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Stocks 101: What is a Dividend Reinvestment Plan or DRIP?
As part of a balanced retirement strategy, stocks can be great source of passive income. Buying shares in corporations can be extremely satisfying. Not only do stocks have the potential to increase significantly in value as the products, brands, and intellectual property of a company grows, but sometimes that also means a nice quarterly payout in the form of a dividend.
A dividend is a payment from the company whose shares of stock you own, as a sort of bonus to investors. Companies that pay dividends to their stockholders are known as income stocks, because the stock creates income for the investor. If you are buying stocks as part of a retirement strategy, as I do, you will want to reinvest these dividend payments into more shares of stock.
For small-time investors buying stocks can be an expensive proposition. For the average family budget, retirement savings are important, but they must be squeezed like blood from a turnip, as the old saying goes. And the costs of trading (aka buying and selling stocks) can chip away at your blue-chips' earnings.
Costs of Trading
For the sake of example, let's say you are putting aside $100 a month to invest in the stock market. I use a tax-advantaged Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to hold my stocks. When someone buys or sells a stock, usually through an IRA at an investment broker like TD Ameritrade, IShares, or Charles Schwab, they pay a fee to the broker for placing the trade, usually about $10 a trade at a self-service broker, sometimes a little-less if you are using a no-frills service like Sharebuilder. Think about it. That's $10 in and $10 out. The fees for placing a trade with a broker can quickly eat up a small-investor's profits.
For example, if I am saving $100 a month and place a trade an average of 4 times a year, and assuming I am not selling the stocks I buy, my stock purchases can ring up $40 or more in transaction costs. When investing relatively small sums ($2-500), this trading fee becomes a huge percentage of the transaction. Before you actually make any money on your stocks, you'll have to make up for that trading fee.
How Dividend Reinvestment Plans Work
But there is a better way. Individual companies have set up a system of automatically buying stocks, using the quarterly dividend payments you earn from your existing stocks. This system is called a Dividend Reinvestment Program.
If you keep your investments at a self-service brokerage account, the purchase of shares is automated by an arrangement between the brokerage and the company paying you the dividends, so you don't actually place a trade. Therefore you don't have to pay the brokerage commission or trading fee to buy more shares of the stock you already own. Even if you don't have a large quantity of a particular stock, when you receive a dividend payment, the DRIP system of buying stock will buy partial shares of stock.
Pitney Bowes (PBI) Real Life Example
Now let's look at an example of using a the performance of a real life stock during 2009 to see how this works:
Adam has a small stock portfolio, and is buying shares of Pitney Bowes (PBI). So far, he has 100 shares of this seller of mail processing equipment. During the first quarter of 2009 (Q1), Pitney Bowes pays him a 36 cent dividend per share. On the dividend payment date, Pitney Bowes deposits $36 into his investment account. A few days later, the price of Pitney Bowes stocks is $19.29 a share. Through his dividend reinvestment plan, his stock broker uses the $36 dividend payment to buy 1.866 additional shares of stock.
Q2 of 2009 rolls around, and Pitney Bowes announces another .36 cent dividend. But now Adam has 101.86 shares of stock, so this quarter his payment is $36.67. At this time, the price of Pitney Bowes stock has risen to $22.24 a share. Now his dividend payment buys him 1.648 shares of stock. After the Q2 dividend payment he has 103.508.
In Q3, Pitney Bowes announces yet another 36 cent dividend payment per share. This time his dividend payment is 37.26 and that earns him another 1.662 shares at $22.42 price per share. He ends Q3 with 104.74 shares.
In Q4, Pitney Bowes announces another 36 cent dividend payment. And Adam gets 37.70 and adds 1.620 shares to his account. Now he has 105.36 shares to end 2009. He hasn't paid a penny in commissions to his broker, so more of his money is working for him.
Pitney Bowes Example
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Dividend Stocks Use Compounding to Earn You $$$
There's no magic to dividend stocks, just math. The principle behind dividend investing is compounding. The more shares you own, the more dividends you get, the more shares are added to your stock portfolio.
I liked the video to the left, because this investor is clearly very enthusiastic about dividend investing, as am I.
Is dividend investing fool proof? No. Absolutely not. Many dividend investors have been burned by the financial meltdown of 2008-2009. Bank and financial stocks are famous dividend payers, and these stocks have plummeted in price, and halted dividend payouts. But a down market can still be a good time to buy dividend stocks. I think certain bank stocks are excellent potential future dividend payers, and many are on sale. If you are going to buy using this strategy, I strongly encourage you to diversify. Don't invest in only one or two stock sectors. About 3/4 of my retirement portfolio is invested in highly diversified index funds.
How Do I Set Up a DRIP?
Some dividend reinvestment programs are administered directly through the stock companies themselves, but some self-directed investment brokerages, like TDAmeritrade allow you to set up commission-free drip systems while holding shares in their investment accounts.
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DRiPs are fantastic. If you get started when you're young, you'll be pleasantly surprised at where you'll be in 20 years.
Nice Hub. This is very informative information for someone who is looking to know more about a Dividend Reinvestment Plan.
I was really able to understand DRIP. Your Pitney Bowes sample was excellent. Finally, I looked for a topic, found a relevant article and was able to understand it. Thanks.
The info given is Very good and sound advice, and I have to say that for anyone, if your strategy is buy and hold for the long term, by far this is the best way to go. Not having to pay sales loads or maintenance fees on mutual funds, or commissions on stock trades really helps,
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Thanks for the good info and advise!
Very good and sound advice, and I should say that for anyone, if your strategy is buy and hold for the long term, by far this is the best way to go. Not having to pay sales loads or maintenance fees on mutual funds, or commissions on stock trades really helps, especially if one is a smaller investor.
One might want to try ShareBuilder as well. It allows you to build shares, reinvest dividends, commissions are very very low, and you have slightly better liquidity. If the stock does something you don't like you can get out of it immediately. Drips tend to take longer to liquidate and by that time the stock could be worth far less.
Job well done. A great hub.
I wish I had this information when I was young.
A great explanitory hub. Thank you for all these tips.
Good job explaining it, wannabwestern! I really like that you inserted a picture of money growing on a tree....If only!


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Pete Segal's Top 8 Spy Movie Inspirations for Get Smart
by Alex Billington
June 18, 2008
In honor of the upcoming release of Get Smart this weekend, director Pete Segal and I put together a short list of spy movie inspirations to get you in the mood for Agent 86's shenanigans. In my second interview with Segal a few weeks back, I decided to focus on his inspirations for the film and we were able to come up with a great list of films that inspired what you'll see in theaters. If you're looking forward to Get Smart, you might want to start here with this list. We all know that the original TV series was the basis for the film, but what other great spy movies had an influence on the action, the comedy, and the style in Get Smart? Here are Pete Segal's top 8 spy movie inspirations for Get Smart.
Some of these may bend the spy movie rule, but they all fall into a similar genre and their influence on Get Smart can certainly be seen in the film. I think it's great to see Segal working from so many great classics and it definitely pays off in the end when you see the film. Without further ado, let's begin!
Get Smart TV Series
Directed by: Mel Brooks / Buck Henry
Released: 1965
Starring: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Edward Platt
It's not a movie, but it definitely is the biggest inspiration for the film (obviously) and should be mentioned. If you want to go back and see how it all began, then this is where you should start.
Pete Says: "I have to obviously start with the original series first, if people want to go back and refresh their memory on that."
The Spy Who Loved Me / Moonraker
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Released: 1977 / 1979
Starring: Roger Moore, Richard Kiel
Given Get Smart is in essence a comedic Bond, it's perfect to reference two of the best Bond movies. Both featured the iconic henchman Jaws who chased Bond all over the world.
Pete Says: "Obviously I loved Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me because Richard Kiel [who played Jaws] was such an iconic bad guy and that's exactly who I thought of obviously with Dalip Singh."
Dr. Strangelove
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Released: 1964
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, James Earl Jones
So this isn't really a spy movie, per se, but it definitely had an influence on everything from the military scenes in Get Smart to the action and comedy. Dr. Strangelove is undeniably a comedy classic and its inspirations in countless films are far and wide. Definitely a great point of reference for Segal and Get Smart. It's always a fun watch no matter how many times you've seen it and the perfect preface for the arrival of Get Smart this weekend.
The Bourne Trilogy
Directed by: Doug Liman / Paul Greengrass
Released: 2002 / 2004 / 2007
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles
Yet another great series of spy movies. We've all come to appreciate this trilogy and it's exciting to see a bit of that style show up in Get Smart as well.
Pete Says: "Just from a stylistic standpoint - the Bournes. We gave Max a little bit less of a bloody realism in the fights because we thought [it would] be hard to get people to laugh but Doug Coleman, who was our stunt coordinator, had done a lot of epic movies and he brought everything he had to it and I thought he did a great job."
True Lies
Directed by: James Cameron
Released: 1994
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold
I'm also excited to hear that one of my personal favorite action flicks, True Lies, ended up inspiring Get Smart. This is such a fun action flick that features Schwarzenegger at his best. I can't say exactly how it inspired Get Smart, but it definitely played a part in inspiring Pete during the action scenes.
Pete Says: "I think Cameron is one of the great action directors of all time."
Directed by: Jon Amiel
Released: 1999
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames
While not exactly the greatest movie, Entrapment definitely does inspire a particular laser scene in Get Smart.
Pete Says: "There was a homage to Entrapment, that was the closest to parody that we had come in this movie. Naked Gun is the king of parody, so we wanted to stay away from it, but because we had our own joke spin in that laser scene, I thought that was okay."
Point Break
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Released: 1991
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey
It inspired a great scene in Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz, now it makes its mark on Get Smart, too. It's crazy to see it come so far since '91.
Pete Says: "It was one of the best sky diving movie sequences and as a matter of fact the guys who photographed that in Florida worked on this. There are very few people who do that kind of stunt photography as their specialty and so we went to them and I pointed to his work saying 'I like that!'"
Directed by: Chuck Russell
Released: 1996
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams
One of the most forgotten Schwarzenegger action films, Eraser definitely still holds its own and obviously had enough of an impact on Pete that he included it as inspiration. There were some great action scenes in it and the mid-air fight was certainly one of them. Eraser is a truly fun film to revisit before this weekend.
Pete Says: "To a degree there were elements of Eraser in there. That also was a great inspiration for elements of our mid-air fight."
We hope this list of spy movies helps get you in the mood for Get Smart this weekend. I can confirm that there are a lot of great inspirations in Get Smart and it's actually great to see them in there. Instead of complaining about originality, I'll say that Get Smart is a refreshing amalgamation of many great classic films that Pete Segal has wonderfully reimagined in a new light. Get Smart is not a rehash of any of these, but rather takes the best elements of each to make up a unique and wildly entertaining action comedy. Thanks to Pete Segal for helping put this list together. See you in theaters!
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The moon is waxing gibbous and reaches full moon phase at 2:42 p.m. Wednesday. The full moon will become visible in St. Louis when it rises at 7:52 p.m. Wednesday.
Native Americans named the moon for all of the growth they saw.
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I'm sure about one thing. Price going up and useful features like Mental ray going away. Should we still hope for some kind of improvement?
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Although I am now au fait with the terminology "foreground processing" and "background processing", the latter option being more profitable for AutoDonk.
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So, Arnold has a watermark unless you have an Arnold licence for $1220
Iray now costs $300 a year. Mental Ray is "free" from Nvidia, but can't render animations unless you pay an extra $300 a year per machine.
And yet the price of Max goes up again with these "improvements".
I honestly think that a bucket half full of seaweed could run Max development better than Autodesk at this point.
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Maya 2017 has it's own issues too atm. Silly things like a symmetry brush not working in the integrated Xgen module (for hair). A constraint that glitches out only at render time (that isn't going to be fixed, but another tool that does the same thing has been integrated over like a sloppy band-aid). Window panels not being "found" within it's own system. A tool being replaced forcing you to download a plugin which AD links you too, but the link is broken on their website!
Seems like once a week I run into something stupid that hinders my ability to do my jerb.
Don't know, for the price of 3ds Max / Maya I expect fully working and feature rich software. Call me crazy. :D
Carry on.
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None for me, thanks. I'll keep the version I have, and maaaaaybe get ahold of 2017 because it supposedly has PBR. Of course, one could just get Corona or RedShift renderer and call it a day, skipping all AD's renderers entirely.
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"So, Arnold has a watermark unless you have an Arnold licence for $1220"
Whut!? I thought it was a full version and you only needed a license to use extra nodes.
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They really have no shame anymore....
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Looks like my money is well spent...
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What a fucking joke.
Literally new icons and less features. The same splash screen and the old plugins still work which means nothing has really changed. Remember, a few months ago they were saying how amazing this release was going to be.
This is what you get when you lose most of the people developing and managing the product.
All that has changed is a more effective billing department.
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I've just seen 2018.
...anything good on the TV tonight?
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Garbage.... Makes me sad :*(
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@Nik, i think that sums it up pretty accurate :)
Pushing buttons since "86
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Lol Nik, what a funny and almost true statement. At this point in time vanilla max has less capability and more crashes than blender. Blender UI is nicer and snappier , I'd love to see some common plugins from max on blender - then u would see some interesting competition. Some of the top ones for blender I looked at are actually quite interesting such as ivygen, floorgen, nodewrangler, archimesh (really check this one out!). I like c4d & Houdini but in all honestly I actually think blender is starting to look similar to max in comparison to other packages.
C4d looks great but the manual states it's meant for small scenes and reading around some people seem to be fed up with the development such as xpresso still running single thread. Houdini is amazing but it's programmer driven - pure artist types may be less interested in nodes when they feel like 'meshing something out'... I looked at rhino + grasshopper specifically for archviz, promising stuff - again single threaded. Brings me back to blender lol.. I see modo is the top rated next package for the corona render teams focus, but even after watching Garps thread on it I'm not convinced - I could be wrong. Food for thought, I'd love to hear more on threading for blender or anyone elses recent experiments with other packages, specifically for large scenes with scattered geo and parametric tools,/plugins like itoo. As an archviz guy I'd almost hinge the whole thing on itoo and a decent photo real renderer + a modelling toolset/plugin
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Unless you plan to always ride by yourself, drafting is an essential skill for the cyclist–both indoors and out.
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Based on our (admittedly limited) tests, drafting in Zwift gets you a power savings of approximately 25%. Using power emulators on a closed course, we had one rider sustain 300 watts while another ride drafted behind. We found a rider could stay in this 300 watt draft at 225 watts while on relatively flat ground.
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Drafting on Zwift is challenging in ways that real-world drafting is not. Zwift HQ has done a commendable job of tweaking their drafting algorithms to arrive at what we have now, which works quite well. That said, drafting in Zwift takes some getting used to, even if you are familiar with drafting in real life. Here are the differences:
- No brakes: when you ride outside, you can tap your brakes to maintain the proper distance off the back tire of the rider in front of you. There are no brakes in Zwift, so your position becomes a matter of putting down the right amount of power at the right time, plus a little bit of luck.
- No steering: outside you can steer in and out of a draft. There is no steering on Zwift, which means at times the game places you behind someone you are trying to avoid, or doesn't place you behind someone you're attempting to draft behind.
- Limited and delayed sensory feedback: in the real world you can feel when you're in the draft: the air resistance decreases and you don't have to work as hard to keep the pace. On Zwift, there are very limited cues as to when you are in the draft or not. Additionally, if you need to modify your power output to stay in the draft, the response (your avatar moving in response to your power change) is not as immediate as it would be in real life.
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Zwift uses the visual cue of sitting up as an indicator that you are in the draft. It can be a little confusing though, since Zwift will also have your avatar sit up at slow solo speeds.
If you are moving at 33kph or more and your avatar is sitting up (on the hoods), you are in the draft.
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Since Zwift steers for you automatically, you may at times find yourself being steered out of the draft. If this happens while you're attempting to stay in the draft, simply keep your power at a level that keeps you in a good position to get the draft, and Zwift will generally steer you into the draft again soon enough.


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Fanny Brice, whose story is told in our boxed DVD set of Funny Girl and Funny Lady, rose to fame in the Follies. Ever since I acquired my well-worn LPs of Streisand's Broadway cast album of Funny Girl and of Brice herself singing her priceless comedy songs, I've been fascinated by this Lower East Side girl who made good.
Her mother was a saloon keeper married to a gambler called "Pinochle Charlie" (shades of future husband and fellow ne'er do well Nicky Arnstein). As a child, Fanny Borach danced and sang on bar tops and tables. Too tall and skinny to be a chorus girl, she found a niche singing and clowning around on the vaudeville circuit. When Ziegfeld snapped her up, it paid off in spades: Her first number in the Follies garnered 12 encores, and she soon became his top female star with her spoofs of Camille and vamps like Theda Bara; comedy/ethnic novelties like "Second Hand Rose" and "Becky Is Back at the Ballet"; and her touching renditions of torch songs like "My Man" and "I'd Rather Be Blue." Here are a few rare scenes of her in action.
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Garrett on the U.N. Oil for Food Scandal
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July 14, 2004 The $100 billion Iraqi Oil for Food program was by far the largest relief operation in the history of the United Nations. By extension, it's rapidly becoming the U.N.'s largest scandal ever. "The promotion of economic and social advancement of all people," is a crucial goal set in the United Nations (U.N.) charter. However, instead of
working towards that goal, through the Iraqi Oil for Food program, the U.N. has done just the opposite. It has acted
unethically by working to line its own pockets to the detriment of advancing the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.
A mountain of evidence has now accumulated to suggest the Iraqi people suffered from shortages of quality food and
medicine not because international sanctions were too strict, but because lax or corrupt oversight at U.N. headquarters
allowed Saddam Hussein to exploit the system for his own purposes. In the Oil for Food scandal, the United Nations
was supposed to allow a controlled sale of oil for humanitarian aid by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Instead, under UN auspices only 72 percent of the 68 billion dollars of oil sold by Hussein went to aid the Iraqi people.
During the years that the program ran from 1996 through 2003, it is estimated that over 10 billion dollars was tapped by
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part in the scandal, including Benon Sevan, the United Nations official in charge of the program. Mr. Sevan's name appears on a list of individuals, companies and organizations that allegedly received oil allocations or vouchers from
Saddam that could then be sold via middlemen for a significant markup. The list, compiled in Arabic from documents uncovered in Iraq's oil ministry, included many of Saddam's nearest and dearest from some 50 countries.
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scandals of such companies as Enron and Tyco, the unethical financial scandal and smuggling of these kickbacks by
the U.N. on otherwise legitimate contracts have gone largely unnoticed. It is true that a small number of corporate
CEOs did commit crimes against their company shareholders. And, make no mistake, these criminals should be tried
and punished. However, while explaining our anger over their embezzlement, the massive financial scandal within the U.N. and the money that has been stolen from the Iraqi people must also be called to attention.
The same media outlets detailing the fury over the corporate misdeeds are the same media outlets that have left the
incredible sums of money that the UN and Saddam Hussein have stolen from the Iraqi people unreported. We should
not play into the double standard set by these various media outlets and the anti-American left, where America is condemned and the crimes of the U.N. and their aiding of a brutal, cold blooded murderer are left unnoticed and
without condemnation. An organization which makes decisions that affect the entire world must not be allowed to
continue under this shroud of corruption. Where is the outrage?
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role in the formation of a democratic future for the newly liberated people of Iraq; but before they are able to partake in
this nation building, U.N. employees which have committed these unethical acts must be brought to justice. The future
of the people of Iraq can not and should not otherwise be compromised. Justice must be sough on behalf of all Iraqi
people and for the sake of viability of the U.N. as a global entity. If we are to enhance the power of the U.N. in Iraq and
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Compensating Frequency Response Mismatches in Time Interleaved Analog to Digital Converters
Time interleaving of multiple analog-to-digital converters by multiplexing the outputs of (for example) a pair of converters at a doubled sampling rate is by now a mature concept - first introduced by Black and Hodges in 1980. Time interleaving of ADCs offers a conceptually simple method for multiplying the sample rate of existing high-performing ADCs. Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converters (TIADC) require mismatch calibration to achieve high signal-to-noise ratios. In this paper, the authors present a new blind technique for two channels time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter's with the improvement of frequency mismatches as well as time offset and bandwidth mismatches. The proposed method overcomes the limitation of traditional gain-timing mismatch model.


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I added another layer under the jean jacket that you can see peeking its way out: a fitted, wool leopard-print cardigan, which added a nice bit of insuluation for a fall evening.
Thanks for all your feedback in the last post about my future calligraphy posts! I'm hoping there are people out there who want to learn and who will enjoy it, and if there are, we can even do a pen-pal round-robin or something so we can all get pretty snail-mail. You'll be seeing that new series here soon, but not to worry--it won't affect style posts at all (a girl's still gotta wear clothes!).


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Narrow bezels? Now you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Because the PC market is highly – some would say brutally – competitive, major brand name players are constantly looking for new features to trigger a new upgrade cycle. The most familiar technologies that drive upgrades are a… Read More


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Martini Racing Super Boost
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This "Super Boost" is formulated to increase octane ratings of unleaded petrol by up to 5 RON, and helps eliminate pre-ignition and detonation too. As a result, it will help your engine run cooler in order to maximise its full potential. Suitable for modified vehicles and occasional track day junkies.


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The individual should not be surprised if the detailing shop in the neighborhood cannot accommodate the request. This is because the establishment may not have the proper equipment to make it happen.
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Many of these shops prefer to work on brand new solid color helmets because the effects will not be the same when this is done on an old one. It is advisable not to sand or use primer to remove the moldings since the specialist will also be doing that before painting this with the new design.
Let your kid try on several motorcycle helmets for at least five minutes to check for any bothersome areas. Have him look in the mirror to check for symmetry and ensure that the motorcycle helmet rests just above the eyebrows and to check for red marks after taking off the helmet.
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It is particularly important to be aware of motorcycle safety when it comes to the youth. You might have a child who likes to ride motorcycles. To ensure his safety, try to invest in a youth motorcycle helmet that provides good protective coverage and excellent retention to help lessen your worries.
It is very important that you try on any motorcycle helmet to ensure a proper fit. If you decide to make a purchase over the internet or from a catalog, make sure you are able to return it for a refund if it doesnt fit well. Keep in mind that each manufacturer sizes their helmets differently. Just because you currently own a size large doesnt mean that is what you will wear in a different brand. For best results through the mail or internet, measure the circumference of your head and ask them to give you the helmet dimensions. Never purchase a used motorcycle helmet because it may have been involved in an accident and it wont protect you as it was designed to.


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A statement released earlier today by Vetr Inc. about Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) bumps the target price to $42.91
- Updated: September 27, 2016
Stating a potential upside of 0.10%, Vetr Inc. upped the price target of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) to $42.91
On 09/23/2016, Stifel Nicolaus released a statement on Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) dropped the target price from $48.00 to $45.00 that suggested an upside of 0.14%.
Having a price of $39.09, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) traded 0.69% higher on the day. With the last close down -2.69% from the two hundred day average, compared with the S&P 500 Index which has decreased -0.01% over the same period. Oracle Corporation has recorded a 50-day average of $40.64 and a two hundred day average of $40.38. Volume of trade was down over the average, with 10,644,622 shares of ORCL changing hands under the typical 12,178,200
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With a total market value of $0, Oracle Corporation has price-earnings ratio of 18.67 with a one year low of $33.13 and a one year high of $42.00 .
A total of 34 analysts have released a report on Oracle Corporation. Seven analysts rating the company a strong buy, fifteen analysts rating the company a buy, fourteen analysts rating the company a hold, four analysts rating the company a underperform, and finally one analyst rating the company a sell with a 12-month price target of $43.91.
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Oracle Corporation (Oracle) provides products and services that address all aspects of corporate information technology (IT) environments, including application, platform and infrastructure. The Company's businesses include cloud and on-premise software, hardware and services. Its cloud and on-premise software business consists of three segments, including cloud software and on-premise software, which includes Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software license updates and product support. Its hardware business consists of two segments, including hardware products and hardware support. The Company's services business includes the remainder of the Company's segments. Its services business includes activities, such as consulting services, enhanced support services and education services, among others.
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Launch of E-saathi APP and an Interactive session with ACP-Delhi Police at Asia- Pacific Institute of Management
Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, one of the premier business school of India, organised the launch of the E-Saathi by Delhi Police on 11 Jan 2016 in the B.B. Verma Auditorium. The event was attended by Asst. Commissioner of Police, and SHO Sub-Div Sarita Vihar along with a large number of students and faculty members from Asia-Pacific Institute of Management.
The guests presented the uses and benefits of the application which is freely available on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobi.dds_esathi) and has features like free police assistance, directly calling for immediate help, tenant and servant verification, online request for enrolment in self-defence classes and training classes organised by Delhi police. The application also offers a lot of safety tips, helpline numbers of Delhi police and related safety and utility apps that can help user. Students and faculty members offered their feedback and suggestions which was appreciated by the guests.


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The under-pressure chairman and president of Japan's Olympus resigned on Wednesday with the company mired in crisis over a fee payments scandal triggered by the sacking of its British chief executive.
Tsuyoshi Kikukawa's resignation comes less than two weeks after he took control of the company following the ouster of former president and CEO Michael Woodford.
Olympus shares have since fallen by more than 50 percent.
Briton Woodford contended that he was removed after querying the size of payments made by Olympus in deals between 2006 and 2008.
Kikukawa will become a director without executive rights, the company said in a statement, adding that director Shuichi Takayama will replace him as president.
"As we have troubled our customers, business partners and shareholders over a series of press reports and a slump in share prices, chairman and president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa today returned his titles as well as his right to representation," the Olympus statement said.
Olympus shares have lost more than half their value since the ousting of Woodford on October 14, with the questioned payments falling under the media spotlight and company explanations leaving investors dissatisfied.
Among four deals queried by Woodford was the $1.92 billion acquisition of British medical-instruments company Gyrus Group in 2008 and the $687 million that Olympus has admitted it eventually paid an adviser on the purchase.
Woodford commissioned a report on the deal from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) that queried why the fee was so high.
It totalled more than a third of the company's purchase price, much larger than the one or two percent normally charged in acquisition deals.
Woodford also queried Olympus' purchase of three Japanese companies unrelated to its core precision equipment businesses for hundreds of millions of dollars that it later wrote down.
At a hurriedly arranged press conference, a statement was read out from Kikukawa, who did not attend. "We have done nothing illegal, but we will create an independent committee to establish the facts," it read.
New president Takayama, who joined Olympus in 1970, defended the deals and said he was not aware of any investigations by overseas authorities following media reports the FBI was probing the scandal involving the near $700 million advisory fee payment.
The 61-year-old said he was confident the stock price would recover because the fundamental value of the company had not changed. Olympus has pledged to launch a third-party inquiry into the deals.
"We want to be able to recover the trust of society and customers as soon as possible," he said.
The impact of Kikukawa's resignation alone was unclear, Woodford told Dow Jones Newswires shortly after the company released the statement.
"All board members acted as one entity," Woodford was quoted as saying, noting that Takayama, the new president, was one of the board members who voted to remove him.
Woodford was dismissed only six months after being appointed president and two weeks after he was also named chief executive.
The 30-year company veteran, Olympus' first non-Japanese president and chief executive, said he was removed after he wrote to Kikukawa and urged him to resign over the payments, citing major governance concerns.
Investors have pushed Olympus for answers. On Wednesday, its shares dived 7.56 percent to 1,099 yen ahead of the announcement of Kikukawa's resignation.
Olympus has denied any wrongdoing and repeatedly blamed Woodford's demotion on "a big gap" between him and other directors on management and strategy, instead of his concerns over the deals.


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Bill Sienkiewicz 1985-1987: Selections from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe
Marvel's 80s-era Handbooks really rocked my world. Mark Gruenwald, Eliot R. Brown and company really brought something wonderfully nerdtastic to the world of comics. And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, DC must have though so too. While I have a distinct preference of Marvel's Handbooks over DC's Who's Who, one area where DCs offerings surpassed the Handbooks is the treatment of the art for the characters. Every character got his or her own logo and the 1-color background art provided a great way to put the character in context.
Shown above are all of Sienkiewicz's contributions to the series and — appropriately enough — they are brimming with character.


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How often do you find yourself thinking about everyone else first, neglecting your own needs and wants? Many who find themselves looking after everyone else in their life find it extremely difficult to look after themselves. While it is essential to function at your best in order to look after everyone else properly, there are many difficult feelings of guilt and low self-worth that mean that making yourself a priority is almost impossible. Inner Joy Hypnotherapy supports individuals and groups, including carers' groups and care staff, to feel good about making yourself a top priority. By renewing your sense of satisfaction and well-being in your life, you are better able to provide those around you with all they need and more.
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We have all done some crazy things... when I was 16 I drove through a flood with my mothers car (which did not end well), I was reckless, and I engaged in some activities that many would call "shady". So I must ask, what was the craziest thing you have done in your life?
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It's difficult to decide on that one;) On top of the list is for sure a crazy journey I did two years ago. Me and three other young women bought a super old (22 years) Mercedes and drove all the way from Germany to West-Africa. We took the ferry from Spain to Morocco and then drove to the West-Sahara, Mauritania and Mali - where we finally sold the Mercedes and recovered all our travel costs... This journey meant crossing parts of the Sahara with a lowered city car (but luckily the only time we got actually stuck in the sand was at the atlantic coast in Spain when we drove too far out on the beach), camping out everynight in just a mosquito net, handling mean looking military check-posts with female charm mixed with toughness and the pretense of not speaking French to avoid the many bribes along the way... We had to cross 4km of landmine infested no-man's land (there was a mud track though to follow) and hid canisters of reserve petrol behind sanitary pads and toilet paper to avoid having to hand it over as a bribe in Mauritania. In Mali we ended up in a village without electricity or running water, where an amazing young lady from the States was working for the Peace Corps. She taught us some Bambara and got us involved in the local vaccination day. We later took a freight ship from Mopti to Timbuctu - where we never reached because tourists had been killed and kidnapped just on the day of our expected arrival. Finally we recahed Senegal, where one of my friends unexpectedly got a job that made me stay in a huge villa with its own pool - very much as a contrast to our total budget journey this far;) Overall: A crazy, beautiful, challenging, at times nerve-wrecking experience that I can recommend to anybody. Sometimes things that we anticipate to be too dangerous or too crazy to be done when sitting at home turn out to be the best experiences we have ever had and will change our lives forever....
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Left the country with a man I had only known a few weeks and didn't tell anyone where I had gone or who with. Looking back I think "what an idiot, if he had killed you, no one would ever know what happened." Fortunately I got back home safe and sound.
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Going into East Berlin by myself, in 1982. I was touring Europe with a group, and no one else wanted to go. This was the chance of a lifetime, and I was not about to pass this up! All went well, though; I had no hassles. So it's easy for me to say I'm glad I did it. I sent postcards to my friends; I should have kept one for myself. What is the value of those postcards now, that the Iron Curtain is long gone???
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at the time I started Tresiba I was new to using insulin and told by endo it would have no impact on bg for at least 3 days. Not sure what dose you are starting with, but my endo had me slowly increase dose over 3-4 months. Good luck to you!!
You have to take the same dose, and you have to take it every day. The action is just spread over a longer period, about 42 hours. Tresiba peaks at about 12 hours, and action tails off quickly after about 26 hours. Taking it every day means that initial 12 hours of increasing action is stacked on the reducing action of the previous day's dose. So it all evens out.
The graph below shows the insulin infusion rate of an insulin clamp done after 8 days of daily Tresiba shots (0.4 units/Kg). As you can see, insulin action tails off very quickly after about 26 hours. The last shot was at T0 in the graph. And by 42 hours, inulin action was almost all gone.
Thanks, Mark. It sounds like what you are saying is that Tresiba may be DETECTABLE in the blood for up to 42 hours, but the THERAPEUTIC dose only lasts about 26 hours. So people need to take the drug every 24 hours to maintain stable insulin levels. Am I correct?
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It looks like it. According to the graph, another injection is needed at 24 hours. It takes 12 hours to peak, by which time not much insulin action from the previous shot is left. The overlapping seems to work well over a 24 hour cycle. Apparently day to day insulin action variability with this insulin is down to 20%, which is better than Lantus and Levemir. With NPH it is 50%, with Lantus it is 30% I think. So if Tresiba is used properly, control should be good.
That peaking in 12 hours could be useful. My peak need is about 4am, so taking this new insulin at 4pm everyday would conveniently deal with my dawn phenomena. Whether it would work well would be an experiment I would like to do. Then again will VA or my other insurance cover it?
T2, self diagnosed 2007. On Levemir and Regular, and Humalog. Humalog via pens. 3 bouts of retinopathy, hence I keep A1C on the low side. So far so good.
I think you might find that, because it is such a long acting insulin, the overlapping of rising and falling action from daily shots add up to fairly constant insulin action over a 24 hour cycle. That wouldn't help with satisfying your peak insulin requirement. Levemir (Detemir in the graph) should be better for that. It peaks at about 9 hours, so injecting it at 7pm should do the trick.
I am just switching myself from Lantus 2x daily to Levemir for the following reasons:I think you might find that, because it is such a long acting insulin, the overlapping of rising and falling action from daily shots add up to fairly constant insulin action over a 24 hour cycle. That wouldn't help with satisfying your peak insulin requirement. Levemir (Detemir in the graph) should be better for that. It peaks at about 9 hours, so injecting it at 7pm should do the trick.
1. Dawn Phenomenon peak for me is pretty strong. The above mentioned curve looks like it will help with that when injected at bedtime. I would take NPH, but am concerned about the protamine causing a possible problem in rare medical procedures.
2. Insurance dropped Lantus from the formulary.
3. Possible increased cancer risk from Lantus.
4. Variability - (possibly better) I have seen much variation in effectiveness of Lantus and am hoping Levemir is a bit beter.
5. Shelf Life - Lantus is supposed to have shorter shelf life after opening than Levemir.
Those all sound like good reasons, Mike. Let us know how the Levemir works for you.


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THE Law Society has accused the Government of "risking quality" by imposing a fees freeze on legal aid practitioners.
The Lord Chancellor's Dep-artment (LCD) announced last week that legal aid fees would remain at last year's levels.
It is the fourth time legal aid fees have been frozen during the last six years, although the Law Society claims there has been an 18.4 per cent increase in overheads during that time.
Fees were also frozen in 1993, 1994, 1997 and 1998.
A Law Society spokesman slated the Government for cutting payments for a public service, when the society had "made countless suggestions to remove anomalies in payments, control QCs' fees, stamp out fraud and abuse, and many other measures to control costs".
He called on the Government to ensure that solicitors undertaking legal aid work were paid "properly and fairly".
Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) vice-chair Richard Miller called the freeze "another slap in the face for the very people the Government claims it is anxious to form a partnership with".
Miller said: "It is disappointing but what we have come to expect. There are already indications of LAPG members reducing the amount of legal aid work they do – or stopping altogether, and this can only accelerate the trend."