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Its a pretty mature area, I see a lot of seniors around there and a lot of them that do make it out to the library. If you checked that library 20-30 years ago it was full to the rafters. Just like any current area where most of the family populations are. Bonnie Doon is a seniors and adult area now. Not as many kids anymore.
I don't go to NHL games out of principal. We all make our personal decisions. I do support other teams, U of A especially. Eskimos as well. FC Edmonton. I just prefer going to events and hobnobbing with regular folk. Pro hockey is just feeling too much of the ritz for me. I can't relate to the players.
Can't argue that, the bonnie doon/holyrood/ottewell area is pretty much a giant seniors home these days. There was a community vote last year deciding whether or not to keep ottewell road and a couple others at 40km/hr, and there's no chance in hell it would still be that slow if it wasn't for the age of the voters in favor. There seems to be a lot of young families moving into ottewell in the past few years though. Drive around the area at 3:30 and it's a mess of kids.
Getting a bit off topic here so I'll stop after this post, but I really think the need for libraries is decreasing as technology increases. You can find good information on anything online, and things like Kindles make reading books incredibly convenient.
I go to UAlberta games occasionally, and enjoy watching them. I actually know a couple guys on the team, and that makes things a little more exciting. I have gone out and watched the bantam phenom Tyler Benson a couple times, and that's also enjoyable. But I do that for the love of hockey, which is an entirely different thing than my love of the Oilers. I will never be able to feel the same passion for any team as much as I do them.
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What I got from is that people take the full amount of time given to get the job done, even when much less time is needed to accomplish the task. Sure the results were pretty, but they also had a lot of extra bells and whistles that weren't necessary for function. If people would just accomplish the task, and move onto the next one, without regard for the time given, things would get done more efficiently. ...I think?
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The humorous adage of Cyril Parkinson that "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."?
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Dividend investing was a popular strategy for obtaining income until the bull market of 1980s and 1990s made high-flying growth stocks all the rage — but that may be changing. In today's market environment, which is dominated by improving corporate fundamentals and low fixed-income yields, dividend-paying stocks could re-emerge as an important component of investors' portfolios.
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The Case for Dividend-Paying Stocks: Improving Corporate Fundamentals
Economic factors often affect a company's decision to pay dividends. During economic slowdowns, many cyclical companies see their cash-flows decline, so they preserve capital in order to ensure their continued existence. That was particularly true during the most recent recession, when the availability of credit dried up to an unprecedented degree. In fact, 2009 was the worst year on record for dividends, according to the Standard & Poor index (S&P). The number of companies slashing dividends rose by 631 percent to 804 issues, while the number of dividend increases fell by 36 percent to 1191.
The result of the hoarding of cash during recessions, however, is often a release of cash in the form of dividends when the economy starts to stabilize and companies see improved earnings and renewed strength in their corporate balance sheets.
This may be the case today. U.S. companies are currently sitting on more than $3 trillion of cash, which represents 14.9 percent of total assets on their balance sheets, according to FactSet as of September 30, 2010. Over the past year, says FactSet, a financial data and software company, companies within the S&P 500 index have increased their dividends per share by three percent.
Companies have two options for this cash: reinvestment or increased dividends. Many have recently chosen to increase dividends. One case-in-point is Microsoft, which in September 2010 announced that its board of directors had authorized a quarterly dividend of $0.16 per share, a move that reflected a $0.03 or 23-percent increase over the dividend issued the previous quarter. Another example: In November 2010, Equifax announced that it is increasing its quarterly dividend by 300 percent to $0.16 per share and placing a greater focus on dividends in the future by increasing its dividend payout ratio to 25 percent to 35 percent of adjusted net income.
But either option — reinvesting in the business or increasing dividends — could boost economic growth and lead to higher interest rates, in which case total returns of fixed-income securities would be negatively impacted, because bond prices move in the opposite direction of yields. And low prices of fixed-income make another compelling case for a comeback in dividend-paying stocks.
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The past 10 years have seen two major bear markets in equities, both of which have led investors into the perceived safety of fixed-income products. For the past three years ending July 31, 2010, for example, bond funds have seen $644 billion in net flows, whereas equity funds have only $42 billion, according to Strategic Insight.
Yields on fixed-income products are almost unbelievably low. For example, we've recently seen a number of blue chip companies issue new intermediate-term bonds with coupons below three percent. In fact, 149 companies in the S&P 500 Index had dividend yields above their intermediate corporate bond yields as of September 30, 2010, according to FactSet.
This flight to safety, combined with expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve Board could keep its benchmark federal funds rate low for some time to come, pushed the yield on the 10-Year U.S. Treasury below 2.5 percent in September 2010. That's the first time since 1954 that has happened, according to the Fed.
As a result, dividend-paying stocks appear attractive relative to bonds right now. As of August 31, 2010, the spread between the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield and the S&P 500 Index dividend yield was only 50 basis points. That's extremely narrow compared to the median spread of 328 basis points since April 1, 1953, which reflects the earliest records maintained by the Fed.
It's certainly the case that interest rates could fall in the short term, leading prices of fixed-income securities to rise, but the writing is on the wall: at some point that Fed has to unwind the easing it's put into place over the past several years and raise interest rates.
In preparation for this, many financial advisors are making the case that investors should prepare themselves for when interest rates eventually rise by stepping back into equities today.
In our opinion, it's not a bad idea: Mutual fund net flows were this out of whack only one other time in the past 20 years, from the first quarter of 1991 to the third quarter of 1992 — and over the subsequent three years, from the fourth quarter of 1992 through the third quarter of 1995, the S&P 500 Index delivered cumulative returns of 51.89 percent, according to consulting firm Strategic Insight as of June 30, 2010.
Who Pays Dividends?
Dividends are typically paid by mature, stable companies that have achieved stable cash-flows and are confident that they will be able to support the dividend with future earnings.
But these companies aren't necessarily slow-growth businesses. Certainly, traditional wisdom may suggest that companies with high-dividend payout ratios have lower earnings growth than companies with low dividend payout ratios. But take a look at the world and you'll see that many companies with high-dividend payout ratios actually have higher earnings growth than companies with lower dividend payout ratios. A 2003 study published in the CFA Institute's Financial Analyst Journal explained why: High-dividend payout ratios impose discipline on corporate management teams, forcing them to invest only in those projects with the best chance of adding value, which increases the company's profitability.
Beyond mature, stable companies, dividends can typically be found in certain industries. For example, companies in industries with stable cash-flows, such as utilities, typically pay high dividends; companies in capital-intensive industries, such as aerospace, typically do not.
Many investors may also look abroad for dividend-paying stocks. To start, the international equity markets provide a broader universe of stock with high dividend yields. While there are 116 U.S. stocks with market capitalizations greater than $1 billion that have dividend yields greater than five percent, 530 international stocks meet those criteria, according to Morningstar as of August 31, 2010. Additionally, dividends may be higher abroad — developed Europe, emerging Europe, developed Asia, emerging Asia and emerging Latin America all offered higher dividend yields (1.92% to 3.07%) than North America (1.86%) as of August 31, 2010, according to FactSet.
Who Wants Dividends?
Your clients may want dividends especially those who are near retirement. There are currently more than 60 million baby boomers in the U.S. and most of them will retire over the next two decades. Most of these retirees will generate income in retirement through Social Security, but many will need to generate their income through their investment portfolios, in which case they may well be interested in investing in dividend-paying stocks. CPAs would be wise to be prepared to answer their questions with knowledge of dividend-investing strategies and tax implications.
Alan Haft is an investment advisor representative with an insurance license, author of three books including the national bestseller,You Can Never Be Too Rich and makes frequent appearances in national print, television and radio media such as The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, CNBC, BusinessWeek and many others. The amounts represented in this article should all be considered hypothetical and for example only.
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So, this means that when a man cries it's rarer and, so, it's usually more meaningful. These two photos made an indelible impression on my mind when I first saw them 40 years ago.
Men tend to be more left-hemisphere orientated, more logical and less creative than their right-brained counterparts, women.
Women are generally known to have a lower pain threshold than men (I once saw a woman cry because she had broke a plastic fingernail!), and men almost consider it a sign of manliness to take the punishment (and they'll even brag about hurting themselves).
Listen to newbielink:http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/21973030#21973030 [nonactive] ... tell me if a woman could ever do what he had to do? Please, someone suggest that a woman could have done what he did (and don't talk childbirth, because what he did wasn't anything like childbirth -- women are made to endure childbirth for the most part)!
The right-brain/left-brain myth is long dispelled and regarded only as a metaphor by today's neuroscientists. People do exhibit hemispheric dominance, but that has mostly to do with handedness and in no way manifests itself in someone's personality or skills being more right brain or left brain.
For the record, I don't mean this as a personal attack against anyone. Just remember that the culture in which you grew up has taught you well to conform to the stereotypes and thanks to your confirmation bias you're less likely to seek evidence against them.
Another aspect is that women suffer depression more than men
Quote from: Jessica H on 01/03/2010 02:54:46Another aspect is that women suffer depression more than menThat's interesting; I didn't know that; have you got a reference for that stat? I'd be interested to read a bit more about it.Chris
Who develops mental health problems? Women are more likely to have been treated for a mental health problem than men (29% compared to 17%).This could be because, when asked, women are more likely to report symptoms of common mental health problems. - Better Or Worse: A Longitudinal Study Of The Mental HealthOf Adults In Great Britain, National Statistics (2003) Depression is more common in women than men. 1 in 4 women will require treatment for depression at some time, compared to 1 in 10 men. The reasons for this are unclear, but are thought to be due to both social and biological factors. It has also been suggested that depression in men may have been under diagnosed because they present to their GP with different symptoms.- National Institute For Clinical Excellence (2003) Women are twice as likely to experience anxiety as men. Of people with phobias or OCD, about 60% are female.- The Office for National Statistics Psychiatric Morbidity report (2001) Men are more likely than women to have an alcohol or drug problem. 67% of British people who consume alcohol at hazardous levels, and 80% of those dependent on alcohol are male. Almost three quarters of people dependent on cannabis and 69% of those dependent on other illegal drugs are male.- The Office for National Statistics Psychiatric Morbidity report (2001) In general, rates of mental health problems are thought to be higher in minority ethnic groups than in the white population, but they are less likely to have their mental health problems detected by a GP.- Inside Outside: Improving Mental Health Services For Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in England, NationalInstitute For Mental Health In England (2003) One in four unemployed people has a common mental health problem- The Office for National Statistics Psychiatric Morbidity report (2001)


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Dear Advocate,
Fifteen years ago today on August 11, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13166. This law vastly increased access to government services by requiring that Federal agencies implement translation services to aid the limited English proficient. Prior to this order, access to in-language materials and translators were never a guarantee, even in areas with high Asian American and Pacific Islander populations. However in the past decade and a half, federal agencies that have embraced these changes have gone a long way towards ensuring access to important federal programs for the one-third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who are limited English proficient.
Yet the fight for equal language access is far from over. Implementation of 13166 has not been perfect and OCA, in conjunction with our community partners, is working hard to ensure that the concerns of the AAPI community are heard. Part of the problem is educating public officials about how government policies affect our extremely diverse community. For example, although Healthcare.gov provided Chinese language access with good intentions, the website only had the traditional characters available that are common in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, and not the simplified characters, that are in common usage in mainland China. This left a significant number of the 1.6 million Limited English Proficient Chinese linguistically isolated and without full access for the entire community. Earlier this year, OCA wrote a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Burwell asking her to correct this and ensure that these two widely used written languages are made available.
Examples of the most egregious language access violations take place in the voting booth. Voting site monitors have reported errors in translation of voting materials, improper guidance from interpreters, and voters being turned away from voting booths simply because they do not speak English. A denial of the right to vote is a denial of our voice, preventing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from participating in the democratic process.
We took the first steps to correct this problem but it is now time to recommit ourselves to the task of improving language access. If we fail to do so, we are leaving some of the most underserved and impoverished individuals in our community with no way to improve their lives and no voice in our democracy to change it. In many respects, part of our challenge as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is that our community encompasses so many different languages and dialects. We encompass the full spectrum of political thought, economic success, and educational achievement. But to be successful in attaining our common goals, we must come together. When we speak as one, our voices cannot be ignored. When we act as one, our hard work is rewarded.
Michael W. Kwan
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Matt Kenseth
(No. 17 Ford, Roush Racing): Kenseth's first NASCAR Winston Cup victory came in the Coca-Cola 600 three years ago. He has three top-10 finishes in seven starts at Lowe's Motor Speedway. He finished second in last year's Coca-Cola 600. However, he ended up a disappointing 34th in the fall race at the track because of engine problems. (Related Item: Winston Cup season leaders)
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
(No. 8 Chevrolet, Dale Earnhardt Inc.): Earnhardt, who has been in top 10 in points for eight consecutive race weeks, will be chasing his sixth consecutive top-six finish of the season in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600. ... Earnhardt has enjoyed two Winston Cup career milestones at Lowe's Motor Speedway — first start (May 30, 1999) and first pole (May 24, 2000). In seven career starts at the speedway, he has posted three top-10 finishes.
Kurt Busch
(No. 97 Ford, Roush Racing): Busch, who has been ranked among the top five in points for six consecutive race weeks, has struggled at Lowe's Motor Speedway. He needed a provisional start to make the field in his first three appearances, beginning in fall 2000, and started 24th in last season's Coca-Cola 600. He started 12th in the fall race there last year. He managed two finishes among the top 13 from those three provisional starting positions, including a best of 12th in the 2001 race.
Jeff Gordon
(No. 24 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports): Gordon is tied with Mark Martin for most wins among active drivers at Lowe's Motor Speedway with four, and he also has registered 11 top-five efforts in 20 career starts there. ... Three of those wins have come in the Coca-Cola 600, including his first career Winston Cup victory May 29, 1994. The other triumphs came in 1997 and '98.
Bobby Labonte
(No. 18 Chevrolet, Joe Gibbs Racing): Labonte heads to the Coca-Cola 600 well ahead of his pace at this same time last season, when he was ranked 22nd. ... His current fifth-place ranking — which matches his season best after his win at Atlanta — has been fueled by three consecutive runner-up performances. ... Labonte has enjoyed considerable success at Lowe's Motor Speedway — 13 top-10 finishes in 20 career starts — and earned his first Winston Cup win in this race May 28, 1995.
Jimmie Johnson
(No. 48 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports): Johnson has a limited history at Lowe's Motor Speedway but is quickly making it one of his favorite tracks to visit. He made his first career Winston Cup start there Oct. 7, 2001, and although he did not find success that day (he finished 39th), he has enjoyed it ever since. Last season Johnson won the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 and led 263 laps en route to a seventh-place finish. In the fall he started third, led 66 laps and finished sixth. This past weekend he enhanced his resume at the track by winning The Winston all-star event for a $1 million payday.
Michael Waltrip
(No. 15 Chevrolet, Dale Earnhardt Inc.): Waltrip, who joins Jimmie Johnson as the only drivers to be ranked in the Winston Cup top 10 for the entire season, enjoyed a career milestone in the Coca-Cola 600 but didn't have much else to celebrate there during his career until last season. He made his first career Winston Cup start at Lowe's Motor Speedway on May 26, 1985, finishing 28th. He has nine top-10 finishes in 36 career starts, including one in his last 12 starts, but he made some strides last year, finishing eighth in the Coca-Cola 600, his best finish at the track since also finishing eighth in the race in 1996.
Kevin Harvick
(No. 29 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing): Harvick, who was 31st in the standings at this time a year ago, has been in the top 10 for five consecutive race weeks heading to a track in which he impressed in 2001 and struggled in 2002. ... Harvick and Richard Childress will accompany teammate Robby Gordon on Thursday morning when he flies to Indianapolis for Carburetion Day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The trio will then fly back to Charlotte in time for the afternoon practice for the Coca-Cola 600.
Rusty Wallace
(No. 2 Dodge, Penske Racing): Wallace made his first appearance in the top 10 this season after the Richmond race and heads to a track that may help keep him in that group. He has five top-10 finishes in his last seven starts at Lowe's Motor Speedway, including the last three races there. Wallace finished seventh in the fall of 2001, 10th in last season's Coca-Cola 600 and fifth in last fall's race. ... Wallace owns two victories at the speedway, the first coming in the fall of 1988 and the second in the 1990 Coca-Cola 600.
Sterling Marlin
(No. 40 Dodge, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates): Marlin made his first appearance in the top 10 this season after Richmond, marking his first time among the group since last fall. ... Marlin won the fall race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in 2001. His Dodge continued its streak there last year when replacement driver Jamie McMurray scored his first career Winston Cup win in the same race.
Ricky Craven
(No. 32 Pontiac, PPI Motorsports): Though Craven certainly has experienced some significant ups and downs in 2003 — and we're just hitting the end of the first third of the season — he is optimistic about a good finish Sunday. Craven is coming off a 10th-place showing last Saturday in The Winston all-star event.
Mark Martin
(No. 6 Ford, Roush Racing): Martin is the defending winner of the Coca-Cola 600, breaking a 71-race winless streak when he took the checkered flag in last year's endurance contest. ... Last year's win vaulted Martin back into the thick of the Winston Cup championship chase; he ultimately finished second to Tony Stewart.
Robby Gordon
(No. 31 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing): Gordon will attempt to complete a racing double this Sunday, starting on the outside of the front row in the Indianapolis 500 and then flying to Charlotte to compete in the Coca-Cola 600. ... Gordon completed his first true double last year when he finished eighth at Indianapolis and 16th at Charlotte. Gordon has logged five top-10 finishes in eight Indianapolis 500 starts and was leading on the next-to-last lap of the 1999 race before running out of fuel (he finished fourth). ... Busch Series driver Ron Hornaday will be on standby Sunday to fill in for Gordon at Charlotte if needed. Hornaday will practice in Gordon's car for a few laps Saturday, as required by NASCAR, in case he's needed to drive the car Sunday.
Joe Nemechek
(No. 25 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports): Hendrick Motorsports will join forces with the U.S. Navy this weekend at Lowe's Motor Speedway, where all four of the team's Winston Cup entries will display decals from fighter squadrons of the USS Nimitz, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. "We're honored to carry the colors of the Nimitz and these eight squadrons," team owner Rick Hendrick said. "Everyone at Hendrick Motorsports supports our troops and the sacrifices they're making for the rest of us."
Jeff Burton
(No. 99 Ford, Roush Racing): Burton has won twice at Lowe's Motor Speedway, the Coca-Cola 600 in 1999 and 2001. Burton has won at least one race at the speedway in each of the last four years, winning in the Busch Series in the fall of 2000 and 2002. ... Burton has five top-five and nine top-10 finishes at the speedway, including five top-10s in his last eight starts there.
Elliott Sadler
(No. 38 Ford, Robert Yates Racing): You don't have to tell Sadler about the significance Sunday's race has upon the NASCAR community. "Winston Cup teams place a huge emphasis on a few races on the schedule, and the Coca-Cola 600 is one of them," Sadler said. "(The Charlotte area is) home for almost all of the teams and crewmembers, and there is a great sense of pride for the winner of the 600. The guys work harder in the shop to make sure everything can last that extra 100 miles, and we ran an engine combination last weekend at The Winston that's very similar to the one we're taking back for this weekend."
Tony Stewart
(No. 20 Chevrolet, Joe Gibbs Racing): Stewart is a stock car driver, a role he's quite comfortable with and affirmed by his 2002 Winston Cup championship. But Indy-car racing is what brought Stewart to stock car racing. Stewart will watch Sunday's Indianapolis 500 with interest, but his main focus of the day will be on the Coca-Cola 600. "The thing with the 600 is that when you start the race it's still daytime and it's still fairly warm," he said. "Throughout the race the temperature keeps going down and the track conditions keep changing. It's just a matter of making sure that you're staying up with the changing track conditions."
Terry Labonte
(No. 5 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports): Three weeks ago at Richmond, Labonte won his first Winston Cup pole in nearly three years. And even though he finished a disappointing 21st in the race, Labonte is still riding a streak that has seen him record five of his top seven finishes of the season, including a fifth-place showing at Talladega and a 12th-place outing at California.
Bill Elliott
(No. 9 Dodge, Ray Evernham Motorsports): Despite breaking his foot in a crash in The Winston, Elliott still will attempt to drive in the Coca-Cola 600. "We're working on making sure I'm comfortable in the car," Elliott said. Ted Musgrave will be Elliott's standby driver Sunday, just in case. ... This will be Elliott's 53rd career start at Lowe's Motor Speedway. He has two wins, four poles, 10 top-fives and 21 top-10s at the track.
Dave Blaney
(No. 77 Ford, Jasper Motorsports): While most of his attention will be focused on Sunday's race, Blaney will have some additional gravy on his plate: He'll compete in the second of his 10 scheduled Busch Series events of the season Saturday, driving the No. 31 Ford in the Carquest Auto Parts 300 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Blaney also will race in the June 1 Busch Series event at Dover, Del., before taking a hiatus. He'll return to Busch Series competition July 12 at Chicago.
Dale Jarrett (No. 88 Ford, Robert Yates Racing): hopes to begin a significant turnaround Sunday. Jarrett has three wins at Lowe's Motor Speedway, his most recent coming in fall 1997. ... Jack Sprague (No. 0 Pontiac, Haas CNC Racing) will be competing in hisfirst Winston Cup points race at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Sunday. ... Ryan Newman (No. 12 Dodge, Penske Racing) won The Winston all-star event last year but finished 41st in the Coca-Cola 600 the following week after blowing an engine a fourth of the way into NASCAR's longest race.


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AMP said the duplication created by its acquisition of financial services groups Pearl, NPI and London Life would enable the combined workforce to be cut by more than 20%, saving about £100m a year. The move is expected to trigger one-off costs of about £30m.
AMP is in the throes of rebranding the companies' products to include its own name as a prefix, such as AMP Pearl, in a bid to increase its recognition in Britain.
Many of the jobs will go in Bristol, Peterborough, Tunbridge Wells and Bracknell. Fewer than 20 are expected to be lost in London.
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Just Another Story About Writer's Block
The title says it all. This is just a little ditty to get my writing juices flowing again...
There was nothing there.
An empty hole that seemed to tease him with a tangent, an idea, a base, and then pulled it back at the last second, showing him how futile and stupid and idiotic and boring that tangent, idea, base was.
In other words, nothing.
He picked up his head from his keyboard, pulling his hair back from his forehead with one hand as he did so. There were deep indentations in his skin from the keys that he had been pounding his head against for the past month. In all that time, nothing had grown and flourished except the content of the recycle bin, full of test documents cointaining opening paragraphs, plot points, and shallow characters. On top of it all, his computer started freezing whenever he opened up the Internet!
The would-be author stood up from his desk and let out an exasperated sigh, letting his hair fall back to its original state. What could possibly help him out of this mess. He had deadlines to meet and bills to pay! He had no time for this stupid brain blockage!
Seeing nothing better to do than get another cup of coffee with two sugars and half a bottle of creamer in it, the author set out for the kitchen...


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"That's great and all. . . .but neither of us use that kind of magic!" Roland exclaimed.
"Get Jon over here!" Gwen yelled at him.
Soon enough, Jon was awakened and trying to start a fire with lightning magic. They didn't have much time now.
Derrick turned, and saw Thomas Aquos between flashes of Jon's lightning.
"Hey, kid!" he called. "Come here and help me, I've got an idea."
Thomas rushed across the cave floor to Derrick, tripping and stumbling over stray rocks and things. Derrick grabbed the boy and turned so he was sheltered from flying rock shards.
"You're a born strategist. Can you name what things and abilites we will need, and what we can work with?"
"I. . ." Thomas paused a frightened look on his face.
"Derrick, this is not the time for a magic lesson!" Kiandra exclaimed.
From far off, they heard a noise of something moving through the tunnel.
"He can do this." Derrick snapped back. "Speak already, Aquos! We're running out of time. Jon is already helping with his part of the plan, so just go from there!"
"Uh. . . .You can use any magic you want, so if you could manipulate the fire to expand, it'd help." Thomas spoke quickly. "Gwen and I are pretty well useless down here, so if we run the two of us should stay in the middle of the group. Uh. . . "
"Keep talking!" Derrick ordered.
"Let's see. . .um . .You, lady," Thomas looked at Kianrda. "What can you do?"
"I'm limited to a few natural elements at the moment." Kiandra replied quickly.
"When we all pass a certain corridor, could you put up an earth wall? I wish we had a way to make a spell last longer, that would be-"
"Leave that to me." Derrick cut in. "You, boy, you're brilliant! Jon, Gwendolyn! We have an idea!"
Ten minutes later, they were all running down a tunnel away from the sightless snake (according to Roland's directions, they had to go right instead of left from the fork they took), and Kiandra put up a wall.
"Perfect!" Thomas exclaimed, nodding to Derrick.
"Spell select, every fleck, freeze!" Derrick called. "Kiandra, release the magic. I've a hold on it."
"Done!" Kiandra replied.
"Let's go, before it tries to hunt us!' Gwen called.


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By Elizabeth Belugina
Japan will release GDP figures early on Monday. According to the expectations, the nation's economy contracted by almost 2% in Q2. In addition, don't miss Japanese trade balance data on Wednesday: this release will show how the nation's economy is doing in Q3. It looks like the exports growth has significantly slowed in July – a bad sign for Japan which creates the risk of a second quarter of contraction in a row.
As China is Japan's major trading partner, yuan's devaluation will affect Japan and its trade balance provoking further stress for Japan's economy. On Thursday there will be the Bank of Japan's meeting and press conference. The central bank has not made any new steps since it last expanded massive asset purchases in October 2014. According to the recent comments of the regulator, the central bank thinks that this is enough to reach 2% inflation target. However, traders will still expect more from the central bank if economic data continue deteriorating.
USD/JPY once again was not able to show sustainable growth above 125.00. Further resistance is at 125.30 and 125.85 ahead of 126.00. Support is at 123.85, 123.00 and 122.60. We still think that the pair is not ready for a big break to the upside unless of a dovish surprise from the Bank of Japan.


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Scum Surfin' with Witching WavesMarch 10, 2016 at 7:04 pm | Posted in DIY, Music, Vinyl | 2 Comments
Tags: Beat Happening, Dischord, Electrelane, HHBTM, Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, Soft Power, Th' Faith Healers, Wire, Witching Waves
Full of buzzing noisy guitars that trace their lineage back through a jagged line connected by th' Faith Healers, Pixies and Wire, Wichting Waves second album Crystal Cafe is sure to of interest for folks who like noise rock with gashes of melody and ambient interludes. The band have professed a love of Sleater-Kinney, Dischord Records and Beat Happening and there is certainly a DIY aesthetic to their music. It's raw sounding but their talent shines and rounds a lot of the rougher edges. Opener Twister features a swirling riff and Emma Wigham singing. Seeing Double switches to Mark Jasper singing /shouting. Back and forth it goes at a herky-jerky pace with a couple instrumental interludes that give you some time take stock and reflect right in the middle of the maelstrom.
If Kurt Cobain were still alive I could see him championing Witching Waves either by sporting a WW t-shirt or mentioning them in passing during an interview. As it is, they'll have to rely on a few blogs and the digital underground to pass the word on about how great this is.
Crystal Cafe is out on HHBTM in the US and Soft Power in the UK.
Echo and the TunabunnyApril 20, 2014 at 9:00 pm | Posted in Albums, DIY, Found Sound | 1 Comment
Tags: Belly, Black Box Recorder, Breeders, Dimmer, HHBTM Records, Peter Gutteridge, Throwing Muses, Tunabunny
You never know what someone is going to throw away. Not everyone can be bothered to put their junk up for sale on Ebay. Athens, Georgia band Tunabunny recovered a "sound input device" from the garbage heap. Now a sound input device could be anything, right? In Tunabunny's case it appears to be electronic in nature that has the ability to create synthetic sounds: loops, dots, blips, and other various and sundry glitchy sounding things. So the band are finally diving into a vast new kingdom of technology by accident.
Of course, some of the greatest things ever discovered by man were by accident, right? Peanut butter and jelly, velcro, viagra, and now Tunabunny's re-imagine themselves on their fourth album. The previous three records were strictly guitar bass drums but now that they fished their very own "Echo" out a dumpster they sound like they've been re-energized with new possibilities and song structures. Save It Up sounds like Black Box Recorder while Power Breaks reminds me of something from Peter Gutteridge's Pure cassette. The band do restrain themselves and don't let their new device totally take over the ship. Coming For You is vintage Tunabunny with the just the right amount of pop smarts and noise. Kingdom Technology is the most fun Tunabunny have sounded yet.
stream: Tunabunny – Save It Up (from the Kingdom Technology album on HHBTM)
Tunabunny Not Faking ItOctober 22, 2011 at 10:34 pm | Posted in DIY, Music | Leave a comment
Tags: Athens, Happy Happy Birthday to Me, Tunabunny
Weird, they did it again. I've listened to the new Tunabunny album probably 10 times, but it wasn't until tonight that it clicked with me. This happened on their last album, but I thought I had them figured out and would immediately dig their second one, but there is something about this band from Athens, Georgia that keeps catches you off guard. Minima Moralia was recorded in apartments and houses and sounds lo-fi, but doesn't subscribe to current trendy lo-fi aesthetic. The band are hunkered down ignoring the world, flying in the face of fashion and making records on their own terms.
Tunabunny like their guitars sounding raw and they like you to hear the singing bleeding into the red on the recording console, making it sound like they're in YOUR basement when you play this record loud. They use violin and keyboards economically in their songs, sometime to increase the dissonance and sometimes to reign you in from the noise. This summer's brilliant single Solar Sister reappears, but everything else is new. Songs like Fake It Faker are tense and taught. Perfect Time, Every Time is strangely funky, and then Cross Wire Technique is pure white noise and tin can funk, the kind fellow Athenians Pylon did in the 80's. The record hums like an engine and blows out like a car crash at the same time.
Anything you read about Seattle grunge in the 90's mentions how bands were making it up as they went along. Left to thrive in a vacuum far away from the rest of the world and its influence they came up with their own sound. That doesn't happen much anymore because you are only isolated if you actively try to be isolated. Tunabunny aren't grunge, but seem to be working in their own self-imposed vacuum down in Athens, Georgia and Minima Morilia is like a thesis on how to do it on your own, in isolation and very well indeed.
mp3: Tunabunny – Perfect Time, Every Time (Minima Moralia is out on HHBTM)
Dunes, Cold Showers & Stephanie Somewhere In SeattleJuly 27, 2011 at 10:03 pm | Posted in DIY, Gigs, Music, Seattle | 2 Comments
Tags: Cold Showers, Dunes, Mexican Summer, Stephanie, Teenage Teardrops
As I mentioned last week, I went to the Capitol Hill Block Party on Friday, but my weary bones failed to make a reappearance. Maybe it was age. Maybe it was not wanting to stand inside a dark, hot Neumo's on a beautiful day. Maybe it was my lack of tattoos. (Capsule Review: I loved the Fresh & Onlys set, but wish is was outside. Thurston Moore played the longest note of the day. I think he and his band held a single note for at least a minute and a half. People went wild for Fucked Up while they played the same song for 45 minutes. It was all I could do to stay for all of Yuck which was not all their fault. I was beaten by the Block Part.) By Sunday I had recharged enough to head down to a venue that shall remain nameless for a DIY show. A couple LA bands (Dunes and Cold Showers) along with a couple Seattle bands (Stephanie and Mountainns) played what amounted to a loft show next to a freeway that bookmakers and seismologists say will collapse the next time the earth quakes.
I think this may have been a quasi secret show as both Dunes and Cold Showers played at the Block Party earlier in the day, but as discussed earlier there wasn't a chance in hell that I was going to make a second appearance at. In this world there are two kinds of concert goers. There is the type that go for the spectacle and bragging rights of it and there are those that go for the music. It's pretty safe to say that everyone in the loft Sunday night were there for the music. Why else would you choose to be someone's sweat box of a living room with 30 other people who may or may not have showered that day? I arrived in time to see Stephanie. I own their GGNZLA EP, but I don't remember them sounding like Boy era U2 if it had been produced by Martin Hannett (yeah, I know Hannett produced 11 O'Clock Tick Tock). Their singer has a big melodramatic voice while the rest of the band have obviously studied their Joy Division and New Order records.
Both Dunes and Cold Showers are progeny of the defunct Mika Miko. Cold Showers who are the newer band, have just a single single which is out on the Mexican Summer label. Speaking of Mexican Summers, the venue was as hot as a Mexican summer and I'm talking about one on the coast. Heat aside, Cold Showers features former Mika Miko bassist Jessie Clavin and she is their secret weapon; Shredding on guitar full time and doing part time vocal duties. They have a dark sound that pulls in influences from their hometown like X and Gun Club and mixes them with the likes of Bauhaus and Joy Division. The majority of the vocals are handled by bassist Jonathan Weinberg who has a deadpan barritone. The ringing guitars, Weinberg's deadpan vocals juxtaposed with Clavin's gritty angelic ones made for a killer sound. It may have been someone's living room but they still easily made the music soar. Dunes Drummer Kate Hall joined them for their final song bringing a two drum attack as well as reuniting 1/2 Mika Miko on stage, or living room rather.
mp3: Cold Showers – I Don't Mind (from their Mexican Summer single)
On record Dunes evoke the ethereal playfulness of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Their songs rely on shimmering guitars and echoed vocals to create their empyrean sound. Maybe it was the DIY space, or maybe they just can't quite pull off the task of equalling their records, but the trio of drums and two guitars (no bass) didn't quite reach the celestial sounding heights of their records. Former Talbot Tagora guitarist/singer Mark Greshowak took the vocal reigns for one song momentarily making Dunes sound slightly like his old band. Otherwise Stephanie Chan handled the singing of which she is more than capable of doing, only her voice just didn't strike me as much as it does on the records. Dunes were just OK live. Maybe it was the heat or the venue. They were too rough around the edges whereas I wanted them to explore more of their subtle and pristine side which I think is the best part of them.
mp3: Dunes – Tied Together (from the brand new single just out on Teenage Teardrops)
D.I.Y. Part IIAugust 11, 2009 at 11:34 pm | Posted in DIY, Music, UK | 6 Comments
Tags: Art Fag, Captured Tracks, Graffiti Island, Internet Forever, Male Bonding, Mazes, Pens, Sex is Disgusting, Spectrals, Sub Pop, Swanton Bombs, Tough Love, Veronica Falls
A few months ago I wrote about this do it yourself ethos that has begun to flourish in the indie underground over here in the US. Record Labels popping up like dandelions in the spring and bands jumping from label to label with a 7 inch here, an album there and a cassette on another one. Back in March when I wrote that post it didn't seem like there was a similar thing happening over in the UK. Fast forward to now and those dandelion seeds have blown across the Atlantic and are sprouting. Within the last two months I've heard so much good stuff originating from the UK that it nearly feels like the early 90's again. The only drawback to this nascent UK scene is that a 7 inch single in the UK costs nearly twice what costs in the US, and that's before you add in shipping. It's not the man keeping me down it's rock n' roll.
This UK DIY scene is slowly making it's way over to the States, with records, tours and more records starting to happen. Coming up later this month, San Diego's Crocodiles are bringing their UK friends the Pens and Graffiti Island with them on a west coast tour. The Pens are an all girl three piece outfit from London who as far as I can tell, have yet to release a record that isn't a split 7 inch. They've done singles with Male Bonding, Graffiti Island, and have a four way split coming on Art Fag that they share with the Crocodiles, Graffiti Island (again) and Dum Dum Girls. They'll abandon the split singles (at least for one release) when their album appears on De Stijl next month. It's called Hey Friend What Are You Doing and promises to be a shambolic, ramshackle affair with lots of noise to bury the melodies. Pens tour mates Graffiti Island could best be described as cave rock. The vocals are full of reverb and they like to sing about wolf men, and other primitive stuff. They've also had their share of songs on the old 7 inch medium, the latest being the Head Hunters single on House Anxiety. They have a bunch more on the way including the afore mentioned Art Fag split single, one on Sex Is Disgusting and 12 inch on Capture Tracks later this year.
mp3: Pens – High In the Cinema (pre-order the album from De Stijl)
mp3: Graffiti Island – Wolf Guy (pre-order the GI/Pens/Crocodiles/Dum Dum Girls 7″ from Art Fag)
Speaking of Sex Is Disgusting (the label), they've just released a limited edition (250) by Mazes, a band that answers the question what if the Woods' Jeremy Earl had fronted Guided by Voices. Based on the a-side to their single it would have been very good indeed. Their mySpace is pretty funny, on it they state: "We wanna do rad things like back Mark E Smith and tour with Jonathan Richman… email us if you can facilitate stuff like that." Mazes apparently have an album in the can, that they "wanna put out", meanwhile look out for an upcoming split 7 inch with the Pens.
mp3: Mazes – Bowie Knives (get the 7″ from Sex Is Disgusting)
One of the more pretty sounding lo-fi bands of the current crop is Internet Forever who remind me of very underrated It's Jo and Danny. Their songs are precious sounding but they keep the fidelity at the low end as not to sound to precious. Their cover of Beat Happening's Bewitched is a prime example of just that. No records yet from this three piece, but that won't be the case for long with releases lined up on Art Fag and Twenty Years of Boredom.
mp3: Internet Forever – Break Bones (7″ coming soon on Art Fag)
The Spectrals could be the UK doppelgangers of the Crystal Stilts except that their a bit more girl-group loving than the darker exploits of their Brooklyn brethren. The song Leave Me Be which I've pretty much killed has been floating around the internet for a good month. No physical releases yet from this one man band, but he's promising a single and full album sometime in the near future on Captured Tracks. The Spectrals and Graffiti Island aren't the only UK bands that Captured Tracks has signed up. Veronica Falls have promised a 12 inch record to the label, so I'm assuming that they have more than one great song that has been up on their MySpace for the last month all by itself, but it's so hauntingly good that I've been going back quite often in hopes of some more. Veronica Falls are made up of former members of the Royal We, so I'm not too worried about them only having one good song.
mp3: Spectrals -Leave Me Be (&" & 12″ coming soon on Captured Tracks)
mp3: Veronica Falls – Found Love In a Graveyard (12″ coming soon on Captured Tracks)
Another London band (they're all from London except for Mazes) is the duo Swanton Bombs who put out their Mammoth Skull ep at the very beginning of this year. They also made an album of demos that is available for free over at their MySpace. They seem to get compared to the White Stripes mostly by people who don't know what they're talking about. Yeah, they're duo playing guitar and drums but piano plays a large part in their sound. It's all very basic and some of the songs remind me of early Billy Bragg, but they also have these little prog-like parts in some of their songs that remind me of what the Mystery Jets were doing on their first record. They're kind of a breath of fresh air if you are geting tired of the lo-fi distorted guitar sound that most of the other bands in this post specialize in.
mp3: Swanton Bombs – Dominic The Lilac (download their demos album at their MySpace)
Last but not least and hot off just signing with Sup Pop is Male Bonding who have done split 7 inches with the likes of Graffiti Island, Pens, Cold Pumas and Eat Skull. Based on all that, they may be the poster children of the entire scene. If the Spectrals are the bastard sons of Crystal Stilts then Male Bonding are the illegitimate child of No Age and Abe Vigoda. Abandoned by their parents they were raised by their grandparents Husker Du, or something like that. The split 7 inch with Eat Skull just came out and is pretty hot, expect an album sometime early next year on Sub Pop.
mp3: Male Bonding – Year's Not Long (the split 7″ with Eat Skull is still available from Tough Love)
If you're on the west coast you don't want to miss the Pens/Graffiti Island/Crocodiles Tour starting next week. Tour dates after the click. Continue Reading D.I.Y. Part II…
It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore or You Can't Hide Your Love ForeverMay 13, 2008 at 9:25 pm | Posted in DIY, mp3, Music, Orange Juice | 5 Comments
Tags: Bricolage, Moscow Olympics, Scaremonger, Twig, Wake the President
It's been 24 years since Orange Juice called it a day after releasing the very underrated The Orange Juice album. Along the way a few bands have payed tribute to this seminal Scottish band. Blueboy named themselves after an OJ song and Belle and Sebastian in their early DIY roots claimed them as an influence. Back in the mid-90's Orange Juice went through a resurgence/rediscovery phase in light of Edwyn Collins' worldwide smash hit A Girl Like You. Postcard reissued the early singles as well as Ostrich Churchyard and Polydor reissued all three albums as well as the Texas Fever ep.
Ten years later all of those reissues are out of print, so it seems like we're ripe (sorry) for another revival. The revival, if you can call it that,seems to be manifesting itself a little differently this time around. Lately, it seems like there are a bunch of bands that are paying tribute to Orange Juice in one way or another, either with their sound, their name, or both. Let's take a closer look at this new Scottish gentry and ascertain their OJQ (Orange Juice Quotient).
Wake the President
Are they Scottish? Very, they come from Glasgow.
Do they sound like Orange Juice? Yeah, You Can't Hide Your Love Forever and Rip It Up era OJ
What else is there to know? Wake the President call Glasgow their home and have a distinct early OJ thing going on in a lot of their songs. Their first two singles came out on Electric Honey Records which run by students at Stow College in Glasgow, you might remember them for releasing Belle and Sebastian's Tigermilk. WTP are a four piece fronted by twins Bjorn and Eric. Besides the OJ influence, another Scottish band, the Close Lobsters come to mind when I hear their latest single You Can't Change that Boy.
Singles: on Say Dirty, Electric Honey and Aufgelanden & Bereit.
Album: due in October.
myspace: Wake the President
mp3: You Can't Change That Boy
Are they Scottish? Another yes, and from Glasgow as well.
Do they sound like Orange Juice? They've got an early Postcard singles sound, and not just OJ singles but also a bit of Joseph K.
What else is there to know? They've been endorsed by Franz Ferdinand and are pals with Voxtrot. Besides Bricolage hanging out in Glasgow and having a tightly wound early OJ thing going on, their name is French for DIY. Being signed to Memphis Industries bodes kind of well for their chances of making it over to the States. And since there is already an American band with the same name, they'll likely have to change their name to something goofy like Bricolage UK or Band of Bricolage over here.
Singles on Creeping Bent, Fantastic Plastic, and Memphis Industries
Album: currently recording
myspace: Bricolage
mp3: Footsteps
Are they Scottish?: No, they're Swedes from Stockholm.
Do they sound like Orange Juice?: Yes, more late period northern soul Orange Juice with a little St. Christopher thrown in.
What else is there to know? They're a three piece band who's singer/songwriter Henrik Linden is a librarian. That explains all the literary references, Henrik in the stacks reading books and writing songs. He must also be studying how to perfectly imitate Edwyn Collins croon, he's nearly got it down too!
Singles on Cloudberry and Plastilina
Album: early 2009 promises Plastilina
myspace: Twig
mp3: Helen of Troy
Moscow Olympics
Are they Scottish? Not even close, they're from the Phillippines.
Do they sound like Orange Juice? Not really, but there is their name, which was an OJ song. They've got more of an early New Order and Kitchens of Distinction sound.
What else is there to know? A five piece band that hails from the South Pacific that specializes in dreampop/Sarah records sound may seem crazy, but only to those of us who were ignorant to the indie pop scene in the Phillippines. Moscow Olympics have kind of taken my world by storm quickly releasing a single earlier this year and now album earlier this month. Beautiful stuff that in a perfect world would take everyone by storm.
Singles: Fraction
Album: Cut the World out now on Lavender
myspace: Moscow Olympics
OJQ: 64 – great band but OJ influence appears to be in name alone.
mp3: Cut the World
Are they Scottish?: Close, but not quite. They're from up in northern England, Huddersfield to be exact.
Do they sound like Orange Juice? Named after the OJ song Scaremonger from The Orange Juice album, but it's not just the name. Armitage's voice and his witty intelligent lyrics remind me of Edwyn.
What else is there to know? The core of the band is writer/poet Simon Armitage and Craig Smith. It's not just the two of them though, on many of the songs Armitage shares vocals with his wife Sue Roberts and they've got full band to flesh out their songs. Besides writing songs Armitage also writes books of poetry and prose. His latest is called Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist.
Singles: Cloudberry, Corporation Pop
Album: Haven't seen any info on one.
myspace: Scaremongers
mp3: If You Ever Leave Me
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Don't panic, don't panic. Remember last time. Remember what happened. The hounds drove you right to the hunter. Stop and listen. You have to know how many. Stop right here. Point your ears over there, and there, and over there. Watch out for any movement. Eight dogs in a line. Faster barks on that end of the line. Those ones are closer.
Where am I? There's a clearing down by the slow barkers, a stream up by the fast barkers. Instinct says head for the clearing to outrun them, but remember last time. The hunter was in the clearing. There's thicker underbrush near the stream. It could slow the dogs down. Decision made. Hoofed haunches launch you into a dead run towards that fast-barking end dog. You may have to fight him if you cut it too close. Be ready to use your antlers. If more than a couple of dogs converge on you, you're done.


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The swindler, with the millions, is reported to have attempted to take his life after learning his fiancé was seeing four other men. It is alleged that Alex Mutuku tried committing suicide using a knife but good Samaritans intervened and rushed him to hospital. Alex is said to have bought an engagement ring to his cheating fiancé Delvina Rajab worth Sh300,000.
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