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text: Google Keyword Tools: Huge Difference in Official Stats From Two Google Keyword Tools On the Same Keywords Today I would like to touch a very interesting topic – how accurate Google is when it comes down to showing search volume for keywords. I noticed that official Google keyword tools are often contradicting to each other. And sometimes the gap in stats can be huge. Before I go to the proofs – I want to make one thing clear. I do not think that the results of my research prove anything about "Google conspiring against the simple users …" You see, if Google would really conspire, then they would never show the gap that I noticed (because this is a gap between the stats of their own tools and it is so easy to hide it). So, most likely we are talking about something in terms of how accurately Google processes the information and what we can do about it. Ok, Let's Get Down to My Real Case Story And How this Gap in Official Stats Popped Out… I was doing a keyword research in Internet marketing niche. And I noticed that 2 keywords – 'Internet marketing' and 'Internet marketing tools' have nearly the same level of average monthly traffic. And that bashed me out, because definitely this was very strange: 'Internet marketing' is a huge keyword and beyond any doubt it should have times more traffic than 'Internet marketing tools'. So, I was surprised. But I picked the most precise settings on the official Google keyword research tool (aka Google AdWords tool), I picked EXACT match in the dropdown menu and on the screenshot below you can see that these two keywords are reported to have quite the same traffic. You can see what settings I picked to get the results that I got. I though, "Ok, it is what it is, mostly likely this is a nice overlooked keyword." But that was just the beginning of getting surprised. Because then I decided to compare the traffic on these keywords in another tool from Google, called Google Insights. Those who do not know this tool can find it here. Google Insights is not showing you the exact search (at least until you login to your account), but this tool is really great at showing the trends, ups and downs, geo targeting and other interesting info. Plus – this is very important – Google Insights is also an official Google tool. So, I was not using some mumbo-jumbo. I was using an official Google tool that is taking its keyword search data from Google. So, I simply put 'Internet marketing' and 'Internet marketing tools' into the search – just to compare the trends. And what I see simply knocks me out. The search volume for 'Internet marketing' is marked with the blue line on the screenshot below, and 'Internet marketing tools' is marked with the red line. Blue line is up in the sky. Red line is barely scratching the bottom of the graph. Check the screenshot below… How the Heck is that Possible? One Google tool shows that traffic is almost identical, And another tool says that it is HUGELY different. Both Tools are from Google!! Both tools are from Google. Both are official. Both are harvesting on the same keyword data (data of keyword searches in Google). And it is very illogical that they show hugely contradictory info about the same keywords. It is what it is – the paradox is obvious. And now we are coming to the most burning topic of this whole issue… Does that Mean that Using Google Keyword Tools Makes No Sense? The superficial answer seems to be 'yes'. But my personal answer is, "No, using Google keyword tools still makes perfect sense. And no matter how strange this can sound after showing an evident flaw in their stats, I can prove my point!" You see, despite all these problems with stats, Google is still covering the biggest part of searches done online. 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One-shot. Takes place just after Metro Man is hit with the death ray. Ordinarily I'm leery of referencing songs in fics, but this one needed it. The title is a reference to a song by The Weepies – you can find it at this link if you take the spaces out: www .youtube .com /watch ? v= OBk3ynRbtsw.
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Spinning Madly On
Roxanne is expecting a call any second, all the way back to her apartment. The routine runs like clockwork: she's kidnapped, it's televised, she's rescued, boom, call from Mom. Sometimes she calls even before Roxanne has a chance to shake off the last of the knockout spray, but usually she waits until she's sure Roxanne is safe at home.
Either way, Roxanne is expecting a loud call today. Metro Man, dead. This certainly qualifies as 'told-you-so' material on her mother's part. And to think, all these years, I've been sticking up for that blue psychopath!
Well, so much for that. As soon as Linda calls, Roxanne will tell her she was right, yes, I should have listened to you. You win. But oh, that's going to sting her pride.
Minion is silent as he drives her towards her apartment – Megamind stayed back at the Lair, thank God. Roxanne is pretty sure that if he had come along for the ride she would have killed him, or at least tried to. She's huddling in the corner of the passenger seat, arms folded tightly across her chest, staring blankly out the window. She's glad Minion didn't mess with the knockout spray – he had wanted to blindfold her, but she had pointed out sharply that she already knows the lair is somewhere in the warehouse district and he needn't bother. But he had insisted ("They're going to be after Sir more than ever, now, so please, Miss Ritchi, please just wear it? Just for a little?") and it's hard to say no to Minion, especially when he wheedles (because she actually likes Minion), so Roxanne had gracelessly left the blindfold on for five minutes before just reaching up and pulling it off. Her phone is in her hand. It's going to ring any minute now.
But it doesn't.
The silence is heavy, too heavy, and Roxanne sends a quick glance at Minion, but he either doesn't notice or won't look at her. She punches a button on the dashboard, hoping for radio, but the CD turns over instead and the electric guitar that blares out makes her jump. Then she turns to look slowly at Minion. "Seriously?" she says, and winces a little at how scornful she sounds. Then she decides that she has every right to be scornful, so she jerks her head at the speakers, where the guitar busy whining before it kicks into the bigger part of the song, and lets her tone drip with derision. "AC/DC?"
He still doesn't look at her. "You're surprised?"
She blinks, then snorts, but she isn't laughing, not really. "No. I guess I'm not." And the guitars are roaring and the drums are thumping and Roxanne cannot stand it, not today. She punches the button again, sending them back into silence that is equally as abrupt and shocking as the music had been.
A couple minutes later, Minion clears his throat. "So, you. You don't like hard rock?"
It wasn't supposed to be a conversation starter, Roxanne thinks, scowling. But as much as she wants to yell at him, blame him for what happened, she knows she can't. After all the years she's spent with the two of them, she is well aware that Megamind is the one behind all the schemes and Minion is more or less along for the ride. Minion is there just to make sure Megamind doesn't accidentally kill himself doing something moronic, and Roxanne knows it. So she sighs. "I'm fine with hard rock," she says flatly, trying to convey that she really isn't in the mood to talk. "Just not right now. And if I push another button I think I might fire a missile into the car in front of us. Which is actually sort of tempting, since it's going ten under the speed limit. But there are so many buttons. Why are there so many buttons?"
She manages to shut up, but it takes some effort. She's rambling. She truly doesn't want to talk, but apparently if she opens her mouth that's what is going to happen, and all that comes out is going to be nonsense. She wants to be home so that she can grieve in peace. Wayne can't be dead, he can't be, he can't be. It isn't possible. She hugs herself tighter, scootches down in her seat and ducks her head. She won't cry. She won't, not in front of Minion.
She doesn't notice Minion studying her out the corner of his eye, and she doesn't notice when he leans forward and switches the CD.
This must be Minion's music, because it's not something Megamind would ever listen to, ever. The words are hopeless. And perfect for her mood right now, which she does not need. She shoves her forehead against the cool glass of the window and squeezes her eyes closed. She really doesn't need this, not right now.
"Um," says Minion, quietly. "Miss Ritchi?"
She doesn't answer. If she tries do, if she opens her mouth to say anything at all, she's going to burst into tears, she just knows it. It makes her think of Peter, the boyfriend with whom things simply hadn't worked out, and it makes her think of Wayne, and it makes her think of the way her world is spinning out of control, and it makes her wonder if her life is kind of a failure, even though she knows it really isn't. Is Minion trying to kill her with this?
Stop-stop-stop. She wants to turn the music off – she could hold herself together if not for that stupid music – but she thinks that if she so much as moves right now she'll lose it.
"You can, um. You can cry, you know, if you need to. Just so you know. I won't tell."
And he means it, Roxanne knows Minion well enough to know that he's sincere, and the thought of him offering to not tell Megamind something is what sends her over the edge because it's just too much. Her breath hitches and she curls into a tighter ball, hating the tears and hating the world and hating Megamind more than anything. She'd like to be able to hate Minion, too, but it's pretty much impossible to hate Minion. At most she's just annoyed that he can make her cry.
At some point, when they're stopped at a red light, a large, gentle hand rubs her back a couple of times. Roxanne stiffens and shrugs him off, and cries harder, and focuses on hating everything.
Minion pulls over. Roxanne fumbles for the door handle before she realizes they're still four blocks away from her apartment, then turns to send her very best red-eyed scathing glare at Minion. "The car's invisible," she fumes, outraged. "Take me home. I'm not walking home like this."
Minion just looks at her, then spreads his hands a little. "Hug," he says. Roxanne just stares at him, bewildered and angry, but he doesn't lower his hands. "You're my friend, too, you know. So. Hug?"
He's at least partially responsible for Wayne's death. Roxanne knows that. But Minion isn't to blame, not really, and he's being nice, and Roxanne has come to regard him as sort of a friend. And she did need to cry and she does need a hug, and she knows Jo is covering for her at the news station and so won't be available until much later in the day, possibly not until night. But she can't do it. She just can't. It would be too weird, too much weirdness on a day that is already far too weird. She wraps her arms around her shoulders and leans away, shaking her head.
"No hug?" says Minion, and Roxanne nods. She can't begin to fathom why he looks so uncomfortable at her refusal; she'd feel more uncomfortable hugging him than not, and surely he's just offering because he's being nice. Then Minion tentatively reaches out a metal index finger, but he isn't pointing at her – the gesture looks more like he's telling her to wait. "Finger hug?" he asks, and now Roxanne catches the note of quiet desperation in his voice. "All of the emotional support, none of the contact?"
Roxanne coughs out a startled, watery laugh. That's one she hasn't heard before, but she thinks maybe she could get behind the idea, so she lets go with one arm and pushes the tips of their pointer fingers together. Minion looks relieved, and oddly enough, Roxanne does feel a little better. Not a lot. But enough that she's able to sniff and scrub at her eyes and blow her nose on the cotton handkerchief Minion passes her. She doesn't try to hand it back, and he doesn't ask for it.
And her mother still hasn't called. And she doesn't call when Roxanne is finally riding the elevator up to her apartment, and she doesn't call while Roxanne is unlocking her door, and she doesn't call when Roxanne closes her door behind her. And she doesn't call when Roxanne takes her phone out of her purse and goes into her room and flings herself onto her bed, facedown.
Half a minute later, Roxanne is lying on her stomach and hanging halfway off the side of the bed, digging through one of her under-bed storage boxes because she's decided that, screw being a grown-up, she wants Mars and she wants him now. Once she has him, she worms her way back all the way onto the bed and flips onto her side, snugging Mars against her chest and watching her cell phone, which is lying on her pillow.
It lies there, silent, for nearly ten minutes. When at last it finally rings, Roxanne's eyes are closed and she's thinking about bees. She doesn't remember how or why she started thinking about bees. She feels a little guilty – she should be carrying on and crying, shouldn't she? Not lying on her bed clutching her old stuffed dog and thinking about bees?
She answers halfway through the first ring. "Go on, say it," she says. "Say you told me and I should have known."
There's a pause.
"…Jeez, what were you doing, sitting by the phone waiting?" Her brother sounds taken aback.
Roxanne rolls onto her back, momentarily surprised out of her mood. "Drew!"
"None other. I—we—saw the news. Are you okay?"
And the bitterness and sadness come crashing right back down. "Only always," Roxanne says, but it comes out in a whisper. It's her standard response, but today it feels like a lie. "Physically speaking, I mean," she amends, trying to get hold of herself. She'd felt fine when she'd been lying quietly and thinking about bees, but now everything's whirling through her head again and it's all too much. "I'm…pretty shaken-up."
"Yeah, I imagine. Hello, understatement."
Roxanne forces a laugh and rubs her eyes with her hand, leaving Mars lying on her stomach. She cannot believe how relieved she is that Drew is the one who called her and not her mother. She can talk to Drew. "I didn't think he'd…" She stops. She isn't sure what she's about to say, or even which 'he' she's talking about. Go through with it, she thinks. Die. Let the blaster go off. Be unable to escape. Her head is spinning. She swallows and presses her lips together. "I didn't think," she says more slowly, carefully, "you'd be the one to call me. Where's Mom? Is everything okay?"
Drew snorts. "You're asking me if everything's okay. That's awesome." Roxanne hears rustling noises. A potato chip bag, maybe? "Yeah, she's fine. I just thought, you know, after what just went down today? A big ol' argument with Mommy Dearest probably isn't too high up on your list of things you want to deal with right now."
"It really isn't. Thank you. I owe you one."
"Come visit," he says, and Roxanne closes her eyes. "You need a break. I miss you. I haven't seen you in, what, seven years? It's been too long. Way too long."
"It has," Roxanne agrees. She doesn't go down to California very often, partly because it's so far away and travel is expensive, and partly because she always ends up fighting with her mother while she's there. At least on the phone she can excuse herself and hang up. But she does miss her family, and she and Drew have always been close.
"You can stay with me," Drew offers eagerly. "I just got a new futon—well, it's new to me, and it's wicked comfortable…"
"Tempting, very tempting." She sighs. "I don't know, though." She really doesn't want to have to deal with her mother at all right now. Linda still thinks Roxanne and Wayne had been dating, and Roxanne sees no reason to disabuse her of that notion anymore. If only because she'd say her daughter is 'in denial.' And, of course, there's the age-old Megamind debate. "How about if I pay for you to come up here?"
It's Drew's turn to sigh. "You can't afford the travel expenses, you know that."
"They're the same as it would be if I went down there. And I can afford it more easily than you can."
There's a very brief silence, full of regret and reluctance. "I can't leave my job."
Roxanne manages half of a smile. It's probably all she'll be able to manage for a long, long time. "And that's the problem, isn't it? I can't leave mine, either. Especially not now."
This time, the silence is longer, and broken only by the sound of breathing. Roxanne thinks of Wayne, how serious he is in private, of two-person Checkers tournaments on Monday nights and bad sci-fi channel original movies on Fridays. Of the awful karaoke he'd managed to trick her into singing. Of how different he is when it's just the two of them from how he behaves in front of other people. Of how he had decorated his Fortress with all of his medals and trophies and posters, all his memorabilia, like it was somehow a reminder of who he was. As if he had needed reminding. And when Drew says, eventually, "Listen, are you really okay?" Roxanne surprises them both with a choked sob.
And then another, and then she's crying and can't seem to stop herself. Because Wayne hadn't been her boyfriend; Roxanne hadn't wanted a boyfriend, had made it very clear that, thank you, she wanted to be left alone, please, and Wayne had been completely fine with that. He had said he didn't actually want a girlfriend, either, thank-you-very-much, but as long as neither of them wanted a significant other, they might as well pretend for the sake of the public so that everyone would leave them alone.
"My age and never had a girlfriend that lasted longer than a couple weeks, and that was back in high school," he had said, laughing, "people are starting to wonder if I'm gay."
"Are you?"
"Ah-ah, you're a reporter and I wanna keep 'em guessing." And he'd flashed that stupid crooked grin of his and winked.
He had been her friend. One of her closest, almost a second brother. One of the very few guy-friends she has ever had where there had been absolutely zero sexual tension of any kind between them. And now he's gone.
Warranties are invalid if you don't use the product for its intended purpose! Roxanne swallows hard. It seems such a waste that his last conversation was about something so patently idiotic.
"No, I'm not okay," she finally manages. "I just lost my – my boyfriend. Megamind's actually the standard brand of evil. My world has just turned upside-down."
"You don't really think that," Drew says.
"No, seriously, the compass needle points south and everything."
"Not that." There's an awkward sort of pause.
Roxanne's eyes narrow. Drew cannot seriously expect her to stick up for Megamind anymore. She almost can't believe she dared to in the first place. "Don't presume to tell me what I think about it."
"I don't have to," Drew says lightly, but now there's steel under his flippant tone and Roxanne knows that she took that one a step too far. She had wanted to. She had thought it would feel good. "You've only been yelling it for the past eight or so years. Look, Annie—"
"Don't call me Annie—" Her protest is guilty and half-hearted, because it hadn't felt good, really; it had felt like selling out.
"I get that this is a big, big shock. Totally unexpected, yes. But that doesn't mean you were wrong, and it sure as hell doesn't mean Mom's right." His tone turns to one of disgust. "I can't believe you just said that. What's wrong with you?"
Roxanne swallows. As angry as she is, Drew's right. "Neither can I. I'm sorry. But—"
"Don't apologize to me," he mutters.
"Well I'm not gonna apologize to him, not after today, and anyway it's not like I said it to his face," Roxanne snaps. "Also, did you miss the part where he killed Wayne?"
"No, I know, never mind. But you know I'm right." Drew huffs a sigh. "Maybe I'm just too far away to really get what's going on, here, but I just never thought…listen, after it happened, was he, you know, normal?"
Roxanne snorts. "He's never normal."
"Oh for pete's sake. You know what I mean."
"You mean was he his usual 'cheery, bouncy self?'" Roxanne says, pouring all the fake joy-joy-joy she can muster into her tone without actually sneering.
"Yes," Drew says flatly. "Honestly now. What happened?"
Roxanne sighs and tries to remember. She really doesn't want to. What she wants to do is actually crawl into bed instead of sprawling on top of it, hide under the covers, and never come out again, because the sun is shining and the birds are singing and the world is a dark, evil place smelling of leather and ozone and smoke. "There was the explosion," she says. "Minion said…something. Megamind made some over-acted crack about getting his hopes up. Wayne came flying towards us out of the smoke." She takes a deep, shuddery breath. There, see? Metro Man. …Metro Man! She shrugs helplessly. "Everything was going according to plan, same as always. And—"
"Wait wait wait." Drew interrupts yet again, and Roxanne stops herself just short of snapping at him. He really needs to stop doing that. "Back up. What did you just say?"
"Wayne came flying towards us."
"You said everything was going according to plan." Drew is grinning through the phone; Roxanne can hear him. She frowns and rubs the bridge of her nose.
"Well, it was," she mumbles.
"Yes, exactly!"
"Listen, I've had a really long day, so if you could just tell me what you mean and be done with it, that would be great."
"The plan was never for Wayne to die," Drew tells her. "It was an accident. I'll bet any money."
"No it was not," Roxanne exclaims, aghast. Is Drew trying to defend Megamind? After what just happened? "No it wasn't. He's been trying to kill Wayne from day one, he just hasn't succeeded until now. He's evil, and cruel, and spiteful, and…and just plain mean. It was not an accident," she insists. But even as she says it, she remembers Megamind fiddling with the timer on a detonator, setting the time back when he thought she wasn't looking. She remembers that happened twice when Metro Man was late rescuing her. She remembers the stitches on her arm from when a brainbot had caught her after a stray shot from Wayne's laser vision had ricocheted and sent her falling towards fire and certain death. She remembers being kidnapped by Carnival—"Pronounced Carn-Eeeevil," he had said gleefully—a spectacularly uninformed and unprepared villain who had decided that clowns were the most evil creatures in the universe and so dressed as one at all times. She also remembers that Wayne hadn't even heard of Carnival, because Megamind had blasted the door off its hinges five minutes into Carnival's Evil Rant and blasted the clown off his feet without even slowing down.
("Mine," he had snarled, picking up Roxanne in one hand of his battle suit and poking Carnival in the chest with the other. Roxanne could have sworn she heard Carnival's ribs crack. "Not yours. And if you ever want to be seen again, I suggest you skip town. The lake is deep, and nobody knows her currents better than Minion and me." He had started to leave, then turned back around. "Bit of professional advice? Lose the face-paint. Real supervillains don't need masks. Welcome to the big leagues, buddy. Step up your kibaszott game.")
She remembers the Frequent Kidnapping Card, and she remembers that Megamind had quite unexpectedly honored the "get out of kidnapping free" coupon she had requested after completing the ten punches on the card, and that he'd even gone so far as to drive her to her destination.
But Roxanne doesn't want to remember any of those things. She wants to be right. She wants Megamind to be evil, not quirky and weirdly territorial. She needs him to be evil; she needs to be able to blame him for what happened today. And she can. But…
But not as much as she'd like to.
"Damn him," she groans, rolling over and shoving her face into her pillow. "Damn. Three times damn." She wants to kill him. She wants to make him as dead as he made Wayne. Twice as dead.
"I'm right, aren't I."
"Yes yes, you're very smart, shut up. Argh." She drags the pillow over her head in an attempt to get the world to leave her alone, but that's hard to do when you're holding a cell phone to your ear. "Well," she says at last, "I hope he's happy. He's just ruined everything."
"So," says Drew after a brief pause during which Roxanne fumes silently. "What's he going to do now? Do you know?"
"Of course I know," Roxanne says with a short, humorless laugh. "He'll go take over City Hall and rule the city. I've gotten the whole run-down, oh, only about a million times. Take over the city, rule the city, make the citizens his awesome little slave army. It's his life's goal. It's all he's ever wanted."
"Yeah, but what's he gonna do with it?" Drew wants to know, sounding more than slightly baffled. "I mean, ruling a city's cool and all, but…then what?"
Roxanne pulls the pillow off her head, rubbing her eyes again. They're sore. "Dunno. I'll ask him tonight."
"Tonight?" Drew pulls up short. "Why, what's happening tonight?"
Roxanne snorts. "Well he's certainly not going to be doing any taking-over until after dark," she points out, but maybe that's not as obvious to everyone else as it is to her. Maybe she should explain. "I mean, if you're right, which I do not believe—" she's lying and they both know it, "—then this whole victory caught him unawares. He needs time to prepare, time to leave everybody wondering, but he can't let it go too long or he'll lose his hold over the crowd. And for something this big?" She sits up with a sigh, shaking her head. "I'm expecting a pretty massive show. Cloud machine, music, lights, brainbots, the whole nine yards – he's going to pull out all the stops with this one, just you wait and see. Drew, I need to go. I need to call people."
The police, the mayor, the news room – heck, she'll even bring in KMPC's competitors. She's going to bring every reporter in Metro City to the steps of City Hall to call Megamind out. Oh, and she'll call Dwight, too—he'll close the club for this, and nobody knows more about sound systems and recording than he does.
This is going to be big. Roxanne knows Megamind, and she knows that whatever he's working on for tonight is going to be huge. And she isn't about to let the opportunity to prepare pass her by – she's reported on too many of Megamind's big jobs and been told later on that the audio is shoddy quality because the news station's recording instruments aren't equipped to deal with Megamind's over-the-top noise, and she will not allow that to happen tonight. Roxanne is going to make sure that everyone sees everything that happens tonight, in high-definition video and hi-fidelity sound. Tonight, she's rolling out the big guns.
But staying mad is exhausting, and anger is difficult to maintain when she isn't putting on a front for the public, so when Roxanne returns home alone that night, she barely makes it into the elevator before her furious façade cracks. When the doors slide open, she's holding back tears.
Her neighbor, Posie, is waiting outside. The little elderly lady takes one look at Roxanne, says, "Oh honey," and folds her into a tight embrace that smells distressingly of rose-water and mothballs. "We're all so sorry for your loss. You're a very brave young lady to go out and face all those people tonight."
And how can Roxanne possibly explain that facing all those people was what had been keeping her together? Still, she's grateful for Posie's sudden appearance. It's given her something to focus on. "Thank you. I had to."
"Such a shock to everyone," Posie says, shaking her head as she pulls away. "Everyone. Mr. Mind didn't have an answer for you, and him always so quick on his feet, did you notice? The quilting club noticed. I just don't know what we're going to do now." The elevator door starts to slide closed behind Roxanne; Posie sticks out an arm to stall it. "You ask me, I don't think anybody knows. Such a shock."
Roxanne nods, swallowing with an effort. "It's going to be tough."
"And for you, especially, poor thing! Esther, you remember Esther, she's the one who had her knee replacement this past spring? She's going to go and stay with her sister down in Fort Myers. But you know, she isn't from around here, not like you and me." Posie offers a bracing smile and pats Roxanne's arm with one crabbed, arthritic hand. "Us Metro City gals don't give up so easy! We stick it out."
"That we do," Roxanne, who is tired of sticking it out and would much rather go to bed, agrees weakly.
Posie nods, the picture of brave camaraderie. "And speaking of sticking it out, I've got to go to the supermarket before it closes. Got to stock up on canned goods before everything's gone!" She stalls the elevator again, then shuffles into it. "I've left a tuna casserole out by your door. Hang in there, honey—we're all rooting for you!" And the door slides closed and Roxanne is left looking for something to distract herself with.
She is briefly distracted by the small army of white dishes outside her door. Apparently, Posie's quilting club does more than just quilt—there's enough food outside Roxanne's door to feed her for at least two weeks. There's a sympathy card, too. The club gets together early in the day; they were probably watching the news when it happened. The thought of fifteen-odd little old grandmotherly ladies springing into action is enough to make Roxanne smile a little bit.
But when she has finally finished bringing the food inside and filling the nearly-empty refrigerator and freezer, and her door is closed and locked behind her—three deadbolts, a chain, and a knob lock—she's alone in her quiet apartment with her thoughts.
For lack of anything better to do, she checks her email. Her inbox is flooded, of course – everyone who knows her email address has sent her something. Fully half of the messages are from hal9000 at yahoo dot com. She deletes all but one of those without reading them – the one she does read is the first one he sent, and she reads it more out of curiosity and desperation than any real desire to hear what he has to say.
Dear Roxanne,
This is just to let you know that if you need a shoulder or an ear or anything, really, you know where to find me. And, you know, my door is always open.
Roxanne is impressed in spite of herself. She hadn't thought that Hal could be that…mature-sounding. Then again, the multiple emails following this one were probably along the lines of 'but not, like, love-love,' because Hal is sort of an idiot. A harmless idiot, but an idiot nonetheless.
And there's one from Peter Jenkins. She hasn't heard from him in a long time.
Hey Roxanne,
I know you and I are strictly business, but I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry for your loss and that you're in my thoughts and prayers. Mary and I are heading to her folks' place in Ontario in the morning to sit this one out – in her condition, it's really the only thing we can do. The baby's due any day now.
As your lawyer, I want to remind you that if Megamind breaks his buddies out of jail, which he might do, Mr. Whitehill is no longer bound by your restraining order because you allowed it to expire while he was incarcerated.
As your friend, I want to advise you to skip town. I've already talked to Mary and she says you're welcome to come with us. And I know you've got your superiors wrapped around your little finger; you can take off work at least long enough for M. to forget about you. Might be good for you to get away for a bit, too, take a few personal days. I'm also advising you to avoid your mother at all costs for the foreseeable future, but you're probably already doing that.
Mary and I extend our heartfelt condolences.
Best wishes and warm regards,
Roxanne shakes her head, then sends a quick reply along the lines of 'Thank you for your kind words and generous offer, but I'm staying here.'
She looks at her inbox again. A new email has appeared in the time it took her to scan three paragraphs and type a two-sentence response.
She doesn't recognize the sender...boomsplosion at swissmail dot com? The subject line is just "SORRY" with about eleventy-billion exclamation points after it. What the hell, why not? She clicks it.
Just wanted to say I'm really, really sorry about what happened today. I mean, I'm not really sorry about Metro Man because he was kind of a dick if you paid attention and I kind of detested him, but I know you liked him, and I'm sorry you're sad because he's dead. I mean I'm just sorry you're sad.
This is stupid, I'm not sending this.
And that's where it ends. Roxanne stares at it for a moment, rereading it, totally bewildered, before clicking back to her inbox and seeing another email from boomsplosion, the subject line of which reads, "OH MY GOD JUST DELETE THE LAST EMAIL DON'T READ IT" followed, once again, by tons of exclamation points. It's ridiculous, and at any other time, Roxanne would probably have been laughing her head off, but right now she's just very tired and has no idea what to make of anything anymore.
Oh, my god, I am so sorry. That was not the sort of email to send a grieving woman. I meant to hit "delete" but I hit "send" instead. I am a complete boob.
All Roxanne can do is blink at it for a while. She is confused and also vaguely irritated, because she has no real way to tell if the sender is sincere or just messing with her. Also, she's never heard anyone refer to themselves as being a complete boob before. Not in real life.
Shaking her head, she logs out. She's had enough for one day, and it's time for her to do what she's wanted to do since ten o'clock this morning: crawl into bed, pull the covers over her head, and stay there. And try not to think about Wayne.
She doesn't bother brushing her teeth. She also doesn't bother showering. She does manage to strip down to her underwear and shrug into the massive tee shirt that she—yes, yes she did—had stolen from Wayne because it had been too small for him. He'd been a pretty good not-boyfriend, all things considered. The tee shirt hangs to her knees.
Yesterday, she had had the perfect life. Entertainment, excitement, a great career, and a great not-boyfriend who had actually been a pretty great friend, too. Today she has entered some awful alternate universe where evil triumphs over good, where invulnerable men get blown up and killed, where a police barricade isn't enough to stop a man and a fish from taking over the city. And worst of all, she has no idea how to get back to her world, the safe one where everything is okay and Wayne is still able to lose at Checkers.
She thinks of Wayne, and the world spins madly on.


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Hawthorn Oncology Center, an outpatient cancer center in North Dartmouth, has joined Saint Anne's Hospital Regional Cancer Center in providing care to residents of southeastern New England.
Hawthorn Oncology Center, an outpatient cancer center in North Dartmouth, has joined Saint Anne's Hospital Regional Cancer Center in providing care to residents of southeastern New England.
Saint Anne's Hospital Regional Cancer Center will now provide a full range of advanced, coordinated cancer care at two locations: the Hudner Oncology Center at Saint Anne's Hospital, in Fall River, and the Hawthorn Oncology Center, at 537 Faunce Corner Road, in North Dartmouth.
Hawthorn medical oncologist Dr. John G. Niedzwicki said the formal consolidation with Saint Anne's further strengthens the longstanding relationship between medical and radiation oncology services in the area.
Niedzwicki said the collaboration allows for enhanced patient services and provides resources to allow more patients to participate in clinical trials. Clinical trials have been available through Saint Anne's Hospital since 1976.
The newly combined program "gives patients in the Greater New Bedford-Greater Fall River region coordinated access to the area's most experienced team of cancer care providers," said Craig Jesiolowski, president of Saint Anne's Hospital.
"With more than 35 years of expertise in hematology-medical oncology, radiation oncology, access to clinical trials, and a spectrum of patient and family support services," said Jesiolowski, "Saint Anne's program has long been recognized as a model of community cancer care.
"Likewise, Hawthorn has provided highly regarded hematology and medical oncology care to patients for more than 25 years," Jesiolowski continued. "By partnering, we are able to share resources, streamline referrals, and give patients from throughout the entire region convenient, ready access to the advanced, compassionate cancer care they deserve."


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I'm not sure about that. Here's what seems to me to be the sequence of events: Browser sends initial request http://myapp.com Tomcat creates session and generates page for this request. Tomcat doesn't know that Browser supports cookies, so it should append jsessionid (but doesn't ??) Browser get's Tomcat response & display's page with address: http://myapp.com Browser creates JSESSIONID cookie (using info supplied by Tomcat in response): Cookie has contents: 4E4F86E5B779F43BCA7895B8A554FDCD ----- Browser makes 2nd request, for http://myapp/anotherPage. Browser must definitely by now be stating that it supports cookies. Tomcat prepares response, adding jsessionid (why?), the SAME jsessionid as in the cookie: 4E4F86E5B779F43BCA7895B8A554FDCD Browser displays response with jsessionid showing in address bar. ---- More interactions, but no more jsessionid's..... On Jan 4, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 04/01/2010 20:52, Ken Bowen wrote: >> I'm seeing what I think is odd behavior regarding jsessionid's. >> [My setup(s): Tomcat 6.0.20 on a MacBook Pro using Java 1.6.0_17, >> Tomcat 6.0.18 on CentOS 5 using Java 1.6.0_12 ] >> I'm seeing the same behavior on both systems, and the same >> behavior happens with Safari and FF. Both browsers have cookies >> turned on. >> >> I have cookies="true" in context.xml in the app's META_INF. >> >> The Behavior: >> I Clear Recent History in FF, which includes clearing cookies, >> and request http://myapp.com/ I connect and the address bar >> shows: >> >> http://myapp.com/ >> >> Moreover, a JESSIONID cookie shows in FF's list of cookies. >> >> I make a request for another page in the app and the address bar >> shows: >> >> >> http://myapp.com/anotherPage;jsessionid=9612C2CAA30DE590AA7A5FDB046DA4F9 > > Just a guess - I haven't looked at the source code to be sure. > > At the point where the page was generated, Tomcat doesn't know that > the > client supports cookies since at that point the client hasn't sent a > request with a JSESSIONID cookie so any urls generated will have the > session ID appended. > > Once a cookie is received, Tomcat knows there is no need to include > the > session ID in the URL. > > Mark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Korea during the Manila Summit Conference. City ruins and debris in Korea. Refugees walk with their belongings. The tall buildings and factories in Korea. Koreans along the canal as they hold a Korean flag in hand. President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with the Koreans. President Johnson inaugurates 'Johnson Hill' as a remembrance to his visit in Korea. He flies off in his helicopter after his visit to Korea.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Korea during the Manila Summit Conference. Korean crowd welcomes President Lyndon B Johnson. Koreans hold American flags in hand. School girls sing to welcome the President. President Johnson reviews Korean troops. Fleet of aircraft in flight displaying flag colors. President Johnson leaves in his aircraft after his visit in Korea. The President talks about his visit to different nations and the local people he met.
Camera from hilltop, pans over an outdoor corral and collection of buildings (some quonset style) at U.S. Marine Corps Camp Pendleton, California. In the middle background, what appears to be a firing range, can be seen. Other buildings sit atop hills in the far background. Scene shifts to close view of a chestnut mare, in a private stable. A sign on the gate reads "Reckless." The mare wears a blanket displaying a staff sergeant's stripes and service ribbons. The words "Sgt. Reckless 1st Mar. Div." also appear on it. Sgt. Reckless is contentedly eating from a trough of hay set up in the pen. Closeup of her horse blanket. (Note: Sgt. Reckless is seen here in retirement. She was bought by U.S. Marines in Korea, in 1952, during the Korean war, and trained to be a pack horse for the Recoilless Rifle Platoon, Anti-Tank Company, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Her decorations include: Purple Heart w/ 1 award star; Navy Presidential Unit Citation w/ 1 service star; Navy Unit Commendation; Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Korean Service Medal w/ 3 bronze service stars; Korean Presidential Unit Citation; United Nations Korea Medal; and French Fourragère. Sergeant Reckless died in 1968.)
View of the first three U.S. B-52 bombers (of a force of 15) landing at U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand on April 10, 1967. These bombers hit targets in Vietnam on their way to U-Tapao. (The entire force arrived during the period from April through July, 1967, on temporary assignment from the Strategic Air Command 4433rd Bomb Wing at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam.) The B-52s are under the command of the SAC 3rd Air Division. The aircraft land with wing flaps down and deploy drag chutes to slow their ground rolls.Officers of the 4258th Strategic Wing,and Royal Thai Air Force greet the arriving aircrews. The event is recorded by photographers, along with newsmen from Japan, Thailand, United States and Philippines.
Events after World War II. Refugees flee East Germany. Map of Korea. Temporary boundary of 38th parallel in Korea. Formation of Republic of Korea. U.S. troops evacuate Korea. Troops leave by train. North Koreans attack South Korea. Civilian refugees flee. Delegates in the UN assembly. General MacArthur holds UN battle flag. U.S. troops land at Pusan to aid South Korea. U.S. troops fight North Koreans. U.S. and Canadian troops entrain for overseas service. British naval units and Swedish nurses leave for Korea. Turkish, Netherlands, and Australian troops arrive in Korea and are greeted by Korean civilians. Delegates in the UN assembly. Globe spins with flags of different nations. (Korean War)
United Nations military action preserves democracy in South Korea and from attack of Communist North Korea. Map shows division of Korea and capital of North and South Korea as Pyongyang and Seoul. Animated arrows shows attack of North Korea to South Korea. Troops of Republican Army advance. Soldiers fire from trenches and hills. Soldier looks through binocular. Fire and smoke clouds rise. Soldiers raise flags at the United Nations office. Korean ambassador Chang at Emergency meeting of Security Council at the UN. Secretary of UN, Trygve Lie states this situation as threat to world peace and call for acceptance for the U.S. demand to reestablish peace. All 9 members present raise their hands in acceptance. Women carry small child, and refugees in South Korea. Men help old woman to walk. Two Korean refugee children stand, one child eats bread. Empty seat of representative of Socialist Soviet. U.S. delegate asks to assist South Korea and repel arm attack. 7 out of 8 representatives raise their hands in acceptance.


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President is pleased to provide an Operational Update on its Paraguay and Argentina Assets.
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President has successfully completed the four well work-over programme on the Puesto Guardian Concession on time and on budget. These were the first operations carried out since President acquired Operatorship in H2 2014.
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The World of Darts has become bigger than ever. From its humble beginnings in the tap room of the local public house to several thousand seat capacity arenas such as the London's O2 arena and Alexandra Palace. More than ever the sport is getting its recognition from TV and online sponsorship. Professional darts players now regularly compete for six figure prize funds and in the case of the PDC World Championship 2016, the prize fund is now over £1.5M.
Darts, as we see it today, in all its glory, would not be unless it had the support of the fans and its punters. Recently the BBC televised its first Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) event. The £100,000 first prize went the Phil 'The Power' Taylor. Although Phil is the sixteen time World Darts Champion he certainly wasn't the favourite, that honour went to the young Dutchman Michael van Gerwen. A return to form for Phil has yet again made Betfred revalue their odds on Phil winning yet more darts titles before the year is out and for anyone looking for the latest Betfred promotions these can be found at this site.
Downtime for many players is casino and poker time. Wayne Mardle, former professional darts player and Sky Sports TV commentator, is renowned for playing online poker. He recently made the final table at Leg 6 of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour - finishing in 7th place, winning £14,100.
Betfred offer many of these online games including casino, poker and bingo and using the Betfred promotional codes you can get a lot more for your money.
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Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson, the current PDC World Champion, will again head up as the favourites for this tournament title, but with the double start, many of the favourites can easily fall at the first hurdle. Phil Taylor having won this event 11 times in the past will also have something to say as to who is currently the best on the circuit.
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Tuesday 21 December 2004
It was Tuesday, under the sign of Sagittarius. The US president was George W. Bush (Republican).
In that special week of December people in US were listening to Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg.
In UK Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 20 was in the top 5 hits.
Hotel Rwanda, directed by Terry George, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2004
while The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom was one of the best selling books.
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NEW YORK Morgan Stanley averted disaster with a $9 billion lifeline from a major Japanese bank, and on Monday declared it will use that money to pick off smaller rivals.
Just a few days ago, some on Wall Street openly questioned if the embattled investment bank would be the next to collapse amid a deepening global credit crisis. Now, Morgan Stanley appears emboldened by the 21 percent stake taken by Japanese lender Mitsubishi UFJ -- and, for now, seems to have regained the market's confidence.
Investors poured back into Morgan Stanley shares, which last week plunged 60 percent. Shares recouped $8.42, or 87 percent, to close at $18.10.
"This is Darwinism finance, literally the survival of the fittest for the banks," said Chris Johnson, chief investment strategist at Johnson Research Group. "This is Wall Street's version of the Amazing Race where these companies are going to jump through hoops and rings of fire to rebuild their businesses as quickly as possible."
The closing of the Morgan Stanley deal, which was agreed upon last month, came as Spain's Banco Santander SA said it was in talks to acquire Pennsylvania's Sovereign Bancorp Inc. Forging ahead with similar takeovers appears to be exactly what John Mack, Morgan Stanley's chairman and chief executive, plans to do now that the nation's No. 2 investment bank is on more solid footing.
Mack, 63, laid out his plan by telling employees in a memo that he "will be looking at acquisitions that might make sense for the firm." Since Morgan Stanley has now converted its structure to a safer retail bank model, the firm wants to expand its network of 500 branches and 8,500 financial advisers.
Analysts believe he will scour the market, looking for faltering retail banks around the country. And with the buyouts of Wachovia Corp. and Washington Mutual Inc. in recent weeks, it appears Morgan Stanley won't have a problem finding a target.
That's not to say the investment bank is out of the woods. The company's book value, the company's total assets minus liabilities, still remains stunningly low.
Also, there still remains reluctance on the part of banks to do business or borrow from one another as the credit crisis deepens. The U.S. government hopes to boost struggling financial companies through a $700 bailout plan, of which some of the money would be used to recapitalize hobbled U.S. banks through direct investments.
But, for the most part, analysts appeared relieved.
"Worst case, if confidence does not return, we believe Mitsubishi would likely step in to protect its investment by buying a majority stake in Morgan Stanley," said James Mitchell, an analyst with Buckingham Research Group. He said such a transaction would combine "Morgan Stanley with the deposit-rich balance sheet of Mitsubishi."
The government was instrumental in ushering through a deal for Morgan Stanley by assuring Mitsubishi UFJ that its investment would be protected. The Japanese lender, the world's second-largest bank, agreed late Sunday on amended terms that were slightly more favorable to it.
"Despite a very challenging environment, (Mitsubishi UFJ) and Morgan Stanley have demonstrated our mutual commitment to this strategic alliance and have revised the terms of our investment in the best interests of both companies and our shareholders," said Nobuo Kuroyanagi, the Japanese bank's president and CEO, in a statement.
Under the revised deal, Mitsubishi will receive only preferred shares, with $7.8 billion eventually convertible to common stock. The original deal called for Mitsubishi to receive a mix of preferred and common stock.
The new deal enables Mitsubishi to receive a dividend on the entire investment, and calls for a lower conversion price when the preferred stock is eventually converted to common stock.
The deal came last month as the credit crisis worsened and competitor Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch & Co. was sold to Bank of America. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the last two major Wall Street investment banks standing, changed their status to bank holding companies to obtain the kind of large deposit base that analysts believe helps add stability.
The change was precipitated by fears that stand-alone investment banks might no longer be viable operations as credit markets continue to worsen.
Aside from the cash investment, Mitsubishi will receive one seat on Morgan Stanley's board of directors, and the pair plan to work jointly as part of a global strategic alliance.
The pair said they have already identified multiple areas for potential collaboration, including corporate and investment banking, certain parts of retail banking and asset management, as well as lending activities such as corporate loans.
AP Business Writer Sara Lepro contributed to this story from New York.
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Investment in student accommodation is the big thing in the UK right now, with two billion pounds ploughed into the sector in the first three quarters of 2012 alone. PDR Property Solutions, warn that not every bandwagon is worth jumping on.
Paul Rossiter, MD of Canary Wharf-based PDR Property Solutions, explains, "Despite being described as 'the most coveted property class', not all student accommodation is worthy of investment. The cheap end of the market targets the domestic student population, a segment that is on the wane according to admissions service UCAS who noted a 10% drop in English applicants for 2012, and could therefore become stagnant at best. Meanwhile the peddling of 'pods', as opposed to individual self-contained units, poses another threat to resale down the line as banks won't lend on standard student rooms. Also, buy in the wrong location far from the city centre campus, and you won't have queues of undergrads knocking your door down wanting to rent."
In fact PDR Property Solutions advises would-be investors to look to the top end of the student accommodation market and choose a product that is self-contained and fully managed to make it hands- and hassle-free. Whilst the investment outlay may be greater, this is a sector that is set for steady growth as it caters to the burgeoning foreign student population. The UK is seen as a safe, affordable and prestigious place in which to study higher education and the number of overseas applicants is expected to rise significantly over the next decade. And, with higher budgets at their disposal, quality is what they're after.
Paul continues, "Foreign students will typically only live in top-end accommodation. They do not want to 'slum it' in low-grade 'pods' with poor finishings and facilities. Instead they want modern comforts, security, communal facilities, high speed internet and proximity to their particular faculty. For the investor, the returns are higher and there is also some suggestion that international students make more reliable tenants who are likely to stay in the same accommodation for the duration of their course rather than branching out into the private rented sector like their domestic counterparts."
Ironically, student accommodation is a market that thrives in a recession. Many young people see higher education as a way of getting extra skills and an 'edge' over their peers for when the job market picks up. Student housing supply remains on the low side, particularly at the quality end of the spectrum, and as a result term-time vacancy rates are minimal, 1% to 4%, which is at least a third of the vacancy rates in other buy-to-let scenarios. Contracts are generally signed for 48 weeks a year with parents often acting as guarantors.
Furthermore, success in student accommodation investment is not limited to London. Many of Britain's secondary cities have respected universities with vast student populations and, as expected, the entry level costs are lower than London. With over 50,000 students in its confines, 6,000 from overseas, three leading universities, a language academy, institute of performing arts and a school of tropical medicine, Liverpool stands up as a very strong candidate.
Vita at Tinlings in Liverpool is the second phase of a £27 million redevelopment project which follows the success of Vita at The Chapel, launched in March 2012 and now completely sold out. With a total of 120 units, Vita at Tinlings is a complete re-model of the previously iconic Tinlings building built in the early 1960's and it dominates Victoria Street, the major route through the heart of the city – postcode L1. Visually striking, the entire building is glazed with a modern curtain walling system and with aspects to three sides, its exterior shines out on to its city surroundings.
Contemporary in design and with a level of quality never seen before, seven storey Vita at Tinlings uses floor-to-ceiling glass windows to maximize the light in the en-suite studios and suites which are fully furnished and completed to the highest specification – including wall-hung flatscreen TVs complete with Freeview and complimentary high-speed broadband.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
How To play as Joker?
i have download it in Playstation store and install but what should i do next
should i
pick the challenge mode
or make a new save
or continue story
i dont understand until now! please help me!!!
ShamanKiruchi12 - 7 years ago
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but my game doesn't show any command prompt that i need to choose between Batman And The Joker
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Damn i do that
ShamanKiruchi12 - 7 years ago
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Did you go to "Challenge Mode" or "Downloaded Content"?
comfortview - 7 years ago
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I have discovered that you also need to be aware if you have the "Game of the Year" edition or not. (Game of the Year will be displayed on the title screen if it is)
If you have the Game of the Year edition then you need to select the downloadable content for the Game of the Year edition; it will be listed as a separate game entry in the Playstation store.
Marscaleb - 4 years ago
Did you even try any of those? Joker is a character in Challenge mode.
SymphonicRain - 7 years ago
Okay well to play as the joker you need to go into Challenge mode. That is the only place you can play as him. You don't need to make a new save i believe.
Kahasa - 7 years ago
After downloading (and installing!) the content, all you have to do is go into challenge mode. After selecting it from the menu, you'll be prompted to choose whether you want to do Batman's challenges or the Joker's. You do not need to make a new save.
EmeraldPhoenix - 7 years ago
Make sure u download the joker map pack after u create saved data or it will not work i made this mistake -_-
jebusO_o - 7 years ago
If you installed and it still won't work I would re-download and install it without(!) using "download in background". That seems to fix alot of problems.
cyclonebw - 7 years ago
you can play as the joker in challenge mode. you to download it through psn first. make sure you download it from the same ps store where your game is licenesed. for exampe, if your game is an USA edition , then you should download the DLC through an USA account.
big_boss1988 - 7 years ago
After you download the content off of PSN (It's free) and install it, go into challenge mode and it will ask whether you want to play as Batman or Joker. Doesn't work with the DLC maps.
gfred4 - 5 years ago
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IF YOU have a few days' holiday over Christmas, take an hour or so to review your super.
You should have received your super fund's annual statement by now. It contains a lot of valuable information, so rather than tossing it straight into the bottom drawer, check the details.
Are your name, date of birth and address correct? There are billions of dollars of unclaimed super in Australia, most of it due to the fact that super funds do not have current contact details for their members.
Have you nominated any beneficiaries? You can nominate the beneficiaries you'd like your super and insurance benefit paid to should you die, and your super fund will take this into account when determining how to pay out your benefits.
There are restrictions on who can be beneficiaries, so talk to your super fund if you need help.
Are your super payments up to date? Employers must follow a strict timetable in making their compulsory employer contributions, so you should be receiving them quarterly, at the very least. If you think you're missing contributions, speak to your payroll officer or manager.
Have you thought about making personal contributions to your super? If you're already making them, do you have the capacity to increase the amount? Even $20 a week could make a big difference to your final retirement balance.
How has your super performed in the past year? Is it time to review how it's invested?
If so, you might like to speak to a financial planner. Your super fund may provide professional financial planning at reasonable cost to members. A planner will be able to assess your investment needs and recommend a suitable strategy.
Making sure your super savings are invested to meet your personal requirements could help you maximise your retirement savings for the long term.
Do you have insurance with your super fund? Most funds offer at least death, total and permanent disablement (TPD) and income protection insurance. The type and level of cover you have is shown on your annual statement.
You might wish to increase your level of cover, or if you already have cover elsewhere you may be paying for something you don't need. If you're unsure, a financial planner can also help you review your insurance needs.
Planning your financial future is well worth a few hours of your time. The Christmas break provides you with the ideal opportunity to review your super.
Spending a little time now could well save you considerably in the long term.
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Butterscotch Apple Crisp (Crock Pot)
Recipe by Sweet Diva MJ
From Quick Cooking (now called Simple & Delicious)Magazine. Sliced apples are sprinkled with a tasty topping made with oats, brown sugar and butterscotch pudding mix. Served wtih ice cream, this dessert is always well received.
Top Review by ginny from New Zeal
This was sooooooo good! I used normal oats, not quick. I rubbed the butter in with my hands, cutting it in would of taken forever... thats about the only changes I made. Easy and very tasty. Great with vanilla icecream.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 6 cups tart apples, sliced & peeled (about 5 large)
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1⁄2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package butterscotch pudding mix (cook-and-serve type)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- vanilla ice cream (optional)
Directions See How It's Made
- Place apples in a 3-qt. slow cooker.
- In a large bowl, combine the brown sugar, flour, oats, pudding mix and cinnamon.
- Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Sprinkle over the apples.
- Cover and cook on low for 5 to 5-1/2 hours or until apples are tender.
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Securities Options: legislation: overview of liability
From 6 April 2008 the legislation only applies to employees resident in the UK at the time of grant of the option see ERSM20300.
Other employees acquiring securities through options will be chargeable within the provisions of Chapter 3C Part 7 ITEPA (securities acquired for less than market value).
The residence rules applying to securities options acquired before 6 April 2008 are at ERSM160200.
Person acquiring option
Any person may acquire the option where the right or opportunity to acquire is by reason of the employee's employment. It will be the employee who suffers any charges - see associated person in ERSM20250.
By reason of employment
The rules for defining an employment-related securities option follow those for securities - see ERSM20210, ERSM20220 and ERSM20230.
Former and prospective employments
Where former or prospective employees are granted options, per ITEPA03/S471 (2), there will still be a potential liability, but see ERSM20360 for exceptions.
Grant of option
There are no charges on the grant of an option, except in certain special circumstances - see ERSM110110
Chargeable events
There are three potential events when a tax charge might arise in relation to a securities option (ERSM110500):
- When securities are acquired in connection with the right, typically by exercising the option, but this would also include acquiring securities on the vesting of a right such as an LTIP.
- If it is assigned or released in exchange for money or other valuable consideration.
- If a benefit is received in connection with it.
Exchanges of options
A roll-over relief is provided where one option is exchanged for another. See ERSM110800.
Tax-advantaged option schemes
There are different rules relating to tax-advantaged share schemes: approved SAYE schemes (ITEPA03/S519), approved CSOP schemes (ITEPA03/S524) and Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) (ITEPA03/S530). (ERSM300000)


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While plenty of high-yield opportunities exist, investors must always consider the safety of their dividend and the total return potential of their investment. It is not uncommon for a struggling company to suspend high-yielding dividends which could subsequently result in precipitous share price declines.
TheStreet Ratings' stock rating model views dividends favorably, but not so much that other factors are disregarded. Our model gauges the relationship between risk and reward in several ways, including: the pricing drawdown as compared to potential profit volatility, i.e. how much one is willing to risk in order to earn profits?; the level of acceptable volatility for highly performing stocks; the current valuation as compared to projected earnings growth; and the financial strength of the underlying company as compared to its stock's valuation as compared to its stock's performance.
These and many more derived observations are then combined, ranked, weighted, and scenario-tested to create a more complete analysis. The result is a systematic and disciplined method of selecting stocks. As always, stock ratings should not be treated as gospel — rather, use them as a starting point for your own research.
The following pages contain our analysis of 3 stocks with substantial yields, that ultimately, we have rated "Buy."
LorillardDividend Yield: 4.20% Lorillard (NYSE: LO) shares currently have a dividend yield of 4.20%. Lorillard, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cigarettes in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Cigarettes and Electronic Cigarettes. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.42. The average volume for Lorillard has been 3,704,700 shares per day over the past 30 days. Lorillard has a market cap of $21.3 billion and is part of the tobacco industry. Shares are up 18.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday. TheStreet Ratings rates Lorillard as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 3.2%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 2.2%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
- Compared to its closing price of one year ago, LO's share price has jumped by 36.49%, exceeding the performance of the broader market during that same time frame. Looking ahead, the stock's sharp rise over the last year has already helped drive it to a level which is relatively expensive compared to the rest of its industry. We feel, however, that other strengths this company displays justify these higher price levels.
- LORILLARD INC's earnings per share declined by 13.9% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, LORILLARD INC increased its bottom line by earning $3.14 versus $2.81 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($3.44 versus $3.14).
- Net operating cash flow has remained constant at $703.00 million with no significant change when compared to the same quarter last year. Along with maintaining stable cash flow from operations, the firm exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of -31.77%.
- The gross profit margin for LORILLARD INC is rather high; currently it is at 55.62%. Regardless of LO's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 23.62% trails the industry average.
- You can view the full Lorillard Ratings Report.


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Halloween 2016: The 15 Best Family-Friendly Events in Miami
Exploring the spooky scene at Miami Children's Museum.
Jason Koerner
Miami does Halloween for adults so well that it's easy to forget that the October 31 holiday is mainly for kids in most other parts of the country. It's pretty great to live in a place that lets you live out your spooky shenanigans well into middle age, but it's even better to know that kids in the 305 aren't left out either. In fact, Miami's party expertise extends all the way to its family-friendly Halloween events — making them fun for kids and parents alike. (You'll have to bring your own flask to most of them, though.)
Halloween Week at Miami Children's Museum
Miami Children's Museum hosts an entire week of family-friendly fun, with gentle frights and exciting costume opportunities for kids of all ages. Brave children who want a little spook can wander the haunted house, while others simply prance from ghoulish craft table to ghostly game, showing off their outfits.
Daily October 25 through 30, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at 980 MacArthur Cswy., Miami. Visit miamichildrensmuseum.org.
Coconut Grove Pumpkin Patch Festival at Regatta Park
Regatta Park will transform into an orange-tinted playground this weekend when the Coconut Grove Pumpkin Patch Festival throws down. A full carnival, a maze made of corn stalks and hay bales, a scarecrow dressup station, and, yes, a pumpkin patch will keep the kids' heads on a swivel. And grownups aren't left out: Beer bars will add an Oktoberfest vibe to the fun.
October 21, 6 to 10 p.m.; October 22, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and October 23, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at 2699 SW 27th Ave., Coconut Grove. Visit coconutgrovepumpkinpatch.com.
Costumes welcome at Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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Zoo Boo at Zoo Miami
Trick-or-treating with tigers? That's a standard Halloween at Zoo Miami. Included in the cost of admission, Zoo Boo offers kids the chance to trick-or-treat and compete in costume contests, all while the zoo's permanent residents get some treats of their own. From elephants bobbing for pumpkins to giraffes playing with creepy-themed toys, animals and humans alike get into the spooky spirit.
October 29 and 30 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 12400 SW 152nd St., Miami. Visit zoomiami.org.
Spooky Cinema at SoundScape
Pack some spider cookies and witches' brew and make it a movie night under the stars at SoundScape Park, where the last two weeks of October's cinema series celebrate Halloween. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas runs this week, while the 1986 classic Little Shop of Horrors closes out the month.
The Nightmare Before Christmas, October 19 at 8 p.m, and Little Shop of Horrors, October 26 at 8 p.m., at 400 17th St., Miami Beach. Visit mbculture.com.
Howl-o-Ween at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
What's the one thing that could make Halloween better? Puppies, duh. Especially puppies in silly and adorable costumes. Fairchild has all of that and more during its celebration Howl-o-Ween, which also packs in a tram ride around the beautiful grounds (for dogs and human companions alike).
October 31 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 10901 Old Cutler Rd., Coral Gables. Visit fairchildgarden.org.
A not-so-scary scarecrow at Jungle Island's Knock Knock Halloween.
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Halloween Haunted Trails and Kids Fun Zone at Enchanted Forest Elaine Gordon Park
Hayrides and live entertainment join the two marquee attractions — haunted trails and a fun zone for kids — at Elaine Gordon Park in North Miami. Someone on the organizing team is a parent for sure, because they thought to secure extra parking at nearby Johnson & Wales University, plus shuttles to and from the festivities every 15 minutes.
October 28 and 29 from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1725 NE 135th St., North Miami. Visit cityofnorthmiamifl.gov.
Mall of the Americas' Halloween Bash
The mall's Halloween festivities begin with a meet-and-greet with Gigi the Witch, who leads kids in a series of fun games for both English and Spanish speakers. Then it's time to trick-or-treat through the mall. And frankly, if you've figured out a way to trick-or-treat with your kids in air conditioning, you're doing Halloween right.
October 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. at 7795 W. Flagler St., Miami. Visit malloftheamericas.com.
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Who doesn't practice just a little resistance now and then? The bigger question, however, is how aware of resistance are you and what do you do when you bump up against it? As most know, judgement is the quickest way to keeping something stuck in place. Luckily meditation is a great tool to help witness resistance and see what's going on underneath it.
Sally Kempton pens this recent Yoga Journal post on meditation and resistance. According to Kempton, key to a resistance meditation is noticing the subtleties in the body. By paying attention to them, one gets into dialogue with the discomfort. In asking a series of accessing questions, a sense of ease and relaxation is possible.
When you notice yourself feeling constricted, or stagnant, or stuck—all words to describe the same phenomenon—ask yourself what you are resisting. You'll probably know the answer right away. It might be a change of some kind: perhaps a shift in diet or in your personal practice, or maybe in your attitude toward your family life, your relationships, or yourself.
Once you've noticed the arena of resistance, let yourself feel the sensation of resisting. What does the resistance feel like in your body?
Having reached into the feeling space of resistance, ask yourself, "What do you have to tell me? What is this resistance about? Why are you there?"
Ask the questions and then just wait to see what arises. It may be a feeling, a thought, a belief, or a fear.
Keep asking until you feel that you've sensed as much about the resistance as possible. Feel that you are listening to it.
Read more from Kempton on how to practice a resistance meditation here.