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Chances are, you've noticed that higher education isn't as "simple" as it used to be. Tuition costs have skyrocketed, and it's no longer a "guarantee" that students will graduate in four years, or that they'll actually get a job with the degree they chose.
This week, Host Mary McCarthy talks to Beth Probst, an entrepreneur who has developed a service to help solve that problem. Beth is the Founder and Owner of At The Core, a business that helps high school students uncover what they should do next for their future. It helps them explore different careers that could be a good fit for them, helping them identify their strengths and interests, before spending money on college.
"I think on some level, we know things are different, we know things have changed, we know college costs a lot more. We remember our own experiences as we made our way through high school to what came next. And we look at our children and a lot of times, I think on some level, we expect them to put their head down through high school, do what it is that they're supposed to do, and magically lift their head up, and tell us, I would like to do this for a living and I would like to study this… but it does not work that way." ~ Beth Probst
Find out how At The Core determines a student is best suited for, a list of potential careers, and tips on how you can help teenagers make good decisions for their future in our 15-minute podcast.
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Galvanizing and coating technologies to add value to steel producers
Fives, as an active player on the Asian steel market, sponsored SEAISI 2018 conference & exhibition held on June 25-28, 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia and made a presentation on galvanizing and coating line technologies.
The conference, which was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 25 – 28 June 2018, focused on the next transformative leap in the ASEAN steel industry and the role of Industry 4.0. Gathering together key industry players from ASEAN and around the world, the conference also provided a premium opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by market demands and new technologies.
It was with this in mind that Olivier Grosse, Senior Sales Manager in Fives' Steel business line, introduced the NeoKoil® galvanizing & organic coating line. 'For steelmakers wishing to optimize their market reach from home appliances to automotive steel grades, galvanizing & organic coating line technologies could be a perfect fit to process steel for a variety of end users,' he said.
The NeoKoil® galvanizing & organic coating line developed by Fives represents a combination of galvanizing and painting sections in one line. This enables steelmakers to substantially reduce capital and operational costs, as well as to increase quality and safety by avoiding coil handling and treatment between galvanizing process and painting. The production cycle is shortened and final products have more added value.
The combined line is designed for the production of different steel grades from full hard (HRC) and commercial quality CQ (CRC), to various high strength steel and coatings such as regular spangle, minispangle, 55%AlZn galvalume, 5%AlZn galfan, ZnMgAl aluminized products, AlSi, etc.

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- New Blog Post: From Twitter 11-22-2010: ( ::tweets:: )Tweets copied by twittinesis.com http://bit.ly/dWU05s
- New Blog Post: T-Day: I really, really like eating poultry, especially turkey. But if there is any kind of food ... http://bit.ly/h0oTGI
- Finally! After many days of trying to remember how I originally set up my twitterfeed account, I got it! #reallyshouldwritethesethingsdown
- I find myself debating between breakfast and a nap. Nap is ahead on points.
- Happy Fibonacci day, all!
- Oh, @thinkgeek, how I wish I could afford the $ & the drawer space to all the t-shirts from you that I wanted.
- Bird cooked pretty much perfectly - meat falling off the bone, but solid enough to pick up a half-breast with the tongs. Yay!
- In other news, I may have a broken toe - no idea when or how, but it's been hurting like it's jammed for a couple of days now. ::sigh::
- I inadvertently put 10 minutes on the microwave to heat up my cake instead of 1, and walked away to go do something else. Ooops.
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Arlington, VA (July 7, 2009) Nexus Systems, a leading provider of web-based accounts payable process automation software and services, today announced that Capstone Real Estate Services, Inc. has chosen its flagship solution, NexusPayables, to efficiently manage their processing of over 25,000 monthly invoices. NexusPayables will be fully integrated with Capstone's MS Dynamics GP (Great Plains) accounting infrastructure.
The NexusPayables complete electronic purchase to payment solution combines a full purchase order module with 3-way matching, invoice imaging, sophisticated workflow-initiated approval routing with line-item budget comparisons, general ledger cost allocations, job cost management options, and flexible reporting tools to include CAM and audit reports. NexusPayables is the best of breed application in use by companies that require the expense management control, visibility, efficiency and cost savings associated with accounts payable automation and best practices.
Capstone's implementation of NexusPayables' purchase order module with dynamic workflow approval routing will provide the controls and accountability necessary to eliminate maverick spending. The automated straight through processing of PO's to invoices virtually eliminates the opportunity for error and provides the total visibility and detailed reporting that owners demand. After a thorough evaluation of all of the top real estate AP automation solutions in the marketplace today, Capstone found that the Nexus Systems product's depth of features greatly exceeded the other offerings. Since NexusPayables was originally developed for the multi-family industry, it already has all of the functionality necessary wrapped in its very easy to use interface.
About Capstone Real Estate Services, Inc. (www.capstonemanagement.com)
Capstone Real Estate Services, Inc., based in Austin, TX, is a full-service, third-party management firm presently managing approximately 53,000 multi-family units and 1,000,000 square feet of commercial space. Founded in 1969, Capstone employs over 1,300 people in the field of property management, and their portfolio extends to nearly 125 cities. The size of their portfolio ranks them as the 13th overall largest management firm and among the top 5 largest third-party management firms in the nation.
About Nexus Systems, LLC.
Nexus Systems is the leading provider of electronic solutions that automate the traditionally cumbersome paper-intensive purchase to payment process resulting in the reduction of operating costs and faster invoice processing with tighter controls. Nexus Systems' product and services greatly aid financial management by automating and centralizing systems through scanning, electronic workflow, approval routing, and budget controls of PO and invoice management. Nexus' best-in-class solution, NexusPayables, enjoys continued success as a result of its mature in-depth functionality, intuitive interface, user friendly configurations, and overall ease of use for clients.
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Please also refer to the Green Circle article:Target Configuration: Application Control Module (ACM) - Setup Glossary
License Requirements
Application Control Module or Application Edition.
• MS-Exchange 2013 server running on Windows 2008R2 or Windows 2012 operating system
• Configure remote management on the Exchange server: Setup for Hyper-V, VMM, Exchange Targets - Enable WinRM Manually with Troubleshooting steps
• Port access: WinRM uses ports 5985 and 5986 for standard and secure communications, respectively. The firewall on the your
VMM server must open these ports.
Adding Microsoft Exchange Server Targets
Once you've enabled remote management, you can add your Exchange servers as targets. To add an Exchange Server
target, select the Windows Application > MS Exchange option on the Target Configuration page and provide the following
• Host
The host name of the Exchange server.
Note that you can enter an IP address for the host, but you must first configure an SPN on the host. VMTurbo
recommends that you use the host name in this field.
• Scope (optional)
A cluster or group of VMs that host Exchange servers
If you set target scope, Operations Manager scans each VM within that group or cluster and tries to connect to an
Exchange server over the specified port. Operations Manager adds any servers it finds as targets.
• Port number
For Operations Manager 5.4 or higher: The port number for the remote management connection. The default
HTTP port is 5985; the default HTTPS port is 5986.
• Username
The domain\username of an Active Directory account that Operations Manager can use to connect to the
Exchange server.
For Operations Manager 5.3 or below: The account must also be one of the server's WBEM Scripting Locator
owners (see Enabling Management via WMI on page 112).
• Password
Password for account used.


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Bevy Smith Picks the Met Gala's Best & Worst Dressed
Who gave her life? And who looked ratchet? The Fashion Queens host weighs in.
The fashion world's A-List came out in force last night for the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala—even Andy Cohen was there. And those who walked the red carpet to honor British-born designer Charles James certainly didn't disappoint.
Naturally, our own Bevy Smith was sizing up all of the looks. Who was right? And who was ratchet? See her picks below—and tune into Fashion Queens this Sunday at 11:30/10:30c for more Met Gala coverage.
Best Dressed
Emmy Rossum
She was resplendent in her Carolina Herrera floral gown, she served 1950's Socialite realness, she was SHAMELESS in her grace & beauty!
Karolina Kurkova
Karolina in Marchesa was the perfect swan, an alabaster goddess channeling legendary model Dovima in her posture, composure and overall beauty.
Sara Silverman
Her Zac Posen gown was no laughing matter, Sara had her new beau on her arm and a new look to go along with him, KUDOS.
Worst Dressed
Sandra Lee
Yes, she's the girlfriend of New York's Governor, but she's breaking every fashion law by visually ASSUALTING us with this bootleg Charles James knockoff. This is clearly a "Semi-Homemade" disaster.
Kate Upton
I gagged in the worst way when I gazed upon Kate serving the quintessential "Old West hooker with a heart of gold" archetype. Perhaps she read that Charles James dressed famed burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee, however, he NEVER dressed her like this.
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burka
White tie and tails is a very difficult look to pull off in modern day society and what you won't do, Neil and David, is complicate matters more with Thom Browne high water pants and cummerbunds inspired by Japanese sumo wrestlers' "mawashi." David, you receive a DIS-honorable mention for the whole Harlequin meets stripes look, this is best left at the circus.
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Fasting: The Way to Good Health
Research from the University of Southern California has found that a 3-day fast can regenerate the entire human immune system.
This remarkable and major breakthrough points to a straightforward and low-cost way to improve health and well-being. Fasting, abstaining from all or some foods or drinks for a set period of time is a time-honored practice dating back to ancient civilizations.
Most fasts last from 1 to 3 days.
Western nutritionists fear that depriving the body of nourishment is unhealthy. The news that going 72 hrs without eating can replenish the whole immune system suggests that both fasting and starving stimulate the production of new infection-fighting white blood cells.
The elderly and people with damaged immune systems, like cancer patients on chemotherapy have cause for hope if the solution is as simple and affordable as this.
Regardless of age, a weakened immune system reduces the body's natural ability to ward off common diseases like colds and flu. Older folks are especially vulnerable because aging causes the immune system to degenerate.
Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences at the University of California Valter Longo conducted the research study. He claims his findings prove that fasting produces new disease-fighting cells:
"It gives the 'OK' for stem cells to go ahead and begin proliferating and rebuild the entire system. And the good news is that the body got rid of the parts of the system that might be damaged or old, the inefficient parts, during the fasting. Now, if you start with a system heavily damaged by chemotherapy or aging, fasting cycles can generate, literally, a new immune system."
Study participants fasted for 2 to 4 days regularly over a 6-month time period. In addition to the production of new white blood cells, fasting also lowered the presence of an enzyme called PKA a hormone linked with the development of tumors and cancer.
Fasting has become trendy lately. Most people deprive themselves of food and non-water drinks in order to lose weight or improve brain function.
Fasting improves how the body regulates blood sugar which could help diabetics and those at risk. Intermittent fasting involves limiting food intake into a single 4 to 8 hour frame every day. A study on diabetes concluded that the 10 test subjects who fasted intermittently, they ate nothing until the middle of the afternoon had significantly decreased blood sugar levels.
Another type of intermittent fasting calls for fasting every other day but eating whatever you want on the non-fasting days. The most common variation of this technique is to consume no more than 500 calories on fasting days.
Along with weight loss, intermittent fasting lowers the negative side effects of obesity, including the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
On fasting days, the diet allows drinking as many calorie-free beverages like water, unsweetened coffee and tea as desired.
Krista Varady has published a book called "The Every-Other-Day Diet: The Diet That Lets You Eat All You Want (Half the Time) and Keep the Weight Off" which details "this revolutionary approach to weight loss that is incredibly simple, easy, and effective."
Other research has linked fasting to incredible health benefits.
• Reduces chronic inflammation
• Improves blood pressure, triglycerides and cholesterol levels
• Prevent neurodegenerative disorders
• Boost metabolism
• Increase growth hormone secretion, vital for growth, metabolism, weight loss and muscle strength
• Increase longevity
Despite the long list of advantages that fasting can give, some conditions suggest caution. Talk to your healthcare provider if you have diabetes or any other immune-system-related disease before taking up fasting.
Fasting can improve overall health when it is paired with a healthy lifestyle with regular exercise and a nutritious diet.
It is the "fast track" to feeling better.
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The music business is so full of cautionary tales of artists who've had hit songs and then been left for dead by the industry that long ago VH1 turned those tales into long-running series, Behind The Music and Where Are They Now?
Singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton seemed on her way to being one of those tales. Her first single, "A Thousand Miles," hit the top five of the Billboard Hot 100, propelling her debut album, Be Not Nobody, to platinum status.
She released two subsequent albums on major labels, neither coming close to matching the commercial success of her debut. Though, the second of those albums, Heroes & Thieves, became a critical success. As did the indie follow-up, Rabbits On The Run, released in 2011 and Liberman, released in 2015.
Once a pop darling, Carlton has become a respected indie troubadour building up a career audience. That is the Vanessa Carlton currently on the road right now, enjoying touring and her second act in music. She spoke with Monica Molinaro and I about her new musical life, her mentor, Stevie Nicks, and how being a mother has made her a better artist.
Steve Baltin: Is there a moment in the tour where you feel like you hit the peak of performing?
Vanessa Carlton: It's so funny cause I talk about this on stage. The way we do our show is I don't want it to be a straightforward singer/songwriter show or rock show, so we record live on stage, create this stuff in front of people and then play it back. Every night I do a collage of sounds and you're creating something right there on the stage and it's being recorded. I'm sure as hell tired of singing "A Thousand Miles," but what I do is I start the show with that. So I sing that song first to let the elephant out of the room and allow us all to breathe. And then it's just really being creative every single night. We're alive up there.
Baltin: Are there ever nights though where you're like, "No, I'm excited to sing this song?"
Carlton: I look at that song as if it has its own career, separate from me almost. That song belongs to the people so I give it to them. I'm not a nostalgic artist where I'm trying to rest on a catalog that's behind me because I didn't really start making the kind of projects I can get behind until I left the major labels. I left the machine, so to speak, in 2008. And I have two albums under my belt that are just wonderful, really authentic reflections of collaborations I've been able to do, artists that I never would have gotten to work with in the machine. So I'm somebody who feels like I'm starting over and those older songs, I'm not trying to hold people there, like, "I hope she plays those songs at the very end."
Monica Molinaro: Have you noticed your fans picking up that challenge and being as strongly with you as before or more so on your journey?
Carlton: Yeah, it's so much more real now because it's not some weird pop culture, "Is she a celebrity or is she a real musician?" I get to start over with people, we're building something brick by brick and I think that the people that started discovering me on Rabbits On The Run, which is the record that came out completely under the radar, or for the people that know it they're like lifers, they're in it with me. We are in a new world together. So I guess it's an unusual type career, but who wants to be ordinary? I was thinking about that today, there are no complaints.
Baltin: I think of artists like Tom Waits and Trent Reznor who have evolved successfully. Are there artists you admire for the way they evolved?
Carlton: The key is two really important things. Your audience needs to feel like you're making music that is true to yourself and that you're an honest artist. And I think that building a strong touring base is key, which I never was able to do. And I think now, more than ever, it's all about touring, that's your foundation. Of course it helps to have an enormous song that you have publishing on that people license all the time. That's certainly a revenue stream that's a gift from the heavens. But outside of that it's all about building the catalog and the touring base and that is all about putting on a great show. For me, it's very much about creating an experience and part of that experience is playing some of those old songs, but that's not the point. I think the more that I tour, especially now being a mother and having a two-year-old baby at home waiting for me, which is really hard to be away from her, I'm not going to waste my time out here. I want to connect with people. So I'm not gonna go up there and mail it in, it has to be worth the time I'm away from my family. That's really how I look at it and it's made me, I think, a better artist in the sense that I'm more present.
Molinaro: Steve and I have talked a lot about perspective lately. Have all these life changes recently changed your perspective and influenced your songwriting?
Carlton: Yeah, I think being a parent and being a partner to my husband has had a profound effect on the way I look at the world and the way I look at joy, the way I look at pain, the way I see joy and pain in other people. There's something really healing about going to a show where you see somebody being vulnerable and not in a narcissistic way. I learned so much on this last tour. I toured on Liberman when that record came out and now I'm touring now, not really on a new record. I have an EP out and a live record, but not much new material. It's made it really interesting because I have to create a new energy for this show.
Baltin: Talk about the relationship with Stevie Nicks.
Carlton: I've known Stevie since 2004. She was there holding my hand with me when I had my baby. There are some unusual situations that I end up in that I can't look up in the library how to get through them, sometimes I have to call Stevie. It's a very interesting life that we lead sometimes. I feel very lucky to have a mentor like her.
Molinaro: How impactful have your relationships with people like Stevie and your management been in transforming you?
Carlton: I think that grace is important. I learned that a lot from friends and the people in my life who are truly successful are happy and they're happy because they're constantly humble and they don't believe the hype. They're just trying to do better work and they're graceful, empathetic and kind. I think those are all keys to having a successful career no matter what category of career you are in. And I think also being a new mother, for me, I so am aware of the energy that she picks up on and I want to emanate something that is good for her. I feel fundamentally different in a way because of her, she's made me become a better person.
Molinaro: What do you take away from the live record when you hear it?
Carlton: I will say that I'm glad I waited 15 years to do a live record. It certainly wouldn't have been as good, now was the right time. So what if you're a late bloomer, as long as you bloom eventually.
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Episode 7: The Underwater Scene
3:21 Runtime, Posted on Sep 16 2009 David Wexler, College Life, Movie Life Life edited by David Presley
Bart, the director of photography, brings the camera into the pool for the first time. Ryan and Brianna shoot the first scene of the day on rafts and Ryan has a little trouble. Underwater shots are taken and an apparatus has to be created for underwater breathing.
After being delayed, David is trying to get the film back on schedule. He impatiently instructs Ryan how to balance on the barely inflated raft in the pool, "Accept it, physics will take over," he says. The first scene of the day involves underwater shots, requiring a $7,000 camera, the only one for the shoot, to be submerged. In an aside to the camera, David explains how he placed a call to a photo place unbeknownst to the DP to get a new camera if things go south. Bart's breathing apparatus isn't working; he freaks out, and can't breathe. The shoot is falling further behind schedule. David steps up to serve as the cameraman and films the shot, boasting that he can hold his breath under water for a while. They finally get it done swimmingly.


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There is a difference in how moisture is removed when freeze drying and dehydrating food.
Depending on what you read, there are advantages and disadvantages of each process but for us, the balance of weight, taste, nutritional value and cost still sway us to dehydrate our meals. Plus in Canada, most retail packaged freeze dried meals are imported and we think there is some merit to buying local.
The advantages commonly cited for dehydrating food is that it packs up smaller and doesn't negatively impact taste or nutritional content. We start with exceptional meals hand made in small batches and in our opinion that's the most important attribute of our product.
Freeze dried food generally rehydrates quicker given the process that is involved in removing the moisture. We sample a lot of freeze dried foods for taste and while there are some decent boil in a bag freeze dried foods on the market we only dehydrate.
Probably the biggest difference between our product and the international freeze dried companies is the small batch process. Whether you prefer freeze drying or dehydration, our small batches of high quality meals are tough to beat. If you start with a high quality product you finish with a high quality product. Some people claim that any hot meal in the backcountry is a good meal. We respectfully disagree.
As with all moisture removed food, proper re-hydration prior to consumption is very important. In high impact or long endurance activities, keeping your body properly hydrated is challenging and can on its own create issues with energy levels, strength and concentration. Keeping hydrated is even more critical when you consume dried or dehydrated foods.
If you are comparing our meals to freeze dried packaged options please look closely at the caloric values of each meal. Many of the products advertise that a bag portion is sufficient for two people so you need to be cautious of the clories in a single portion not the full bag. In our experience, what some packaged meals advertise as quantity that is sufficient for two people is barely enough for one hungry person. Our single meal dehydrated portions and full trip catering assume you are active and hungry. We rarely get quantity complaints. Check out our calorie planning page for our philosophy. Each dehydrated food product has specific details on caloric values.


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HBL Security has announced it will be holding three seminars to launch its partnership with Uniview, marking a new era for the distributor, who will be focusing its efforts on IP CCTV and building both the Uniview brand and the HBL Security brand in the UK.
Uniview is reportedly the second largest player in the high-end video surveillance segment in China and the third largest in the overall video surveillance market in China as measured by 2014 revenue. At IFSEC this year, Uniview showed 4K and H.265 cameras and NVRs, as well as the starlight low light colour camera and vari-focal laser IR technologies.
Karl Thomas, MD of the Philex UK Group says: "We at HBL and the rest of the Philex Group are all very excited about the new partnership with Uniview. After spending time reviewing their products and visiting their facilities in the Far East we are confident that we have a partner that allows us to offer our customers a quality product that they too are confident installing."
There are limited spaces available for the three UK stadium launch dates at Old Trafford, Manchester on the 2nd December, Villa Park Birmingham on the 4th December and Stamford Bridge, London 7th December.
As well as getting hands on with their exciting new range of products for the UK there will be a chance to talk to both Uniview and the HBL Security teams. The seminar includes complimentary stadium tour and refreshments.
Call 01253 607830 for availability or visit here to secure your place at one of the venues.


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Rafael Nadal on IPTL: I think I'll be here next year too
Refusing to call the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) an exhibition event, Spanish superstar Rafael Nadal says he would be back to compete in it next year too
New Delhi: Refusing to call the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) an exhibition event, Spanish superstar Rafael Nadal says he would be back to compete in it next year too but conceded that tournaments like these don't have a place in the ATP World Tour calendar.
Indian Aces' Rafael Nadal returns during a match against Philippine Mavericks in New Delhi on Thursday. Pic/AFP
Making his first appearance in the IPTL, which is in its second season, Nadal is turning up for the Micromax Indian Aces, which also has on its roster Indian tennis aces Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna among others.
"IPTL has been great so far and hopefully I will be back. I have liked the format, the team spirit is good, I think I am going to be back," Nadal told reporters in a press conference after his team's win over Philippines Mavericks.
"I don't think these are exhibition matches, these games are very competitive. The intensity of competition is good. I feel the rules are perfect in the IPTL and it's a great idea. But obviously, in the (ATP) World Tour, it doesn't have a place," asserted the 29-year-old.
In fact, Nadal went on to say that the IPTL is turning out to be perfect preparation for him ahead of the next season. The 'King of Clay' has struggled with his form this season, failing to win a single Major for the first time in 10 years. "It is an unbelievable event. I have had a very good time so far and it's a preparation for the next season. The format is quick and anything can happen. The matches can also become very close," he said.
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Biopics are big business at the box office and are frequently showered with awards in Hollywood. In the last few years alone, Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody, about the lives of music legends Elton John and Freddie Mercury, proved enormous hits. But these portrayals of "real life" don't always hit the mark for the folks being immortalised on screen. Here are 20 films that infuriated the real people they were based on.
20. Pain & Gain
Michael Bay's Pain & Gain told the story of the Sun Gym Gang, a group of bodybuilders who resorted to kidnapping, torture, extortion and murder in order to get rich. It was called, "dumb, shallow, deeply cynical and creatively bereft" by Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers. Perhaps, given that the 2013 movie was based on actual events, it should have approached the material with more respect and nuance.
The movie's depiction of real-life kidnapping victim Marc Schiller was so problematic, in fact, that he chose to sue Paramount Pictures, Viacom, Michael Bay and even star Mark Wahlberg over it. In 2014 he told the New York Post, "The movie made a mockery of me and of the pain and suffering that I had endured. The horrible person on screen had no resemblance to who I was — or who I am now."
19. The Social Network
In 2014, Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg spoke about his depiction in David Fincher's 2010 movie The Social Network. In the first-ever public Q & A session held at Facebook's headquarters, he said, "They just made up a bunch of stuff that I found kind of hurtful." This backed up comments he made in 2010, in which he disagreed with how the filmmakers portrayed his motivations in founding the social media platform.
Back then Zuckerberg told an audience at Stanford University, "The whole framing of the movie is I'm with this girl, who doesn't exist in real life, who dumps me." He continued, "And basically the framing is that the whole reason for making Facebook is because I wanted to get girls or wanted to get into clubs. They just can't wrap their heads around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things."
18. Patch Adams
Patch Adams starred the late Robin Williams as Hunter Adams, the physician who formed the Gesundheit! Institute, where patients were treated using humor instead of traditional medical procedures. The 1998 movie was panned by critics and Adams himself was not a fan. In fact, critic Roger Ebert tweeted that the first thing Adams ever said to him when they met was, "I hate that movie."
In an interview with New Renaissance Magazine, Adams said, "After the movie, there wasn't a single positive article about our work or me." He continued, "I knew the movie would do this. I would become a funny doctor. Imagine how shallow that is relative to who I am." Despite this, however, Adams said of Williams, "he was the only actor I wanted to play me, and I think he did a fabulous job."
17. Walk The Line
Walk The Line told the story of country music legend Johnny Cash's rise to prominence, along with his romance with second wife June Carter. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon were both nominated for Academy Awards for their portrayals of Cash and Carter, with Witherspoon winning. However, Cash's first wife Vivian, played by Ginnifer Goodwin, was not happy with the 2005 film.
In her 2007 book I Walked The Line: My Life With Johnny Vivian wrote that she disagreed with the film's interpretation of Cash and Carter's romance, which depicted Carter as reluctant and Cash pushing things. In reality, Vivian said it was the opposite, with Carter relentlessly pursuing the married Cash. In fact, Vivian recalled a backstage confrontation in which Carter told her, "Vivian, he will be mine."
16. Moneyball
Baseball legend Art Howe was decidedly unhappy with his portrayal in Bennett Miller's 2011 hit Moneyball. "They couldn't have demeaned me more," a furious Howe told the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's disgusting. I'm hurt by it. My reputation is altered by it. People who don't know me are going to think that's the real Art Howe."
The film followed Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) as they tried to change the fortunes of the Oakland Athletics baseball team through a math-based, statistical approach. Howe, who was the team's manager at the time, was played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. To the real Howe's frustration, he was depicted as a stubborn traditionalist, angrily opposed to change.
15. The Blind Side
The Blind Side starred Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, the adoptive mother of Michael Oher, an NFL offensive linesman. The 2009 movie has been criticized over the years for feeding into a stereotypical "white savior" narrative. Even Oher himself has expressed frustration with its depiction of him as oafish and with little formal football training.
In 2015 Oher told ESPN that the movie negatively affected people's view of him as a player and led to unfair criticism. He said, "This stuff, people calling me a bust, people saying if I can play or not…that has nothing to do with football. It's something else off the field. That's why I don't like that movie."
14. Bad Education
Bad Education aired on HBO in April 2020 and was immediately met with rave reviews. The film was based on the largest embezzlement from the public school system in American history, in which $11 million was stolen from the Roslyn school district in Long Island, New York during the early 2000s. Hugh Jackman played Frank Tassone, the school superintendent who personally embezzled $2.2 million.
However, in an appearance on The Coach Mike Podcast, the real Tassone claimed the movie was only 40 to 50 percent truthful. He took particular issue with how the movie showed him having a secret affair with a former student named Kyle Contreras. Tassone said, "I have never, ever, in my 36-year career in education had a relationship with a student or with someone who had graduated."
13. Foxcatcher
Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz was played by Channing Tatum in the 2014 drama Foxcatcher. The movie told the story of Mark and his older brother David's relationship with multimillionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell), which led to David's murder. Mark was supportive of the film and served as consultant, but around the time of its release he changed his tune.
Angered by critical inferences there was a homosexual element to his relationship with du Pont, Mark posted on Facebook about the, "insulting" movie, writing that it was jeopardizing his legacy. He also called director Bennett Miller a, "punk" and a "liar" on Twitter. However, by 2015 he'd changed again, tweeting that he was, "temporarily insane" when he criticized the movie. He wrote, "I apologize to you before the world, Bennett."
12. Spotlight
In 2015, Best Picture winner Spotlight told the story of the Boston Globe journalists who broke the story of systemic child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the city. In one scene, journalists Walter "Robby" Robinson (Michael Keaton) and Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdam) speak with Boston College High School president Jack Dunn about whether he and his predecessors knew about the abuse. Dunn says, "It's a big school, Robby, you know that. And we're talking about seven alleged victims over, what, eight years?"
Dunn's lawyers wrote the filmmakers a letter in November 2015 that stated that he believed the scene cast him as some kind of conspirator in the cover-up of the abuse, and that the portrayal was defamatory. In March 2016, the distributor Open Road films issued a statement that said, "Spotlight contains fictionalized dialogue that was attributed to Mr Dunn for dramatic effect. We acknowledge that Mr Dunn was not part of the Archdiocesan cover-up."
11. Black Mass
In 2015 crime biopic Black Mass, Johnny Depp played notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, but he wasn't able to meet with the criminal to research his role. Bulger refused to correspond with Depp and would not watch the film. The imprisoned mobster's lawyer Hank Brennan told People, "Johnny Depp might as well have been playing the Mad Hatter all over again as far as James Bulger is concerned."
Bulger enforcer Kevin Weeks, played by Jesse Plemons in the film, also had no regard for the movie, although he did at least watch it. Calling it a, "fantasy", he told Daily Beast, "The only resemblance to Whitey's character was the hairline." He also took umbrage with his cinematic counterpart, saying, "My character looks like a knuckle-dragging moron. I look like I have Down syndrome."
10. What's Love Got To Do With It
Both Angela Bassett and Laurence Fisburne were nominated for Academy Awards for their portrayals of Tina and Ike Turner in this 1993 biopic. The film was based on the 1986 autobiography I, Tina and dealt heavily with the domestic abuse Tina suffered at the hands of Ike. Around the time of the movie's release, Ike spoke of how it had affected his reputation.
Ike told the Los Angeles Times that he hadn't watched the movie or read Tina's book. However, from what he had heard, he believed that both were built on lies. He said, "I guess they needed some drama, they needed to make somebody into the bad guy and this time it was me." He also claimed, "The only time I ever punched Tina with my fist was the last fight we had. I hit her after she kneed me in the chest."
9. Diana
Released in 2013, Diana was about the last two years of Princess Diana's life. The film starred Naomi Watts as the Princess of Wales and was savaged by critics upon its release. The driving plot element was Diana's relationship with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, played by Lost actor Naveen Andrews. However, the real Khan declared he would never watch the film.
Khan told the Mail On Sunday, "I don't see this movie doing well at all. It is based on gossip and Diana's friends talking about a relationship that they didn't know much about, and some of my relatives who didn't know much about it either. It is all based on hypotheses and gossip." He also strongly denied giving the filmmakers his blessing, saying, "It is a complete lie. I have never given any approval."
8. Straight Outta Compton
Straight Outta Compton, the 2015 biopic charting the rise and fall of seminal rap group N.W.A., was a massive success both critically and commercially. It made over $200 million at the worldwide box office and was nominated for an Academy Award for its screenplay. However, one member of the group, MC Ren, was unhappy at his depiction in the film.
On the film's release, Ren took to Twitter to express disappointment about how the film downplayed his part in the group's success. He wrote, "True fans know my role in the group as far as lyrics are concerned, don't let the movie fool you about my contribution to the group." He had also earlier tweeted anger at being left out of the trailer for the film, accusing Universal Pictures of attempting to rewrite history.
7. All Eyez On Me
This 2017 biopic of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur raised the ire of Jada Pinkett Smith, who befriended the rapper when they both attended the Baltimore School for the Arts. She tweeted, "Forgive me…my relationship to Pac is too precious to me for the scenes in All Eyez On Me to stand as truth. The reimagining of my relationship to Pac has been deeply hurtful."
Smith even directly addressed three separate scenes that she felt misrepresented the truth. She wrote, "Pac never read me that poem," and, "Pac never said goodbye to me before leaving for LA. He had to leave abruptly, and it wasn't to pursue his career." She also said, "I've never been to any of Pac's shows by his request. We never had an argument backstage."
6. Notorious
Notorious told the life story of iconic rapper Christopher Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G., or "Biggie" as he was nicknamed, was played by Jamal Woolard, and he would later reprise the role in All Eyez On Me. Fellow rapper Lil' Kim is featured in the film, played by Naturi Naughton, and when the film was released in 2009 she told Hip-Hop Weekly that she had pushed for changes in the script to make it a more accurate representation of her relationship with Biggie.
"I knew I wouldn't have control of how I was depicted," explained Kim. "I did correct the writer about Biggie's nickname for me. He had written that Biggie called me Big Momma. Biggie never called me Big Momma. As a matter of fact, he didn't even like that name for me. He used to call me Mookie."
5. The Fifth Estate
In January 2013, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange published a letter he had written to actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who was set to star as Assange in The Fifth Estate that year. He wrote, "I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe this film is a good film. I do not believe it is going to be positive for me or the people I care about."
Assange, who at the time was living under diplomatic asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, continued, "I believe that you should reconsider your involvement in this enterprise. Consider the consequences of your cooperation with a project that vilifies and marginalises a living political refugee to the benefit of an entrenched, corrupt and dangerous state."
4. Hustlers
Lorene Scafaria's Hustlers was a huge hit in 2019, making $157 million worldwide and receiving widespread critical adulation. Star Jennifer Lopez was praised for her performance as Ramona, the mastermind behind a crew of strippers drugging and robbing rich New York stock traders. However, Samantha Barbash, the real woman who inspired the creation of Ramona, sued the filmmakers for defamation of character, claiming she was never a stripper.
In her lawsuit, Barbash alleged that she refused her consent for the filmmakers to use her likeness, but they did so anyway. The court papers also said, "Anyone who views the film will believe Plaintiff to be an individual of little to no moral or ethical values, devoid of any loyalty to her colleagues, under the influence of hard drugs, and with misandrist tendencies."
3. The Wolf Of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese's riotous The Wolf Of Wall Street features a minor character named Nicky "Rugrat" Koskoff, played by P.J. Byrne. He is one of the employees at Jordan Belfort's corrupt brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont. After the film was released in 2014, a lawsuit was filed against Paramount Pictures from one Andrew Greene, who claimed the character was based on him.
Greene's lawsuit read, "The motion picture contains various scenes wherein Mr Greene's character is portrayed as a criminal, drug user, degenerate, depraved, and/or devoid of any morality or ethics." He maintained that he did not consent for his likeness to be used and felt he had been permanently damaged by his depiction in the film. In 2016, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio was ordered to give testimony, but by 2018 all of Greene's claims were dismissed by a federal judge.
2. Winnie Mandela
Jennifer Hudson starred as Winnie, the wife of anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, in Winnie Mandela. The movie was filmed in 2010 but not released in North America until 2013. It was poorly reviewed and fared badly at the box office. But worst of all, it also upset the real Winnie, who told CNN in 2011 that the movie — described by its director as "an amazing love story" — was actually an insult to her.
"I have nothing against Jennifer, but I have everything against the movie itself," said Winnie. "I was not consulted. I am still alive, and I think it is total disrespect to come to South Africa, make a movie about my struggle, and call that movie some translation of a romantic life of Winnie Mandela."
1. The Theory Of Everything
Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in 2014's The Theory Of Everything. Felicity Jones was also nominated for Best Actress for her portrayal of Jane Hawking, Stephen's first wife. In fact, the film was based upon Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, Jane's 2007 memoir. In 2018, however, Jane said the movie misrepresented their marriage.
Jane told an audience at the Henley literary festival, "I knew if there were mistakes in the film that they would be immortalised, which they have been. I found that very irritating and I didn't want it to happen. Don't ever believe what you see in films." She was especially aggravated that the film glossed over the everyday difficulties of caring for three children and a husband with debilitating motor neuron disease.


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Seven Myths About Obesity
With an epidemic as widespread as obesity, there is bound to be a misconception or two on how to treat it. The New England Journal of Medicine published a list of seven common beliefs about obesity that are not supported by sound scientific evidence.
Small changes = big results
Myth: Cutting some calories or walking a little each day will yield a lot of weight loss over time.
Fact: That assumes the rate the body burns calories will remain the same as you lose weight, which is not true. As the body loses weight, it uses less energy (calories) to sustain itself. This means the 250 calories you cut when you were 200 pounds will not have the same effect on your body when you're 150 pounds.
Realistic weight-loss goals
Myth: If you set small weight-loss goals, you are more likely to meet them and lose more weight.
Fact: No reliable study has confirmed this particular mental trick. Some studies have shown the opposite to be true; people who set ambitious weight loss goals are inspired to work harder and end up losing more weight, even if they don't meet their goal. The key is to set the bar high, but not get frustrated and give up.
Fast loss and gain
Myth: If you lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time you will probably just gain it back.
Fact: There's no evidence that proves that a large amount of weight loss at the onset of a healthy diet will mean you'll lose less weight overall, or ultimately gain weight. In fact, recommendations to lose weight at a slow pace might lower your prospects for losing weight, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Are you ready?
Myth: If you're not mentally prepared to lose weight, you won't lose weight.
Fact: Several studies have shown that your level of enthusiasm at the onset of a diet does not predict the ultimate success of weight loss efforts. The mere fact that you're starting a diet implies that you are at least a little bit ready to lose weight.
Physical education
Myth: More time for physical education in schools will help kids lose weight and avoid obesity.
Fact: This may upset some public health officials, but several studies have shown that physical education does not reduce or prevent childhood obesity. A significant amount of physical exercise would likely produce leaner students, but most schools are not willing to cede half of their school day to gym class.
Breast feeding
Myth: Babies who are breastfed have a lower chance of being obese.
Fact: A World Health Organization report suggested people who were breast fed were less likely to be obese adults. But, it turned out that the study's methods were problematic and no other study has been able to duplicate the results. Of course, breast milk provides a slew of other benefits to children including a more robust immune system.
Coitus and calories
Myth: A bout of sexual activity burns between 100 and 300 calories.
Fact: Not quite. Metabolic levels obviously differ from person to person, but a man weighing 154 pounds will only burn about 3.5 calories per minute during sex. Considering sex on average lasts about 6 minutes, that's only 21 calories.


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There's a scene late in "Identity Thief" in which Diana, the titular brassy, loud-mouthed thief, played by Melissa McCarthy, gets herself spruced up with a salon makeover, and we're meant to marvel at how nicely she cleans up, and what a pretty woman she is underneath the clown-like makeup in which she shellacks herself. The thing is, McCarthy's innate likeability and natural beauty shines through in every moment she's on screen, even through the giant fluffed-up hair and pounds of eyeshadow, so the scene comes across as completely unnecessary. It's characteristic of this scatter-shot comedy that doesn't trust the talents of its appealing stars. Instead it chooses to pile on increasingly ridiculous situations and supposedly hilarious hijinks.
A professional con artist, Diana is a serial identity thief whose latest victim is mild-manned financial analyst Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman). Taking advantage of Sandy's androgynous name (which the movie finds hilarious to repeatedly make fun of, and it gets less funny every time), Diana steals his credit card number, racking up thousands of dollars in debt and getting herself into trouble with the police in Florida. Back in Denver, Sandy finds himself arrested for Diana's transgressions, and after fighting to prove his innocence, demands that the police track down Diana and bring her to justice. When the investigator informs him that interstate prosecution could take up to a year, and with his new job in jeopardy, Sandy decides that his best option is to travel to Florida and bring her back to Colorado himself. Once he does find her, the film becomes an odd-couple road-trip comedy in the vein of "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," only significantly less funny.
Naturally, Sandy isn't the only one keen to get his hands on Diana. She's somehow also managed to incur the wrath of a drug dealer, who sends a couple of gun-toting criminals (Genesis Rodriguez and rapper T.I.) to take her out, as well as a redneck bounty hunter, played by Robert Patrick, eager to collect the reward for capturing her. For all the screen time devoted to these side characters (the film clocks in at a lengthy two hours), the side plots don't really go anywhere and exist solely to add some urgency to Sandy and Diana's trek before disappearing in the most anticlimactic resolution possible.
Director Seth Gordon ("The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters," "Horrible Bosses") orchestrates events with workmanlike skill, attempting to liven things up periodically, particularly with a well-staged car chase. But writer Craig Mazin ("Scary Movie 3," "The Hangover Part II") doesn't seem to be quite sure what tone he wants the movie to take, alternating awkwardly between outrageously crude adult comedy and heartwarming pathos. The script bends over backwards to make Diana into a sympathetic character, whose crimes are meant to cover the fact that she's using the money to fill the lonely void in her life. Her low self-esteem leads her to feel that she has to buy the respect of others.
The film's two leads do what they can to sell the material. Jason Bateman is adept at playing his usual straight-man role, reacting to the growing chaos surrounding him with exasperated disbelief. It's a performance that is not without its charms, but it's a role he could play in his sleep. This is clearly McCarthy's show, and she nearly single-handedly saves the movie. This is her first starring role since her career took off with the massive success of "Bridesmaids" (even earning an Oscar nomination along the way), and she makes the most it. There's no doubt that she fully commits to the part, and the eagerness and enthusiasm with which she throws herself into the physical comedy is a joy to watch. While the scenes of Diana pouring out her sad sob story aren't necessary, McCarthy finds ways to make them work. She displays a vulnerability in those scenes that proves she's got serious dramatic chops as well.
The movie doesn't need to work as hard as it does to make Diana likeable, McCarthy takes care of that all on her own. Now, she just needs to start choosing the kind of projects that are worthy of her considerable talents.


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Miley Cyrus And Linda Perry Team Up On Song For Gay Rights Drama
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Pop star Miley Cyrus and music producer Linda Perry have teamed up to create a track for new gay rights drama Freeheld.
The film, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a couple fighting for pension benefits, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night, and the Wrecking Ball hit-maker took to Instagram to reveal she collaborated with famed writer Perry for a special tune in the movie.
Posting a photo of Moore, Page, and co-star Michael Shannon, Cyrus wrote, "proud to be apart of @freeheldmovie singin a tune written by da (the) bad a$$ @jesusonmars (Perry) & @happyhippiefdn & thank you to this incredible cast for giving a face to this incredible story and shining light on the brutal dark truth of love vs the law!"
Cyrus has been a longtime gay rights advocate, while Perry has been openly gay for most of her career.
Freeheld is based on a 2007 documentary, which centered on Laurel Hester – a New Jersey cop played by Moore – who challenged government officials and demanded pension benefits for her same-sex partner, Stacie Andree, portrayed by Page, as she battled lung cancer.
The film is due in cinemas on October 2.


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Requirements for CNA School can incorporate:
To generate your Certified Nursing Assistant License Renewal, you will want to complete a CNA certification course that's accredited by either your states Nurse Aide Registry or perhaps is given accreditation with the National League of Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). Accredited CNA certification classes are based in various local locations which often can include;
• Community colleges
• Through hospitals and nursing homes and as well long haul care facilities which your class occurs accompanied by a location outside the care facility.
• Vocational schools.
• Online courses.
CNA Certification Requirements
To get your nurse aide certification you have got to meet certain prerequisites/requirements both for stepping into a CNA school along with ones you will want to present come the perfect time to take your certification examination. Here are a few general requirements for both:
CNA Certification School Requirements
You CNA school will contain no less than 75 hours of education the minimum importance of training, and will eventually involve within class and that is certainly taught by way of registered nurse, and also in a clinical setting. Certified Nursing Assistant Continuing Education last anywhere from around 30 days to a couple months depending on how fast you desire to attain certification the places you shall learn to have a lot of topics like; safety protocols, anatomy & physiology, controlling infections, terminology applied to a medical facility, nutrition and even more. Requirements for CNA School can incorporate:
• Have twelfth grade education or GED.
• Be almost 18 yrs. Old however, some states have age requirements that happen to be 16 or older like Texas.
• Not pregnant along with have zero infectious diseases.
• CNA Certification Test Requirements
When it's time to take on your certified nursing assistant certification test, you may be tested two variations, on as a multiple choice test of 70 questions, the questions begin slowly the best you'll get right better the questions become, and might include such things as questions like; feeding and bathing, patient rights, CPR, admitting and discharging a man or woman, vital signs and.
You'll additionally be tested in a really clinical portion this is the spot when you needs to demonstrate certain complaints about patient care like; shifting someone to protect yourself from bedsores, administering catheters, safety protocols, cleaning patients' dentures, selection of flexion exercises, feeding someone, proper hand washing and the like. The clinical portion will comprise of 5 different exercises which you'll usually get 3 chances to finish successfully. Requirements to consider your nurse aide certification exam can sometimes include:
• Passing a certified CNA course.
• An adverse Tuberculosis (TB) Test.
• Proof you've got received certain vaccinations.
• Passing a drug and background test which shouldn't contain any felonies.
• An actual examination.
• Fingerprint testing.
Upon having completed your certification exam you'll either be notified once you passed at the spot or it up to month possibly even longer to seek out? In the event you pass you'll receive your CNA certification from the mail along with a compiled directory of local job employers that you could apply with, if you ever happened to build not passed top quality you'll have access to a specific availability of re-takes which vary for every state but is not allow one 2 to 3 retakes. Upon passing your Certified Nursing Assistant Certification Verification exam you will end up created your states Nurse Aide Registry which may enable all hiring employers in order that that you've got the certain prerequisites for hiring.
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Seriously loving this D&G campaign. Look at the warmth, the people, the festivity, the atmosphere. Everyone seems so jolly and cheerful, brimming with life. They're radiant.
The Fall 2012 campaign features the Italian beauties Monica Bellucci, Bianca Balti, and Bianca Brandolini. I can feel the thick Italian family bond here in the pictures. Giampaolo Sgura captured the exquisite dresses and handbags in such a beautiful, relaxed mood without playing down the D&G character.
There are plenty of stunning ladies with extremely gorgeous jewelries, and of course, D&G signature of intricate lacework and metallic embroidery. These ladies blend in naturally with the other 2 generations (the grampas and the kiddos) with no apparent difficulty and that's what I love the most from these photographs.
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It's been another decent day for the markets, but even as major indices approach historic highs, the field is littered with the corpses of those on the wrong end of the global growth slowdown.
The good news is there's a bit of a global boomlet in stocks in the last week or so, and it's easy to see why. With Greece moving toward some short-term resolution, and China stabilizing, global markets have rallied in the past 6 or 7 trading sessions:
Global rally (since July 8)
Germany up 9.3%
Shanghai up 9.0%
Australia up 3.5%
S&P 500 up 3.6%
Not bad for a few day's work. On this, volatility has collapsed, with the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) poised to close at a new low for the year.
But even a cursory look at the markets will reveal that there is some very big divergences going on.
Specifically: the rally is mostly in defensive names. Consumer Staples. Utilities. Telecom. Healthcare.
OK, there's also a few Technology stocks doing well, like Google.
But the sectors most exposed to the global economy—energy, materials, and industrials—are having a really rough time:
Sector laggards (one month)
Energy down 4.5%
Materials down 4.1%
Industrials down 0.7%
These are the companies exposed to China and the slowing growth story. And it is NOT a pretty picture.
Just look at what four companies have said in the past 24 hours or so:
1) Alpha Natural Resources, a coal company, is in talks for bankruptcy financing and has just been de-listed from the NYSE;
2) Anglo American, a global mining company, is writing down $3-$4 billion in iron ore and coal assets;
3) Allegheny Tech, a steel company, has issued a profit warning, noting the world is awash in Chinese steel exports;
4) Car maker Audi said it may abandon its China car sales target due to slowing growth.
The stock market, of course, has not been waiting for these companies to issue a press release. The weakness is well known, and investors have been aggressively shedding global industrials.
These are the companies that operate in dozens of different countries and sell a wide variety of products, from flow control valves, power components, pumps, heating & air conditioning, all the stuff that goes into modern buildings and vehicles, the stuff that is behind the walls.
Look what's happened to some of these companies in the last few weeks:
Global Industrials (one month)
Emerson down 8.9%
Dover down 7.7%
Fluor down 7.8%
Eaton down 6.3%
Textron down 4.2%
And remember...the overall major indices have been in an uptrend! We need growth, and it's not materializing!


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Friday 7 September 2018 will be remembered as the first time these ears have tuned into the official UK albums chart rundown in well over a decade, if not any kind of chart rundown at all since the BBC decommissioned Top Of The Pops in the summer of 2006. Yet in the week leading up to that Friday's 5pm announcement, conversation - both online and in the flesh - has revolved around one talking point: Will Idles make the top 5?
Idles. That band from Bristol. That band who write songs almost everyone I've ever met can relate to. Arguably the first band to capture the public's imagination since I don't know when (someone mentioned the Arctic Monkeys' meteoric rise 13 years ago). There hasn't been an album so eagerly awaited then rapturously received as the band's near-flawless second, Joy As An Act Of Resistance. Namechecking Michael Keaton, Dennis Skinner and Freddie Mercury is one thing. Creating a record that not only nails the zeitgeist, but the general feeling at the state of its surrounding mess known as the world quite another.
It's astonishing to think that only this time last year, having released their debut Brutalism at the start of 2017, they found themselves nestled near the bottom of many festival undercards. Those riotous scenes at Groningen's Vera and the upstairs room of Vines Bar in Derby seem like another lifetime now. Yet even then, first hearing songs like 'Mother', 'Well Done', and 'Rottweiler' - a staple of their live set over a year before its eventual release last month - whilst experiencing their raw intensity in the flesh is something that will remain in the memory for a very long time.
Which pretty much confirms why we're here at the halfway point of a week that will see them cram nine shows into five days, all but one of which are scheduled to take place in record stores (Leeds tomorrow was also planned to be a similar affair but ended up being moved to The Wardrobe due to exceptional demand). Which isn't to say any of the other shows couldn't have easily been upgraded either.
Our first stop is Sheffield, a city steeped in a musical history of its own making. From the electronic post-punk of Cabaret Voltaire and The Human League on to Warp Records' groundbreaking minimalist techno, through to Pulp and The Long Blondes separate tenures as the most glamorous pop bands on the planet, and culminating in the Arctic Monkeys' phenomenal growth to international megastardom and the scene that still exists in their wake. It's also one of the most welcoming cities for new music from around the globe, and DiS are already greeted by a long queue outside Record Junkee over an hour before its doors are open.
Taking solace in one of the city's most popular watering holes The Rutland Arms, we encounter a couple of Idles devotees who've travelled from Coalville and Huddersfield respectively. Both members of the AF Gang, an online Idles fan page that currently has over 8000 members and is growing rapidly by the day, they tell us about their first Idles shows and how many times they've seen them since. It's this kind of all encompassing, community spirit that makes them such an engrossing act - not least because the band themselves are all approachable and willing to spend as much time as possible talking to their fans.
When the doors open, the lucky 150 who secured wristbands for the show are treated to almost an hour's worth of audience requests, singer Joe Talbot picking out crowd members at random before asking where they're from and which Idles song they'd like to hear. The responses vary from 'I'm Scum' off the new record to early single 'Queens', numerous highlights from Brutalism, and even one shout for Wham's 'Last Christmas', which is met by Talbot and Mark Bowen's now familiar rendition of Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' instead.
Afterwards, the band spend another hour or so signing records, posing for photos and talking to fans, many of whom are already on first name terms with each other. It's a throwback to an era before the internet and social media where word of mouth would orchestrate organic growth resulting in an artist's profile spreading far and wide. There are echoes of The Clash back in punk's heyday and the Manic Street Preachers' initial foray into public consciousness fifteen years later, and while the aesthetics and music might not be the same, the ethos certainly is.
Lindsey Melbourne, one of the founder members and moderators of the AF Gang, tells us how the Facebook group has brought kindred souls together while kindly offering us a lift to Nottingham for Idles' second performance of the day. "The group started to grow in numbers just after Brutalism came out last year," she tells us. "Once more people from outside of Bristol heard about the band the opage started to grow. Last week alone we added over 400 new members, and we're currently in the process of making a film about the band and their fans."
On arrival in Nottingham, Zeb, our earlier acquaintance from Coalville, decides to seek out a local tattooist to have "I'm Scum" tattooed on his lower leg, such is his devotion to the band. As with the matinee show, queues are already building outside Rough Trade long before doors are due to open. The band haven't even arrived yet Idles mania has already gripped what would normally be a quiet Wednesday evening in this provincial city. Kyle Hougham, manager of Nottingham's Rough Trade shop, is already bracing himself for a busy night ahead: "It's going to be mayhem up there!"
While the Rough Trade cafe bar - situated directly above the shop - caters for 200 people, it's a tight squeeze getting into the tiny area in the corner reserved for live shows. There's already a clamour of fans and photographers, most if not all tightly clutching albums as they prepare for the melee about to ensue. What's most notable is the demographic, which ranges from eleven year old school kids to a couple of people in their late sixties, both veterans from the first wave of punk and before. "They speak to us," quips one of them when asked what attracted them to Idles.
Taking to the stage slightly later than scheduled, Idles open with 'Colossus' and 'Never Fight A Man With A Perm' as they did in Sheffield this afternoon before inviting audience members to request their favourites. Someone asks for a song off their very first (Welcome) EP, a request that's met with a few giggles, not least from guitarist Lee Kiernan who wasn't in the band at the time. Instead, they deliver a raucous version of 'The Idles Chant' off 2015's Meat EP which triggers a sea of crowdsurfers that doesn't subside until the end of the show.
'Divide & Conquer' sees the amiable frontman Talbot join in himself, eventually hanging upside down from one of the rafters while singing the second half of the song. Guitarist Kiernan also joins the throng out front for 'Exeter', perspiration now dripping off the walls and ceiling. A selection of songs from both records follow thick and fast; 'Benzocaine' and '1049 Gotho' from the first alongside 'Danny Nedelko' and 'I'm Scum' (dedicated to Zeb and his tattoo) from the follow up, before a rousing 'Samaritans' brings the second set of the day to a close.
The show might be over and several buckets of blood and sweat deposited in the process but that doesn't stop the band from sticking around and engaging with those who've turned up to witness such an explosive performance. Long after the venue has officially closed (and even stopped serving behind the bar) an orderly queue snakes around the room, waiting patiently for their opportunity to discuss the events of the day.
Fast forward 48 hours to Friday afternoon and the album chart is revealed. Joy As An Act Of Resistance has come in at number five, three places lower than its midweek position but still a triumphant result for a DIY act on an independent label. More importantly, one of ours has infiltrated the mainstream in a week many of us will never forget. Long may the phenomena that is Idles continue.
Joy As An Act Of Resistance is out now via Partisan Records. For more information about Idles, including forthcoming tour dates, please visit their official website.
Black & White Photos: Matt Cawrey
Colour Photos: Shaun Gordon


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Bank loan. Monthly, Fortnightly or Weekly Payment?
One of the ways to reduce your loan amount is by finding loan facilities which have lowest interest rate. With current economic situation, government may reduce Base Lending Rate (BLR) in order to boost the economy.
However, beside low BLR, Bank also give more discount. Some bank may offer up to BLR - 2.3% for the interest rate.
Another ways is by increasing the number you pay to the banks. Instead of monthly payment, you can pay the bank weekly or every 2 weeks.
Let's assume RM100k loan with interest rate 3.5% (5.55 - 2.00) for 30 years.
Monthly payment if pay:-
Monthly = RM 449.04
Forthnighly = RM 207.16 X 2 = RM414.32
Weekly = RM 103.56 X 4 = RM 414.24
Different per month = RM 494.04-414.24 = RM 79.80
Saving in 30 years = RM 79.80 X 30 X 12 = RM 28728
So, any wonder where the bank got the money?


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Here's What Your Newspaper Looks Like When You Fire Your Photographers (Gawker)
This is what happens to a newspaper when it makes the decision to fire all of its photographers, as the Chicago Sun-Times did in May, and replace them with reporters with iPhones.
Restricted Web Access to The Guardian Is Army-Wide, Officials Say (Monterey Herald)
The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to the Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Army-wide. Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since The Guardian broke stories on data collection by the National Security Agency. Gordon Van Vleet, an Arizona-based spokesman for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, or NETCOM, said in an email the Army is filtering "some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA leaks." NY Mag / Daily Intelligencer The Department of Defense cited "network hygiene" among its reasons for blocking access to some Guardian content at Army facilities, namely the paper's recent reporting about the NSA. HuffPost The paper has made huge waves, of course, with its series of explosive stories about the NSA's highly classified surveillance programs. Though it has always maintained an American presence, its visibility has skyrocketed in the wake of the scoops. FireDogLake / The Dissenter This is very similar to what the Defense Department did to block access to media coverage of the information that was disclosed by Pfc. Bradley Manning and published by WikiLeaks — the "Collateral Murder" video, Afghan and Iraq War Logs, the US State Embassy cables, the "Gitmo Files," etc.
Alec Baldwin Launches Twitter Rant Against Journalist (The Guardian / Media Monkey)
As far as Twitter meltdowns go, it has to be right up there. Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has threatened to "f*** up" the Daily Mail's LA-based showbiz reporter, and then promptly deleted his Twitter account, after being outraged by a story claiming his wife tweeted during the funeral of actor James Gandolfini. Gawker The Daily Mail apparently removed George Stark's byline and replaced it with one that reads "Daily Mail Reporter." NY Daily News "It is disgraceful that this reporter manufactured a story and never called for comment or explanation, especially when it needlessly diverted attention away from a day to honor the memory of a beloved figure like Mr. Gandolfini," a rep for Baldwin told the News late Thursday.
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S.E. Cupp Says Goodbye to The Cycle (TVNewser)
Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp is leaving MSNBC's 3 p.m. panel show The Cycle to become a co-host of CNN's Crossfire revamp. Cupp is the second of the original co-hosts to depart the program in the year or so since it launched. Steve Kornacki left earlier this year to take over the weekend program, Up.
News Corp Papers to Launch New Products, Says Chief (Financial Times)
Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, which will spin off from his 21st Century Fox entertainment businesses on Friday, are becoming "platforms" from which to launch products for smartphones, digital subscribers and international markets, according to the new News Corp's chief executive. The new company, whose assets range from a US coupons company to Foxtel pay-TV in Australia, was working on projects including a plan for the New York Post to compete nationally with digital news and entertainment brands such as BuzzFeed, he disclosed.
Rachel Jeantel on Trial (The New Yorker / NewsDesk)
As much as anything else in the saga of race, fear and firearms that is the death of Trayvon Martin and the murder trial of George Zimmerman, the testimony of Rachel Jeantel, a 19-year-old rising high-school senior sometimes described as Martin's girlfriend, served as a kind of Rorschach test. When you look at the prosecution's star witness, a young woman, dark-skinned and overweight, her eyes signaling exasperation, what do you see? Social-media commentary on Jeantel began nearly as soon as she began to testify. FishbowlDC "No, I told you I don't watch the news… I don't watch the news," said Jeantel, star witness in the Zimmerman trial during cross examination, discussing how she knew this was thought to be a "racially charged event."
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New York Times Set to Sell Globe for Fraction of Purchase (Bloomberg)
New York Times Co., which was accepting bids for the Boston Globe Thursday, is likely to fetch a price that's about a 10th of what it paid in 1993, a sign of the industry's deterioration over the past two decades. The bids are set to be in the range of $100 million, according to three people who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. Boston.com / BusinessUpdates The bidders, whose offers were due Thursday at 5 p.m., include several of the names previously reported. Among them is former Time Inc. chief executive Jack Griffin and two members of the Taylor family, which used to own the Globe. A bid was also submitted by former Globe president Rick Daniels and his partner Heb Ryan, a Boston private equity executive.
After 11 Years Behind The Host Mic, Neal Conan Signs Off (NPR)
NPR's Neal Conan reflects on his 11 years of hosting Talk of the Nation and thanks some of the influential contributors to the show along the way. After 36 years at NPR, Conan signs off.
Yahoo! News Gets A New Look, Might Try to Take Over The World (FishbowlDC)
Yahoo! News rolled out a new redesign Thursday morning for the U.S. that updates its look to match the new homepage that debuted a few months ago. The differences are subtle, but mostly good. Gone is the big blue header that previously took up valuable real estate at the top of the page. Now, it's just a search box next to a small Yahoo! News logo, both of which stay with you as you scroll down the page.
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The Other Tabloid War: Mail Online And Daily News Duke It Out in Digital (Capital New York)
Mail Online, the loud and lurid website of England's favorite middle-market tabloid, The Daily Mail, has a lot to brag about right now. Since formally constituting its American operation, the site has capitalized on coverage of sensational mass-market news and click-friendly fluff to bring its total number of unique visitors in the U.S. to 19.4 million as of last month (a 24 percent increase from 2012), according to the digital measurement firm comScore.
Oregonian Editor Fires His Own Wife Because She Doesn't Fit 'Paper's New Digital Strategy' (NY Observer)
Last week, Portland's main daily newspaper, The Oregonian, announced that it would end daily delivery and lay off some staffers. Among the casualties of the Oregonian's transition to a digital news company? Editor-in-chief Peter Bhatia's own wife, Liz Dahl, who is (or, rather, was) a commentary editor at the paper. That's got to make for some awkward dinner conversations.
Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire (NYT)
Being the most famous traveling spokesman for Internet freedom brings in a decent living, but it's not Silicon Valley money. It's barely London money. Jimmy Wales's total net worth, by most estimates, is just above $1 million, including stock from his for-profit company Wikia, a wiki-hosting service. His income is a topic of constant fascination.
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Hey, MSM: All Journalism Is Advocacy Journalism (Rolling Stone / Taibblog)
All journalism is advocacy journalism. No matter how it's presented, every report by every reporter advances someone's point of view. The advocacy can be hidden, as it is in the monotone narration of a news anchor for a big network like CBS or NBC (where the biases of advertisers and corporate backers like GE are disguised in a thousand subtle ways), or it can be out in the open, as it proudly is with Glenn Greenwald, or graspingly with Andrew Ross Sorkin, or institutionally with a company like Fox.
Weddings Used to Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism (TechCrunch / Sean Parker)
My wife Alexandra and I met five years ago, fell in love, and almost immediately began fantasizing about our wedding day, which, we both agreed, should take place deep within an enchanted forest. The Monday after our wedding we woke up in our hotel room, newly married, and still buzzing from the most exciting day of our lives. We awoke that morning to a media backlash of epic proportions, a firestorm of press attacking our wedding with the most vitriolic language we'd ever seen in print. At the same time, a mob of Internet trolls, eco-zealots, and other angry folk from every corner of the Internet unleashed a fury of vulgar insults, flooding our email and Facebook pages. FishbowlNY There is a tremendous amount of damning detail in Parker's must-read itemization of the steps taken by he, Alexandra and others to make sure the location they used for the wedding was left in better shape than when they found it. One of the passages that resonated most with FishbowlNY is Parker noting that, "If only the media had read the documents, perhaps this public crucifixion would have abated." ValleyWag TechCrunch just changed industry apologetics forever, permitting (inviting?) Facebook billionaire Sean Parker to post a nearly 10,000-word self-serving, unintentionally hilarious screed in defense of his tacky forest-nymph-themed wedding.
Phoenix Anchor Gets Hit With Water Balloons During Morning Newscast (TVSpy)
File this one under "predictable." During a segment on the KPNX morning newscast that involved kids running around with water balloons, Doug Meehan got soaked by a few elementary school children with impressively good aim.
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Do you think a good PR pro can help Paula Deen bounce back from her PR crisis? mbist.ro/11IHD4D (via @PRNewser)
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Stamford Landing keeps two tenants, adds another
Since taking over management of Stamford Landing on Stamford Harbor four months ago from Antares, Building and Land Technology has been busy making improvements, and now it is seeing results with the
re-signing of two tenants.
Navigate Advisors, an investment advisory firm catering to multinational institutions, and Creative Partners, an advertising, design and public relations agency, have renewed leases to remain at the four-building office complex at 46, 62, 68 and 78 Southfield Ave.
The renewals come after the recent arrival of a holding company, The Dreadnought Group LLC, said Dean Shapiro, BLT's chief operating officer and partner.
"We have a couple of others (leases) pending," he said, estimating that 75 percent of the 201,000 square feet of office space in the city's enterprise zone is occupied.
Last fall, Navigate Advisors, with 22 employees, started looking at larger properties in lower Fairfield County, but it decided to stay, nearly tripling its space from 2,700 square feet to more than 7,630 square feet.
Owned by Lubert-Adler Partners LP and Goldman Sachs, the complex has the infrastructure that Navigate Advisors needs, said David Panagrossi, its managing partner.
"The building offers the technological infrastructure, bandwidth capacity, back-up generation and the ability to create a segregated electrical feed were instrumental in assuring consistency and safety of our trading platform," he said.
Creative Partners has expanded in the building since first moving there in 1999. With its lease set to expire in October, Chief Executive Officer Peter Schelfhaudt decided to stay in his 5,000 square feet of office space.
"Having surveyed the market, we found Stamford Landing still to be one of the best values in the area," Schelfhaudt said. "With the change of management to BLT, we are confident that our best solution was to renew our lease at Stamford Landing, for the second time," he said, touting the building's integrated data and communications packages and noting that access to Interstate 95 and the Stamford Transportation Center are benefits for employees and clients.
Stamford Landing, built in 1902 as a chocolate factory and renovated in 1986, consists of four steel-frame buildings. The complex, built on 11 acres with 1,200 feet of waterfront, includes a marina and two restaurants, the Paradise Bar & Grille and The Crab Shell.
More changes are planned at the office complex, which offers office suites ranging from 800 square feet to 13,000 square feet, many with water views of Stamford Harbor and Long Island Sound, said Shapiro, who is marketing the property to the brokerage community between metropolitan New York and Fairfield.
"We plan to continue to make meaningful improvements to the properties, including enhanced lobbies, corridors and improvements to the exterior of the buildings and grounds," he said, explaining that rental rates range from the high $20s to the low $30s per square foot.
Building and Land Technology is doing what it must to compete with other commercial property owners and managers, said Jim Fagan, senior managing director at Cushman & Wakefield, which has a regional office in Stamford.
"People sometimes lose touch of the fact that tenants are your clients. Building and Land Technology is getting their fair share of clients by being good landlords. If you can't retain your clients, you have a real problem," he said. "It's critically important in this environment. You better be pretty aggressive."
Having a management team that is well-versed in dealing with tenants and marketing is crucial during an economic downturn, according to Norman Lotstein, vice president of Pyramid Real Estate Group in Stamford.
"They (Building and Land Technology) have extensive experience in operating Class A office space. Antares was a wonderful visionary, but they didn't have the experience," he said. "Tenants should take into account the viability of a landlord. Building and Land Technology is viable."
Building and Land Technology is developing Harbor Point, a 6-million-square-foot, mixed-use project on Stamford Harbor. BLT's properties host the headquarters for Gen Re, GE Commercial Finance, Diageo, GE Real Estate, Xerox, GE Energy Financial Services, IMS Health and Hewitt.


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Local senior transit safe for 2009-11 in new state budget
State spending plan saves Dial-A-Ride
Social service and senior transportation providers are praising the return of nearly $8 million in matching grants, among other state funding, that will keep programs offering on-demand bus and cab services to senior citizens and disabled residents rolling for another two years.
The funding, for Dial-A-Ride programs throughout Connecticut has been administered through the state Department of Transportation since 2006, and was threatened during the state budget process this year until it was restored as part of the spending plan passed last Friday.
"We're very happy to hear that the funding has been included in the budget, because it is a very important service for our seniors," Stamford Social Services Coordinator Ellen Bromley said. "Any help we get, the better off the seniors are."
In Stamford the money helps fund Share the Fare, a program providing on-demand taxi rides to seniors older than 60 and disabled residents, to keep medical appointments and make shopping trips, Bromley said.
In the program, residents over 62 years old and disabled people can buy a $25 booklet of vouchers, which can be used for up to $50 worth of cab rides.
Last winter, the $8 million allotted to supply matching grants for local programs providing senior transportation was eliminated in Gov. M. Jodi Rell's budget proposal to help close the state's budget deficit.
In addition to Share the Fare, the grants help support Greenwich's Dial-A-Ride, which provides $3 one-way trips between destinations in Greenwich, Stamford, and Westchester County, N.Y., along with a Dial-A-Ride service in Norwalk.
Under the program, municipalities match the state's funding.
The budget also includes more than $23 million to support para-transit programs required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, and an additional $576,000 to provide on-demand rides for the disabled who do not meet the criteria of the ADA program.
The Dial-A-Ride grants are even more crucial in less urban areas of the state, where the small grants have allowed smaller towns to offer transportation to seniors, said Gloria Mills, executive director of the Connecticut Association for Community Transportation, a nonprofit advocacy group for mass transit users.
"Connecticut is an aging state, and we need to have more mobility options," Mills said. "Very soon, more than a third of our population will be over 65, and we have to keep the connections from where people live to services so they can successfully reach the destinations in their lives."
Democratic legislators who pushed to restore the funding said the money was crucial to maintaining a transportation safety net for seniors to prevent them from becoming isolated and have a higher-quality lifestyle.
"The Dial-A-Ride programs are extremely important to senior citizens and something I've supported for many years," said State Sen. Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, vice chairman of the state transportation committee. "It helps keep senior citizens independent and part of our communities, which I think makes a big difference."
The additional funding to keep the program solvent was drawn at least partly from a $10 million appropriation made for the state's Transportation Strategy Board to conduct studies, said Transportation Committee Chairman State Sen. Donald DeFronzo, D-New Britain, who helped restore the funding.
"Dial-A-Ride is a program that is very, very important to seniors, not only for the purpose of getting to and from doctor's appointments, but moreover, socialization at senior centers, where they can get health screenings and their nutrition can be better protected," DeFronzo said. "We've had a large outpouring of support from throughout the state to maintain it."
At the Transportation Association of Greenwich, which provides Dial-A-Ride and on-demand EZ Access service to less-mobile residents, cutting the grants would have caused significant problems for many seniors who rely on the rides to New Haven and White Plains, N.Y. for medical appointments, said executive director Jim Boutelle.
TAG's Dial-A-Ride program runs on about $156,000 in funding from the state, the town of Greenwich, and the United Way of Greenwich, and provides nearly 9,000 trips a year, Boutelle said.
"We're extremely happy that the money is still there and appreciative to the Democrats who kept it in their budget package," Boutelle said. "We need to recognize the importance of mass transit."
Staff Writer Martin B. Cassidy can be reached at email@example.com or at 203-964-2264.