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MOBILE, Alabama - Should the Auburn Tigers earn the vaunted crystal football during tonight's BCS National Championship, fans will likely soon be searching for their own symbols of victory. And Mobile area retail stores are prepared to open their doors, post-game, should that dream come true.
There are numerous options for Auburn fans willing to brave tonight's frigid temperatures to memorialize college football's top prize, both in Mobile and Baldwin counties.
Assuming Auburn defeats Florida State - a 10-point favorite - that is.
Only one of the Mobile's Hibbett Sports locations - at 740 South Schillinger Rd. - will open for special hours tonight should that happen, making good on a promise the store manager said it advertised after the Iron Bowl victory on Nov. 30.
An Auburn win could do great things for the school's merchandise sales, which have been lagging in recent years, according to the Collegiate Licensing Company.
In its annual report, the company, which represents most major schools, said Auburn fell to No. 18 in royalties - down from 11th place in 2012.
For the eighth year in a row, the Texas Longhorns topped the list, with Auburn's Iron Bowl victim, Alabama, at No. 2.
Manager Tara Cromwell said her store will open immediately after the championship game and stay open until 1 a.m., offering T-shirts, hats and decals for the whole family. She and her staff decorated the front of the store after the Iron Bowl and "will be here to accommodate anyone who wants to stop by tonight," Cromwell said.
"I'm hoping it will be a big selling time for us," she said. Hibbett will also open at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, instead of 9:30 a.m., she said.
As in previous years, Academy Sports & Outdoors will open its doors post-game, offering celebrants the chance to buy T-shirts and hats emblazoned with the only two words any weagle-weagle wants would care to share: "National Champions." Both Academy locations - at 3725 and 7460 Airport Blvd. - will be open from midnight to 1:30 early Tuesday morning, and again at 9 a.m. Once again, that is only if Auburn wins the game, according to management.
On the Baldwin County side of the bay, Dick's Sporting Goods is the lone option for instant War Eagle gratification if the Tigers win the BCS. The Jubilee Center location, on U.S. 90 in Daphne, will open for an hour at midnight, and again at 6 a.m. Tuesday morning.
While no member of management was able to specify the range of BCS merchandise available should Auburn bring home the Coaches Trophy, a sales associate confirmed T-shirts and hats would be available.
The AL.com/Press-Register staff was unable to find a store in Mobile or Baldwin County that will offer special hours should Florida State defeat Auburn. The BCS National Championship will kick off at 7:30 p.m., and be broadcast on ESPN.


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Working At Apple: Nothing Special, Unless You're Working On One Of Steve Jobs' Pet Projects
If you're lucky enough to get a job offer from Apple, Google, and Microsoft, what should you do?
If you're a true believer in Apple, and you're going to be working a project Steve Jobs cares about, then take the Apple job.
Otherwise, you might want to think twice. Google's perks and benefits seem to be better than Apple. And Microsoft's health benefits are supposedly amazing. Apple's don't seem to be anything special.
Facebook employee Chad Little used to work for Apple. He detailed what Apple's internal corporate culture is like on Q&A site Quora. Chad's ex-coworker, Justin Maxell, also chipped with some details. (Justin is now at Mint.com, heading up mobile.)
Here's what it's like inside Apple according to the two ex-employees:
- Unless Steve Jobs personally cares about your project, it's the usual big company politics and bureaucracy. Says Little, "If you have a project that Steve is not involved in, it will take months of meetings to move things forward. If Steve wants it done, it's done faster than anyone thinks is humanly possible. The best way to get any cross departmental work done was to say its for Steve and you'd probably have it the same day."
- Apple product launch days are thrilling. You bust your butt to get your part of the project ready for launch. On launch day everyone gathers in the cafe and watches the big event together.
- Apple employees believe they are changing the world.
- You work for Apple when you work at Apple. Don't try to make it about you, or spill secrets. Here's Maxwell's take: "You are part of something much bigger than you. The ideas you talk about in the hall, the neat tricks you figured out in CSS, the new unibody machining technique, that's part of your job, something you are paid to do for Apple's success, not something you need to blog about to satisfy your ego. Don't fuck it up for everyone.
- Apple's benefits and perks blow. There's a cafe, but it costs. There's an on-campus gym, but it costs too. Apple sells cheap PB&J, though -- only $0.25. Once a year you can get a computer at a 25% discount. You get 3 15% discounts for friends and family. There's an on-campus store where software is 50% off. Someone once asked Steve Jobs about the crappy benefits. His response, according to Little, "it's my job to make your stock go up so you can afford these things."
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Some pundits have posed the question: Why do anyone need this things? Indeed, even those of you are lining up and standing outside stores may be wondering, Why am I doing this? Why am I lining up like a zombie for an expensive piece of consumer electronics, a product for which there is no shortage and which, let's face it, nobody really needs? Back in the early days of our design process, I spent a long time trying to decide where on Mazlow's triangle this product would sit. Because I knew if we couldn't be way up above the very top of that pyramid, floating above it, totally outside the needs it describes, then this wouldn't be a product we wanted to make. Some of our early iterations, in fact, had to be tossed out because when we looked at them we realized that parts of them were too, well, necessary. Don't get me wrong. That's fine for other companies. It's just not what we do here at Apple.
But let's get back to you people who are waiting in line. I mean it's not like you're in Bolivia and there's just been an earthquake and you need to line up to get food and clean water. It's not like you've time-traveled back into the Depression and you're waiting in line at a soup kitchen. And yet, in fact, that's exactly what you're doing. Spiritually speaking, we are living in the Great Depression, and you are waiting in line for sustenance. We, all of us, are experiencing the world that Deleuze and Guattari described so presciently in Capitalism and Schizophrenia. If you haven't read this incredibly important two-volume work, I highly recommend that wait for us to make both volumes available on our iBooks store and then order them right away. The cool thing is that then, as you're reading, you will have the strange and circular experience of discovering why you bought the iPad in the first place.
Hold your iPad. Gaze at it. Pray to it. Let it transform you. And do it soon, because before you know it we are going to release version 2, which will make this one look like a total piece of crap. Peace be upon you.

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3/14 Samardzija gets Opening Day start
Cubs manager Rick Renteria named Jeff Samardzija as the Opening Day starter, and the right-hander will kick the season off on March 31 against the Pirates. This will be Samardzija's second straight Opening Day assignment. He also started in the 2013 opener, which also was against the Pirates at PNC Park. The right-hander beat the Pirates, giving up two hits and striking out nine over eight scoreless innings, in a 3-1 Cubs win.
Ryan Dempster was the last Cubs pitcher to start consecutive Opening Days, doing so in 2011-12.
"Jeff will take the nod," Renteria said Friday. "Everybody's looking forward to him taking the hill against Pittsburgh."
Left-hander Travis Wood will follow Samardzija. Both pitchers reached 200 innings last season for the first time in their careers. Samardzija finished 8-13, while Wood was 9-12.
"We'll go Woody [in the second game] and keep working on the rest," Renteria said of his rotation. "[Edwin Jackson] should follow and everybody will follow in line."
The Cubs are still sorting out the rest of the rotation with Jason Hammel, Chris Rusin, Jake Arrieta, James McDonald and Carlos Villanueva in the mix.
Renteria said it wasn't a tough decision to name Samardzija.
"Jeff's done it before, and put in a very strong year, as Woody did," Renteria said. "I think the decision was quite easy for all of us."
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"I think the decision was quite easy for all of us."……..Whatever Theo tells you Rick, you will do it!
Aloha CubsTalk- Hope you folks are doing well in Chi-Town. I see you "have" a little bit of a warming trend but could have snow again on Sunday. Agree with you about a command coming from Theo. And as I mentioned before, Jeff S. is the type that wants the "hype." So, if this helps him to have a better season and push his stocks up for that July deadline, I say it is good move. It is true that it takes pitchers time to warm up at the beginning of a season, I remember that with our college team and some of the stats I would help out with. Their fluidity, velocity, control was usually much better a couple months into the season. But, if they were keeping their arms loose and warm before the season started they could cut that down some. It is no surprise that we need pitching and if Jeff S. can get the team some much needed talent, the better the organization will be in the long run. Hope he has a good opener and builds off of it. Mahalo!


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Michael Lewis's new book, Boomerang, is listed at $25.95, although you can get it for $15.04 at Amazon, or just $10.39 for the Kindle version. (It's $12.99 on iBooks.)
Felix Salmon
Index excerpt of the day
David Harvey's Marxian take on the global financial crisis, The Enigma of Capital, just came out in paperback. It's timely, coinciding as it does with the Occupy Wall Street movement. And it also has the best index of any crisis book I've read.
Is Twitter dominated by 0.05% of users?
Joe Hagan's NYMag cover story on Twitter dredges up one of the most misunderstood factoids about the service:
Business Insider and over-aggregation
Henry Blodget has a long and detailed response to Marco Arment, which is fascinating to anybody interested in the nuts and bolts behind a modern for-profit blog.
Is Alessio Rastani a Yes Man?
If you look at his blog, his Twitter account, and his interview with Forbes, not to mention his notorious BBC interview, it's pretty clear that Alessio Rastani is, at least in part, who he says he is. The Yes Men do set up elaborate hoaxes, but they do so with respect to large institutions: they wouldn't put this much effort into inventing "Alessio Rastani" out of whole cloth. Mostly because there are lots of genuine traders like Alessio Rastani floating around the internet already. They trade their own money, they sometimes win and they sometimes lose, and they aspire to getting famous on the internet and selling their own trading advice.
There's no reason why stocks are down today
There's a lot of uncertainty in the global economy, and that's the kind of thing which makes stocks volatile. This morning, we're seeing that volatility express itself, with global stocks all falling and US stocks down about 2.5% from where they closed yesterday.
Felix Salmon smackdown watch, Netflix edition
Christopher Mims makes a really good point:
It makes no sense that writers like Felix Salmon, who is generally excellent on just about everything, describe Netfilx, even pre-split Netflix, as an inexpensive alternative to cable. It's not. It's only inexpensive if you take fast broadband at home for granted — you know, like every tech pundit and journalist on the planet.
WSJ branding datapoint of the day
Last year, I kicked off quite a big fight with Henry Blodget after posting this to Twitter.
Can Netflix still win when cable TV loses?
Ryan Lawler makes a very important point: even as the number of people living in poverty continues to rise, and median incomes have gone nowhere since 1996, the price of cable TV just goes inevitably and inexorably upwards. Which is a nasty dynamic, since cable companies make a huge proportion of their money by selling their service to the poor. A whopping 40% of US households spend all of their income on food, shelter, transportation and healthcare, leaving nothing for the modern necessities of cable TV and phone service.


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Channing Tatum Confirms "Magic Mike 2" and It's Going To Be Crazy!
Seriously? This movie was just god aweful. Pretty looking guys to look at, but that was the only thing remotely worth watching about this movie.
Will this one have double the gay-baiting of the first? Once bitten, twice shy.
Figures that Queerty would be first to get on the Magic Mike 2 bandwagon!
Are gays really that desperate to see male strippers stripping down to a thong in front of a bunch of women?
Figures that Spiked would have something negative to say…this is a day that ends in Y yes?
And Miadouche hun I think it would be helpful for you to learn how to spell awful since you are going to be hearing that about yourself FOREVER…
I never saw the first one. That clip was just embarrassing.
Why praise a film that uses a gay slur? That is sad and self-loathing. If I was Bomer, I'd be embarassed to has been in the first one, much less a second one.
@Spike: Gays are thirsty and will watch anything with hot men
Personally, I saw the first and besides my deep loathing for Channing Tatum, I still didn't like it, won't be planning to see the second unless if features an actor I really like.
@DerekR: Ahh, kiss, hug, rim. Thanks for the shout out! Now back to jacking off to your Magic Mike DVD.
@Niall: Wow, I need to get out more, I don't know any of the 'Gays' that you refer to. The ones I know have heard of the internet and use the internet and would never bother to see such a lame movie. Thirsty for hot men, check the internet, there's plenty, and most don't involve screaming female audiences.
I don't have my Magic Mike DVD – your father hasn't returned it.
I never made it through the first one..Frankly if they aren't gonna be "swingin' Richards free ballin' it then what is the point?!
Channing seems to be as beautiful on the inside as he is on the outside and that's saying a lot.
The first one would have been great, if they focused on the hot guys stripping. Instead we'd see a guy strip his shirt and then, WHAM, the idiotic straight "romance" with the thin-lipped lemon-faced bitch would appear. The entire movie was embarrassing, and not in the gyrating, ass-flashing way it should have been.


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As if college basketball isn't entertaining enough by itself, several of its most recognizable coaches do a superb job of adding to the festivities. With the right men on the sideline, the on-court action can become secondary to the real show.
The coach's home fans love to watch him get fired up. The opponents love to make fun of the outrage. Television highlight producers love that their jobs are made so much easier thanks to the dancing, screaming and meltdown footage. Everybody wins.
These 10 tightly wound coaches mostly win, as well as entertaining while doing so.


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10 Men Strip Naked on Fishing Boat And It Isn't a Gay Cruise?
Dave Lloyd and a handful of his British friends hired a fishing boat for his stag party. They got naked, and a rescue helicopter wondered, "WTF?"
Allow the riveting Sun report to explain:
The ten lads hired a fishing boat for the day — and once they were out at sea suddenly stripped naked to give their skipper a fright. But their nude prank backfired when they were caught on camera by an RAF rescue helicopter that swooped overhead.
Mark Thomas, skipper of the Blue Thunder charter boat, said: "I was gobsmacked. I was steering the boat out to the fishing grounds when I turned around and saw them all naked. "They stood there fishing without a stitch on — I was getting a bit nervous because there were hooks flying all over the place. But a coastguard look-out saw what was going on and alerted the RAF helicopter which was in the area at the time. It hovered over us and the lads were jumping up and down, waving and having a good laugh."
Adds best man Nick Woore: "It was pretty much a spur of the moment thing. The skipper went into his cabin and we thought we would surprise him when he came out. We were all naked when the helicopter came over us. What started off as a quiet fishing trip with a few beers turned into naked madness. It was one of the best fishing trips we've have ever had."
Yes, they actually caught a few mackerel.
Not too sure that particular marriage should proceed…… :-p
It didn't say he was marrying a woman….
@Vicente Fox: Touche' :-p
Ten straight guys on a boat means five will leave the boat with cream pies. Yeah, so straight. FOFLMAO!
Dangling penises (penii?). Stray fish hooks. Ouch.
Oh… they're British. Yawn. There are maybe a billion videos on Youtube of British men getting naked in groups. A national obsession for some peculiar reason…
A naked fishing trip for a stag party. Europeans are so enlightened.
There are actually many men who are perfectly comfortable being naked next to each other without feeling the need to fuck each other. Maybe you guys can take a leaf out of their book.
Oh god. I almost thumbed-up and comment from Jason. That was a close one. Now to find a reason to disagree.
No pics ???


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Republican Keith Rothfus has thwarted a re-election bid by Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Critz on Tuesday.
Rothfus (51 percent) led Critz (49 percent), with 97 percent of all precincts reporting. The Associated Press called Rothfus the winner.
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Are you thinking of going to Les Ménuires with your family or friends? Choose P&V Aconit for a real family holiday.
P&V Aconit, family accommodation in Les Ménuires
P&V Aconit offers accommodation for up to nine people in fully equipped apartments. Renovated and spacious, they have a comforting charm typical of Les Ménuires, perfect for a holiday with friends or family.
P&V Aconit, a wide range of facilities
P&V Aconit offers a number of useful facilities and services to make your stay more enjoyable. Included in the cost of accommodation are a fitted kitchen, linen, cleaning equipment and a television. Other services are available for a fee.
P&V Aconit, accommodation close to Les Ménuires
P&V Aconit offers door to slope skiing. Situated in the liveliest part of the resort, you will have easy access to all the conveniences you will need during your stay in Les Ménuires.
Choose your apartment or studio accommodation at P&V Aconit in Les Ménuires with Skiset.
Due to the mountains and hills, resorts like Les Menuires lend themselves well to mountain biking and lots of different cycling events. Of course, the biggest event during the summer in this area of the country has to be the Tour de France, which has stages all throughout the Alps. However, if cycling isn't really your thing then you can always try your hand at some fly fishing through the various parts of La Vallee des Belleville. There are lots of great spots for this relaxing sport but the main area is The Doron, which encompasses 100 km of banks, 12 natural lakes and several smaller streams. The courses are run by Jean-Christophe - an expert fisherman - who will not only teach you but he'll also be providing the equipment you need and your fishing license for the course. You'll be travelling to and from the course with him.
One of the main things that makes it a favourite with those who have younger children is that it's a very practical ski resort, meaning that it's easy for people with all levels of skill to get access to the slopes. Les Menuires is particularly special because it's actually eight small villages that are connected by eight ski runs, chair lifts and walking paths, making it one total resort overall. It has been a favourite place for families ever since it opened and is celebrating four decades of successful seasons. As On The Snow says, it mixes classical third generation ski resort architecture with more modern (but still classical style) alpine chalets and luxury residences. This is another main reason for its upshot in popularity, because it has so much high-quality accommodation the area tends to draw the eye of those who are affluent.
However, it's the fact that it's situated in the heart of the three valleys that makes it extra special - this is the largest ski area in the world and is hugely famous as a result.
When the people who run the competition say that it's for everyone, they mean it because you can take part if you're a professional, an amateur or even just a family who are enthusiastic about snowsports. The contest has been running for the past ten years and each year 1,500 skiers have been coming to discover the pistes of Les Trois Vallees. There's plenty to see as well because this is the world's largest ski area and is already the spiritual home of hundreds of skiers and snowboarders every winter season.
However, it's Sunday 3rd April that will host the competition that brings together skiers of all levels to improve their skills and have fun. This is the aim of the day, rather than having an emphasis on competing to have a great finish time or to win for the sake of winning. Instead, the Enduro is about getting as many skiers in one area to find out more about Les Trois Vallees ski area in a way that is original and shows that it is accessible for all. For this reason, this has become one of the biggest events of the season in Val Thorens and is eagerly attended by hundreds of people who not only ski, but love to spectate.
It's known for being a bit more quiet and sedate than some of its counterparts, which makes it perfect for families and those who aren't looking for the party element of a skiing holiday. It's also set in the Savoie area of the Alps, so people who are foodies and particularly keen on creamy cheeses will also appreciate this area. But, it's Les Menuires where you'll find the Yeti Trail Race, which sees people compete against each other in teams of two across 20 km of snow.
The event is a type of snow-covered obstacle course and includes tests in orientation skills, precision, strength, agility and endurance across that 20 km distance. It will be taking place on Sunday 13th March and anyone can register to take part in the fun. Of course, it is recommended that you have plenty of experience before you get there - as with all snowsports, you need to be trained so you don't cause an injury to yourself, or anyone else who is taking part.
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I was really upset when they started paving St. Claude. I didnt think it was in that much need of repaving. Goodness knows a slick new top coat on Franklin might have made my house shiver less if there were no pot holes for the giant trucks to trundle over.
But now i've discovered that part of St. Claude's redo will be an honest to goodness bike lane. I'm really happy to hear about it, but where will it go? I only go down St. Claude about 4 blocks to visit friends. It sounds a little fishy to me. Also, what does "Path will be the first within city's street grid" mean? What about that truncated path on Chartres that begins in the Bywater and ends at the railroad tracks? I've never understood why that one stopped there?
I'm also very intrigued with idea of paths on Magazine and Camp, i just hope they dont come from Uptown, only to end at the CCC.
Path will be the first within city's street grid
Monday, September 10, 2007
By Leslie Williams
In a month or so, New Orleans is expected to get its first traffic lane exclusively for bicycle use, and more may appear within months.
"I'm ecstatic. It's been a long haul, and it's going to make things safer," said Karen Parsons, a transportation planner with the Regional Planning Commission.
"It's the first bike lane within the city's street grid," said Robert Mendoza, the city's director of public works, who has been working with the planning commission, Steps to a Healthier New Orleans and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development to integrate bicycle lanes into the well-under-way resurfacing of about three miles of St. Claude Avenue between Elysian Fields Avenue and the Orleans Parish/St. Bernard Parish border.
And at the end of this year or early next year -- when resurfacing projects begin on Magazine and Camp streets between Calliope and Canal streets -- bike lanes will be added to transportation lanes on Magazine and Camp, Mendoza said.
The bike lanes on St. Claude, which are different from bike paths built on levees, neutral grounds or separated in other ways from roadways, "are a preview of what we'll see on a lot more (New Orleans) streets," said Mendoza referring to pre- and post-Katrina plans to expand the infrastructure for bicycle travel.
DOTD workers still are sorting out the details for the $3.7 million St. Claude project, said Brendan Rush. Rough estimates call for at least 4-foot-wide bicycle lanes on the westbound and eastbound sides of St. Claude Avenue, he said.
The two car lanes on each side of the neutral ground will each be about 11 feet wide, Rush said, noting that each would have been about 11 feet and 6 inches wide if the bike lanes had been excluded from the project. And the parking areas along the avenue should be about 7.5 to 8 feet wide, he said.
"We hope to begin striping the bicycle lanes in mid-October," said Steve Strength, a DOTD district traffic operations engineer. "This will be the first bike lane on state highway in the New Orleans area."
Having a lane for bicycles separates the cars from the cyclists, said Parsons, adding that "it also makes the cars aware that the cyclists have the right to be on the road."
The St. Claude Bridge along the route will not be striped, Rush said. Instead, bicyclists will share the automobile lanes with cars, Parsons said.
Jennifer Ruley, an urban planning specialist with Steps to a Healthier New Orleans, said the original resurfacing plans for St. Claude did not include bicycle lanes, but they were added after her group, the RPC and the city's Public Works Department lobbied for changes.
Temporary striping on the roadway, also known as Louisiana Highway 46, offers no hint of the bike lanes to come, but they will be part of the "permanent" striping, Mendoza said.
The RPC's New Orleans Metropolitan Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan as well as the transportation element of the city's master plan advocate a network of bike lanes, Parsons said.
People say "all we ever do is plan," she said, but it's unlikely the bicycle lanes would have been integrated into the project without the plans.
"See," she said, "there is a method to our madness."
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The evening also includes a special appearance by Levar Burton (Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation).
For one night only, Reprise Theatre Company presents Ben Vereen on stage in a rare evening of conversation and music. From his Tony Award-winning performance in Pippin to I'm Not Rappaport, Fosse and Wicked, Vereen's Broadway performances are renowned. His versatility extends to television, with his Emmy Award-winning network specials and many guest appearances, and to film where his amazing performances range from "All That Jazz" to "Funny Lady" to "Idlewild" (with Outkast) and the upcoming "Mama, I Want to Sing."


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Tips for Improving Your Credit: The Types of Accounts in Your Credit ReportAdvertiser Disclosure by Gerri Detweiler
In this guide, we are explaining the main factors that make up your credit score, so you can make sure yours is as strong as possible. Payment History and Your Amount of Debt and their level of impact to your credit scores are the first two factors we've covered, and they account for about 65% of the points that make up your credit score.
Here, we will look at the types of accounts (or "credit mix") which accounts for roughly 10% of the points in your credit score. If your goal is to build or keep great credit, you'll want to understand how this factor works.
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This guide will be most helpful to you if you know how this factor currently impacts your credit scores. You can get a truly free credit score updated monthly at Credit.com. It will give you a letter grade for each of the factors impacting your scores, including this one, Account Mix.
Revolving Accounts
Revolving accounts are those that have a different payment each month depending on your current balance. These are accounts that you are not required to pay in full each month. You have the option to "revolve" some or all of the balance to the following month. Lenders charge you interest on the amount that you revolve and this is how they make money. Some examples of revolving accounts are:
- Credit Cards Issued by a Bank or a Credit Union – These are commonly referred to as Visa® or MasterCard® accounts because of the logo that appears on the front or back of the card. These are extremely common because almost all banks and credit unions are able to issue them to their customers. Remember, credit reports will keep a history of your accounts even if they have been closed. As such, most consumers have several of these credit card accounts on their credit reports. Other examples include the Discover® Card, and American Express®.
- Credit Cards Issued by a Retail Store – These are accounts that are issued by the stores where you like to shop. These cards are a little different than the previous two types in that you can only use the card at the store that issued it. Some examples are Macys® Card, Target® Card, Pep Boys Card® and a Dillard's® Card. There are hundreds of other examples. Most of us have several of these types of cards.
- Credit Cards Issued by an Oil Company – These are accounts that are issued by a petroleum company. As with retail store accounts these cards can only be used at specific locations, almost always a gas station. Some examples are Texaco® Card, Exxon® Card, Shell® Card and BP® Card. These cards are also very common and easy to obtain. Most of us have or have had several of these types of cards.
- Home Equity Lines of Credit – Also known as a HELOC, these are loans that allow you to tap into the equity of your home. These loans are generally easy to obtain from most reputable banks and credit unions. Since these loans allow you to access a portion of your home's equity, the payment is determined by the amount borrowed or used. These accounts are very common in part because the interest is tax deductible in most cases. Check with your tax advisor to see if your account qualifies for a tax deduction.
Notice – For your information, debit cards (also known as check cards) are not considered true credit cards. They are essentially nothing more than a check in the form of a credit card. As such they do not report on your credit files and will have no impact, good or bad, to your credit scores.
Installment Accounts
Installment accounts are those that have a fixed payment for a fixed period of time. As with revolving accounts you are not required to pay them in full each month. You are allowed to make a payment that is going to be the same every month until the loan is paid in full. Lenders charge you an annual percentage rate (also know as an APR) and this is how they make money. Some examples of installment accounts are:
- Auto Loans – Auto loans are issued by either a bank, a credit union or by a company that specializes in automobile lending. These accounts are generally paid off over 48 to 60 months but shorter and longer terms are available.
- Mortgage Loans – Mortgage loans are issued by either a bank, a credit union or a company that specializes in mortgage lending. These accounts require the most amount of paperwork during the application process and a good credit score can help you secure a lower interest rate. A lower interest rate will save you a lot of money over time.
- Student Loans – These loans, obviously, are used to pay for college related expenses such as tuition, room and board. Most student loans are federal loans issued by the federal government. Private student loans are issued by banks and other financial institutions. Student loans are a unique type of loan because most students are taking classes and not working full time jobs. As such, the repayment of a student loan generally goes through a process called "deferment." Deferment essentially allows the student to postpone their payments until several months after they have graduated or stopped going to school. This gives them the opportunity to secure employment before the loan requires the first payment.
- Home Equity Loans – These are not the same as home equity lines of credit (aka HELOCs). Although they both allow you access to your home's equity the structure of the loans are not similar. A home equity loan is a fixed amount of money that you borrow. Once you take that loan out your payment is fixed for the duration of the payback period. Whereas a home equity line of credit gives you the flexibility of taking out some of or the entire approved amount.
- Signature Loans – Signature loans are just what they sound like. You walk into a bank or credit union and tell them you want to borrow some money and sign a guarantee to pay it back. You don't have to tell the bank what the money is for and you can use it for anything you like including vacations, investments, home improvements or a shopping spree.
Open Accounts
Open accounts are probably the least common of the three we'll profile. Also referred to as "open credit," it is a hybrid of installment and revolving credit. The payment is not the same each month and it's usually due in full at the end of each billing cycle. The consumer satisfies his financial responsibility for the account when he pays the bill in full each month. This cycle can go on as long as the consumer has an account with the service provider.
An account with a utility company is one example of open credit. If Roger has an account with PG&E for electric and gas service to his apartment, he doesn't know what his payment will be each month. As you can imagine, electric bills can vary a lot from month to month depending upon the seasons and air conditioner/heater usage. Roger is responsible for this varying payment each month.
Most utilities, cellular service, some American Express cards, and some gas station cards are other examples of open credit.
|Discover Card
|American Express
|Account Number
|Account Type
|Credit Limit
|(High Credit)
|Minimum Monthly Payment (Terms)
|Date Opened
|April, 2002
|Date of Status
|March, 2005
|March, 2005
|March, 2005
|Last Payment Date
|February, 2005
|February, 2005
|February, 2005
|Loan Type
|Credit Card, Terms REV
|Credit Card, Terms OPEN
|Current Status
Every single account on your credit files will fall into one of the categories above: Revolving, Installment or Open.
Why Does Your Mix of Accounts Matter?
When these accounts report on your credit records they are coded very specifically so that not only consumers and lenders but also credit scoring models can easily identify them. Statistical analysis has determined that the type of accounts you have is predictive of your future credit risk.
So what does all of this mean to you the consumer? Consumers with the strongest credit scores, including FICO credit scores, tend to have a mix of different types of accounts.
Keep in mind that all of the accounts on your credit reports count, even if they are closed. Most of us have had several credit cards, mortgages, auto loans and student loans in our life so this example is probably very realistic.
There really isn't one target "sweet spot" that we should all aim for in our account mix. That's because your mix of accounts might be great for your score but terrible for someone else's and vice versa.
How Can You Ensure Earning the Maximum Points Available out of the Types of Accounts Category?
Before you try to make any changes, be sure you have checked your free credit score from Credit.com to see whether this category is bringing your scores down. If it's not, then don't worry about it. But if it is, then you may want to consider the following strategies:
- If you don't have an installment loan reported on your credit reports, consider whether it makes sense to get one. If you are going to borrow anyway – or if you want to consolidate higher-rate credit card debt – a personal loan that is reported as an installment loan may be helpful here. Another strategy is to get a low-rate car loan then pay it off as quickly as you can. (It will still count even if you pay it off a few months after you get it.) You can shop for a personal loan here or find credit unions offering auto loans nationwide here.
- Avoid finance companies – Finance companies are commonly referred to as "lenders of last resort." Their rates and terms are not as favorable as those offered by banks and credit unions so higher risk consumers tend to depend on them for their credit needs. As such, having a finance company account on your credit report could cost you points.
- If you don't have any credit cards that are currently open and active, consider getting one. A credit card that's paid on time and has a low (or no) balance can be a very valuable credit reference. If your credit scores are poor you may need to consider a secured credit card to get started. You can shop for credit cards by credit score here.
To learn more about what's in your credit reports and how you can get yours for free each year, read more from our experts by visiting our Credit Reports Learning Center.
This article was originally published on Oct. 17, 2013 and updated on Sept. 2, 2014.


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The Mets are still undefeated after a 4-3 comeback victory over the Washington Nationals on Monday night at Citi Field.
Star-Ledger baseball columnist Jeff Bradley writes about Ruben Tejada, the man replacing Jose Reyes, and how the Mets' new shortstop has been doing all the right things so far.
Mets fans are riding high after the 4-0 start. Here are some of the comments NJ.com users made following the 4-3 win:
Nieuwenhuis for Rookie of the Year!
Your first 3 batters in the lineup are hitting .357, .389 and.583. If Ike can ever get going and we drop Bay to 6 this can be quite a lineup from 1 thru 5. How about that diving stop of Zimmerman's grounder up the middle by Murph in the top of the 9th? Then he knocks in Baxter in the bottom of the inning to win it. Murphy for MVP!
Apple fritters for the whole gang. A rocky start by Pelfrey for sure. But the team did not let up. Great bullpen effort, continued clutch hitting by Murphy and Wright, and a career-first dinger from Captain Kirk. Each game has had something special. It's a good day to be a Mets fan.
Prior to the game, John Feinstein, the golf writer who is a Mets fan, joked on Mad Dog radio that the Mets Magic number was down to 159. Prior to the season, Tim Kurkijan of ESPN, predicted that the Mets are not going to be as bad as the fans and pundits predict. And my Met-fan relatives who swore to never attend or watch a game or boycott the team while the Wilpons are owners, are interested, if only a little, again. The Mets are definitely more fun to follow and watch when they are the underdogs.
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By Associated Press 5:13pm, January 2, 2013The Baltimore Ravens say Ray Lewis will retire after the playoffs.
The star linebacker told the team "This will be my last ride." He has been out since Oct. 14 with a triceps injury, but expects to play Sunday in the wild-card round against Indianapolis.
The 37-year-old Lewis says "It is time for me to create a new legacy" after 17 NFL seasons.
Lewis was the AP Defensive Player of the Year in 2000, when Baltimore won the Super Bowl title, and in 2003.
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The 2m vertical at the office took a lightning hit, the coax discharged at the disconnected PL-259 into a steel window frame in the maintenance office that overlooks the garage area. Looks like someone put an arc welder to the conector and the frame!
When replacing it I'd like to install something that by design directs the energy to ground instead of into the building.
I understand that some models are designed to help this happen better than others. (I will, of course, also install a Polyphaser.)
To sell it to the powers-that-be I need to be able to promote the value as a lightning rod and for monitoring for storm and other emergency alerts. (Reception in the concrete and steel structure is abysmal.)
I'd really love to put up something that can handle receive and transmit on 2 & 440 and at least be useful for HF reception if not transmit.
It cannot be huge -- the current antenna is about 6 feet tall and fairly low profile (not sure of the model).
Suggestions, please?
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August 13, 2012 - Bennet Goldstein
President Barack Obama will not be the only heavy-hitting politician in Marshalltown Tuesday. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is also visiting town campaigning for Mitt Romney. The Republican will speak at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Franklin Elementary School. The public is invited to attend the event.
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In some years, strong winds shove huge chunks of ice onto shore, where it grinds away at docks, sea walls, sidewalks and even buildings. Not this year.
"It just kind of went away," said Judy Talbot, superintendent of Oneida Shores park, on the south shore. "It was kind of nice."
All was quiet at the east end of the lake, which often gets pounded by ice pushed by prevailing winds from the west.
"I'm out looking at it right now, and our ice is gone," said Joe Benedict, administrator for Sylvan Beach, talking on his cell phone.
The last of the ice was gone Monday, said Ed Mills, director of the Cornell University Biological Field station in Bridgeport.
The slow dissipation of ice is a relief considering the lake froze relatively early this year and a cold January built up a thick layer of ice.
If you want final proof that the ice is gone, here it is: State biologists set their first nets today to catch walleye.
"They went out at 8 o'clock this morning," said Carl Rathje, assistant manager of the state hatchery in Constantia. "It was a pretty calm day to do it."
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IntroductionThe Diocese of Saskatchewan was created in 1873 by an act of the Synod of the Diocese of Rupert's Land. Approval for this action had been granted by the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1872. The first bishop of the new diocese, John McLean, was consecrated in 1874 and took up residence in Prince Albert in 1875.
Originally the Diocese of Saskatchewan included most of the south and north-central areas of the present-day civil provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and a small portion of northern Manitoba. In 1884 the Diocese of Assiniboine (later Qu'Appelle) was created in the south-east.
At the same time the Diocese acquired more territory of what is now northern Saskatchewan and Alberta, and a larger portion of Manitoba, including present day The Pas and the Devon Mission areas. In 1888 the Diocese of Calgary was created from its south western flank, with the Diocese of Edmonton being created sometime thereafter. Saskatchewan gave up the last of its Alberta and Manitoba territory in 1927 and 1933 respectively. In 1933 the Diocese split again into a northern part, the Diocese of Saskatchewan based in Prince Albert, and a southern part, the Diocese of Saskatoon. The last division was painful and highly controversial at the time. A compromise was reached by which the southern diocese around the new see of Saskatoon was granted the Charter to assure its link with the early history, and some of the historic endowments and debts; the northern diocese would return to its roots as a primarily aboriginal missionary organization and would retain the name, some of the endowments, Bishop McLean's seal, archives and the episcopal properties. It was granted a new Charter to replace the ceded one in 1933 and a new episcopal endowment from an anonymous donor in England. All the subsequent bishops of both dioceses would claim succession to Bishop McLean.
1874-1886 John McLean
1887-1903 William Cyprian Pinkham
1903-1921 Jervois Arthur Newnham
1922-1931 George Exton Lloyd
1931-1932 William Thomas Thompson Hallam
1933-1939 Walter Burd
1939-1959 Henry David Martin
1960-1970 William Henry Howes Crump
1970-1985 Hedley Vicars Roycroft Short
1985-1993 Thomas Oliver Morgan
1993- Anthony John Burton
Suffragan Bishops of the Diocese of Saskatchewan:
1989 - Charles John Arthurson
Bishop Burton
At the time of his election in 1993, Bishop Anthony Burton was the youngest bishop in the world-wide Anglican Communion, and the youngest Canadian bishop that century. More than fourteen years later he is the second-youngest of the Canadian bishops, though now one of the most senior and experienced of them. He has just concluded a term as Chair of the Council of the North (representing a third of Canada's dioceses and 85% of its geography). He serves as Co-Chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue and as the Episcopal Visitor to the South American Missionary Society, as well as patron or officer of a variety of institutions, societies and organizations. At the recent General Synod he was elected to its executive committee, the Council of General Synod, and has since been elected by that Council to its planning committee.
Born and raised in Ottawa, Bishop Burton studied at the University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and Oxford University. He was ordained in the Diocese of Nova Scotia, where he served in two parishes on Cape Breton Island, at which time he married Anna Erickson, a native of California. They moved in 1991 to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he served as Dean and Rector of St. Alban's Cathedral. They have two children—Caroline (13) and Peter (11). Bishop Burton has many interests, particularly church growth, Spanish language and culture, and choral music. He is an enthusiastic runner.
Bishop Arthurson
Our Suffragan (assistant) Bishop Charles Arthurson was the first aboriginal bishop in Canada.
Born in 1937 in Norway House, Manitoba, Dr. Arthurson was ordained in 1972 in the Diocese of Keewatin. He has served in the parishes of Shamattawa, 1966-70 (as Catechist); Norway House, Man. (1972-73); Big Trout Lake, Ont. (1974-76); Split Lake, Man. (1976-78); Sioux Lookout, Ont. (1978-83).
In 1983 the Arthursons moved to La Ronge, Sask., whence he was elected Suffragan Bishop in 1989. Bishop Arthurson continues to reside in La Ronge where he serves half time as the parish priest. The other half of his time is spent in episcopal ministry. He is currently the Provincial Chaplain for the Royal Canadian Legion.
Dr. Arthurson married school teacher Faye Bryer in 1968. The Arthursons have two adult children, Devon and Ritchie. Dr. Arthurson is an enthusiastic hockey player for the La Ronge 'Rusty Hookers', and a skilled carpenter.
W.F. Payton's History of the Diocese (1974)
This book-length history was written for the centennial of the Diocese by Archdeacon W.F. Payton. It has been digitized and posted to the internet by Project Canterbury. Click here to read it...
Henry Budd bereaved (1866)
This 1866 bulletin from the Church Missionary Society discusses the Rev. Henry Budd whose wife, adult son, and teenage daughter had died in the span of six weeks.
Bishop John McLean reports (1886)
Bishop John McLean gives an account of his travels in the Diocese of Saskatchewan (and parts of the present-day Diocese of Brandon) in the period immediately following the Riel Rebellion of 1885.
The Last Twenty-Five Years (1924)
Growth of the Church in the Diocese of Saskatchewan from 1900 to 1924 by Canon W.H. English
A note on Stanley Mission (1956)
Harold Kemp meets the son of the first Rector of Stanley Mission and learns from him some details about the construction of the church, particularly how the first shipment of glass was lost in the Churchill rapids and the congregation had to make due with parchment.
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Shane Stillman was on the first leg of a plane trip home from New Orleans this past September. The drummer for Auburn rock band Stone Soul Foundation had upgraded to business class, he recalls, settling into the increased comfort as they took off toward Baltimore.
Stillman had a copy of the British magazine Classic Rock in his lap.
It featured a piece about Stone Soul Foundation.
The guy next to him looked over and struck up a conversation.
"He asked me if I was a musician," Stillman recalls. The man read the article, which predicted that in a year's time, the band would be playing arenas.
Then the man asked a peculiar question, wondering if Stillman had ever heard of the Animal Planet network show "Hillbilly Handfishin'''.
In fact, Stillman had seen a commercial watching with his wife. "I remember saying to her, 'How has television come to this? This has to be made-up crap,'" Stillman says.
He told his next-seat neighbor, "Yeah, I think those people are insane."
The fellow turned out to be Matthew Cohn, casting director for "Hillbilly Handfishin,'" which is Animal Planet's highest rated show.
Three hours later, Stillman had agreed that he and band mate Sean Muldoon would take the trip to Oklahoma to join handfishers Skipper Bivins and Trent Jackson. They would do exactly what the show's name implies: They would try to catch catfish by hand.
One week later, they were in the muddy waters of the Red River in Cotton County, Okla.
The episode premieres at 8 p.m. Sunday on Animal Planet.
The musicians say it was an incredible experience, out there for three days with the two show hosts and fellow guests, a pair of showgirls from Las Vegas and two policemen from Louisiana.
The water was warm, 105 degrees, Muldoon recalls during a phone interview last week. "I kept thinking my hair was a fish, so I kept grabbing it," says the dread-locked Muldoon.
The water was filthy, remembers Stillman. It was shallow, maybe three-feet deep at most because of a local drought. And the current was strong.
"I had a belt on that I'd worn every day to work, a thick leather belt," Stillman says. "After three days in the water, with the silt and sand, it was half as thick. It wore down paper-thin because of the current. Quite impressive."
The local art of catching the big catfish by hand is called noodling.
Stillman was the most successful, hauling in a 40-pound flathead catfish the first day by sticking his hand in its jaw and grappling it out of the open water.
"It was a sensation that you can't really explain," he says. "Like sticking your hand in a belt-sander."
Two days later, Muldoon grabbed his catfish out of a brush pile.
The day before, the noodlers had encountered two poisonous copperhead snakes in a similar spot.
"You have to put all your apprehension and fear aside and stick your hand in that brush pile," he says. "He looked like a good-sized portion for a meal, but not a 40-pounder like Shane's."
Stillman says he was so struck by the experience that he added a new tattoo when he returned to Auburn. The new ink features a 40-pound catfish with Stillman's hand in its mouth.
They'll watch the broadcast premiere Sunday at Daut's Restaurant in their hometown. On the special menu? Catfish, of course.
They'll also hold a 50-50 raffle to help raise funds for the Stone Soul Foundation tour. It starts with a local show Friday night at Suzy's Tavern in Auburn, and then wind west to Ohio, to Illinois, Iowa, Washington and California, then back east to Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest music conference.
That's the city in which they all almost were killed last year when the van and the trailer they were towing were hit from behind on a highway outside of Austin. The four musicians and one technician were shaken up after spinning and crossing four lanes of traffic.
"We hope people are intrigued, and want to see what Stone Soul is all about," Stillman says. "We've been a band for 10 years. We're hoping people love it and want to come see us play, or watch the stream of our Thursday night rehearsals (on ustream.tv)."
The details
What: Sean Muldoon and Shane Stillman, of Auburn band Stone Soul Foundation, appear on Animal Planet network show "Hillbilly Handfishin'.
Episode premieres: 8 p.m. Sunday. Muldoon and Stillman will watch the premiere at Daut's Restaurant, 101 E. Genesee St., Auburn. The party starts at 6 p.m.; the restaurant will serve catfish.
Catch the band play: Stone Soul Foundation plays at 9 p.m. Friday at Suzy's Tavern, 6 Lexington Ave., Auburn.
Live rehearsals: The band recently started a weekly webcast streaming of a Stone Soul Foundation rehearsal, at 9 p.m. Thursdays at ustream.tv.


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Randy Horner, no stranger to working with men's programs after nine years involved with the men's team at Missouri State for nine years prior to arriving on the Lakefront in 2007 will held the team.
A conference that has improved greatly over the last several years awaits the Privateer men, who coach Horner believes has the talent necessary to compete with any of the schools on the road ahead.
Jonas Grundstrom will be top distance contender for the Privateers in the 500 and 1650 free. The native of Sweden is expected to be at the top of the conference in each of those events as well as in the 400 IM. Max Beach from nearby Slidell is also expected to contribute to the distance free events.
Jake Van Roeklel and Bo Wullings are the middle-distance participants for UNO with their biggest impact expected to come in the 200 and 500 free events at the conference championship.
Ash Dougan and Jarryd Gregoire will head up the sprints (50 and 100 free) while other freestyle specialists that should provide depth in the events as the season grows old are Ryan Moss, Alex Tarr, Kevin Tinney and William Bunge.
One of strongest suits for Horner is the breaststroke where the coach expects huge things from the trio of Mark Schindler, Ben Solari and Carlos Araque. The three should fare well at the conference meet with Schindler and Solari expected to contribute in the individual medley.
Jack McMahon, Petar Petrovic and Eric Schneider are the backstroke specialists for the Privateers this year. Petrovic is expected to make the biggest impact while the two others should continue to improve throughout the year.
Birkir Mar Jonsson is the top 100 and 200 fly participant for the Privateers, where he will be joined by Dougan and Gregoire in the 100 fly with Grundstorm contributing in the 200 fly.
Johnny DeMaine and Jonathan Field, both should have a good chance to make a top eight showing or higher at the SBC meet depending on how quickly the develop. The two are very strong freshmen and have several good years ahead of them in the Privateer program.


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Amino Communications recently welcomed Joe Coles as their new SVP product management and marketing. He will contribute to the team more than two decades of work history in the field of semiconductors, telecommunications and mobile. Coles had previously worked with Nokia and Plantronics. There's more about his appointment on this news link.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Tappen Park's annual spring spruce-up takes place on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m., and volunteers – as always – are welcome. The event is part of "It's My Park Day!," a citywide initiative aimed at attracting community residents, especially young people, to help out in the care and maintenance of local parks and other public spaces.
Workshop instruction will be offered in the basics of maintaining a horticultural site, and volunteers will be assigned to work on entrance beds, help with removal of litter and weeds from garden beds, incorporate compost into the soil, plant perennials and ground-cover, mulch the beds, and water, said Kamillah Hanks, president of the Historic Tappen Park Community Partnership (HTPCP).
Sponsors of the afternoon event include Consolidated Edison, City Parks Foundation, Partnership for Parks, the city Department of Parks and Recreation, and HTPCP.
Participating community partners include Eden II Programs, Brighton Heights Reformed Church's Youth Ministry, Bedford Green Park/Roots of Peace Community Garden, and the Van Duzer Civic Association.
"We are so grateful to the Historic Tappen Park Community Partnership and all the volunteers who will be coming out to make Staten Island greener and greater," said Parks Department borough commissioner Adena Long. "The Partnership shows us all year long what volunteers can do for a community, and Tappen Park has certainly reaped the benefits of their hard work."
The nonprofit Historic Tappen Park Community Partnership was founded in 2012 to promote the Park as a venue for community arts, cultural, and educational programs and events, and encourage public and private investment in the beautification of this neighborhood resource.


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MUSKEGON -- A Muskegon radio station has gone off the air.
WMHG (1600 AM) went silent Dec. 31, according to a Grand Rapids official of Clear Channel Communications, the national radio conglomerate that operates 11 stations in West Michigan, including four in Muskegon.
Bart Brandmiller, Clear Channel's regional director of sales for West Michigan, said WMHG went off the air because a Local Marketing Agreement, or LMA, had expired.
WMHG is owned by Atlanta, Ga.-based Cumulus Media but was operated by Clear Channel through the LMA.
WMHG was an automated, satellite-feed station. Its music format, from the ABC Radio Network, broadcast a middle-of-the-road oldies format that featured hits of such artists as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. The format began as "Stardust" in 1998 and in 2007 became known as "Timeless Favorites."
Until the loss of WMHG, Clear Channel had been operating five local stations out of its studio on Green Street in Muskegon Heights: WMRR, WSHZ, WMUS, WKBZ and WMHG. Clear Channel owns all except WMHG, Brandmiller said.
The removal of WMHG is the latest of several local changes at Clear Channel stations in Muskegon.
In November, two longtime employees of a couple of WMHG's sister stations were let go.
No longer with Clear Channel here are Lynn Grant, an on-air personality who occupied the midday slot at WMUS (106.9 FM); and Program Director Don Beano of stations WMRR (101.7 FM) and WSHZ (107.9 FM), the latter of which is promoted as Star 108.
Doug Montgomery, Clear Channel's operations director in Grand Rapids, said Grant and Beano were victims of downsizing.
"We're moving manpower around," Montgomery said. "We've been shifting people around, trying to find the right people in the right positions. Unfortunately, because of circumstances, we did have to have a separation with Don Beano and with Lynn Grant."
Montgomery said midday responsibilities at WMUS are "still in flux. That will be handled from within ... We're still trying to shift some people around."
Beano has been replaced as WMRR program director by Andy O'Reilly, another longtime Clear Channel employee. In addition to programming the station, O'Reilly is WMRR's morning-show announcer.
Montgomery said Tony Brooks, who has worked at WMUS before and also for Clear Channel at country music station WBCT (93.7 FM) in Grand Rapids, has been named program director for WSHZ.


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Often in fiction, [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy creatures]], fireflies or other magical insects get depicted as simple little points of light rather than going for a full design for something so tiny we'll never get a good look at it.
The obvious inspiration is fireflies. It's funny how fireflies often end up behaving in unusual and rather magical ways. In a way, it's an example of the connection between light and magic.
Do not confuse with ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes; this trope is about EnergyBeings or FacelessMasses that may or may not [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles sparkle]]. See also WillOTheWisp and GhostLights.
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* Tinkerbell in ''PeterPan'' is commonly depicted as this, based on the theatrical practice of using a small light reflected from a mirror and a tinkling bell.
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* This trope actually becomes motive for ''murder'' in ''Furuhata Ninzaburou'' a very eccentric editor decides to change the lime-green points of light to ''red'' points of light for the hell of it. The original artist flipped out and bashed the editor's head in. (Art is SeriousBusiness.)
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* ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': The scenes with Ray's family have ''both'' detailed fireflies and points of light....maybe fireflies that are farther away?
* The Pyreflies in Disney's ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' were depicted this way, more or less.
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* In the 1999 film version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the fairy characters have this form at the beginning of the movie, when they arrive, and at the end, when they leave.
* The ghosts/angels in the opening of ''ItsAWonderfulLife'' are seen as celestial bodies that flicker when they speak.
* Done with the tail-end UFO in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
* Bit from ''{{Tron}}'' is the personification of an on-off bit. It is basically a Disney sidekick fairy [[InSpace in Cyberspace]].
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* Some of the smaller [[ElementalEmbodiment spren]] in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' are described as this such as lifespren (small green sparks) and rotspren (tiny red points of light).
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Harry summons a tiny glowing pixie named [[PunnyName Elidee]] to serve as a guide in ''Literature/SummerKnight''. She has a body, but you have to look very closely.
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* ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' has this regard to the Sidhe. They are depicted as blue points of light, but due to Merlin's magic powers, we get some lovely FX shots of them in all their scary magical glory.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** The nanogenes in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]].
** The Megara from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood "The Stones of Blood"]].
* On ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the microscopic [[SiliconBasedLife crystalline aliens]] referred to humans as "[[HumansAreUgly ugly bags of mostly water]]."
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Fear, Itself", Willow summons a fairy like this to guide her out of the haunted house. However, the spell is warped by the demon haunting the place and her own lack of focus, leading to her being chased around by a swarm of little floating lights.
* The fairy in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is shown on screen as a ball of golden light. When you get a closer look, though...
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* In ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', any game ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' or later (unless it's ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'') depicts fairies as a ball of glowing light with dragonfly wings.
** Additionally in ''Ocarina of Time'', the air of the Kokiri forest is full of small, flying dots of light.
* The fairies in the first ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' game are little balls of light of various colors. The ones in the fourth game, however, are far more detailed.
* All the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games have fireflies shown as points of light, until you catch one of them.
* A magical spell in ''VideoGame/{{Nox}}'' summons a small swarm of fairies that circle Jack until an enemy approaches, at which point they go kamikaze on the enemy. The fairies never appear as anything more than yellow sparks.
* Fairies in ''VideoGame/{{Stonekeep}}'' can apparently switch between spark-fairy mode and detailed mode.
* Flying points of light (presumably insects) are an important plot element in one Are of ''VideoGame/{{Uru}}''. They're attracted to your character, but dislike crossing water or getting rained on.


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CONCORD, Mass. — Police in Massachusetts investigating the death of a boy whose body was found along a dirt road in Maine have taken a woman they were questioning to hospital for a medical evaluation.
The body was discovered Saturday in South Berwick, a town on the New Hampshire border. Police have labeled his death suspicious. In trying to determine his identity, investigators issued a computer-enhanced image depicting a boy with blond hair and blue eyes. Authorities believe he was 4 to 6 years old.
A telephone tip led police to the woman Wednesday at a highway rest stop in Chelmsford.
According to ABC News, a state trooper approached a woman in a blue Toyota Tacoma truck at a rest area off Interstate 495 in Chelmsford, Mass., and asked if she needed assistance.
Police sources told ABC News that the woman, who is in her 40s, responded: "I killed my son. I want to kill myself."
WBZ-TV, the CBS News affiliate in Boston, said the boy has been identified as 6-year-old Camden Pierce Hughes, of Texas. Sources told the TV station that the boy's mother, Juli McCrery of Irving, Texas, has confessed to giving her son an overdose of medication that resulted in his death.
Around 4:30 p.m., McCrery was taken from the state police barracks in Concord, Mass., to a local hospital for a mental health evaluation, WBZ said.
McCrery was arrested in 2004 for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and in 2009 for prostitution. Both arrests took place in Texas, WBZ reported.
Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio says a recent development has led to New Hampshire prosecutors taking control of the case. He declined to elaborate. State police detectives from Maine are also involved in the probe.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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» Mom questioned in son's death [Boston Herald]
» Boy Found Dead in Maine Reportedly Identified [The Maine Public Broadcasting Network]
» Mother of Mystery Maine Boy Confesses to Killing Son and Dumping Him on Rural Road: Sources [ABC News]
» Complex portrait emerges of woman questioned in death of boy found in Maine [The Boston Globe]


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Washington -- A leader of the Onondaga Nation was given the honor today of opening the annual White House Tribal Nations Conference that brought together top leaders from 566 federally recognized tribes.
Onondaga Tadodaho Sid Hill offered the opening greeting as he stood with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at the conference in the Interior Department headquarters in Washington.
The daylong conference gives American Indian leaders the chance to interact directly with President Barack Obama and top members of his administration.
Each recognized nation was allowed to send one representative to the conference. The Oneida Nation sent Brian Patterson, a council member from the Bear Clan.
Patterson said in an interview that tribal leaders had substantive discussions with Obama administration officials, and liked what they heard when President Obama addressed the group at its closing session this afternoon.
"The message was very well received," Patterson said. "It fills me with hope and optimism that we can begin to address those issues that have affected Indian Country for generations."
Patterson said he was particularly pleased with discussions about economic development and ending poverty. He said he will leave it to administration officials to discuss specific initiatives that will follow the conference.
Joe Heath, a Syracuse lawyer who represents the Onondaga Nation, said its leaders had no specific issues to raise with administration officials at the conference.
Heath also was in Washington today with Onondaga leaders to discuss other issues, but he declined to elaborate.
Today's gathering is the fourth White House Tribal Nations Conference for President Obama's administration. The White House says the idea of the annual gatherings is to "strengthen the government to government relationship with Indian Country."
Tribal leaders spent most of the day in breakout sessions to discuss a broad range of common issues.
President Obama received a warm welcome to chants of "four more years" when he was introduced during the closing session of the conference this afternoon. One leader suggested in jest that Obama was the nation's first American Indian president.
"Think about it for a second," said event chairman Brian Cladoosby of the Swinomish Nation. "The president loves basketball. He has an Indian name, he knows what it's like to be poor and he hasn't forgotten where he came from. And his theme song is 'Hail to the Chief.' I think he definitely qualifies as the first American Indian president. "
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Ever have a tourist stop you on the street or at your place of business and ask you where a good place is to eat?
Or head to a town in the outskirts of the Adirondacks that you're not very familiar with and not know where to get dinner?
Two Long Lakers are trying to help you out.
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Authors Molly Irvine and Matt DeLaMater hold their book about local eating Friday at the Blue Moon Cafe in Saranac Lake.
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Matt DeLaMater and Molly Irvine recently put on the market a book called "Adirondack Eats Restaurant Guide."
As someone who waited tables in Long Lake since she was 14, Irvine said people constantly asked her where they should eat the following night.
"We saw that there was a need for it, or we thought that there might be," Irvine said.
So starting in May 2010, the pair started talking to everyone they could in the Adirondacks about where they liked to eat out. They cornered friends in bars and sent out messages over Facebook to poll people on their restaurant preferences.
Then, after narrowing down their selections a bit, they started visiting restaurants throughout the region. When they were at a restaurant, they'd try to talk to people there and find out things about the place like what it's best known for, all without tipping workers off that they were writing a book so their food and service weren't affected.
They visited about 90 places throughout the Adirondacks, splitting them up into four regions.
"There's been a lot of driving," Irvine said.
She bought a brand-new car last fall that already has 17,000 miles on it.
The book consists of longer reviews for Irvine and DeLaMater's top 46 restaurants, plus a "Local Lowdown" section that has shorter reviews and listing information for more eateries. For consistency's sake, Irvine wrote the "Local Lowdown" sections while DeLaMater wrote the Top 46 reviews.
The whole book is broken up into four regional sections: north, south/east, central and western. Saranac Lake and Lake Placid are included in the north region, and the list includes local favorites like Liquids and Solids and the Lake Placid Pub and Brewery in Lake Placid, and the Lakeview Deli and Eat 'n' Meet Grill in Saranac Lake. Tupper Lake is included in the central region, and the Lumberjack Inn is included in the top 46 for that region.
Through the reviews, the authors try to be informative and helpful while also being entertaining.
The book also includes a section at the beginning that talks about the challenges of running a restaurant in the Adirondacks. Since Irvine has worked in a lot of restaurants and both she and DeLaMater have a lot of friends in the service industry, they know how difficult it is for restaurants in tiny hamlets like Long Lake to go from 10 tables on a weekend night in the winter to 200 in the summer. They want visitors to understand that.
"If you come here expecting Manhattan efficiency on July Fourth, you're probably going to be a little disappointed," DeLaMater said.
One of the most challenging things about writing the book is that it tries to cater to a wide range of eaters: from Manhattanites to people on camping trips to locals.
"It's such a diverse range of people looking for all different things," DeLaMater said.
That means Irvine and DeLaMater had to compare the Tap Room in Raquette Lake to barVino in North Creek, which are very opposite ends of the spectrum. They didn't always agree on the rankings and had to fight most of them out.
And even now, they look back and question some of their decisions. At a recent brunch at the Blue Moon Cafe, Irvine said she thinks it might have been a good idea to include that place in the Top 46.
They hope to update the book yearly, since the restaurant world can change rapidly in this area, with chefs leaving or a place closing at the drop of a hat.
That shouldn't be too hard, since they never stop critiquing restaurants even when they're not doing research for a book. At the Blue Moon, DeLaMater expressed skepticism when ordering the corned beef hash, but when he gave it a try, he proclaimed it totally worthwhile and said he'll never come to the cafe again without ordering it.
They're also looking for feedback from readers on their own experiences with Adirondack restaurants. Irvine said people can submit them at the book's website, www.adirondackrestaurantguide.com.
The book is now available for sale at the Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid, Eat 'n' Meet in Saranac Lake, Hoss's Country Corner and the Adirondack Hotel in Long Lake, and various other locations around the area; Irvine and DeLaMater are working on getting it into more stores. It's also available on www.amazon.com or at the book's website.


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As you know, when Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time makes its debut next year (February 5, 2013), it'll come out on both the PlayStation 3 and the PS Vita. The developers over at Sanzaru Games wanted to give players a reason to own both version of the game, and they do this by providing what they call Augmented Reality treasures. Sly Cooper games have always been jampacked with collectibles, and Thieves in Time is no different. With this feature, the Vita will serve as a tool to help you find these collectibles. For a thorough explanation and to see it in action, check out the video above.
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Over on the PlayStation Blog EU Steve Oldacre (of development studio Devil's Details) has announced an upcoming multiplayer AR game for the Vita titled Table Top Tanks. As the the name suggests, Vita owners will be able to use the augmented reality power of their handhelds to hold small tank skirmishes within their immediate real-life environments. The game also supports ad-hoc (local) multiplayer for competitive play.
To up the stakes and scale of the battles, Oldacre also suggests printing off A4-sized AR markers (found here) to set up larger matches on the floor if a table is too small.
Table Top Tanks will be available on the Vita's Store on May 23rd for €1.99.