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Hi, my name is Jodi Hoppensteadt and I am a senior here at NIU majoring in Nutrition and Dietetics. I will be graduating May, 2013 and am excited to continue my education with the final goal of becoming a Registered Dietitian. I have worked in the restaurant industry for almost twenty years and I am having a wonderful experience with my team while working at The Heart of Portugal at Ellington's. I hope you enjoy our delicious and flavorful menu of Portuguese cuisine.
Hi! My name is Seri Lee. I am currently a senior majoring in Nutrition and Dietetics. I've always loved cooking and baking as a hobby. This class is teaching me to use my skills for good use! I am very excited to serve our Portuguese menu to all.
Hi, my name is Michelle Farr and I am a senior majoring in Hospitality Administration and minoring in Business. I intend to graduate May of 2013 in hopes of pursuing a career in Wedding and Event Coordinating. My experience within the restaurant industry consists of being a manager at a Coldstone Creamery throughout my high school years, being a hostess at a pancake house, working banquets and catering events at a resort and working at their fine dining restaurant closely with the chef focusing on soups and desserts. Together my team has created a delectable Portuguese themed menu, in which we hope all to enjoy.
Hi, my name is Cliff Hight. I am a senior Hospitality Administration major graduating in May 2013. My experience with food stems from restaurants, banquets, and catering jobs I've held in the last 5 years. Our Heart of Portugal menu provides insight into the rich and diverse foods of Portugal. We hope you love it as much as we do!
Hi my name is Kristin Ihrke and I'm a senior majoring in Hospitality Administration, graduating this coming May. I have loved working in the restaurant industry for the past few years, so I'm really enjoying learning how to improve my skills this semester. The Heart of Portugal was fun to create; I'm excited for people to try it!
Hi, I'm Amy Johnson! I am in my last year as a Nutrition and Dietetics student here at NIU. When I graduate, I hope to attend an internship and become a Registered Dietitian. So far, the Quantity Foods Production class has been a lot of fun and I am really looking forward to the day of service with our Portuguese theme. I believe we have some great traditional entrees that everyone will love!
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After a slow start, the area sweet corn crop should improve as summer goes on.
"The first sweet corn harvested in the summer of 2013 was of lower quality than in past years, but the mid-to-late season sweet corn varieties should be of excellent quality," said Thomas G. Ford, area commercial horticulture educator for Penn State Extension.
Kelly Baronner, co-owner of Baronner's Farm Market, Hollidaysburg, said it has been a challenging growing season.
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Kelly Baronner bags corn to sell at Baronner's Farm Market on North Juniata Street in Hollidaysburg.
"May's weather was unusually cool. Coupled with a very wet June, that meant the early season corn had a reduced yield. It was a wet and cool pattern. The temperature fluctuated, and that made it very challenging and caused problems. The wet weather caused some problems with early pollination," Baronner said.
"Much of the early sweet corn had smaller than normal ears. The weather also played havoc with planting schedules resulting in gaps in sweet corn production on some farms," Ford said.
Sam Weyant, owner/operator of Sam Weyant's Berry and Vegetable Farms, Claysburg, said despite the weather, his sweet corn crop is doing well, but frost in May did cause some damage.
"The frost got me in May. One night it went down to 22 degrees, and I lost 20 to 30 percent in a five-acre field," Weyant said.
Weyant said the warm weather in late June and early July helped his crop.
"The 90-degree temperatures make it grow so fast, you could hear it grow at night," Weyant said.
"When it was so wet [humid] and hot I had one week where it grew 5 inches," Weyant said. "I couldn't believe how fast it was growing."
The local crop was a bit later than usual.
"Last year we started selling July 2, this year it was around July 11," Baronner said.
Baronner's expects to sell its sweet corn into September from its North Juniata Street market.
Baronner credits her husband, co-owner Bob, for taking care of the 20 varieties of sweet corn they grow.
"He is very vigilant to see they are picked exactly when they should be. There is one variety that is the best tasting corn. It is so sweet and creamy, but if you pick it one day too late, it is terrible," Baronner said. "It is all handpicked; we never pick it with a machine. It is promptly hydrocooled as soon as it is picked and brought up to the market and hand graded so the sugar level stays high."
Weyant grows about 100,000 dozen ears of corn per season on 80 acres. He sells most of his corn to McAneny Brothers Inc., an Ebensburg wholesale food distributor, and some to Leighty's Farm Market in Newry.
"I ship 800 dozen a day to McAneny Brothers five days a week," Weyant said.
Weyant said he has had a good crop this summer because his corn did not get stressed.
"We had enough rain; it just kept growing and didn't get stressed out. Usually when it gets dry, the corn gets stressed out," Weyant said. "We got all of our planting in on time and did not miss any."
In addition to the sweet corn, Baronner said this year's weather will delay tomatoes, watermelons and cantalopes, which will be ready around mid-August.
Ford said alfalfa on many farms has performed very well, and hay crops look good although it had been a challenge at times to get it cut and baled. He also said the present cool weather pattern is going to spur an outbreak of late blight on tomatoes and potatoes in the area.
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With the expansion of the Seaway pipeline moving crude out of Cushing and towards the Gulf refineries, will we see a rise in the WTI crude prices?? Any normalization between Brent and WTI prices? And what impact will this have on the unit distribution from BPT?
The Seaway pipeline is not moving enough oil away from Cushing and has a bottleneck at its terminus in Texas at the Jones Creek terminal.
Seaway is adding a second 450,000 BPD parallel pipeline from Cushing expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2014.
Rapidly expanding oil production in North Dakota, Texas and Canada will keep pressure on WTI prices until more transportation facilities are built to move it elsewhere.
Brent and WTI price normalization appears to be somewhere in the fuzzy future.
Your post answers the questions I had on this matter. Thus Alaska oil is trading closer to BRENT pricing but because of the trust document BPT is stuck with WTI pricing which implies that BP as the operator can keep the $14+ difference. If true not a bad profit generator for BP.
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Perhaps you should ask why BPT oil is not priced close to BRENT prices since there is no transportation bottle neck for the Prudhoe Bay oil. The Valdez terminal can ship the oil anywhere in the world and the oil is treated at Prudhoe Bay before going into the pipeline primarily to protect the pipeline from sour crude. There are some other pricing considerations such as viscosity but the Cushing bottleneck affecting WTI pricing should not be one of them.
"Perhaps you should ask why BPT oil is not priced close to BRENT prices"
Very easy answer - the trust document specifies WTI price for oil not the Brent or Alaska price.
On 02/01/2013 WTI price was $97.77 and Alaska North Slope price was $112.07.
BP gets the Alaska North Slope price and BPT gets the WTI price.
What affects the price of WTI affects BPT.
Not true Kurt. The Valdez crude by law can only go to US ports. Years ago they had an exception for two Italian flag VLCCs to run crude to the Caribbean(Hess?) from Valdez. But that was the only Valdez crude going foreign. All of the rest of the tankers calling at Valdez are US crewed and flagged going to west coast ports.


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"I'm the most ill-prepared parent on the planet," the Tony-winning Hairspray star told PEOPLE at her baby shower Monday at Manhattan's Hudson Hotel. "We were doing construction at our house and I went off and did Dancing with the Stars. Four months later, nothing's gotten done and I'm totally in a panic."
Winokur, a survivor of cervical cancer, is using a surrogate for the delivery. (Because Winokur's treatment included a radical hysterectomy, she is not able to become pregnant or carry a baby.)
The impending arrival, a little boy, will be named Zev. "It means wolf in Hebrew," says Winokur. "My husband wanted it to be Wolfie, and I just thought that's such a hard name for a little, little boy."
As for preparing to be a mom, "I honestly didn't think I was going to be on Dancing with the Stars as long as I was," she says. "I figured I'd get voted off the second week and then I'd get ready for the baby. I literally stopped working two weeks ago and now I've only got six weeks. It will fly by."
Dad Does It His Own WayIn the meantime, Winokur's been relying on her husband, TV writer Judah Miller, to pick up the slack – with some unexpected results.
"I sent him to Home Depot to get a carpet to put in the baby's room, and he tells me, 'I bought nine tiki torches for the pool.' And I said, 'Oh good so we can have a barbecue. What did you get for the baby?' "
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Rational Pension Products for Irrational People
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The aim of this paper is to explore a new type of pension plan tailored to the needs and preferences of individuals living in Europe. The personal pension accounts that we propose are semi-tailored contracts that are rational when judged from the perspective of normative economic theory. Such contracts can be designed and marketed through an employer, a trade union, or other trusted institution so as to minimize agency costs and take advantage of scale economies. Moreover, they can be offered as optimal defaults to groups of plan members with similar characteristics. There is much that governments can do at very low cost to facilitate the efficient production of these contracts.
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"Tim was passionate in his convictions," Chalfant said. "But he also wasn't somebody who was ideological about it. He could adjust."
Chalfant recalled just trying to keep up with Lillebo as they hiked cross-country to many special places.
"Nobody kept up with Tim," he said. "He wasn't physically a big guy, but he was a bigger-than-life figure."
Did all the collaborative talk mean Tim was a man of compromise? That's not quite how Chang sees it.
"He was incredibly passionate about the forests of Eastern Oregon," Chang said. "In his mind, the best way to take care of those forests, and the fastest path to get them to be healthy and restored and full of old-growth trees was through collaboration."
"He knew that the best way to take care of these forests was to have a whole bunch of communities full of stewards, who could picture the old-growth forest that he remembered from his childhood, and who could actively go out and recreate that forest," Chang said.
"A lot of people get stuck in the mentality with forests of, either leave them alone and let them get better by themselves, or go out and harvest trees – and then you're a 'pillager of the forest," Chang said. "Because of the past management that Tim witnessed throughout his life, these forests were very screwed up, and they needed active, healing hands to be put back on the right" path.
"Because of that vision, Tim, more than any other person in the state of Oregon played a profound role in ending the timber wars in Eastern Oregon," Chang said. "A lot of people are still fighting the timber wars. He transcended it … He loved the people as much as he loved the forest and the wildlife. That made it possible for Tim to make connections and break down barriers, and transcend lots and lots of baggage."


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Home prices in Maui County continued to climb in September despite slightly fewer sales, according to data from the Realtors Association of Maui.
The median price for a single-family home went up by 6 percent to $437,500 in September, based on 76 home sales countywide.
That compares to a year ago, when the median price was at $412,000, based on 80 sales.
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A for sale sign sits in the yard of a home on Kaohu Street in Wailuku on Thursday afternoon. The Realtors Association of Maui reported that the median price of a single-family home went up 6 percent in September to $437,500, based on 76 sales countywide. A year earlier, the median price was $412,000, based on 80 sales.
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Last month's home price increase marked the fourth straight month of year-over-year increases.
The volume of home sales last month fell slightly in Central Maui, Kaanapali, Kihei and Napili, while Haiku, Lahaina and Lanai saw modest increases, compared to a year ago.
Meanwhile, condominium sales in Maui County last month fell by nearly 23 percent, or 19 fewer condos, compared to last year.
Still, the median price of condominiums was up about 1 percent to $339,563.
The largest drop-off in condo sales was seen in Kihei, where sales dropped by more than half to 14 units last month.
Year to date, median home sale prices are up 7 percent over last year to $460,000, while volume is off by 1 percent.
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Recycling advertising banners to make shopping bags isn't new, as Swiss Freitag and UK-based Banner Bags—among others—have been doing for some time. What's interesting about a new effort from Vancouver's Commercial Drive Business Society, however, is that the district's advertisers themselves are the ones doing the recycling.
Each year the Commercial Drive Business Society prints nearly 400 32" x 60" nylon street banners to decorate its shopping neighbourhood. Rather than retiring the banners at the end of their season—and sending them to landfills—the group has begun turning them into reusable nylon shopping bags instead. Available in 10 different colours, the long-handled bags are available in 2 sizes—priced at CDN 9.95 and CDN 14.95, respectively. Remanufacturing is done by Dream Designs, a housewares and clothing manufacturer that originated on Commercial Drive.
By recycling its banners into bags, the society figures it has avoided 7,059 pounds, or 3.53 tons, of CO2 emissions; kept 128 kg (281.6 lb) of nylon out of landfills; saved 25,456,640 BTUs of energy—enough to provide electricity to an average Vancouver home for over 10 months; and freed up 543 trees to capture and store CO2 from other sources for a full year. In addition, proceeds from the bags go toward the development of new green spaces in the neighbourhood. Perhaps best of all, though, is that the goodwill from all this goes straight back to the advertisers themselves. A win-win for everyone involved, and one to emulate in commercial districts around the world!
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Plenty of companies sell log cabin kits. But Argos seems to be the first major retailer to market an attractive and affordable model that reportedly can be built in two days by just two people. The British retailer's basic five-room cabin, measuring roughly 32x17 feet or 8x5 meters, costs GBP 10,999. An upgraded model, with amenities such as laminate floors with in-floor heating, costs GBP 13,099. Both models are suitable for year-round living and are made by Finnish forestry company Finnforest using wood from sustainable forests.
Argos' cabins open up several new-business opportunities. For starters, there's likely a much larger market for ready-to-move-in cabins than for cabins that must first be put together, however easy their assembly might be. Thus, one option would be to buy the kits, assemble them and then resell the homes. The cabins' low price coupled with their short assembly time would make the potential profit margin a lot greater than would be the case with conventionally built homes that require weeks to build. And the second opportunity: buy a dozen or so cabins and create a turnkey resort. That's what another low-cost home manufacturer Bamboo Living suggests. The Hawaii-based company's kit homes are manufactured in Vietnam out of fast-growing eco-friendly bamboo and shipped worldwide. Bamboo Living has already spearheaded resorts in Bali, Belize, the Cook Islands, Hawaii and Vietnam. (IKEA's fast-selling BoKlok prefabs, on the other hand, aren't DIY—the homes are assembled by local builders.)
Two things to remember before launching into any venture involving prefab dwellings. First, check local building codes carefully, as kit homes employ non-traditional construction methods. Likewise, be sure to factor in the kinds of costs associated with any building project, such as site surveys, utility hook-ups and permitting.
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Spotted by: Maria Dahl Jørgensen
Anyone who's ever tried to lose weight or improve their fitness knows that it can sometimes be tough to get motivated. For those who need a little extra help getting going, a new service called WeightNags will nag customers mercilessly until they get off the couch and get some exercise.
WeightNags, which was just launched by Texas-based ConnectWorks Media, needs nothing more than a customer's email address to get started. In exchange, it will hound that customer once a week for free in the hopes of motivating him or her to exercise and lose some weight. Of course, we all know that emails can easily be ignored and deleted in the blink of an eye. Customers who don't trust themselves to take WeightNag's emails seriously can also request weekly nags by phone. All they need to provide is their phone number and first name; the cost is USD 4.95 per month.
Without a way to tell WeightNags when you do get some exercise in or have resisted every single calorie-laden temptation—and thereby win a respite from the nagging—it seems to us the effectiveness of the negative feedback could soon wear off. Nevertheless, it's an interesting concept that could be a nice micro-business opportunity for anyone with a Skype account and a talent for nagging. ;-) (Related: Sell what you say.)
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What works for alternative rock music, might also work for wine. You may remember how Radiohead got the world's attention when it let listeners download its album In Rainbows, asking them to pay whatever price they thought the music was worth. Sales of the album reached USD 10 million. Since then others have tried the pay-what-you-like marketing technique, including Paste magazine, which we featured in October.
South African BLANKbottle has gone a step further. The boutique winemaker's founder, Pieter Walser, sent 20 cases of its latest premium white wine Moment of Silence to loyal customers on consignment, asking them to evaluate the wine and then pay him what they thought it was worth. They paid up to ZAR 90 per bottle (USD 11.80 / EUR 7.50), and the average price came to ZAR 50. Since BLANKbottle aims to exceed customers' quality vs. price expectations, the wine went on sale to the public at a price of ZAR 40.
Walser, for his part, got a high return on the wine he risked in the venture. In addition to the publicity he garnered, he determined a new product's price point based on the actual purchasing decisions made by the winery's best customers. Feedback that's likely to be more valuable than the opinions volunteered by focus groups or market research experts. And by involving them in such a fundamental business decision, he no doubt increased brand loyalty among the winery's core customer base. One to try out with your own best customers!
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There are few things more gratifying to us here at Springwise than seeing an idea we write about get picked up and used to create other new businesses. But that's exactly what has happened to Cozi Central, the online weekly planner for families that we wrote about late last year.
BusyBeesNYC is a new service that uses Cozi Central technology to offer busy New York City parents a fully customized calendar service to schedule their kids' activities. For an annual membership of USD 499, BusyBeesNYC will create a schedule of classes and activities for a family's children that combines free, paid, scheduled, drop-in and sometimes lesser-known events while accommodating the kids' eating and sleeping routines. Run by two parents, BusyBeesNYC has scoured the area spanning Murray Hill, Kips Bay and Gramercy Park for the best kid activities available, and can recommend a wide variety of things to keep kids busy and learning. Four starter packages are available focused on music, sports, crafts or languages, but BusyBeesNYC can also mix and match as necessary to suit a family's needs. Once the parents approve the schedule, all they need do is actually sign up for the relevant activities (BusyBeesNYC always makes sure there is room first). Thanks to the Cozi technology, the plan for each day is viewable online from anywhere, with color-coded indications of where everyone needs to be. It can also be printed out for distribution to babysitters, nannies and others.
So that's New York City covered; who will bring a Cozi-based service to busy families in the rest of the country—and the world?
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As the weakening economy causes purse strings to tighten in many parts of the world, consumers are increasingly looking for new ways to earn some extra money. Enter My Gold Party, which facilitates Tupperware-style parties that help guests sell their unused trinkets, cashing in on record gold prices.
Launched earlier this year, My Gold Party sells all the equipment minipreneurs need to host parties in which guests can sell their gold, including a scale, karat tester and book of instructions. Party hosts then invite guests to bring gold coins, watches and jewelry to their party, where they assay and weigh each item to determine its current market worth. The party host pays guests for the items with cash or a cheque, then ships the gold to a refinery, which in turn pays the host—at a rate the host hopes will be higher than paid to the party guests. The gold is then melted down and reused. My Gold Party's kit for hosts is priced at USD 699.50. (Obviously, scales and karat testers can also be bought from many other suppliers.)
Consumers in hard times have always been able to sell their spare jewelry in pawn shops, but by bringing the process out of the back alley and into the living room, My Gold Party legitimises and updates it with a social and entrepreneurial twist. As the saying goes, there's gold in them thar hills—both for the consumers who have it and for the minipreneurs who help them sell it. One to bring to cash-strapped hills near you?
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Spotted by: Bill McMahon
There are numerous sites out there for crowdsourcing graphic design, including SitePoint, which we featured last year. A new entrant into the space, however, is adding a slightly different twist by having bidding designers submit completed concepts rather than just proposals in the competitive process.
Launched earlier this year, Chicago-based crowdSPRING is an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of all creative services. Buyers that need a new logo, website, marketing materials or other creative content post what they need, when they need it and how much they'd like to pay. They also deposit their payment up front into an escrow account with crowdSPRING, where it will remain until an artist is chosen. Designers, illustrators, writers or photographers around the world can then work on the project and submit their creations for review. Buyers can sort, rate and give feedback on the designs they like until they find the right one. Once that happens, rights to the work are transferred, crowdSPRING takes a 15 percent fee and payment is made. crowdSPRING offers a money-back guarantee so that if buyers don't get at least 25 entries, they can walk away with a full refund; creatives, meanwhile, are assured that their projects won't get cancelled or abandoned for no good reason. Every transaction is protected by a free, customized legal contract with digital watermarking, as well as being automatically filed away in an intellectual property vault with IP Registry at no extra cost. Community tools available on the site include public profiles with feedback, ratings and stats; private messaging; portfolios; and creative community forums.
Some designers may balk at the idea of creating a full-fledged work before having a guaranteed buyer. On the other hand, by allowing both established creative professionals and talented newcomers to compete based solely on their creativity and the quality of their ideas—rather than bids, proposals or portfolios—crowdSPRING could also level the competitive playing field for creative people worldwide. To wit: when the site launched into beta in March, it posted just a stark website and asked the crowd to redesign it for a winning prize of USD 5,000. A few weeks later, a student in the Netherlands beat out 80 creatives and 337 other entries with a winning design. Lesson: never underestimate the power of the crowds!
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We've written about eBay feeder businesses before, such as Zippi, which we featured last year. Now, another example has popped up in the UK focusing on the collection and delivery of 'pickup only' furniture and antique items.
For prices beginning at GBP 40, Lots2 will collect and deliver items bought on eBay or other auction platforms from or to anywhere in London, the South East and East Anglia. Large and awkward items that cannot be posted via a conventional courier are the company's specialty, such as sofas, antiques and furniture. Lots2 offers both economy and express delivery, depending on the flexibility of the customer's timeframe. Express service is typically for delivery on a particular day with a short lead time, whereas with economy service, Lots2 will collect the item within a week of receiving the order and deliver it within 10 days after that. Lots2 offers pack and protect service to keep items safe during delivery as well. Launched in February 2007, the company has since maintained an on-time delivery record of 99.6 percent.
Lots2 operates just within a portion of the UK, so the opportunities are plentiful around the globe to offer like services. Finding sellers to work with is relatively easy—just use eBay's search engine to find sellers within a set distance from your zipcode or postal code that sell large items. Movers, delivery companies or minipreneurs with a van—this one's for you!
Website: www.lots2.co.uk
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Spotted by: Naomi Healy
Not long ago we wrote about high-end grape juices by First Blush, and recently one of our spotters came across MonaVie, another ultra premium line of alcohol-free juices that could easily be confused with wine.
Utah-based MonaVie offers both juices and concentrated gels made from 19 different fruits, all chosen for their healthful properties. First among them is the Brazilian acai berry—widely considered a health-promoting superfood—accompanied by apricot, aronia, acerola, lychee, wolfberry, bilberry and of course grape, to name just a few. Pricing is very high-end, indeed, at about USD 40 per 750 ml bottle of juice.
MonaVie is currently sold on a person-to-person basis in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan, with plans to expand further around the globe through its multi-level marketing business model. While joining a potentially restrictive MLM network isn't something we'd necessarily recommend, the ultra premium presentation of juice is one to look into if you're in food and beverage. For more inspiration, check out Wild Bunch & Co.'s organic juices.
Website: www.monavie.com
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Spotted by: Theresa Duffy
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Mobile phones are connecting people around the globe like never before, but the simple fact remains that they don't work without electricity. In Uganda, which has one of the lowest levels of electricity in Africa, Motorola has launched an initiative to provide solar recharging stations that can be run by local, entrepreneurial women.
Launched last year, Motorola's Motopower project has brought 55 solar-powered kiosks to Uganda that offer free mobile phone charging to local consumers. Each kiosk is charged by a 55-watt inverted solar panel and can charge up to 20 phones at a time. The women who run the kiosks, meanwhile, are also equipped to sell handsets and operator SIM cards and to provide repair services. For local people without their own phones, the kiosks effectively function as a local "phone booth" for making occasional calls as well.
The initiative was designed to empower entrepreneurial women by providing them with the foundations to manage their own sustainable businesses. As part of a start-up package, each entrepreneur is given four Motorola handsets and a business skills training course. Nikesh Patel, senior sales director for Motorola Africa's mobile devices business, explains: "The Motopower initiative is the first of its kind to exist for women in Africa. Through this program, we are giving women the opportunity to run their own business, learn valuable entrepreneurial skills and generate a positive income."
Of course, besides empowering women and helping Ugandans stay connected, the project will likely increase Motorola's share of the local market as well. It's a win-win-win, and one for other global corporate citizens to emulate as often as they can!
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Jennifer Finney Boylan is at ease now in the living room of the Devon home where she spent her boyhood.
She has not always been comfortable in this place.
When she lived here as 13-year-old James Richard Boylan Jr. and had the whole top floor to herself, she did her homework with the dead bolt on the bedroom door, wearing the bra and sweater she kept hidden behind the room's faux wood paneling, and trusting she'd hear the stairs creak if anyone approached.
Now a professor of creative writing at Maine's Colby College since 1988, Boylan, 52, is a visiting prof this semester at Ursinus in Collegeville. Staying in Devon has allowed Boylan cherished time with her mother, while driving to Maine once a month to be with sons Zach, 16, and Sean, 14, and her wife, Deirdre Grace.
Their 1988 marriage weathered Boylan's 2002 sexual reassignment surgery and they are together still as loving, if not entirely intimate, partners.
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Her groundbreaking memoir, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Broadway Books, 2003), was the first best-seller by a transgender American.
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One of the contestants taking part in Al Tala's round.
DOHA: Six participants emerged winners at yesterday's Al Tala'a competition at the fifth Qatar International Falcon and Hunting Festival at Sabkath Marma in Sealine.
The winners in the first round included Abdulhadi Hamad Al Marri, Hamad Ali Al Marri, Jaber Ali Al Kafrani and Ali Jaber Al Baridi while second round winners were Saleh Ebaid Al Marri and Mohammad Sayah Al Mansouri.
Thirty-four participants took part yesterday.
Mohammad Mubarak Al Maadeed, Chairman of Al Tala'a organising committee, said having six winners in the early part of the contest showed a good line-up of competitors who were taking the contest seriously.
"We will select the best 10 winners to compete in the final round in which three will be chosen," he said, adding if the number of finalists exceeded 10, the judging panel would look into criteria, including distance and time to trim down the finalists to 10.
At the Hadad challenge, yesterday's winner was Tuwaim Mohammed Al Malkas Al Marri.
This year, Hadad challenge attracted a record 547 participants, divided into 16 groups. For this reason, the category is one of the most challenging. It also attracts huge audience as shaheen is one of the fastest falcons known for its beauty in flight.
Another group will compete in Al Tala'a round this morning while the Hadad challenge will continue in the afternoon.
This year's festival includes additional programmes for the public such as a shooting contest.
Ahmad Mubarak Al Kuwari, Chairman of the shooting committee, said shooting competitions are held daily from 9am until afternoon for different ages to entertain visitors.
Catered for youngsters aged 12 to 18, the contest is an opportunity to select people with potential for the sport who can be trained to be professional shooters, Al Kuwari added.
The festival is attracting more families, especially during weekends and yesterday people came early to watch events.
Abdulaziz Al Abdullah, a journalism graduate of Qatar University, praised the organisers for expanding facilities, especially the prayer area and play area for children.
Qatari falconer Abdulaziz Mohammad Al Harami said falconry is an important aspect of the Qatari heritage as citizens love falcons.
Last October, the price of falcons and birds increased, especially of the shaheen falcon because it was needed for the festival, he said.
Abdullah Mohammad, a participant from Saudi Arabia, said, "We are proud to see this successful and well-organised festival which is attracting people from the GCC and other Arab countries."
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Orlando still near top with new foreclosure numbers
Published 7:35 AM EDT Jul 11, 2013
New foreclosure numbers are out, and it appears the housing market is bouncing back.
However, the Orlando area ranks near the top of the list when it comes to foreclosures.
According to RealtyTrac, nearly 2 percent of homes in the Orlando area were foreclosed upon in the first half of the year. That's the second-highest percentage in the entire country.
Miami ranked first, while Ocala ranked fourth.
Experts said in the entire country, foreclosures went down 19 percent in this first half of 2013.
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Your Furniture Store for all things Modern – Since 1982
At TEMA Furniture store, we blend contemporary aesthetics with flawless functionality. Clean lines, smooth finishes, and innovative design have defined our modern selection since 1982. With both high-end and inexpensive contemporary styles, you are sure to find something to suit your home or office at TEMA.
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Creative Brazilians
It's a regular feature of all championship finals. As soon as the world comes to visit, the best ideas come up. Original ones too. Because in one way or another, everyone wants a piece of the pie.
It's no different in Brazil. Not only can its footballers be very creative, so can the general population, particularly the disadvantaged, for whom this World Cup offers unique opportunities to improve their meager income.
The most creative individuals are active around the stadiums. Take two Brazilian real from your pocket, the equivalent of 60 euro cents, and you can send home a picture of yourself with the World Cup trophy.
OK, this particular trophy isn't the real one designed by Italian artist Silvio Gazzaniga. It's been cobbled together using papier-mâché and gold paint. But you can still strike a pose like Ronaldo, or have your picture taken with another "icon". Diego Maradona perhaps, who stands in front of the entrance to the Maracanã Stadium every day. In Lapa, the Bohemian neighborhood in the city center, I even encountered Pelé.
Well, they're actually look-a-likes, the main disappointment being that the Pelé impersonator looked even older than the Brazilian king of football himself. So hardly anyone wanted to have their picture taken with him.
The look-a-like of Fluffy (as Argentine superstar Maradona is affectionately known), was doing a lot better. He not only looked young and fit in his blue and white shirt and enormous black wig on his sweaty head, but he could actually do magic with a ball. Just like his great idol. But only if you put at least one Brazilian real in his tin.
The really creative people, however, are just a bit further away from the stadium, on a bridge near the subway station. This is the spot where Rio de Janeiro's painters have swapped their canvases for the faces of enthusiastic supporters.
It's a bit like Montmartre in Paris, except this is near a football stadium. I had seen these artists before at this spot, but to be honest, I wasn't that interested in them. Until last week, when I found myself with some spare time.
To be honest, I'd never seen anything like it. This wasn't childish stuff, where they simply painted three small stripes on your cheeks in less than ten seconds. No, these Brazilian artists turn your face into a true work of art, including shading, lines and other images. They are mini masterpieces that even include their signature. And all for less than a few cents.
It takes time though, on average about 15 minutes. It's just a shame you can't walk around like that forever. It would even give Mona Lisa's face some competition.
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AMD Puts Out A Beta Catalyst Linux Driver For The Public
While NVIDIA puts out beta Linux graphics drivers quite often as a means of soliciting testing prior to declaring a new stable GPU driver update, AMD does not but rather they rely upon their NDA-covered select beta testers to put each Catalyst release through its paces before declaring a stable update in their timed monthly manner. Today though it seems AMD has put out a Catalyst Beta driver that's targeting their workstation customers (those with the FirePro / FireGL / FireMV hardware) but as in their usual unified manner, it will work with any supported Radeon (R600+ GPU) as well.
With this driver, which is tagged as version 8.801 Beta and has a release date of today, there are no release notes attached. The only description is that this 117MB package includes the display driver, OpenCL run-time, DisplayPort and HDMI audio driver, and the ATI Catalyst Control Center. It works with x86 and x86_64 Linux.
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ELDRIDGE - Josiah marries Sarah MIDDLETON
JOSIAH ELDRIDGE son of William and Deborah MALANDAR ELDRIDGE was probably born in Greenwich, Gloucester County, New Jersey, 12 May 1777. Gloucester County deeds show William and Deborah ELDRIDGE acquired land at Greenwich in 1774, but by 1791, they are shown in a deed selling the land they owned and stating they were residents of the Town of Gloucester.
Josiah married Sarah MIDDLETON, 23 March 1801, in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Sarah was the daughter of John and Sarah MATLACK MIDDLETON, born 1779, probably in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey.
In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected President of the United States. A Gloucester County deed dated 17 march 1801 described Josiah as a storekeeper and resident of Woodbury. During Thomas Jeffersons first term in office, shipping raw materials from America and the West Indies to Europe expanded enormously, as did the importation of manufactured good from European countries. American economy was booming. However, complicated international pressures during Jeffersons second term caused him to place an embargo on all imported and exported goods by ships of other countries as well as Americas. This embargo dropped suddenly, almost without warning on the merchants; wheat, timber, cotton, tobacco, rice -- all dropped in value or became unsalable. Every imported article rose in price. Wages stopped and thousands were forced into bankruptcy. People were deprived of sugar, salt tea, coffee, molasses and rum; the cost of cotton and wool yard goods trebled. The country was on the verge of ruin.
In 1807, a judgment was levied against Josiah for $1,000, and the land they owned in Woodbury was sold at a sheriffs sale. The History of Scott County, Iowa 1882, states the ELDRIDGE family moved to Haddonfield in 1809.
Josiah was last known to be alive in 1824. On 6 March 1824 Josiah ELDRIDGE of Gloucester Co., N.J., and Sarah his wife, deeded for $50, to their son Duncan ELDRIDGE of Haddonfield, said County, Bricklayer, land in the Township of Gloucester, Gloucester Co., 7 acres, 3 rods, and 20 pershes of Cedar Swamp, which John HOPKINS and Sarah his wife, Elizabeth MICKLE, Joshua CRESSON and Mary CRESSON his wife, Ann HOPKINS, Thomas REDMAN, and Thomas STOKES, on the 14th of the 6th month 1782, granted to John MIDDLETON of Haddonfield, and which John died seized of intestate, and which the Orphans Court awarded to his children, including daughter Sarah, now married to Josiah ELDRIDGE.
Wit: Thos REDMAN /s/ Josiah ELDRIDGE Sam M. DAY Sarah Eldridge
In 1834, Sarah, a widow, purchased 1/2 acre in Haddonfield. In 1837, she moved to Moorestown in Chester Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Asa MATLACK records that Sarah died 1 April 1843 in Haddonfield. Tradition says Josiah and Sarah were strict members of the Quaker faith.
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Online Maps Review
What Makes Online Maps Great?
Online maps are not only useful when traveling to unknown places, but for planning local trips and getting driving directions. For historians, map collectors and cartophiles, maps are part of art and history. Different map sites have different areas of emphasis, so we've compiled a list of the top 10 online map sites to help you find the perfect map for your needs.
Chances are we've all used a map at one time or another for directions or to learn about an area's geography, but online maps have revolutionized the process in many ways: GPS and satellite imagery make it possible to view real photographs of an area. Online archiving of maps allows us to observe the changes to an area over time. Smart navigation technology (like the programs found in modern GPS devices) allows map users to plan and change routes based on traffic, construction, route preferences and more.
Integrated driving directions programs allow us to get step-by-step directions even if we can't read maps. Demographic information collected over the past decades can be integrated into maps to obtain detailed statistics on an area just by finding it on a map. The maps are equipped with distance-measuring technology (which can be translated into driving time) to easily gauge the distance between two points on a map.
How We Compared Online Maps
Our ratings are based on our evaluation of each online map site's appeal and flexibility, features, output/interface options, ease of use and help and support options. The following explains more in-depth about each ratings category we used:
Appeal and Flexibility
First we examined each site's overall appeal and flexibility. This includes information on the visual appeal of the site (the design) and the ability to customize a request for a map. With websites in general, a well-organized site that is aesthetically pleasing makes for a more positive experience.
Next, we conducted a detailed review of each site's features. This includes a general description of the site's focus (some are specialized for driving directions, others for ordering prints, etc.) the various options of what to display on your map, navigation and viewing options and many other features.
The choice of an online map depends greatly on your goal. In this section of each review we specify the main functions of the site's maps, as well as what distinguishing features make each site stand out from the others. The site matrix is designed for quickly comparing all the sites' features on one page, and is equipped with convenient links to each site.
Output/Interface Options
This section details the options for uploading, saving and printing your map. Depending on your computer, you may need to specify the format in which to save your map, but most sites allow you to print without first saving to your PC.
Many GPS, smart phones and other handheld devices are now able to accept uploads from map sites wirelessly or with a USB cable. So, from your computer you can research and plan an entire trip from beginning to end, all stops included, and simply upload it to your portable device.
Ease of Use
In this section we will discuss each site's user-friendliness, including the basic process of finding the map you want. For example:
•Does the site absolutely require an exact address with zip code?
•Does the user have to select regions from drop-down menus before conducting a search?
•Is there a keyword function for finding points of interest and landmarks? What about businesses?
•Can the user find the proper area to start conducting a search within 10 seconds of landing on the home page?
•Does the site offer helpful suggestions based on map searches?
We also examined how easy it is to find and use the site's other features, including the method of searching, panning and dragging a map to view surrounding areas. In our ratings, we gave preference to sites with simple navigation and easy-to-find resources.
Help and Support
Finally we rated each site for its help and support resources. This includes not only the methods for contacting the site administrator, but other online resources like manuals, tips, tutorials, issue reporting and FAQs.
Whether you're looking for directions to the dentist, vacationing in Tahiti or trying to find a new place to live in London, our guide can help you find the online maps you need such as MapQuest, Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps or learn more by reading articles about online maps.
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Welcome to GraceLaced Mondays, a link up dedicated to sharing any and all blog posts by like-minded lovers of grace--God's grace! Grace is found in the everyday when you are intentional about taking note of it...and I invite you to share your story, great or small, of how everyday moments are full of Grace.
It is found in the sink full of dishes awaiting you after a family meal, it shines in the faces of your imperfect children, it soothes from the pages of God's Word, and it is tucked into the enjoyment of a fresh batch of cookies. Grace is in a beautiful moment and a heartbreaking one alike. Grace is blessing beyond what you and I deserve.
Yielding is an act of trust and surrender. Perhaps there is nothing more difficult, yet freeing to do, in our walk with Jesus. Danielle Ayers Jones shared in last week's link-up about yielding to the Lord's pruning in her life:
My ability to be a healthy and fruitful child of God is not due to my striving and straining. It's instead a "direct result of my union with God" writes Spurgeon. And so it is. "From me [God] comes your fruit" says Hosea 14:8.
It's God who gives the fruitfulness and growth.
But the pruning in my life is a direct result of my union with God too. Just as I trim the dead branches off of my rose bush, God prunes sin and unfruitfulness out of my life.
It's God who selects what needs to be pruned.
I like the sound of fruitfulness and growth. I don't like the sound of pruning. But pruning is necessary in order to flourish.
And so I yield.
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When thinking about this we are left with two choices. Maybe Hastert does not know the difference between a group that sells drugs on the necessarily violent black market and a group such as the Soros funded Drug Policy Alliance who ran an ad this week in the New York Sun (complimentary copy to every GOP delegate's hotel room each day of the convention) quoting such people as Milton Friedman, Grover Norquist, and William F. Buckley on the failed war against people who use certain kinds of drugs. More likely though, Hastert does know the difference between these two types of organizations and was deliberately smearing Soros figuring the rest of us were too dumb to notice and showing himself to be a second rate political hack.
Now, if the drug cartels were to contribute money to either of these two men it would most certainly be Speaker Hastert. After all, George Soros is a billionaire and can fund pretty much anything he wants without any help. But, more importantly, to the extent that he is an advocate of drug legalization he is the mortal enemy of the narcotic cartels. The reforms put forth by the polical groups Soros supports would end the corrupt violence filled black market, which provides so much money to these drug selling associations. Why would they want such changes in policy?
On the other hand, the drug cartels have no better friend than Dennis Hastert. It is people like him who assure the continuance of the black market in drugs and the enormous profits made there. If you are a big time drug dealer it is definitely in your interest to keep Hastert in office.
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tipton cole - 9/7/2004
"The Speaker wrote this even though on television he used the words drug cartels."
That is not what Mr. Hastert said. He used the phrase "drug groups."
Arguments based on falsehoods cannot hold when readers are informed of the truth. Even very silly arguments aimed at very silly people.
Who in the world could possibly credit anything that you have to say in the future?
It is a shame to waste one's reputation on such a trivial argument.
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Mum just told me that my posts are too wordy. It's possible that she's my only reader, so I'll try and keep this one bite-size. Which is probably appropriate, given that I'm writing about a tapas restaurant.
Wednesday night. Parsons Green (don't worry, I wasn't wearing a pink shirt or suede loafers). We walked west, away from the green and down the New Kings Road in search of Tendido Cuatro.
We found it easily; the inside of the restaurant is painted fluorescent orange.
This is the sister restaurant of Cambio de Tercio and Tendido Cero in South Ken. I've been meaning to go to both of these for ages, but (for no good reason) still haven't been to either (have a look at London Eater and Matthew Norman's reviews of CdT to see why I want to go). They'll have to wait a bit longer. I was glad for the opportunity to try their sibling, though.
First impression, like I said, is the lurid colour of the walls. The second is the excellent smell coming from the open kitchen, which is just in front of you as you enter. A good sign.
We tried about 7 dishes on the varied menu. A couple of these were very good. None were bad. I liked the order in which they were brought to us.
The first dish was one of the best – anchovies marinaded [marinated/marinaded?] in sherry vinegar and olive oil. Tangy. Tasty. Lovely. There was some ok bread on the side to mop up the marinade. Anchovies are a bit of a Marmite type food. But I can't think why anyone wouldn't love them.
Toasted bread topped with a pureed tomato spread and jamon Iberico were nice – though I didn't think the ham was all that. The Serrano ham and bechemel croquettes had a delicate crunch on the outside and a pleasing warm and cheesy inside. I liked the tomato and thyme puree they were served with. These were good. But I couldn't help thinking they were a little like something you get in a supermarket canape selection.
The Spanish omelette wasn't great. Not much flavour and I think had been sitting in the fridge most of the day. I would have thought that you should be able to judge a tapas place on the quality of its omelette. Yet I've only ever had one really great one (at Fino); so it was disappointing but not a surprise that Tendido Cuatro's offering was a bit poor.
Next came the best dish of the day – prawns a la plancha. A friend of mine loves the prawns at Brindisa so much he has them for starter, main and dessert (no, really, he does). I think these are better. Large prawns that have been shelled (though the heads and tails remain on), marinated [marinaded? Whatever, I'm not sure what in] and griddled. Caramelised. A little bit sticky. A lot of taste. The chunk of lemon on the side was welcome too.
Aubergine chips with rosemary honey were a bit weird. They looked smart – the aubergines had been carved into the shape of thick cut chips and were stacked, gastropub style. But they were a bit limp and soggy, really.
Griddled squid came in a sauce that was similar to the anchovy marinade. But this final dish wasn't as good as the first. The squid was cut into little rectangles (about 1cm wide, 2cm long) which didn't seem right to me. And, maybe because they were so small, the squid pieces were a touch overcooked and were edging towards being tough and chewy.
So, some of the dishes weren't amazing, but all were pleasant. If you're looking for somewhere in that part of town, it's worth a look; there's quite a lot more on the menu and I understand they do a mean paella. It's worth mentioning that there's a good atmosphere (it was pretty busy given we ate late in the evening and in the middle of the week), which should make your meal fun.
Hope that held your attention Mum.
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Orange. Smells nice.
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£80 bought enough food for two people, a bottle of red, a couple of espressos and service.
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ROME - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is recuperating in his villa outside Milan, after being released from the hospital on Thursday.
Berlusconi, 73, was hospitalized last Sunday evening after being hit in the face with a souvenir replica of Milan's Dome.
The prime minister suffered a broken nose, two broken teeth and deep gashes to his mouth, lips and cheek.
Doctors listed his condition as critical for the first two days, due to the amount of pain he was in, but his last night in the hospital was described as "peaceful and painless."
As he left for home, the bandaged premier waved to photographers and well-wishers from the car.
In his statement, Berlusconi said the love expressed by many outweighs the "hate shown by a few."
"I will remember two things about this experience: the hate shown by a few and the love demonstrated by many, many Italians," the premier said.
"To both I make the same promise: we will push forward with even greater strength and determination along the road to freedom. We owe it to our people [and] we owe it to our democracy in which neither the violence of stones nor even worse, one of words, will prevail," Berlusconi said.
The premier also thanked the Opposition for its response to the incident.
"Over these past days, I have been given support by some Opposition political leaders," Berlusconi said.
"If what happened leads to a greater awareness of the need for more civil and honest language in political dialogue, this pain will not have been in vain," he said.
The prime minister's assailant, 42-year-old Massimo Tartaglia, who told police he was influenced by the Opposition's political campaign against the premier, remains in custody. He has asked for forgiveness.
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In "Devil's Due," things start to go haywire for an expectant young couple as the wife's delivery date nears. The family pooch is suddenly jittery while the mom-to-be has violent mood swings and a voracious new appetite for raw meat.
If it sounds familiar, you've probably seen your fair share of horror movies made since 1968's "Rosemary's Baby," the grandaddy when it comes to flicks about hellish spawn. But let's give this "Devil" its due: Although it won't win any points for originality, it is a fast-moving little chiller filled with creepy atmosphere and convincing performances.
The troubles begin for newlyweds Zach (Zach Gilford) and Samantha (Allison Miller) on their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. An overly friendly cab driver takes them to an underground party in a seedy part of town. They drink too much, party and pass out. When they awake in their hotel room, they have no memories of how they got there.
Now is probably a good time to mention that the movie is shot in the found-footage style made popular by "Paranormal Activity" and its ilk. Zach constantly has a camera filming everything around him. Of course, he doesn't bother to look at the footage until the movie's final act, which really would have helped clear up what exactly happened on that drunken honeymoon night. Gaping plot hole there, but not a deal-breaker.
Once the couple is back home, Samantha quickly learns she is pregnant, even though she was taking birth-control medication. Soon, all the aforementioned strange happenings start occurring. Throw in an abandoned house in the neighborhood that is suddenly occupied, a vanishing obstetrician and a first communion ceremony that goes terribly wrong, and the chill factor quickly rises.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who both worked on the shocker "V/H/S," do wonders with mood and atmosphere. There seems to be a genuine sense of dread enveloping the couple as the film progresses toward its inevitable climax.
Strong work from the two lead actors also adds heft to the proceedings. Gilford (TV's "Friday Night Lights"), in particular, is good as a young spouse who goes from goofy to confused to terrified. The movie is seen through his eyes, and his anxious performance anchors the film.
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'Devil's Due'
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.
Cast: Zach Gilford, Allison Miller, Vanessa Ray.
Rating: R for profanity and violence.