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Gah. I thought TechDirt of all places would know better than to mix developers and publishers! Who are the guys making the decisions to keep you from using used games? Publishers. The developers have no say in the discussion. This is the nature of the developer-publisher relationship right now. The publisher can even dictate parts of your game and you either comply or be fired (and they keep your company and all your franchises). This is why the indie movement is so important: it means publishers can't boss us around anymore. That means more room for risk and better games.
Please don't blame the poor developers for what their publishers demand.
Waaaay out of date guys. Where's the stuff about how it was hacked into developer mode and made to run offline, totally disproving these statements once and for all? And how EA put a patch to stop it, and the hackers already fixed it?
Just the confidence alone makes me want to buy one of their wallets.
Boycott, and get the game. Pirate.
Politics have a term for that: anarchy. Complete and total freedom is impossible to sustain in a civilized world. Sometimes people disagree, sometimes people steal, sometimes people kill eachother for dumb reasons, on and on. These things happen in the animal kingdom, and the only solution is to steal back, kill more, etc. But with humans, we have intelligence and communication that animals do not have, so in a lack of structure, a thief and a killer can assemble other thieves and killers to create a mob, to better steal and kill. Then the people outside the ruling class get sick of the ruling mob, and make their own mob and they kill eachother. Then whoever wins makes a new structure. This is how governments were made.
There is no way for us to exist without structure like government. Having structure is why we are civilized: we need something to say what is wrong and right and to punish those that break those boundaries. The idea of democracy is to accept these truths, and build a structure that we can can all agree on, and adjust as we go. It's not perfect, but it certainly beats the rule of strongest mob.
That being said, our current government is way overkill. But that is no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water, as the saying goes.
I wonder how prescription drugs would affect this test?
But if the meetings are open to the public, they won't be able to smoke cigars and mock their constituents during meetings! That is clearly a violation of their rights.
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Are you going to complete your project and then put it in the public domain or otherwise give it away for free?
As an indie video game developer working on getting my first game complete, I promise you, it's not about the money. I'm broke, I eat cereal pretty much morning noon and night, and I've spent hundreds of hours on my project improving both it and me, all without making a cent.
And I wouldn't trade it for the world.
I kinda of disagree with the author on this one. As someone who has dialup, trust me, we have to goad the telecoms with something. There wouldn't even be power and telephone lines here if it wasn't for the encentives in the great depression. Something has to be done, because otherwise the telecoms will happily exclude millions of people because of their shortsightedness.
Here's what I think. The companies are supportive of it, so use it as a chance to redo the whole system. Set up proper accounting and insure that every dollar is spent appropriately. Obviously there will be loopholes and problems, but if you start with a good foundation and fix things as they come up, you can make it work. THEN, after you have a good basis, you alter how money is collected. Obviously the interstate telephone tax is not sustainable, so something else will be done. I imagine, they could set it up so people pay the same amount give or take, but it's for broadband and not telephone service. That way, as telephone service fades away, the USF will be sustained.
3G and 4G tablets have never taken off. The market shows that most people are perfectly fine with using a tablet solely over wifi for the chance to avoid cellular pricing. What this allows is that people can use tablets in the primarily over wifi, but can also update their twitter feeds and check facebook while away from wifi. THAT is where this comes in, and it's a brilliant move.
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2012 in the Atlantic is off and storming!!!
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Tropical Storm Alberto developed Saturday afternoon from a disturbance off the coast of the Carolinas. Alberto is expected to drift slowly southwest through Sunday, but a trough of low pressure swinging in from the nation's midsection should pick Alberto up and carry it to the north and northeast by early next week.May the FORCE be with you!
05-19-2012, 10:00 PMTropical Storm Alberto developed Saturday afternoon from a disturbance off the coast of the Carolinas.
I don't want to see anything developing near the Carolinas. I did not buy the cancellation insurance!!!Be Not Afraid.
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A pretty mixed album. Some say that it is underrated, while other say that without Jon Anderson, there is no Yes so this album isn't good. Here are quotes from reviews of this album by members of PA:
Turns out I don't like Drama as much as I thought I remembered. Most likely the second or third time I heard it, I started to get into some of the music, because there are some good sections in some of the songs. - 7headedchicken
Another great album Yes.Ok, Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman are not here, but so what? Trevor Horn can not sing like Anderson (although their voices are similar), but Geoff Downes playing much better than Wakeman in "Tormato (there keyboards are a disgrace). - voliveira
This Yes album is really not my favorite but as got some good stuff. It's a good album and it sounds a bit like the old Yes. The bass lines are awesome but some songs like Run in through the light get very long and are at the base not great. - The_Jester
For me "Drama" is one of the stronger Yes albums. The sound is very sharp, with Chris Squire very much to the fore. The Buggles influence is not that apparent, in fact it is interesting to hear the Buggles track "I am a camera" and compare it to "Into the lens", the Yes interpretation of that track. While the two are recognisable as being the same song, the electro-pop of the Buggles is transformed into a decent slice of prog. - Easy Livin
One of those albums I was taken by surprise. This album has been often maligned thanks to the absence of Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman. In their place was both guys from the BUGGLES (as in the hit "Video Killed the Radio Star", which became the very first video MTV ever played, by the way), Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn. To be honest, I thought this album was better than "Tormato". They were no longer inflicting me with such infantile crap as "Circus of Heaven" here, and the band was going for a harder-edge approach. Plus it's nice to see Roger Dean return and give us some artwork, as he did here. - Proghead
This was the album where Yes lost the plot!! I know because I was there and saw the band on this tour (oh dear). The Buggles, and video ,may have killed the radio star but Yes surely did'nt have to recruit The Buggles to replace the vocalist and the keyboards player. Trevor Horn was never really going to be a replacement for Jon Anderson and whoever dreamed this up made a monumental error in my opinion.None of the tracks are particularly memorable and the only good thing about it is the album cover.Give it a miss. - horza
Drama is a criminally underrated Yes album. Just because it doesn't feature the 'classic' line up, many automatically dismiss it as a bad record, mostly without ever giving it the time of day. The songs on it are some of the strongest Yes ever recorded. - arcer
First time I heard Machine Messiah I thought dang, is this some sort of collaboration with Black Sabbath or what? And why is Jon Anderson leaning on Chris Squire so much for vocal support? Boy, little did I know .. - ClemofNazareth
I can't help but think it was this record that brought Jon Anderson back to the band. C'mon Jon, admit it, the boys did an amazing job and popped out one of the best things in Yes' catalog. The fact that it was not as musically intricate as previous Yes outings didn't mean it wasn't a kick-ass release, and one of the best things to emerge from the comatose progressive rock scene in 1980. - Atavachron
Drama has slightly more of an 80's sound compared to earlier albums, but it is still far, far away from the more commercial 90125 or Big Generator. Indeed, this album is much more in line with earlier Yes albums than what might be expected given the radical changes in the line up. Such vital members as Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman were here replaced by Geoffrey Downes and Trevor Horn of The Buggles of all people! Geoff and Steve Howe would later form Asia. But Drama - thankfully! - does not sound anything like The Buggles or Asia. Drama is still very much a classic Yes album and, in my opinion, an improvement over Tormato, Going For The One, Relayer and Tales From Topographic Oceans. - SouthSideoftheSky
It's very sad to see how this excellent album is misunderstood and underrated by the Jon Anderson fans, yes it's true that Trevor Horn is not Jon...But what about that?
I always believed that the weakest link in YES was Jon's voice, well in Drama we have the chance to listen the band after the infamous Tormato and with a new vocalist, the results couldn't had been better, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes gave YES another life after almost every reasonable fan believed the band was dead and buried, sadly this new breeze lasted only one album. - Ivan_Melgar_M
If you were to follow Yes' career, you might expect this album to really blow. Going for the One was good, but it was a step down from the reach that Yes had had with the three albums beforehand. Tormato was a clear step in the wrong direction for most fans. - TheGazzardian
Yes met the new decade with another lineup change and a strong studio album release. I guess that if someone would predict that Yes members would collaborate with a New Wave band, fans would have dismissed that though completely. But here we are 25 years later acknowledging that same fact! - Rune2000
Drama marks the entrance of a new vocalist for Yes, Trevor Horn. The change isn't really all that significant or noticeable though, as the vocals are still in the Jon Anderson style. The music here is roughly the same as on Relayer but with more coherence, but all together better and more interesting than Tormato. - colorofmoney91
Now that Yes have released an album with Benoit David on lead vocals, perhaps it's a good idea to give Drama another look. After all, before Fly From Here it rather stuck out as being the sole Yes album not to feature Jon Anderson - now, it looks like Yes albums without Jon are not going to be quite so unusual. - Warthur
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3 stars, it's an alright album. It just doesn't get the most plays by me.
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It's quite good album, better than most of the albums Yes did later. Machine Messiah and Tempus Fugit are great tracks - great enough to give it 4 stars... Maybe it's because this one was the second record I heard from Yes sometime in 1982/1983 (the first one was Close To The Edge).
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Excellent Yes album. Four stars.
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I gave it 5 stars. A great album and one of my favourites. The band really kicks a** on this album!! The performances of Howe, Squire and White are some of the best work of their careers IMO.
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Very good Album, 3.5 rounded to 4 stars
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Easy 4 stars - One or two great mini epics, a whole bunch of good shorter songs and one inoffensive throwaway - `Man In A White Car'!
I avoided this album for quite a while fearing the worst, instead it's one of my favourite Yes albums, and they've certainly had poorer albums.
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2 stars. im not the biggest yes fan to begin with, so i pretty much never play this album.
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3-4...probably about 3.75.
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I have rated it three stars. Both Machine Messiah and Tempus Fugit are great tracks, but the rest of album does not quite come up to the same par.
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|Posted: November 30 2012 at 23:52
Solid 3.5 stars, I like it quite alot.....Tempus Fugit is the track that wore out its welcome very quickly. The rest holds up well.
Also where I got off the Yes train. It's really the only post-Relayer album I can get into any more.
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I own it on vinyl but have yet to listen (don't want to bother with any records till I get a new player. The one i have is a half broken sh*tty portable from the early 70s that makes listening to records a chore)
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I think it's much better than Close To The Edge.
Nahhh....just kidding but definitely 4 star. I don't care if Anderson is there or not, I think the material is great. I love every track on that album even the shorter ones, Trevor Horn did a great job. It's true it has a poppy vibe to it but it works very well.
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4 , drama is a very good album, but not a strong 4 , more like 3,6.
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|Posted: December 01 2012 at 03:30
4 stars
after CTTE, Fragile and The Yes Album (all 5 stars) and Going For The One (4.5) I like it as much as anything else Yes did.
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Didn't know it was a classic, but 4 stars from me.
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Rum Renaissance 2011 Opens With The 'Zombie Jamboree'
Posted by Arctic Wolf on March 29, 2011
The Miami Rum Renaissance Festival 2011 kicks off with the Zombie Jamboree at the Mai Kai Polynesian Restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale on Monday, April 25 from 5 to 7pm . This event will be hosted by author, and celebrated Tiki Cocktail authority, Jeff "Beachbum" Berry. (Mr. Berry's published books include Beachbum Berry Remixed, Sippin' Safari, Grog Log, Intoxica and Taboo Table.)
'Beachbum' Berry will host a discussion on the origin (and the evolution) of the Zombie cocktail. His seminar will feature samples of Don the Beachcomber's classic 1934 and 1956 Zombie recipes. The fun will continue as several other noted mixologists will present their own variations of the Zombie Cocktail to serve as examples of how this wonderful cocktail continues to evolve. (Please click on the Zombie Jamboree banner at the top of this posting for more information, and to learn how to RSVP your reservation for this great opening event.)
And that is just the first evening of the festival. From there, the events include nine VIP Parties, a three-day RumXP International Tasting Competition, various ancillary competitive events including The International Tiki Face Off Competition and the Baritt's Ginger Beer Cocktail Competition. Finally, it all wraps up with 2 days at the Grand Tasting Finale where there will be seminars, cocktail competitions, and a Island Lifestyle Showcase.
Last year I was invited to act as one of the International Judges at the 2010 RumXP International Tasting Competition which was held in conjunction with Rum Renaissance 2010. I spent five days soaking up the atmosphere of the festival, and of the city. I must have done a decent job as a Rum Judge as this year I have been invited back to reprise my role as the an International Judge once again. This year I want to extend a bit of an invitation to those who read and follow my blog to come to Miami this year to join in the festivities of the Largest Rum Festival in the World. The festival promises to be even better than last year. It has grown from three fun filled days in 2009; to five days last year in 2010; to a full seven days of fun and frolic in 2011.
Let me quote Robert Burr, the organizer and prime motivating force behind the Festival:
"Rum is experiencing a Renaissance of appreciation as more savvy consumers discover a truly remarkable range of fine rums from the Caribbean region, North, Central and South America, and around the world.
The Miami Rum Renaissance Festival is one of the world's premier international rum events, presenting a unique and exciting celebration of the fine arts of distillation, maturing and blending fine cane spirits.
Enjoy a full week of exclusive VIP parties at Miami's most notable venues, a grand two-day exhibition of the best rum brands, the excitement of the Island Lifestyle Showcase, celebrity seminars, workshops and cocktail competitions, the annual RumXP competition and awards, an opportunity to rub shoulders with dignitaries and notable experts, and more."
You can purchase tickets for either day (or both) of the Grand Tasting Finale, or you can enjoy the full experience and obtain a VIP Pass and join in the fun of all of the VIP events all week-long. And of course everyone who attends can enjoy beautiful Miami Beach.
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Things looked bleak for ETSU to record its third consecutive winning campaign as they stood 3-7 after the first 10 games. However, the Lady Bucs quickly turned things around to post an 18-11, 14-2 regular season mark. Those 14 conference victories tied a program record en route to earning the No. 1 seed in next week's conference tournament, which marks only the second time the Lady Buccaneers have received the top spot and first since joining the A-Sun. Upstate closed out the season 5-24, 1-15 in its first year playing at the Division I level.
The Lady Bucs received huge contributions from senior Michele DeVault (
"I am very proud of this team," commented head coach Karen Kemp, who won her first Atlantic Sun title and second regular season championship since being at ETSU. "They have worked hard all season and I am glad to see all efforts pay off."
The game started with USC Upstate holding a 5-4 advantage, but the Lady Buccaneers quickly responded with a 14-2 run and led 18-7 when Belcher laid one in at the 15:46 mark. ETSU opened the game 8-of-10 from the field and held the Spartans to 3-of-7 during the stretch. Fortunately for Upstate Hawkins was on fire as she scored the next eight points of the contest and cut the lead to three, 18-15, with 13:15 on the clock. The Lady Bucs pushed their lead to eight, 27-19, but the Spartans continued to stick around as they lowered the deficit again to three, 31-28, with less than six to go before the break. ETSU continued to score as they poured in 41 points at the half; however, the Lady Buccaneers struggled on the defensive end by allowing a team that was averaging a little over 54 points a game to net 35 in 20 minutes.
The Lady Bucs had no problem hitting their shots as they posted a 54.3 shooting percentage (19-35) in the first half, but ETSU turnovers helped the Spartans stay within striking distance. USC Upstate took a page out of the Lady Buccaneers' book by scoring 14 points on the seven forced turnovers. ETSU dominated in the paint, holding a three-to-one ratio, 30-10. The ETSU post players combined for 32 of the first half points. DeVault led the Lady Bucs with 10, but it was Hawkins who stole the show by adding 19.
In the second half, ETSU stormed out of the gates and showed the Spartans why they are conference champs. Five of the first six Lady Buccaneer field goals came via the layup and ETSU pushed its lead to 16, 53-37, with 16:45 remaining in the contest. Senior Nichelle Akers (Sumter, S.C.) and Wiles fueled the spark with eight of the 12 points to begin the final half. From there, ETSU continued to build on its lead and extended the advantage to 23, 73-50, when DeVault nailed her 223rd trey of her career (fifth of the game) at the 6:28 mark. Then, Lady Bucs had fun during the final six minutes as coach Kemp was able to use every player on her bench. Jenny Norman's (
ETSU finished 36-of-64 (56.3 percent) for the contest and outscored the Spartans by 34 in the paint, 50-16. After letting Upstate score 35 first half points the Lady Buccaneer defense stepped up and limited the Spartans to only 21 points on 7-of-34 shooting in the final 20 minutes. For the game, Upstate went 18-of-64 (28.1 percent) and was dominated on the glass, 45-33. Freshman Kami Phillips (
The Lady Bucs now prepare for the 2008 Atlantic Sun General Shale Brick Basketball Championships as they face Mercer in the first round. ETSU tips off Wednesday, but game times will not be determined until conference play concludes late tonight.
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Vintage Dress 05/2012
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Want a vintage-feel dress, that is still in style today? This dress is a great vintage Burda pattern, brought out from the archives in Germany and re-made and re-styled. It was originally published in Burda Moden 5/1961.
This lovely dress features a draped back, shoulder ribbon ties, and is made in a luxurious velvet. You could even lengthen the hemline to the floor for a dress fit for a fancy gala. Or you could make it in a floral print for a more casual day-dress.
Length from waist 66 cm (26 ins)
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Length from waist 66 cm (26 ins)
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T-Mobile and the End of Handset Subsidies
T-Mobile is zigging away from rivals, and abandoning practices like handset subsidies in favor of more simple deals. Will consumers benefit? Tom Gara joins MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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Chronicles of Canada Volume 14 - The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: William Wood
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Date: January 2015
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"International disputes that end in war are not generally questions of absolute right and wrong. They may quite as well be questions of opposing rights. But, when there are rights on both sides; it is usually found that the side which takes the initiative is moved by its national desires as well as by its claims of right.
This could hardly be better exemplified than by the vexed questions which brought about the War of 1812."
This volume of the Chronicles of Canada series explains both the causes of the War of 1812 and the campaigns of the war from a primarily Canadian viewpoint, a perspective that is very often missed in writings on this Americo-British conflict. (By Sibella)


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Lady 'Stangs rally to sweep G'wood
After suffering a defeat at Big Spring three days earlier that eliminated any hopes of reaching the playoffs, the Sweetwater volleyball team — which by many accounts has had an excellent season — showed off its talent while beating Midland Greenwood in three games at Mustang Gym.After winning the first two games over the Rangerettes by scores of 25-15 and 25-17, Sweetwater (24-15 overall) staged a terrific rally to get a sweep with a 25-19 win in Game 3 that dropped Greenwood to 1-8 in district. Sweetwater, playing in what may be the toughest district in Class 3A, is 4-5 and now faces first-place Wylie — the No. 1 team in the state and one of three ranked district teams — here on Tuesday.A sensational 11-0 finish allowed the Lady Mustangs to overcome a 19-14 deficit in Game 3. Sweetwater had kills on five of the last six points, the last one by Shel-by Cason on match point, after trailing almost all the way up to that time.Sweetwater also had to overcome early deficits in Game 1 and Game 2, espe-cially in the opener when Greenwood jumped out to an 8-3 lead before Sweet-water took control with a 10-1 run. Cason had 11 kills, while Kelsi Crosson had 10 kills and 11 digs. Kathleen Camp-bell and Destiny Osteen had six and five kills, respective-ly, while Kendra Crosson had 13 digs and four kills. Setter Suede Shirley, in ad-dition to coming up with 29 assists, had three kills of her own. Campbell had three blocks and Cason and Kelsi Crosson two.Providing solid back row defense were Angela Garza with seven digs and Janell Walker with five. Campbell, Cason and Shirley all had three digs and Osteen and Kayla Chowning two.


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UK banks led European shares higher on Tuesday after Britain's third biggest lender, Barclays, unveiled cost cuts and a strategic overhaul that fueled expectations its peer group would follow suit.
Shares in Barclays rose 8.6 percent to a two year-high as the bank's new management said it would cut at least 3,700 jobs in 2013 and prune its investment bank to save 1.7 billion pounds ($2.66 billion) in annual costs.
UK peers RBS and Lloyds gained 4 percent and 4.9 percent, respectively, on speculation they may follow in Barclays' footsteps.
They were among top gainers on the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 Index, which provisionally closed 0.5 percent higher at 1,160.43 points.
"On the back of Barclay's report we've seen a lot of playing both Lloyds and RBS," Will Hedden, a senior trader at IG, said.
"With the focus on the investment banking changes, there are a few people who are expecting RBS to be quite aggressive with its investment bank and push through job cuts."


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Surfing the net on Christmas brought an unexpected surprise.
USA Today�s Christmas edition ran a Motley Fool column that piqued my interest. For those unaware of The Motley Fool, the Gardner Brothers, David and Tom, brought it to life over 20 years ago. Both enjoyed writing, financial and otherwise, using a Shakespearean character as their inspiration. In �As You Like It� the Bard�s �motley fool� was a court jester, a position allowing the jester/fool an opportunity to speak truth to power.
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to The Motley Fool. First the website and online community inspired me during my career change then they put me on their payroll. So I had to click on the headline. After all, �99 Percent of Long-term Investing Is Doing Nothing, the Other 1 Percent Could Change Your Life� grabs your attention.
Using data going back to 1900, they took three scenarios and looked at the numbers. One investor put $1 in the S&P 500 index every month without fail, another investor stopped investing when a recession began and started back when the recession ended. Mr. Typical, the last investor, stopped investing six months after the recession began and didn�t resume until six months after the recession ended. The numbers will stagger you.
The first strategy, staying invested all the time, stomped the other two. I wish I could say like Georgia stomped a foe, but the 2013 Bulldogs laid low. Back on message: Staying invested yielded over $270,000 versus slightly less than $160,000 and a little more than $145,000, respectively for the other models.
Astonishingly, only 10 percent of the time from 1900 explains two-thirds of the difference in returns and only 5 percent more than half. From the great bull market in 1993 through the two Bush-era market collapses to today, only 24 days account for all of the S&P�s growth. Blogger/market analyst Eddy Elfenbein (Crossing Wall Street) notes the rest of the time was a net loss.
Most investors and advisors follow some deviation of the latter two strategies. Advisors perhaps marketing themselves with a clairvoyant skill set often claim marketing timing skills. Cocktail chatter can mean bragging about beating the market but you can�t do that with index funds. Time in the market beats timing the market.
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What I find total Bravo Sierra are congressmen tripping over themselves to set up news conferences to denounce the COLA adjustment after supporting sequester cuts which were more drastic and severe than the budget deal. As Shakespeare wrote, �Few love to hear the sins they love to act�.
According to Military.com over 900,000 veterans lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits last October. In Florida alone, over 100,000 vets saw SNAP benefits reduced.
Since most veterans don�t have pensions, we should never cut any veteran�s SNAP benefit. They earned it.
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10 Gifts for a Friend's Freezer
We're talking homemade gifts all week at The Kitchn, since it is, after all, that time of year. We are very excited about toffee, caramels, and other sweet things, but my mind has also been wandering in a different direction. While I love pistachio brittle as much as the next girl, what I would really squeal over right now is a meal to stash in my freezer for a busy weeknight, or a pan of dinner rolls to add fresh-baked warmth to an evening meal.
If you want to take something a little different and even more nourishing to a friend this holiday season, here are ten ideas for homemade gifts to stock their freezer.
These ideas started popping up for me as I cooked like a maniac last week, getting ready for out-of-town Thanksgiving guests. I did some serious make-ahead cooking, freezing carnitas, chicken stew, and breakfast goodies ahead of time. Every time I pulled a pan of parbaked dinner rolls out of the freezer I felt like I had given myself a gift, and I thought, why not do this for others?
There are so many sweet treats this time of year, and often what would really be appreciated is a meal for later, or something warm for breakfast. It doesn't have to be a whole meal, or a 10-pound lasagna. Breakfast rolls wrapped in foil, a batch of frozen tomato sauce, or a few cubes of frozen herbs would make practical, much-appreciated gifts during the winter season. And if you want to stick with the sweets, then who would not be grateful for frozen cookie dough?
Sure, you can't wrap these things up all pretty and leave them under the tree. But you can fold brightly-colored wrapping around a package of lemon rolls, and label it with a strip of sparkly washi tape (don't forget to include baking or reheating directions). Hand it over to your host or just stash it quietly in their freezer and tell them later. When all that toffee is gone, they'll still have breakfast to look forward to.
Baked Goodies
- Dinner Rolls: See our post How To Freeze & Reheat Dinner Rolls on how to make dinner rolls ahead and freeze them, unbaked or baked. You could gift them in a disposable pan, or just put them in foil.
- Cookie Dough: Almost any cookie dough will freeze well! See our post about this here: How To Freeze Cookie Dough. Gift a bag of little frozen dough lumps, or a log of icebox cookie dough.
- Pizza Dough: Have a friend who loves homemade pizza? Gift her with a ball or two of homemade pizza dough. All she'll need to do is thaw it in the fridge overnight and presto, time for pizza. See instructions here: How To Freeze Pizza Dough
- Breakfast Sweet Rolls: This is is perhaps my favorite freezer gift. Cinnamon rolls and other sweet breakfast breads freezer beautifully. Just bake them for about half the regular baking time, let them cool, then slip them into a freezer bag. See more advice for freezing sweet rolls here: The Best Way to Freeze Cinnamon Rolls: Parbake & Freeze Sweet Rolls Now. (I recommend one of these recipes: Sticky Lemon Rolls with Lemon Cream Cheese Glaze, No-Knead Pumpkin Rolls with Brown Sugar Glaze, or Kugelhopf Breakfast Rolls.)
Meal Helpers
- Homemade Stock: Do you know what I do to someone who brought me a big container of frozen homemade beef or turkey stock? KISS them. Save a pretty jar or two for sharing your post-Thanksgiving turkey stock bounty with a fellow cook. (Get a stock refresher here: How To Make Homemade Chicken Stock)
- Herbs in Olive Oil: Freeze leftover fresh herbs with olive oil for cooking later, or melting and dipping. A little bag of these would be a bright gift for a friend's freezer.
Dinners for the Freezer
- Lunch Pockets: These lentil-stuffed hand pies are the healthy answer to Hot Pockets' convenience. Make a batch and share with someone else. Get the recipe here: Spiced Lentil, Sweet Potato & Kale Whole Wheat Pockets. (Or go for something a little more gooey and make Homemade Calzones!)
- Frozen Pizza: The ultimate freezer convenience food — but all glammed up since it's homemade. Get the full instructions here: How to Make Frozen Pizzas at Home
- Meatballs or Tomato Sauce: Hello! A batch of meatballs or pasta sauce for the freezer? So much better than another round of Christmas cookies.
- Chicken Pot Pies: These individual chicken pot pies are just right for one or two people. They don't take up much room in the freezer, but they would really help out on a busy weeknight. Get the recipe here: How to Make (and Freeze!) Individual Chicken Pot Pies
This is just the tip of the (freezer) iceberg! What else have you gifted (or would like to receive!) for the freezer?


text: Legal risks for Banking Challengers and FinTechs Share this 17 May 2016 By: John McKinlay The banking market is being shaken up by digital innovation. New entrants, whether they are designated as FinTechs or challenger banks, are beginning to make their mark. At the same time, the established banks are responding rapidly with their own digital platforms and collaborations with innovators. Among the factors that can be used to predict the winners are how they are able to respond to the current legal challenges - including the following key questions. How widely can customer data be used? To be truly successful, banks and FinTechs will need to deal with a particular dilemma - to balance the need to maintain trust in their products and services, with the need to use personal data in a new way to drive customer acquisition and revenue. Banks face a unique challenge in this regard - due to the particular relationship we all have with money. In the absence of bricks and mortar to demonstrate "stability", trust is more vulnerable. Pushing the boundaries of data use too far could be a quick way to destroy it. At the same time, the ability to use data to enable predictive and tailored marketing, in the way most obviously exploited at the moment by Facebook and Amazon, will be a key differentiator. The challenge is made all the greater because of the current "shifting sands" in relation to data sharing between UK and US, and the new Data Protection Regulations in Europe. Steering the correct path through these will be crucial. It is possible to be fully digital? As soon as banks digitise the customer experience, any break with that - whether the need for a face to face meeting, a telephone call or printing a document - runs the risk of degrading the process and turning off customers. For example, it is possible to have the vast majority of processing work in relation to mortgages done on-line, but regulation in many jurisdictions still requires paper based records to be kept and physical documents to be signed. At present there is a disconnect between the app based systems and the traditional processes which will act as a brake on the ability to maximise cost savings. Are regulatory changes a threat or opportunity? Europe's new payment services directive, PSD2, has accelerated something that is already underway - the move to develop a business model around the use of APIs. APIs are the links between banking systems and apps. In practical terms, customers will soon be able to control accounts at different banks, move money and conduct banking business through a single app. PSD2 will require banks to open up their systems using APIs. Europe (and indeed the UK through the Open Banking Working Group) is at the forefront of this, and there is a clear opportunity for the industry here to take a lead in development of the technical processes which the regulations require. At the same time, there is a real challenge for those who derive value through being the primary account holder - no longer will this give primacy of data use and control. Both the established banks and challengers will be competing to come up with the best strategy to deal with this issue. In the UK alone there are anywhere between 50 and 100 organisations staking a viable claim that their approach to delivering banking services will result in a leading market position. Finding a way to manage these legal risks and turn them into opportunities will be vital for success. For updates from our Financial Services sector follow us on LinkedIn


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Could the home of the new Randolph county Courthouse be at an all-too-familiar location?
The answer is: Yes.
Presiding Randolph County Commissioner Susan Carter says that the county is currently in the "preliminary" stages of fixing facilities and building a new county courthouse in Huntsville.
Carter and fellow county commissioners Wayne Wilcox and Jerry Crutchfield met for close to an hour and a half with nForm Architecture's Jennifer Wilson, Springfield, on Thursday morning (June 13), discussing her recommendations for the county's current government facilities, as well as drawn-up plans for a new single-story courthouse with an unfinished basement, which would be located out along Hwy. JJ.
"It will be right in front of [the Randolph County Justice Center]," Carter told the MMI shortly after Thursday's meeting. "To do improvements and economies and repairs that are needed at the existing Justice Center, and to consolidate our operations onto that campus, we're looking at [a cost of] roughly $4.3 million."
The commission is anticipating in the near future asking voters for a quarter-cent sales tax increase to fund bonds to pay for the new courthouse, Carter said. That would take place "over a period of 10 years."
The seemingly hot debate over whether or not to have the facilties moved from the county seat to nearby Moberly was not even entertained.
"The die was cast [for the courthouse to remain in Huntsville when we built the Justice Center]," Carter told Wilson at one point during the meeting.
Something does need to be done about the current facilities, though, the commission agreed, and Wilson seconded that.
While at the courthouse for the meeting, Randolph County Clerk Will Ellis showed the MMI where debris particles from the building had begun raining down upon his filing cabinets and floors. He showed off a large crack where the wall is separating from itself. The commission explained that the building's condition was attracting moisture within the clerk's vault — collecting it amongst all of the county's valuable paperwork. Ellis confirmed this fact.
"We used to joke about this," said Commissioner Crutchfield, of the state of the current building. "We don't joke anymore."
"We're...considering the safety and security of county employees and citizens as we look at the state of our buildings," Carter said.
It was noted during the meeting that from the point that county residents approved a bond measure in regards to the courthouse, it would still take an estimated 28 months for the new courthouse to be fully completed. For that reason, the commission has a want to "get the ball rolling," so to speak.
"I think [the public meetings] could be in the very near future," Carter said. "We're still trying to get all of the information we need so we can present it in a fair and accurate way to the public...To me, you know, it's not just about safety. It is about numbers, and the best way, in the future, to use all of our tax money."
The commission next has a date set up with a geotechnical company and a structural engineer on June 27. From there, dates are really up in the air, they said; everything's still "preliminary." But the group is working towards an end goal.
"Let's build [this courthouse] proactively," Crutchfield told the commission during Thursday's meeting. "Not reactively."


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March 26, 2013
Bloomingburg, NY
Franziska Spaeth, 82, of Bloomingburg died Tuesday evening, March 26, 2013 at her home in Bloomingburg, NY. Franziska was born in Grafenau, Germany, the daughter of Paul and Therese Suss. She was the widow of Alois Spaeth.
Franziska is survived by three children: a daughter, Angelika O'Brien and her husband, Patrick of Scotchtown, NY; a son, Jack Spaeth and his wife, Laurel of Hamden, NY; and daughter, Linda Anderson and her husband, Thomas of Bloomingburg, NY; seven grandchildren: Heather O'Brien-Bruno and her husband, James, Jason Anderson and his wife, Lorianne, Elise Bazarte, Michael O'Brien, Jesse Spaeth, Stefan Spaeth and Michael Spaeth. She was predeceased by two grandsons, Patrick O'Brien and Kevin O'Brien. She is also survived by five great grandchildren: Kevin, Ella, Cooper, Portia and Cole; two sisters, Ann Leyerer and Therese Siegl; and a number of nieces and nephews of Germany.
Franziska was a member of the East Bloomingburg, NY, Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. She loved to speak to others about her heavenly father, Jehovah God. A memorial service will be held Saturday, April 6th at the Bloomingburg Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 21 Joshua Drive, Bloomingburg, NY at 3:00 pm.
Arrangements were under the care of William M. Gagan Funeral Home, Pine Bush, NY. The family would like to express their appreciation to Hospice of Orange & Sullivan Counties, Inc.


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Volume 17 Issue 37 | February 11 - 17, 2005
2The Gates
Outdoor art exhibition by Jeanne-Claude and Christo
Opens Sat., Feb. 12 in Central Park
Closes Feb. 27
A dream long deferred
The Gates to open in Central Park this weekend
By JERRY TALLMER
Four-year-old Cyril liked to climb on rocks.
Every day of his childhood since he was 4, says his mother, I would go on the subway with this little boy from Canal Street to Central Park, where he would climb on the rocks. The big rocks.
Not today, she apends with a giggle. Today hes 44, and a poet, and a writer, and if you say that Cyril Christo and his wife Marie Wilkinson have just had a two-foot-tall book called Lost Africa published by Assouline, they will be very happy.
So, of course, will be the flame-haired lady known to the world just as Jeanne-Claude, and if you pronounce that Jawn rather than Jen better yet, Jennnne youre in trouble. Big trouble. Jeanne-Claude, Cyrils mother, Christos wife and creative partner in everything, both in life and art, is a stickler for accuracy down to the last dot on the last i.
If the sun comes up golden this coming Saturday morning, February 12, 2005, Abraham Lincolns 196th birthday if there is no rain or snow or locusts a supplementary gold will burst over all the walkways of Central Park from 59th Street to 110th Street, Fifth Avenue to Central Park West.
The Gates will be open.
All right, Jeanne-Claude not gold but saffron. From the first drawing on the first day in 1979 it was saffron, she specifies, but then it was a more timid saffron.
What happens to a dream deferred, Langston Hughes once asked in a different context. In this context The Gates, Central Park, New York City a dream deferred for 26 years is now here, a reality. A 16-day reality. On February 27, rain or shine or squirrels, The Gates come down.
Did Christo and Jeanne-Claude over all those years ever say to themselves: This thing is not going to happen?
Never! she says. In our lives so far, we have completed 18 [major] projects, and have had 37 failures. By failures, she means rejections, refusals. Projects, ideas, that came out of our two hearts and two heads. The Reichstag [wrapped 1995] was refused three times over 25 years. With the Pont Neuf [wrapped 1988], Jacques Chirac kept evading us.
Once refused, we work on. New York refused us only once, in 1981, but it stayed in our heads and we never applied ever again.
They happened to have had a friend named Michael Bloomberg who was elected mayor in 2001, on the heels of 9/11.
Mr. Bloomberg had his inaugural in January [2002]. I told Christo: Leave him alone until June, because hes just inherited a disaster in New York. Then in March, Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris called and said: May I pay you two a visit in your home, and may I bring along Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe?
Wait! Wait! exclaims Jeanne-Claude to a journalist taking notes over the phone. She also brought along Mr. Douglas Blonsky, the commissioner of Central Park, who said: Lets see what your idea consists of. The result? A 43-page contract between New York City and us.
What youre reading had to be the product of an interview by phone because, Jeanne-Claude had said, pleaded, a few days earlier: We work 21 hours a day and sleep three hours a day, if we sleep. So be my friend, Jerry, and call me, but never before 10:30 in the morning.
Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, the daughter of a general in World War II, and Christo Javacheff, the Bulgarian-born artist and wrapper of paint cans whod come to her and her parents house in Paris to paint her portrait, left for the United States as husband and wife in 1964.
Like everybody else, they were, in her words, very impressed with the skyline and tall buildings of New York City, and soon after theyd wrapped the Kunsthalle in Bern, Switzerland, in 1968, they proposed doing the same to the owners of two Lower Manhattan buildings, 20 Exchange Place and 2 Broadway, and also, later, No. 1 Times Square, all of whom, or which, thought we were nuts. So did the managements of two other proposals: the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum
It was when Christo and Jeanne-Claude were far away from New York in Australia for Wrapped Coast, 1969, Colorado for Valley Curtain, 1972, Northern California for Running Fence, 1976 that they more and more looked back from these far-away places and thought of New York and the people of New York, the most-walked city in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people all walking every day.
What to do to glorify that?
For a brief moment we thought of using the sidewalk, doing something with the sidewalks, but we realized wed never get permission. But there was one place where people walked leisurely in New York unless they were 4-year-old climbers of rocks and that was Central Park. In 1979, that was the only park in New York City we knew.
In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux set to work laying out a vast central greenery that would have steel gates at each of its entrances. The steel gates had disappeared by the time the park opened in 1861, but the name lives on.
Christos very first drawing in 1979, says his wife with her laugh, was called The Thousand Gates.
Now, these 26 years later, there are 7,500 gates, square arches, not 12 feet tall, as in the 1979 plan, but 16 feet tall, with saffron fabric billowing in the wind against the silhouettes of Februarys bare branches throughout the park. Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
The poles in 1979 were thin, skinny steel rods. Today they are thick and sculptured 5x5 inches square in cross-section and not steel, but vinyl. At the top the fabric was hooked onto steel cables as elegant as shower curtains, she declares with a trace of irony. Today the fabric is contained in cocoons (or sail tunnels), attached to the upper horizontal poles, and it is the content of these cocoons that will be released with a swoosh! or a series of swooshes throughout the park starting 8:45 a.m. this Saturday, weather permitting.
In charge of this massive operation, and all the immediate years of preparation and testing for it, was and is Vince Davenport, chief project engineer and director of construction, in tandem with his wife, project director Jonita Davenport.
Shes the one who recruited our 600 workers, and, says Jeanne-Claude, our workers are the bet of any in the world.
They get paid, and they get one hot meal a day, all of which comes out of Mr. and Mrs. Christos pockets. Every penny of every project these two have ever done, millions of dollars of it, comes out of what has been earned from the ongoing worldwide sale of Christos drawings, books, scale models, etc.
So, good people, dear artists, how do you feel right now? Is it too romantic, too sentimental, to call this, however long deferred, a dream come true?
No, said Jeanne-Claude, it is not too romantic. We wake up and look at each other and ask: Is it really happening?
Yes, it is.
As good a place as any from which to view The Gates, apart from walking through them, is from the Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, open from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., every day from February 12 through February 27 (except for Monday, February 14), access free with Museum admission.
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The Grand County High School varsity volleyball team went 3-5 over a three-day span last week, including a region loss to San Juan at Blanding on Thursday, Oct. 4.
The Lady Devils got off to a slow start against San Juan, dropping the first two games by scores of 25-15 and 25-10. In the third and final game, Grand rallied to get close, but ultimately lost, 25-20, which dropped them to 1-4 in Region 15 play.
Following that game, the Lady Devils traveled to Richfield for a two-day invitational tournament Oct. 5 and 6 that pitted them against several 2A teams, including some from other regions.
The Lady Devils won two of three matches on Friday, defeating both Wasatch and Piute by 2-0 scores (the tournament matches were all best-of-three instead of the usual best-of-five games). Grand then lost to Enterprise, 2-0 (25-10, 25-12), but still advanced to play in one of the upper pools on Saturday.
In pool play, Grand lost to North Sanpete in two games, both of which ended 25-20. The Lady Devils then lost to Richfield in two games, before bouncing back to defeat North Summit in two games (25-18, 25-22). That qualified the Lady Devils to advance to the "silver" finals round.
"It was single elimination from that point, and we came out so strong against Pine View," said GCHS head coach Deb Hren. "We won the first game, but then lost the next two."
This week, Grand was scheduled to play Monticello at Moab on Tuesday, Oct. 9, with the Lady Devils wearing pink jerseys for their annual "Swing for Life" campaign to raise money to fight breast cancer.
Then, on Oct. 12 and 13, Grand will return to the Richfield area to play South Sevier on Friday, Oct. 12 and Richfield on Saturday, Oct. 13. The Lady Devils' final regular-season game will be at home on Tuesday, Oct. 16 against the San Juan Lady Broncos.


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Being Normal: How Normal are you in Matters of Sex
The Sex Game
Behind closed doors we often whisper to discuss about it, we tend to think back and wonder, we are worried because we do not know for real. Sex is a broad topic, it is really broader than just plain old in and out, what it entails is a range of different things that we are not even very aware of. If you have any any weird questions regarding sex that you are pondering over, then this is the right time to get the answers. Get the right answers to your sex most weird sex questions.
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Sans Protection, Sans Safety
Here is the most common fear. After your drunken night of fun and frolic you suddenly realise that there was no usage of any condom. Now what? What is the deal with sexually transmitted diseases? Sexually transmitted diseases are a real threat and you have all the reasons in the world to worry. Unfortunately, they cannot be detected immediately, and hence you are required to wait for a week or more for signs to show. Use protection, stay safe.
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Waiting for the World to Change?
If you have sworn celebacy until the world becomes a better place, then you are not the only one here. There are numerous people who wait until they are married, or stay away from sexual activities due to religious reasons. You are not weird in anyway to remain a virgin, eventually some day the right one will come along. But if you are really waiting for the world to change, well, then, too bad.
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No Hanky Panky for me Please
We have these little gem of people who are not as interested in sex as others are. Girls not being able to satisfy their guys, guys who are never in the mood for loving. Whole lot of problems! The truth is that women are more emotionally driven than men, so if she is not up for sex then she is not into the guy! If the guy is not up for sex then he must be having pressing issues that are making him mad. A good remedy is to remove stress by doing exercises. ffvvbbgfvdbfdbvd
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No Aaahh, Just Ouch!
According to a study, as many as 60 percent of women have experienced pain during intercourse, and lack of lubrication is the cause in most cases. Vaginal dryness can be experienced by you at any age, and there is no medical reason for this. One good way to steer clear this problem is by making use of lubricants so that you do not experience pain. It is quite normal, so you should not worry too much about it.
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Taped Mouth
There are some who do not like to get involved in the act of oral sex. It is either too weird, too gross or just something they have never tried before. You could be one such person, and it is normal. While some women find it demeaning, others think it si sexy and could be a good way to keep the partner happy!
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No Oragsmic Thunder
Women are very concerned about their orgasms and they are stiff about it, this is why they complain of not having one. The good idea is to let it go, and to be free. There are no rules to getting there, only ways in which you can try hard in order to get there. Understand the the more you worry and stress, the worse it gets, and so do not try so hard, and instead let it be and you will get there.
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Backdoor anyone?
Well, a kind of a taboo, anal sex is still not the very usual thing to do. Therefore, if you are having dreams of some rough backdoor sex, we suggest that you keep it shut, not many people are into it. However, this could also be very normal, so do not sweat about it too much.
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