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20 years after Rwanda's genocide, nation shows stunning progress
By ROBYN DIXON | Los Angeles Times | Published: April 7, 2014
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — In scattered villages on steep green hillsides, many who killed their neighbors in Rwanda's genocide 20 years ago now live side by side with relatives of the dead.
Speech that creates ethnic divisions has been outlawed. Local tribunals called gacaca courts have allowed many offenders to be released from prison in return for confessions and expressions of remorse. And a generation of young people who grew up after the mass killings embody the hope of a new breed of Rwandans who identify not by ethnicity but by nationhood.
Rwanda has made stunning progress since what was one of the 20th century's greatest crimes, when more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu extremists. Life expectancy has doubled since 1994 to more than 60 years. Economic growth consistently reaches 8 percent annually. And the number of deaths of children under 5 has plummeted in the past two decades from 230 per 1,000 to 55.
In the years since the hundred days of bloodletting, in which as many as a million people were killed, the small Central African country has impressed donors and investors, though lately human rights advocates have criticized President Paul Kagame for his increasingly authoritarian approach.
Kagame says that improved education and an end to poverty are the most effective ways to prevent a return of violence. The government spends a quarter of its budget on health and 17 percent on education, according to the World Bank.
The positive news out of Rwanda stands in sharp contrast to the results of the West's vows that "never again" would the world stand by as the massacres that occurred in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s unfolded.
In 2002, the Rome statute was established, setting up the International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for, among other charges, genocide and crimes against humanity. And in 2005, a summit of world leaders adopted the doctrine of the "responsibility to protect," which obliged the international community to move in when civilians are under attack and their governments fail to protect them.
But the United Nations still fails to protect vulnerable populations when wars break out.
In the Central African Republic, sectarian killings of Muslims have been taking place for months and a proposed U.N. force substantial enough to halt the slaughter has yet to be deployed, even as most of the Muslim population is swept out of the country and its mosques burned.
Elsewhere in Africa, international intervention has shown mixed success. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide fled, U.N. troops have been criticized for not preventing attacks on civilians by armed groups, although last November — with a tough new mandate to use force — they helped Congolese army forces defeat the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23. In South Sudan, U.N. troops failed to prevent an estimated 10,000 ethnic killings in December, although the death toll might have been even higher without the U.N. presence.
The Rwandan genocide was triggered April 7, 1994, when a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutus, was shot down near the Kigali airport. The source of the attack is disputed, with Kagame's government saying that Hutu extremists in Habyarimana's military assassinated him as an excuse to exterminate Tutsis.
Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front had invaded northern Rwanda in 1990 from Uganda in an attempt to oust the Habyarimana government, but after nearly three years of civil war, a peace deal known as the Arusha Accords was signed, calling for a power-sharing deal that was to lead to elections.
The downing of the plane undermined the peace deal and triggered the mass killing of Tutsis and some Hutus by Hutu extremists. Some of the perpetrators were radio hosts, who used their programs to call Tutsis "cockroaches" that should be exterminated.
Neighbors killed neighbors. Entire families were wiped out. Some were killed in Roman Catholic churches where they fled for refuge and several Catholic nuns and priests have been convicted as perpetrators.
The U.N. Assistance Mission for Rwanda, deployed to implement the Arusha peace deal, did nothing to halt the bloody rampage, blaming a restrictive mandate. Western powers did not to intervene. Bill Clinton, then the U.S. president, has since apologized, admitting last year that as many as 300,000 lives could have been saved had Americans acted.
After three months of fighting, Kagame's forces reached the capital, Kigali, and drove the Rwandan army and government-backed militias from power.
The rebel movement FDLR, which includes some of the perpetrators of the genocide, continues to operate in eastern Congo, launching cross-border raids. But Rwanda has faced international criticism for its backing of M23 rebels, accused of using child soldiers and carrying out atrocities. Rwanda has denied the accusations but the U.S. froze military aid to the country in 2012 over its support for the group.
Kagame speaks scathingly about the U.N. mission in eastern Congo, the largest in the world. "You have a (U.N. military) mission in Congo spending $1.5 billion every year for the past 12 years," he said in an interview last year. "Nobody every asks, 'What do we get out of this?'"
For Kagame, lectures about human rights abuses are the West's way of trying to exert control in Africa.
"For the past century, including the last 50 years of independence, Africa lost immense opportunities largely due to unbalanced relationships within the global community that were often predatory and even abusive in nature," he said in a 2012 speech marking Rwanda's 50-year anniversary of independence. "Today, new ways of perpetuating the old order have emerged in a subtle manner, often disguised as the defense of human rights, free speech and international justice."
Kagame frequently exhorts his countrymen to work hard, remember the genocide, but to move forward. He extols the virtue of Rwandan democracy and self-reliance.
Rwanda is ranked by the World Bank as one of the easiest places to do business in Africa. Though the most intensely populated country in Africa, the nation of 11 million is self-sufficient in staple crops, according to the World Food Program, and acute malnutrition among children ages 6 months to 5 years is 3.6 percent.
Monthly work details, in which all citizens are required to participate in Saturday cleanup days, have something of a Soviet feel to them — but the country is as neat as a pin.
"We must work hard because if we wait for others to develop our country, we will not make progress," Kagame said last month. "Any external help must only come as an addition to our own efforts to better ourselves."


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TUE, DEC 6, 2011 at 3:33 AM
Obits "Killer" video
A few months back, the very good rock band Obits welcomed Alexis Fleisig as their new drummer. (Previous drummer and all-around excellent human Scott Gursky, decided to hang it up a few months before that.) Alexis is in or has been in about 500 bands (Girls Against Boys, Paramount Styles, Bellini, Soulside…) so it's understandable that he did not realize that as a part of his employment at Obits Music, Filmworks and Probate, Inc., he is now contractually required to make music videos for the band as well. He is, after all, a busy guy. Owing to his respect for a legal, binding contract (it's all right there, in black and white) and what turns out to be a genuine knack for making music videos, Alexis made a video for the song "Killer" from Obits' 2011 album Moody, Standard and Poor (which, by the by, Exclaim! recently featured as one of their best punk records of 2011).
And the thing is, this video is really good! See for yourself.
Also! The following items of related note…
—Obits will be performing live at The Bell House in Brooklyn on Friday, December 30th. This, of course, is New Year's Eve Eve, the new and much cooler celebratory event that is, we are right now pretending, ALL THE RAGE among many of the trend-setting young people of that borough.
—After that, Obits will be playing still more live shows on the east coast of these United States in March. Specifically, these:
March 14 – Washington, DC at the Black Cat Backstage
March 15 – Philadelphia, PA at Johnny Brenda's
March 16 – Cambridge, MA at TT the Bear's
March 17 – New York, NY at Cake Shop.
—We recently received and are now offering for sale some more of the popular Les Obits t-shirts!
—Did you know that these same Obits participate in and are very funny in the use of the internet's seemingly quite popular social media thingamajigs? While that former thing might be surprising and the latter not at all, they do! Like this:
Obits on Facebook
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Thank you for what we might as well assume to be your time and indulgence here.


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Hundred Days - "Whatever Happened To You"
Band Bio:
In 2002 four friends got together to form a rock band. Under the name of X-teller they constantly played gigs across the south of England for five years. In that time they honed their song writing skills and made two albums and two EPs which enjoyed excellent reviews.
In 2007 after a years break three members of the band felt the need to reenergize their friendship and their music. A year later the three smashed on to the live scene with a new sound, a new full album "How a War is Won" and a new name "Hundred Days".
The new name refers to the Hundred Days between Napoleon Bonaparte escaping imprisonment and the battle of Waterloo. After a year of peace the battle had to be won by both sides and just like Hundred Days and their new album it was an all or nothing situation.
Since then they have not let up on their on going tour introducing their own brand of hard rock to as many people as possible along the way recording follow up EP "Rise".
Now Hundred Days are back with their new album "Mission Exodus" and this one is the biggest and best yet. Mostly recorded by the band themselves the record offers a mix of classic rock, high drama and some fun stuff. This 12 song/15 track album contains three tracks recorded at The Animal Farm studios in London and a bonus track from a live radio show 'Live at Orchard' broadcast on Glastonbury FM. The album is out now from all good digital stockists.
Good heavy rock music made by a lasting friendship and a solid understanding of the craft of song writhing, this is Hundred Days.
"You can't beat good song writing and this IS good song writing" BBC 6 music
Hundred Days will be supporting The Pineapple Thief on the 10th March at The Quicksilver Mail, Yeovil.
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On his 1965 album "That Was the Year That Was," then 37-year-old musical comedian Tom Lehrer joked, "It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age he'd been dead for two years."
Talking to 31-year-old Jared Isaacman, you can feel Lehrer's pain.
When Isaacman is not running the multi-million dollar credit card payment processing company Harbortouch in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, and when he is not running defense firm Draken International in Lakeland, Fla., he is flying right wing for a jet team called the Black Diamonds.
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Asus has unveiled its entry to the Ultrabook market with the
Zenbook, which will go on sale on 21 October with prices starting at £849.
Attempting to differentiate themselves from the rest of the
Ultrabook entrants (namely Acer, Toshiba and Lenovo) Asus has given its entry a new name and unveiled two
versions of the Zenbook, the 11.6in UX21 and the 13.3in UX31.
We've already had some hands-on time with these machines and
they are seriously impressive pieces of kit. The 11.6in UX21 will go on sale
for £849 while the larger UX31 will cost you £999 when it arrives on shelves on
21 October, making it the first Ultrabook to go on sale in the UK.
For your £849 the UX21 Zenbook will include the latest Core i5
processor, 4GB of RAM, a 1366 x 768 display, integrated Bang & Olufsen speakers, 128GB
SSD, a promised battery life of five hours and standby time of one week.
The UX21 will weigh in at 1.1kg, and come with a mini HDMI
port, mini Display
Port, one USB 2.0 port
and one USB 3.0 port. It will measure just 3mm at the thinnest point expanding
out to 17mm at its thickest.
The larger UX31 will come with similar specs but will
include a Core i7 processor, a 1600 x 900 panel and promises over seven hours
battery life with a standby time of two weeks.
Asus were playing up the "balance" aspect of the new laptops
at the launch last night and Intel announced that when the new Ivy Bridge
processors and Windows 8 arrive, so will touch screens on Ultrabooks – which
they hope will give you the best of all worlds, though we're yet to be
Intel also told us that despite Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba
being rather reticent about announcing release dates for their Ultrabook, it is
hoping that all models will hit the shelves in the next two weeks.
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The RI Rainbow Girls will sponsor a Rock-A-Thon to benefit the American Diabetes Association on Saturday, April 27 at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 2115 Broad St., Cranston. BYOC – bring your own chair (rocking chair) and come rock around the Christmas tree from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Please come join the fun for as long as your schedule will permit, whether it is one hour or 12 hours. There will be games, carols, refreshments and more! To download a pledge sheet, go to www.rirainbowgirls.
org/girlsresources.html. For more details, contact Faith at 225-3035. Please note there will be some rocking chairs available for those that do not have one.


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Homemade Popovers, Garlic Fried Rice, Baked Ginger Fish, Eggless Egg Salad, and Homemade Wendy's Chocolate Frosties
It was Reader Request Week on The Kitchn, and our readers asked for some fabulous recipes! We have jammy, puffy, golden homemade popovers, as well as some great vegetarian dishes like brown rice salad with walnuts and cherries, eggless "egg salad", and garlicky, eggy Filipino fried rice. There were treats too, like a knockoff copycat version of Wendy's chocolate frosty, and a lemony rum punch that's easily adaptable for kids.
This Week's New Recipes from The Kitchn
• How to Make Popovers
• Filipino Garlic Fried Rice (Sinangag)
• Ginger and Cilantro Baked Tilapia
• Lemony Tofu "Egg" Salad
• Spring Quinoa with Chickpeas, Asparagus, and Fresh Peas
• Spaghetti alla Carbonara
• Brown Rice Salad with Apples, Walnuts, and Cherries
• Kale, Chickpeas, and Sausage with Oven-Baked Egg
• Homemade Wendy's Chocolate Frosty
• Basic Lemon Raspberry Rum Punch
Previous Week's New Recipes: How To Make a Frittata, Strawberry Cheesecakes, Coffee Pudding, Spiked Iced Chai Tea, Cracker Jacks and More
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What is ARC?
ARC is a secular body that helps the world's major faiths develop environmental programmes based on their own core teachings, beliefs and practices.
Why work with the faiths?
The faiths are the oldest human organisations on the planet and together make up the biggest element of civil society today.
Recent News:
September 17, 2018
Redefining a good investment: Faithinvest announced
A new organisation was announced today, bringing together some of the largest religious investors representing trillions of dollars. It might change the world. It will certainly redefine the meaning of a "good investment".
September 13, 2018
Report from the First Maoshan Daoist Ecological Temples Forum
The First Maoshan Daoist Ecological Temples Forum ran from August 19-21 at Maoshan near Nanjing. It has been described by the China Daoist Association (CDA) as the 'most successful Daoist event for 10 years". This is what happened.
September 4, 2018
The Daoists' latest long-term eco plan bans rhino horn, ivory; addresses mercy release crisis
No rhino horn. No ivory. No killing pangolins. An important newlong-term environmental plan drafted by Chinese Daoist leadership includes guidelines that Chinese medicine should never use endangered animal parts, as well as a recognition that dongtian, "heavenly grottoes" are critical ecosystems, protected by Daoists for millennia, needing protecting now.
July 19, 2018
The road from Zug 2017 to the creation of FaithInvest
From an extraordinary, powerful meeting ARC cohosted in Zug, Switzerland in November 2017, bringing together some of the largest religious investors, a new faith-consistent investment alliance is emerging. It is called FaithInvest. It might change the world. It is certainly one of the most important initiatives ARC has ever been involved with.
July 25, 2018
You're invited to a meeting about faith-consistent ethical investment. Edinburgh Oct 22-23 2018
ARC is delighted to be a supporter of the Ethical Finance 2018 conference in RBS's Edinburgh HQ on October 22-23. The meeting is backed by the Scottish Government, HM Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
June 9, 2018
Press release: Major grant from UK Aid Direct for Dignity for Girls programmes in Uganda
ARC and its partner organisation Faith in Water are delighted to announce the award of a major grant from UK Aid Direct for its Dignity for Girls project aimed at helping girls in Christian and Muslim schools in Uganda to stay in education.
May 31, 2018
Fond memories of our president, Sir Miles Hunt-Davis, who died last week
We were so sorry to hear of the death of Sir Miles Hunt-Davis, former secretary of HRH Prince Philip and our international president from 2011 to 2013
April 19, 2018
Penguin India publishes important new book on Hinduism and Nature
We have just received our copy of Hinduism and Nature by historian, environmentalist (and good friend of ARC) Dr Nanditha Krishna. It is about the mythical stories and religious significance of India's varied landscapes. And how those stories are one of the things that can and might protect India's animals and places from the bulldozers of progress.
April 11, 2018
Monks Community Forest is part of important new wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia
The Cambodian government last week created a new wildlife sanctuary covering more than 30,000 hectares in Oddar Meanchey province. It includes the Sang Rukhavoan community forest, led by Venerable Bun Saluth and supported by ARC.
March 12, 2018
Buddhist traditions and conservation programmes protect rare otters on Tibetan plateau
Although the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) is locally extinct in most of its former range in China due to a combination of hunting (for its pelt) water pollution, and general habitat destruction, in one area there is a healthy population. Flora He Yifan explains why.
November 5, 2017
ARC's Zug Faith in Finance meeting in pictures and in the news
The Zug Faith in Finance meeting, from October 30-November 1 at Lassalle Haus, Zug, Switzerland, could transform how the Sustainable Development Goals are financed; it could help bring about a safer, fairer, cleaner planet. Here are some details of the event in film and pictures, and in the news.
September 8, 2017
Read ARC's pledge for #NatureForAll
ARC is joining our partner IUCN to make a pledge for their #NatureForAll campaign, Read our pledge here.
Question: Who were the first environmental campaigners?
Find out the answer.
Prince Philip on Creation
"If you believe in God…
then you should feel a responsibility to care for His Creation"…
ARC's founder gives a rare interview.
UN Secretary-General
The world's faith communities occupy "a unique position in discussions on the fate of our planet and the accelerating impacts of climate change… You can - and do - inspire people to change"…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Windsor Celebration, November 2009
Key ARC initiatives
FaithInvest is a major new alliance cofounded by ARC, actively linking faith investors to ethical fund managers to create more positive sustainable investing
ARC has been working with religions in China, especially the Daoists, for two decades on how to solve some of the country's huge environmental issues
ARC links faiths and secular organisations to work together to protect endangered wildlife.
Children and young people play an important role in getting good things to happen.
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Police up death toll to 245 in Brazil club fire
Photo: Agencia RBS
Firefighters work to douse a fire at the Kiss Club in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. Firefighters say that the death toll from a fire that swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil has risen to 180. Officials say the fire broke out at the club while a band was performing. At least 200 people were also injured. (AP Photo/Agencia RBS)


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Who knew that the devil actually had a plan before inhabiting the body of Sister Mary Eunice?
Unless that plan included slashing the throats of patients and investigators, and trying to seduce Dr. Arden, it seemed like the spirit was just winging it.
In reality, every move she's made so far has been calculated. The demon wants to run Briarcliff. Last week, her actions led to Sister Jude packing her bags. This week, she exercised her control over Dr. Arden.
After Grace is found bleeding, with her girl parts "scooped out," Sister Mary Eunice blames Arden for the failed sterilization attempt. Always up for a chance to argue using gaudy vocabulary, Arden...


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"Here in the heart of Ireland, nature is never very far away"
So writes UK newspaper The Guardian's travel journalist William Cook, whose journey through Ireland's Lakelands is marked by sightings of wild deer, Georgian mansions, eco lodges and the absolute absence of car engines, alarms or horns.
Summing up Ireland's spread of lakes, rivers, canals and estuaries isn't easy, but were the Lakelands to have a capital, Fermanagh would be it.
Comprised of two lakes (Upper and Lower) and 154 islands, Fermanagh's Lough Erne is a game changer when it comes to the Ireland experience. "Upper Lough Erne is a paddler's paradise," says travel writer Rick Le Vert, "chock-a-block with hidden nooks and crannies, secretive islands and majestic estates."
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And that's only from the water. A hop onto land opens even more doors: Fermanagh's Devinish Island is home to one of Northern Ireland's best preserved monastic sites, while the carved faces of 9th or 10th-century stone figures lend the uninhabited White Island an eerie edge.
Paddle power provides access to the unusual — what better way to access Inishcorkish where Fermanagh's famous Black Bacon pigs are reared in splendid isolation. A few miles upwater over in Enniskillen, you can even pick up a few slices of the finished article from local butcher Pat O'Doherty.
But Fermanagh isn't the only watery destination on the island.
Loop along the elbow of the River Shannon and Lough Allen appears, shared by the counties of Roscommon and Leitrim but unified as one vast, mirror-like spread of a lake. Kevin Currid runs Wilderness Therapy courses on Lough Allen's shores where roughing it is replaced by hearty stew dinners and bottles of organic beer.
"A trip into the great outdoors like this is fundamentally reinvigorating," says journalist Pól O' Conghaile, who had a great time on one of Kevin's courses. "Life is brought back to the basics – shelter, warmth and food. Therapy is the word, all right."
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A Burlington man is suing his sister�s power of attorney, claiming relief for not being notified of his sister�s grave illness or death.
William Mitchell claims the power of attorney, Betty Waters, tried to block him from attending Elizabeth Fogleman's funeral and seeing her body. Fogleman was his sister. She died March 7.
Mitchell learned of her death March 8, when Fogleman�s ex-husband called asking if he knew anything about it.
When Mitchell eventually located Waters that day and inquired about Fogleman, Waters allegedly told him to �read it in the paper.� The obituary mentioned Fogleman�s deceased mother and a dog, but made no mention of any other relatives.
Waters allegedly refused to allow Mitchell to view Fogleman�s body until he threatened a court order.
�When I said goodbye to my sister and kissed her, her body was cold and hard,� Mitchell wrote in the complaint. �I hope God forgives Betty Waters.�
Mitchell originally named Rich and Thompson Funeral Service as a defendant in the suit but an amended complaint filed March 28 names only Waters as a defendant. He is representing himself.
�Defendant�s conduct was intended to cause severe emotional distress � did in fact cause severe emotional distress ... (and) plaintiff has suffered emotional distress that no reasonable person could be expected to endure,� Mitchell stated in the amended complaint.
Answering the complaint through her attorney, Geoffrey K. Oertel, Waters denies Mitchell�s claims. In a response filed April 8, Oertel moved the court to dismiss Mitchell�s suit for failure to state a legal claim for relief.
The defense is also asking that the court award Waters attorney fees and other relief in the wake of Mitchell�s suit.
Oertel and Waters were unable to be reached for comment Thursday.
Fogleman and Mitchell had a falling out before their mother died, involving a 1986 suit brought by their step-siblings against their mother.
Fogleman appointed Waters as her healthcare power of attorney in 2004, documents with the Alamance County Register of Deeds show.
Fogleman, 80, was admitted to Alamance Regional Medical Center on Feb. 28, where her health rapidly declined due to cancer and other health issues, court documents showed. She was admitted to Hospice of Alamance-Caswell on March 1.
Hospice records included with the suit show that on March 1, Fogleman asked Waters to notify Mitchell of her placement at the Hospice Home. Fogleman died March 7. Mitchell says Waters never attempted to contact him.
�Betty (Waters) relates that (patient) has no family except for a brother from whom she has been estranged for many years. (Patient) has agreed for Betty to notify her brother,� Ginny Ward, a Hospice hospital liaison, wrote in a note dated March 1.
In a last will and testament filed in 2006, Fogleman stated she wanted none of her estate to go to Mitchell or Mitchell�s family.
Mitchell says he and his sister weren�t estranged, and that they�d grown closer during her later years. They spoke several times a month after he helped her clear debts in 2010 following a Christmas Eve wreck.
Mitchell last spoke to Fogleman in mid-February, when she complained of not feeling well and going to see her doctor at ARMC. Mitchell said he drove by Fogleman�s apartment, saw her car there and assumed she was feeling better.
Mitchell says he brought the suit because he doesn�t want anyone else to have to go through what he has.
�Betty Waters took away one thing from me that can never be given back: That�s being with my sister and being able to hold her hand when she died. That really hurts,� Mitchell said.
A hearing is scheduled in Alamance County Civil District Court May 14 at 9:30 a.m.


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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - by Ken Pishna - MMAWeekly.com (Reporting by Ivan Trembow)
CBS on Tuesday released the full ratings results for the debut of CBS-EliteXC Saturday Night Fights, which took place on Saturday night in Newark, N.J. and aired live on the CBS Television Network.
The event averaged 4.85 million viewers over the entirety of the telecast. It peaked at 6.51 million viewers during the main event between Kevin Kimbo Slice Ferguson and James Thompson.
A statement from CBS indicated that the network seemed pleased with the numbers, especially since it represented a significant increase over the networks regularly scheduled programming in the same time lot during the 2007-08 season.
The numbers were especially well received by the network in key advertising demographics. The adults 18-34 demographic was up 156 percent and 18-34 men 357 percent.
Spike TV officials also released numbers for their counter-programming on Saturday night, which leaned heavily on the popularity of Chuck The Iceman Liddell. UFC Unleashed: Liddell vs. Silva, which presented the Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva Dec. 29 bout for the first time on basic cable, drew an average of 1.6 million viewers. The Ultimate Iceman: Chuck Liddell saw 1.2 million viewers tune in.
Although the Spike TV numbers dont compare to the 4.85 million viewers on CBS, Spike TV officials indicated that the viewership represented a significant increase over its season average in the same time period.
The 1.6 million viewers for Unleashed placed it as the No. 2 watched show on basic cable programming in its time slot, second only to Pirates of the Carribbean.
A more significant comparison can be made between the audiences. CBS-EliteXC Saturday Night Fights, as previously mentioned, drew 4.85 million viewers on average and peaked at 6.51 million during the main event. A more similar event on Spike TV, a tape-delayed telecast of UFC 75 featuring a title bout between Quinton Jackson and Dan Hendersen, drew 4.7 million viewers on average and peaked at 5.928 million viewers during the main event.
To put these numbers into a better perspective, and to convey the growing popularity of mixed martial arts in general, consider that on the three networks that the NBA basketball playoffs have aired this season they have averaged 5.4 million viewers on ABC, 4.1 million viewers on ESPN, and 3.8 million viewers on TNT.
World Extreme Cagefighting on Tuesday also released the numbers for its Sunday night event, WEC 34, featuring Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver. The overall event averaged 1.536 million viewers and was the most watched event in its timeslot among the key advertising demographics of Men 18-34 and Men 18-49.
UFC vs. EliteXC Ratings Comparisons:
Average Number of Viewers for the Entire Broadcast
(Top 4 UFC broadcasts of all time and EliteXC's one broadcast on CBS)
1. EliteXC in May 2008--- Average of 4.85 million viewers for the whole broadcast
2. UFC 75 in September 2007--- Average of 4.7 million viewers for the whole broadcast
3. UFC: The Final Chapter in October 2006--- Average of 4.2 million viewers for the whole broadcast
4. UFC 70 in April 2007--- Average of 2.8 million viewers for the whole broadcast
5. UFC's TUF 3 Finale in June 2006--- Average of 2.8 million viewers for the whole broadcast
UFC vs. EliteXC Ratings Comparisons:
Average Number of Viewers for the Most-Watched Individual Fights
(Top 4 UFC fights of all time and all 5 of the fights that aired on EliteXC on Saturday night)
1. EliteXC: Kimbo Slice vs. James Thompson--- 6.5 million viewers
2. UFC: Quinton Jackson vs. Dan Henderson from UFC 75--- 5.9 million viewers
3. UFC: Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock III from "Final Chapter" show--- 5.9 million viewers
4. EliteXC: Robbie Lawler vs. Scott Smith--- 5.5 million viewers
5. EliteXC: Gina Carano vs. Kaitlin Young--- 4.7 million viewers
6. EliteXC: Joey Villasenor vs. Phil Baroni--- 3.7 million viewers
7. UFC: Mirko Cro Cop vs. Gabriel Gonzaga from UFC 70--- 3.6 million viewers
8. UFC: Kendall Grove vs. Ed Herman from TUF 3 Finale--- 3.5 million viewers
9. EliteXC: Brett Rogers vs. Jon Murphy--- 3.4 million viewers
UFC and EliteXC Ratings vs. NBA Playoff Averages
1. 2008 NBA Playoff Games on ABC--- 5.4 million viewers
2. EliteXC on CBS--- 4.85 million viewers
3. UFC 75 in September 2007--- 4.7 million viewers
4. UFC: The Final Chapter in October 2006--- 4.2 million viewers
5. 2008 NBA Playoff Games on ESPN--- 4.1 million viewers
6. 2008 NBA Playoff Games on TNT--- 3.8 million viewers
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very nice. elitexc got more viewers, but all the mma fans know that they suck more than UFC.
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I watched that whole iceman special. It was awesome.
I also watched ELITEXC...and WEC.
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I tend to watch UFCs at bars with lots of people. How would that factor into ratings? Do enough people do that to significantly skew ratings?
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A lot of people have been waiting a long time for Amazon.com to drop the price of its Kindle to less than $100. Well, that day is here, but Amazon has thrown a little wrench into the equation: it's offering two sub-$100 models, the $79 entry-level Kindle reviewed here and the $99 Wi-Fi Kindle Touch, which is due to ship in mid-November.
To be clear, to get that sub-$100 pricing for the devices, you'll have to purchase the ad-supported Special Offers versions. The ad-free versions cost $30 and $40 more, respectively. The Touch is also offered in a version that adds free 3G wireless for $149 (Special Offers) and $189 (ad-free).
Whether you opt to pay more for the ad-free version is up to you, but we must say that we didn't find the ads to be intrusive (they don't appear in books; they only appear at the bottom of the home page and as screensavers when you turn off the device). That issue aside, the bigger question is whether you should choose the budget $79 Kindle or hold out to spend the extra $20 on the Kindle Touch.
The short answer is: hold out for the Kindle Touch if you can afford that extra $20. That doesn't mean the non-touch Kindle isn't good--it's a perfectly decent e-reader that's slimmer and lighter than the 2010 Kindle (which has now been redubbed "Kindle Keyboard"), and it's the only current Kindle with hard buttons for turning pages (if that's your preference). If you don't need to use the virtual keyboard too much and you're just looking for a no-frills e-book reader, it's hard to argue with the $79 price tag.
The first thing you notice when you take the new Kindle out of the box is how light and thin it is. In four years, the Kindle has gone from being pretty ungainly to now being a fetching electronic device (Jeff Bezos said that Kindle 3 owners would be upset when they saw the new Kindle, and he's mostly right).
Since this Kindle lacks a touch screen, page turns are accomplished via buttons mounted on either side of the screen. We didn't like the page-turn buttons quite as much as those on the earlier Kindle, but they're basically fine. (The $99 Kindle Touch has no physical page-turn buttons--you tap on the screen to go back or forward.)
Below the screen is a five-way directional pad for navigating menus (and working the virtual keyboard), and four other keys: a back button, home, keyboard toggle, and menu. "Typing" on the keyboard requires shoving the cursor around, similar to entering onscreen text with a video game controller.
We've always found the Kindle interface simple enough to navigate and use, but we do prefer touch-screen navigation. While we haven't used the Kindle Touch yet, we have seen in-person demos, and just as with the Nook Touch, touch navigation offers a better user experience.
Though Amazon has moved from the Kindle 3.1 OS on last year's Kindle Keyboard to Kindle OS 4.0 on this model, we really didn't see any significant changes to the user interface; it's basically the same.
Amazon natively supports its Kindle (AZW) format for e-books, along with TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, and PRC files (you can drag the latter four file formats onto the device from your computer). It also supports HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP through conversion.
Like the Nook, the Kindle supports limited lending of e-books: publisher-approved titles can be lent out once for two weeks to one fellow Kindle user. Kindles also now support library lending. If your public library offers e-book lending, you can "check out" e-books for free for one or two weeks. Only certain titles are available to check out, but the list is growing.
The latest models, like all previous Kindles, use Amazon's WhisperSync technology. That means you can download books in less than a minute, and resume books where you left off on other Kindle-compatible devices. Thanks to Amazon's nearly universal app support, Kindle books can be accessed on iPads, iPhones, iPod Touch handhelds, Android phones running version 2.1 and later, Android tablets, many BlackBerry phones, Windows PCs, Macs, Windows Phone 7 phones, and via HTML 5-compatible browsers for people using the Kindle Cloud Reader. And, of course, you can access the e-books on other hardware Kindles, including the Kindle Fire.
Like other Kindles, this one includes an "experimental browser." It's always been a little crude and e-ink is sluggish by nature, but it worked better than we thought it would--we loaded a Gmail account and NYTimes.com--and would certainly do in a pinch. Again, we expect browsing to be a better experience on the Touch.


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Updated: Spain's general strike shows first signs of rebellion against austerity
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With near-empty railway stations, shut factories, mass marches and occasional outbreaks of violence during a general strike on Thursday, Spaniards showed the first signs of rebellion against the reformist, austerity-preaching conservative government they voted in four months ago.
Police and pickets clashed in a handful of places, but it was a largely peaceful general strike in a country whose sinking economy, with 23% unemployment, has become the focus of worry about the future of the whole eurozone area.
Thousands of police officers remained on duty around the country on Thursday night as tens of thousands of flag-waving demonstrators flooded into city centres for protest marches against labour reform and austerity measures introduced by prime minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's party [PP].
Demonstrators brought the centres of Madrid, Barcelona and other cities to a standstill as trade unions claimed the strike was more widely supported than previous nationwide stoppages in 2010 and 2002. Rajoy's officials claimed, however, that the 2010 strike against a socialist government had received greater support.
Electricity consumption fell by 17%, suggesting the strike was impacting on major industries – though most shops appeared to be open in Madrid.
Street fires were set in both Madrid and Barcelona, where roads into the city were blocked, but there were few reports of serious violence.
The strike was most successful where Spain's big two unions, the General Workers Union and the Workers Commissions, are strongest – in large factories, the civil service and transport.
General Workers leader Cándido Méndez put average participation at midday at 77% but said that it was 97%in industry and construction.
"This strike has been an unquestionable success," he said.
Reuters adds:
Strikers promised a wave of protests to confront Rajoy's conservative government over reforms making it cheaper for companies to fire staff and dismantling a nationwide system of collective pay bargaining.
"We don't have much hope, but this is just the beginning," said Trini Cuesta, a 58-year-old employee at a public hospital in Barcelona. "It's not just about labor reform, we're against policies that are provoking social and economic ruin. Social protests must rise." [...]
Rajoy's government said it was committed to making labor reforms which it argues will help to reduce unemployment by making the labor market more efficient. "The agenda for reform is unstoppable," Labor Minister Fatima Banez said on Thursday.
Police presence was particularly heavy around parliament where politicians were putting in a longer work day than usual...
Spain's transportation, public sector, and industrial unions are executing a general strike today in a show of their opposition to austerity proposals being offered by the ruling conservative party and President Mariano Rajoy, who is just three months on the job.
Public busses, trains, and flights were delayed or cancelled and dozens of arrests were made in separate incidents. Spain is currently facing its second recession in less than three years, and reports predict that more than a million more Spaniards could join the ranks of the unemployed if deeper cuts to the public sector are allowed to go through. The country already has the highest unemployment rate in western Europe, nearly 23%, with a high proportion of those under 25 years old.
One labor leader said Spain was already "at its limit" and suggested that further austerity would push it into the abyss.
The Guardian/UK is live-blogging developments throughout the day.
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Al-Jazeera reports:
Thursday's strike was called by trade unions protesting against labour reforms and spending cuts which the conservative government says are needed to save the economy.
"This is a just response to a brutal reform of our system of labour relations," Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, leader of the CCOO, one of the main trade unions, said.
The strike is the first major walkout against the government's policies, just three months after Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister, took office promising to cut Spain's 23-per cent unemployment rate and stabilise its public finances.
Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reporting from Madrid said: "It is a test of strength, the unions are very unhappy with the liberalisation of workers law being introduced."
Scuffles broke out between protesters and police as workers picketed the capital's bus depot early on Thursday.
Around 100 protesters gathered in front of Fuencarral's bus depot and some of them blocked the road as the first bus departed form the depot. Tensions rose as riot police wrestled some protesters to the ground.
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El Pais reports:
At a joint press conference with his CCOO counterpart, UGT leader Cándido Méndez said the strike is proving a success with a "very broad" level of observance. Méndez called on the government to sit down and negotiate changes to its labor reform, which is in place as a decree but has yet to become law in parliament.
"We know that Spain is at its limit, but it will go over the edge if these austerity policies are continued," Méndez added, warning the government to think carefully before approving its budget for 2012 in Friday's Cabinet meeting.
The day of protest, set to culminate in marches against the labor reform in many cities, has so far remained relatively peaceful. As of 8am this morning, 58 people had been arrested in isolated incidents. Nine people are reported to have suffered injuries, according to the Interior Ministry.
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The Associated Press adds:
One protester, Angel Andrino, 31, said he was laid off a day after the labor reforms were approved in a decree last month. The government says that it understands the reforms might hurt now but it argues it will create jobs down the road when the economy recovers. Spain is already in recession, according to the central bank.
Andrino marched with his parents and brother. They all live together. The brother is the only one with work and it is only part-time.
"We are going through a really hard time, suffering," he said. "The rights that our parents and grandparents fought for are being wiped away without the public being consulted."
Outside a major department store, 69-year-old retiree Jose Antonio Nunez was dressed up in a skeleton's costume and carried a toy scythe. On the side of the blade was the word "wages." Nunez said he is struggling to get by on his retirement pension and fears more pain for everyone when an austerity budget is unveiled Friday.
"I am dressed like this because with the wages they are paying they are going to wear us down to the bone," Nunez said.
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Spain is now tipping into its second recession since the end of 2009 and some observers expect at least another million people to join already swollen unemployment lines.
The jobless rate is the highest in the European Union at 23 percent and almost half of under 25-year-olds are out of work.
Polls had predicted only 30 percent of workers would join Thursday's one-day strike against labour reform, but a surprise electoral setback for the ruling People's Party (PP), at two regional elections on Sunday may spur wider participation.
"Sunday's election results are a sign that the population won't accept these kinds of reforms ... and could mark the start of a new cycle with more active opposition to policies than we've seen in recent months and year," economics professor at Spain's Santiago de Compostela University Xavier Vence said.
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Postby The 2nd Womble » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:04 pm
Lolz yes well. But never mind. I have a feeling there'll be a major shift re advocacy and someone that road riders can turn to very shortly. An exciting time ahead. Harry Barber will be crapping himself
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Postby find_bruce » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:26 pm
Eleri wrote:Indeed! I ride in the same club as Marc and we all found it pretty remarkable that he was the one who got charged ... and not the driver.
Good on him for following through with it to its logical conclusion.
Now that the dust has settled a bit & Marc has been able to celebrate his win, do you know if is he planning to follow up with the Police Farce, both as to action taken against the officer for profering charges that were against the evidence and in laying charges against the driver ?
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Postby jules21 » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:50 pm
if you don't mind midnight visits and bricks through windows, go for it. i'm not suggesting the cops would resort to that, it would just be a coincidence and unrelated.
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Postby Percrime » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:53 pm
And probably not that well investigated
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Postby rogan » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:25 pm
marc2131 wrote:KonaCommuter wrote:So, I take it that now the driver is going to be fined?
Driver guilty? We live in hope.
The copper in charge was 23yo. However his mentor was 39, and they were both reluctant to drop the charges despite the overwhelming evidence. Me thinks limited IQ had more to do with it than limited experience.
Hanlon's Razor/Ockham's Razor
They already had their evidence, they had their case. Despite my cynicism expressed in the next sentence, cops genuinely have more important things to do than spend hours working up the case on every minor traffic offence. Pick your choice catching murderers/hanging out at donut emporiums/lobbying the state government for preferential treatment under workers' comp/paperwork/etc.
But the answer is simple and quite obvious as an application of the Razors. These cops, they never viewed the footage before they stepped into the court.
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The only arms civilians are allowed to have are "passive" ones like cars, big cars, 4WDs and...Sydguy wrote:Retrain the police, retrain the driver and arm cyclists.
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Re: Wheels of Justice
Postby Mulger bill » Sun Jul 01, 2012 2:23 pm
Nobody wrote:It appears MB beat me to it with this:
No sweat Nobody
Most of the time, methinks the F650 will do well enough. I'll save the Marauder for King St on Saturday nights, those tyres will laugh at broken glass and puddles of piddle/vomit
...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
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September 17 marks end of summer for Greers Ferry Lake
Fall is quickly approaching and with it the end of the summer recreation season at Greers Ferry Lake. There are still several days to enjoy all that the lake has to offer. Cooler temperatures reduce traffic allowing visitors to take advantage of many recreational opportunities with a more relaxing approach.
As the recreation season winds down, so does the number of available campsites at Greers Ferry Lake. Many of our parks will end services Sept. 17. Due to low lake levels some of our boat ramps will be closed until we receive enough rain to open them back up. If the dry weather event continues and lake levels continue to fall, more boat ramps could be closed for safety reasons.
Park Camp Loops Open Boat Ramps Open
Cherokee Closed Open
Choctaw B, D1 - 13 Open
Cove Creek Closed Open
Dam Site H, M, N Open *
Devils Fork A, B Open
Heber Springs Closed Open
Hill Creek B Open
John F. Kennedy A, B, C, D Open
Mill Creek Closed Closes Dec. 1 *
Narrows A Open
Old 25 Closed Road End only
Shiloh Closed Open *
Sugar Loaf C, D Open
Boat ramps marked with an * are either currently closed or may closed due to low lake levels, but will reopen as the lake rise to appropriate levels.
For those of you who like to plan ahead, it's not too early to start making plans for next year. The 2013 reservation season begins on May 15 for all of the parks at Greers Ferry Lake with the exception of JFK Park opening April 15. Camping we be limited to a first come, first serve basis outside of those dates. Since reservations can be made up to 180 days in advance, it is easy to insure your favorite campsite is reserved for the busy holiday weekends.
To ensure a developed campsite will be available upon your arrival, call the National Recreation Reservation Service at 1-877-444-6777 or visit the website at www.recreation.gov and make your reservations in advance.
Recreation information can be found on the Internet at www.swl.usace.army.mil, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/littlerockusace, and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/usacelittlerock.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2013 18:27 UTC
"Imagine a phone that could run real Remote Desktop. Real PowerShell. Anything that can run on your desktop PC. Imagine 'phablet' form factors, similar to today's Samsung Galaxy Note 2, which could dock to a desktop setup and utilize an external display, keyboard, mouse, and other peripherals. Imagine a single set of APIs that work everywhere. Imagine that Phone isn't a whole separate platform, but an app. An app that runs on Windows. Real Windows. The Windows Phone team could never make that happen. But the Windows client team? You betcha. Make it happen, Microsoft. It's time to take the phone seriously." I have never agreed with Thurrot as much as I do right now.
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Well sadly I live in the United Corporate States of America so that don't help me none, here you have the choice of paying through the nose for an extended warranty that in many cases make you jump through so many hoops to file a claim simply isn't worth it or end up with a device that if it survives for one year and one day, even if they had to rig the device like HP did by cranking the fans to 100% on the bumpgate laptops just to reach that year and a day? tough luck throw it away.


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Two DePauw University faculty members -- Thomas D. Hall, professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology; and Glen D. Kuecker, professor of history -- contribute essays to the latest edition (volume 5, number 1) of the Journal of Globalization Studies.
Dr. Hall, who served as guest editor of the issue, analyzes "Toward Comparative Globalizations: Globalization in Historical Retrospective and World-System Analysis." A synopsis states, "This introduction explains the background and underlying theoretical and substantive debates about globalization, world-systems analysis, and the ways to make comparisons among them. It provides information to introduce the topics to readers not closely familiar with these debates. It also situates the contexts for each of the papers in those theoretical and empirical discussions. This introduction, and the entire issue, is not intended as a final word, or even current word. Rather, it is an invitation to scholars in many disciplines to contribute to these discussions."
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Tom Hall is the co-author of Indigenous Peoples and Globalization: Resistance and Revitalization, while Glen Kuecker co-edited Latin American Social Movements in the Twentieth Century.Back


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When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling.
And it worked, for a while at least.
With a Bronx-born combination of chutzpah and humour, Koch steered New York back from the brink of financial ruin and infused the city with new energy and optimism in the 1970s and '80s while racing around town, startling ordinary New Yorkers by asking, "How'm I doing?" He was usually in too much of a hurry to wait for an answer.
Koch died of congestive heart failure Friday at 88, after carefully arranging to be buried in Manhattan because, as he explained with what sounded like a love note wrapped in a zinger: "I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone. This is my home. The thought of having to go to New Jersey was so distressing to me."
Tributes poured in from political allies and adversaries, some of whom were no doubt thinking more of his earlier years in City Hall, before many black leaders and liberals became fed up with what they felt were racially insensitive and needlessly combative remarks.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement that although they disagreed on many things, Koch "was never a phoney or a hypocrite. He would not patronize or deceive you. He said what he meant. He meant what he said. He fought for what he believed. May he rest in peace."
During Koch's three terms from 1978 to 1989, he helped New York climb out of its financial crisis through tough fiscal policies and razor-sharp budget cuts, and subway service improved enormously. To much of the rest of America, the bald, paunchy Koch became the embodiment of the brash, irrepressible New Yorker.
He was quick with a quip or a putdown, and when he got excited or indignant, which was often, his voice became high-pitched. He dismissed his critics as "wackos," feuded with Donald Trump ("piggy") and fellow former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ("nasty man"), lambasted the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and once reduced the head of the City Council to tears.
"You punch me, I punch back," Koch once observed. "I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag."
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Housing may be coming back, but out of 3 related stocks that IPO'd this year, Jim Cramer suggested staying away from 2 of them.
"I'm talking about Zillow and Trulia," said Cramer.
Both are websites where potential renters and buyers go to find out all things real estate. Read More: Trulia vs. Zillow: The Battle for Online Real Estate
The companies make their money in part through regular display advertisements and that's part of the problem. "To some extent their business is more about online advertising rates than anything else," Cramer said.
To make matters worse, these so-called growth stocks may already be in a state of declining growth.
Housing may be coming back, but out of 3 related stocks that IPO'd this year, Jim Cramer suggested staying away from 2 of them.
Looking at Zillow specifically, the company grew revenues at a 117% clip last year, but for 2012 it's only expected to grow at a 72% clip and in the latest quarter its revenue growth was just 67%.
"That's still very high on an absolute basis, but it's a major deceleration, and that's the kind of thing that makes growth oriented investors want to hit the road," Cramer explained.
Trulia's in a similar place.
"Again, the company's subscriber growth has started to decelerate," Cramer said. Although the company beat estimates when it reported on November 7th, the strength came from Trulia's media business – i.e. from display ads.
- Cramer's Top Dividend Stocks 2012
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And perhaps the final nail in the coffin is price - Zillow and Trulia are expensive stocks.
"Zillow trades at 48 times next year's earnings, while Trulia trades at 103 times next year's numbers. They need to deliver stellar results, anything less, like their last quarters, and these stocks will keep getting sold," said Cramer.
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Cramer suggested looking at Realogy, which IPO'd in October. Unlike Zillow and Trulia, Realogy is not a web company. Read More: Realogy CEO Celebrates IPO at NYSE
"This is a real business, one that actually benefits directly from the rebound in housing," said Cramer.
Realogy owns 718 real estate brokers, mostly under the Coldwell Banker brand, and franchises thousands more brokerages under a host of brands, including Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Sotheby's, ERA, and Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate.
When one of Realogy's realtors sells a home, the company gets a commission, and the size of that commission is based on the sale price of the home.
That's how Realogy makes money - plain and simple. And right now both home prices and transactions are on the rise.
Currently the stock may be rich – "it's selling for 29 times next year's earnings with a 15% long-term growth rate," said Cramer, "but I would only buy this stock on a pullback."
What's the bottom line?
"Of the three recent housing related IPOs, I think you need to stay the heck away from Zillow and Trulia," said Cramer. "The only one I'll endorse is Realogy, but wait for a pullback before you pull the trigger."
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What sport did you play at Lipscomb? What years? Who were your coaches?
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What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"Being a part of leading the men's golf team the last three years of my eligibility was wonderful. Coach Samples did a great job making us feel a part of the organization and leadership of the team. I also thoroughly enjoyed the relationships and encouragement between athletes from different sports."
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We have three children: Caitlin (11), Mitchell (almost 10 – he claims he is 10), and Christian (almost 8). All three attend Greater Atlanta Christian School (GACS) with me and are active in drama and sports.
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Heroin belongs to a group of pain-relieving drugs called narcotics. Although certain narcotics such as codeine and morphine are legal if prescribed (given) by doctors to treat pain, such as when someone has surgery or breaks a bone, heroin is an illegal narcotic because it is has dangerous side effects and is very addictive.
Many people who are addicted to heroin inject the drug into a vein using needles. They may inject the drug several times a day. Over time, the needle marks, sometimes called tracks, can become permanent scars.
Often, heroin addicts will share needles, which can lead to infection with dangerous germs like hepatitis B or C or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Heroin is a very addictive drug and many people find it extremely difficult to stop using it — even after using heroin for just the first or second time. Heroin users constantly crave their next dose.
If heroin addicts suddenly try to stop using the drug or are unable to get another dose, they often develop withdrawal symptoms, like feelings of panic, sleeplessness, bad chills and sweats, muscle pain, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
If you take an overdose of heroin, it can stop your breathing and kill you.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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