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In these very turbulent times we think it is best to start with a quote from Warren Buffett during the 1990–1991 recession:
Nevertheless, fears of a California real estate disaster similar to that experienced in New England caused the price of Wells Fargo stock to fall almost 50% within a few months during 1990. Even though we had bought some shares at the prices prevailing before the fall, we welcomed the decline because it allowed us to pick up many more shares at the new panic prices.
Investors who expect to be ongoing buyers of investments throughout their lifetimes should adopt a similar attitude toward market fluctuations; instead many illogically become euphoric when stock prices rise and unhappy when they fall.
Warren has always maintained that the time to buy stocks is when nobody else wants them. In the recession of 2008–2009 we had that opportunity, and for those of us who did venture into that abyss, the rewards were tremendous. As we look toward the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012, we are once again seeing stock prices at price-to-earnings-ratios that we haven't seen since the early eighties. Coca-Cola is trading at 16 times earnings; in 1999 it was trading at 47 times earnings. The powerhouse Wal-Mart is trading at a P/E of 12; in 2001 it was trading at a P/E of 38. Procter & Gamble is selling at a P/E of 16; in 2000 it was trading at a of P/E 29. What does this mean?
As we enter the fifth year of what many economists are calling the Great Recession, we are finding that some of the most amazing businesses—those with fantastic long-term economics working in their favor—are trading at prices and price-to-earnings ratios that offer investors real opportunities for increasing their wealth. We aren't talking about opportunities for quick profit. We are talking about serious long-term moneymaking with ten-year compounding annual rates of return conservatively in the 8%–12% range. That is what the market is now offering us. Pessimism about the banking situation in Europe and the unemployment in the United States have created the perfect storm to bring stock prices down and offer value-oriented investors some great opportunities.
In our book Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements we focused on examining a company's financial statements to discover whether or not it has what Warren calls a "durable competitive advantage," which shows us if a company has great long-term economics working in its favor. In this book, we are looking only at companies that Warren has already identified as having a durable competitive advantage. These are the companies that he has bought for himself and for his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, as long-term investments. Because of the recession, these companies are once again selling at prices that offer great long-term growth prospects.
Our primary concern is with teaching you how to value companies so you can create a conservative projection as to the kind of future return that an investment offers at its current market price. In Warren's world, as stock prices decrease, the prospects for the investment increase. Putting a number on those prospects tells us whether or not the stock is an attractive buy.
We start with a brief history of Warren's investment strategy and then explain how to interpret a company's per share earnings and per share book value histories. This allows us to quickly identify a company with a durable competitive advantage and to project the compounding annual rate of return the investment offers. We then look closely at seventeen investments in Warren's current stock portfolio, working up a case study and valuation for each company. We also take a quick look at the investments made by Berkshire's other three investment managers.
Historically, we have reason to believe that our projections ten years out are accurate under normal business conditions. Throughout this book, we have kept the projections conservative.
When you are done with this book you should be able to quickly determine whether a company has a durable competitive advantage and whether or not the company's stock is attractively priced.
Presently there are four people at Berkshire Hathaway who are "picking stocks" for Berkshire's portfolio. On top is Warren Buffett, who makes 99% of the investment decisions for Berkshire. Then there is Charlie Munger, who often discusses investments with Warren and whose enthusiasm has put Berkshire into a few out-of-the-box investments. There are also newcomers Todd Combs, whom Warren hired in 2010 to help him pick stocks for Berkshire, and Ted Weschler, who will officially join Berkshire in early 2012 as a portfolio manager. The major portion of this book is concerned only with the companies that Warren Buffett has invested in personally and/or made the decision for Berkshire to invest in. At the end of the book, for those who are curious, we take a brief look at Charlie Munger's, Todd Combs's, and Ted Weschler's respective investment styles and the contributions they have made to Berkshire's portfolio.
So, without any more delay, let's begin our exploration into Warren Buffett's Stock Portfolio.
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Warren Buffett Stock Picks: Why and When He Is Investing in Them
The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio
Warren Buffett Stock Picks: Why and When He Is Investing in Them
Warren Buffett has always believed that the time to buy stocks is when nobody else wants them. As we enter the fifth year of what many economists are calling the Great Recession, we find that some of the most amazing businesses—those with a durable competitive advantage—are trading at prices and price-to-earnings ratios that offer investors serious long-term moneymaking opportunities. Pessimism about the banking situation in Europe and unemployment in America have created the perfect storm to bring stock prices down and present value-oriented investors some great possibilities.
In Warren Buffett's world, as stock prices decrease, the prospects for investment increase. Putting a number on those prospects tells Warren whether or not the stock is an attractive buy. The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio explains how to do just that—how to value companies and conservatively estimate the kind of future return that an investment is offering at its current market price. Mary Buffett and David Clark look at stocks in Warren's portfolio as the basis for their analysis.
After a brief history of Warren's investment strategy, Buffett and Clark explain how to interpret a company's per-share earnings and per-share book-value histories to quickly identify which companies have a durable competitive advantage and to project the compounding annual rate of return that an investment offers. The authors provide case studies and evaluations of seventeen companies in Warren Buffett's portfolio.
The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio is a valuable companion to the other books in Buffett and Clark's successful series—Buffettology, The Buffettology Workbook, The New Buffettology, The Tao of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements, Warren Buffett's Management Secrets, and Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage.
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Mets high on plenty of players in 2013 Draft
NEW YORK -- Heading into his first two Drafts as the Mets' head of amateur scouting, Paul DePodesta was not sure if he would receive the quality of talent he desired with his first-round pick. Looking back, DePodesta said, he considers the Mets lucky to nab outfielder Brandon Nimmo 13th overall in 2011 and shortstop Gavin Cecchini 12th overall last June.
This year should be different. In DePodesta's opinion, this is a deeper Draft in terms of first-round talent. And so he believes the Mets are guaranteed to receive an impact player with their 11th overall selection.
NEW YORK -- Heading into his first two Drafts as the Mets' head of amateur scouting, Paul DePodesta was not sure if he would receive the quality of talent he desired with his first-round pick. Looking back, DePodesta said, he considers the Mets lucky to nab outfielder Brandon Nimmo 13th overall in 2011 and shortstop Gavin Cecchini 12th overall last June.
This year should be different. In DePodesta's opinion, this is a deeper Draft in terms of first-round talent. And so he believes the Mets are guaranteed to receive an impact player with their 11th overall selection.
"We don't know the name of the player or the position or anything like that, but we're going to have a good choice, and we're going to get someone we like an awful lot."
The 2013 First-Year Player Draft will take place Thursday through Saturday, beginning with the Draft preview show on MLB.com and MLB Network on Thursday at 6 p.m. ET. Live Draft coverage from MLB Network's Studio 42 begins at 7 p.m., with the top 73 picks being streamed on MLB.com and broadcast on MLB Network. Rounds 3-10 will be streamed live on MLB.com on Friday, beginning with a preview show at 12:30 p.m., and Rounds 11-40 will be streamed live on MLB.com on Saturday, starting at 1 p.m.
MLB.com's coverage includes Draft Central, the Top 100 Draft Prospects list and Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of Draft-eligible players. Fans can also keep up to date by following @MLBDraft on Twitter, and get into the Draft conversation by tagging tweets with #mlbdraft.
Last year, the Mets went into the first week of June with clear areas of need at shortstop and catcher. Fittingly, they took one of each with their top two picks, selecting Cecchini in the first round and Kevin Plawecki after that. The Mets later traded for Travis d'Arnaud over the winter, transforming catching in particular into a sudden organizational strength.
As a result, the Mets have no critical needs heading into this year's Draft. Certainly, their hitting still lags behind their pitching as an organizational strength -- even DePodesta and his lieutenants admit that. But there is no one position that the Mets feel desperate to improve.
"In the last couple years, we did feel like there was a need in the middle of the diamond," DePodesta said. "We were certainly focused on the best player available, but if they were close, we were going to go with the guy in the middle. And we did that repeatedly over the last couple of years. This year? We don't really have a tiebreaker anymore. We're going to have to look to different factors to make that determination."
Here's a glance at what the Mets have in store as the Draft approaches:
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It will still be a few years before they know if their recent first-round selections of Nimmo and Cecchini will pay dividends, but the Mets feel their farm system is in vastly better shape than it was when DePodesta took control. Now, they hope to fortify it with upside.
The scoop
Since taking over after the 2010 season, DePodesta and general manager Sandy Alderson have leaned on the Draft and the trade market to infuse talent into the farm system. Specifically addressing up-the-middle areas of need, the Mets feel their system -- which most experts now rank somewhere in the middle of the pack -- no longer features any glaring weaknesses.
Still, because pitching remains a relative strength, the Mets may look to supplement their arms with more potential impact position players.
First-round buzz
Should the Mets decide to Draft a high school hitter in the first round for the third year in a row, plenty of possibilities await. A dream scenario could be one of the two standout Georgia outfielders, Austin Meadows or Clint Frazier, though both may be off the board by the time the Mets pick at No. 11. On the college side, infielder D.J. Peterson and outfielder Hunter Renfroe should also draw interest.
Selecting a pitcher, always a possibility, could bring them face-to-face with right-handers Ryne Stanek of Arkansas or Chris Anderson of Jacksonville.
Money matters
Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, each team has an allotted bonus pool equal to the sum of the values of that club's selections in the first 10 rounds of the Draft. The more picks a team has, and the earlier it picks, the larger the pool. The signing bonuses for a team's selections in the first 10 rounds, plus any bonus greater than $100,000 for a player taken after the 10th round, will apply toward the bonus-pool total.
Any team going up to five percent over its allotted pool will be taxed at a 75-percent rate on the overage. A team that overspends by 5-10 percent gets a 75-percent tax plus the loss of a first-round pick. A team that goes 10-15 percent over its pool amount will be hit with a 100-percent penalty on the overage and the loss of a first- and second-round pick. Any overage of 15 percent or more gets a 100-percent tax plus the loss of first-round picks in the next two Drafts.
The Mets have a bonus pool of $6.99 million, which ranks 10th in baseball. Their top pick comes with a value of $2.84 million, roughly 40 percent of their total for the entire Draft. The Mets have four picks in the first three rounds of the Draft, totaling $5.34 million of value.
Shopping list
The Mets' two biggest needs heading into last year's Draft, catcher and shortstop, are both now relative strengths of the system. Pitching remains a strong point as well.
So what will the Mets target? A power-hitting corner outfielder would make plenty of sense, as would any infielder with pop. None of their current top prospects boast elite home run potential.
Trend watch
Spending first-round picks on high school hitters was unheard of under Omar Minaya's watch as general manager, but Alderson and DePodesta have done it twice in two years at the helm. That's not to say the Mets are focused solely on high school players; their early-round history has been all over the map, making trend-watching an exercise in futility.
• Recent Draft History •
Rising fast
After signing with the Mets last summer and making a brief stop at short-season Class A Brooklyn, Plawecki opened this year in Class A Savannah, where he has torched Sally League pitching for two straight months. Plawecki could reach high-A St. Lucie later this summer, putting him on the fast track for a Flushing debut in late 2014 or early '15.
Cinderella story
Dillon Gee's big league career may not have been a certainty when the Mets selected him in the 21st round in 2007, but he has already won the fifth-most games of any pitcher the Mets have drafted since Dwight Gooden. Bobby Jones, Mike Pelfrey, Rick Aguilera, and Jon Niese are the only Mets draftees to win more games over the past 30 years.
In The Show
Though the Mets are no longer running out lineups composed entirely of homegrown players, as they did on several occasions last season, they continue to lean on an offensive core of David Wright, Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis and Lucas Duda. Homegrown reliever Bobby Parnell has taken over the closer's role, while former first-round pick Matt Harvey anchors a rotation that also includes Niese and Gee.
Mets' recent top picks
2012: Gavin Cecchini, SS, Extended spring
2011: Brandon Nimmo, OF, Class A Savannah
2010: Matt Harvey, RHP, New York Mets
2009: Steven Matz, LHP, Class A Savannah
2008: Ike Davis, 1B, New York Mets
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo.

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Londonderry on the markBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 20. 2013 9:28PM
MANCHESTER — Here's one thing we learned about the Londonderry High School boys' basketball team Friday night: The Lancers can shoot.
Londonderry made 10 3-pointers during its 74-52 triumph over Manchester Memorial in the Division I opener for each team.
"They shot the ball very, very well," Memorial coach Jack Quirk said. "If they shoot the ball like that all year they're going to win a ton of games."
The Lancers made seven 3-pointers in the first half and led 39-24 at the break. It was a 5-5 game when Londonderry began a 19-2 run that included four 3-pointers.
Londonderry freshman Jake Coleman tossed in a game-high 16 points, which included four 3-pointers. The Lancers received 13 points from junior Cody Ball and 11 from both Drew Coveney and Joe Kwiatowski.
Coveney made 27 3-pointers as a sophomore, but did not play as a junior because of a knee injury.
"We have some good shooters, I just don't want to rely so much on the (3-point shot) like we did," said first-year Londonderry coach Nate Stanton. "We need to develop our inside-out game. Our biggest thing is defense and full-court pressure, and the kids are buying in."
It was the first varsity victory for Stanton, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Salem High School. Stanton also played for Salem.
Junior forward Kabongo Ngalakulondi led Memorial with 14 points. Center Josh Simpson finished with 13 and was the only other Crusader who scored in double figures.
Memorial cut its deficit to 11 points (48-37) with 1:45 left in the third, but never got any closer. The Crusaders played much of the game without sophomore Brandon Scott, a starter who suffered an ankle injury early in the third quarter and did not return.
"I think he's going to be out for awhile," Quirk said. "We just ran out of gas. We weren't ready to play at that pace."
Memorial will be off until it faces Trinity of Manchester in the first round of the Queen City Invitational holiday tournament.
"We have a young team and these kids haven't played together much." Quirk said. "These kids go in opposite directions. High school ball is on the back-burner.
"I don't think we'll play up to our capability until halfway through the season. Hopefully we can get a few wins between now and then."


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American Express reported quarterly earnings that were in-line with Wall Street's forecasts, but revenue came in just shy of estimates as cardmember-spending growth remained muted for the second quarter in a row.
The company reported its earnings rose 1 percent to $1.25 billion, or $1.09 a share, in the third quarter from $1.24 billion, or $1.03 per share, in the year-earlier period.
Revenue grew at its slowest rate in 11 quarters, increasing 4 percent to $7.86 billion from $7.57 billion a year ago. The rise was driven in part by an 8 percent rise in cardmember spending in the U.S. and 6 percent globally.
That 8 percent jump, however, was still below the double-digit growth the company had posted for the nine preceding quarters, a reflection that the company's American cardholders, mostly affluent consumers, have reined in their spending.
"It represents slower growth than we were generating earlier in the year, a trend that we are seeing among major card issuers, " Chief Executive Kenneth Chenault said in a statement.
Analysts had expected American Express to post earnings of $1.09 a share on $7.90 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
The company has the lowest delinquency rate among the large credit-card companies, including JPMorgan Chase, Discover Financial Services, Capital One Financial, Bank of America, and Citigroup .
But it set aside $479 million to cover future bad loans, reflecting its larger lending portfolio, 92 percent more than it provisioned last year.
"We didn't have the same benefit from substantial reserve releases as last year when write-offs and delinquencies were declining at a faster rate, " Chenault said.
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Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group's first half profit has dropped 40 per cent because of weaker ore prices.
But the company says it has had a strong start to the second half of the 2012/13 financial year with iron ore prices returning to high levels and cost savings being realised.
Fortescue made a net profit $US478 million ($A463.99 million) in the six months to December 31, down from $US801 million in the previous corresponding period.
It will not be paying shareholders an interim dividend, and said it would review its dividends after its full year result is announced.
The company paid a dividend of four cents for the previous corresponding period.
Fortescue has maintained its full year guidance of shipping between 82 million tonnes and 84 million tonnes of iron ore.
"Despite challenging market conditions during the half, we have delivered record operational performance from our world class assets," chief executive Nev Power said in a statement.
"Increased production volumes have in part offset price volatility."
The average price for iron ore was $US118 per dry metric tonne in the first half of the financial year, down from $US160 in the previous corresponding period, Fortescue said.
"We have exited the half a stronger and more resilient company with a renewed focus on achieving a production capacity of 155 million tonnes per annum by the end of calendar year 2013 to underpin sustainable future earnings and increasing shareholder value," Mr Power said.
The company shipped 35.7 million tonnes of ore in the six months to December, up 32 per cent from the previous corresponding period.


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Airplanes may be landing on artificial turf at the Pratt Regional Airport in the next few years.
The Pratt Airport Authority Board discussed the possibility during their regular monthly meeting Thursday afternoon at the Municipal Building.
The product is Av Turf and would cost about $1 million to cover the proposed 4,500 feet crosswind runway at the airport, said Airport Manager Reid Bell.
Funding would come from the airport's annual $150,000 entitlement money and it will take several years to set aside the necessary funds.
The new runway would be just south of the existing runway and be at a slight angle difference to avoid the feed mill at Pratt Feeders out of the protection zone. It will also avoid cattle pens.
The turf would be able to handle any aircraft that land at the airport now. However the proposed runway is 1,000 feet shorter than the primary runway (5,500) and some jets that land at the airport now would not be able to use the runway, Bell said.
The shorter runway should not pose much of a problem for those jets because the airport experiences very few days when a crosswind runway is necessary.
Turf, as opposed to concrete, is being considered because the runway would be used very little, it can handle almost anything that lands at the airport now and it is easy to maintain.
Artificial turf doesn't need to be mowed or watered, it doesn't need herbicide and sheds water nicely. It can also be painted with the necessary lines and numbers.
A turf runway is a better runway surface for planes than concrete because landing is rough on tires. Crop dusters make lots of takeoffs and landings and they will enjoy having a turf runway, Bell said.
Another reason to consider turf is that several years ago the Kansas National Guard was considering the Pratt airport as a possible site for a training center.
To simulate the kind of landing areas they would encounter, the National Guard needs turf-landing areas because concrete runways will not always be available, Bell said.
Having a turf runway could still be appealing to the National Guard.
Whatever the final runway surface, it will from six to seven years to raise the money before the airport can begin construction.
While the airport wants the new runway, that project will have to wait. The airport is currently working on funds for two new 10,000 gallon fuel tanks, one for Jet A and one for low lead fuel. The old underground tanks were installed in 1976 and need to be replaced with above ground units.
"We're in need of fuel tanks now," Reed said.
The combined cost of the tanks is $450,000. Funding for the tanks will come from entitlement money and it will take three years to save enough to pay for the tanks.
The airport has a master plan for growth and the new tanks were to be placed beside the eventual new hanger location just north and east of the current terminal. The Federal Aviation Administration will have to approve the new location.
Evaluation of the new site revealed additional concrete would be needed to install the tanks by the proposed new hanger, Bell said.
To save money, it was decided that the tanks would be placed above ground by the existing fuel island just west of the terminal building on the opposite side of the taxiway.
Besides the new fuel tanks and runway, a new $3.5 million terminal building and hanger are also in the works but they are on hold until the other projects are complete.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Having gone three weeks since their last competition, the members of the Yale women's swimming and diving team will take part in the annual HYP tri-meet against Harvard and Princeton this Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 4-5. The meet is back at Harvard this year after being at home in Payne Whitney last year and at Princeton the year before. The three programs of Harvard, Princeton and Yale account for 31 of the 34 Ivy League women's swimming and diving titles, Princeton for 10 of the last 12. The Bulldogs will race against the Crimson and the Tigers at Harvard's Blodgett Pool this weekend and then again in three weeks at the 2012 Ivy League Championships on Feb. 23-25. A meet pitting Yale against Brown is also scheduled to take place at the University of Rhode Island on Feb. 11 in the time in between.
Yale came out on top in its most recent tri-meet against Dartmouth and Penn, now almost three weeks ago. In a 161-138 decision over the Quakers and a 174-126 decision over the Big Green, the Bulldogs brought their record up to 3-1 in the Ivy League, setting two pool records in the process. Yale also won against Cornell in early January but came up short against Columbia in the team's season opener. The Yale roster currently includes four swimmers headed to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Neb., this June. Molly Albrecht, Alexandra Forrester, Hayes Hyde and Athena Liao have all made the cut in at least one event, though Forrester has qualified in three events: the 50-meter freestyle, the 100-meter butterfly and the 200-meter butterfly.
Harvard already owns wins over Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn. While the Crimson are 5-0 in the Ivy League, they have not gone untested. Northwestern and Iowa both handed them losses in a tri-meet in Evanston, Ill., two weeks ago. This meet will mark the end of the regular season for Harvard but Yale is still to race against Brown and Princeton against Columbia before all eight teams reconvene in Cambridge for Ivy's at the end of the month.
Princeton is also a team to beat this weekend. This season the Tigers have taken down Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell and Penn, as well as a score of non-Ivy League teams on their way to a first place win at their Big Al Open in December. The Tigers have won 42 consecutive dual meets and return to HYP's this year as back-to-back Ivy Champions, the Crimson having won in 2009.
Depth hurt the Bulldogs at HYP's last year as Yale came up short against both Harvard (217-83) and Princeton (234.5-65.5), but this year could bring a different result as compared to years past. Harvard's freshman class came in at No. 9 last June on a Collegeswimming.com ranking of the top 25 recruiting classes in the country. Princeton was No. 12 on the same ranking, though the Tigers added 12 with the Class of 2015, the Crimson only eight. In the second round of CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Division I Rankings that were released on Dec. 15, the Crimson were ranked second, while Princeton entered the rankings at the No. 4 spot. With Harvard closing in on Princeton, Yale is poised to come into the weekend as the underdog, hopefully to come out a winner.
The meet begins this Saturday, Feb. 4 at 6:00 p.m. Competition will carry over until Sunday, where the remaining events will start at 12:00 p.m.
All four sessions of the HYP meet this weekend will be available to watch via live stream. A single session is available for $9.95, either the full men's or full women's meet for $14.95, and the full men's and women's meet for $24.95. The Harvard video portal is available here.
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as dealt with later ) is x 1 = 0.3667, x 2 =0.2667 and x 3 =0.3667 to four decimal places.
Obvious extensions/uses for this LP model include:
Blending problems of this type were, in fact, some of the earliest applications of LP (for human nutrition during rationing) and are still widely used in the production of animal feedstuffs.
A company manufactures four variants of the same product and in the final part of the manufacturing process there are assembly, polishing and packing operations. For each variant the time required for these operations is shown below (in minutes) as is the profit per unit sold.
x i be the number of units of variant i (i=1,2,3,4) made per year T ass be the number of minutes used in assembly per year T pol be the number of minutes used in polishing per year T pac be the number of minutes used in packing per year
where x i >= 0 i=1,2,3,4 and T ass , T pol , T pac >= 0
(a) operation time definition
T ass = 2x 1 + 4x 2 + 3x 3 + 7x 4 (assembly) T pol = 3x 1 + 2x 2 + 3x 3 + 4x 4 (polish) T pac = 2x 1 + 3x 2 + 2x 3 + 5x 4 (pack)
(b) operation time limits
The operation time limits depend upon the situation being considered. In the first situation, where the maximum time that can be spent on each operation is specified, we simply have:
T ass <= 100000 (assembly) T pol <= 50000 (polish) T pac <= 60000 (pack)
In the second situation, where the only limitation is on the total time spent on all operations, we simply have:
T ass + T pol + T pac <= 210000 (total time)
Presumably to maximise profit - hence we have
maximise 1.5x 1 + 2.5x 2 + 3.0x 3 + 4.5x 4
which gives us the complete formulation of the problem.
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My daughters two front teeth have had root canals and bonding. She has about 6-9 more months of her braces being on.
What is the best option to repair the bonding after the removal, new bonding or crowns?
It is a good question. It really depends on the amount of enamel that was lost as a result of the injury. It is important to realize that the incisal edges (biting edges) of the front teeth are somewhat fragile under certain chewing movements.
On the other hand, bonding may be an interim procedure to be followed later by crowns. If the crown preparation is done at too early an age, then when the teeth have fully erupted the margin of the crown could be short. Certainly, crowns are stronger than bonding.
Another factor for some is the coverage that insurance companies are willing to support for the more expensive crowns and how long the individual is on their dental plan.
In short, you must discuss the merits of each option with your dentist but I hope I have given you some areas to ask about.
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Saturday, November 6, Afternoon: On Saturday
afternoon, Denver Museum of Nature & Science excavation crews
uncovered one of the most spectacular discoveries yet at the Ice
Age fossil dig site near Snowmass Village -- the skull and horns of
a gigantic Ice Age bison.
As a Gould construction bulldozer carefully moved muddy silt near
the bottom of the reservoir site, Dr. Ian Miller, the Museum's
curator of paleontology and chair of the Earth Science Department,
spotted an extremely large bison horn core exposed by the heavy
machine operator. The horn was so large Miller initially mistook it
for a mammoth or mastodon tusk.
The bulldozer made one more careful pass through the area and
exposed a second horn core, which led scientists to the spot where
a gigantic bison skull was discovered. When both horns were
repositioned with the skull, the span of the horns was greater than
six feet.
"I'm trying to think of a cooler fossil that I've ever seen in my
life," said Dr. Kirk Johnson, the Museum's chief curator and vice
president of Research and Collections. "This is the iconic fossil
recovered thus far in the excavation."
The size of the skull and horns indicates the Ice Age animal was
twice as large as modern bison. Scientific experts on the site
hotly debated the age and identification of the specimen. Similar
species found elsewhere in the western United States have indicated
these extremely large bison are often found in sediments as old as
30,000 to 50,000 years old. If confirmed, this suggests that the
Snowmass Village site contains fossils from a range of ages, not
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The bison skull was put into a plaster of Paris jacket in the
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transported to the Museum for preparation and preservation. The
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Another Ice Age bison found earlier in the week at the dig site is
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Back in November, we wrote a blog post titled Hopkins rips McNabb (again).
The entry came after Bernard Hopkins slammed Donovan McNabb on Comcast SportsNet, something that has been commonplace in this city over the years.
So the mere fact that he ripped into the Eagles' quarterback once again Wednesday afternoon probably isn't worth writing about anymore.
But this time, there was more -- a theory about where the criticism might be stemming from.
Hopkins joined Howard Eskin on WIP Wednesday afternoon and spoke at length about his constant bashing of McNabb.
When discussing McNabb's newly reworked contract, Hopkins said the fans will have to suffer for two more years. During the interview, he called McNabb a lapdog and a frontrunner, said he has no heart and suggested the team should have given serious thought to replacing him with Michael Vick.
"I think he plays for the moment, whether it's winning or losing," Hopkins said. "I think he plays to win, but I don't think his demeanor and I don't think his personality fits to win tomorrow, to win the next week and to win with any means necessary. There's a difference than wanting to win and showing that you want to win. I think that most athletes go in the ring or in the court, basketball or football, go in there with the intentions of winning until something is different that they feel that they don't want to deal with, understand or just be in the mix. Some people just want to be in the mix, Howard. And if they get lucky and be like 'Oh I can win this' then they'll go ahead and they'll show their swagger. But at the end of the day, you got frontrunners and you got runners, and he's one of the greatest frontrunners I've ever seen in the NFL."
One of the more interesting parts of the interview was when Eskin laid out his theory for why Hopkins always hates on McNabb.
Per Eskin, Hopkins once went to an Eagles practice, and while McNabb said hello to the ex-middleweight champ, Hopkins felt like the Birds' QB blew him off a little bit and has held a grudge ever since.
Hopkins denied Eskin's theory, but when he recalled the situation, it certainly sounded like McNabb rubbed him the wrong way when they crossed paths.
"When I did go to the NovaCare Center with my team, was he like everybody else? Like the rest of the players? Was he giving us respect, giving everybody respect, my trainer, myself and all that, just coming over, sign this, sign that or whatever? No, he sort of ran into a little room and locked the door and came out every now and then to peak his head out to see if we left yet," Hopkins said. "But that just tells you he's not a social guy."
"When a guy is uncomfortable that the light is not actually on him, then you have some people that can't take it," he continued. "And look, the bottom line is if you want the light to be on you, you gotta do what champions do. You win, you win, you win, you win and you win the big one."
Eskin and Hopkins took calls from fans, a couple of whom could not understand Hopkins' stance. One even suggested that if Hopkins feels McNabb lacks the intensity and heart necessary to win a title, why not help him?
Hopkins predicted the Eagles would win seven games this season, and made no bones about the reason why.
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Corporation Deck + Spare Draft Cards
Robot Advertisement Assassins
The Shadow: Pulling the Strings
Agenda (6)
1x Fetal AI
1x Nisei MK II
2x Priority Requisition
1x Project Beale
1x Project Vitruvius
Asset (9)
1x Adonis Campaign ••
2x Dedicated Response Team ••••• •
1x Edge of World ••
1x Eve Campaign •••
2x Melange Mining Corp.
2x PAD Campaign
Upgrade (1)
1x Corporate Troubleshooter •
Operation (4)
1x Archived Memories ••
1x Closed Accounts •
1x Neural EMP ••
1x Shipment from MirrorMorph ••
Barrier (2)
1x Eli 1.0 •
1x Heimdall 1.0 ••
Code Gate (5)
2x Pop-up Window ••
2x Sensei ••
1x Viktor 1.0 ••
Sentry (6)
1x Caduceus ••
2x Data Raven ••••
2x Dracō
1x Rototurret •
Other (1)
1x Chimera
37 influence spent (max ∞)
14 agenda points (between 14 and 15)
34 cards (min 30)
Cards up to Future Proof
Deck name was influenced by one of my opponents comments in my first game (More on this later). I think I got really lucky with what I drafted to build a deck with, I saw a Data Raven really early, which having played against Chimpster's Tagstorm deck enough times to know it was a great piece of taxing ice. Later I found the first DRT, and decided to take it in the hopes I'll draft 1 or 2 more, and with some luck I got another copy. I decided to try and build a tag & bag deck/glacier deck, though I didn't have as much tag punishment as I would like. The agenda mix up was quite good too, as I was only running two 3 pointers, I didn't have to worry as much about them being stolen and losing the game from 2 random accesses (Draft only runs to 6 points rather then 7). I'd have liked to see more Operations/useful operations, but I couldn't have it all.
My spare cards from the draft were the following. Would like to hear your thoughts on if you would have made any changes!
3x Priority Req
1x Corporate War
2x Fetal AI
1x TMI
2x Shadow
1x Sensei
1x Chum
1x Security Subcontract
1x Midori
Runner Deck + Spare Draft Cards
The Masque: Cyber General
Event (6)
2x Easy Mark ••
2x Sure Gamble
2x Test Run ••••• •
Hardware (7)
2x Cyberfeeder ••
1x Grimoire ••
3x Rabbit Hole •••
1x The Personal Touch ••
Resource (9)
2x Aesop's Pawnshop ••••
2x Armitage Codebusting
3x Underworld Contact
2x Wyldside ••••• •
Icebreaker (7)
2x Crypsis
1x Femme Fatale •
1x Force of Nature •
1x Morning Star ••••
1x Ninja ••
1x Peacock ••
Program (1)
1x Magnum Opus ••
39 influence spent (max ∞)
30 cards (min 30)
Cards up to A Study in Static
So all in all, I was happy with my runner deck too. After drafting a single aesops, I decided to grab the two wildsides that were floating around the table, and then I was lucky enough to grab a 2nd aesops! Between this, the Rabbit Holes + Underworld Contact, plus a singleton Opus I could tutor for with Test Runs, I was very happy with my econ, especially as I had some decent operations to back it up. The breaker suit I took was just making use of what I had available, unfortunately the only barrier breaker I'd picked up was a Morning Star (though in hindsight it turned out to be a power house). Femme is never a bad idea, and as the draft set gives everyone 2 copies of Crypsis, I threw them in as a backup.
Spare Cards for the runner are as follows, again wouldn't mind hearing other people's opinion!
2x Force of Nature
1x Deep Thought
1x Demolition Run
3x Cortez Chip
1x Dinosaurus
1x Lemuria Codecracker
1x Armitage Codebusting
1x Data Leak Reversal
1x New Angeles City Hall
1x Xanadu
1x Data Dealer
Game One - Andy
First game of the day, and I was really looking forward to seeing what if what I'd put together was going to hold up to the plan I had in my head. I flipped a bad pub token, and lost the toss, so I was running first. I managed to get a wyldside down turn 2 or 3, and starting setting up my econ rig. I test ran for Opus, and realised I only had two clicks to take money (And 3 without the install/test run). Once my drip econ was setup as well, and an Aesops was down on the table, I sold my Wyldside and decided to put more pressure on the board. So far I'd seen an Eli over R&D, but unfortunately my Morningstar had been discarded earlier in the game! Instead I paid 9 credits for a femme, and kept bypassing it to get more accesses off R&D. Ignored most of what I hoped were traps, but did take some brain damage before stealing the winning agenda off of R&D.
Next up it was time to put my Corp Server's through their paces! The first turn consisted of installing Viktor over R&D, a pop up over HQ, and either Adonis or Pad in a new server. First runner turn saw me rezing my ice, so unable to rez the econ asset, so my second turn consisted of installing a 2nd econ asset and taking money. Over the next few turns I setup a remote ready to score, and Andy stole a Priority Req from HQ.I threw a melange into the scoring remote to make me some money. and installed some Data Ravens over the remote and R&D. Once andy lost money hitting R&D & my scoring server to trash the melange, I scored a Fetal AI. At this point, Andy was playing full Tag Me, and I had floating tags and power counters on my Data Raven on R&D. I drew up into a DRT, and decided to draw for another. Andy took the time to make some money, as I'd built R&D into a nice big taxing server even if he was ignoring the Data Raven. I install both DRTs, and pass the turn to Andy, where he proceeds to run R&D with a 4 card hand. Andy broke all the routines on my ice, except for the single brain damage on Viktor, after confirming that Andy was going to access R&D, I rezzed both DRTs. It came down to a single access - If andy pulled the 2nd Prio Req, game went to him. If it was anything else, my unfortunate foe would take multiple sniper rounds to the face. Baited breath and a revealed card, gave me the win. Unfortunately my elation gave the game away to everyone else around the room, so I couldnt suprise anyone else for the rest of the day.
It was during this game that it was pointed out I was running HB Sexy advert robots, and my assassin team kill shot, that I got the deck name
Current score, 2-0
Game Two- Dave/Cerberus
If I'm honest, I didn't take any notes in this game, and Dave gave me the usual hard game I've come to expect. I lost both games here. As the runner, I took too long to get setup, though I thankfully didn't fall to his bluffed trap/small agenda (Dave was the only person I saw running 1 point agendas - Hostiles). Every dig into R&D gave me little to work with and Dave scored out before I could get anywhere.
With me playing Corp, dave managed to get all his economy up, and found the MVP of his deck - Scrubber. With this Dave pretty much deleted all of my econ from the word go, and waltzed through all my servers as I scrimped together what little credits I could
With 2 losses to Dave, I'm now at 2-2
Game One - Scott
Last game against Scott, and I took some notes again. Scott has gone for a big ice build, and seeing Wall of Thorns might normally have been a massive pain, if not for my trusty morningstar that I used a Test Run to dig out my stack. With medieval weapon swinging, I ran into R&D and through his remote server, pretty sure I managed to pickup an agenda at this stage. Unfortunately Scott responded in the worst possible manner, overwriting his R&D Wall of Thorns with a OAI'd Hadrians. This was going to be a massivel problem as I only had 1 personal touch, so I'd have to build money and pay through the nose for Crypsis. I installed MOpus, and took money ready for my next turn, where I went into R&D, smashed down Hadrian's Wall and access a Janus off the top. Not too worried now I only had a pop-up or something similar over R&D, I passed the turn ready to R&D dig to my hearts content. Scott graciously installed a new piece of ice over R&D, and OAI'd the Janus I had just seen. A few more turns of money making and ice smashing, saw me delete Janus, and snipe the last agenda I needed from the top of R&D. On to my corp!
My corp deck continued to setup consistantly, with a Data Raven over R&D, ice'd over HQ, and took a credit. Scott responded in the early game with a Data Sucker (Lucky bastard to see that in draft!), and plascrete carapace (Curses!). Knowing I would need to score out, I snuck out the Vitruvius early on, and later i scored a Nesei (not sure how I managed this, as I don't recall having a large scoring server! At hearing that I'd scored a Nesei, I heard a couple of appreciative comments from others around the table, and I got ready to either find my Beale to sneak out, or build a super server to score out Fetal/Prio Req. Unfortunately my plans were to be dashed, as where Scott went Tag Me, he used the opportunity to install a Data Leak Reversal. I drew up between Scott's mills, and Scott pulled Fetal out of Archives after he ditched it. My second to last turn ended up with me having 3 cards left in R&D, Corp Trouble Shooter, two prio reqs and two other cards in hand it looked like game over. I drew and found my Beale, installed it behind a Chimera, installed my Corp Trouble Shooter, and took a credit. Scott checked with me how many cards there were in R&D (2), and I prepared to mill. He took 6 credits off Opus however and ran my single ice'd agenda with his Crypsis. I rez'd the Chimera, and activated the troubleshooter to make it Strength 10 - out of range of Scott being able to break. I spent my last turn scoring out with Beale. It was one of those "Why didn't I do X" moments for Scott, as he would have automatically won if he had just milled two and took money, but I managed to pull the win.
End of the day left me on 4-2, and in second place behind Dave, who took the £25 prize. Scott won a bonus £10 prize, as he was voted the popular opponent of the day.
Wrapping Up
So I had a fantastic day drafting, and I'm really looking forward to playing more Draft format in the future. Have any of you played Draft so far? If so, would love to hear your experiences (Or better yet, when your local draft tournement will be ) .


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A clean and widely used GUI for the panotools under Windows. Shareware. (30 days trial, 59 EUR).
User Comments
I've been using PTGUI for about a year now and I am very happy with it. In combination with Autopano and Enblend it makes for an almost care-free system that allow me to concentrate on the photography rather than on the computing. The user interface is intuitive although I miss the possibility to zoom on a section of the panorama and do micropositioning (keys to move images by one pixel in the four directions, rotate left or right by a degree, "shrink or expand" an image). Maybe a feature for future versions?
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Quick Tour (PTGui site)
How to straighten a curved horizon (PTGui site)
Post processing a layered panorama (PTGui site)
How to use Panorama Tools to produce a printable panorama (John Houghton)
How to straighten horizons and correct verticals - John Houghton
Correction of image distortion and perspective using Panorama Tools and PTgui - Philo
Ultra-High Resolution Digital Mosaics (pdf) - J. Brian Caldwell, Ph.D.
Stitching Panoramas with PTGUI and Panorama Tools (PTGui 0.15) - Lutz Kretzschmar
Correcting lens distortion with Straight Line control points and PTGui - Erik Krause
Panoramen erstellen mit PanoTools und PTGui - Bernhard Vogl
Entzerrung und die unverstandene Horizontlinie - Bernhard Vogl
360 Grad-Panoramen - Bernhard Vogl
Verzeichnung und Farbfehler korrigieren mit PanoTools und PTGui - Erik Krause
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court appeared skeptical Wednesday of arguments that only licensed nurses may administer insulin injections and other medications to schoolchildren.
During a hearing, several justices on the state high court questioned whether such requirements made sense.
The California Nurses Assn. has argued that state law requires licensed nurses to administer medication to school children, and two lower courts have agreed.
Justice Ming W. Chin, noting that most schools do not have full-time nurses, questioned why they should have to call in a licensed practitioner even if the child's parents and physician have authorized a trained and designated school employee to administer insulin.
"You have this bureaucratic nightmare," Chin said. "What happens to the kids?"
Justice Joyce L. Kennard asked why the state would prohibit a trained employee from giving an insulin shot "when even a child who is not too young can administer himself or herself."
The court is considering a ruling by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who while on a lower appellate court wrote a unanimous decision in favor of the nurses. Because of her prior ruling, she is not participating in the high court's decision.
The lower court ruling included a concurring opinion from a justice who questioned the wisdom of the law and whether it was "the product of legitimate concern for the safety of diabetic public school students or the result of a labor organization protecting its turf and flexing its political muscle."
The court will rule within 90 days.
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Stocks ended higher Thursday lifted by an upbeat jobless claims report, with the Dow and S&P 500 closing at fresh levels, while weakness in large tech companies limited gains on the Nasdaq.
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"The market seems to be on autopilot," said Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading. "Everyone believes there are some serious issues being overlooked, but no one wants to fight a momentum-fueled rally…Plus, we've been on very light volume; when you see rallies, you want to see buyers."
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But those dongles are cheap so you won't feel too burned. I wonder if you'll ask how I know.
I have a Panasonic Viera TX-P42G20B plasma TV with integral Freeview and Freesat tuners, plus a wireless LAN adaptor and broadband router modem. I want to have a second TV in a bedroom where there are no TV aerial outlets.
I see there are now websites - wwiTV, Live365, Rad.io, etc - providing free internet access to TV channels worldwide, including all of those found on Freesat / Freeview. So, how best to access these from a TV set?
A Smart TV suggests itself, except these don't seem to have the PC-type controls necessary to facilitate this. I would need either to connect my iMac - normally in my study - to my TV set - not the most practical solution - or manage things remotely from my study.
I see also there are now "Android 4 based HDMI dongles" which, plugged into a TV's HDMI port and accompanied by a small remote control, effectively convert an ordinary HDTV set into a Smart TV with integral controls to boot, enabling access to any internet channel, rather than just the few available through Panasonic's Viera offering.
I think I need one of these HDMI dongles and an ordinary, non-Smart TV for the bedroom, plus a second HDMI dongle, as a replacement for my existing LAN adaptor, to convert my existing, non-Smart TV set into a 'super-Smart' TV set.
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Size 6 / Moonstone Ring
Size 6 / Moonstone Ring
Size 6
Stone is approx 1" x .75" and .5" tall
(Please excuse the painted hands! Ha!)
Important Information about Adina Mills pieces:
Rings are formed by hand and therefore are not perfect circles, size is the best and closest approximation after viewing the ring on the ring sizer, bottom of the bands are left raw to sustain durability given the painted setting.
These rings are Art first, jewelry second.
These pieces are not like plastic or metal jewelry, and should be worn with extra care, consideration, and LOVE.
(if worn without care, ie. left on while washing hands, worn next to other rings, worn while handling rough objects, slamming your hand down on a table, and sometimes even clapping, the painted finish may break down much faster than from natural wear and tear. Although the clay/polymer/resin is extremely durable it can still crack under extreme duress. Repairs are available for a small fee. If the stones break, crack, chip, etc. they cannot be repaired, so handle and wear with care!)
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• Remove Ring Before Showering or Bathing
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The following article is one person's story of her
involvement with the A.L.F. This is the first letter in a
three part series. No Compromise anonymously received these
letters and we re-print them here to, once again, reveal the
truth about the character, dedication and resourcefulness of
the A.L.F.
This letter is printed for informational purposes only and
is not intended to encourage people to partake in any illegal
To begin, let me say that while associating with animal
rights activists (something I try to avoid), I often hear
people speaking thrillingly about articles they've read in the
press or seen on the news about animals being liberated,
laboratories being trashed, lorries being torched, fast food
restaurants being burned to the ground, etc. Along with these
conversations it is practically guaranteed that one or more
persons will exclaim the greatness and empowerment of the
action followed by a "Gee, how do I hook up with these
people?" Also heard is, "Why don't these lads contact me?" or
"How do I get involved with that group?" There are many
others, but all basically asking the same thing: "How do I get
involved?" This is how I found the answer to that
After reading stories about lab break-ins and fur stores
being torched, I, too, desperately wanted to join this group.
But how? There was really no place to start. All of my friends
in the animal rights movement had less interest in illegal
direct action than I did, and even those who showed some
interest were completely clueless as to how to meet these
At one point, I wrote an animal rights group letting them
know that I would be willing to help them raid a lab. Needless
to say, that letter went unanswered. Finally I realized what I
was doing. I was waiting for someone with a plan to drop in
out of the blue and ask me to join in a lab raid. Now stop and
think about this. Would anyone who put hundreds of hours in
planning a covert, illegal direct action that could land them
in prison for years risk asking a basic stranger for help
simply because he or she is a vegetarian or belonged to the
local animal rights chapter?! NO! (At least not if they want
to stay active and out of jail.)
So how did I, or a better question is, how do you, end up
"joining" the Animal Liberation Front? That's easy. Come up
with your own plan! Really. It's not as hard as you think. Let
me repeat this important point which everyone must realize.
Come up with your own plan. This is very important.
One of the reasons there is not a lot more illegal direct
action happening is because there are only a few people
willing to invest the time and energy necessary to choose a
viable target, research the facts, re-con the place, and
conduct any other work necessary to execute a successful
direct action.
There are always plenty of people who want to help in the
actual execution of the plan, though not many people are
willing to dedicate and invest the time, money, energy, and
stress that go along with the planning. People are always
willing to share in the "excitement," but not in the actual
work. Simply put, no one wants to help bake the bread, but
everyone wants to eat it.
Many people will easily shrug off planning a direct action
for many reasons. (Nearly all are mere excuses which could
easily be overcome.) One of the most overused reasons is
people tell themselves they don't know anyone who could help
in the final execution of the plan. For example, they don't
know who could find homes for X number of animals; they don't
know who they could trust as a lookout; they don't know who
could loan or rent them a vehicle to use, etc. I want to
emphasize here that if you are faced with a problem like this,
continue on!
There are many bridges that one can foresee that look
uncrossable during the planning of an action. These problems
seem unresolvable and often discourage people from continuing
on with their plan. Again I must emphasize, continue. These
problems either solve themselves or are more easily solved
when you actually reach that point of the plan. (The other
option usually being the plan is aborted for some other reason
long before the problem ever had to be confronted.)
Something else that should be thrown in here is that you
should expect about four out of five plans into which you've
invested time and money to fall through. Again, this shouldn't
deter you. If you approach direct action with the knowledge
that most of your plans may not work, then you should not be
discouraged from battling on if some of your plans do fall
Though it is not necessary, before taking any direct
action, one should read as much literature as possible on the
topic. This is much easier to do now thanks to a "revival" in
the grassroots animal rights/liberation movement. If possible,
any literature pertaining to illegal activities should be
mailed to a fake name at a post office box or private mailbox
center. If this is not possible, perhaps a well-trusted friend
(who could handle police/federal harassment and is not
involved in illegal activities themselves) would be willing to
have it sent to his or her place. Another possibility would be
to get this information off of a web site (from a library,
campus, or cyber-coffee shop computer).
Though some of these security precautions may seem
ridiculous, paranoid, and unnecessary, you will be thankful
you followed them if you continue to increase the frequency,
severity, and effectiveness of your actions, thus producing
more intense local and federal investigations.
But, wait a minute! You still don't know if there is anyone
you can trust. This does not mean that you shouldn't consider
doing an action. When I realized that no one was going to drop
in and ask me to help them with their plan--when I finally
realized that I was the A.L.F.--I decided to target a fast
food restaurant that I had noticed as appearing vulnerable.
My first step was realizing that I was the A.L.F. and that
it was up to me to find a viable target, in this case the fast
food restaurant. Though I still didn't know who could help me
with this plan, I proceeded to scope it out the next few
nights, still thinking I would find someone to help me.
Though I had no experience at "casing a joint," it came
very easily and naturally. Between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. (the
time I decided would be safest to strike the place) I
carefully scoped it out. Some nights dressed head to toe in my
jogging gear (now is not the time to be caught there in your
balaclava), I jogged up and down the street past the
restaurant. I was careful to look for possible activity inside
the building, check on any employees' cars in the parking lot,
judge the amount of traffic, the amount of police presence,
determine how well the parking lot and building were lit, scan
for any drive thru or security cameras (to look out for and to
sabotage!), etc.
Other nights I walked my boyfriend's dog up and down the
street looking for the same things. In no time at all I was
very familiar with the activity of the area (and had walked
two emergency escape routes I would take should I be
interrupted). I was soon confident with this target.
Unfortunately, I still didn't know anyone I would trust enough
to divulge my plans to. I knew what I wanted to do.
The day before I was going to execute my plan, I drove to a
neighboring town, bought super--glue, spray-paint, and some
garden gloves from three different stores, making sure to pay
in cash at each store. That evening I went for a walk wearing
my gloves and ended up picking up two large rocks and half of
a brick that I determined was small enough to carry around and
handle, yet big enough to smash through the thick plate glass
windows of a fast food restaurant.
Though I would have felt a bit more comfortable with a
partner to lookout for me, I was tired of waiting around for
apathetic and unmotivated people. That night, dressed in black
from head to toe, I went jogging. As I got near the restaurant
I slowed to a walk. Seeing that there was no traffic around
and facing a dark and empty-looking building, I approached the
Walking briskly across the lot, I pulled my mask down over
my face. At the rear of the building I quickly took off my
black backpack and got out my supplies. I quickly filled the
two back door locks with super-glue and small pieces of paper
clips that I had snipped especially for this occasion. I then
proceeded to spray-paint slogans over the entire back of the
building and on the side with the drive-thru.
This done, I peeked around the building. Headlights were
approaching from up the street so I just remained calm and
motionless. My stomach dropped when I saw it was a police car.
The cop then drove by without slowing down or looking my
Delighted, I walked around to the front of the building and
quickly tossed all three projectiles through three separate
windows! I saved this part of the action for last because of
the loud sound it would make. And with the three explosions of
glass, I quickly sprinted through one of my pre-arranged exits
and into a residential area where I quickly vanished. I then
removed my black turtleneck and balaclava, ditched them in an
apartment complex dumpster, and went home.
My point here is that with enough planning, determination,
and self-confidence, one person can pull off a successful
action! Of course, the "bigger" or "more severe" the action,
the better it may be to have a lookout with clear
communications to you. Nevertheless, one person shouldn't feel
helpless and inactive because he or she doesn't know others
who are willing to take illegal direct action. Besides, taking
action is your first step in feeling out potential comrades
who share the same philosophy as you and are ready and willing
to take action.
*Don't miss the next installment, where the underground
activist explains how she hooked up with other like-minded
individuals to partake in much grander actions.*


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When a Sagittarius Man Ignores You! How to Regain His Attention Now
Every woman secretly wants the same thing from her guy. She wants to feel as though she's the center of his universe. It may be too much to ask at times, but it's not too much to dream of being with a man who sees you as a cherished gift. That's why it's so disheartening when the man you love suddenly pulls away and stops paying as much attention to you. When a Sagittarius man ignores you it can leave you questioning the depth of his devotion and your future happiness with him.
Sagittarius men are a rare breed. You already know this very well since you're involved with one. Men born under this sign are smart, adventurous and spiritual. You'll feel grateful each time he says he adores you because you know men like this are very hard to find. That's why you'll feel very off center when he abruptly changes around you. If he used to call and now you wait days to hear from him, that's definitely something you should be very concerned about. You have to do something dramatic if you want to regain his attention, but it can't be too obvious. If he sees you panicking it can actually cause him to feel even more uncomfortable to the point that he'll end the relationship for good.
When a Sagittarius man ignores you it's important for you to give him the space he needs. Obviously that doesn't mean that you should drop all contact with him forever, but it does mean that you shouldn't be the one continually calling him if he hasn't reached out to you. He may very well just need a bit of breathing room and if you chase after him he won't feel he's getting that. That's why it's advisable that you wait at least a few days to contact him if he is indeed ignoring you. Don't leave message after message on his voice mail begging him to call you back. Simply wait a few days, call him once and leave one message just saying you wanted to touch base. Keep it very calm and don't get emotional. The last thing he wants to hear is you sobbing into the receiver about how much you desperately miss him.
If he senses that you're not panicking over his need for some space, he'll come around quicker. It's a great idea to get busy focusing on other areas of your life so you don't feel the enormous void that he's left. Spend more time with friends and work on improving who you are. You can't let him see that the relationship is defining your happiness.
Allow a few weeks to pass and if he's still ignoring you ask him to meet for a coffee. During that meeting explain to him that the relationship has shifted and you're not feeling it's heading in a good direction anymore. Give him a chance to share what he's been feeling with you. If he chooses to tell you that nothing is wrong or he's just very busy, leave it at that. Sagittarius men are notorious for taking the woman they love for granted until they realize she's on the brink of leaving. If you show him that you're okay with walking away from the relationship, he'll suddenly change his attitude completely. The key is not to go on and on about it. Instead, let your actions speak for you.
When a woman makes a critical mistake in her relationship it can damage it forever. If you've done anything that has caused your man to pull back, there is a way for you to get his interest back now.
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This was originally written for iEatGrass.com.
Recently, I sat on a bench with my darling omni boyfriend enjoying frozen yogurt (and frozen soy-yogurt for me). I was being silly and rambling on, per usual, about our looming cohabitation date. I said something along the lines of "when we move in together, I will be cooking, and so you will be eating vegan, and then you will feel so great you will want to go vegan, and then we can truly be soul mates."
This was said in the jocular, babbling tone I take on when playing pretend. Similar statements have included "And then I will buy a barn, and go to the shelter, all of the shelters, and rescue the puppies, all of the puppies, and they will live in the barn. The end."
Or my orgasms for breakfast regiment. It sounds great in theory but not so much in reality.
When it comes to vegans in search of romance, I am not of a "vegan-sexual" party. I am also not of the "veduction" party. You know: hook an omni, seduce them, demand they eat your seitan sammy, and BAM they are vegan. I am not for making people change when they don't want to.
Say it with me: I can never change the person I am with. I should not expect my partner to change because I want them to. The only person I can change is myself.
Circling back to soul mates; I don't even actually believe in soul mates in the one-for-one sense. However, I do believe in finding others with spirits and energies that mirror and match your own. This applies just as much in your friendships as it does in your romantic connections. And it is with this idea that I do harbor hope of having a vegan partner one day.
What I mean is that if someone truly matches your own sense of being, and your sense of being is compassionate through-and-through, then there is a better chance of them making an independent decision to live cruelty-free than if you lecture them for hours on end or make them watch Earthlings for the fourth time.
You can't bully someone into thinking your way is the right way. And why would you want to? So you can have some vegan arm candy? They will probably only resent you.
Instead of focusing on finding a vegan partner (who could easily be wrong for you in many other ways), or changing the partner you're with, focus on finding the person who is right for you in as many facets as possible. If their level of compassion truly reflects your own, then they may be curious about your lifestyle, excited to learn, and eager to adapt. But they have to want it themselves.
Maybe they will make the change. Maybe they won't. Hopefully they will support and respect you regardless. And if they don't end up embracing veganism on their own terms, well then you have a decision to make. You can show them another path, but you can't force them to (happily) walk down it.
Last night I had dinner with my lovely friend Hannah (She is so inspiring! Check out one of her cookbooks or her award-winning blog!), and we stumbled onto this topic. Ever the well spoken one, she managed to boil down my entire ramble into two short, succinct sentences: "People can change. You can't change them, but they can change." Chew on that for a little.


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Westlife may reunite 'one day'
Westlife could "one day" reunite, according to Brian McFadden.
The 33-year-old singer, who was in the original line-up of the Irish group, said that while there is no discussions about it at present, they would not rule it out in future.
Brian broke the hearts of fans when he left Westlife in 2004, but the band continued on as a four-piece with Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Mark Feehily and Kian Egan.
They bowed out of the pop world with a concert in Dublin's Croke Park in the summer of 2012 after a career in which they amassed 14 UK number one singles.
The band racked up 44 million record sales, sung with diva Mariah Carey and even performed for the Pope.
When asked if a reunion was ever likely to happen, Brian said: "One day we could do something together. There's not even talk of it.
"At the moment all of us are concentrating on our lives and our solo careers. There's no talk of it.
"But it's not something we'd ever say 'No, it's never going to happen'. You never know. One day it could, but it's not being talked about yet."
The musician - who is married to Irish DJ and model Vogue Williams - said that while he might find it a "weird experience", it is one they would all probably relish.
"I think we would probably enjoy it. I haven't been a part of the band for over 10 years now, so I think it'd be a bit strange for me because the last time I was with them they were all kids, and now they're all men, and they've all got their own almost grown up kids as well, so it'd be different.
"It'd be very different. It'd be a weird experience," he said.
Since the band members went their separate ways they have pursued solo careers and appeared on television.
While Nicky competed on Strictly Come Dancing, Brian put on his dancing shoes for ITV's Stepping Out.
Kian was crowned king of the jungle on the most recent series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and is also a coach on The Voice of Ireland.
Shane has recently released a solo album and has appeared as a guest mentor alongside Louis Walsh on The X Factor.


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The 2012 collector car auction season is in high gear, with some of the biggest players like Barrett-Jackson, Gooding and Company, RM Auctions, Russo and Steele and Mecum Auctions unveiling their wares.
But is collecting classic cars a good alternative investment right now? According to McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty Insurance, the largest provider of insurance for classic and vintage cars in the United States, "The past few years for the classic car market has had its volatility in certain segments. With very few exceptions, classic car values were on the rise until 2008." But then the classic car market, like the rest of the economy, really put on the brakes.
Hagerty says cars that saw the most appreciation up to 2008 have lost some value, "especially American Muscle cars and Corvettes." Now, however, prices are on the upswing again, with the upper edges of the classic car market equaling or exceeding records set in 2008.
Hagerty's "Blue Chip" Index, which averages the values of 25 of the most sought-after collectible automobiles of the post-war era, has substantially outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average and home prices over the past five years, with a nearly 100-percent return.
Another barometer — the "Affordable Classics" Index, which consists of 12 cars priced under $30,000, has returned about 10 percent over the same time period.
For those looking for the next hot area, McKeel Hagerty expects classic pickups — from the 1950s and 1960s — to really pick up in value.
Just like traditional investments, you will incur operating expenses such as maintenance, repairs, insurance, registration and storage. But classic cars provide something very special that you don't get from stocks, bonds or other paper investments. And that's the ability to turn the key, step on the gas and go, go, go.
Click through for a look at the interesting (and quirky) cars crossing the auction block for a wide-range of investors. You'll find the estimated selling price and the actual ones at auction.
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DALLAS – The Wild signed longtime NHL veteran Brett Clark on March 13 to add depth to the blue line. The Wild began a seven-game winning streak the next night.
Clark has yet to make his Wild debut, but he understands fully why coach Mike Yeo has been hesitant to mess with a winning lineup.
"You always wish to go on these big streaks. Your team's having success and that's all you're here for and what you want," said Clark, 36, who has played 681 games for four teams. "It's fun to see how the team's thriving, whether I'm playing or not. To see the level in practice elevate during this streak has been awesome.
"I'm having a blast every time I come in and am working hard. That's all I can do — support the team and wait for my opportunity."
That chance could come Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings. In the second of back-to-backs, Yeo may want fresh legs and have Clark replace left-shot defenseman Justin Falk.
Yeo said there's "definitely a possibility" Clark plays.
Asked if he's worried Clark has gotten rusty by having such a long hiatus since playing his last game for AHL Oklahoma City, Yeo said, "The good thing is this guy has played a lot of hockey in his career. If it was a younger player, I think it'd be a different story. It is a priority of ours to get him in very soon.
"We'll also be a little understanding of the fact that he hasn't playing in a long time. His first shift, if he's less than perfect, we're not going to judge him on that."
After what many felt was a tough game for Falk and Tom Gilbert in Wednesday's win over Phoenix, some wondered if Yeo might dress Clark and Nate Prosser on Friday in Dallas.
But Yeo said while Falk and Gilbert could play better, he only charged them with two scoring chances against after reviewing the tape.
Rest for Backstrom
For the first time in 13 games, Niklas Backstrom wasn't between the pipes for the Wild. The Wild left him in Minnesota to rest up for Saturday's game against Los Angeles.
"We've been riding him hard," Yeo said. "To not have to travel, first it's well-deserved. Second, he could use it."
Backstrom is tied for the NHL lead with 18 wins (the next win matches his total from last season) and is 15-3-1 in 19 games since Feb. 9.
"This stretch has been so important to our team, and he has been so good," Yeo said. "[He's] just a goalie going out and winning hockey games. To me, that's the most important stat."
In Dallas, Matt Hackett made his season debut for the Wild with Darcy Kuemper serving as backup. The Wild will likely reassign Kuemper to Houston and recall a forward.
• Josh Harding, sidelined since Feb. 7, is getting closer to a full practice. Yeo said the shooters who were on the ice with him Thursday said "he looks good. He's fast and he's athletic and we all know what he can add to our team if we can get him back here quickly."
Before Harding gets into a game, the Wild would be permitted to send him to Houston on a rehab stint to see some game action.
• Yeo on Jarome Iginla, the all-time leading scorer against the Wild, being traded to Pittsburgh: "He's going to a great team, and I'm glad we don't have to see him in Calgary anymore."
• The Wild is among the teams interested in potential Gophers free-agent defenseman Nate Schmidt. He is expected to talk to his adviser this weekend.
Also, if the Wild signs draft pick Erik Haula, the contract would start next season. Haula, the Gophers' leading scorer, would likely start playing on an amateur tryout in Houston.
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