing support. "I'm a completely different woman than I was five years ago," Sara said. "And it's all because of your love and support for me."
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Cobalt Energy's (CIE) proposed sale of two oil blocks in Angola to the country's state oil company was terminated on Tuesday.
Oil prices were down Monday on growing concern over a global oversupply, weighing on Cobalt Energy (CIE) stock.
These under-$10 stocks are within range of triggering breakout trades.
Cobalt (CIE) stock is tumbling on Tuesday morning after the oil and gas company posted a loss that was larger than analysts' expectations.


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Tekeli, Y; Tekeli, AE (2012). A technique for improving MODIS standard snow products for snow cover monitoring over Eastern Turkey. ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES, 5(2), 353-363.
AbstractDaily snow cover maps at 500 m resolution are available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. However, information of the ground can only be obtained during clear sky conditions. In addition, the spectral similarity between clouds and snow in the visible part of the spectrum causes some ambiguities in separation of them. The dynamic behavior of clouds with their tendency to move faster often enables discrimination between cloud and snow, since snow remains relatively stationary. In this study, a daily merging methodology to combine Terra and Aqua based snow maps are proposed, and the benefits of this combination are evaluated. The methodology was tested for Eastern Turkey covering the period from December 2002 to March 2003. Merged maps derived from the standard daily snow maps from Terra (MOD10A1) and Aqua (MYD10A1) reduce the cloud cover present in any one image alone, provide better representation of the surface snow cover, and indicate better agreement with ground snow measurements than when either one is used alone. For "on the ground data date" analyses yielded 31% match ratios for MOD10A1 and MYD10A1, whereas combined images enabled 38%. One- to 2-day temporal window shifting enabled further 7% and 5% improvements in match ratios, respectively. The maximum improvement of 25% was achieved in January of 2003. The proposed methodology provides an easy and effective way to improve snow cover maps with little effort and provides fewer cloud-contaminated images for snow monitoring, for hydrology, and water resource management.
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Report on the 9th World Wilderness Congress & Mexican Wilderness Training Programmes
The Wilderness Action Group had teh pleasure of sending Members Drummond Densham and Ilan Lax to the 9th World Wilderness Congress. They have produced a report that gives an account of the activities during their visit to Mexico and to make some observations for wilderness conservation in South Africa.
Read the Executive Summary or Download the Full Report (PDF)
What is Wilderness
What is WildernessA wilderness area is an undeveloped land, water or sea, retaining an intrinsically wild appearance and character, or capable of being restored to such condition.
Wilderness areas are managed for the protection and maintenance of the natural character of the environment, biodiversity, and associated natural, cultural and historic resources. There are areas where people will find solitude and fulfillment and therefore will be roadless and without permanent habitation.
Why Wilderness
Why WildernessWildlands, globally, are being lost at an unprecedented rate with the resultant loss natural landscapes, the associated indigenous biodiversity, and the cultural and historical resources. The human population increase is one of the drivers that are leading to the development of more and more land.
Africa's wildlands are under similar threat due as countries strive to compete with the rest of the world. The lessons and mistakes of the Developed World should be heeded and significant wild country - land, water and sea must be designated and given wilderness status as a legacy for future and the enjoyment of present generations.
Our Group
Our Group
The Wilderness Action Group is a small, voluntary, non-profit, non-government organization (NGO). It is based in KwaZulu-Natal, South African. It was constituted in 1989 as a Section 21 company of the South African Companies Act. A Memorandum and Articles of Association govern the business and activities of the Group.
It was founded by a small group of South Africans, who attended the 3rd. World Wilderness Congress in Scotland in 1983, and became the Group's first Directors. The Group's membership has grown and now comprises of directors and members from all walks of the southern African society and who are passionate about wilderness and its survival.
Our Aims
Our Aims
The Wilderness Action Group promotes wilderness conservation, both regionally and internationally. It strives to highlight the importance, the values and uniqueness of African wilderness and the need to protect it for present and future generations. It advocates that wilderness areas can and should be designated on public, communal and private land throughout southern Africa and further a field.


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Cobb's Parish, Louisiana The school committee in this bucolic Louisiana community has unanimously voted that students are to be taught that whales are not mammals but fish. The vote was announced last Sunday in churches everywhere to standing applause.
Reverend Jerome "Stonewall" Longstreet lead the charge in gathering support for the change in policy.
The process to change to curriculum vittles for our children took time to accomplish. But doing the Lord's work is never easy. We had to electrify the people with knowledge concerning the biological blasphemy.The blasphemy that the man of God is referring to are these verses in the Bible that clearly state that whales are fish.
Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1: 17
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Mathew 12:40Reverend Stonewall reports that he had a vision of the Lord while eating at the local Chik-fil-A to go out and preach the truth about the large aquatic animals. He then started the Take Back the Fish! campaign with its faith-based slogan "God says whales is fish!" The reverend organized many educational events like the If whales are fish then why they got fins? BBQs that spoke directly to the hearts of the school committee members.
The truth was right there in front of us. I don't know why we ignored it for so long. I imagine it was because the Devil is in control of the school book-industrial complex. - Jefferson Picket, school committee memberThere have been dissenting voices, however, regarding the change in educational policy. Local residents have charged that the new rules go too far. "Why they need to know 'bout fish anyways?" stated an anonymous longtime resident. "Fish learnin' sounds about as useful as geomephy."
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Andrew McAfee; F. Warren McFarlan; Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
|Format: Hardcopy Black & White
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|List Price: $7.46
|Source: Harvard Business School
|Publication Date: Sep 9, 2004
|Product #: 605015-HCB-ENG
|Discipline: Operations Management
|Length: 13 p, English Hardcopy Black & White
|Revision Date: Aug 20, 2007
Illustrates the challenges associated with centralizing IT decisions at Cisco after a decade of decentralized planning and project funding. When Brad Boston became Cisco's new CIO in 2001, he found that managers were starting to get frustrated with the results of their latest IT initiatives. Boston believed that Cisco needed to focus on its global infrastructure before investing in more functional tools and applications. Under the leadership of Boston and an executive operating committee, Cisco selected three major enterprise projects that required an unprecedented level of process planning and cross-functional cooperation, a major change from Cisco's legacy of entrepreneurial drive. As these three projects started to wind down in 2004, Boston and the operating committee were thinking about what types of new projects the IT organization should support. Raises issues about change management, centralized planning, IT prioritization and resource allocation, enterprise cooperation, and project funding.
To help students understand the evolving role of IT management at a large, growing organization.
Centralization; Change management; Computers; Cross functional management; ERP; Enterprise systems; Entrepreneurship; Information technology
Enterprise IT at Cisco (2004), Spreadsheet Supplement
Andrew McAfee; F. Warren McFarlan; Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Published Sep 9, 2004
|Harvard Business School
|English Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet supplement for case 605-015.


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Bleeding During Pregnancy Follow-up
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If you have been treated for ectopic pregnancy and have increased pain or any weakness or dizziness, you should call an ambulance or have someone take you to a hospital's emergency department immediately.
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We are having a backyard party for about 20 people. The only thing I know that I am having so far is brisket(or is it brisquet?) Maybe brisket can mean different things but we have a friend who smokes beef and shaves it thinly and tops with his homemade bbq sauce. I want the food to be as nice as a possible and want to make as much ahead as possible. Would love ideas for appet, sides , dessert ....the whole shbang.
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Ensequence, an interactive video company, has partnered with Major League Baseball's MLB.com to launch the 2007 version of MLB.TV Mosaic, an online site that allows fans to watch multiple games simultaneously.
Last baseball season, the companies launched the initial version of the MLB.TV Mosaic, the first Web site to enable fans to watch six games simultaneously.
The new MLB.TV Mosaic has video quality two times better than previously available on broadband (with video speeds up to 700kb/s), and offers combinations of six, four, three or two games for simultaneous viewing (with video speeds up to 1.5MB/s). Games can also be watched in full-screen mode. The system also provides instantaneous audio switching between games.
The new system allows the user to drag and drop selected games into the video mosaic, then further customize the experience by selecting the video mosaic format in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. When live games are not available, fans can watch on-demand games, outtakes from previous games and archived footage of every game dating back to 2005.
The service, which runs from April through September, allows viewers to watch every 2007 regular season out-of-market game live. A player tracker option alerts subscribers when their favorite players come to bat.
The service is both Mac and PC compatible, and is available at a monthly or yearly subscription rate. There is also a five-day trial available.
For more information, visit mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/premium.jsp?c_id=mlb.
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Focus on AppAdvantage for Oracle Applications at Oracle OpenWorld
By Tanu Sood-Oracle on Aug 07, 2014
A couple of days back, I did a post to highlight some key links and
resources to prepare you for your trip to Oracle OpenWorld 2014. Today, my post
focuses on one of the key focus areas for us here at Oracle and one that you
will find at the upcoming OpenWorld - Oracle AppAdvantage. If you follow this
blog regularly, you must already be familiar with Oracle AppAdvantage - the
framework to empower organizations to adopt modern technologies like social,
cloud and mobile while leveraging the existing investments in Oracle
Applications. Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies power Oracle AppAdvantage,
and at Oracle OpenWorld this year, you will find a comprehensive set of
sessions that will likely speak to a use case of your interest. Just take a look at the Content Catalog.
If you have Oracle Applications in your organization and are thinking of extending or enhancing the capabilities or if you are looking to optimize your application infrastructure or are ready for a digital initiative, you may want to bookmark some of the following sessions:
General Session: Enable Apps for Cloud, Mobile, and Beyond [GEN8238]
A "keynote" on Oracle AppAdvantage, this session will explore how Oracle Applications customers can adopt latest technologies like social, mobile and cloud and extend the capabilities of their existing investments.
Bridging Mobile and Desktop: Enabling Multichannel Access to Oracle Applications [CON8363]
Multichannel enablement is a strategy for creating business process systems and views of business information across all channels. Attend this session to find out how you can build a digital enterprise.
Simplify SaaS and On-Premises Integration by Using Oracle Fusion Middleware[CON7646]
With the increasing popularity of software as a service (SaaS), there is a key imperative to quickly, efficiently, and easily integrate these newer SaaS applications with on-premise applications. Learn how Oracle can help.
Jazz Up Your Oracle SaaS with the #1 PaaS [CON8489]
Attend this session to learn how Oracle platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) can extend and integrate your application investments.
Panel Session: Prepare for ERP Upgrades [CON8534]
Planning an ERP upgrade? Then don't miss this session at Oracle OpenWorld to learn from experts' experiences and best practices.
Automate Financial Processes for PeopleSoft and Oracle E-Business Suite[CON7529]
Still processing paper documents manually and entering them into Oracle Financials? Looking to do invoice process automation for PeopleSoft Financials operations? Attend this customer panel to hear first hand from customers who have done so and successfully at that.
The Oracle AppAdvantage track has a lot more to offer. So, do bookmark Focus on Oracle AppAdvantage for Oracle Applications where you will get up to date information on relevant sessions, times and venues.
And don't forget to attend our red carpet event:
Oracle Fusion Middleware: Meet This Year's Most Impressive Innovators[CON7029]
And watch this space as we continue to roll out more information and resources for all things middleware at Oracle OpenWorld.


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INFORMATION_SCHEMA is usually the place to go when
you want to get facts about a system (how many tables do we have?
what are the 10 largest tables? What is data size and index size
for table t?, etc). However it is also quite common that such
queries are very slow and create lots of I/O load. Here is a tip
to avoid theses hassles: set
innodb_stats_on_metadata to
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Mountain bikers allowed on Miramar? Affirmative
"The decision has been made to open Stowe Trail."
Marty Graham 5:30 p.m., Aug. 26
Gail Jones at the downtown Woolworth's store, 1972. Jones and a friend, waitresses at the store's café, were in the dressing room changing their clothes when management locked up at 6 p.m. and went home for the night. Jones and her friend called police, who were unable to locate the store manager. The manager of the Fashion Valley Woolworth's showed up and let the girls out.To order this photo please contact the San Diego Historical Society at [email protected]