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The postseason is seven months away but Adam Moffat wants the Dynamo to adopt a playoff mentality against the Portland Timbers on Saturday in a bid to boost the team's fortunes on the road.
The long trip to the daunting atmosphere of JELD-WEN Field sees the focus shift from the Dynamo's record-equaling unbeaten home form to their efforts to emulate that success on their travels.
So far in 2013, Houston has won all four games at BBVA Compass Stadium but lost their two away matches, to Santos Laguna in the CONCACAF Champions League and FC Dallas in MLS. Last year, the Dynamo owned a 11-0-6 record in their backyard in the MLS regular season but were 3-9-5 on the road. Moffat wants his teammates to be inspired this weekend by the Dynamo's history of picking up big away results when it matters most, regardless of the fatigue factor involved in flying across the continent.
"There's different factors, obviously travel's a big thing here. But we know we can win at places," the midfielder told HoustonDynamo.com. "In the playoffs last year and the year before we were going to places and getting results. So I think we've just got to go in with the mindset that this is a big game, let's battle hard for this as if it's a playoff game and hopefully get the points."
In last month's Texas Derby the Dynamo clawed back a 2-0 halftime deficit only to fall to Kenny Cooper's last-gasp winner.
"We were disappointed with the last result in Dallas, some uncharacteristic goals and then we get ourselves back in it and were a little bit sloppy in the end," said Moffat. "We know how good we are at home and if you're that good at home there's no reason why you can't do that away from home. So we want to try and replicate that on the road. And we know in this league, mostly, home teams get the points - we know that. But we're a good team and know what we're capable of. "
With the Montreal Impact taking the weekend off, the Dynamo know that a win in Oregon will move them into a tie with the Quebec club for first place in the Eastern Conference. Houston currently sits second in the division, a point ahead of Sporting Kansas City, who have played a game more and host D.C. United on Friday.
Asked to assess the Dynamo's performances over the first month of the season, head coach Dominic Kinnear believes his charges have made a solid start thanks to roster depth that has enabled them to cope with a challenging spread of six games in four weeks. As well as the two-legged CONCACAF quarterfinal against Santos, three of the Dynamo's first four MLS fixtures were against teams who reached the playoffs last year.
"We've had contributions from a lot of people, which we expected to happen," Kinnear said. "But from what we've seen it's probably gone a little bit better than maybe expected for the first month with the amount of games that we've played. I think a lot of guys are playing well and the team is definitely getting rewards from that."
Tom Dart is a contributing writer to HoustonDynamo.com. Former editor and reporter for The Times of London, Dart currently freelances for The Guardian as well as SI.com.


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The Douro Demarcated Region spreads along 250.000 hectares along the Douro River basin. A powerful river with 927kms since its spring in Picos de Urbión until it meets the Atlantic Ocean in the city of Porto. In its way it passes by several wine regions, being the Douro Demarcated Region the most impressive with its deep valleys and narrow canyons. The soils are mainly derivative from schist, with a granite geologic formation in its borders. The region has very cold Winters and very hot and dry Summers. Due to the wide variety of micro-climates, the region is divided in 3 sub-regions that differ greatly from each other in terms of temperature, rainfall, dimension of the property, planted area, etc.: Baixo-Corgo, Cima-Corgo and Douro Superior.
The Douro was the first region in the world to be demarcated, back in 1756.
Quinta do Portal is a family fine winemaking company that embraced with passion the "Boutique Winery" concept. We proudly produce DOC Douro wines, premium Port Wines and Moscatel. This project that started in the early 90's of the XX century, had on its base a centenary estate where our family has been producing Port since the last years of the XIX century. Our commitment to the production of quality wines has been, since the first moment, the heart and soul of Quinta do Portal. This effort, passion and dedication have been recognized both at a national and international level during the course of the years.
Our Quintas are all located in the Pinhão river valley, in the Upper Corgo sub-region. The Pinhão river is a small tributary of the Douro that flows from North to South through steep terraced hillsides. Having vineyards in the East and West banks of the river with altitudes ranging from 200 to 550m and almost all possible solar exposures allows us to produce a diversity of quality grapes to create exceptional wines. The total vineyard area rounds 100 hectares. As a curiosity fact we have Touriga Nacional planted in all our Quintas.
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Our family has been producing Port wine in the Pinhão valley for more than 100 years, but it has been in the Douro at least since 1477, when the King D. Afonso V grants a portion of land (Comenda de Oliveira) to the noble D. Afonso de Mansilha. Later in 1756, Frei João de Mansilha played a very important role in the demarcation of the Douro and its implementation. Our knowledge and will has in its origin several generations of people that dedicated their lives to the region and to its most important wine. Drinking a glass of our Ports is drinking through the history of a region. Our Port wines are elegant, fresh, approachable and really pleasant wines.
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Im using somewhat portable code, and while watching my code execute via process explorer, im noticing that the software is generating huge numbers of thread handles but never destroying them. Im using the posix thread lib, and the threads appear to be terminating, however the thread handles never close. I have tried pthread_exit in the thread itself, and outside i have attempted pthread_cancel, pthread_kill, pthread_join, and delete thread. While the thread is no longer processing anything, it never closes its handle and in turn causes a memory leak. The threads themselves are in an overly simple wrapper class, constructor creating the thread datamember, and calling pthread_create. The kill code is in the objects destructor. When the thread is done, it deletes the wrapper thus killing itself (which is possibly where the problem is?)
I have also experimented with an external cleanup thread running, issueing kills to the worker threads once they are finished, and have not had any successful results.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is there a tool i can use to determine exactly where in my code the leak happens? Thanks for your time.


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When winter draws near, I start thinking about sausage. (Actually, I think about sausage year-round.) About the best, juiciest, meatiest, just-smoky-enough sausage I know is the sausage the Bracewell family makes and serves at their phenomenal Texas barbecue joint the Southside Market. The Bracewells are a generously spirited bunch, so they've given us 10-pound packages of their incomparable sausage to give away as part of the Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway. Win and you can have your very own Texas barbecue sausage holiday party. Doesn't that sound good? —Ed Levine
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Samantha danced with her team at homecoming this year and my friend was there taking pictures. She was able to get some close up shots and I'm so grateful. I love that I am able to publish this blog because I view every shot and post as a piece of time I was able to capture. One day I'll be 80 and I'll read these posts and stare at the pictures which froze time for only an instant and saved it here for me to enjoy later. Samantha can look back at 80 and see herself in living color as a beautiful 16 year old girl dancing at the homecoming game. Her grandchildren will one day, I hope, enjoy these posts and pictures, too. This goes, of course, for all my beautiful children and their grandchildren and generations to come. For all I know Samantha when she she's 80, will still be able to do a grand jetee like she is doing in the last picture. (She's the one directly above the 0, front and center.) Go Panthers!
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Here is the card I ended up picking out for my special little guy! He just loves How to Train your Dragon so I knew that he would be so happy as soon as he saw it and even more happy once he discovers the surprise about the card!
I couldn't wait to see his reaction but I waited for the perfect time, which turned out to be when he would least expect it. Dont you love surprising your kiddos?
I surprised him with it while we were outside playing and he was so happy! Then he became very confused as to why the card was thick. When he realized that you could open it up to discover more inside it was so exciting! Check out his reaction below!
Isn't his reaction adorable? He had no idea it grew that big and would turn into a Poster but man did he love it when he found out. I couldn't wait either to see it all blown up big poster size. It was taller than him!
I love how this beautiful card will not only remain a sweet memory tucked safely away since most times cards are not displayed {with the exception of the Christmas season} but instead this will be a memory that can be seen every day. It will always be out there for your child to admire and cherish and to see as a token of your love in that special moment.
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That old stock-market adage "sell in May and go away" has taken on extra meaning in the last couple of years with spectacular starts to the year that fizzle by the time springtime comes, according to LPL Financial chief market strategist Jeff Kleintop.
In each of the past two years, the stock market began a slide in the spring that lasted well into the summer months. So are stocks poised to repeat the pattern this year? The chances are 50-50, Kleintop reported in a weekly market commentary on March 28.
"We have identified 10 indicators to watch closely in the coming weeks that may warn of an impending slide," Kleintop writes. "So far, about half of the 10 indicators point to a repeat of the spring slide this year, while the other half do not."
In both 2010 and 2011 an early run-up in the stock market — similar to the one happening now — pushed stocks up about 10% for the year by mid-April. "On April 23, 2010 and April 29, 2011, the S&P 500 made peaks that were followed by 16% to 19% losses that were not recouped for more than five months," he notes.
Here are the 10 indicators that LPL's market strategists have identified to watch closely in the coming weeks.
1. Fed Stimulus
In the last two years, the Federal Reserve's quantitative-easing stimulus programs, QE1 and QE2, ended in spring or summer and stocks began to slide until the next program was announced, Kleintop wrote. "The current program known as Operation Twist was announced on Sept. 12, 2011, and is scheduled to conclude at the end of June. The stock market may again begin to slide until another program such as QE3, the scope of which was recently hinted at by the Fed, is announced."
2. Economic Surprises
"The Citigroup Economic Surprise index measures how economic data in the United States fared compared to economists' expectations," Kleintop wrote. "The index moved to what has historically marked the peaks in optimism about a month or two before the peaks in the stock market in 2010 and 2011. This year, it appears the index may have already started to retreat from a peak since early February; if this index again leads by two months the slide may soon begin."
3. Consumer Confidence
(Holiday shoppers with Macy's bags in 2011. Photo: AP)
In early 2010 and 2011, Rasmussen's measure of consumer confidence rose to highs last seen on Sept. 5, 2008, just before the financial crisis took off, Kleintop says. "We will be watching for a turn lower in the index that would indicate the start of an erosion of confidence," he writes.
4. Earnings Revisions
"The first couple of weeks of the first-quarter earnings season (April 2010 and April 2011) drove earnings estimates higher in both" years, Kleintop wrote. "Earnings estimates for S&P 500 companies over the next year rose a greater-than-average 3% to 5% over the first couple of weeks of reports. But as the second half of the earnings season got underway in May 2010 and May 2011, guidance disappointed analysts and investors as the pace of upward revisions declined sharply. This year, we will be watching to see how much earnings expectations rise as the initial reports come in and if they begin to taper off sharply."
5. Oil Prices
"In 2010 and 2011, oil prices rose about $15 to $20 from around the start of February, two months before the stock market began to decline. This year oil prices have climbed back to the levels around $105 to $110 that they reached in April 2011," Kleintop writes. "However, they have risen only about $10 since around the start of February 2012. A further surge in oil prices would make this indicator more worrisome."
6. Yield Curve
The greater the spread between the yield on the 2-year and the 10-year U.S. Treasury notes, the more growth the market is pricing into the economy, Kleintop wrote. This yield curve peaked in February of both years at 2.9%, Kleintop notes, adding, "Then the curve started to flatten, suggesting a gradually increasing concern about the economy. This year the market is pricing a more modest outlook for growth, but we will be watching to see if the recent slight decline in the spread, currently about 190 basis points, begins to decline."
7. The VIX Volatility Index
(Traders on the Bovespa trading floor in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo: AP)
"In each of the past two years the VIX, an options-based measure of the forecast for volatility in the stock market, fell to a relatively low 15 in April," Kleintop said. "This suggested investors may have become complacent and risked being surprised by a negative event or data. This year, the VIX has recently declined once again to 15 in the past two weeks."
8. The LPL Financial Current Conditions Index (CCI)
In 2010 and 2011, LPL Financial's index of 10 real-time economic and market conditions peaked around the 250 level in April and began to fall by more than 50 points, Kleintop notes. This year, the CCI recently reached 249 and has started to weaken and currently stands at 232.
9. Initial Jobless Claims
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"It was evident that initial filings for unemployment benefits had halted their improvement by early April 2010, and beginning in early April 2011, they deteriorated sharply," Kleintop writes. So far in 2012, he adds, initial jobless claims continue to improve at a solid pace, "but it may yet be too early, and so we will be watching for any weakening as April gets under way."
10. Inflation Expectations
"The University of Michigan consumer survey reflected a rise in inflation expectations in March and April of the past two years," Kleintop wrote. "In fact, in 2011, the one-year inflation outlook rose to 4.6% in both March and April. This year, inflation expectations have also jumped higher so far in March, reaching 4%."
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Her subtle and often authoritative vocals, coupled with carefully constructed piano, synth lines and guitar riffs, have set this young singer-songwriter on a path all her own.
Yamineh and I met up at the Agne Noire Café, located at 247 Varet St., near her apartment in Bushwick to discuss the new EP.
You have an interesting name. Where are you from originally?
I am originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, but my grandpa is from Jordan. He moved to Minnesota to go to medical school when he was younger.
What kind of music was being played in your household growing up?
Because my grandpa was the only one of his family in Minnesota, I haven't really been exposed to that culture that much. I can't say that it's had a huge influence on me musically or anything.
What kind of stuff did you listen to when you were younger?
We'll, because it's Minnesota, a lot of Bob Dylan. My mom's a big Bob Dylan fan. That kind of stuff, singer-songwriter.
So is it kind of like the New Jersey thing, where you have to listen to Bruce Springsteen?
Yeah, it's that kind of thing. Prince is the other one.
Had you always been interested in performing?
Yeah, I just always, always loved to sing.
Where did you first take that interest of loving to sing into playing in front of people?
Well, I remember in like fifth grade, there was a talent show and I made one of my friends sing a Jewel song with me. I think that was my first. I really wanted to do it, but I didn't want to do it by myself.
When did you first come to New York?
I came back in 2009, when I went to NYU.
What did you study?
European Studies. I didn't want to study music because I didn't want to get bogged down with all the technicalities and I didn't want to get cynical from learning too much about it. Also, there just wasn't a specific type of area that I was interested in pursuing. You could do business or production I guess, or you could study like classical piano or a classical instrument, but none of those things were what I really wanted to do.
Did you think it was kind of dangerous to pursue a degree in performance or art?
I did. The European Studies thing was sort of a backup plan, but I never really wanted to do anything besides music. I never really intended to have to fall back on it.
Did you ever take lessons?
Yeah, I took piano lessons for 10 years and I took guitar lessons for a little while. My mom was also a musician and she taught me some basic chords when I was younger. I took some piano and guitar lessons at NYU also.
What style of piano and guitar?
Mostly jazz and pop, but it definitely helped me fill in the blanks from what I learned before. It definitely helped with my songwriting too, and gave me ideas on how to combine chord progressions.
When did you first start writing your own songs? What made you want to do that?
I started doing that when I was maybe 12. My mom writes songs also, so that might have had something to do with it. She encouraged me to do that. When I was younger, I just wanted to be a singer and writing songs and that kind of thing seemed like a hassle. I also did writing so I sort of just started trying it out and it came pretty naturally.
When did you first start recording music and trying to seriously get into the music world?
I recorded my first EP when I was 17. That was like six songs. That was sort of the first big step.
How have things changed since you first started recording?
This new EP, I did all myself. It's a different sound. That other stuff was just more singer songwriter and pop rock kind of stuff. That stuff was way more produced.
What made you want to record this new EP?
Basically, all last year, my senior year of college, I knew I wanted to put out some new material and I was thinking I would try to find a new producer to work with. The person I worked with before did all the pop rock stuff, but I didn't really want to do any of that and so I kind of never found the person I wanted to work with. So I just said screw it, and I just wanted to see if I could do it myself and I had never done anything like that before. So, in June I did it.
Where did you record?
In my apartment with Garage Band by a laptop, but it was a very satisfying experience. It turned out the way I wanted it to sound.
Where did you come up with the name, Seven Years, for the new EP?
There was this one time, and for me it was kind of a prophecy kind of thing. A couple years ago now, I guess it was my junior or sophomore year of college, and I was in the Union Square Starbucks with my friend. We were waiting on line and the guy in front of us on line looked like a normal businessman. He was sort of looking at us and then all of a sudden he says to me, in a super thick accent, "Oh are you an artist?" I was like, "yeah," and then he said he could tell by my hands. I didn't know what that meant.
He was like, "When is your birthday?" So, I told him my birthday and then he did some math in his head and he said, "Well, in six to seven years, you're going to do something artistic that the world will consider great. And then he just walked away. The cashier said she should get my autograph now or something (laughs). It was just a really weird experience. Maybe to anyone else that would mean nothing, but I used it for inspiration.
How did you choose these songs for the album?
Well, I wrote these songs specifically for the EP. I wrote them in a span of like two weeks at the most. Then I recorded them. The whole thing was a pretty quick process. I wanted this to really sound like one cohesive process.
Do you have any ideas for future recordings?
I'm working on new material right now and I'm hoping to have a follow up EP, like Seven Years Part II, coming up in late February maybe. I've decided that I am going to just do it all myself again.
Any plans for an LP?
Eventually. Right now it's just more appealing to me to put out smaller releases.
Why is that?
To give people an entire album of like 10 songs, especially if people don't know who you are, it's hard to get people through an entire album all the way through. Also, since I'm doing this on my own, it's a lot easier for me to wrap my head around four songs instead of 10.
Check out Nina Yasmineh's new Seven Years EP and catch her at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at Rockwood Music Hall, located at 196 Allen St. in Manhattan.


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Some neighbors against beer garden at Humboldt Park
Milwaukee County supervisor says other county park beer gardens haven't had problems
The thought of having a beer garden in Bay View's Humboldt Park has some neighbors concerned about their children's safety, but a county supervisor said it could help cut back on crime.
Lenore Burger has lived across from Humboldt Park since 2009.
She and her son, Ben, spend a lot of time playing in the park, but she's opposed to the addition of a beer garden there.
If approved by the Milwaukee County Parks Department, the beer garden would be run by Saint Francis Brewery from June through November.
Eighteen picnic tables would be added, allowing beer and food to be served to nearly 200 people.
"I think just the notion of having a bar right next to a tot lot, we're not comfortable with that. This is where we take our children to play," Burger said.
While the baseball field and the playground are both nearby, County Supervisor Jason Haas said having the park there could actually help make the park safer.
"The two beer gardens at the other two county parks are both adjacent to tot lots and there have been absolutely no problems," Haas said.
A beer garden at Estabrook Park opened in 2012. The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said they haven't had reports of any trouble.
"There's a good crowd of people there. They're active. They're watching the environment," Haas said.
Haas said the brewery would upgrade the pavilion and bring money to the Parks Department.
Burger said she feels the changes would be a sacrifice for the neighborhood.
"We want the park to be kind of a sacred place for the county to use and having private business in there takes away from that," Burger said.
Some neighbors also think the beer garden could add to the parking and traffic issues that the park already sees with its popular Chill on the Hill summer concert series.
The Parks Department is expected to make a decision on the beer garden by May.


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My First Scouting Display for Anniversary Weekstevejb68 on February 9, 2014 in Anniversary, Memorabilia, Promotion
In my last post I wrote about the four displays that Troop 68 set up around town for this year's Scouting Anniversary week. I have collected quite a bit of Scouting related stuff during the past 33 years so it is not very hard finding items and photos to fill four displays. In fact, I could probably do a couple more if we had more places to set them up.
All this got me thinking about how many years I have been setting up displays in town, so I opened the old photo books and did a little looking back. I discovered that our Scouting display was set up in February 1985 at the Melrose State Bank. It was a project done by Cubmaster Joe Timmins and myself who was the scoutmaster. It was a fairly large setup. It contained Cub Scouting and Boy Scouting memorabilia, enough to fill two small tables. We also included a tent and some camping gear. You were not going to miss this display when you entered the bank lobby.
I scanned some of the photos of this first display so I could share them with you. Our current displays are a little different these days (as you can see from my last post) and do not include any tents. The lobbies of the current establishments are not big enough to set up a campsite.


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New Aviation Consumer Protections Take Effect This Week
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By Eddy Metcalf
January 24, 2012 - DOT's Office of Aviation Consumer Protection and Enforcement was hard at work in 2011 protecting the interests of the flying public. As part of the final provisions of a rulemaking the Department of Transportation (DOT) made last year, airlines and ticket agents are now required to publish all additional taxes and fees for airfares as well as disclose baggage fees to consumers buying tickets.
In addition to the passenger protections DOT put into place last year, including baggage fee refunds if an airline loses your luggage and increased compensation if you're involuntarily bumped from an oversold flight, new regulations are going into effect this week to further ensure that America's consumers are treated fairly when they travel by air.
DOT's effort is to make sure that consumers can easily determine the full price for air transportation before travel. Arriving at the airport only to be hit with surprise fees is no way to start a trip. The new protections require that airlines and ticket agents include all mandatory taxes and fees in their published airfares and that they disclose baggage fees when you buy your tickets.
Finally, airlines and ticket agents will generally be prohibited from increasing the price of your ticket after it is bought. The advertising provision takes effect on January 26, while all of the other consumer protections go into effect today.
DOT's Secretary Ray LaHood said "I've said many times that airline passengers have rights, and they should be able to expect fair and reasonable treatment when booking a trip and when they fly. The protections taking effect this week are another step forward in our ongoing effort to help air travelers receive the respect they deserve. But we are far from done.
"We're also looking at other possible measures, including requiring that all optional fees be disclosed wherever consumers can book a flight. It's simple, we think that treating passengers fairly is the right thing to do. I'm proud of the work DOT's Aviation Consumer Protection and Enforcement team has done, and I know they will continue working to make flying more convenient and agreeable for our nation's air travelers."
Also, beginning this week, if you make your reservation one week or more prior to a flight's departure date, customers will be able to hold a reservation without payment, or cancel a booking without penalty, for 24 hours after the reservation is made.
And, when you're traveling, airlines will be required to promptly notify passengers of flight delays of 30 minutes or more, as well as flight cancellations and diversions.
The rule enhances airline passenger protections by:
• Requiring airlines and ticket agents to include all mandatory taxes and fees in published airfares and that they disclose baggage fees to consumers buying tickets;
• Requiring airlines to refund baggage fees if they are lost;
• Allowing passengers to hold a reservation without payment, or cancel a booking without penalty, for 24 hours after the reservation is made, if they make the reservation one week or more prior to a flight's departure; and
• Requiring airlines to promptly notify passengers of flight delays over 30 minutes, as well as flight cancellations and diversions, and they will be generally prohibited from increasing the price of purchased tickets.


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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) went viral on Twitter Wednesday ... and not in a good way.
The bank, which has already had its share of bad press recently, announced plans to have one of its senior executives, Jimmy Lee, "take over" the @JPMorgan handle Thursday afternoon to answer questions from the social media masses.
Just a friendly chat. What could possibly go wrong?
It turns out many people on Twitter still have hard feelings about the whole financial crisis and Great Recession thing, and they wanted to #AskJPM about it.
After about seven hours, it became clear that JPMorgan had lost control and the bank pulled the plug on the social media event.
So how bad was it? Well, CEO Jamie Dimon was accused of cannibalism.
If you think that's bad, Dimon was also compared to the character from Mel Brook's 1987 classic "Spaceballs," who uttered the immortal words: "She's gone from suck to blow!"
Some of the best zingers came from Amy Hunter, a self-described political strategist.
Then things got really weird.
Wonder what the CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS) thinks about this?
What about the person in charge of JPMorgan's social media strategy?
There were a few questions about the many lawsuits against JPMorgan ...
... some speculation about the bank's alleged early access to market moving reports ...
... and the obligatory taking candy from a baby joke.
Maybe JPMorgan can try its next social media experiment on Snapchat? We hear it's popular because messages get erased in a few minutes.
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Are there any stickers coming???
If it doesn't do what you want....make it!
probably none, need to figure out how to make some ourselves I guess
Damn, it was only from seeing ludes with these stickers that I even found out about PA.
Would have loved a 1/4 panel window sticker.
Just have a look on eBay and get your own stickers custom made, that's what I am about to do.
For those who lurk on here you can inbox Conor on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/conor.merrigan.5?fref=ts)
He is the bloke cutting stickers for everyone at the moment.


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The Videocon Group, one of India's leading global business conglomerates, today announced the launch of its GSM mobile services in Punjab and Haryana telecom circles.
Videocon Telecommunications Limited, a group company, invested Rs. 800 crore in rolling out GSM Mobile services in Punjab and Haryana circles and we will further invest Rs. 800 crore in these states to expands its network across both circles.
Deploying a future ready 2.75G EDGE GSM network in Punjab and Haryana circles , Videocon announced that its Mobile Services initially available in 6 cities named Rajpura, Dera Bassi and Zirkhpur in Punjab telecom circle and YamunaNagar, Pinjore and Kalka in Haryana circle.The operator will expands its GSM network in all Key cities of both circles by the end of this month.
Videocon offers subscribers innovative Value-Added Services (VAS) and superior customer service. Videocon Mobile Services offers an unprecedented sub 1 paise/second effective tariff, which is designed to suit all pockets with a tariff plan that is transparent and simple.
Mr. Venugopal Dhoot, Chairman, Videocon Group stated "We will leverage on groups established brand equity and vast retail reach combined with the best of breed partners to offer compelling services to our customers in Punjab and Haryana. The company will leverage a network of around 2,400 BTS at the time of launch to deliver services to subscribers across all major towns, national and state highways." He also said that "Videocon also plans one of the fastest sequential roll-outs covering 100 key cities/towns over the next 100 days across the country."
Videocon's Punjab circle GSM services is launched in association with HFCL Infotel Ltd (Connect Fixed line and Ping CDMA Services) under the Brand sharing agreement between both companies.
Videocon GSM Prepaid Sim-Kit will be available in all key cities of Punjab and Haryana telecom circles in next few days at Rs.49 with the Talk-Value of Rs 5. The operator also announced FRC Rs 31 which provides Local & STD calls at just 1paisa /second for a period of 365 days with Talk-time of Rs 25.
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Ariz. bomb suspect charged with previous murder
- An Iraqi man charged with detonating a homemade bomb also faces murder charges
- Aldosary is charged with the Nov. 27%2C 2012 killing of an Arizona Grain processing employee
- He was indicted on 18 state felony counts last week
An Iraqi man charged with detonating a homemade bomb outside a federal building in Arizona now faces additional charges, including first-degree murder in a killing just days before the bombing, authorities said Monday.
Abdullatif Ali Aldosary is charged with murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and two firearms counts in the Nov. 27, 2012, killing of an employee at the Arizona Grain processing facility in Maricopa, about 35 miles south of Phoenix.
Orlando Requena, 26, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds. He had worked for several years at the facility, where Aldosary also was employed for a time.
Authorities announced last week that Aldosary had been indicted on 18 state felony counts, including 14 attempted first-degree murder charges, arson and use of explosives in the Nov. 30 bombing outside a Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande, about 50 miles south of Phoenix. No one was injured in the blast. Prosecutors said the attempted murder charges stem from 14 employees who were inside the building at the time of the explosion.
Authorities say a search of Aldosary's home turned up documents hidden behind a picture that explained how to build a bomb. Aldosary also sought information on how to create explosive material known as RDX, "considered one of the most powerful of the military high explosives," according to the initial criminal complaint. "RDX is believed to have been used in many bomb plots, including terrorist plots."
FBI Special Agent Douglas Price would not comment on whether the bombing was believed to have been terrorism-related. Authorities would not discuss a motive for the killing of Requena, described by relatives as a friendly man and a father of three sons with no known enemies.
"He was a good man and a good father," said the victim's aunt, Alberta Requena. "We were worried that somebody out there was coming to get us and our family. It's a relief now not having to wonder if this was somebody that we knew."
Authorities declined to discuss whether Requena's killing and the bombing were connected, or if Aldosary worked alone or with others.
"Today is the beginning of the attempt to seek justice for the victims," Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles said at a news conference attended by Maricopa police, the victim's relatives and officials from the FBI.
Aldosary came to the United States legally in 1997 from his home country of Iraq.
In 2008, he pleaded guilty to felony aggravated harassment charges. He was sentenced to two months in jail and three years of probation. But his probation was revoked a year later, and he was ordered to serve a year in prison.
Aldosary had sought help from U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar's office in 2011 in obtaining permanent residency. Gosar has said he contacted Homeland Security, which responded in a letter that Aldosary's case had been put on hold "pursuant to the terrorism-related grounds of inadmissibility" under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Authorities say he was denied a green card in 2008 because he fought with anti-government forces trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein in Basra, Iraq, in 1991.
Gosar's office questioned why the man hadn't been deported.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Aldosary's previous arrests on harassment charges and a probation violation weren't considered deportable offenses.


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San Diego, California (CNN) -- For many Americans, the scariest phrase in the English language is "changing demographics."
It's never easy to adjust to change -- especially when the thing that is changing is nothing less than the complexion of the country. America is being transformed before our eyes. In the early years of the 21st century, many white Americans are trembling at the thought that -- within three decades -- they'll be the minority in the United States. The demographic "doomsday" is about 2043, according to the most recent projections.
If you're the kind of person who stays up at night worrying about such things -- either because you fear that you will be marginalized in the future, or because you're feeling a little guilty over how African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans have been treated and you're hoping they're not holding any grudges -- living in America at this moment means having to endure one terrifying story after another.
In 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that -- because of immigration, and high birthrates among Latinos and Asian-Americans -- whites had become a minority among babies.
In 2013, the headline was that, for the first time, racial and ethnic minorities made up about half of Americans under the age of 5.
Now comes this bit of news, which is likely to send more Americans scrambling for their blood pressure medicine. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, starting this fall, U.S. public schools are projected, for the first time, to have more minority students than whites. At 49.8 percent, whites are still expected to be the largest racial group in the public schools. Yet, minority students will now make up the majority. And about one in four of those minority students will be Latino.
This turnaround has already occurred in some states, most notably Texas and California. And now it's about to happen on a national scale.
The economic, political and social implications of this demographic sea change will extend far and wide.
For one thing, the immigration debate will continue to erupt periodically, every few years. After all, what drives much of that discussion isn't concerns about border security or the rule of law. That's just the window dressing. The real fuel is nativist anxiety over the ethnic transformation of our neighborhoods, towns and cities. We'll also keep fighting about language and culture, as one way of life yields to another.
In addition, there will be greater expectations on Latinos in particular -- who now comprise 17% of the U.S. population and who, by 2043, are expected to account for as much as 25% -- to convert those population figures into something more tangible, such as political power. Already, many political observers wonder why one hasn't led to the other. As the numbers increase, that curiosity will become more intense.
Specific to what will be happening in the schools, we can also expect greater demand for bilingual teachers and more resistance from older taxpayers to having to approve additional property tax bonds to pay for what will be a necessary expansion of school facilities in the years to come. That is awfully shortsighted given that the elderly rely on younger workers to pay for their Medicare and Social Security.
It may surprise you to hear it, but I cringe every time I see one of these stories about changing demographics, if it doesn't come with the proper context.
They get people all wound up for no reason, and needlessly pit groups of Americans against one another. They give Latinos, African-Americans and Asian a sense of false hope that, just around the corner, respect and power are on the way and life is about to get better. And they scare the dickens out of whites who, sensing that a storm is on the way, inevitably try to batten down the hatches by passing more restrictive laws.
Good luck with that. There's not much any of us can do to stop these changes from happening.
But there is no reason to fear them either. Immigrants change America, but America returns the favor and changes them right back. For instance, English is the dominant language in the United States, and so many immigrants will wind up speaking English within a matter of months or years. Their children will speak English as their primary language, as the immigrant's native language fades away.
Where some Americans look at changing population figures and see calamity, I only see opportunity. This country continues to draw to its shores the determined and the daring, who come here -- to the land of second chances -- to reinvent themselves and, in the process, wind up remaking and revitalizing the country.
That's not a threat to America. Quite the contrary. It's the very essence of America.
Bring on the change.
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I was thinking recently about my earliest days working in the financial services industry. My mentor was a brilliant guy who taught me much. He also had a "pitch book." This book was full of charts, graphs and various other visual aids intended to support or convey a particular thesis.
I immediately seized the opportunity and copied each and every page of his book and proceeded to use it with prospective clients. What I didn't understand at the time was that charts and graphs are not particularly effective at persuading people to hire you. In fact, I found more often than not, they confuse people. And a confused person is less likely to make a decision. Now, 25 years later, I rarely go into all the minutiae I once did. And that leads me to my topic this week, communicating with prospective clients.
A few weeks ago, on a Monday, I received two calls from two different prospects. I had spoken with one of them in the past. The other found me through a Google search. Last week, one of these transferred their account to me while the other is still in decision mode. The sticking point with the latter person centers on their need to understand, or I should say, trust my character.
Don't misunderstand, I have done nothing to give this person a reason to question my character. But when a person like this speaks to their friends about their impending decision, and tells them that they found me on Google, well, it's not exactly a personal referral. The kind of trust I am talking about is developed over time and is partly dependent on how easily this person trusts others. In this case, they have had a few "issues" with other advisors over the years—a not uncommon occurrence. It's these "issues" that damage our industry. This is why I have been so adamant over the years about being honest….at all times!
There are certainly a lot of charlatans out there in every profession. And whenever a consumer is burned by the unethical behavior of someone they once trusted, it makes it more difficult for them to trust in the future. That's normal human behavior.
My point is this: Charts and graphs do not convince people. Let them see the real you. No pretense. No falsehoods. Don't try to be someone you're not. Just let them see into the real you—however you choose to do that. And more important, let them see that you care for them!
In the interest of our profession, always put the interests of the client ahead of your own. If you will do this, you will never lack for business.
Take care and have a great week!


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Minimum contract 18 months
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Totally Excellent '80s Movie Babes
There was no shortage of crush-worthy young actresses in the '80s, and every Gen-X boy had a personal favorite that helped propel him into puberty. There's a wholesome simplicity to what passed for sexy during the decade. Compared to this generation's Vanessa Hudgenses and Selena Gomezes, there was something less glam and more girl-next-door about the stars who made their way into our dreams via our top-loading VCRs and innumerable pay-cable viewings. Here are some of our favorites.
Diane Franklin
Sexy teen innocence personified. Diane Franklin is best known as the French exchange student Monique, who knew how to rock a jaunty men's fedora, in 1985's 'Better Off Dead.' When she slides out from under John Cusack's Camaro in her ball cap and overhauls, a million teen boys fell in love and begged their family to enroll in the high-school foreign-exchange program. Other great showcases for this perky heartbreaker include 'The Last American Virgin' (1982), 'Amityville II: The Possesion' (1982) and 'TerrorVision' (1986).
Phoebe Cates
Even if she never made another movie, a single scene from 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' (1982) would be enough to secure Cates' place on this list. Judge Reinhold's horny teen-fantasy sequence undoubtedly holds the dubious distinction of being the most watched-paused-rewound (repeat!) VHS scene in the history of the format. She was probably responsible for enough VCR wear and tear to keep video-repair shops doing big business for a decade or so. Naturally, we also love her in 'Drop Dead Fred' (1991) and 'Gremlins' (1984), in which she has another show-stopping scene -- the "Why Kate Hates Christmas" monologue -- that you can watch below in lieu of the 'Fast Times' scene, which we can't show you here.
Linnea Quigley
She's considered the queen of scream queens (even though she's only been in probably three or four horror movies anyone cares about). But it's her role as the punk-rocking, crypt-top-stripping, soon-to-be-brain-munching-zombie in 1985's 'Return of the Living Dead' that makes her stand out. Not only has the poor girl been impaled on reindeer antlers (1984's 'Silent Night, Deadly Night') and danced naked with a chainsaw (1988's 'Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers'), she's also produced 'Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout' (1989), in which she lets us watch her shower before putting on her jammies to jazzercize with the living dead and her slumber-party girlfriends. Top that for fanboy fantasy fodder.
Lea Thompson
I remember a guy in middle school who kept a 'Howard the Duck' trading card featuring female lead Lea Thompson in his wallet like she was his girlfriend or something. We may have laughed and pointed, but we all secretly understood. As Beverly, lead singer for the Cherry Bombs and Howard's interspecies main squeeze, Thompson gave us something nice to think about while the movie went about its business of systematically destroying our faith in humanity. It made sense to us that Eric Stoltz would totally blow his college savings to buy Thompson's Miss Amanda Jones diamond earrings in 'Some Kind of Wonderful' (1987). Though in the end, we agree with his choosing tomboy drummer Mary Stuart Masterson -- an actress who gets an honorable mention on this list for making the wrong side of the tracks look like the right place to be.
Elizabeth (E.G.) Daily
We'll buy Large Marge's shocking shape-shifting claymation face and the plausibility of diffusing a biker beat down by dancing on a bar to 'Tequila,' but when Pee-wee rebuffs the advances of Dottie in 1985's 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure,' our suspension of disbelief comes crashing in on itself. She crosses paths with other '80s babes on this list, appearing (ahem ... topless) in 'Valley Girl' (1983) and singing at the school dance in 'Better Off Dead.' These days, Daily keeps herself busy as a voice actor in about 90 percent of the kids' programming produced since 1990. She's voiced everyone from outspoken rugrat Tommy Pickles to outspoken anthropomorphic piglet Babe. Babe, indeed.
Helen Slater
"Fair is fair!" -- and it's only fair that Slater's legendary Billie Jean (from 1985's 'The Legend of Billie Jean') lands her on this list for being the rebel-rousing beach-bum babe in a cropped tee and a pixie-punk haircut. If that's not enough, Slater also made a pretty amazing looking Supergirl (1984) in an otherwise terrible cinematic super-spinoff, allowing us to fondly remember a movie that really deserves nothing but our contempt. After all, not too many women can successfully pull off a red, blue and yellow fashion pallet.
Ally Sheedy
She was cute as Matthew Broderick's girlfriend in 1983's 'Wargames' and charming in the (not-aging-well) kiddie classic 'Short Circuit' (1986). But as the subversive, weird, proto-goth in John Hughes' 'Breakfast Club' (1985), she's the stuff lonely boys' dreams are made of. That she ended up with Emilio Estevez's meat-head football player might be the cinematic crime of the century.
Elisabeth Shue
Maybe it was the moment she said "Don't f---- with the babysitter" in 1987's 'Adventures in Babysitting' (one of those truly magical Disney movie moments.) or it might have been her discreetly filmed waterfall make-out scene in 'Cocktail' (1988). But we'll put our money on the fact that when '80s-era teens dreamed of being 'The Karate Kid' (1984), half the appeal was Shue cheering you on from the sidelines.
Christened 'Vanity' by Prince, Denise Katrina Matthews was a triple threat in her prime: musician (the girl group Vanity 6), model (Playboy) and actress. Many of us first became aware of her in the '80s cult fave 'The Last Dragon' (1985) as the host of a 'Soul Train'-esque TV dance show singing the modest hit '7th Heaven.' She did a few more movies including the hit Carl Weathers vehicle 'Action Jackson' (1988). Sadly, Vanity became born again in 1994 and dropped the stage name, but we'll forgive that, and always remember her as the big-haired beauty she was at the peak of her '80s babe reign.
Deborah Foreman
As the title star of the under-appreciated '80s teen comedy 'Valley Girl,' Foreman made ridiculous valley-speak totally bitchin', fer sure, while making obnoxious teen entitlement sympathetic and sexy. Bonus points for her roles in 'My Chauffeur' (1986'), 'Waxworks' (1988) and the better-than-average slasher flick 'April Fools Day' (1986).


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'Be confident, buddy," yelled a man to a rider. "That'll help you out." Not far from the man, I stood in the gravel parking lot of Rocky Knob Mountain Bike Park near Boone, N.C., looking out at a brand-new pump track - a mountain-biking course of bumps and jumps that I planned to test out the next day. I made a mental note about confidence and chatted with another spectator.
Next thing I knew, screams were coming from the track, and the mountain biker was on the dirt. I wondered whether he was hurt, and I felt my self-preservation instinct kick in: Am I going to kill myself on this thing tomorrow? Moments later, the biker got up and joined the man in the parking lot, seemingly unscathed. But the screams continued, and it took me a minute to understand that his only pain was that of being separated from his beloved bike.
"Pleeeease!" he sobbed. "Once more!" The man lectured the young cyclist about his "tone." And that's when I made another mental note: No matter how things went down with my first mountain-biking adventure the next day, I wouldn't act like a 6-year-old. I will not, I told myself, make a scene in the parking lot.
When my friend Marilyn invited me to visit her in Boone, she told me about a new mountain bike park a few miles from town. I've probably been on a mountain bike a couple of times in my life, but I've certainly never biked any mountains, and my only bike-related bragging rights involve a recent 50 miles on the C&O Canal towpath, which runs from Washington to Cumberland, Md., and is arguably as flat as they come. But I was overdue for a visit to one of my favorite Carolina towns, so I packed my car and headed to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Just west of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Boone - named after Daniel - is a year-round haven for outdoor recreationalists. Ever since Lance Armstrong came here to train in the late 1990s, singing the praises of the area's beauty and steep cycling climbs, the town has been milking his testimonial. That may have helped put it on the map, but Boone has always held its own in the road cycling department. With the opening of Rocky Knob, a $2 million facility, it's now a destination for mountain bikers as well.
Led by a professional trail-builder, volunteers put in 3,500 hours of work building the 185-acre park over the past few years. Locals pitched in at weekly sessions called Dirty Thursdays, and college football players used brute force to move boulders. The first of five trails opened in 2011, and the trails, skills areas, picnic areas and pump track were completed by this year.
A sign at the base of the mountain explicitly says that none of the trails are for beginners, and some of the features are pretty advanced. The day I arrived, I hiked the easiest trail, 1.6-mile Rocky Branch, and found myself tentatively stepping over rock gardens, watching my footing on uneven boardwalks and hiking around countless switchbacks. In one of the skills areas, I walked over "skinnies," narrow structures that look like balance beams and are meant - unfathomably - to be crossed by bike. Hiking down, I was happy that the mountain bikers had this park, but I thought, no way am I doing this on wheels.
Off the mountain, I watched kids and grown-ups on the pump track. A couple of guys from nearby Appalachian State, the local university, rode their dirt jump bikes over jumps and around berms, catching air, and returned out of breath.
"It's like a sprint," said Jason, a senior. He explained that the pump track gets its name from the motion as you go over the undulations. Essentially, your body stores energy like a spring, and you gain momentum as you go over the jumps and shift your weight, "pumping" your upper body. The best riders go through the entire course without pedaling and leave the ground often - making it a killer spectator sport.
Jason told me that having a purpose-built trail like this is a dream come true. "Before, there wasn't any legal mountain biking in the county," he said. "You had to travel 30 to 45 minutes just to get to a good trail." (Other regional trails are at Pisgah National Forest, Kerr Scott Reservoir near Wilkesboro and Sugar Mountain and Beech Mountain ski resorts.) We heard a loud whooping sound from the mountain - someone riding down the last descent. "Those are typical sound effects here," Jason laughed.
The next morning, I met Kristian Jackson at the park. Blond and ponytailed, he's a lecturer in recreation management at the university, as well as one of the course designers. He brought a Giant Anthem mountain bike for me to borrow - a "29er," one of the cool new bikes with wheels three inches larger than the standard, that I was told would make it easier to pedal uphill.
Kristian talked to me about my stance on the bike and what to do if I crashed, although he skillfully avoided using that word. He explained that a good trail is "flowy," rather than filled with sharp and jerky turns. I strapped on my helmet and remembered to stay confident. Soon, we were pedaling up the mountain, and within seconds, my legs were burning.
Rocky Knob is a stacked loop system - the higher you get, the harder the trail. Apparently, the designers tried to make the course easier, but it was too, well, rocky. I quickly learned to keep my pedals up off the ground so they wouldn't hit rock.
This was a little like learning how to ride all over again - except that this bike was a tank, rolling over roots and rocks like nobody's business.
As Kristian led me around the loop, I found him to be that rare breed of hard-core dude who is kind and empathetic; he got off his bike and walked in all the tricky spots that he knew would be difficult for me. Eventually, I began to trust the bike and to ease my right hand off the brake. On the final stretch, through a tunnel of rhododendron, I even felt flowy.
At the base of the mountain, I wasn't exactly crying for more, but I was exhilarated - and thrilled that I hadn't broken any body parts. No need to press my luck, I decided. When it came time for the pump track, I was content watching.
After the ride, Marilyn and I scarfed down burritos at the Black Cat and walked around town. Although still somewhat bohemian, with fiddlers on the street and countless thrift shops, Boone now has expensive outdoor stores and bike shops (that rent mountain bikes) and trendy and delicious farm-to-table restaurants. It's a place where university professors look like Outward Bound instructors, and status symbols usually have something to do with the number of high-end bikes in your garage.
That night, we hit Taco Tuesday at Boone Saloon - tacos for $1.50, and every seat at the bar occupied by a man with a beard. In the morning, Marilyn biked Rocky Knob, and I did one last trail run - on foot. In the parking lot, I cooled down after my run and watched a lone rider on the pump track. Then I drove down the mountain and through the fog, appreciating pavement as never before.
Pumped up about mountain biking
'Be confident, buddy," yelled a man to a rider. "That'll help you out." Not far from the man, I stood in the gravel parking lot of Rocky Knob Mountain Bike Park near Boone, N.C., looking out at a brand-new pump track - a mountain-biking course of bumps and jumps that I planned to test out the next day. I made a mental note about confidence and chatted with another spectator.


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