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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent BMO Harris Bank national survey conducted by Ipsos America, Inc., a leading market research company, nine out of ten (89 percent) U.S. parents think that they are an important resource for their children to learn basic money management. Unfortunately, less than four of ten (36 percent) parents talk to their kids about money management on a regular weekly basis.
Now that children have settled into another school year, BMO Harris Bank suggests that it is an opportune time for parents to start teaching their kids about the basics of investing and saving for the future.
"Learning doesn't stop when the school bell rings at the end of the day," said Mary Brockhaus, Senior Vice President, BMO Harris Bank. "It's never too early to introduce kids to the world of finance and that can start in the home. Even very young children can learn basic money skills, while older children can be taught about the stock market and the importance of setting financial goals."
BMO Harris Bank offers tips for parents on how to teach their children about saving and investing at any age:
The Early Years: The Value of Saving (suggested ages: 5 to 9)
As soon as children start to collect a few coins and understand the value of money, open a savings account for them:
- Explain to them why saving/investing money is important in life.
- Introduce them to the concept of having a bank account and how money in a bank account earns interest.
- Focus on a specific goal (such as buying a video game or a bike) this can make it easier for kids to set aside the money. Suggest children save at least part of the cash they receive for birthdays, holidays or jobs for something they really want.
- By setting a goal and purchasing items themselves they will develop a better appreciation for the value of saving.
Taking Action: Learn the Marketplace (suggested ages: 10 to 12)
Once the basics are in place, it is time to start learning about investing:
- Educate children on the concept of risk and the importance of having a balanced investment portfolio – use language they understand and keep to key, simple concepts.
- Explain that purchasing a stock means they own a small piece of a company and the value of the stock can go up or down.
- Show them how to read stock prices in the newspaper's financial pages or online. As homework, have them track the stock prices of a handful of familiar companies, such as Disney® or McDonald's, to make the exercise more interesting and personal.
- Decide together how frequently they will check the stock prices (once a day, once a week) and then show them how to keep a log of the price changes to see how well their selections have performed.
- If you have an online investing account, walk them through your portfolio and explain to them the rationale for your portfolio's composition and any trades/changes you make.
Getting Real: Becoming an Investor (suggested ages: 13 to 19)
- Once the groundwork has been set, have kids invest a small sum of money in a few stocks they were previously tracking and perhaps offer to match any gains the child makes in their stock picks.
- Consider setting up a custodial account and having the child contribute part of his or her savings.
- Teach kids about the different savings and investing instruments available to them, such as 504 Plans and money market accounts, to build up a contingency fund, pay for college, or save for a larger purchase such as a post-graduation trip or car.
- Explain that the younger an investor starts to put aside and save his/her money, the more time his/her money has to grow.
"An important lesson is that we can make learning about finances fun for kids," said Brockhaus. "With some instruction and hands-on experience, you may have the makings of the next world-renowned economist living under your roof!"
For more information on how to raise money-smart kids visit "Helpful Steps for Parents" at: www.bmoharris.com/parents
About BMO Harris Bank
Based in Chicago, BMO Harris Bank N.A. provides a broad range of personal banking products and solutions through over 600 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nevada, Arizona and Florida. BMO Harris Bank's commercial banking team provides a combination of sector expertise, local knowledge and mid-market focus throughout the U.S. Deposit and loan products and services provided by BMO Harris Bank N.A. Member FDIC. BMO Harris Banksm is a trade name used by BMO Harris Bank N.A. BMO Harris Bank is part of BMO Financial Group, a North American financial organization with 1,600 branches, and a retail deposit base of approximately $180 billion.
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The annual Just for Her expo is a regional event attracting a diverse population of women. Volunteers LaVell, Laura, Kim, Katie, Lana and Sarah were on hand throughout the weekend to chat with attendees. They answered a variety of questions and conversed with consumers on hot topics such as organic foods, GMO crops, antibiotic use in meat production and family farms.
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Valuation Myths
ALEXANDRIA, VA (Sept. 17, 1999) -- I'm taking off for Colorado today, and due to poor planning more than anything, I really don't have a column ready on the Costco model. I've updated some elements of the revenue forecast, which you can access here, but I'll pick that up when I get back in a week. In the meantime, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on valuation myths that I first penned in a Fool on the Hill column last March 25. See you next week.
Once upon a time, value meant something to some investors, columnists, and commentators. "But it doesn't mean anything anymore," they now moan. Perhaps we can get a pharmaceutical company to develop an acute pain-management lollipop for the "deep value" investors because they're beginning to sound like a dog that's just been hit by a car. They may have to wait awhile for the next recession or interest rate spike.
When I put the phrase "value investors" in quotation marks, I'm talking about the people who haven't bought any stock since 1991, 1993, or 1995, and who think all great companies are ridiculously overpriced. The reason I'm so harsh about it is because I consider a focus on the market as a whole, rather than on individual companies and securities, to be an amateur exercise for investors. For traders, that's their job and I don't begrudge it. The skeptic asks why things are. The "value investor" wails and cries instead of spending time actually digging for value. Unless you've got tens of billions of dollars to invest and can't find companies that have the size requisite for effective investment, there's really no excuse for this.
Watching CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, one of the guests was talking about valuation parameters that have lasted for the last 56 years. Just as a study of religion or architecture will suffer without looking at contemporaneous culture, politics, and the general milieu of a certain time, a study of valuation over the last 50 years isn't going to tell you everything you want to know about valuation today. To wit, anyone who treats either today or 1974, 1929 or 1987, and 1933 or 1981 as the norms do so at their own peril. Of course, five sigma events happen, but extrapolating reality from them and wallpapering the world with that view is going to turn your brain into mush.
In the 20th century, major recessions and wars have been the exceptions, not the rule. It's the damaging exceptions, however, that give rise to both damaged perceptions of the world and to great advances of scholarship. Ben Graham's book Security Analysis was the product of the damaging exception of the market's behavior from the late 1920s into the first three years of the 1930s. The damaging exception of the Depression gave rise to GATT and Bretton Woods at the close of World War II. The rise of codified free cash flow analysis in the 1970s was due in part, I believe, to the damaging exception of the Nifty 50 crash. And it was the damaging exception of a severe spike in the price of money and oil (an inflation-adjusted anomaly over the history of oil) in 1973-1974 that has informed the entire traumatized worldview of a number of "value" investors today.
Not that I'm saying there is no danger in the market today. I couldn't agree more with an investor like David Dreman: Value is highly important. But I couldn't disagree more with the implications of Dreman's columns. While we would all like to have the great companies priced at levels that offer super-normal returns on investment, that's not how it goes in a low-inflation, high-growth environment with tons of long-term global opportunities. Just because there are a lot of companies that are carrying very high valuations doesn't mean that value does not exist today, and it's not just in companies that have been priced (by an efficient market) at a fraction of book value or revenues.
One must understand that valuation is a context dependent exercise, not one where absolute norms can be derived by taking the simple arithmetic means of past history. In the introduction to his Investment Valuation, New York University finance professor Aswath Damodaran lays out six myths of valuation. In my role as a communicator of useful information, as opposed to being only a progenitor of information, I pass these along to you, with comments that may or may not agree with Damodaran's.
Myth 1: Since valuation models are quantitative, valuation is objective.
I could make a series out of that one. If your investment banker comes to you and pitches you on taking your two-year-old money losing company public, and they put a price on your company based on price/sales and cash flow multiples of five publicly traded peers, it doesn't mean that reflects the intrinsic value of your company. It's a subjective data set.
It also means that I can make up whatever I want to in a spreadsheet. For me, the process of valuing a company isn't always determined by making my best judgment as to what I think the company can do over 20 years. Even if you run your own company and know it like the back of your hand, that can be very difficult to impossible. But you can reverse-engineer the expectations that a subjective market has baked into the current price of a company and then make a decision based on that process of discovery. Even then, that's a subjective judgment, but I believe part of Damodaran's point is that you can't get away from subjectivity in valuing a company.
Only if you have a crystal ball and can see cash flows in the future can you make a truly objective valuation that only requires you to plug in your own discount rate to arrive at a buy point today. Finally, this also means that investment valuation is as much art as it is science. For instance, the national income accounting equation that the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office uses is as much the product of political and philosophical biases as it is the result of very complex algorithms. You have to know that economics is a social science to understand it, just as you have to know that the process of valuation is a set of estimates based on certain facts.
Myth 2: A well-researched and well-done valuation is timeless.
The milieu affecting the value of a company can change every day. The world is not static and neither are securities prices. When the term "efficient market" is used, it means the market is pretty good at reflecting what is known and, as a complex adaptive system that works as mysteriously as an ecosystem, what is not generally known. "Efficient market" should not mean that no one can outperform the market or that you even need to be Warren Buffett to do so. Again, that's my own observation, not Damodaran's.
Myth 3: A good valuation provides a precise estimate of value.
First I'll say that intrinsic value can mean two things to two people, depending upon your required rate of return. If you have a five-year holding period in mind, Coca-Cola at $70 might not return any more than a five-year corporate bond, given that the market treats the company's payback potential as inevitable as the federal government's securities. This also means that you have to realize that you're not going to get every element of a valuation scheme right, no matter how good your skill at valuing companies. You can find out you don't know a darn thing about the dynamics of a company, and you can also be pleasantly surprised if you underestimate the quality of a company. But you can also overestimate the quality of a company in its ability to create the cash flows necessary to produce a satisfactory return on your capital. Also see Ben Graham's Security Analysis (1934 edition and 2nd ed. if you can find it), The Intelligent Investor, and the forthcoming The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham.
Myth 4: The more quantitative a model, the better the valuation.
Garbage in, garbage out, the saying goes. Better to be approximately right about something than precisely wrong, John M. Keynes observed.
Myth 5: The market is generally wrong.
Respect the power of the market. Sometimes you're just flat wrong. As for the value nuts out there today, the market is going to strive to discount equities such that returns on a longer holding period match the historical rate of return on equities. It would be nice to pick up Coca-Cola at 15 times earnings, but it's not going to happen unless California drops off the edge of the continent or someone nukes Manhattan.
Myth 6: The product of valuation (i.e., the value) is what matters; the process of valuation is not important.
If you construct a valuation model, it forces you to think about the business. Give me one investor who has looked at a bunch of canned data on a number of companies and give me an investor who has constructed the data him or herself and I'll say definitely that the second investor is better informed.
The market forces a discipline on investors, and that is to think about companies underlying the indices. The more you think about the index and the less you think about the underlying companies, the less you're going to understand what counts. If you spend a lot of time looking at companies and your daily conclusion is that things are just not cheap, that's one thing. But if you keep on checking in on a few companies and see that they're not cheap every time you look, well, you might have to wait around for a while. Value exists out there -- you just have to do some digging. Even then, the process of value discovery is a subjective one and everyone is prone to human failings, but the process makes you stronger intellectually and temperamentally.
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I'm also in the market for a 50L for summer overnight alpine trips and winter day climbs. There always seems to be trade-off between weight and support. I suppose this pack would carry a max of 35 lbs or so. Three on my list include:
- Cold Cold World Chernobyl (49 L) - 3 lb 4 oz
- Osprey Variant 52 - 3 lb 12 oz
- Gregory Alpinisto 50 - 4 lb 11 oz
The Gregory seems heavy, but should (in theory) be quite comfortable. I know the Variant and CCW packs come highly recommended. Anyone have direct experience with the three listed above? Thanks.


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SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is the RISC instruction set architecture that was developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) to create the first SPARC processor in 1986, which debuted in the Sun-4 workstation the following year. Building on 25 years of innovations and a long list of "firsts," Oracle continues to engineer record-breaking SPARC-based systems running Oracle Solaris that deliver high availability and unmatched scalability on all application tiers, from highly concurrent web applications to complex enterprise applications and data warehouses.
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In 1992 Sun launched its first high-end SPARC server, the successful SPARCcenter 2000. Today, the SPARC processor family is used in Oracle's enterprise servers to create architectures that are optimized for a powerful mix of application types, from CRM systems and Java/Web middleware infrastructure applications to mission-critical ERP and backend OLTP/data warehousing enterprise applications that depend on high availability and scalability.
Closely integrated with Oracle Solaris, Oracle's SPARC-based systems give customers extreme performance to maximize the uptime and ROI of mission-critical enterprise applications and cloud services—all at a fraction of the cost of mainframe computers. With a long history of recorded-breaking performance, SPARC-based systems have achieved over 400 record benchmarks, with 20 currently standing.
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On-Chip Encryption and the Oracle Solaris Security Framework
In 2005, Sun introduced the groundbreaking UltraSPARC T1 processor, the first 8-core system-on-a-chip with multithreading capability. Today, the SPARC T4 processor includes unique integrated on-chip cryptographic support that provides wire-speed encryption capabilities for secure data center operation.
When combined with Oracle Solaris, customers can benefit from a standards-based API that provides a single-point of administration for cryptographic management, making the task of managing a secure environment less complex and more cost-effective. Both the SPARC T4 and SPARC T5 processor (currently in test) have an encryption engine in each core that accelerates all of the most common bulk encryption ciphers like AES and DES.
Complete Integration with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Database, Business Applications, Middleware Software, and Oracle Optimized Solutions
Since being introduced 20 years ago, the Solaris OS has been tightly integrated with SPARC-based servers. As the compute building block for the Oracle Optimized Solutions, SPARC servers with Oracle storage, Oracle Solaris, and Oracle applications can help organizations accelerate business agility for database and middleware projects and a broad range of enterprise applications or cloud deployments. For monolithic database and middleware infrastructures, the combined single-thread and throughput performance of today's SPARC servers make them the ideal platform for achieving faster business results and reliable and predictable uptimes.
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SPARC servers with Oracle Solaris offer tight integration of key features and functionality around virtualization, networking performance, and systems management at no additional cost. Dynamic Domains, Oracle Zones, and Oracle VM Server for SPARC are included and offer real-time scaling and optimal resource utilization to ensure the maximum performance and scalability of all application deployments.
In addition, Oracle's SPARC M-Series Enterprise servers offer dynamic reconfiguration,sophisticated resource control, and scale up to 64 processors in an open-systems compute platform that is highly reliable, easy to manage, and vertically-scalable to deliver a mainframe-class system architecture at open systems prices.
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Oracle's SPARC servers running Oracle Solaris are still the most shipped UNIX servers worldwide and are ideal for mission-critical applications that require high performance, best-in-class availability, and unmatched scalability on all application tiers. With a robust roadmap that projects significant improvements every two years, SPARC customers can expect 2-6x faster throughput, 20-50% better single-thread performance, as well as new software-in-silicon features for improved data management and protection. Oracle assures the highest levels of investment protection through 100% SPARC/Solaris binary compatibility, proven by hundreds of thousands of deployments over more than 20 years.


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I am torn about this because it may be a trivial matter, but it kind of burns me up a little any way. I normally don't pay close attention to how much sales tax I am charged, but I have noticed that 2 different local restaurants seem to be overcharging for sales tax. I think it is a scam so they can skim a few cents off of each transaction and pocket the excess money. The amount of the overcharge is only about 1% of the sales amount, but I guess it adds up to a large sum of money over numerous transactions. These two restaurants are not under common ownership, but coincidentally, both sell Greek/Mediterranean fast food. I didn't say anything at the time of the purchase because I wasn't sure until later when I had a chance to look at the math carefully. Also, the sales tax rate here has increased twice in the past couple of years and has also been lowered on some food purchases, so it is a little confusing to remember what the correct rate is. Even so, there is no justification for rates as high as I have been charged.
I have thought about reporting it to the state revenue office as fraud, but I have a strong feeling that nothing at all would be done about it. What do you think? Should I do something and if so, what? Or is this just an insignificant math error and should I forget about it?
By the way, I am not a regular customer at these restaurants and thanks for your opinion.


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Forza AZ wrote:Hi,
Found 1 mistake:
-station to antenna is 1-way in XML, but that isn't mentioned on the map
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Evil DIMwit wrote:Forza AZ wrote:Hi,
Found 1 mistake:
-station to antenna is 1-way in XML, but that isn't mentioned on the map
Forza AZ
Of course, since the antenna is a killer neutral and each antenna can only be attacked by its own station, it would normally not happen that a player is holding the antenna and not the station. However, it is technically not impossible for that to happen, so I just fixed the XML so an antenna can attack its station.
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Carlin can attack Ott despite Klein being in the way.
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India: Muslim men will now have to prove their divorce in a court of law
Source:Outlook India
In a landmark judgment last week, the Bombay High Court ruled that divorces between Muslim couples will now have to be "convincingly proved in a court of law under the civil procedure court and the Indian Evidence Act."
Secular India failed Shah Bano 17 years ago. An elderly Muslim woman reduced to penury after being divorced whimsically by her husband. The Supreme Court had granted her maintenance and infuriated the clergy who saw it as an interference in Islamic laws. The Congress regime had capitulated under pressure, ignored liberal Muslim opinion, and introduced a law that negated the Supreme Court's decision. Since then, like before, the fate of Muslim women divorcees in India has largely been left to the mercy of their husbands. Reckless men have often severed conjugal obligations by arbitrarily uttering talaq thrice, in unexceptional cases divorcing even through post, e-mail or fax.
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IGN:If you've longed for a proper first-person shooter on Vita, one that makes excellent use of its unique capabilities and second analog stick, you'll be sorely disappointed with Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. Declassified's clumsy controls exasperate the frustration that comes from playing poorly designed single and multiplayer levels, while the horrible AI and lack of polish makes it feel like it was rushed out the door. No, this is not the Call of Duty you've been waiting for; it's one you definitely need to avoid.
Is the game really this bad?people who own/played the game share your thoughts.
This game is sick, best FPS on handheld. Online is crazy good. Single player is ok but hard and short. Buy it for online u won't regret it. All these reviewers are retarded period. Best game on vita if u like FPS or CoD. It plays exactly like CoD. Reviewers hate it because he vita promises console like quality and so far it hasn't totally given that. Some exceptions but really it's CoD and it should be better and have more content. It's overpriced. One issue I have had is hit detention ok walls with grenades and if u have NAT3 (strict) Internet connection online doesn't even let u in lobby. It works at my place but not my in laws because of the strict Internet. Problem is most people have a NAT 3 Internet and this is first CoD to not support 3. Dumb patch should fix it hopefully
If it was an Xbox handheld exclusive it would be 9+.
I own both Resistance:Burning Skies and this game CODD, and CODD is better in every way possible. Online play has pretty smooth frame rate and the controls feel good to me. Why game sites have given RBS higher scores than CODD is a mystery. Is it worth $50,maybe not to most,but I have enjoyed it a lot. To me it shows that the Vita can handle FPS and with the right developers(guerrilla)it would truly shine. Bottom line in my opinion,CODD is fun and looks,plays so much better than RBS.
So ign complained biut the missions being short and no checkpoints (unit 13 had this and everyone was fine with that. Touch controls were awkward ( ever play metal gear solid 3 Hd and equipe the knife as a weapon. Ya that's more frustrating and that game didn't get hurt for that) I ait I accidentally use touchscreen sometimes but it works fine enough. Also the aim acceleration can't be changed? Umm change the aim sensitivity idiot. Maps are too small this i agree with but team deathmatch works fine. Deathmatch spawns are worse obviously. The controls are fine it's the smaller analogs they don't like. They said resistance's only good part was its controls and these were literally a much improved version. So little contradiction there. Basically he played it for an hour and didn't get used to the smaller analogs and that's the games fault ( not his or the system, ever use guns in MGS? There way harder to aim because of the smaller analogs. What I'm saying is these reviewers and looking for console quality and barely played the game to review it properly. Biased


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Former Oak Ridge schools superintendent Bob Smallridge could come back on board as an interim superintendent of schools if a potential nominee has a scheduling issue.
Former Oak Ridge schools superintendent Bob Smallridge could come back on board as an interim superintendent of schools if a potential nominee has a scheduling issue.
The Board of Education currently has three candidates on its "short list" for the school chief position and is setting up appointments for them to visit the city, sit for a second interview and have a meet-and-greet session with community leaders, officials and residents at the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce.
BOE Chair Keys Fillauer said earlier this week the BOE will meet on Jan. 7 and at that time could offer Smallridge an interim superintendent position. "I'm looking forward to it," Smallridge told The Oak Ridger.
The former superintendent said he was approached by Fillauer "about a week ago" regarding the interim post.
"I told him yes, I was willing to do it," he said. "I talked to Carol (his wife) about it before I got back to Keys."
Smallridge retired from the schools superintendent position about 15 years ago and "has agreed" if a contract is approved by the BOE, according to Fillauer.
Smallridge said the schools have seen a lot of changes since he was superintendent, and he'd "have to get up to speed" on some things.
"I've been out of it for a few years," he said, "but I'm confident we have a good staff to help."
Smallridge said he didn't think the interim position would be for a long period of time, though it could depend on how long it takes "whomever" is selected to fill the position to get to The Secret City.
"Each of the three candidates has a start time to start with the schools if appointed," Fillauer explained. He said Smallridge would serve if the person selected as a delayed start time.
The board chair said the BOE could also recommend hiring one of the candidates at its January meeting. Schools Superintendent Tom Bailey will retire at the end of this month.
The candidates currently being considered for the top school position are Neland Clark, superintendent of South Harrison Community School in Corydon, Ind.; Roger Collins, superintendent of Nelson County Public Schools in Livingston, Va.; and Dan Lawson, superintendent of Tullahoma city schools.
Collins was to be in Oak Ridge today, Dec. 14, for his second interview and visit. (The public is invited to a meet-and-greet from 11:30 to 1 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce, 1400 Oak Ridge Turnpike.) The other candidates are expected to be scheduled for a visit after the Christmas holiday.
During his 30-year career in education, Collins has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent within four central Virginia public school divisions in the counties of Nelson, Louisa, Fluvanna and Albemarle.
He is active in professional associations, having served in various leadership roles including chairman of Region 5 and executive board member Virginia Association of School Superintendents, chairman of UVA School and University Partnership, and chairman of the former Charlottesville Area School Business Alliance.
Clark and Lawson are also candidates for the superintendent position for Jackson-Madison County Schools in West Tennessee, according to information from The Jackson Sun. Both were interviewed by the school board there on Wednesday.
Lawson is also a candidate for superintendent in Ozark, Mo.
Clark has served as either superintendent or assistant superintendent for a combined total of 28 years, and has been recognized by the Kentucky House of Representatives for exceptional educational leadership. He was also named as one of the Top 100 Executive Educators in North America.
Lawson has served as a classroom teacher, a high school principal and a superintendent of schools. He has served Tullahoma City Schools for the past 16 years. He served as the president of the Association of Independent and Municipal Schools, been named the 2002 Tennessee Superintendent of the Year, and has been the president of the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents.
The Oak Ridge school board retained Ray and Associates Inc., a professional search firm based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to conduct a nationwide search for the local school chief.
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.


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Yesterday Chris visited the musical Waitress and I've got some photos for you :)
Cash Carter is the young, world famous lead actor of the hit television Wiz Kids. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked that he actually takes them up on it. Chased by paparazzi and hounded by reporters, this unlikely crew takes off on a journey of a lifetime–but along the way they discover that the star they love has deep secrets he's been keeping. What they come to learn about the life of the mysterious person they thought they knew will teach them about the power of empathy and the unbreakable bond of true friendship.
Ms. Julie and her assistant Gus (Giullian Yao Gioiello) will bring the performing arts to a new generation of kids known as the "Greenies," played by original puppet characters built by the renowned Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
It's Queen Trollbella's birthday and she's throwing herself an epic celebration. She has everything a troll girl would want: musicians, magical creatures, carnival rides, a gigantic cake, and more. So why isn't she having any fun? Trollbella knows something is missing, until she meets a goblin boy sneaking into her party. It's his birthday too! When Trollbella decides to share her party, she knows she's finally figured out what is missing. A happy kingdom and learning to give back is the best gift she could've ever received.
In the highly anticipated conclusion to the Land of Stories series, Conner and Alex must brave the impossible. All of the Land of Stories fairy tale characters--heroes and villains--are no longer confined within their world! With mayhem brewing in the Big Apple, Conner and Alex will have to win their biggest battle yet. Can the twins restore order between the human and fairy tale world?
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Review
The Intel Core 2 Duo and Quad CPUs have been wildly successful in terms of both performance and the ability to overclock like nobody's business. Of course, some better than others. Having dropped from a 65nm to a 45nm manufacturing process earlier this year, Intel has reduced both the required voltage and associated heat generated by this little bit of silicon. Having seen the performance and overclocking abilities of the E8500 and many of its Quad cored brothers, the Q9300, the Q9450 and the QX9770, just how will this higher clocked dual core perform in relation to the quads? The E8400 specs out at a clock speed of 3.0GHz, a front side bus speed of 1333MHz (333), 6MB of L2 cache, and a 45nm process to be used in socket LGA775 motherboards.
The question is asked many times a day, "what's better, a Dual core or a Quad core?" In reality, it all depends on what you do with the computer you build. Some say the duals are better for gaming, others vehemently disagree and spout the virtues of the Quad core category. Let's see if this comparison of CPU performance can end some of this debate or whether it will just add some more fuel to the already simmering flame wars!
Closer Look:
The Intel E8400 we have today is not an engineering sample but a full fledged store bought retail version. As such, it comes in the retail packaging, not the pretty jewel box the ES chips are sent to us in. The front panel shows the Intel Core 2 Duo brand ID as well as highlighting the fact that the E8400 is a 45nm desktop product. The rear panel includes warranty information, basic specifications and a motherboard compatibility warning.
Through the top of the box you can see the E8400; this makes looking through a bunch of CPUs at the local store to find that optimum stepping a bit easier. If that's not a concern then it's simply a way to see what you are getting. The side panel includes much of the information that can be seen by looking at the CPU. The production code, batch/ FPO number, and date packed are all additional information that can be checked on this panel of the package.
Once pulled from the box, the contents are in plain view. Included with the CPU (since this is a retail CPU) is the heatsink asembly and a booklet detailing the installation of the CPU.
The heatsink that is included is quite a bit slimmer than those used with the 65nm processors. With the lower voltage requirements this should not be an issue for day to day non-overclocked use. The assembly uses the Intel push pin style locking mechanism to make sure the heatsink assembly stays put once it is locked into place. The heatsink does come with a pre-applied thermal compound that actually spreads out quite nicely. The four pin power plug allows the fan to be dynamically controlled by the motherboard to reduce fan speed (i.e noise) when the computer is idle as well as ramping the fan speed back up when a load is imposed on the CPU.
Finally, the subject of this review, the 45nm E8400. Featuring a 1333MHz bus speed with a clock multiplier of 9, this CPU has a rated speed of 3.0GHz. This makes it faster than all but two of the 8000 series of Core 2 CPUs. L2 cache comes in the form of 3MB per core for a total of 6MB. This CPU is designed to be used in motherboards that use an LGA 775 socket for the processor.
Now let's see how well the E8400 performs across our series of benchmarks. I smell smoke!


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Matador, The (US - DVD R1)
Gabe Powers walks into a Mexican bar with an assassin and a salesman...
Pierce Brosnan is Julian Noble, a tired hit man working his way to retirement. Greg Kinnear is Danny Wright, a salesman on his last leg, losing faith in himself and desperately holding onto a loving relationship with his High School sweetheart. When these two men meet in a Mexico City hotel bar, an unlikely friendship is forged, due mostly to Julian's overwhelming loneliness which causes him to practically stalk Danny. When Julian happens back into Danny's life six months after their initial meeting, the now successful family man has to make some hard choices—whether to continue his normal life, or to help the friend he barely knows.
I've been doing this DVD reviewing gig for almost two years now. Before that I watched a lot of movies on my own, but always trusted my reading of trailers and taste to lead me away from sub par features, meaning I simply didn't watch a movie if it didn't interest me. Even when I began reviewing discs for DVDActive, I tended to pick titles that sounded intriguing. Lately I've started receiving screeners for discs I did not ask for, nor was I at all interested in viewing in the first place. Usually my hunches are correct, but sometimes I'm way off. This might be the first time that I was this far off.
I remember thinking, "do we really need another film about hit men and their problems?". No, we really don't, the bases have been covered over the past hundred years. What could Pierce Brosnan and some writer/director I've never heard of possible have to add to this tired formula? Apparently they had quite a bit. I've seen burned-out hit men, but never hit men this lonely, this obnoxiously dependant on human contact. It takes a special character and a special actor to make such an equally cool and pathetic character as Julian Nobel (ironic last name aside of course).
The last thing I thought I needed, other than another hit man story, was another sexy-cool performance from Brosnan. I honestly feel that detachment from the frankly awful Bond franchise was the best thing that could've happened to the aging, once promising actor, but this role didn't sound like the career rejuvenator all the critics claimed it was. It sounded like a lesser James Bond. Again, I was wrong. Director Richard Shepard has ingeniously cast Brosnan against type, knowing that the movie-going public still associates the actor with 007, knowing that their misconceptions will actually improve the performance. Shocking though it may be, the critical hype surrounding this role is 100% accurate; this is Brosnan at his finest.
Speaking of stuff I didn't need, I really didn't need another light-hearted, faux-independent screwball comedy. Aren't we all tired of this one note joke movies yet? I certainly thought I was, but continuing this epic streak, I was wrong. I haven't laughed this much at a film that was supposed to be funny in quite some time. The Matador isn't too light, but never seeps into the dark places world-weary audiences may assume it will, and though I've always been a fan of darker stories, I was very happy this one never changed its direction. It maintains pathos without ever getting too heavy, and makes one feel good without ever devolving into total sap.
Brosnan is good, but another quirky turn from Greg Kinnear, please, I needed that like a hole in the head. But what's this, Kinnear is also fantastic? Oh come on, I'm never this wrong. Apparently I am. Kinnear more than holds his own against Brosnan as the film's morally centred straight man, as is Hope Davis as Danny's loving and adorable wife. I ended up loving these characters in spite of myself, and though somewhat plot-heavy, this taught little film is all about the performances and characters.
And any film with its climax taking place in my home town of Tucson, AZ can't be all bad, right?
The Matador looks spectacular. I may have forgotten to mention how beautifully shot this flick is. Made in Mexico City, one of the most oddly beautiful and colourful cities on earth, this DVD is a feast for the eyes. David Tattersall, cinematographer for the Star Wars prequels has outdone himself, crafting a surreal but believable environment. The disc reproduces these colours nearly perfectly, without any major edge enhancement. If forced to look for inadequacies in this transfer I'd point to a few of the night time sequences, which often aren't black enough and can contain some low level noise. However, when accompanied by bright reds and yellows, the black levels are spot on.
It takes a special ear to select catalogue music for a film successfully. The all time champion of this art is, of course, Martin Scorsese, though protégés Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, and Paul Thomas Anderson can all hold their own in the area. Recently I reviewed Transamerica for the Weinstein Company, and mentioned that the majority of the music selections seemed forced. Sometimes it works to choose against type. For the most part Richard Shepard has selected successfully here, especially the use of 'Heat of the Moment', an awful song made good because of its context in the scene. Rob Zombie recently did the same thing with Lynard Skynard's 'Free Bird', a song I thought I'd never want to hear again until I saw the film.
The DVD's 5.1 Dolby Digital track is solid. For the majority of the film it is subtle and the surround effects well structured. Music is well balanced and clear, but occasionally dialogue is too quiet. I'd be alright with cranking up the volume a bit to hear the stilted dialogue, but the occasional bursts of sound, such as thunder, car bombs, and bull fight crowd cheers are far too loud in comparison. Surprisingly, the few meaty sound effects in the film are some of the most realistic and jarring I've heard since Saving Private Ryan.
Genius Products still hasn't release an incendiary DVD collection, though perhaps the Weinstein's are holding onto Kill Bill with grand plans (we can hope, right), and The Matador is no exception. The meat and potatoes of the disc are its thirty minutes of deleted scenes. Each scene comes with optional writer/director commentary, and Shepard is good and lucid about why scenes were deleted and how their deletion helped the film. I'd have to agree with his choices in every case, as most of these scenes are moot and would've hurt the film's brisk runtime.
After the deleted scenes one may be inclined to check out the commentaries. Shepard's solo commentary is well planned, and the writer/director leaves little silent space on the track. Unfortunately, though informative, I found the track pretty dry, and in the end just not entertaining. Shepard seems like a fun enough guy, but the track was real hard going for me. I recommend cutting straight to the actor/director commentary featuring the livelier Brosnan and Kinnear. Sometimes a group effort commentary is better for pure entertainment value.
The remaining features are of the fluffy variety. 'Making The Matador' is really short, and obviously made as a EPK rather than an in depth study of the film. The radio discussion with Shepard was taken from public radio, and though more informative than the featurette, listening to a radio broadcast on DVD is about as much fun as it sounds, as in not. Things are wrapped up with some TV spots and trailers, including trailers to pretty much every single Genius Products release to date. Hey guys, why'd you choose to send me Bridezillas but not Mrs. Henderson Presents?
The Matador is a film I had absolutely no interest in enjoying. The only reason I watched it instead of the many other screeners flooding my mailbox as of late was because it was the shortest in running length. I'm not much of a Brosnan or Kinnear fan, and have had my fill of contract killer movies, not to mention quirky, pseudo-independent comedies. Despite all of this I adored this film. Take that for what it's worth, and stay tuned for the credits to catch one of my all time favourite songs, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs' Matador, which was the song I sung to myself every time I heard the film's title before its release. Oh, and ignore the recent ads for the DVD that sell it like an action film, it is not.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Steven Carrier Senior Member Join Date: November 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1,575
I dont really want to see this and one of my best friends say it was a waste of his time. But ya know, Ill see anything once...
Thembones Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 287
This movie was actually better than I thought it would be. Pierce was really good in it and I can't stand Kinnear sometimes but he's growing on me. This is one of those, if you're bored with what's on the rental shelf, check Matador out. It's not too long and it's worth more than the rental. Not quite sure if it's worthy enough to add to the collection though. Have to see it again and if the DVD had deleted scenes with a bunch of extras, perhaps.
Dutchmarvel Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 61
The movie don´t get the change in The Netherlands.
There skipt the release date so much that it coming out now in mabey November-December on dvd.
The problem is that it is the same company as After The Sunset and The Human Stain and also there give those 2 movie´s not realy a change.
Now I must saying that only Mrs Doubtfire,The Thomas Crown Afair and the Bond movie´s releasd in the Dutch cinema with Brosnan in it and much of the Brosnan movie´s don´t releasd here. Evelyn get a change on tv in 2005.
There skipt the release date so much that it coming out now in mabey November-December on dvd.
The problem is that it is the same company as After The Sunset and The Human Stain and also there give those 2 movie´s not realy a change.
Now I must saying that only Mrs Doubtfire,The Thomas Crown Afair and the Bond movie´s releasd in the Dutch cinema with Brosnan in it and much of the Brosnan movie´s don´t releasd here. Evelyn get a change on tv in 2005.
Simon Abrams Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: United States Posts: 710
This was really entertaining and depite the fact that Brosnan in real life does not seem to have any semblance of a sense of humor, he's pretty funny. I saw ads for this on TV and they made it seem to be a big gritty action film. I was appalled by the shoddy marketing, and then laughed at the people who'll be duped into seeing it because of those ads.
Matt Contributor Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,113
Simon Abrams wrote: ...Brosnan in real life does not seem to have any semblance of a sense of humor...
How could a man who got his start in show business as a fire-eater not have a sense of humor?
How could a man who got his start in show business as a fire-eater not have a sense of humor?
bondfool Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 120
Good review, but I have to take offense to the "frankly awful Bond franchise." It's good. Can't wait for your review of Bridezillas.
Simon Abrams Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: United States Posts: 710
I say he has no sense of humor because of how stiff he was on "Daily Show" and other late night stuff; he looked so pained whenever somebody tried to make a joke, as if it were so beneath him to be there. Frankly I don't think he's that good in the Bond films anyway and am looking forward to Daniel Craig in "Casino Royale."
Regardless of where he came from, I think right now Brosnan takes himself very seriously, and needs to seriously come off his high horse.
Regardless of where he came from, I think right now Brosnan takes himself very seriously, and needs to seriously come off his high horse.
Matt Contributor Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,113
Simon Abrams wrote: I say he has no sense of humor because of how stiff he was on "Daily Show"...he looked so pained whenever somebody tried to make a joke, as if it were so beneath him to be there.
Jon Stewart has that affect on me too, and I like to think that I have a pretty good sense of humor.
Jon Stewart has that affect on me too, and I like to think that I have a pretty good sense of humor.
mikey mike Member Join Date: March 2006 Location: Yemen Posts: 256
yeah this movie was funny as hell. if it had a better mid section it could have been a great movie
Mr.Badass Banned Join Date: April 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 539
i really like it
E. Costigan Senior Member Join Date: January 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,026
A fresh, neat idea turned into an absolutely hilarious dark comedy. I just bought it. We have a better artwork in Canada.
YlowBstard Member Join Date: February 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 854
Eliason A. wrote: A fresh, neat idea turned into an absolutely hilarious dark comedy. I just bought it. We have a better artwork in Canada.
I agree. What a surprise this was. To me it`s one of the years very best. Oh, and the Canadian cover is far superior. The colours and layout were very well done and represent the movie better IMO.
I agree. What a surprise this was. To me it`s one of the years very best. Oh, and the Canadian cover is far superior. The colours and layout were very well done and represent the movie better IMO.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,835
Great review, Gabe. I need to see this movie. Been wanting to see it for a while now.
Darrell Judd Member Join Date: March 2002 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 115
Along with The Tailor Of Panama, this is one of Brosnan's best films. I liked his stint as Bond as he rejuvenated the series but as an "anti Bond" character..... he is brilliant.
Jonathan Bennett Member Join Date: March 2005 Location: United States Posts: 600
I liked this one alot, and luckily, it seems the Borders/Barnes and Noble here has the original DVD cover that has the original poster, instead of the c**ppy revised one.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 4th July 2006
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Director/Writer Commentary, Actor Commentary, Eleven Deleted and Extended Scenes with Optional Commentary, 'Making The Matador', 'The Business and the Treatment' Radio Program, Trailer and TV Spot
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Richard Shepard
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Arlin Miller, Azucena Medina, Jonah Meyerson, Wiveca Bonerais.
Genre: Comedy
Length: 97 minutes
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Father Evdokinov has written: "God created the angels in silence, so our fathers tell us. God guides those who are silent, whereas those who are restless cause the angels to laugh".
I believe that the angels laugh at this world of ours, so full of restlessness, at all our meetings with their overflow of words, at our talk that cannot create relationship.
I think the angels also laugh at us, dedicated Christians though we are, who should remember Psalm 127: "Except the Lord build the house,/ They labour in vain that build it./ Except the Lord keep the city,/ The watchman wakes in vain./ It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late,/ To eat the bread of sorrows:/ For so he gives his beloved sleep". I think the angels laugh at us, who know this psalm and repeat it frequently in our prayers, but who are breathless with anxiety and worry about too many things, even in our pastoral work.
I must congratulate Father Laurence, whose book will continue to help men and women – both religious and ordinary church-goers, as well as those still searching for an answer – to enter into Christian meditation and the experience of silence. Christian meditation makes all the difference!
Through Christian meditation you meet God. It produces the inner attitude that makes contemplation possible. A capacity for contemplation, whatever the life you lead and whatever your knowledge of theology. When, as a parish priest, Saint Jean Vianney asked the peasant in Ars what he said to the Lord when he stood looking up at the shrine, he replied: "I gaze at him and he gazes at me!".
As it was for the prophet Elijah, so also for us the voice of God that touches the heart and renews the inner self normally comes not in a great strong wind, nor in an earthquake, nor a fire, but in a still small voice.
An enlightened representative of modern Hinduism, Vivekananda, has also written:
Sit by the edge of the dawn / and the sun will rise for you.
Sit by the edge of the night / and the stars will shine for you.
Sit by the edge of the stream / and the nightingale will sing for you.
Sit by the edge of silence / and God will speak to you.
So, too, the Muslim mystic, al-Hallag, declared: "People go on pilgrimage to Mecca, but I go on pilgrimage to He who dwells in me".
Saint John Chrysostom also helps us to understand that this is indeed the path: "Seek the key to the heart. That key, you will find, opens the gate of the Kingdom, too".
Father Laurence helps people to discover that key as well.
First he helps people to be present to themselves, "to be here and now". "The mind lives in the past thinking of things that have happened; or it makes plans for the future, imagining what will happen, often in a state of anxiety and worry…It is very hard, on the whole, to stay rooted in the present" (J. Goldstein). Precisely because we are not wholly in the present moment, we lack the inner serenity and the ability to radiate peace.
In one of the documents from the monastic community in Taisé we find: "Within each human being there is an expectancy that never ceases and is never lost. It is our waiting for God. Even in those who do not believe that expectancy is there, implicitly. For a believer it is the hope for that which cannot be seen. It is there, for the Christian also, this contemplative waiting for Jesus Christ who loves, prays and is reconciled in us. In this expectancy, to all those who listen to God by day and by night, comes the answer: peace".
Christian meditation does not detach us from the world and from our brothers and sisters. Quite the contrary. According to Saint Serafinus of Sarov: "First find inner peace and silence, and a multitude of human beings will find salvation in you".
Saint Basil states with great confidence that: "He who prays has his hand on the rudder of history".
Professor Giorgio La Pira, the great Christian mayor of Florence whose centenary of birth we are now celebrating in 2004, was profoundly convinced of this truth. When he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948 he wrote: "Always return to the root: deep prayer as meditation and adoration. The grace of Christ, with the gifts of the Spirit that grace brings and the gentle presence of the adorable Trinity in us: this is the propulsive source of energy: the spring of living water is here: this source and this spring launch the apostolic movement that is destined to involve other souls in this divine circuit of grace and charity". For this reason he also taught that "a cloistered monastery, thanks to the potency of prayer it contains, becomes the power moving the whole history of mankind" and defined prayer as "the most profound, the most revolutionary form of political action".
Thus, as Father Laurence so rightly teaches, meditation is not an escape from our problems, it is not a passing on the other side or a going beyond the world of the needy, but rather the acquisition of that freedom, generosity and quickness which allows you to give not only that which is yours, but to offer your very life.
Inner silence and Christian meditation enable the Holy Spirit, which dwells in us, to love God in us, with us and through us. It is "the grace of friendship"!
Since it is true that the world of today, as Pope Paul VI so aptly put it, would rather listen to witnesses than to teachers and, if it listens to teachers it does so because they too bear witness, this book will help many by the strength of the experience as witnessed by Father Laurence, and will make many of us understand that if we wish to teach others the way to deep prayer, to authentic contemplation, then there is no other way but this: to show the way by walking ahead along this path.
Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, emeritus Archbishop of Florence (Italy), was born on 21 February 1924 at Ronta in the Mugello near Florence. He studied at the seminary in Florence (1935-1947) and was ordained in 1947 (13th July).
His first job, given to him by Cardinal Elia dalla Costa, was to be assistant vicar to don Giulio Facibeni in the parish church of Rifredi, where the latter had founded the association of the Divina Provvidenza "Madonnina del Grappa"[1]. His work in Rifredi, as a very young priest in the early post-war years, brought him face to face with the serious issues of a vast and complicated parish community on the industrial outskirts of Florence that was developing around two large factories.
In October 1948, he was offered a job that would deeply influence his life as teacher and priest: for twelve years he worked with don Enrico Bartoletti, as the assistant rector of the minor Seminary. At that time life in Florence was dominated by such figures as Giorgio La Pira, Nicola Pistelli and don Raffaello Bensi; these were the intense and productive years prior to the Vatican Council.
When Monsignor Bartoletti was transferred to Lucca in 1960, he was made dean at Castelfiorentino, a large town on the borders of the archdiocese, close to Volterra and Siena, which had a long tradition of vigorous politics and strong ideology, where in there post-war years there had been violent tension and a resurgent anti-clericalism, resulting in a rift in the social and religious life of the area. He carried on the work of restoring peace that his predecessor, Monsignor Giovanni Bianchi, who became Bishop of Pescia, and thereby he laid the foundations of a respectful and productive collaboration. His main task, however, was to awaken the church community to its responsibilities. Thus he set up the first experiment in the Archdiocese of how to conduct a pastoral community: the first pastoral parish council to deal not only with specifically pastoral issues, but also with administrative matters.
In 1979, Cardinal Giovanni Benelli, Archbishop of Florence, called him to join the Curia of the Archdiocese, and gave him a job as Pro-Vicario and later Vicario Generale.
On 28 May 1982 he was elected to the titular Church of Tubune in Mauritania, and was made Assistant Bishop at the same time. He had already accompanied Cardinal Benelli on his pastoral visits: an experience that had been "thought anew" and carried out with radically new criteria compared to such visits in the recent past, which strove both to evangelise and encourage the laity to undertake specifically missionary tasks.
At Cardinal Benelli's sudden death, in 1982, he took on the pastoral care of the Archdiocese and on 18 March 1983 John Paul II made him Archbishop of Florence.
He was nominated Cardinal of the Concistorio of 25 May 1985, with the Title of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Via Tionfale.
From the 21 March 2001 he is the Emeritus Archbishop of Florence.
[1] The Madonnina del Grappa takes care of the education of very poor boys and orphans.


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Justin Timberlake Wears a "Suit & Tie" as an actor too
Justin Timberlake is back on the music scene, but that doesn't mean he's done acting. Far from it: JTims came out to present Best Supporting Actress at the Screen Actor's Guild Awards, an honor he earned thanks to parts in movies like "The Social Network," "Trouble with the Curve" and "Alpha Dog." Of course, he wore a suit and tie to do the deed. Nice shout out to your new single, Mr. Timberlake. --Terri Schwartz, Zap2it
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Fixing the Roads: A Blueprint for Michigan Transportation Infrastructure Policy
This comprehensive study is the only one available that documents Michigan's road needs, illuminates the diversion of hundreds of millions of Michigan road dollars to nonroad and non-Michigan use, demonstrates how Michigan can save over $170 million annually, and shows that a gas tax increase is not needed if funding diversions are stopped and modest savings measures are enacted. Several of its recommendations have been implemented. 40 pages.


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Date: Oct 28, 2012
Press Release Number: 152-2012
All public and private bus carriers serving the Port Authority Bus Terminal will suspend service by early Monday morning due to the impending landfall of Hurricane Sandy, the Port Authority announced tonight.
NJ Transit, the primary public bus carrier serving the terminal, will suspend all service as of 2 a.m. Monday. The following private sector carriers will run their last buses at the following times:
Port Authority customers should check http://www.panynj.gov/ for updated information about all Port Authority facilities. For information about safety precautions, evacuation routes and best practices for NY State, visit http://www.governor.ny.gov/stormwatch; and for NJ, visit www.ready.nj.gov.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Founded in 1921, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency's network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities is among the busiest in the country, supports more than 550,000 regional jobs, and generates more than $23 billion in annual wages and $80 billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where construction crews are building the iconic One World Trade Center, which is now the tallest skyscraper in New York. The Port Authority receives no tax revenue from either the state of New York or New Jersey or from the City of New York. The agency relies on revenues generated by facility users, tolls, fees and rents as well as loans, bond financing, and federal grants to fund its operations. For more information, please visithttp://www.panynj.gov.


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Carolyn Adams
Carolyn Adams was a principal dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1965 to 1982, distinguishing herself in Taylor masterpieces such as Esplanade, Aureole, Cloven Kingdaom and Arden Court. Ms. Adams is founding artistic director of the New York State Summer School of the Arts School of Dance and, with her sister, Julie Adams Strandberg, is co-founder of the American Dance Legacy Institute and creator and curator for the Repertory Etudes(tm) Collection. Faculty Emerita at The Juilliard School, she currently serves on the faculty at the Alvin Ailey School. Winner of numerous awards and citations, Ms. Adams has served on panels for NYSCA, the NEA and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and chaired Dance/USA's national task force on dance education. She is married to former Paul Taylor dancer, Robert Kahn. Carolyn Adams is the Co-Founder of American Dance Legacy Initiative and the Founding Director of the New York State Summer School of the Arts School of Dance.


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Hidden Gems: Best Nurseries from Our Home Tours
We profile creative and beautiful nurseries all year long, but there are also many wonderful nurseries to discover hidden within our daily home tours. Not only are these inspirational nurseries fun to explore, but you can see how they fit in with the rest of the family home.
• Inge's Nursery in Matt & Betsy's Color-Inspired Coach House
• Coco's Nursery in Rachel's Sweet Life
• Nursery in The Roeders' Modern Life is Beautiful
• Wren's Nursery in Andrew & Rebecca's Modern Vintage Country Home
• Baby Oscar's Nursery in Justine & Angus Cook Up Some Style in Toronto
• Mason's Nursery in Annie & Pierson's Bright and Cheerful Home
• Julian's Nursery in Jonya & Brad's Modern A-Frame
• Noa's Nursery in Zev & Michal's Bold, Bright City Condo
• Nursery in Francis & Jane Adapt a Loft to a Growing Family
• Sasha's Nursery in Nadia's "Our House Is A Very Very Very Fine House"
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Nestor's Dock
by Tom LaBaff
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Image: Phil speaks with Mud. Mud folds its arms and turns away.
Phil says, "Dirt poor?"
Mud says, "Thanks."
Image: Phil puts his hand on Mud. Mud still looks sad.
Phil says, "Hey, come on. Life starts with you, man! Without you there'd be no apple trees or watermelons or mud baths for movie stars!"
Image: Phil grabs a handful of mud and shows it to Mud.
Phil says, "Look. You're full of life! Beetles, microorganisms, earthworms."
Image: Mud hugs Phil, and smiles.
Mud says, "I feel better now. Thank you, little friend."
Image: Phil pulls a worm from Mud.
Phil says, "Hey, do you mind if I take a couple of these worms?"
Mud says, "Help yourself."
Image: Stilts stands on the dock, and another boy walks up with a fishing pole, and begins fishing.
Stilts says, "Hi, Nestor, have you seen Phil?"
Nestor says, "I saw him downriver, rolling around in the mud."
Stilts says, "Are you sure it was Phil?"
Image: Phil appears with a handful of worms. He is very dirty.
Phil says, "Oh, Stilts? You owe me a LOT of gummies!"
- microorganism: An organism so tiny that it can be seen only with a microscope.
- reputation: The quality of someone as judged by others.
- What kinds of things can you find in mud?
- Why does Phil say to Mud, "Without you there'd be no apple trees or watermelons or mud baths for movie stars" What does Phil mean? Explain your answer in a sentence or two.


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How Do I Get Discount on Gift Card?
How do I get the discount on the gift card. I put one for $100 in my cart and went to the cart. There was no $10 discount as promo described. Is there a code?
jaunke_29fff27795 Posts: 144
I got my discount at check out.
So you'll need to checkout to get the 10%, if i'm not mistaken.
If that doesn't work you can always fill in a support ticket.
Hope this helps
Grtz Jean-Claude
Worked for me a few hours ago, all I did was check out and there it was. But since then others have checked out and not gotten the discount -- yeah, best to contact Support. 8-/
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luci45 Posts: 2,136KickAir 8P said:Worked for me a few hours ago, all I did was check out and there it was. But since then others have checked out and not gotten the discount -- yeah, best to contact Support. 8-/
Thanks to you both. Didn't work for me so I submitted a support ticket.
FYI from the other thread: the discounts on Gift Cards for $50 or $200 and over seem to be applying fine, it's $100-ish ones that are glitching.
Mods, candidate for a thread-merge?
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Just for info, looks like the discount is now working as I just bought a $100 GC and was charged $90.
(This was my third attempt over the last two days, as my cart also showed no discount on the first two tries, but third time lucky as they say!)
Quick reminder that today's the last day for 5-15% off on DAZ gift cards -- if you can get a $200 one for yourself before midnight DAZ-time, this means that everything you buy with it has effectively been pre-dicounted 15%, no matter whose it is or what other sales it's on. :coolsmile:screenshot.24-12-2012_15_.04_.38_.png707 x 527 - 338K


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The price of gas in Orange County dropped to $4.08 a gallon on Monday, continuing a slide that started one month ago.
The cost of regular unleaded peaked in the county at $4.31 on Feb. 27 and has declined for 27 continuous days since then, said Jeffrey Spring, spokesman for the Automobile Club of Southern California.
The Auto Club does not predict fuel prices, but "indicators are heading downward," Spring said, adding that the price of oil has been fairly static. West Texas Intermediate crude oil closed at $94.81 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Monday, up $1.10 from last week.
"Unless there's some issue that causes a problem with production or something political, we shouldn't see anything pointing to an increase at this point," he said.
Orange County gas costs 2 cents more per gallon than the state average of $4.06, and 4 cents less than in Los Angeles. Spring said that was unusual because gas is usually more expensive here than in L.A.
Gas prices have settled down after rising sharply in February, when refineries shut down temporarily to switch to a cleaner summer fuel blend. Those plants finished their maintenance and returned back to full production late in the month, Spring said.
Compared with the rest of the nation, Orange County commuters pay 11 percent more than the average of $3.67 for a gallon of regular gasoline. That's a price drivers here haven't seen since Jan. 11.
The lowest price for a gallon of regular unleaded in Orange County on Monday was $3.87 at an Arco station on West La Palma Avenue and North Euclid Street in Anaheim, according to OrangeCountyGasPrices.com, where users report gas prices. The most expensive gallon was $4.39 at a Mobil station on Brookhurst Street and Hamilton Avenue in Huntington Beach.
The local gas market has been particularly volatile lately. Monday's $4.08 per gallon price was 23 cents less than one month ago in Orange County. That's a bigger drop than in any other region in the state. Last month, the county experienced the biggest price hike in the state. Spring said the reason for the volatility was not immediately apparent and that the markets might just be "trying to find some equilibrium."
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Event: Bollywood actors Shahrukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Chitrangda Singh, filmmaker Anurag Basu, Boman Irani, Manoj Bajpai, Chunky Pandey, Kashmira Shah and Krishna Abhishek were spotted at Airport on their return from Times of India Film Awards 2013 (TOIFA) held in Vancouver.
Guest List: Shahrukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Chitrangda Singh, Anurag Basu, Boman Irani, Manoj Bajpai, Kashmira Shah, Chunky Pandey, Krishna Abhishek
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Anil Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aparshakti Khurrana, Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajkumar Hir...


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Please read each grant's full description to learn about eligibility requirements, selection criteria, application process, and deadlines. Remember, an early start helps build the most compelling and competitive application.
Application Advice
- Visit the websites of individual fellowships for comprehensive, up-to-date information.
- Talk to professors and others with expertise in your area of interest. Even if they don't have any specific suggestions, they may connect you to someone who does or may later serve as a good source for a letter of recommendation.
- Check out websites for organizations in your academic discipline, e.g. National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Poets & Writers, Inc. They often list applicable grants.
- Utilize your summer; those three homework-free months are a perfect time to explore possibilities, network, and soul search.
- Brainstorm. Knowing exactly what you want is probably the most difficult part of the application process. Take some time to write down what it is you'd like to do and most importantly, why. Having a clear sense of purpose from the get-go will be indispensible when writing your personal statement and/or proposal, and later (hopefully!) during interviews.
- Start early. Applications take considerable time and effort. Many involve background research and all require multiple draft revisions. Most fellowships also require letters of recommendation from faculty and others. Be considerate of their time and request letters well in advance of deadlines.
- Ask questions. The majority of fellowship applications are online and include detailed instructions, but if you are at all confused, please call, email, or set up an appointment. We're here to help
- Clarify your academic and personal interests. Before you begin to write an essay for an application, you should be able to describe with relative ease why you have chosen to apply for the fellowship and why it is so important to you, both professionally and personally.
- Be honest. Don't overstate your travel or research experience. If your proposed area of study is inconsistent with your background, try to connect your newfound passion with your previous experiences.
- Avoid gross generalizations. Don't say your job or internship taught you a lot about yourself or that you're going to save the world with your research. Additionally, do not open your personal statement with a quote from John F. Kennedy or Mother Teresa.
- Be concise. Avoid over-used adverbs and grandiose vocabulary. Be yourself, but be precise.
- Enlist help. Fellowship advisors will assist you with revisions, but having an outside reviewer– a tutor at the Writing Center, faculty member, parent, or friend – read through your essay can be enormously helpful. At least one of your reviewers should be someone who is not familiar with your area of research or proposal so they can tell you if your essay makes sense to the layman.
- Appreciate the process. Writing about yourself is never easy, and writing about yourself in a way that will grab the attention of your reader is still more difficult. But even if you don't win a fellowship, the writing and revising process will help you refine your goals and write stronger essays for future applications.


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Restoration Hardware Streamer Trunk Style TV Stands
If the standard television console or stand aren't cutting it and you're looking for something with a historical flavor to it, or if your name happens to be Howard Hughes, these Restoration Hardware TV consoles might tickle your retro-style loving fancy...
The Richards' Metal Media Trunk, Richards' Canvas Media Trunk, and Mayfair Steamer Media Trunk all harken to an era of streamliners and the Spruce Goose. But instead of holding all your finest duds, these trunks were designed to be topped with the latest and greatest in display technology.
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Random House Children's Books announced Monday that it will publish the picture story "Snowflakes Fall," by Newbery Medal winner Patricia MacLachlan and her longtime friend and former Newtown, Conn., resident, Steven Kellogg.
The book comes out Nov. 12 and will feature words and images about the Connecticut community where a gunman killed 20 elementary school students and six faculty members.
The publisher will donate a portion of proceeds to an organization that helps the Sandy Hook community.
MacLachlan won the Newbery, given to the writer of the year's best children's book, in 1986 for "Sarah, Plain and Tall."


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If you love to stay in good shape and lift weights, there is a good chance it may have resulted in unwanted body acne. We all know the benefits of exercise and all good it is for your health, but getting body acne is certainly something we would all prefer to avoid. However, it may not always be possible.
There are a number of reasons you may get body acne by lifting weights and one of the most common is due to perspiration. Most of us do perspire when we exercise and this can strongly contribute to body acne. Many of us may not be aware of this when it is occurring, but it is highly likely.
The perspiration can lead to clogging the skin's pores which can immediately result in body acne. This is a common problem among athletes as well as weight lifters alike. So, what do you do about this problem if you are dealing with regularly?
Well, it is certainly better to continue weigh lifting rather than quit altogether. The benefits of exercise have been proven many times and you should not quite because of the body acne you are experiencing.
There are some things you can do help prevent the perspiration from directly contacting your skin and one of the best is to wear proper clothing when exercising. There are certain clothes that are designed just for exercise and help prevent excessive perspiration. This is a good idea to help alleviate body acne.
Another suggestion is by carrying a towel with you at all times when you are exercising and wipe off the perspiration. This is a very easy fix and can allow you a great way to prevent body acne very effectively as well as easily.


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Fergie, Your Shirt Says It All: You're The #1 Princess!
All hail Fergie, princess of pop!
We're so used to seeing Fergie, 34, all dolled up for awards shows and performances that it's nice to finally see her looking casual in a t-shirt and jeans. But leave it to Fergie to turn a simple ensemble into a social statement! Her t-shirt reads "No. 1 Princess," and if The Black Eyed Peas win big at the Grammys tomorrow night, we'll have to agree with that slogan. The Peas are up for six Grammy awards, including Record of the Year for "I Gotta Feeling" and Album of the Year for The E.N.D.


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Mormon Grandma Blogger Blasts Disney's Frozen For "Attempting To Normalize Homosexuality"
Kathryn Skaggs, blogger at A Well-Behaved Mormon, sees gay people. Everywhere and in everything, apparently. Skaggs' recent blog post titled, "Frozen: Not Gonna 'Let It Go' When Movie Advocates Gay Agenda" has gone viral thanks to the grandmother's determination to interpret the film's symbolism as gay stuff. Though many, many bloggers and critics find that the storyline and soundtrack lyrics support the idea of loving yourself despite the effort society (read: people like Skaggs) puts forth in demeaning you, the mis-behaving Mormon insists Frozen is nothing but LIBERAL HOLLYWOOD TURNING OUR KIDS GAY.
The gay agenda to normalize homosexuality is woven into Disney's movie Frozen not just as an underlying message - it is the movie. In a liberal culture tenacious at normalizing immorality, stripping those of faith from their ability to speak out in opposition, this needs to be taken seriously. It's one thing that we've all donated to the cause by makingFrozen a record-breaking hit at the box office (myself included), but that's as far it's going, for me, personally.
If you are seriously clueless as to what I'm talking about then it is imperative, particularly for morally minded parents, that you read this post and open your eyes to the homosexual agenda, and the principles advanced to promote it, that undergird Frozen, which is why it was written for Broadway and will indubitably be a hit - mark my words!
Remember, that in today's liberal society allowing almost anything, even legalizing it, in the name of "love" trumps sin - it's that powerful of an ideology. And that my friends, is exactly what Disney is selling your children, while you unknowingly standby and watch.
Skaggs goes on to point out the moments in the movie she's interpreted as carrying "homosexual undertones" [spoiler alert if you haven't seen the Oscar-nominated movie; also, sic]:
Elsa has a great power that she has been taught by her parents from the time she was a child, is not publicly acceptable and that she must fear its expression, at all cost, thus hide it from people, even her own sister who could be hurt by it - even killed. Shame is at the core of Elsa's feelings about her magical powers: same-sex attraction.
As Elsa's power increases, her parents' urge her to learn how to control it, as it would be perceived as evil to others, but Elsa can't; it's impossible. Her parents' make the decision to close the castle to the public, and lock Elsa in her room so that her power won't be discovered. Not even her sister is allowed to see and play with Elsa: demonetization of homosexuals by society.
Elsa is devastatingly lonely and depressed being forced to live a life of isolation, believing her powers to be evil. Her sister, kept from the truth, and affected by the inflicted secrecy also becomes victim to the dysfunction of her family and experiences equal isolation and confusion: not "coming out" and being who you are meant to be (acting on the power) is harmful to the person, family and society.
Sure, these instances can be deciphered as references to anything that makes someone feel ostracized, be it class, race, illness, religion. Heck, doesn't the new war motto of the Christian homophobic movement present modern day fundamentalist bigots in this exact light?
Skaggs insists she's not a homophobe, however. "Let me be very clear about one thing, I am not anti-gay nor am I here to judge homosexuals not worthy of their rightful and respectful place among society. However, I draw the line at the idea of redefining traditional marriage to include homosexual relationships, as equal."
If her only qualm with an American minority group is our desire for fair, equal treatment under the law and nothing more, then what the hell is her problem with a movie that, in her opinion, promotes being yourself? Frozen's messages can be interpreted in countless ways, but what would be so wrong if a kid struggling with sexuality finds parallels that align with Skagg's decoding? She would rather the kid feel demonized and suicidal than supported and loved by uplifting themes?
The only agenda presented here is that of Skaggs, and it's so evil it might be worthy of its own Disney fairytale.
(Editor's note: Skaggs has since disabled comments on her blog post.)
WOW, I really feel bad for this Grandmother. For a person to be so Paranoid about anything that she now sees and interprets everything that she does see as a gay agenda then it is really sad for her. This person needs to speak with a professional about seeing what is before her and not what she wants to see. As a GAY Catholic I will ask God to help her and all those like her to see that above all gay people are people and as such deserve all the respect and right of people.
Hahaha.. crazy lady. I thought only lgbt people would read FROZEN as a metaphor for the inner struggle we all go through at some point in our lives to be ourselves and "let it go". But this lady is obviously either gay herself or simply trying to hunt us down... wait... it could be both. Maybe she's mad because in her generation she had no choice but to be a closet case.
Did she even notice the change in disney's message about the stupid happily ever after philosophy they've been promoting for decades and has affected negatively generations of men and women around the world? Did she miss the empowering message for women and the compassionate version of men. Any minority can relate with this feeling of isolation from Elsa. What's next? Is she going to go against the XMen saga? Because it's clearer there and the smartypants missed it.
After reading this I see that this lady has nothing better to do with her time, rather then sit and blog about a movie that is far from gay as I have ever seen she should call her internet provider and cancel her access to the web. I recently seen this movie not too long ago with my family and enjoyed it very much and like the writer of this article I viewed the move as teaching people not just kids to love themselves and not to be ashamed of who they are, which in turn can cause more harm then hiding who you truly are. Not only am I a Christian, but I am also gay at that and take serious offense to the ignorance and fear that others of my faith are spreading, and to now attack a child's cartoon is utterly ridiculous and uncalled for.


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By Wayne Veysey | Chief Correspondent
Frank Lampard has rejected an offer from Everton as the Premier League elite circle ahead of his summer exit from Chelsea, Goal.comhas learned.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham are among the clubs who have asked to be kept informed of the 34-year-old's situation.
But the firmest interest in England has come from Everton, who are believed to have offered Lampard a three-year contract that was subsequently turned down.
The midfielder will leave Chelsea at the end of the season after being told he will not get a new contract from the European champions.
Goal.com understands that Lampard would prefer a move to the MLS in the United States rather than join another English club, with LA Galaxy his most likely destination.
There has also been strong interest in the England international from clubs in Serie A but the Chelsea stalwart has reservations about moving to Italy.
Lampard will be one of the most sought-after free agents in the world this summer, when his 12-year association with Chelsea will come to an end.
He was told by the west London club at a meeting last week that he will not be offered an extension to his current £150,000-a-week deal, even on reduced terms.
This has prompted a stampede of interest in the player, who demonstrated his value once again by scoring his 10th goal of the season for club and country on Saturday in Chelsea's 5-1 FA Cup win at Southampton.
Lampard's colleague John Terry broke ranks on Friday to question Chelsea's stance on the failure to award the long-serving midfielder a new contract.
Terry posted a photograph of himself and Lampard on his Instagram account holding the FA Cup, accompanied by the comment: "Devastated is an understatement. We should retire the No8 in honour of Lamps."
Terry also posted a series of hashtags, which included "hero", "legend" and "goalmachine".


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LOS ANGELES, March 11 (UPI) -- Lucasfilm Animation says it plans to "wind down" its "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" TV series, which airs on America's Cartoon Network.
The news comes as Lucasfilm is preparing to make three live-action, big-screen "Star Wars" sequels.
"As we enter into an exciting new era focused on the next 'Star Wars' trilogy, Lucasfilm has decided to pursue a new direction in animated programming," a statement posted Monday on the Disney-owned company's StarWars.com website said.
"We are exploring a whole new 'Star Wars' series set in a time period previously untouched in 'Star Wars' films or television programming. You can expect more details in the months to come.
As part of this shift, we have also made some key decisions affecting 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' and [the planned animated comedy series] 'Star Wars Detours,'" the statement said. "After five highly successful and critically acclaimed seasons of 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars,' we feel the time has come to wind down the series. While the studio is no longer producing new episodes for Cartoon Network, we're continuing production on new 'Clone Wars' story arcs that promise to be some of the most thrilling adventures ever seen. Stay tuned for more information on where fans can soon find this bonus content."