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SFI, strong in recent weeks, rose 2p to a 270p peak, pricing the company at pounds 28m. Regent, up 9p at 248p, is valued at more than pounds 200m.
The Whitbread leisure giant is among SFI's backers, through a loan stock which is convertible into around 4.5 per cent of the capital. It inherited the stock when it acquired the UK brewing interests of John Labatt, the Canadian brewer which pumped around pounds 500,000 in SFI as part of a rescue package.
Since running into difficulties a few years ago SFI has made strong headway, building on its Litten Tree formula for big pubs. Greig Middleton, the stockbroker heading Regent's buying spree, has forecast SFI profits of pounds 1.2m for the year just ended and pounds 2.3m for the current year.
Last year Regent bid unsuccessfully for Unicorn Inns, with the pub chain eventually falling to Morland, the Thames Valley brewer.
Regent's interest in SFI is the latest example of a growing ferment among the pub groups, many evolving following the Government's controversial Beer Orders which forced large brewers to sell 11,000 pubs.
Enterprise Inns and Inn Business have recently made pub acquisitions and there has been talk of bids for Tom Cobleigh, up 3p at 249p and Old English Pub Co, 10p higher at 148p.
SFI had apparently been given the impression Regent's 5.5 per cent stake was a passive holding. The aggressive buying by Greig Middleton has prompted it to complain to the Stock Exchange about Regent's tactics.
The rest of the stock market rallied after Friday's relapse with the FT-SE 100 index gaining 22 points to 3,728.8. But trading was pathetically thin with few investors, big or small, prepared to take significant action.
British Aerospace remained the star attraction, climbing a further 24p to a peak 961p. Four years ago the company looked grounded with the shares 125p.
The latest surge has been accompanied by rumours of alliances with Boeing and the flotation of Airbus Industrie where BAe has 20 per cent. Merrill Lynch's prediction the shares are worth 1,400p has also been an important influence.
British Airways rose 4p to 553p as stories circulated its link with American Airlines would be announced today.
Bank of Scotland fell 16.5p to 248p as hopes of an early takeover bid were dashed by Standard Life's decision to spread its 32 per cent stake among institutions. The market is convinced a single buyer was prepared to take the stake, thereby triggering a bid.
Football clubs, Manchester Utd and Tottenham Hotspur, enjoyed the Murdoch generosity over Premiership television rights and BSkyB ignored talk it had overpaid with a 6.5p gain to 437p.
Ladbroke, in busy trading, was back among the takeover runners with a 6p gain to 188p and WH Smith rose 21p to 481p on reports it would pay Boots pounds 50m to take its half share in the struggling Do It All chain.
A de Gruchy, a Channel Island retailer, added 20p to 190p as Merchant Retail declared it had acquired 883,000 shares at 180p and taken options on a further 2.4 million, giving it 23.3 per cent. A startled de Gruchy said it wanted to hold talks with Merchant Retail. The Channel Island company runs Jersey's top department store.
Geest, the food group, gained 20p to 232p on the feeling cash rich Unigate will pounce. GGT, the advertising agency, improved 6p to 250p on continuing bid speculation but Blenheim, the exhibitions group where United News & Media has expressed interest, fell 20p to 438p.
Anagen was at one time down 27p to 42p following reports of "serious problems" in developing its AuraFlex blood testing system. There was a partial rally to 53p when the company said it remained confident about its prospects.
Phytopharm jumped 50p to 268p on encouraging phase 111 tests for its eczema treatment and ahead of figures today Amersham International put on 35p at 1,015p.
Cairn Energy continued to reflect Mobil bid talk, gaining 27p to 301p and waste disposal group Caird put on a further 24p to 343p following last week's upbeat statement.
B Elliott, the engineer, gained 2p to 99p; it is holding an investment presentation today.
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Today is world diabetes day (Merck ends MK-0431E)
As WHO and other organisations are celebrating World Diabetes Day (WDD) it is always sad to read that a new potential drug is stopped.
This time Merck & co. stopped the clinical trial MK-0431E studying the co-administration of Sitagliptin and Atorvastatin in inadequately controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Merck cites "business reasons" without further explanations.
Sitagliptin is sold under the trade name Januvia. It is an oral antihyperglycemic and one of the (if not the) best selling product of Merck with US$975 million revenue in the third quarter of 2012. On the other hand Atorvastatin is a statin lowering blood cholesterol. It was a blockbuster for Pfizer (sold under the trade name of Lipitor) until its patent expired.
Combining these two molecules made biological sense in order to reduce the number of medications that diabetic patients take. Of course combining two blockbusters (including one which patent expired) is a nice attempt to maintain drugs and positions on market.
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As the American football regular season ends tonight, the search is on for the star players of the future. Tonight's games will decide which teams get to choose the best of the new players emerging from college football. In the sport's socialist system, the team that ends the season with the worst record gets the first choice of new players for next season. The best team, the one that wins the Super Bowl in February, gets to choose last. Thus, unlike some other sports, the NFL is never dominated for years by the same few teams.
I was reminded of this in my end-of-year clear-out, when I found a glossy brochure from a public affairs company (euphemism for lobbyist) soon after the 2010 election. It tried to identify future prime ministers among the new intake of MPs, but it did a poor job of it, partly because it made no attempt to be systematic.
I thought then that it should be possible to apply a bit of scientific method to the identification of future political leaders, just as American football teams devote a lot of time, money and statistical analysis to ranking college football players by how much they will contribute to winning.
Just after the 2010 election, though, was too soon. To do it scientifically, you need three pieces of information about each candidate: what they are like on television, what they are like on television and what they are like on television. It also helps to see them speak in the Commons, because that is like being on TV.
You might think that there are other factors, such as intelligence, regional accent and supposedly real jobs as opposed to special advisings, but these are mostly encompassed by the TV test.
Actually, there are three more factors that cannot be captured by the TV test. One is networking; one is administrative ability; and the third is ideological positioning. Successful politicians tend to rise by being close to the party leadership, as an adviser, a party whip, or a cheerleader (Cameron was an adviser to the chancellor; Heath and Major were whips; Blair was a TV advocate for Kinnock and Smith). Then they have to prove themselves not incompetent in running something, even if, in Blair's case, it was just the Labour Party. And finally they need to be well positioned in their party's internal politics. It is not quite true that Blair was the most right-wing MP in the Labour Party, or that Cameron is now the most left-wing Tory, but you get the idea.
Those, then, are the scientific criteria. If we feed them into the machine, the 13 MPs to watch in 2013 are the following – six Labour, six Tory and one Lib Dem. In alphabetical order, the Labour MPs are: Luciana Berger, 31; Gloria De Piero, 39; Michael Dugher, 37; Rachel Reeves, 33; Jonathan Reynolds, 32; and Chuka Umunna, 34. Three of them, Dugher, Reeves and Umunna, are already in the shadow cabinet. Dugher looks a bit shifty on TV and Reeves sounds computer-generated, but they will improve and have inner-sanctum positions as leader's fixer and Ed Balls's deputy. Umunna divides people, including me. Half of me thinks he is too smooth and too naive-lefty; the other half thinks he could be outstanding on television and that he can sound as if he understands business.
Berger is climate change spokesman, which is a good portfolio for the green vote; De Piero, a shadow justice minister, has done some brave work on why people hate politicians; and Reynolds is parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Ed Miliband, a post he took over from Dugher. As in the other parties, PPS to the leader seems more and more like an inside track to a top job.
The Conservatives are: Sam Gyimah, 36; Matthew Hancock, 34; Jo Johnson, 40; Kwasi Kwarteng, 37; Dan Poulter, 34; and Anna Soubry, 56. Gyimah was appointed PPS to the Prime Minister in September; someone clearly thinks he is good. Hancock has also followed the inside track: he was George Osborne's adviser before 2010 and is now not only a business minister but also a member of Cameron's team preparing him for Prime Minister's Questions – as spotted in a photograph of a prep session that was tweeted by No 10 just before Christmas.
Poulter was a hospital doctor before becoming a health minister. Johnson is a government whip, and could beat his brother, the Mayor of London, into the Cabinet. He, Poulter and Kwarteng are all clever and party centrists. So is Soubry, now a health minister, who is particularly forceful on TV, but whose seat is marginal.
Then there is one Lib Dem: Duncan Hames, 35, who has been PPS to Nick Clegg since September. He is not going to be prime minister, but he could be deputy, after either Ed Davey or Jeremy Browne have had a go.
Those are the star players I would choose if I were the Jacksonville Jaguars or the Kansas City Chiefs, one of which is about to come last and get first choice in the draft. The only drawback with this scientific method is that, through injury or some dissipation of will, the top player chosen in the draft does not always live up to his potential.
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International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 519850, 7 pages
Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antennas with Harmonic Control as an Active Antenna Radiator
1Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Via C. Lombroso 6/17 - 50137 Firenze, Italy
2Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via G. Caruso 16, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Received 30 September 2008; Accepted 19 January 2009
Academic Editor: Giovanni Toso
Copyright © 2009 L. Lucci et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna is proposed as a radiator for an active integrated antenna. Harmonic tuning, which is the key step in designing active antenna radiators, is achieved via a combination of shape factor control over the resonator and insertion of reactive elements in the feed system. Numerical simulations are carried out in a finite elements framework and a layout for the complete antenna is proposed, aimed at compactness for subsequent utilization of the radiator as an element in an active array for satellite communications.
1. Introduction
Active integrated antennas (AIAs) are microwave systems which integrate on a single substrate several functions, at least one of which is that of a radiating element and another is that of an active device, be it a power amplifier for a transmitting AIA, or a low noise amplifier for a receiving AIA.
Albeit more complex functions can be embedded in the AIA, as frequency conversions with its own local oscillator, phase locking and many more, the key feature of an AIA is the tight integration between the active device and the radiating element.
Conventional antenna system design leads to radiators whose input impedance is matched to via some appropriate matching network, and to amplifier which are themselves matched to the same via some appropriate matching network. The two devices are then connected via a transmission line. The two matching network can be fairly complex, especially the one which must be designed for a power amplifier (PA). In this case the matching network needs not only to match the output of the PA to at the working frequency, but must also provide an appropriate load for the higher harmonics. The essence of AIAs is to eliminate both matching networks and the interconnecting line, by designing the radiating element so that it provides the correct load to the PA at the fundamental frequency and higher harmonics. In transmission mode, in particular, the antenna should provide a given, generally complex, load for the power amplifier at the system working frequency in order to optimize the system performance, while for the first two higher harmonics, the impedance must be typically purely imaginary, be it capacitive or inductive.
By attaining this the overall system is simplified and reduced in size, by removing two matching networks, the losses in the lines are of course reduced, hence higher efficiencies, and lower power consumptions, attained. These characteristics make AIAs very attractive in wireless communications. The possibility of integrating also some sort of phase control in the AIA, for example, with a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) leads to very attractive possibilities in the field of smart antennas and electronically steering phased arrays for vehicle-to-satellite broadband communications [1, 2].
As stated before AIAs are devices in which the radiating element and the active circuit, the amplifier, are treated as a single entity. The radiating element, which will be the focus of this paper, is to be seen as a filter, output matching circuit, and harmonic tuner in addition to its characteristics of load and radiating element. The core issue is that radiating elements are either broad band or resonating structures. Broadband antennas are usually large and unsuitable for commercial telecommunications usage, since standards give fairly narrow bands. Resonating antennas are much more compact but, being resonant, have the strong tendency to behave in a very similar way at the working frequency and at its harmonics, at least for what concerns the input impedance. This implies that higher harmonics have an input impedance which is essentially real. To allow for a resonant radiator to be embedded in an AIA some modifications are necessary to attain its harmonic tuning, that is, the separate design of the input impedance at the fundamental frequency and at at least the first two higher harmonics.
In literature there are several works presenting different patch and slot antenna configurations for harmonic tuning, most of them relies on the suppression of higher resonances. Rectangular patches can be loaded with shortening posts [3] or with notches [4] or by feeding them with photonic band-gap structures [5], while circular ones can have a slice chopped of as in [6]. Slot antennas can be loaded with reactive components shortening higher frequencies, as in [7, 8], leading to excellent harmonic suppression, but slot antennas tend to have poor radiating characteristics.
In this paper a harmonic tuning technique for a dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) working in Ku band at 14.25 GHz is described. DRAs are a class of antennas which has interesting characteristics for usage as an AIA radiator. They exhibit low losses and, if fed via ground plane slot coupling, allow for a decoupling between the DRA, which lies on one side of the ground plane, and the substrate with its circuits and active elements, which lies on the other side of the ground plane. The absence of a substrate on the radiating side has additional benefits in array configurations, eliminating the possible interantenna coupling due to surface wave excitation.
In literature several kinds and shapes of DRAs have been considered, rectangular (RDRA), cylindrical (CDRA), hemispherical (HDRA) and all of these received much attention for what concerns antenna efficiency, compactness [9–11], and bandwidth. Nevertheless, there have been very few studies regarding the behavior of DRAs at higher harmonics for their usage as AIAs. More recent papers are focused on RDRA harmonic tuning [12, 13] while few preliminary results on CDRA harmonic tuning were presented in [14, 15].
Here a study of a slot-coupled cylindrical DRA configuration is presented, analyzing its harmonic response first at a shape factor level, then by introducing reactive elements in the coupling slot, and lastly by introducing additional slots. A complete design ready to be integrated with a PA is then presented.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 the slot-coupled CDRA is described, with particular attention to higher-order resonant modes, to devise a possible optimal shape factor. Section 3 will present two modified configurations for the optimization of the resonator antenna electromagnetic performance at fundamental frequency and higher harmonics. Section 4 will present the final design suitable for the integration with a power amplifier and Section 5 will draw some conclusions.
2. Shape Factor Tuning
A first investigation is done by analyzing the modes which are theoretically present on a cylindrical resonator of radius and height made by a dielectric characterized by a permittivity and a permeability . The resonant frequencies are [16] where , , and are three integer numbers, and are either the th zeros of the Bessel function of the first kind and order or the zeros of the derivative of the Bessel function of the first kind and order , respectively.
If the zeros of the Bessel function are used the frequencies of the modes are obtained. If the zeros of the derivative are used then the modes are obtained. It is easy to obtain that the fundamental mode in a cylindrical resonator is the , which is relevant to .
It is then quite easy to invert (1) so as to obtain the value of as a function of which leads to a desired fundamental mode frequency : being the speed of light in the dielectric.
By choosing an appropriate range for and by computing the relevant values of via (2) a set of resonators whose fundamental mode frequency is GHz is obtained. By applying on this set (1) the frequencies of all the other modes can be computed as a function of . Figure 1 shows such a diagram, presenting the values of on the axis and the frequencies on the axis. modes are represented with solid lines, while modes represented with dashed lines. It is apparent how the fundamental frequency, being a vertical line, does not vary with . In this preliminary analysis a relatively low permittivity resonator () is used.
While the fundamental mode is of course fixed at the desired value independently of , nearly all other modes are dependent. The first step will then be that of choosing so that no modes are present at the harmonics of the fundamental frequencies and , represented with pale blue stripes in the figure.
While this is possible for by choosing a relatively low thickness resonator, for what concerns , there is a mode which is independent of and exactly at . This implies that the second harmonic will be more critical and that it will be impossible to handle it by resorting only to the resonator shape factor.
Figure 2 shows a practical CDRA setup. The resonator, whose height is halved to , is placed on a ground plane and slot-coupled to a feeding microstrip. The dimensions of the setup are given in Table 1, the substrate has , and the whole set up has been analyzed with the finite elements method (FEM) in an enclosing box featuring perfectly matched layer (PML) radiation boundary conditions.
If a parametric analysis is performed over an appropriate range for and over the whole GHz frequency range, with the values of computed by (2), the return loss at the microstrip port can be represented as a surface graph function of and . Figure 3 shows such a surface as a contour plot. Only the lines where is equal to and dB are reported for the sake of clearness.
It is evident from Figure 3 how the fundamental mode is well matched for any value, even if the full wave analysis of the DRA over a finite ground leads to a slight dependence of the matching frequency with (i.e., the zone of matching is not a vertical line). Then there are zones, at higher frequencies, where the antenna is more or less matched, and these zones assume a form which is quite similar to the lines in the dispersion graph in Figure 1. Lines are less numerous than in Figure 1 due to the fact that the coupling slot, due to its symmetries, does not excite all the possible modes and that matching has its own band, so neighboring lines easily merge in a single matched area. Around the reflection coefficient amplitude is high for low and gets lower as increases, confirming that, a low value is desirable. In the end, as expected, the reflection coefficient at is generally quite low. As a first conclusion a mm will be the first choice, and, for this value of the resonator height, in Figure 4 the return loss as a function of the frequency is reported from 10 GHz to 45 GHz, to show the antenna behavior at fundamental frequency and at first and second harmonics.
3. Slot Harmonic Suppression
Working only on the shape factor does not lead to a complete control over the reflection coefficient at higher harmonics. The one in particular being extremely critical as the previous section showed.
As an upgrade to the previously shown configuration a parasitic element has been inserted in the coupling slot, in a fashion similar to [7, 8]. It is worth noticing how the "T" shape metalization inserted has to be designed differently since the slot itself is not resonant in our case. In Figure 5 the geometry of the proposed structure is reported. Dimensions are mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, and mm.
In Figure 6 the return loss as a function of the frequency is reported from 10 GHz to 45 GHz, to show the antenna behavior at fundamental frequency and at first and second harmonics. For this structure the antenna input impedance is about at and at .
A real full control of the second harmonic using the parasitic element is not possible, due to both the reduced size of the slot and a further phenomenon which will be described in detail in the following section. Hence, to further improve the antenna performances at the second harmonic, two parallel additional slots have been added to the previous configuration as shown in Figure 7, where mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, and mm.
In Figure 8 the return loss as a function of the frequency is reported from 10 GHz to 45 GHz, to show that the antenna behavior at the second harmonics has been improved. In particular for this modified structure the antenna input impedance is about at , at and at . The reason why the insertion of additional slots might help in rejecting higher-order harmonics lies in the fact that they perturb these more, due to their reduced wavelength. A deeper insight can be found in [12].
4. Final Layout
In this section a complete design ready to be integrated with a PA is presented. The design comprises not only the pad where the PA output is to be placed but also the line for the DC feed of the PA front-end. This latter has been designed so as to help in rejecting the second harmonic, while an additional stub shortening the third harmonic is also present. As shown in Figure 9, where the geometry of the final layout is reported, the parasitic element in the slot presented in the previous section has been retained, while the two additional slots have not, since their influence is relatively small and they can be replaced by the aforementioned stub. The geometric parameters defining the dimensions of the structure are as follows: mm, m, mm, m, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, m, m, m, m, and mm being the wavelength along the microstrip at fundamental frequency .
To show the active antenna electromagnetic performances in Figure 10 the input impedance is reported as a function of frequency, zooming around the fundamental frequency and the first two harmonics. Table 2 summarizes the input impedance simulation results at the above mentioned frequency together with the desired values as given by the PA designers [17].
In Figure 11 the electric field maps on the plane at fundamental frequency and at the first and second harmonics are represented. It is evident that the fundamental frequency radiates, while the second harmonic does not. This is due to the DC feed line for the power amplifier, which is loaded by the DC source which in turn is essentially a short circuit at radio frequency. The feed is wavelength away from the PA output at , hence the short circuit reverts to an open one and no energy is present on the stub at (see Figure 11(b)). On the other hand, at the first harmonic, , the same stub is long and hence the PA output is almost shortened. This explains the strong standing wave which can be seen in Figure 11(c). The issue still lies in the third harmonic because, even if the additional stub should shorten it, the slab is not thin with respect to at hence surface waves can arise quite easily. Indeed the presence of a surface wave originating at the matching stub immediately below the coupling slot is very evident in Figure 11(d). Radiation from both the CDRA and the open-ended feeding line stub accounts for the much higher real part of the third-order input impedance.
5. Conclusions
In this paper, a harmonic tuning technique for a dielectric resonator antenna working in Ku band at 14.25 GHz has been described. As a first study a slot-coupled cylindrical DRA configuration has been considered, studying its harmonic response at a shape factor level, with particular attention to higher-order resonant modes, to devise a possible optimal shape factor.
As a second step of the study the basic resonator antenna layout has been modified by introducing a parasitic reactive element in the coupling slot to improve antenna performances at first and second harmonics. This configuration allows us to obtain a significant improvement of the antenna performances at first harmonic but a real full control of the second harmonic is not yet possible, both mainly due to the reduced size of the slot. Yet this issue is of minor importance due to the fact that the power generated by the PA at the second harmonic is a few percent of the total one.
At last, a complete design suitable for the integration with a PA has been presented, where the feeding line has been optimized as well to achieve full impedance matching at fundamental frequency and higher harmonics.
This work was partially supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, under the PRIN research Project 005098437 "Active Integrated Antennas for High-Efficiency Mobile Terminals".
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British media revels in team's display
Aussie skipper Michael Clarke still had "plenty of hope" for the rest of the summer, they said.
Today's Daily Telegraph and Guardian both carried a photograph of England players celebrating the winning moment on the front page."Howzat for starters?" was the Guardian's headline.
The back-page headline of the Daily Mail read "We've nicked it," a reference to defiant Australian batsman Brad Haddin's edge which finally sealed victory.
Popular tabloid the Sun carried an editorial supporting the technology which detected Haddin's nick. "Wow...what a start to this year's Ashes series," it said. "A game and a rivalry built on the best kind of traditions. But entirely modern, making use of some of the most up-to-date systems in sport."
The Telegraph's Simon Hughes celebrated England's swing-king Anderson."Michael Holding, the West Indies fast bowler...has a good yardstick for judging bowlers," he wrote. "Only when one has taken at least four wickets-per-Test over a long period of time, can they be considered 'great'."
"With his 10 wickets, Jimmy Anderson nudged closer to that milestone. He is on the verge of greatness," wrote Hughes. The Times' Simon Barnes was even more enthusiastic, calling Anderson's four-wicket burst on Sunday a "stupendous effort".


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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Andrea's Wedding: DIY Shower Invitations
To stick with the affordable-yet-personal theme that is my sister Andrea's wedding, I wanted to make the invitations for her bridal shower myself. I am hosting it with my sister-in-law, and after all, what kind of crafty DIY blogger would I be if I ordered some pre-arranged design off the internet? A pretty lame one, I'd say. All it took was a one-stop trip to The Paper Source - a DIY paper junkie's Mecca. We gathered up some scalloped paper, flat notecards, envelopes, a pretty cherry blossom stamp, a green ink pad, and some of the coolest tape device I've ever seen. Oh, and I forgot to mention I purchased two antique letterpress stamps on my romp through Andersonville a few weeks ago; an 'A' and a 'P' for Andrea and Paul. I figured they would come in handy... thank you, Annie, for the idea!
*Note: I have digitally erased out parts of addresses on envelopes and in the invitation itself. So please note there are not random blank spaces - that is me protecting myself and loved ones from you would-be stalkers. I'm talking to you, creepy old men, who read this. I've seen enough To Catch a Predator to watch my own back, thank you.
So I got home, opened up my one true love, Adobe Photoshop, and got to work. I absolutely l-o-v-e these two fonts: the sans-serif is Avantage Small and the script is Little Days.
I printed them directly onto the 3.5x4.875 flat notecards, grabbed the coolest taping device ever, and slapped them onto the green scalloped notecards. Repeat 25 times.
Add a little cherry blossom stamp and ta-da!
And yes I have orange fingernails. Which you would already know if you followed me on Twitter. All the cool kids are doing it. Why aren't you?
Grabbed my awesome letterpress initial, 'A' for Andrea (and Alaina - yes I'm keeping this for future projects) and went to town on the envelopes.
All hand-addressed while watching the Glee finale. (Major disappoint. Must discuss at a later date.) Thank goodness there were only 25.
andreas wedding,
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- AnonymousJune 10, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Gorgeous! I hand-made all of our wedding invites - 175 of them! I highly recommend this to anyone doing a wedding on a budget. Total cost for paper, ink cartridge, stamps, embellishments was less than $400. This included outer envelopes, a two-layer invite, RSVP card and RSVP envelope. Leftover supplies were used for table numbers and escort cards.
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Beautiful! You sister is one lucky lady. I absolutely love the lower case "a".
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Hi there! just found your blog and I'm loving it :) Such a great idea about these invitations! I must try it next time. Thanks for sharing!
Elizabeth - Auckland, NZ.
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- Tara G. said...
He has such bright, sparkly eyes- so cute!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday to your little guy!!
- September 24, 2010 at 11:59 PM
You were commenting about eyes in an earlier post . . . This little guy has your eyes. This little guy is Sara, up and down. What an absolute doll he is . . . I think it is the personality that shows on his face as much as anything.
Happy Birthday Benaiah!
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The loss of memory that occurs when a person is unconscious. Is generally associated with the state of mind that occurs when an excess of alcohol has been consumed. The next day your friends tell you about events and actions from the previous night that you do not recall. There is a period of time you were conscious but no memories are retained. Depending on the audience a black out is perceived as humorous or an indication of deep problems.
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I'm such an optimist that my doctor told me my blood type was B Positive.
In much of Asia, especially well known in Japan, blood types are seen to determine personalities. Wikipedia summarizes this belief as follows:
— Mark Rosewater, Magic: The Gathering R&D
- Type A
- Best Traits: Earnest, sensible, reserved, patient, responsible, cautious.
- Worst Traits: Fastidious, overearnest, stubborn, tense, obsessive, and pessimistic.
- Type B
- Best Traits: Passionate, active, creative, animal-loving, flexible, cheerful, optimistic.
- Worst Traits: Irresponsible, forgetful, selfish, lazy, impatient, unreliable, and "going own way."
- Type AB
- Best Traits: Cool, controlled, rational, sociable, adaptable, intelligent.
- Worst Traits: Critical, indecisive, unforgiving, two-faced, aloof, and "split personality."
- Type O
- Best Traits: Confident, self-determined, ambitious, strong-willed, intuitive, agreeable, competitive, athletic.
- Worst Traits: Self-centered, cold, aggressive, unpredictable, arrogant, envious, and ruthless.
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- Blue Exorcist includes the info for some For those wondering, Rin is type A, Yukio and Shura are both type O, Shiemi and Bon are both type B. Fujimoto's a type AB and Mephisto's isn't given.
- The manga of Cardcaptor Sakura gives blood types for most (if not all) characters. Even the nonhuman ones.
- In The Cherry Project Chieri calls Love Interest Tsuzuki a "Typical A" and he calls her a "Typical B" back.
- Cowboy Bebop's four heroes each have a different blood-type:
- Jet is type A
- Faye is type B
- Ed is type AB
- Spike is type O
- Kamiyama, Hayashida and Maeda deduce that the enigmatic Freddie of Cromartie High School is a B-type from looking at his completely unpredictable movements (sumo teppo practice shows him to be an A type and holding a textbook upside down is considered either a B type or an AB type).
- How to Read, the final volume of Death Note, gives the blood type of all the major players (save L) and several minor characters. Light, Mello, Mikami, Soichiro, Naomi Misora, and Demegawa had A. Near, Matsuda, and Watari had B. Misa, Takada, and Kyosuke Higuchi had AB. Raye Penbar, Matt, and the female members of the Yagami family had O.
- D.Gray-Man includes this information (along with birthdates and nationalities) for all major characters up to about volume 18. Most of them are All There in the Manual in the fanbook, though.
- Dream Festival!' includes this information on the main characters' profiles. Kanade and Junya are Type O, Shin is Type A, Chizuru is Type B and Itsuki is AB.
- The issue pops up in a chapter of Franken Fran, in which the school becomes obsessed with the theory to the point that it causes social splits and discrimination. This causes problems for Adorea, whose dominant blood type is constantly changing due to the sheer number of organs she stores in her body.
- Volume 6 of the Harukanaru Toki no Naka de manga includes a scene with Akane, Tenma and Shimon trying to guess the blood types of the Hachiyou based on their personalities.
- Pretty much the entire point of Ketsuekigata-kun! (pictured above), which centers around personifications of the four ABO blood types. Each of the four types is voiced by an actor who has that blood type.
- Subversion and possibly, a deconstruction: In episode 9 of Lucky Star it turned out that the personality types according to blood type were almost completely inaccurate. note
- Lampshaded in Magic Knight Rayearth, Fuu includes her blood type when introducing herself to Hikaru and Umi. Mystified, they ask why; and she hastily replies in case she needs medical attention.
- Mahou Sensei Negima!:
- 28 of 31 class members have a blood type listed (they get a small bio page in their introduction chapter in the manga) and they all fit very well. (Those who don't get a specified blood type are the vampire, the ghost and the robot...)
- Negi is type AB which very much fits his personalty also fits his parents personalities his father would be a Type B and his Mother fits Type A very well. It also befits his status as the center of the harem. AB is compatible with everyone.
- Parodied in Medaka Box, where every character has type AB.
- An episode of Naruto Shippuden deals with this. Orochimaru asks whether Kabuto is a Type A, much to his chagrin that he's AB.
- And there´s a One Piece entry. In a SBS Oda revealed the Straw Hats' blood types this way:
- Luffy is F (by extension, Jinbe too)
- Zoro is XF
- Nami is X
- Usopp is S
- Sanji is S (Rh-)
- Chopper is X
- Robin is S
- Franky is XF
- Brook is X
- Vivi is F
- Ouran High School Host Club has an absolutely hilarious scene where Kaoru and Hikaru convince Haruhi that Honey is actually evil to the core by pointing out that he has the same blood type (AB) as Kyoya. Haruhi immediately broke the Fourth Wall to apologize to any viewers with AB blood type.
- In Revolutionary Girl Utena, one episode has a tidbit where Nanami and her posse discuss the blood type-personality correlation. It reveals that, while their parents and Nanami have Type B blood, Touga (her Aloof Big Brother) has Type A, which should be impossible... it turns out that both of them were adopted. Although, due to how shaky things were getting between the two and the fact that she had been too young to remember, Nanami automatically assumes that just Touga was adopted...
- There's also this scene:
Utena: Himemiya, you're type-AB, right? Let's see, type-ABs are elusive and seldom reveal their true feelings, huh?
Anthy: And you're type-B, right, Utena-sama? Type-Bs are self-centered and prone to misconceptions....
Utena: Yeah, sorry, okay. - The cast of Ronin Warriors follow the bloodtypes to the T:
- Ryo Sanada and Shuu Rei Fuan are Type O
- Seiji Date is A
- Shin Mouri is B
- Touma Hashiba is AB
- In Sailor Moon, all of the main characters and a few minor ones have their blood types listed.
- Type O: Usagi/Sailor Moon, Chibiusa/Sailor Chibi Moon, Makoto/Sailor Jupiter, Michiru/Sailor Neptune, Haruna-sensei
- Type A: Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask, Ami/Sailor Mercury, Setsuna/Sailor Pluto, Seiya/Sailor Star Fighter
- Type B: Minako/Sailor Venus, Haruka/Sailor Uranus, Yaten/Sailor Star Healer
- Type AB: Rei/Sailor Mars, Hotaru/Sailor Saturn, Taiki/Sailor Star Maker, Naru
- In Sketchbook many characters' personalities seem to fit their stated blood types. Hazuki Torikai (type A) is the straightest example, which is lampshaded several times in the manga. However, Sora Kajiwara (Type A) and Daichi Negishi (Type AB) are subversions, which is also lampshaded.
Daichi Negishi: I'M AB! DID YOU THINK I WAS B? BASTARDS! WELL I'M NOT! SORRY!
- In Volume 4 of Strawberry Marshmallow, there's a Q&A with a couple of questions breaking up the chapters. Blood type is asked early on. To compare:
- The Ito sisters, Chika and Nobue, share blood type A.
- Miu is type B.
- Ana is type AB.
- Matsuri is type O.
- In Weiß Kreuz, the personalities of the four original members of Weiss are all fairly well-matched to their respective blood types : Omi is type O, Aya is type A, Ken is type B, and Youji is type AB.
- You could say that this is subverted in Yu-Gi-Oh with main character Yugi Moto possessing type AB Negative blood. Cool, controlled and unforgiving definitely aren't the best choice of words to describe him.
- They are, however, a good choice of words to describe his alter-ego Yami Yugi, who shares his blood type on account of sharing his body.
- Also, a sub-characteristic associated with AB blood type is Split Personality. Or an least mood swings. Which Yugi has. In spades.
- It's played straight with Bakura, who is also type AB.
- The above rule is not played straight with Marik, though his actual given type (B) does fit his personality much better than AB. The fact that Marik's other half came from very different circumstances than Yugi's or Bakura's is probably why The Last of These Is Not Like the Others.
- Averted in South Korean girl group f(x)'s nu song NU ABO, where it describes a completely different personality symbolized by a nonexistent blood type called ABO.
- Is the whole theme of the Japanese song Blood Type Hamburger Shop, each verse featuring an employee exemplifying each blood type taking the orders of an unfortunate customer. Curiously, the verse for AB heavily downplays the "coolheaded" and "rational" bit despite mentioning it in-song, and is played more like an Absentminded Professor. Like many things, it is a subject of heavy Memetic Mutation on Nico Nico Douga, with many videos in various fandoms being created, matching up the characters with their corresponding blood type personality.
- The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons. After Major Belov is severely wounded during a river assault, his wife Tatiana, a nurse in the Red Army, saves his life by donating her own blood. Belov is told it's lucky she's a universal donor. Belov can only think with irony "Of course she is."
- In Kevin J. Anderson's Death Warmed Over, a halfway house for down-and-out monsters offers expired B-positive blood packs from hospitals to vampires in need. It's not a popular flavor, but the house's manager likes to reinforce the "be positive" message.
Live-Action TV
- House is type AB ("Universal Receiver"); Wilson is type O ("Universal Donor"). In this example, the Japanese personality types are completely ignored and it's brought up in-universe solely as a comment on House's tendency to take from anyone whatever he needs and Wilson's tendency to give to anyone whatever they need.
Video Games
- Generally, shows up in promotional material for any JRPG. If this gets included in Western promotional, expect some head-scratching, since in the West blood types don't have any significance attached to them.
- As a Western game with Japanese influences, battle-girl lists its heroine's blood type among her vital stats. It's B, which suits her.
- The indie RPG Cthulhu Saves the World has Umi, one of the party members, bring this up as banter. Umi states that her blood type is B+, making her a cheery person. This is averted by the fact that the other party members are an Outer-God-turned-hero, a talking sword, a necromancer, an alien, a crazy priest and a demon-dragon. These members respectively have ink, nothing, a lengthy soliloquy of pain, Uranium, and acid. The old man is insane, and therefore cannot remember his blood type.
- Crazy Taxi, at least in the manual.
- Each character in Death Smiles has their blood type listed in the manual.
- Dungeon Keeper creatures had blood types listed, for no apparent reason. It also lampshades itself with the scrolling help text if you point at a creature's blood type listing: "As if you care. Blood is blood, right?"
- Shockingly, Cloud Strife from FF VII fits the AB blood type 'personality' almost to a T. Guess which blood type he is.
- In the Japanese version of Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken, the elemental affinity of the tactician (an avatar for the player) was determined by both birth date and their blood type, both which could be manually chosen. In the international releases, since this trope doesn't have as much relevance, it was changed so that birth date was the sole factor in deciding affinity.
- In Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis, the fact that one character lacks a blood type in the manual foreshadows the game's Tomato in the Mirror reveal.
- In the Princess Maker games, stats are determined by blood type. And in 2, it also determines how stressed the girl gets; one notable aspect is that a girl with Type A blood will never smile.
- The original Resident Evil had an intro with profiles of all the characters, including blood types.
- And all the other characters introduced later get blood types too. Interestingly enough, all the villains seem to have type O. Ironically both Chris and Claire Redfield have type O.
- Another Japanese-influenced game, Skullgirls, also has blood types for each of the characters, and they correspond pretty well. Some of the characters, however, don't have standard blood types — among them SG (for Skullgirl), embalmed (for Squigly), and B♭ (for Big Band).
- SoulCalibur took this to a new level of absurdity: all the characters had ABO/Rh blood types in their profile. The game is set in 1587. ABO was not discovered until 1901. Amusingly enough, Edgemaster (who randomly uses a non boss characters moveset) has a blood type of O. And Ivy's blood type is "Soul Edge."
- An early PA in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time gives the player the option of choosing Fayt's blood type. Each choice either raises or lowers the affection of certain party members, giving insight into what personality types they like and which ones they don't.
- Judging from Fayt's actual personality in the game, Type O seems to be his blood type by default (since the two that go up from this are Sophia (his childhood friend) and Albel.) To support the fact that he remains optimist throughout the game, agrees to almost everything and is very sociable to the point where he makes friends easily. Also, if the group were to ever get ambushed, he announces that "He was careless!"
- When Street Fighter II came out, character biographies included blood type.
- The Super Robot Wars series often lets the player select the birthday and blood type of the Original Generation main protagonist. While at first appearing purely cosmetic, their command lists are directly derived from the selection, divided by what astrological sign the birthday falls under and the blood type for a total of forty-eight possibilities. Selecting 11/11 B, the birthday and blood type of head producer Takanobu Terada, provides an Easter Egg set of commands that are usually the ideal possible set or close to it, while the character's default birthday and blood type provide another unique set that normally matches what the character will use should s/he appear in any other games in the franchise.
- In Valkyrie no Bouken, you get to choose a blood type at the beginning. Whereas blood type doesn't establish your personality type, it does affect the rate at which you level up: A → normal, B → precocious, O → late-blooming, AB → random.
- In the Hentai RPG Maker game Violated Heroine, you can customize the heroine's blood type at the beginning of the game to raise combat stats: Type A grants more Agility but less Spirit, Type B more Attack but less Defense, Type O more Defense but less Attack, and Type AB more Spirit but less Attack.
- Parodied for Mog from Final Fantasy VI - his official listed blood type is "black-footed duck."
Web Comics
- In Blip, after the Friendly Neighborhood Vampire consumes several gallons of Type B blood, she suddenly shows an impulsive streak, and the author speculates in The Rant that this trope is in play.
- Parodied in Evil, Inc.
- Narbonic:
- In the Director's Cut, Shaenon Garrity mentions that she had blood types worked out for the Narbonic characters. (Mell is revealed to be Type B.) The cast page for Skin Horse includes blood types, including for the nonhuman characters.
- As far as regular human blood types go, Tip the really-getting-around psychologist as Type O, Dr Lee the Only Sane Woman as Type AB, and Tigerlily Jones the insanely creative The '70s-themed Mad Scientist as Type B. Which was then subverted when it was revealed that she's who Unity's blood technically is.


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Mr Major will this week celebrate the first anniversary of his decision to resign office and fight a leadership battle,, but there was no sign of a let-up in the backstabbing. The Deputy Prime Minister attacked Lady Thatcher for funding Bill Cash's Euro-sceptic think tank after Mr Major ordered it not to accept money from Sir James Goldsmith,whose Referendum Party is fielding candidates against the Tories. He said Baroness Thatcher had taken Britain deeper into Europe by signing the Single European Act, creating the single market. "You cannot re-write history."|
Mr Heseltine - in a clear sign that the pro-European wing of the Tory Party is determined to speak out - also fired a warning shot at Tory Euro- sceptics, such as Norman Lamont, the former chancellor, for "nibbling at the fringes" of moves to take Britain out of Europe.
They were damaging the Government and increasing the chances of Labour winning power, Mr Heseltine said on the BBC Breakfast with Frost programme.
Another pro-European, the former foreign minister Tristan Garel-Jones MP, criticised Mr Cash as a "pygmy".
The Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, meanwhile warned Britain's EU partners that the summit in Florence on Friday will be dominated by Britain's policy of non-cooperation if no deal is reached today over the beef crisis.
Mr Rifkind said: "If the beef issue is not resolved before next Friday, it quite properly and inevitably will dominate the summit."
Tony Blair, the Labour leader, will tell German leaders today that Labour will fight the forthcoming election as a pro-European party. He said in a series of German media interviews that Britain should play a constructive role "at the centre of Europe" and he attacked the anti-German propaganda over the beef war as "wrong and unhelpful".
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A riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him 18 grand in the hole.
Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional "odd job", like stealing live checks or picking up hot goods. His brother's a priest, his wife's a nag, and he has a deadly appetite for martinis and gambling.
On a trip to Vegas, the Digger finds himself in the sights of a loan shark known as "The Greek". Luckily - if you call it luck - the Digger has been let in on a little job that can turn his gambling debt into a profit, if only he can pull it off without getting himself killed.
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A federal judge has issued an oral ruling supporting opponents of Lake Elsinoreâs veterans memorial, blocking the monumentâs installation at Storm Stadium.
The plaintiffs contend the monument will violate the federal and state constitutions because the design approved by the Lake Elsinore City Council includes religious symbols.
Attorney Kevin Snider of Pacific Justice Institute, which is representing the city in the case, said the ruling Tuesday, June 16, by U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson of Californiaâs Central District did not include a written order and opinion, so the city is awaiting that filing before deciding how to respond.
âWeâre going to review his opinion to determine what his reasoning is and then we will look at our options as to whether or not we want to proceed in the lower court or immediately take it up on appeal,â Snider said.
A Washington-based organization, the American Humanist Association, along with Lake Elsinore residents Diana Hansen and John Larsen filed the suit against the city and City Council members in June, seeking to halt the cityâs plan to erect the monument at its baseball stadium.
âWe are pleased that Judge Wilson has seen the necessary merit in our case to stop the religious memorial from being erected on public grounds,â said William Burgess, an attorney with the Appignani Humanist Legal Center, in a release posted on the AHAâs website. Burgess participated in the hearing.
The council approved the project in November.
The memorialâs original design consisted of a black granite slab depicting a soldier kneeling in front of a cross. It has since been updated to have a field of crosses and Stars of David. The symbols are intended to represent grave markers for fallen U.S. soldiers in overseas World War II cemeteries.
Given the historical context, city officials -- with the support of the Pacific Justice Institute -- reasoned that the design would not violate laws that prohibit government agencies from employing religious symbolism.
The lawsuit challenges âthe constitutionality of the Cityâs design, approval, funding, construction, ownership, maintenance and prominent display of a monument ... depicting a soldier kneeling before a Christian cross as a violation of the separation of church and stateâ as required by the U.S. Constitution and the California Constitution.
Snider said he strongly disagrees with the judgeâs ruling.
âIt appears to be inconsistent with established law,â he said. âItâs not a religious monument. Itâs a veterans memorial.â


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The central character of Camber of Culdi is Camber himself. It is not surprising that Camber becomes the center of legend and is even canonized, for Kurtz gives him every advantage: He is wise, gentle, stern, a master politician, a doughty fighter, a kind father, good master, intellectual giant, and possessor of the greatest and most fluent power in Gwynned. For all this, however, Camber still emerges as human and believable. He is subject to doubts and to grief, and he exhibits a dry sense of humor. In other words, Camber is not simply set forth as paragon: Camber lives, acts, and feels.
Kurtz uses Camber in several ways. He is the sounding board for other characters. He and Joram are meant to act out the classic confrontation of father and son (although this is stated more than shown). Camber and Alister Cullen exemplify the man of intellect...
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Valuing Assets in Retirement Saving Accounts
Many studies compare household balances in tax-deferred retirement accounts such as 401(k) plans with financial assets held outside these accounts, but these different asset components are not directly comparable. Taxes and in some cases penalties are due when assets are withdrawn from some retirement saving plans. These factors imply that a dollar held inside a retirement account may be less valuable in supporting retirement income than a dollar held in a similar asset outside these accounts. This is particularly important for households that are considering withdrawing assets from the tax-deferred accounts in the near future. For households with long deferral horizons, the opportunity for tax-free compound returns in retirement accounts can permit a dollar inside such an account to support more retirement consumption than a dollar outside such accounts, even though the account principal will be taxed on distribution. This paper illustrates the potential differences in the retirement support value of a dollar of invested in a bond, or in corporate stock, inside and outside tax-deferred accounts. It draws on a range of data sources to calibrate the value of the tax burden, and the benefit of compound growth, for assets held in retirement accounts, and describes the differences in relative valuation for households of different ages.
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text: Colossal Weddings Totally Down With Feminist Principles, Totally Wrong At the Same TimeMoe5/21/07 6:08pmFiled to: Hell's bellsRebecca MeadWedding-Industrial ComplexWeddingpalooza1EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkRebecca Mead is a New Yorker writer who has been making the rounds shilling her new book, One Perfect Day on the "marriage industrial complex" (everything sounds better with "industrial complex" tacked onto it, doesn't it? Sorta makes you pine for the days when American politicians were allowed to critique the AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Anyhow!).Anyway, In an interview with Salon Rebecca shares her favorite bridal magazines (InStyle Weddings and the trade publication Vows) and explains that the fundamental problem with the wedding business is not that it isn't feminist — hiring a wedding planner "could totally be construed as a post-feminist act" (!!) but rather, the consumerism of the whole thing:AdvertisementAdvertisementOne of my favorite pieces [in Vows] described how to market to the "nontraditional bride" and warned readers that this kind of woman is dangerously apt to "forget the wedding and prepare for marriage." These articles were often unintentionally hilarious, but also very chilling. People who work in the wedding business often appear to be very warm and sentimental, but they're salespeople, and the successful ones are completely coldblooded about it.Okay, but why are all our friends so goddamned susceptible to these reptilian salesbots? Doesn't our generation have enough experience with, uh, men to know better?The Marriage-Industrial Complex [Salon] Rebecca Mead Earlier: NY Times Book Reviewer Loves The Big Tacky Weddings! The Economics Of Weddings Continue To Blow Our Minds


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In case you missed my last article detailing my passionate hatred for the latest bit of consumer stupidity, known as hybrid automobiles, I'm back with a sequel piece. Here I'll be employing the mighty power known as algebra to explain why buying a hybrid automobile makes no economic sense, except in what would be best classified as a nightmare scenario. To illustrate this, I want to compare the Toyota Prius with (in my opinion at least) one of the best inexpensive cars on the market, the Toyota Corolla. The cars are of a similar size and equal seating capacity (5). So what makes the humble Corolla more than a match for the mighty Prius from an economic perspective? The answer is simple: cost.
Consider the following vital stats about the two automobiles:
Car | City MPG | Highway MPG | MSRP Range |
2008 Prius | 48 | 45 | $21,100 — $23,370 |
2008 Corolla | 28 | 37 | $14,405 — $16,415 |
According to Uncle Sam, it's plausible to assume that the average driver puts about 15k miles on a car every year. Likewise, according to the DOT, the average American keeps their car about 4.5 years. That's not a whole lot of time to recover the cost of the vastly more expensive Prius. But with the price of gas these days, it has to be a good deal, right? Wrong.
Assuming that the cars depreciate at an equal rate (or you just crash them into a tree and get nothing from your insurance company) and that inflation (now pushing 4% per year) drops to zero, here's where the Prius becomes cheaper as determined by the price of gas (here we only consider the lowest end model of each car):
When the Prius | Price of Gasoline (per gallon) | ||||
Costs Less | $2.00 | $3.26 | $5.00 | $8.00 | $10.00 |
Years | 22.8 | 14.1 | 9.1 | 5.7 | 4.6 |
So for a Prius to be more economically sensible for the "average" American, gas has to cost $10.00 a gallon. And this is assuming 0% inflation. The numbers get worse when you factor in a 3% inflation rate. Assume that the gas price listed is the price today and that the cost of gas increases inline with the 3% inflation rate (Ben Bernanke and I are both being hopeful). Then the crossover point looks like:
When the Prius | Price of Gasoline (per gallon) | ||||
Costs Less | $2.00 | $3.26 | $5.00 | $8.00 | $10.00 |
Years | 36 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 5 |
So unless we assume that gas prices are going to head up significantly faster than the inflation rate, it'll still take $10.00 per gallon gasoline to make the mightly Prius cost-competitive with the humble Corolla. Perhaps that's something to think about the next time you head to visit the Toyota dealer…


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On a ridge extending east from Rumiñahui Norte, on the route to Tambopaxi. I cannot remember if this is just a local summit east of Rumiñahui Norte, Rumiñahui Norte itself, or even Rumiñahui Central. Given that I was practically due east of the main summit and looking at some of my other pictures, I don't believe it's Norte, because in that case there should be a ridge extending to the south (left in the picture). If I were a betting man, I would put my money on just a local summit, one of several that I went around, not over, that particular day. 20 December 2010. | Image Data
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The results of April 4 departmental and municipal elections largely reflect previous trends in voter choices. Initial estimates indicate that the official MAS party won five out of nine governor posts: Cochabamba, La Paz, Chuquisaca, Potosi and Oruro. They may have also prevailed in Pando, although that departmental race remains too close to call before the announcement of official results later this week. Except for a solid win in Santa Cruz, opposition candidates should win by less than ten percentage points in all other departments. In municipal elections, MAS lost the majority of departmental capitals and won the rest by a small margin. These close races suggest greater polarization within each department than previously anticipated, indicating less regional divide and a more generalized difference of political opinion.
Key MAS losses included the apparent Movimiento sin Miedo (MSM) mayoral victories in La Paz and Oruro. MAS officials' recent verbal attacks and accusations against of their former ally and MSM party leader, Juan del Granado, appear to have increased voter sympathy for that party.
Although the National Electoral Court (CNE) must still present the formal results, "quick count" tabulations show that the MAS party still faces healthy opposition in many areas of the country. These diverse political groups and parties now must exercise their objectives and proposals to strengthen better democratic debate in Bolivia with concrete proposals and willingness to compromise.
In general, initial election results reflect that:
- Regional and local preferences are not clear indicators of shifts in support for the MAS government.
- Bolivian voters do not always vote across the board for one party.
- Varied voter preferences and different priorities exist than in the recent national elections. For example, Potosi re-elected AS candidate Rene Joaquino as mayor, although in December he lost the presidential bid when his department reelected Morales by a solid margin.
- Bolivian voters often build in their own "checks and balances" by electing leaders from different political groups at different levels of government. In the past this practice has led to either compromise, or frequently blocked initiatives.
- Support for MAS remains significantly stronger in rural zones throughout the country, demonstrated by greater wins with larger percentages in these areas.
- In major cities and departmental capitals, close races determine that first and second place winners will have the same, or almost the same number of municipal council members. In some cases this will allow third place candidates only one seat, meaning they will decide crucial swing votes. Where MAS won close races, swing council members tend to be from opposition parties on the right, suggesting potential to block MAS initiatives.
- Highland departments must now begin to draft their autonomy statutes, and their lowland counterparts are required to revise their illegally approved initiatives to conform to new constitutional norms.
The Role and Impact of the Opposition Presence
Opposition victories remain divided among several parties, indicating that the creation of a solid lasting alliance based on any principle beyond blocking Morales is unlikely in the near future, but could potentially occur in several years with improved proposals.
Although several lowland opposition prefects won gubernatorial elections, new guidelines regulate their relationship with the central government and constitutional stipulations restrict autonomy initiatives. In other words, their reelection does not create the potential for resurgence of the anti-Morales power bloc that pushed to overthrow his administration in September 2008. Additional legislation, such as the proposed autonomy law, is needed to further delineate the division of labor, accountability and transparency measures, as well as the obligations and limitations of departmental power.
Although the opposition won key seats in the eastern lowlands, including the governorships of Santa Cruz, Tarija and Beni, and the Santa Cruz Municipality, MAS improved its standing overall. For example, MAS's Jessica Jordan lost to opposition incumbent Ernesto Suarez by a small margin in Beni – an estimated three percent – allowing significant MAS representation in the departmental legislative assembly. MAS may have also gained the governorship in Pando, which would be a significant symbolic victory, although official electoral court results will make the final determination. In addition, MAS won municipal elections for the first time in Pando's capital, Cobija.
Changes in Election Procedures
For the first time, indigenous groups elected representatives to departmental legislative assemblies using their own customs and procedures, an important innovation following approval of the new constitution and electoral law. This process generally worked well, although there was a lack of consensus in some communities about how to best elect representatives.
Voters also chose one municipal council representative directly, and determined the rest by the voting percentage each mayoral candidate received.
MAS Critique Contributes to Key Mayoral Losses
MSM's decision to break its five year alliance with MAS had a significant impact in La Paz and Oruro. The party's platform and goals are significantly similar to MAS's. The schism represented a concrete challenge to MAS's apparent political dominance in the La Paz department. MSM's leader, current mayor of La Paz Juan del Granado, enjoys a high level of respect in progressive circles for his long-term commitment to reform. However, once MSM's alliance ended, Morales and other MAS officials leveled harsh critiques and verbal attacks at MSM, and charged del Granado with corruption accusations a week before the elections. These measures seemed to impact voter opinion negatively, backfiring on MAS.
MSM candidates won competitive percentages in a number of races, suggesting future potential to significantly challenge MAS nationally and regionally. The MSM mayoral candidate for La Paz, Luis Revilla, apparently defeated MAS candidate Elizabeth Salguero by a significant percentage (an estimated 48% to 36% win). MSM also apparently won the mayoral race in Oruro, another historic MAS stronghold.
Yesterday's election results don't reflect clear dominance of any one party. Instead, they demonstrate continued political diversity and different criteria employed by voters who clearly distinguish between national priorities and needs closer to home. Bolivian voters appear to readjust their political preferences to meet local needs and create counterweights to balance the national political system. The regional panorama remains fluid and dynamic despite claims to the contrary by both conservative opposition leaders and official MAS party members. For example, opposition leaders on the right claimed that their victories, predominantly in their traditional lowland strongholds, denote the "victory of democracy over tyranny." President Morales highlighted substantial MAS regional gains since the previous regional and municipal elections. However, elections results confirm persistent political diversity on a national level.
The long-term impact of local elections will ultimately be determined by the new authorities' responses to the eternal dilemma of Bolivian politics: whether to compromise with political opponents to move forward or continually block initiatives leading to renewed stalemates.
Cochabamba |
Mayoral Race (Cochabamba) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Edwin Castellanos (MAS) | 43% | Edmundo Novillo (MAS) | 62% |
Arturo Murillo (UN) | 36% | Jose Maria Leyes (UN) | 24% |
La Paz |
Mayoral Race (La Paz) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Luis Revilla (MSM) | 48% | Cesar Cocarico (MAS) | 47% |
Elizabeth Salguero (MAS) | 36% | Simon Yampara (MSM) | 24% |
Santa Cruz |
Mayoral Race (Santa Cruz de la Sierra) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Percy Fernandez (SST) | 52% | Ruben Costas (VERDES) | 54% |
Roberto Fernandez (MAS) | 34% | Jerjes Justiano (MAS) | 37% |
Chuquisaca |
Mayoral Race (Sucre) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Jaime Barron (APS) | 48% | Esteban Urquizo (MAS) | 49% |
Ana Maria Quinteros (MAS) | 32% | Jhon Cava (CSP) | 39% |
Tarija |
Mayoral Race (Tarija) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Oscar Montes (UNIR) | 51% | Mario Cossio (CC) | 50% |
Rosario Ricaldi (MAS) | 24% | Carlos Cabrera (MAS) | 44% |
Potosi |
Mayoral Race (Potosi) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Rene Joaquino (AS) | 52% | Felix Gonzales (MAS) | 63% |
Cesar Navarro (MAS) | 35% | Luis Alberto Zota (AS) | 14% |
Pando |
Mayoral Race (Cobija) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Ana Lucia Reis (MAS) | 53% | Paulo Jorge Bravo (CP) | 49% |
Miguel Santa Lucia Ojopi (CP) | 45% | Luis Adolfo Flores (MAS) | 48% |
Oruro |
Mayoral Race (Oruro) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Rocio Pimentel (MSM) | 39% | Javier Tito (MAS) | 58% |
Felix Rojas (MAS) | 34% | Iver Pereyra (MSM) | 30% |
Beni |
Mayoral Race (Trinidad) |
Gubernatorial Race |
Moises Shiriqui (PB) | 42% | Ernesto Suárez (PB) | 43% |
Marisol Aban (MNR) | 26% | Jessica Jordan (MAS) | 40% |


text: Toughness, Roominess, Serves The Country: The Hindustan Motors AmbassadorMurilee Martin1/30/07 4:20pmFiled to: RetroambassadorhindustanIndia142EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink When you let your crew know you're rolling down the ave in your Ambassador, chances are they'll assume you mean the Kenosha-built variety driven by the Government Agents in Repo Man (and then they'll diss your crummy two-barrel 304 and roar off in their 390-powered Javelins, most likely, leaving behind nothing but the echoes of their cruel laughter and a gnawing sense of emptiness in your soul). But if your homeboys happen to number among the billion souls living in India, they'll know right off that you're talking about the mighty Hindustan Motors Ambassador and they'll give you the honor of first swig from the Kingfisher forty they're passing around. Advertisement Based on that pinnacle of British automotive-engineering genius, the 1956 Morris Oxford, approximately 29 trillion Ambys have been pop-riveted together since 1958. Much beloved by Indians for its ubiquity, tolerance for less-than-smooth roads, and sheer staggering volume of available spare parts (and, as the HM site boasts, "It's repairable!"), Hindustan Motors continues to churn them out like Bollywood churns out musicals. Check out the Hindustani Motors site and study each of the ten somewhat bewildering (and occasionally redundant) reasons to whip out your roll of rupees and hand it over to the friendly Hindustan Motors salesman. And oh yeah- sure as Vishnu has four arms, you just know some enterprising Bangalore mechanic has put a pickup bed on one. Ten Reasons To Own An Ambassador [Hindustan Motors]Related: Tata Taxi: India's First Stretch Limousine [internal]


text: Jon Stewart on Egypt's Daily Show Might Be the Answer to World PeaceMadeleine Davies6/24/13 12:05pmFiled to: tvdaily showjon stewartegypt367EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Jon Stewart might be absent from the American version of The Daily Show, but that doesn't mean he's missing from the franchise entirely. Stewart recently found himself on the other side of the desk (and the other side of the globe) when he was a guest on Bernameg — Egypt's own version of The Daily Show, hosted by the very charismatic Bassem Youssef. AdvertisementYou're often warned before travelling abroad that things like humor, sarcasm and satire get easily lost in translation, but interestingly it's the exact opposite case in the Stewart-Youssef interview. If anything, the two comedians find a common ground on the importance of satire and comedy and the audience — many of whom are understanding the interview solely through Arabic subtitles — are fully onboard. If the common language of comedy isn't enough to leave you feeling warm and gooey inside, the pair's conversation about tolerance and open-mindedness (starting around the 12:00 mark) ought to do the trick.Advertisement "You have actually stood defending the rights of so many minorities," Youssef tells Stewart. "Including the Muslim and Arab minority. You have spoken strongly for the 9/11 mosque...and you have been accused of being a Muslim and bin Laden sympathiser sometimes.""We all have misconceptions about each other," Stewart replied, before going on to describe his own journey of tolerance. Overall, the interview is heartwarming, enjoyable and quite possibly the answer to world peace. Or maybe just inner peace. And for only a couple of seconds. Which is still totally worth it, if you ask me.SponsoredThe English portion of the interview starts around 2:30.Reply36 repliesLeave a reply


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He's a Church of Christ preacher, a Libertarian candidate for Mayor of Shreveport – and a Junior at Southwood High School.
Parker Ward has his eye on the prize. He has voiced political ambitions on several local forums since he was 16 years old. I had some email exchanges with Parker at one point a couple of years ago.
Parker knows he is building for the future. If he stays on his determined course, he could very well have some success at some point.
Personally, I think it's great to see a young person who is so centered and so focused.
Watch the video from KTBS and see what you think.
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Shar Jackson net worth: Shar Jackson is an American actress who has a net worth of $1.5 million dollars. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Shar Jackson, also known as Sharisse Jackson, began her professional career in the early 90s, appearing in the film "CB4", and guest starring on such television programs as, "Roc", "Tall Hopes", and "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper". Throughout the early to mid-90s, she made a name for herself guest-starring on multiple popular series, including, "Getting By", "South Central", "My So-Called Life", "Me and the Boys", "The Parent Hood", and "The Steve Harvey Show". In 1996, she was cast in the role that would make her a household name as Niecy Jackson on the hit show, "Moesha". Her work on "Moesha" led to a role in the hit film, "Good Burger", and she appeared in the same role on episodes of "Clueless", "The Parkers", and "Girlfriends". In addition to her acting career, she was also part of the pop group, Mpulz, which released one album, and she also won the MTV reality singing competition, "Celebrity Rap Superstar" in 2007. Shar Jackson has two children with Kevin Federline, who left her while she was still pregnant to date Britney Spears.


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