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So I watched Memento for the second time, and I felt like I understood the story pretty well, however, some things don't make so much sense to me. As far as I know:
Lenard, the main character, did in fact see his wife being raped in the middle of the night by two criminals. He got hit in his skull and was injured, hence his condition.
Some time afterwards, Lenard and his wife were involved in a car accident. Since then, he could not remember anything for longer than 5-10 minutes. His wife wasn't hurt.Apparently, there was no car accident (see s427's answer & comments).Since the injury all he could remember was things happened to him before the injury, like his name, his former work, etc.
Since his memory condition, he has managed to live by making puzzles and playing detective in order to find the "guy who murdered his wife". He can't remember he had already found this guy, who in fact raped (not murdered) his wife, and killed him. Teddy, a police officer, has helped and is helping Lenard with his puzzles in order to give his life meaning.
Lenard killed his own wife with the insulin shots - she died because of an insulin overdose (Sam Jenkins story).
Most of those details are being revealed at the end of the movie (the last scene, which is really the beginning of the sequence of events). Teddy, the police officer, tells him who he really is - Sam Jenkins. Now, this is what I don't quite understand:
Lenard tells everyone he was an insurance investigator, and he was the one who handled the Sam Jenkins case. If he is Sam Jenkins, then was he ever an insurance investigator? If he killed his wife with the insulin shots, doesn't it mean that he used to be a doctor? Did he make up the insurance agent story? Why, and how? (because it means he was looking at himself from the outside).
In the Sam Jenkins story Lenard says that he was in a hospital after he killed his wife. Was Lenard really in a hospital? When did this happen, and how did he recover?
How does Lenard know he has a memory condition? Sam Jenkins, as seen, wasn't aware of his condition, and if Sam is Lenard after the accident, how can he be aware of his condition? Even if someone told him about his condition, he wouldn't remember it. I know he had "Remember Sammy Jenkins" tattooed on his arm. This is how he remembers he has this condition?
Here is the final dialogue between Lenard and Teddy, in the final scene, where most of truth about Lenard is being revealed:
Lenard > He knew about Sammy, why would I tell him about Sammy?!
Teddy > You tell everybody about Sammy! Everybody who'll listen!
"Remember Sammy Jankis?" "Remember Sammy Jankis?"
Great story. Gets better every time you tell it.
So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that.
We all do it. Who cares if there's a few little details you'd rather not remember?
- What the fuck are you talking about? - I don't know.
Your wife surviving the assault. Her not believing your condition.
The torment and pain and anguish tearing her up inside.
The insulin.
That's Sammy, not me. I told you about Sammy.
Yeah, right. Like you tell yourself over and over again.
Conditioning yourself to remember, learning through repetition.
Sammy let his wife kill herself. Sammy ended up in an institution.
Sammy was a con man. A faker.
I never said that Sammy was faking.
You exposed him for what he was. A fraud.
I was wrong. That's the whole point.
- See, Sammy's wife came to me... - Sammy didn't have a wife.
It was your wife who had diabetes.
My wife wasn't diabetic.
You sure?
Ouch! Cut it out!
She wasn't diabetic.
You think I don't know my own wife? What the fuck is wrong with you?
I guess I can only make you remember the things you want to be true.
- Like old Jimmy down there. - He's not the right guy.
He was to you.
Come on, you got your revenge. Enjoy it while you still remember.
What difference does it make whether he was your guy or not?
- It makes all the difference. - Why? You're never gonna know.
- Yes, I will. - No, you won't.
- Somehow I'll know. - You won't remember!
When it's done, I will know.
I thought so, too, I was sure of it, but you didn't!
That's right. The real John G. I helped you find him over a year ago.
- He's already dead. - Don't lie to me any more.
Look, Lenny...
...I was the cop assigned to your wife's case, I believed you.
I thought you deserved a chance for revenge.
I'm the one that helped you find the other guy in your bathroom that night.
The guy that cracked your skull and fucked your wife.
We found him, you killed him.
But you didn't remember.
So I helped you start looking again, looking for the guy you already killed.
- Oh, yeah? So who was he? - Just some guy. Does it matter who?
No reason, Lenny, no conspiracy, just bad fucking luck.
Couple of junkies too strung out to realise your wife didn't live alone.
But when you killed him I was so convinced that you'd remember.
But it didn't stick.
Like nothing ever sticks, like this won't stick.
I took that picture.
Just when you did it.
Look how happy you are. I wanted to see that face again.
- Oh, gee, thanks(!) - Fuck you.
I gave you a reason to live and you were more than happy to help.
You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth, like your police file.
It was complete when I gave it to you. Who took out the twelve pages?
You, probably.
- No, it wasn't me, see, it was you. - Why would I do that?
To create a puzzle you could never solve.
Do you know how many towns...
...how many John Gs or James Gs? I mean, shit, Lenny, I'm a fucking John G.
- Your name's Teddy. - My mother calls me Teddy.
My name's John Edward Gammell.
Cheer up. There's plenty of John Gs for us to find.


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Bonfires, borscht, humor in Kiev protest camp
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posted 30 minutes ago
While thousands of demonstrators call for ousting Ukraine's leaders, Yuri Onishchenko is also worrying about matters more pedestrian, such as where to find wool socks to help the demonstrators keep warm in snowy December weather.
Hundreds mark anniversary of fatal police shooting
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posted Dec 6th - 3:46pm
Police clashed with demonstrators in central Athens on Friday as thousands attended rallies to mark the fifth anniversary of a fatal police shooting of a teenager _ a killing that triggered major riots in Greek cities for three weeks.
Ukraine, Russia presidents meet; protests persist
Jim Heintz, Associated Press |
posted Dec 6th - 1:41pm
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych met with his Russian counterpart Friday to discuss closer cooperation, while protests clung to the capital over Ukraine's decision to scrap a deal with the EU.
Greece: Public sector no longer too large
Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press |
posted Dec 6th - 1:14pm
Greece no longer has too many public servants and is close to reaching staff reduction targets demanded by bailout lenders two years before the deadline, the government said Friday.
UK 'Muslim Patrol' members jailed for harassment
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posted Dec 6th - 12:48pm
Three members of a self-styled "Muslim Patrol" in London who threatened strangers for holding hands, drinking alcohol and other behavior they deemed "un-Islamic" have been sentenced to jail.
France to help Africans with rapid-reaction force
Associated Press |
posted Dec 6th - 12:40pm
Plans to create an African rapid-reaction force to intervene in the continent's conflicts are gathering steam, with the French officially agreeing to provide equipment, logistical support and advice on coordination.
Dutch paper sorry for 'tasteless' Mandela article
Associated Press |
posted Dec 6th - 12:23pm
The top-selling Dutch newspaper has apologized for a story on its website that linked the death of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela with a controversial black-face character in the traditional Dutch celebration of Sinterklaas.
All Syrian chemical weapons munitions destroyed
Mike Corder, Associated Press |
posted Dec 6th - 10:40am
The international chemical weapons watchdog announced Friday it has verified the destruction of all of Syria's unfilled munitions _ another milestone along the road to eradicating President Bashar Assad's chemical weapons program by mid-2014.
Russia: Crashed pilot may have had fake license
Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press |
posted Dec 6th - 9:57am
The Russian pilot who sent a Boeing 737 into a near-vertical dive, killing all 50 people on board, might have had a fake license, Russian investigators said Friday.
Thousands in UK face another day of flooding
Danica Kirka, Associated Press |
posted Dec 6th - 9:56am
Hundreds of people in Britain mopped up flooded homes on Friday after a powerful storm that scoured northern Europe with hurricane-force gusts kicked up the biggest tidal surge in 60 years, swamping stretches of shoreline.
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A 77-Year-Old Liquor Store Owner is Shot in the Eye . . . But Still Says The Rock Winning the WWE Championship was the Worst Part of His Week:
77-year-old Thomas Dotterer is a part-time high school baseball coach who owns a liquor store in Syracuse, New York. And there was a robbery last week where Thomas was SHOT IN THE EYE.
He was hospitalized in critical condition, but had emergency eye surgery and pulled through. His problems are still just starting though, and he'll need to visit a specialist in Philadelphia next week for more surgeries.
But after all that, Thomas says getting shot in the eye was NOT the worst thing that happened to him last week.
No, the worst thing that happened to him was THE ROCK returning to the WWE, and winning the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on Sunday.
Quote, "That's the worst thing that happened to me all week, The Rock beat C.M. PUNK. Did you know that?" Other than that, quote, "Every day is great . . . every day I have an opportunity to broaden my appreciation of what God has given us."
Police are still looking for the robbers.
A Woman Test Drives a Car to a Bank . . . So She Can Rob It:
In Manteca, California, a 51-year-old woman named Gail Castle took a car on a test drive to a bank . . . so she could ROB IT.
A few weeks ago, Gail showed up at an 83-year-old man's house and asked if she could buy his 1994 Chrysler 5th Avenue. It wasn't for sale, but he figured why not? She asked if he'd go with her on a test drive to a Bank of America, and he said okay.
She went into the bank, handed the teller a robbery note, got about $2,000, then went back to the car. She asked the old man to drive, and he did . . . not realizing she'd just turned him into her GETAWAY DRIVER.
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Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL)
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- Powering the Future (a joint AECL – NB Power Web site about Point Lepreau Refurbishment)
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Bruce Power
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The report presents the current situation of the B2C E-Commerce markets in the four Tiger countries South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Besides trends, the report also contains sales, the share of B2C E-Commerce on total retail sales, product categories, Internet users and Internet shoppers as well as information about leading competitors.
It shows both the similarities among and the differences between the Internet and E-Commerce markets in the four Asian Tiger countries. Here, South Korea and Hong Kong experience high growth rates, especially in mobile online retail, while general B2C E-Commerce in Singapore continues to increase by mid to high range double-digit percentages. Only Taiwan is less developed regarding B2C E-Commerce, but a low double-digit percentage growth in online retail sales is forecasted here, too.
Smartphones for the first Time used more often than Notebooks to shop Online in South Korea
After double-digit growth rates in recent years, B2C E-Commerce sales in South Korea reached more than 10 billion EUR. Furthermore, more online purchases were conducted using smartphones than using notebooks in South Korea. Besides Mobile Commerce, Social Commerce was also a growing trend in South Korean online retail.
M-Commerce and Group Shopping important Trends in B2C E-Commerce in Hong Kong
In 2012, more than half of all Internet users in Hong Kong conducted online purchases, with women shopping online more often than men. M-Commerce sales in Hong Kong are expected to increase notably more between 2011 and 2015 than general B2C E-Commerce sales.
Travel and Entertainment Tickets preferred Product Categories of Internet Shoppers in Singapore
B2C E-Commerce sales in Singapore are expected to increase by almost 50 percent between 2011 and 2015. In relation to this as well as based on the growing number of online orders, pick up stations are planned to be set up in Singapore starting in 2013. Travel reservations and entertainment tickets, followed by computer and game software as well as apparel, accessories, shoes and jewelry were the product categories to be purchased online most often by Internet shoppers in Singapore in February 2012. Mobile online retail plays an increasingly large role in Singapore, as well.
Growing Number of Internet Users in Taiwan despite existing Problems with the Internet
The number of Internet users in Taiwan rises continuously, but more than half of them experienced problems with unstable connections and poor Internet quality in 2012. Slow download and upload speeds represented further difficulties during Internet usage in Taiwan. The number of mobile Internet users is on the rise as well, but it is used by less than 10 percent of users to conduct mobile online purchases. However, total online retail sales in Taiwan are projected to increase by a small double-digit percentage figure annually between 2012 and 2015.
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About 60 island property owners recently called on our bridge authority to break a promise we, as a community, made to the state in 1995 and once again in 2000.
Who is responsible for operating, maintaining and replacing Boca Grande's bridges and causeway? Based on that promise, we are. In 2000, the Florida Legislature passed an act re-creating the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority it had originally established in 1995. Most of the statute's language is technical. Not what you'd consider bedtime reading. But the rest is easy to comprehend for anyone interested in taking the time to understand what we told the Legislature we would do back in 1995 and again five years later.
"It is declared as a matter of legislative determination that the residents of Gasparilla Island and its neighboring islands have a vital interest in the operation and the continued maintenance and improvement of the bridge and causeway linking the islands to the mainland." That's what the statute creating the bridge authority says.
Those "neighboring islands" are described in the statute. They include Cole Island and Boca Grande Isles. They don't include residents of Placida, Cape Haze, Rotonda, Charlotte and Lee counties, the State of Florida, the Western Hemisphere and beyond. When we petitioned the Legislature to create the bridge authority, our lawmakers wanted to make it very clear that we, the residents, have a "vital interest" in the bridges and the causeway. They were, in effect, warning us what we were getting ourselves into.
This warning was made even more clear in language found in the same section of the statute. "The residents of Gasparilla Island are the primary users of the bridge and pay the majority of tolls collected for its continued maintenance." As a result, our lawmakers told us, there is a "continuing responsibility on the part of the residents of Gasparilla Island and surrounding islands for the operation, maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of the bridge and causeway."
That's the deal we made with the state. In essence, it's our bridge. We'll pay for it. Not the "day trippers," not the people who cross the bridge each day to their jobs in our restaurants, our shops, our school, our clinic, our community center, our newspaper and our homes. Not "others." Not even "Hell's Angels." Us. "The residents of Gasparilla Island and surrounding islands." It's understandably troubling that some of our new neighbors now want us to shamelessly welch on the promise we made to the people of Florida when we asked them to let us buy a deteriorating half century-old bridge back in 1995.
That's the message that was sent by 60 or so self-described residents who recently told the bridge authority a deal's not a deal. That the people of Boca Grande really don't have a "continuing responsibility" for the bridges and the causeway. That we should selfishly forget what we said we'd do back in 1995. That we should pass our responsibility on to the next guy in the form of outrageously expensive and exclusionary tolls that will have a devastating effect on our fragile island economy.
For the most part, they can be forgiven. Although the statute is online for the world to see, I doubt few if any of those 60 people bothered to take the time to read the promise they made to the Legislature and the people of Florida 17 years ago. Then again, most weren't here 17 years ago. The promise was made by a different generation of Boca Grande residents. Residents whose investment in the community extended beyond a deed and a three-month winter vacation. They knew the bridge was scheduled to fall into the state's hands in 2002, if it didn't fall over first. They had endured nearly 50 years of contentious absentee ownership. Allowing title to stumble into the hands of the state, they feared, would mean more of the same. Boca Grande's "vital interest," they decided, could best be protected through local control of the bridge and causeway that links us to the mainland. And, in return, the mainland to us.
As it had in the past, the bridges and causeway would primarily be kept standing through tolls. But the legislature also correctly foresaw that the day would come when tolls wouldn't be enough. Accordingly, and without objection from our generation-ago community, lawmakers included a provision permitting the authority to "assess and impose upon lands in the district ad valorem taxes of no greater than 2 mills of assessed value per year." It seemed only fair considering we, the residents, had agreed the bridge was our "continuing responsibility."
The Legislature set just two conditions. First, a majority of the island's registered voters must ratify this taxing authority through a referendum. Not the amount of the tax, just the ability to tax as proscribed by the statute. Second, a tax could only be contemplated if "the authority determines that the bridge tolls being collected may be insufficient to repair, replace, or maintain the bridge and causeway."
Read this last part in context with the "legislative intent" outlined in the statute. Especially the "continuing responsibility on the part of the residents of Gasparilla Island." We promised the Legislature we'd step up to the plate if "tolls being collected are insufficient to repair, replace, or maintain the bridge and causeway." That's where we are today. What we didn't do, most probably because the Legislature would have killed the deal on the spot, is promise to jack tolls through the roof to replace our bridges and keep "other people" out.
The Legislature, in its own special way, reinforced this idea by noting "the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its purposes are in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state and the people of Lee and Charlotte Counties."
I doubt the Legislature would have agreed that an exclusionary business-killing toll, the kind most of those who attended the last GIBA meeting seem to want, would be "in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state and the people of Lee and Charlotte Counties." A toll that functions as a financial "no trespassing" sign doesn't benefit anyone. It doesn't benefit the people of Florida, it doesn't benefit our island businesses, and it ultimately doesn't benefit us as a community. Most clear-thinking Boca Grande residents see it for what it really is. It's a death sentence.
We made a promise to the state 17 years ago. The Gang of Sixty doesn't want us to keep it. The Gang of Sixty doesn't even want us to vote on whether we keep it. They came dangerously close to having it their way.
A property tax referendum will appear on the November ballot. Nobody likes taxes. But the alternative means we risk losing the Boca Grande so many of us have fought for so many years to preserve. It means a downtown commercial district where real estate offices will take the place of Old Florida restaurants, shops and grocery stores. Or, as our "community panel" was warned many years ago, a soulless gated community. Maybe this is what the Gang of Sixty wants. I don't. Do you?
There's something else, of course. In 1995 we made a promise. We renewed it in 2000. We promised to operate the bridge "in all respects" for the benefit of everyone, not just the Gang of Sixty. It's a promise I intend to keep.
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I have startup company and we have SaaS application which we sell as subscription.
There is a lot of competition(which is good) and often first question I get from prospectives is "How much?"
With my limited experience(few customers) I know that our software better in many different ways but users know and appreaciate this post-factum. Useability, performance, features, long-run costs and savings.
I know that customers who see live demo get it. I also know that we need to do better job on our website to explain why we better. We work on website aspect.
Meanwhile, I get inquiries asking "how much". Well, I know that if I just give them number they will get lost or tell me that so and so 500% cheaper or free. OTOH people seem to be very hesitant about seeing no-obligation demo.
When I see inquiry (from website) coming in from a company(they list company, phone and email) then I try and explain what and how we do and how much it cost.
Once in a while I get inquiries from no-name entities. Just some name and gmail email address. This can be competitor(not that I care about disclosing price that much, they will know if they want) but I feel that if people don't want to disclose their info and see the demo - they not going to be a customer. Am I right?
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Treasuries fell, with 10-year yields rising from the lowest level in two months, before a government report that economists said will show factory orders rebounded in February.
Benchmark yields climbed after slipping below their 100-day moving average. The Federal Reserve's gauge of inflation expectations dropped to the lowest level in a month before a government report this week that economists said will show the U.S. is adding jobs without driving wages higher. Fed Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota will speak today on monetary policy.
"There has been a divide in the market between the recovery we see in the States versus global growth and European concerns, and that is keeping us near this level in yields," said Sean Murphy, a trader at Societe Generale SA in New York, one of the 21 primary dealers that trade with the Fed. "Everyone is waiting for the payroll number to give us some direction. Until then we will continue to chop around in this range -- the range as I see it is 1.85 to 2.09."
The 10-year yield rose three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 1.86% at 9:31 a.m. New York time, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. It earlier dropped to 1.82%, the lowest since Jan. 24, below the 100-day moving average at 1.83%. The 2% note due in February 2023 fell 7/32, or $2.19 per $1,000 face amount, to 101 9/32.
The 10-year yields will climb to 2.31% by year-end, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists.
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Treasuries due in a decade or more have been trading at almost the cheapest level in 19 months relative to global peers with comparable maturities, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch bond indexes. Yields on the Treasuries reached 57 basis points higher than those in an index of other sovereign debt on March 25, the most since August 2011, the data showed. The spread was 51 basis points yesterday.
Trading volume fell 31% yesterday to $165.3 billion, the lowest level since Dec. 31, according to ICAP Plc, the largest inter-dealer broker of U.S. government debt. It touched a 2013 high of $491 billion on Feb. 1. Average daily volume this year is $282.6 billion.
Factory orders rose 2.9% in February, after dropping 2% the previous month, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists before the Commerce Department data. A separate report today is forecast to show vehicles sales were little changed in March.
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U.S. employers hired 199,000 workers in March, after adding 236,000 in February, according to another Bloomberg survey before the Labor Department report on April 5.
Treasury 10-year yields climbed March 8 to 2.08%, the highest since April 5, 2012, after the Labor Department reported February's employment increase and a drop in the unemployment rate, to 7.7% from 7.9%.
"The question is whether the data is starting to turn," said Craig Collins, managing director of rates trading at Bank of Montreal in London. "This is a crucial area at about the 100-day moving average on 10-year yields. That's what so far has stopped the rally."
U.S. government securities lost investors 0.1% this year as of yesterday, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. The MSCI All-Country World Index of stocks gained 6.2% including reinvested dividends.
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Treasuries rose yesterday after a measure of manufacturing was weaker than economists predicted. The Institute for Supply Management's factory index fell to 51.3 in March from 54.2 the month before, boosting demand for the safest assets.
"ISM is still over 50 and consistent with an expansion," Ian Lyngen, a government-bond strategist at CRT Capital Group LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, wrote in a note to clients. Payrolls and unemployment data "will be the first-order tradable events," he wrote.
The Fed is currently purchasing $85 billion of Treasury and mortgage debt a month as it seeks to support the economy by capping yields. It is scheduled to purchase up to $1.75 billion in notes maturing between February 2036 and February 2043.
"Monetary policy is currently not accommodative enough," Kocherlakota said in a speech March 27 in Edina, Minnesota. He said he favored easing policy by reducing to 5.5% from 6.5% the threshold at which the Fed will consider raising the main interest rate.
The central bank's measure of traders' outlook for inflation from 2018 to 2023, known as the five-year forward break-even rate, dropped to 2.71% as of the most recent figures on March 28, the lowest since Feb. 25.


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Paul Turzio took on my request for 10 custom dining chairs based off a photo I provided. He came in well under other estimates I received from Custom Made and delivered a product I am very pleased with. He was able to find efficiencies with his other projects that helped keep the price down. Throughout the process, Paul was extremely communicative and spent a great deal of time with me to ensure the chairs were exactly to the dimensions and design that I wanted. We were happy with Paul's attention to detail that we asked him to help us with remodel ideas for our apartment. We are continuing to work with him on our current kitchen remodel and look forward to another successful outcome!
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I highly recommend Paul Turzio! Paul has been my designer on two major projects--the first was a beautifully designed victorian bathroom and the second project was an amazing exterior home restoration that I am still receiving compliments about! With each project, Paul 's guidance was invaluable. At every point of the job—from his design/restoration plan, to procuring construction materials to match or compliment the original materials used in my colonial home, to his guidance in selecting furnishings and paint colors and identifying qualified contractors—Paul's management and oversight was very much appreciated.
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Paul Turzi at Ideas & Solutions contacted me regarding a project that approximately 30 "custom fabricators" balked at undertaking after the majority initially said they could do it "no problem". Paul was able to take my ideas from verbal discussion and my poor quality 2D images and produce a product that was exactly what I was thinking of.
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Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Arizona on Tuesday to attend a memorial service in the Prescott Valley area for the 19 firefighters killed while fighting the Yarnell Hill wildfire, according to a senior administration official.
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AIR FORCE ACADEMY, COLO. -- If you've been to an Air Force football game, you know that the actual game is just "part" of the overall big show. From the cadets doing pushups after every score to the Falcon mascot dropping in from the sky. And who doesn't love an F-16 or Stealth Bomber screaming overhead right before kickoff? There are several factors that go into making the show before the game perfect. "Everything is scripted down to the minute. It's scripted down to the second, so time means everything to us." "You can actually feel the reverberation coming off that crowd onto you."
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Preparing young students living in south Dearborn and southwest Detroit for college is the focus of a new collaborative pilot project. The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) and Henry Ford Community College will offer "a for-credit college preparation course," which "aims to help students successfully transition to and complete community college education," from September 21 - December 17, 2010, from 3 - 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, according to the class announcement. Instead of holding it at the community college, they will offer the class out in the community, at ACCESS Youth & Family Center, which might better access students living in the area.
"This geographic area was selected due to the high low-income and immigrant population in these communities," the announcement reads. It reports; "Data shows that youth and young adults in low income communities are less likely to enroll in college, and for those who do enroll, their chances of succeeding are low. The idea behind this initative is to 'bring the college to the community' to ease them into the experience, as well as to help them achieve academic success once enrolled."
The class is in no way exclusive to a particular race or ethnicity (they are targeting high school seniors and adults between the ages of 21 and 24 with a G.PA. between 1.8 and 3.2), however one could conclude from the fact that it is being held at ACCESS that the project will likely reach some of the Arab students living in South Dearborn, as well as students belonging to other minority groups in the area. For more information contact Justine Flores at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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With the University of Kansas off to an 0-2 start in Big 12 play, head coach Charlie Weis announced changes in the responsibilities of his staff Tuesday.
Weis will continue to serve as his own offensive coordinator, but he is delegating portions of the role. Tight ends coach Jeff Blasko is now in charge of the running game and blocking, while quarterbacks coach Ron Powlus will head up the passing game.
"More than coordination, it's going to be more guys getting to interject ways of how can we improve the offense, how can we score more points," Weis said, according to KUsports.com. "I felt like I had to back off a little bit or we weren't going to get any better."
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text: Home Culture How America Built the Racial Wealth Gap Straight Up: Will leaders ever step up to fix the mess that social policy and our checkered past created? By: Lawrence D. Bobo Posted: April 9 2013 12:31 AM 0 Comstock Images/Getty Images (The Root) -- The cynic might say that except for a small number of exceptional figures like Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey or Michael Jordan, America is not much interested in truly full inclusion for African Americans. Any fair assessment must concede that the black road to full citizenship in America has been marked by a lot of rough patches and more than a few major detours, and in some important respects remains an incomplete journey. To begin with, one need only think about the most recent era in this journey. Black communities and leadership are deeply preoccupied, even today, with trying to find a path out of unacceptably high rates of poverty and unemployment, as well as unacceptably high rates of school dropouts and poor achievement. The civil rights and black activist communities must, tragically, also remain mobilized to defend an effective right to vote in many places, including before an apparently skeptical U.S. Supreme Court. And, of course, the scourges of racial profiling, arbitrary stop-and-frisk policies, mass incarceration and an utterly failed drug war could be added to this list of major detours and bad stretches still remaining on the path to full black citizenship. None of these, however, would be the top exhibit in the cynic's case for bemoaning the persistently marginalized status of blacks in America. No. As a number of recent reports have underscored, the ultimate marker of the hard road that blacks have traveled in America is the wealth gap. When pioneering sociologists Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro first reshaped the academic and policymaking landscape with their book Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality in 1995, they identified a white-to-black wealth gap, a ratio of roughly 11-to-1. For every dollar of wealth in white hands, blacks had a mere 10 cents. Two recent reports make it clear that the gap has significantly worsened, not improved, since that time. In the wake of the Great Recession, a Pew Research Center report showed that the white-to-black wealth gap rose from a dispiriting figure of 11-to-1 in 2004 to 20-to-1 in 2009. In concrete dollars the report showed that blacks lost 53 percent of their wealth as a result of the Great Recession, falling from a median net worth of $12,124 in 2005 to only $5,677 in 2009. For whites, the comparable figures are $134,992 to $113,149. The greater proportionate wealth decline for blacks is largely attributable to the fact that a much greater share of black wealth involves homes, many of which lost considerable value in the recession. A more recent report (pdf) out of Brandeis University, based on a representative sample of families who have been followed for 25 years, shows that the 1984 black-white wealth gap of $85,070 tripled to a whopping $236,500! Why does it matter? Social scientists agree that wealth is a key factor in the ability of individuals or families to maintain a particular standard of living and to accomplish important goals in life. Wealth is a material cushion in case of job loss or serious illness in a household. It can provide a foundation for sending children to college, launching a business or making other forward-looking investments (e.g., saving for retirement). In an economy in which fewer and fewer people have traditional pensions, in which we are all likely to undergo more job changes and therefore potential spates of unemployment and in which higher education and training are essential to job-market competitiveness, having the financial wherewithal to support these adaptations is increasingly essential. A far higher fraction of whites than blacks possess the resources needed to navigate these challenges. Now, here's the rub: Both discriminatory social policy and everyday racial discrimination played the major roles in creating today's gargantuan wealth disparities between blacks and whites. And I'm not even mainly referring to slavery here, though it, too, is part of the story. Savings rates, family structure, even educational attainment amount to small elements of the story. The real issue here is that at numerous points, social policy in the U.S. either openly acted against or short-changed African Americans while privileging whites. Old-age insurance and Social Security initially excluded most African Americans. Agricultural and domestic workers, the great bulk of the black workforce when these New Deal-era policies were first enacted, found themselves expressly sidelined. Likewise, access to unemployment insurance and even to GI Bill benefits was turned over to local administration and discretion, allowing bias at many state and local jurisdictions to severely curtail the provision of coverage to African Americans when introduced. Characterizing many of the New Deal-era social policies that built today's robust American middle class, distinguished political scientist Ira Katznelson wrote in his important book When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America that " ... Most Blacks were left out. The damage to racial equity caused by each program was immense. Taken together the effects of these public laws were devastating." 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Twentieth century criticism of Anthony Trollope acknowledged his affinity with comic satirists of the eighteenth century, and this affinity is reflected in his best-known work, Barchester Towers. There are two distinct worlds in the novel: that of London vanity, represented by Mr. Slope, the London preacher who comes to Barchester as the protégé of Mrs. Proudie; and that of the smaller, conservative rural world, represented by Archdeacon Grantly of Barchester Cathedral, who opposes Mr. Slope with "high and dry" Anglicanism. At the end, Slope is rejected but so is the siren of the comic interlude, Signora Madeleine Vesey Neroni, daughter of the gentlemanly but parasitic, self-indulgent Dr. Vesey Stanhope, canon of the cathedral.
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If you watched Million Dollar Decorators last week, you would have seen Mary McDonald work her magic for the fashion designer Monika Chiang. This past summer, Mary created a sexy and elegant NYC showroom using emerald and various shades of lilac and lavender, an insanely beautiful color palette: http://www.bravotv.com/million...-chiang#image-143610 | ||||
Funny, I picked that green and painted a large canvas that color 4'X5' to see IF I could live with it in large doses. NOT I love the color so much but found out I could only tolerate it in small doses which was a revelation for me since I have always loved greens in any shade! Perhaps I would have liked it more when living up North. The 'forest' feel does not feel as good here in Florida for me. Mary Ruth *****We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are! ***** (Anaias Nin)***** http://pinterest.com/mary_ruth/ | ||||
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When I saw the color my first reaction was YUK, but then I saw a few photos with the emerald as an accent color and it's not so bad. I'm not sure if I would purchase anything more than a pillow cover in emerald and even that would be difficult to incorporate into my home. www.alwaysnesting.blogspot.com | ||||
The 2013 Pantone "emerald" to me reads less 80's jewel tone than a clear, fresh grass green, with more blue than yellow in it. Which is why I think it goes so well with purples and hot pinks. Reminds me very much of the Lily Pulitzer green and pink preppy look. For a really trendy look, I would pair this green with a medium-deep cool gray, with lots of white. I have two handbags this color, which I bought several years ago, and it is an awesome accent color. Which is probably how I -- not my house -- will wear it. On the other hand, malachite green, with its black veining, is a classic color I am seeing more of lately, in finishes and accessories. Very elegant.This message has been edited. Last edited by: aychihuahua, | ||||
Great news for me. Now I don't have to worry about painting my living room this year (not that I really was worried). | ||||
I adore emerald green in genuine emeralds, in my LR not so much. I have worn the color and like it, but in my house prefer forest, lime, or sage greens. This year in my Christmas decor I'm using British Racing green predominantly which I usually refer to as dark forest green since I live in a forest.This message has been edited. Last edited by: joyluck, Lucky "I have always had an aversion to the concepts of in style and out of style." ~Rose Tarlow Inspirational pics: http://inspiration4u.shutterfly.com/ | ||||
Green has apparently become my favorite color since almost all my walls are painted in colors from the green family--but not THAT green. My spring/summer bedding is floral and it contains a leafy green--that's about as much of THAT green as I can tolerate. | ||||
Emerald green: how to use it. http://www.emeraldgreeninteriors.com/ | ||||
I'm half Irish and I still can't wrap my brain around using Emerald green in decor. I do have an Emerald green sweater, though....lol **Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain** | ||||
I love every color, emerald green included. The fun thing about the Pantone color of the year is that while it is pretty serious to the marketing/developement side of all things design, it is fun and trendy for the rest of us. Emerald green is going to show up in fashion, and home decor, and really anything design related for the next year or so. It wouldn't surprise me if next Christmas I was carrying an emerald green clutch to a party, or maybe I'll be putting emerald green ornaments on Christmas trees, or buying some little accessory in emerald green from Target. It is a fun, fresh color, and I can't wait to see where it goes! | ||||
ITA. This is a delicious color. I have been seeing emerald green in fashions and accessories for about a year now. I think home design trends lag a bit behind fashion design trends. It's all good. | ||||
So true. The first thing that comes to mind when I think "emerald" is this photo. Remember those? | ||||
Coco, Sadly, I am at the age where I'll take the emerald earrings and let Angelina keep Brad Pitt. | ||||
Green is my favorite color and those are fabulous earrings. For some strange reason I want Chanel for Christmas too... I agree, though, dark emerald should only be an accent color in my home. I'd paint sage green on the walls... still contemplating it in my bedroom. | ||||
Seriously, aychihuahua! Ha ha. I am not usually so much of a jewelry ogler, but I have always thought those emerald earrings were absolutely jaw dropping. So simple, without a lot of fuss, and yet, so much wow. | ||||
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I don't even need to read it to guess the thesis. That being, that socialism / or a social democratic agenda does little more than spread the misery, as opposed to a rising capitalist tide raising all boats.
One of the most telling quotes by Obama was when he recently appeared on Leno, where he said he could no longer help his 7th grade daughter with math. It rang true, and absolutely frightening. All his knowledge of the economy is strictly theoretical, and has been shaped by the FAR LEFT professors he studied under. Any true discernment would have given a reasonable person pause in swallowing this tripe lock stock & barrel, however it seems clear that's exactly what this president did. This president has outperformed any notion of the once feared Manchurian candidate. Nothing to do with where he was born, simply based on his brainwashing by the most radical of ultra-Liberal intelligencia. White liberal guilt keeps those intelligent enough to see the folly such ultra liberal economic philosophies, which have been disproven time & time again. This is not to say that Capitalism is without major pitfalls, especially in the world of globalization. We need a big tweak to our capitalist system, but jumping ship to adopt a socialist agenda only guarantees misery for millions, especially those toiling in places like Indonesia!
Very sad & dangerous where this president is wanting to take us. I do not impute maliscious motives, simply an economic naivete that is dangerous!
I am certainly not talking about a socialist agenda, nor are the vast majority of the progressives I work with, dog....But doing something about a warming planet in peril, and pervasive poverty, starvation and depredation around the globe is another story...And I do urge you to take a minute or two to actually read the article, dog...


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With interdisciplinary education from Communication and Information Sciences doctoral program at University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Dr. Lin has extensive research interests and work on varieties of projects regarding adoption and social impact of new communication technologies, media convergence policy in Asia, digital journalism, and mobile communication.
Currently, Dr. Lin offers courses in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, including New Media Convergence, Creative Practice and New technologies, Media in China, Broadcast Journalism, Visual Literacy and Communication, Chinese Media Writing, and TV practicum. She founded Specturm TV (NTU campus TV) in August 2008. Her supervising FYP video projects screened in international festivals and featured by local media.
Before Dr. Lin joined WKWSCI in 2007, she taught at Dept. of Radio & TV at Ming Chuan University, Taiwan. She had rich industry experience in Taiwan. She produced and hosted TV and radio programs in different languages and genres for national broadcaster FTV, cable network Eastern TV, and MSO Netwave TV, and the Hakka radio station. She also provided professional consultation for Satellite TV.
In 2004, she was granted the Australia Executive Award to conducted digital TV research as a visiting scholar in New South Wales University, Australia. In 2010, she won the best faculty paper at Association of Education of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Lin, Trisha T.C. (Accepted). Multi-screen television convergence and regulation: The Singapore Experience, Telecommunications Policy. (SSCI Indexed)
Lin, Trisha. T. C. (2012). Market competitiveness of mobile TV industry in China. Telecommunications Policy, 26, 943-954. (SSCI Indexed)
Lin, Trisha T.C. (2012). Cross-platform framing and cross-cultural adaptation: Examining elephant conservation in Thailand. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6(2), 193-211. (SSCI Indexed)
Hendriks Vettehen, Mariska Kleemans, Shuhua Zhou, leen d'haenens, Lin, Trisha T. C. (April, 2012). Competitive pressure and arousing Television news: A cross-cultural study, Asian Journal of Communication, 22(2), 179-196. (SSCI Indexed)
Lin, Trisha T. C. (2012). Prospect of mobile broadcasting TV in China: Socio-technical analysis of CMMB development. Chinese Journal of Communication, 5(1), 88-108 (SSCI Indexed)
Lin, Trisha T. C. (2011). Health Communication of an alternative medical therapy: Analyzing knowledge and persuasion of Reiki healing. Journal of Information & Communication, 8, 21-52.
Lin, Trisha T.C., Chiu. C. H., & Lim, W. (2011). Factors affecting the adoption of Social Network Sites: Examining four adopter categories of Singapore's working adults. Asia Journal of Communication, 21(3), 221-242. (SSCI Indexed)
Lin, T.C. & Liu. Y. L. (February, 2011). The Development of Mobile Broadcasting TV: A Social-technical Comparison of Singapore and Taiwan. Asian Journal of Communication, 21(1), 4-24. (SSCI Indexed)
Lin, Trisha T.C. & Sun, Shirley H. L. (December, 2010) Connection as a form of resisting control: foreign domestic workers' mobile phone use in Singapore, Media Asia, 37 (4), 183-192.
Lin, Trisha T.C. & Tan, P. (2010). How Cultural and Linguistic Pluralism Shape Humor? Social Construction of Singapore's Humor Industry. Intercultural Communication Studies, 19 (1), 60-77.
Lin, Trisha T. C. (2010). TV blogging: A Multiple Case study of Blog Management in Taiwan. Journal of Cyber Culture and Information Society, 18, 275-306.
Lin, Trisha T.C. (January, 2010). The Gordian Knot of Singapore's Mobile TV Policy, Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology, 5(1), 11-21.
Lin, Trisha T. C. (July, 2009). Exploring Mobile TV Trials in Singapore: An Analysis of Stakeholders and Market Competitiveness. Journal of Information & Communication, 6, 15-35.
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Dr. Lin's research expertise include socio-technical analysis of converging new media (e.g., market competiveness and policy development of mobile TV and multi-screen TV), social impact of adoption and implementation of new media (e.g., youth, new media & election), as well as digital journalism (e.g., impact of integrated TV newsroom, microblogging in China). Recently, her research interest focus more on mobile media and communication. She has conducted several research projects including "location-based advertising," "mobile dependency," "smartphone and romantic relationship" and "mobile dating."
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A global study of impacts of digital new media covering 60 countries
Content and Interactivity Management of IPTV in Singapore
Digital divide in my pocket: investigating impact of mobile internet within a developmental context
Exploring Mobile TV Opportunities in Singapore: A Socio-technical Perspective
Exploring the link between media socialization and learning with technology
How do Microblogs Shape Chinese Newsroom Practice Case study of Shanghai's Newspaper
Immersive Location-based Services: Impacts & Implications
Interactivity and Relational Maintenance: Political blogging in Singapore
Location Based Advertising in Singapore: Consumer Perception, Attitude and Utilization
Location-Based advertising in Singapore: consumer perception, attitude, and utilization
Location-based Services: Impacts and Implications
Mapping Digital Media
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Mobile Dependency among Singapore Youth: Psychological Attributes, Addiction Symptoms and Patterns
The Internet and General Elections 201X
Youth, new media & political socialization
mHealth: adoption, impact, and challenges
Selected Publications
Lin, Trisha T.C. & Hong, A. H. (2013). New media impact on youth's political participation and voting: examining 2011 Singapore General Election in Singapore
Lin, T. T.C. & Cui, D. (2013, June). Changes in news-making after implementing the integrated newsroom: A longitudinal study. Paper presented at
2013 International Communication Association
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Wang, Y. & Lin, T. T.C. (2013, June). Understanding mobile dating: self-presentation, self-disclosure and location awareness. Paper presented at
2013 International Association of Media and Communication Research
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Lin, T.T.C., Bautista, J.R.R, Paragas, F.D.C, & Tan, M. (2013). Drivers and Challenges of Evolving Location Based Advertising in Singapore.
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Lin, T. T.C., Chiang, Y. & Jiang, Q. (2013). Examining mobile dependency and sociability among young users in Singapore.
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Residence Inn Camarillo
2912 Petit Street
Camarillo, CA 93012
40.6 mile(s)
From 149 USD per night
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4994 Verdugo Way
41.7 mile(s)
From 99 USD per night
TownePlace Suites Thousand Oaks Ventura County
1712 Newbury Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
47.5 mile(s)
From 89 USD per night
Courtyard Thousand Oaks Ventura County
1710 Newbury Road
Santa Barbara CA
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