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Hope everyone is having a great weekend and I hope you all will enjoy my blog post this week. Today I want to address the major issue that I'm still coming across as a personal trainer and lifestyle coach. It all comes down to food yep, one of the most important element for living a healthy and happy lifestyle and yet people continue to make the same old mistakes every time. You're probably asking yourself what food has got to do with clothes but surprisingly how the average person shops for clothes is very similar to how they do their food shopping. There are even times that some people end up spending more on their clothes then they do on there food. Yep I know your all probably wondering why do I care about how people spend their money but I don't really there free to do as they wish, however what has confused me for many years is that we want to be healthy and live healthier lives yet we apply the same mind set on how we shop for clothes to our grocery shopping. These mindset of buying things at value for money pricing or the buy the most expensive is better for me cannot be applied to food, because clothes and food a very different to us and how they affect our health differs a lot. When it comes to our health and what we feed our bodies it can't just be eating to survive another day or for some not eating just to lose weight, food is vital for our overall health and we can't just treat it like a pair of jeans and throw it away when its torn. Our health defines our life, if we are healthy functional human beings then we can achieve anything in life for instance perform better at work if our mind is clear and focused or enjoy our weekends with our families because we have as much energy as our kids. The gift of life is so amazing yet many of us don't realize this until it's too late but why should it be too late, why don't we right now take the first step towards bettering our health and our families and make the right investments by being wise shoppers the next time we are at the grocery store. Remember tomorrow will never come unless we are willing to make a change today.
I will leave with that for now and if you have any questions regarding this blog or anything health related please don't heisted to ask me on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/alaldinpt or if you want to know more about me and what I do please visit my site www.alaldinpt.trainerize.com.
Wishing you all the health and wealth
Alaldin Benissa CFT,CPT
Today I want to talk about Size over functional movement and which of the two matters most to us. I have been in the health Industry for many years and I get asked this question a lot why are you not Big like a bodybuilder? why don't you get big and do bodybuilding? and so on...My reply to many of these question is I had taken the route of the so called bodybuilding regime when I was in my teens as most us have but what I have realized over my many years in the health industry is that health and wellness is not measured by the size of your Bicep or how much you can bench instead its measured by you over all health. Yep everything from movement, posture, gut health and wellbeing are more is the true meaning of health and wellness. These elements are what will make you out performing others in the Gym and in your day to day life without having to look like a monster in the process. I personal and professional advice to anyone that wishes to loss weight or gain muscle mass would be to start by building a strong foundation by eating real food and training in functional way. this will give you a great starting point to build a strong and long last healthy physique. if you wish to know more about my principles of nutrition and training or wish to start personal training with me then kindly visit my online training portal at www.alaldinpt.trainerize.com and drop me a message and I would be more then happy to Help you get started on your health and wellness journey.
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Hey everyone :) hope your all doing well on this amazing Tuesday afternoon. I just had my afternoon Berry White Organic drink and i was thinking about what best to write about today on my blog and habit came to mind.
Many of us may not know this but the reason why some people succeed and some fail on their weight loss journey all comes down to how we create a healthy habit in our lifestyle and continue this regularly. This structured habit helps some of us achieve our weight loss goals where as others tend to sign up to gyms and personal trainers and create no structure or healthy habit system and still expect to reach their goals but unfortunately this kind of mind set only leads to failure and not success. I leave you all with saying that if you wish to see healthy change and better weight loss results then take the effort to work with a Personal trainer or on your own to build a structured healthy habit that you can continue to follow regardless of how big or small the change is and Remember that it must be a habit that you can follow on a long term bases and incorporate this habit in your lifestyle so that you may live healthy and happier lives but also reaching your weight loss goals.
Hope I help you understand that healthy habits are like any other habits that if we be consistent then we will reap there rewards and I wish you all the very best in achieving your weight loss goals and building the right habits to live healthy and happier lives.
If you would like to know more about building the right habit structure or just want to ask about health and weight loss advice please don't heisted to contact me and I will be more than happy to help.
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Its been way to long since I last wrote a blog but its been a pretty busy start to the new year but what better way to start then to give you all a great reading recommendation for the month of March so you can keep the new year motivation going in the right direction. I'm going to make this blog short and sweet as i will be written another post on the weekend. The book I want to recommend for your spring reading is called your personal paleo code. this book has been written by Chris Kresser and is without a doubt a fantastic read that will for sure give the needed insight in helping you maintain and progress towards your health and wellness goals. I loved how he touch on important topic that many health books out there avoid and kept simple and focused for your reading pleasure. I will say that this book is a really good read, but I will not spoil to much so please check it out in the below and enjoy the start of a wonderful healthy spring season
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This week has been very busy… but after watching a video on YouTube that brought back memories about how major food companies use Cochineal beetles to dye many major food items, so I just had to post this blog to help raise more awareness about this ongoing problem. This issue has caused many health problems to countless amounts of people around the world including my own nephew that is still suffering from the aftereffects of this unnecessary & to be frankly honest disgusting Ingredient (if you can even call it that...) because if not treated early it could have long term effects on our health. I am personally really saddened by this issue because until today nothing has really been done in regards to clamping down and resolving this major issue. These food companies are still getting away by continuing to use this in the food items we eat.
However, we have the power to make the small changes in our lifestyle that will have a positive effect on our health. It is our responsibility to look after our health and to do so we need to take few seconds to read what we buy whenever we go grocery shopping and avoid this and many other health damaging ingredients. The most effective way I found that works best with many of my clients and even my little nephew is just sticking to what Mother Nature and God has provided us with by only Eating Real Food. I hope after reading this you will take away something positive and begin living healthier lifestyles if you haven't already begun by applying small changes that matter, because what I realized early on in my health and fitness career is that we must respect our health first if we are to ever respect ourselves and live happier and healthier lives.
You may find below the video link of the news report on YouTube I am referring to in this blog and also a helpful app on Android and Iphone that can help you out when grocery shopping decoding the E's and other things in our food.
e-food App available on Android and Iphone
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(CNN) - It makes sense that since the start of the recession, the birth rate in America has been declining.
In 2011, it dipped to the lowest rate ever recorded: 63.2 per 1,000 women between 15 and 44, the prime childbearing ages, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That plunge was led by immigrant women, according to a Pew Research Center analysis released Thursday.
The birth rate for U.S.-born women declined 6% between 2007 (when the recession began) and 2010. However, the rate for foreign-born women plunged 14%, more than in the 17 years before the downturn.
Both foreign- and U.S.-born Hispanic women had larger drops in birth rate than any other group, Pew found. That correlates with larger percentage declines in household wealth for Hispanics than in white, black or Asian households.
Among women from Mexico, the country from where the largest number of U.S. immigrants come, the birth rate fell by 23%.
"If you apply the common sense lens here, when it comes to decisions about when to have children, how many and how to space them, the economy clearly matters," said Bill Albert, spokesman for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
Even so, Albert warned that any single reason is unlikely to explain an issue as complex as national fertility rates and as profound and personal as the decision to have children.
He said other factors - including people choosing to get married at a later age and a 48% decrease in teen birth rates since their peak in 1991 - may also be playing a role in the decline of the nation's overall birth rate.
The drop reversed a trend in which immigrant mothers were responsible for a rising share of births in the United States, Pew found. In 2007, for instance, foreign-born mothers accounted for 25% of U.S. births, compared with 16% in 1990. In 2010, that share dropped to 23%.
The Pew report's co-author, Gretchen Livingston, said birth rates among foreign-born women have been higher than native-borns for a variety of reasons.
The 2010 birth rate for foreign-born women was 87.8 per 1,000, nearly 50% higher than the rate for U.S.-born women, the Pew report said. Of the 4 million births in America, 930,000 were to immigrants.
Many new mothers are Hispanics, who traditionally have had more children than U.S.-born women, Livingston said.
Immigrants are less educated on average and are more likely to be married. Some bring with them cultural norms from their homelands that can dictate a necessity to have several children.
"What we see with immigrants coming into this country is, they tend to reflect birth rates in their own country," said Robert Walker, president of the Population Institute in Washington.
In some cases, immigrant family sizes can rise as income levels go up in America. The gloomy economy in the past few years has clearly played a role in having fewer children, he said.
Among the Pew study's other findings:
• A majority of births to U.S.-born women (66%) in 2010 were to white mothers, while the majority of births to foreign-born women (56%) were to Hispanic mothers.
• Teens account for a higher share of births to U.S.-born moms (11% in 2010) than to immigrants (5%). That number is linked to the age profile of immigrants.
• Immigrant women accounted for fully 33% of births to women 35 and older in 2010.
Livingston pointed to how the overall birth rate of the United States has stayed relatively constant compared with that of some European nations that have experienced declining populations. Immigrant women in America, she said, have held that number up.
The Pew Research Center's projections indicate that immigrants will continue to play a large role in U.S. population growth: Immigrants arriving since 2005 and their descendants will account for 82% of U.S. population growth by 2050.
The report said this about the future: "Even if the lower immigration influx of recent years continues, new immigrants and their descendants are still projected to account for most of the nation's population increase by mid-century."
It's difficult to say how birth rates will be affected when the economy improves and people feel fatter in their pocketbooks. Population experts say it's a fair assumption that the birth rate may go up again. One thing is for sure: The face of America will look very different in a few decades.

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The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today.
President Barack Obama's bill would create a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.
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Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who has also been working on an immigration bill, told NBC Latino that the bill as described by USA Today was "half-baked and seriously flawed."
He also said the White House had erred in not seeking input from Republican lawmakers. "If actually proposed, the president's bill would be dead on arrival in Congress, leaving us with unsecured borders and a broken legal immigration system for years to come," Rubio said in a statement published by NBC.
The bill includes more security funding and requires business owners to adopt a system for verifying the immigration status of new hires within four years, the newspaper said. USA Today reported that the bill would require that immigrants pass a criminal background check, submit biometric information and pay fees to qualify for the new visa.
Immigrants who served more than a year in prison for a criminal conviction or were convicted of three or more crimes and were sentenced to a total of 90 days in jail would not be eligible.
Crimes committed in other countries that would bar immigrants from legally entering the country would also be ineligible.
Those immigrants facing deportation would be eligible to apply for the visa, the newspaper reported.
Immigrants would be eligible to apply for a green card within eight years, if they learn English and U.S. history and government, and they would later be eligible to become U.S. citizens.
Last month a bipartisan group of senators announced they had agreed on the general outline of an immigration plan.
For his part, Obama has said he would not submit his own legislation to Congress so long as law makers acted "in a timely manner." If they failed, he said, "I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away."
Clark Stevens, a White House spokesman, said Saturday that Obama still supports a bipartisan effort to craft a comprehensive immigration bill.
"While the president has made clear he will move forward if Congress fails to act, progress continues to be made and the administration has not prepared a final bill to submit," he said in a statement.
Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, described the draft bill as a "very moderate" proposal.
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We reached Monument Valley just as the sun was beginning to sink towards the horizon, casting a vivid glow on the red sandstone towers. As we stood on the balcony of our room at The View Hotel (the only hotel in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park itself), it was hard not to feel moved by the sight of the dramatic buttes – though this iconic "Wild West" landscape felt incredibly familiar, we hadn't anticipated just how overwhelming it would feel to see such a majestic landscape in person, practically within touching distance.
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Monument Valley is far larger than its most classic view, of the Left and Right mittens and Merrick Butte, would have you believe, with the flat plain constantly revealing more and more brooding mesas and weather-carved towers. It's hard to believe that people would live in such an unforgiving landscape, but the area was originally inhabited by the Ancestral Puebloans (until around 1300AD), and today Navajo people still live here – their basic houses looking incongruous against the stark beauty of the surrounding rocks as you drive through the park.
Staying at The View, it's hard to drag yourself away from the sight of the valley – whether eating lunch in the restaurant, sitting in the lobby, or just in your room, it's everywhere you turn, and I found that even glancing up from my book briefly would find me losing half an hour watching the scenery shift and change under the sunlight. But there's only so much you can really experience from just looking at a landscape, after all, and the park is incredibly easy to explore, either independently or on a tour; the latter will enable you to get off the main road through the park and gain a unique local Navajo perspective – and some context – on the surroundings.
The Wildcat Trail is the only hike that's possible in the valley without a guide, and was, with no exaggeration, the highlight of our two weeks exploring this corner of the US. For almost the entire route (an easy, if sandy, 3.3 mile-loop), we were the only people on the trail, which meant we felt as though we had the whole of Monument Valley to ourselves, the vast silence broken only by the occasional rustle of a wild horse, or our exclamations of wonder at our surroundings. The trail winds around the Left Mitten, allowing you to get a close look at the towering sandstone formation, with its distinctive "thumb", and opening up closer views of the Right Mitten and Merrick Butte than you could experience from the road or the hotel.
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Prabal's posse, including Brian Atwood (straight from the CR bash in a white tux), Brad Goreski, and the Brant boys, were happy to sing along to his baritone renditions — including a lively duo performance of Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" with Monique Péan — and we actually chimed in off stage after knocking back a couple Belvedere shots (and copious amounts of Chandon). Getting behind the mic wasn't in our cards; though, we did try and convince Hilary Rhoda, Leandra Medine, and DANNIJO's Danielle and Jodie Snyder to try their hand (again) at "Call Me Maybe." Though a little Carly Rae Jepsen action didn't happen, we did record a couple of PG's greatest hits. Should we sell them on iTunes?


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By shadowcat801 · PostedHello all, I have recently moved into a new property. The bedroom window is facing a bunch of commercial crates which have trash on top of them. The trash is maybe two metres away from the window, making it impossible for the window to be open (I am also afraid of rats being there). The other windows of the property are facing a communal, enclosed area, which is making it difficult for the property to be properly ventilated. I have already raised this issue with my estate agency and they are trying do to something about it (to be honest, if I leave everything to them, this issue won't be solved until my tenancy is finished, and that is more than one year away). I am asking for advice, or how could I approach this issue. I have spoken to my council and, since they do not deal in private property, there is nothing they can do, at least this is what they have told me. The property with the trash is not owned by my landlord. It is an open space, with big crates, closed off by a fence. If I could, I would climb those crates and remove the trash myself but I cannot. I also cannot climb out the window to reach the trash, as the window is too small. At times, I see a car in that property but I have never seen the driver. I left a note in the car's window explaining the issue and giving my number. This was around a week ago and nobody came back to me.
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Since September, Republicans have claimed the Obama administration covered up the truth about the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya by altering the talking points Susan Rice used on the Sunday morning talk shows. To bolster the story, Republicans misquoted or significantly embellished the emails officials used to draft Rice's remarks, the CBS Evening News reported Thursday.
CBS News' Major Garrett confirmed that it was a GOP source who leaked the altered emails.
The miscast quotes affect at least two emails that include a State Department spokesperson and a White House deputy adviser — the two parties GOP lawmakers insist were trying to engage a cover-up on behalf of the Obama administration to protect the president's chances of re-election.
A leaked email adds new language to State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland's email, including a specific reference to al-Qaeda:
"The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda's presence and activities of al-Qaeda."The actual email read:
"The penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings."A leaked email written by deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes suggests that he asked for the final draft to remove references to warnings about specific attacks, a demand made by the State Department:
"We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don't want to undermine the FBI investigation."But the actual email did not mention the State Department:
"We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation."Since the congressional hearings last week, the White House on Wednesday released a hundred pages of emails from after the consulate attack. The full version undermines already-thin accusations that this is a White House scandal.


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Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula has been anointed prime developer of the Webster Block in downtown Buffalo. It's a great plot of land, a pivot point between the waterfront and the arena in which the Sabres play professional hockey.
Dubbed Harborcenter, the $123 million plan comprises two ice rinks (set 60-feet above street level), a 200-room hotel, restaurant, retail space and parking, all interconnected, like a Habitrail for humans.
It's brilliant. There is nothing else like it in North America. A hockey mecca, capable of attracting all kinds of icy tournaments. The idea actually builds on Buffalo's strengths, rather than plow over its weaknesses. It's such a great idea I think we should think even farther outside the rink.
Let's give Pegula the rest of the city, too.
America, this wondrous melting pot, thrives on diversity. A free market, with a democratic counter-weight, the republic was called forth by the voice of the people. That does not mean that everywhere, all the time, in this great land, we need a freely elected government. We are big and strong enough to handle a little pocket monarchy here or there.
I say we make Terry Pegula Lord of Buffalo. Let him rule over the city, first ward to Hertel, West Side to East, and see what he can do with the thing. It won't be that much different from the Griffin administration, just a little more honest about the structure. It's not completely unprecedented, either. Native Americans have nations within our nation from sea to shinning sea.
Terry Pegula seems clever, industrious and loves the city. What else could you ask of a leader? With one stroke we cut down the infighting, competing fiefdoms, petty political parries and thrusts. No more deflections. One ruler, one person responsible, maybe one unified step forward.
Besides, if we don't like it, we revolt. It's all the rage now. A Buffalo Spring.


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I'm doing a project for class using visual Basic. What I'm stuck with is that I want to use Form2 as my first form. So, when you click start, Form2 is the first to show and by clicking the button, Form1 shows up. Does anyone have any sample codes or something in order to do that?
Also, I'm having trouble with calculating my totals. I'm doing an accumulated total and have made 2 variables ( accumulated and running) but I don't know how exactly to add them to make one collective total.
Please help! Thanks.


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Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, known in the Anglosphere as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of Russia. The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Countess Mariya Tolstaya (Volkonskaya). Tolstoy's parents died when he was young, so he and his siblings were brought up by relatives. In 1844, he began studying law and oriental languages at Kazan University. His teachers described him as "both unable and unwilling to learn." Tolstoy left university in the middle of his studies, returned to Yasnaya Polyana and then spent much of his time in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In 1851, after running up heavy gambling debts, he went with his older brother to the Caucasus and joined the army. It was about this time that he started writing.
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Midcat, the library catalog, will be unavailable for several hours starting around 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 31st while we upgrade to a new version of the operating system.
There are three options for identifying items in our collection when Midcat is down (thanks to Barbara for the Summon reminder):
- Using Summon search. (you won't be able to see availability of items.)
- Searching NExpress (limit your search to Items located at Middlebury College.)
- Searching WorldCat (check the box that limits your search to Items in my library.)


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December 17, 2010
1944: Packers Beat Giants for NFL Title on Two Fritsch TDs
By 1944, the manpower shortage in the NFL was acute due to World War II. It was apparent in the rosters of the teams that met for the NFL Championship on December 17 at the Polo Grounds in New York. The host Giants had former Packers star tailback Arnie Herber, who had come out of retirement at age 34, as well as one of their own past stars, 38-year-old fullback Ken Strong, back after a five-year absence to primarily handle the placekicking.
New York, under 14th-year Head Coach Steve Owen, went 8-1-1 to narrowly place first in the Eastern Division over the 7-1-2 Eagles. In addition to Herber's passing, the Giants had FB Bill Paschal, who led the league in rushing (737 yards), carries (196), and touchdowns (9). They also featured wingback Ward Cuff, who ran for 425 yards and tied Philadelphia's Steve Van Buren for the best average gain per carry at 5.6. 14-year center Mel Hein and All-Pro G Len Younce anchored the line.
Head Coach Curly Lambeau's Green Bay Packers were a mix of young and old, but their key player remained end Don Hutson, the NFL leader in pass receptions (58), receiving yards (866), scoring (85 points) and, tied with Paschal, touchdowns (9). Second-year tailback Irv Comp led the league in passing yards (1159) and was second in TD passes (12, tied with Detroit's Frank Sinkwich). The Packers won their first six games on the way to winning the Western Division with an 8-2 record, although one of the losses had been to the Giants a month before.
The Giants were at a disadvantage coming into the title game because Paschal had injured his ankle in the season's last game, but they did have star tackle Al Blozis available, who had missed most of the year after going into the military but had been granted a pass to be able to play in the championship contest.
There were 46,016 fans present for what promised to be a tough defensive battle. The first quarter was scoreless, but early in the second period the Packers returned a punt to the New York 48 and followed that with two big runs, of 20 yards by HB Joe Laws and 27 yards by FB Ted Fritsch (pictured at top) that put them in a first-and-goal situation at the one. The Giants held on the next three plays, but finally Fritsch plowed into the end zone and, with Hutson's successful extra point, Green Bay held a 7-0 advantage.
New York's defense concentrated on disrupting Green Bay's passing game and, more specifically, Hutson. Late in the second quarter, the great end finally got open and gathered in a Comp pass for a 24-yard gain to the Giants' 30. Three plays later, with time running out, Hutson ran a crossing pattern that caused the defense to shift along with him. He was successfully being used as a decoy – Comp threw to Fritsch, who had looped out of the backfield and was all alone at the five yard line, easily able to complete the 28-yard touchdown play. Again Hutson added the extra point, and Green Bay led by a 14-0 margin at the half.
The Giants hadn't been able to move beyond their 35 yard line during the first half, but late in the third quarter they put together a drive featuring a 41-yard pass from Herber to end Frank Liebel that took them into scoring position. Cuff, playing in the tailback position rather than his usual wingback spot, ran for a one-yard touchdown to start the fourth quarter and, with Strong's PAT, the Green Bay margin was cut to seven points.
The Giants were unable to score again, however, as the Packers played conservatively on offense and, thanks to interceptions and good punts, kept New York from getting close. Late in the game the Giants threatened one last time, but a Herber pass was intercepted by back Paul Duhart at the Green Bay 20 to clinch the 14-7 win for the Packers.
Green Bay outgained the Giants, 237 yards to 199, and in particular outrushed them with 163 yards to 85 for New York. Joe Laws was the leading ground gainer with 74 yards on 13 carries while Ted Fritsch ran for 58 yards on 17 attempts, including a TD and also had the other Packer touchdown on his lone pass reception. Irv Comp (pictured at left) completed just three of 10 passes for 73 yards with the TD and three interceptions. Don Hutson caught two of those passes for 47 yards and, while he didn't score any touchdowns, played a key role as a decoy.
For New York, Arnie Herber, with inadequate run support and a defense geared to shut down the aerial game, was able to complete just 8 of 22 passes for 117 yards. He had no TDs and was intercepted four times (Laws accounted for three of the pickoffs). Ward Cuff ran for 55 yards on 12 attempts, including a touchdown, and caught two passes for another 25 yards. Bill Paschal, forced to sit out most of the contest, ran the ball only twice, for three yards. Frank Liebel caught three passes for 71 yards.
The championship was the last for the Packers under their founder, Lambeau – after winning six titles (three prior to the advent of division play and the championship game in 1933), Green Bay would not win another until 1961.
The game was also the last for the 6'6", 250-pound Al Blozis (pictured below). A consensus All-Pro in 1943, he rejoined his infantry unit after the title game. Six weeks later, he was killed in action during the Battle of the Bulge. His number 32 was retired by the Giants.
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Let's make an experimental Twitter clone web app by Ruby on Rails version 3.
The minimum features of Twitter clone app are below:
- A visitor can sign up and get an account to become a user
- A user can post tweets
- A visitor and a user can see another user's one single tweet or a sequence of tweets
- A visitor and a user can see public timeline
- A user can follow another user
- A user can see "timeline" of the followings' tweets
I cut the following features for ease:
- A user can see "mentions"
- A user can leave (unfollow) others
- A user can send or receive direct messages
But I also would want to add the following internal feature which the real Twitter seems to be using:
- A timeline is not created just in time, but created when a user of the participants posted a tweet
This feature reduces the load time of reading a timeline.
So what's the difference?
- It doesn't use any special software but just use Rails3
- It doesn't use a relational DB for storing tweets
- It is fast and scales (hopefully)
The Product "twi1"
I named it "twi1" without thinking anything. That's here. http://twi1.heroku.net/
Note that currently it doesn't work because heroku doesn't support writing a file. I should look for another way if I use heroku.
The below screenshots are on my local server.
The public/user timeline is stored as the below.
When a user posted a tweet, the following code runs.
That just removed the last line and add two lines.
To show the static timeline json file, I used the following short javascript codes.
and in the HTML view file,
The current
twi1 doesn't have the "follow" feature.
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2453104/mongomapper-rails3-edge-undefined-method-to-key-on-form-for
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2255176/getting-undefined-method-username-for-usersession-no-credentials-provided-w (to run authlogin on heroku)
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-jsonp1/ (for jsonp)


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For farmers in the Midwest, weather conditions look favorable for planting. AgDay meteorologist Mike Hoffman says a warm front is progressing northward. With the current jet stream activity, he says there's a chance of a prolonged warmer period.
Watch AgDay's weather forecast for May 6:
Warm, dry weather favors an acceleration of corn and soybean planting activities from the lower Missouri Valley into the lower Ohio Valley, according to USDA's agricultural weather highlights.
But, farmers in other parts of the country are dealing with less-than-favorable weather conditions. In the West, rain and high-elevation snow showers stretch from the Great Basin to the northern Intermountain region. Cool weather prevails, except for some lingering warmth in the central and southern Rockies.
On the Plains, a chilly rain is further delaying fieldwork in parts of Montana and the Dakotas. In contrast, hot, dry, breezy conditions are enhancing the risk of wildfires and maintaining severe stress on rangeland, pastures, and winter grains on the southern Plains. For the third day in a row, temperatures will reach or exceed 100°F in portions of Oklahoma and Texas.
Meanwhile, in the South, very warm, dry weather is helping producers to pick up the planting pace. By May 4, overall planting progress was behind schedule for Southern crops such as cotton (16% planted, versus the 5-year average of 25%) and rice (57% planted, versus the average of 65%).
Looking Ahead
Another slow-moving storm will develop across the nation's mid-section. The center of the low-pressure system should reach the upper Midwest on Thursday and drift into eastern Canada during the weekend. Severe thunderstorms are a possibility along the storm's trailing cold front on May 7-8.
Storm-total precipitation could reach 1 to 3 inches or more across portions of the northern Plains and upper Midwest. Similar amounts of rain may occur from the southeastern Plains to the Appalachians. Cooler weather will return to the southern High Plains by week's end, but gusty winds and dry conditions will maintain the threat of wildfires and blowing dust.
The NWS 6- to 10-day outlook for May 11-15 calls for below-normal temperatures from the northern half of the Plains into the Great Lakes region, while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail in the West, South, and East. Meanwhile, below-normal rainfall from the Pacific Coast to the Plains—excluding the nation's northern tier—will contrast with wetter-than-normal conditions across the eastern one-third of the U.S.
Related story: Drought, Wind Create Dust Storms in the High Plains
Check your forecast: View your weather conditions down to the field-level with AgWeb's Pinpoint Weather
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Images from the new BlackBerry Theme Studio have been leaked. Looking at the screenshots it appears to support both BlackBerry 6 and the BlackBerry Torch. With the BlackBerry Developers Conference coming up at the end of the month we could see a release coincide with the conference. The screenshots pretty much look like it has same functionality as there is in the current version of the Theme Studio with the addition of BlackBerry 6 and the BlackBerry Torch. I guess we really won't know how much control designers will have until its released or leaks.
- What do you hope is included in the new version of the Theme Studio?


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text: The history of gay women is long and storied. From the creation of western civilization, same-sex attraction between women has underlay some of the greatest works of art, from Sappho's poetry to Gertrude Stein's writing to the revolutionary thought of Audre Lorde. While history has privileged the experiences of gay men over that of gay women, gay men and gay women have existed side-by-side since the beginning, fighting for the same rights, celebrating the same victories. Pride has the newest stories about the life of gay women, from political struggles to health issues to representation in popular media. Check it out today!


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This week at the Court: In Plain English
Remember what I've been saying for the last few weeks? Late spring is not only beautiful in Washington, D.C., it's exciting, too "" at least for Court watchers. That's because the opinions for the cases argued earlier in the Term start rolling in fast and furious, and this week was a great example. On Monday, the Court issued opinions in three cases, and over the next four or five weeks it still has to decide nearly half of the cases from the October Term 2010. Hold on to your hats . . . .
This week's opinions also demonstrate what a wide variety of cases the Court hears. We often refer to the Supreme Court as a court of "general jurisdiction" and the Justices as "generalists." What does that mean? Well, it means that the Court is not a specialty court "" for example, it does not hear only family law or bankruptcy disputes, unlike some courts established for those specific purposes "" and that every Justice participates in deciding every case, regardless of whether she is an expert in the area of law being considered. That's an important reason why the parties file detailed briefs explaining the relevant legal concepts in a case: they are "briefing" the Justices on how the law in that substantive area works. It's also a reason why amici, or "friends of the Court," weigh in; an "amicus brief" will often explain to the Court facts and statistics that might help in deciding the case, as well as the real-life ramifications of a particular decision.
But even though the three opinions of the week are about very different areas of law, they all got to the Court for one primary reason: lower courts disagreed about a legal rule, and the Supreme Court stepped in to resolve the legal differences created by that disagreement. In fact, this type of disagreement among the lower courts (usually among federal courts of appeals, and thus called a "circuit split") is the primary reason why the Court chooses to grant cert.
Take Kentucky v. King, one of the cases decided this week. In that case, the Court heard not only from the litigants (a criminal defendant and the state of Kentucky) but also from police organizations and many states, all of whom had an interest in how the case should come out. As Orin Kerr explains in very Plain English, the case arose from an undercover drug bust. Police officers followed a suspect into the breezeway of an apartment building and heard a door shut, but didn't see which of two apartments the suspect had entered. When they smelled marijuana coming from one apartment, they assumed that the drug dealer had entered that apartment and knocked on the door. No one came to the door, and the officers heard noises that caused them to think that evidence was being destroyed. They therefore kicked down the door, where they found Mr. King (but not the drug dealer they were pursuing), along with marijuana and cocaine. The Court has previously "held" (or established a rule that) police can enter and search homes without a warrant when there are "exigent circumstances" "" what most of us would call an emergency — such as the likely destruction of evidence. But what happens if "" as King argued (and the Kentucky Supreme Court agreed) in this case "" the police effectively "create" the emergency? Does the "exigent circumstances" rule still apply? And if it did, wouldn't that be a loophole?
Yesterday, in an opinion by Justice Alito, the Court said "no." Unless the police threatened to do, or actually did, something that violated the Fourth Amendment, the "exigent circumstances" rule still applies. In reaching this decision, the Court pointed out that occupants of a home have other protections against warrantless searches "" for example, telling the police that they cannot enter. If they fail to take advantage of those protections, it is their own fault. In a dissent, Justice Ginsburg disagreed. In her view, an exigency like the one here (a fear that the occupants would destroy the drug evidence if the police waited to get a warrant) was not a real one; after all, she commented, there would be no reason for the occupants to destroy the drugs unless they had reason to believe the police were coming (a fact to which the knock by police officers alerted them).
As Orin notes, both the majority opinion and the dissent are interesting reads. If you are a Plain English reader because you are not a lawyer but are interested in how the Court does its work, take a gander both at Orin's post and at the opinions themselves. The opinions, as Orin explains, go through the analysis step by step, try out different approaches to resolving the case, and settle on the one that seems most reasonable. What's more, the case is also helpful for those who want to understand the Court's work. That's because the Court almost certainly granted cert. in the case due to a very typical issue: different states were treating police-created emergencies differently for purposes of the exigent circumstances rule. That makes it a great example of a case in which everyone involved "" the parties, the states, the amici, and the Court "" want resolution and consistency, so that no matter where a person lives (or a police officer works) the rule is the same.
In keeping with the idea that the Court deals with a large spectrum of issues, let's talk about the other two opinions from this week: Schindler Elevator Corp v. Kirk and CIGNA Corp. v. Amara. The first is about the intersection between two federal laws: the False Claims Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). How do they intersect? Well, as in this case, sometimes plaintiffs want to sue under the False Claims Act "" and in the government's name – using information or documents they have received from the government through a "FOIA" (pronounced FOY-a) request. Here, Kirk sued an elevator company after it fired him, claiming that the company had submitted false claims for payment on its government contracts. The problem, according to the Court's opinion? Some of the evidence that served as the basis for his claim that the company had submitted false claims came from FOIA requests that his wife made to the Department of Labor. The Court (once again resolving a circuit split on the point) held that the information he obtained through the federal agency constituted a "report" that disclosed public information; therefore a provision in the False Claims Act barring lawsuits based on such reports might apply. The upshot? If his suit is based on "allegations or transactions" in the reports (an issue the Second Circuit will now decide on "remand," or on the return of the case to that court), Mr. Kirk will not be able to bring his lawsuit, in part "" a as Justice Thomas explained in the Court's opinion ""because his lawsuit was the kind of "opportunistic" case that the False Claims Act tries to discourage.
Finally, in CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, the Court delved into yet another area of law, ERISA law (a federal statute governing employee benefits). Justice Breyer, writing for the Court, explained that, under ERISA, an employee whose employer gives her an incorrect explanation of her benefits must actually be harmed by that inconsistency before she can bring a claim. Different federal courts of appeals had interpreted the statute differently, with a few requiring only that the explanation of benefits be inaccurate as to the actual plan benefits, and others requiring evidence of much greater harm.
Washington has been underwater this week, with a huge amount of rain and more in the forecast. The law clerks might feel like they are underwater in a different way "" the next four or five weeks are the last big opinion-writing push before the end of the Term. But there's very little doubt that the work will get done "" we'll almost certainly have opinions in the remaining argued cases by the last week in June.
Recommended Citation: Lisa McElroy, This week at the Court: In Plain English, SCOTUSblog (May. 19, 2011, 8:15 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/05/this-week-at-the-supreme-court-in-plain-english-4/


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Here are the pictures of sharpsshooter5090's MG47BP.
With the extra parts I had left ever from making the tutorial for the MG47ES is am building a MG47ES ak based bullpup. I uses an AK barrel, trunnion, ES receiver, gas tube, gas pistion, FCG tray assy, RPD topcover assy. I am using a RPD topcover because it is about 2" shorter than the MG1 top cover and will allow me to shorten the receiver by 2" also.
Here are the pictures of sharpsshooter5090's MG47BP.
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
I got the gripstick mounted last night and the bolt carrier drill and tapped 1/4-28UNF for the BC extension. I need to get a bolt which is the only AK thing I don't have yet. With that, I will thin the stripping lug and install the FCG tray and return spring and see if it feeds. I will come up with some sort of temporary operating handle and I have to study CTR's posts to find out where to put the feed cam stud. Pictures at 11:00 or 10:00 or what ever the news casters say???
Here is a couple of more pictures of what I got done. Shortened the receiver, attached the grip stick and temporally attached a FAL butt plate.
you do a nice job with these.. very clever.
Hate takes LESS energy & thought... Dont be so Lazy.
Building or Bitching? which are you here to do?
YES, i work for TEC Tactical. 02/07 SOT
Here is some pictures of the trigger and how it actuates the FCG. The gas tube locking lever doubles as a safety by when rotated vertical rides in a half circle groove in the trigger bar blocking its rearward movement. When in the normal positioning the detent hole, the trigger bar can move freely. Sorry for the out of fucus images.
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Interesting idea, but isn't that going to put your face pretty near where the belt is going to be bouncing around to feed into it?
My face isn't all that pretty so it really isn't going to matter much, besides it's going to feed from a SAW-249 50 round "nut sack" mounted in the vertical direction. See Doubletapme's Bren barrel version on post no. 225 on the MG47 thread


text: I have said since we got in the playoffs but MT deserves to be Coach of the year for all the off field issues with number 7 and able to enforce a winning atmosphere during that 4 game situation. Now we are in the AFC Championship game. Can we agree now that this Mike Tomlin's team? He may not be as loud mouth and jaw jerking on the sideline as Cowher, but i like his style and it seems to be successful . Reminds me of my soccer coach from high school who always told us he was not there to motivate us cause if we were not motivated from within before the game, then we had already lost the game. I feel like he is there to keep the lid on the team and let his defensive supermind in Lebeau and assclown run the same reverse option play Arians do their thing.


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Popularity Contest WordPress plugin breaks RSS feed
I'm using a somewhat old plugin (it hasn't been updated since '09) called Popularity Contest to show the popularity of my posts. However, I noticed that it was breaking my RSS feed. This is due to the fact that the plugin doesn't properly escape the ampersand character inside an image URL. Instead of & it uses just &. You can fix this by changind line number 2272 to:
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A credit card company representative called me on a recent Friday afternoon to ask if I was buying groceries in Georgia.
I wasn't. I was at the Daily Chronicle, hoping I remembered to pick up milk on the way home. The Commerce Bank security employee told me someone had charged about $200 that day to my credit card, which I hadn't used in a couple of months.
As credit card fraud goes, it was a pleasant experience. The security employee verified that I hadn't used my card at all recently and that these were the only new charges, closed the account and sent me some paperwork to sign to have the fraudulent charges removed from my account. The security employee hypothesized that a vendor where I had used the card before had been hacked.
I got the paperwork Monday. Apparently this person had four transactions at Kroger and one each at Walgreens and Coca-Cola. It looks like all I need to do is sign the paperwork certifying the charges were fraudulent and they'll be taken off my account. I kind of hope the person responsible finds his or her way to the courthouse for this matter, too.
But, it made me wonder how vulnerable I was to more credit card fraud or a true identity theft. I called the folks over at Castle Bank in DeKalb, where branch manager Tho Pham had these tips:
• Check your credit bureau information at least once a year to make sure there aren't unfamiliar credit lines or balances on your report. You can get a free copy of this information, without your credit score, at www.annualcreditreport.com.
• If you are traveling, even within the United States, let your credit card company know. Often, they will shut off a card if charges appear in a high-fraud area to prevent a bevy of fraudulent charges, but you wouldn't want to have your card shut off if you are traveling.
• Make sure your contact information, especially your cellphone number, is updated on your credit card accounts. That way, if company representatives want to ask you about suspicious recent activity, you can respond quickly.
• To stop receiving pre-approved credit offers in the mail, call 888-5-OPT-OUT (888-567-8688). You can call the same number to add your name back.
• Consider using credit cards, rather than debit cards. Although banks will mediate disputed charges much like credit card companies do, the money will be removed from your account until the matter is resolved, affecting your actual bank balance. Disputed credit card charges only affect your credit line until they are resolved.
I've reviewed my credit report from time to time over the past five years, but I hadn't worried much about identity theft or credit card fraud, primarily because I've never thought of myself as a person with much worth stealing.
This experience is a good reminder that that's not the case. Taking a few minutes to make sure safeguards are in place can save plenty of headaches later.
• Jillian Duchnowski is the Daily Chronicle's news editor. Reach her at 815-756-4841, ext. 2221, email her at firstname.lastname@example.com, and follow her on Twitter @jillianduch.


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I can't believe there wasn't already a thread about this. And if there is, and I somehow didn't see it despite only like ten threads having posts past X-Mas ... Bah to you. Bah to you all.
... So what did you get?
I got:
- A 6-pack of Stella Artois cider
- A 4-pack of Strongbow cider
- Three boxes of Toblerone. Because Toblerone is godly.
- A selection box of Cadbury's chocolate
- Four new shirts, one of which is a Space Invaders one (HNNG) and one of which is a Ghostbusters one (HNNNNNNG).
- Two new pairs of trackies (translation: sweats, jogging pants, chav-trousers, whatever floats your boat).
- Two new hoodies
- Four pairs of boxer shorts (¬_¬ yes, I know)
- Ten pairs of socks. Because shut up don't argue until you're at least 24 because you're too young to understand the importance of new socks until you're 24 D:<
- A new hat (this one has a minor story around it, involving my mum believing my current hat is 'scrungy' because it was black when I bought it and it's now grey because it faded due to being used a lot).
- Some deoderant. As if I don't have enough of the stuff ... because I don't use it because I use anti-persperant, not deoderant.
- A stocking full of random bars of Fruitella, chocolate sticks, candy canes, a box of Galaxy Minstrels, some nuts (I don't like nuts) ... and an orange. Yes, I got an orange. I, however, do not get to keep the stocking. Just the crap they put inside of it.
Best. Christmas. Ever.*
Actually, it wasn't the Best Christmas Ever, but it was still pretty decent. I guess I'm at that age to just appreciate the time spent with my family and not the stuff like free laptops. Because apparently I'm too old for that stuff now and am expected to buy it myself with non-existent monies boo D:< lol.


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Before starting working in the financial environment, Gayner earned a degree from Mcintire School of Commerce, University of Virginia.
From an investment perspective, Gayner is a long term player. He follows Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham´s thoughts and investing principles. At an interview with Morningstar he explained what he thinks a company must have to become a good pick. According to Gayner, a company must be profitable and earn good returns on capital. In addition, its management must operate the business correctly and the company should have reinvestment dynamics. Last but not least, a company becomes a good pick if its purchase price is fair or better.
In the last three years, Gayner´s largest investment has been Carmax, which has returned almost 90% since 2008, thus surpassing the market. As regards his long-term holdings, they have gained 25.06% since 2010. Tom´s long term peaks are extremely successful.
Now let´s look at some of them:
Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE:WRE): WRE is a self-administered, self-managed, equity real estate investment trust (REIT). The company owns and operates income-producing real property. Its portfolio is made up of several types of properties ranging from office properties, medical offices, retail centers, multifamily properties and industrial/flex properties to shopping centers located in Washington. In October 2011, the Company sold Northern Virginia Industrial Park (NVIP) II.
Financially speaking, REITs performed well, vis-à-vis stocks. Yield stood at 6.8%. As regards the firm´s shares, they have outperformed the $27.50 average and are now trading at $28.18. Tom Gayner saw an opportunity of long-term investment, as the stock price is likely to continue growing. Furthermore, the analysts' price target is $30.60. The stock should hit resistance at its 200-day moving average (MA) of $30.11, as well as support at its 50-day MA of $27.71. In the past year, the price has oscillated between $25.45 and $34.54.
NuStar GP Holdings, LLC (NYSE:NSH): NSH is a limited liability company engaged in the terminalling and storage of petroleum products, the transportation of petroleum products, and anhydrous ammonia and asphalt and fuels marketing. NSH is a holding company of NuStar Energy LLP, which stores and transports petroleum products.
NSH is made up of three business units: Storage, Fuel and Asphalt refining and Transportation. The first segment has been the only one to show an increase in earnings during 2011.
Financially speaking, NSH has a market cap of $1.28 billion and a price to earnings ratio of 19.51. The stock has been trading between $27.94 and $39.98 in the last 52 weeks and currently, it has been reported at $30. As regards Q3 revenues, they stood at $19 million with respect to $18.3 million reported in Q3 2010. Net income was $18.3 million while net income in Q3 2010 was reported at $17.7 million. In Q3 earnings have been flat but y/y revenues increased 3.8% and net income increased by 3.3%.
As regards the company´s peers, its principal competitor, Linn Energy LLC (LINE) is currently trading stock at $37, holds a market cap of $6.62 billion and a price to earnings ratio of 16.35. Furthermore, while NSH´s dividend yield is 6.7%, LINE´s dividends yield at 7.3%.
Due to the weak earnings that the company has reported, the stock priced dropped 20.4%. In terms of shareholders, NSH has always tried to increase their value. Since November 2006, the dividend payout ratio has increased by 92.6%. Currently, the dividend is $1.98 per unit. Given the difficult financial situation, NSH will probably see a decrease in the stock price. NSH investors will face capital losses that at any moment may exceed their dividend income. That is why analysts rate NSH as a sell.
Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE:MO): MO is a holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include Philip Morris USA Inc. (PM USA), which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and certain smokeless products in the United States; UST LLC (UST), which through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of smokeless products and wine, and John Middleton Co. (Middleton), which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco.
In the last period, Altria has experienced growth and now it´s up 23.11%. This high does not include the dividend payout of 5% given to shareholders per year. Altria's P/E has significantly increased up to 15.39. Although this figure is not stunning, MO is a non-cyclical company and as it is mostly owned for its yield, a 15.39 yield is interesting. Besides, there are other stocks that have not been able to achieve such P/E. Now, the Fed´s zero interest rate policy will have consequences, such as the artificial increase in high-dividend paying stocks like this company. However, the appreciation will be restricted. In the last year MO stock has gone from $23 to $29 and its dividend yield stood at 5.7%. Indeed it was increased to $0.41 per share. Its beta is below 0.5 and the buyback program has been enlarged by $1 billion through 2012.
Why did Tom Gayner invest in Altria? Apart from the healthy position the company enjoys, it is outperforming its peers. For instance Lorillard (LO) reported a yield of 4.7% and Reynolds American (RAI) nearly 5.5%. MO is a stable company with a strong cash flow trading at P/E ratio of 13 and 17, surpassing S&P 500´s of 14. Competitors LO and RAI trade at about 14 and 17 times earnings, respectively.
Federated Investors, Inc. (FII): FII provides investment management products and related financial services. It has more than $358 billion in assets under management in 135 mutual funds.
Financially speaking, FII is strong. Tom Gayner decided to invest in it because in the last period, it reported between 25% and 30% in ROE and profits and dividends grew at a pace of 7 to 15%. In terms of future expectations, this situation is expected to continue as the company is not subject to volatility thanks to its business mix in diverse markets, its investment process is on the right track, funds are performing over average and the company is carrying out interesting acquisitions. Most importantly, FII is rated A, has 40% debt-to-equity ratio and its stock yields 3.6%.
After a 2009 characterized by a low stock price, FII has made progress. Now it is in an uptrend. The Dividend Growth and High Yield Portfolios own a full position and shares range between $18 and$19. The lower boundary of its Sell Half Range is $35.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD): North American midstream energy company provides a range of services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, refined products and certain petrochemicals through its six business segments: NGL Pipelines & Services; Onshore Natural Gas Pipelines & Services; Onshore Crude Oil Pipelines & Services; Offshore Pipelines & Services; Petrochemical & Refined Products Services, and Other Investments.
EPD is an interesting pick. It has a market cap of $25 billion and it has been providing shareholders a 9.5% of total annualized rate of return in the last 10-year period. Furthermore, dividends have increased 28 times. Thanks to the projects it has developed, the acquisitions it has closed and past history growth investors can forecast between 5 and 6% of earnings in dividends. Most importantly, the company is seeing growth opportunities in the development of Marcellus ethane operation in Texas, the development of a Gulf Coast ethane-based system and in the building of Barnett and Eagle Ford shale projects. Last but not least, the company has focused on an enhanced vertical integration and on developing a synergistic master LP platform. The capitalization of $35 billion strengthens the company in negotiations, stabilizes the daily operations and raises capital even in bad times.
As regards stock, it has surpassed the S&P 500 average in the last 10 years. Indeed, it is graded A-. For the future, the company seems to continue in the same uptrend track. Shareholders will continue receiving dividends; they will see an increase in income and a growth in the stock.


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A Georgia state lawmaker has come out as a gay man after being outed in emails to legislators—and accused of misusing his office. Rashad Taylor becomes the first openly gay man and third openly gay or lesbian legislator in Georgia. Taylor is also becomes one of the very few Black openly gay state legislators in the country.
"I am a gay man," said Taylor at a press conference to address the allegations, reports WSB.
[The email was] sent to dozens of current and former lawmakers detailing these allegations. In the letter, Taylor is accused of meeting men and promising them jobs for sex, and has "use comp tickets and state funds to fund his homosexual relationship." "As a powerful member of your house he is not using his office for the common good of his constituents but his using his office to promote his own homosexual agenda," the letter continues. The email is signed by 'J Callahan, Concerned Citizen of Georgia.'
[T]he lawmaker denied the allegations ... A source in the Georgia House of Representatives [said] the accuser contacted their offices last week requesting information on how to file an ethics complaint, but no ethics complaint has been filed.
The GA Voice reports the email outing was orchestrated by the ex-boyfriend of Taylor's current partner.
Taylor denied those allegations today, but did say the truth is is he is gay. "For some days it may take two days, for some it take two years or 20 years [to come out]," he said. "I serve in public office and try to retain some semblence of a private life. This is a journey I've been on," he said. "i wouldn't want to expedite anyone else's journey. It ought to be a personal decision."
Taylor was flanked by his mother, who hugged him tightly after he spoke to the media. Also with Taylor today as he came out were several family members, State Rep. Alisha Morgan; State Sen. Vincent Fort; Reese McCranie, the openly gay spokesperson for Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed; Larry Pellegrini, the openly gay executive director of the Georgia Rural Urban Summit; and Georgia Equality Executive Director Jeff Graham.
The Democrat was elected in 2008 and represents Atlanta and portions of Fulton County. Taylor is the youngest member of the Georgia General Assembly. He turned 30 years old only two weeks ago.
Rashad Taylor becomes one of only a handful of Black openly LGBT state lawmakers. Connecticut's Jason Bartlett was the very first and served from 2007 to 2011. Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox and North Carolina's Marcus Brandon are the two Black gay male legislators currently serving.
Georgia's Simone Bell became the first openly lesbian black state legislator in U.S. history. Maryland's Mary Washington became the second in 2010.
Atlanta has become a nexus for Black LGBT politics. In 2010, the Victory Fund-endorsed Joan P. Garner became the first openly LGBT member of the powerful Fulton County Commission.
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Sometimes, the best way to insult someone is by agreeing with them.
The makers of the Godfather knew this ("Hold your enemy closer"). So does comedian Stephen Colbert, who lampoons conservatives by adopting their rhetoric. But it was surprising to see that California's Republican legislators, usually a lead-footed lot, understand this too.
The GOP made a smart political move this week by embracing Gov. Jerry Brown's pension plan. That would be good news for Brown, since his 12-point plan -- which focuses mostly on curbing abuses and setting standards for local government pensions -- appeared to have few allies.
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Except that the GOP's endorsement creates bigger problems for Brown. The governor's fellow Democrats, and especially their backers in the public employee unions, don't much like his plan. Some are opposing it outright. And that's a problem because Brown needs his party, and the unions, if he's going to have any chance of enacting the rest of his agenda, including convincing voters to adopt his temporary tax-hike ballot initiative this November.
That's why the GOP move is a good step as a matter of policy and politics. On policy, Brown's reforms, while falling far short of the comprehensive pension changes the state's governments need, is probably the best hope for any improvement in the pension system this year, so the GOP support could help on policy. And on politics, the GOP has put Brown in a pickle.
He can try to push through his pension plan, and risk dividing his support among Democrats and unions, which could badly weaken his campaign for the tax initiative.
Or he can drop the pension plan -- or accept something much less bold than his own plan. That would please Democrats, but it could hurt his ability to convince voters to adopt the tax-hike initiative. Republicans could then argue against the taxes by saying Brown didn't do enough to save money on pensions, so why give him more money in taxes that will just go into the pockets of public employee retirees?
Either way, the Republicans win.
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The SKF traffic light concept
Most grease suppliers indicate the specific values for the low and high temperature limits in their product information. The SKF traffic light concept is distinctly different from that. SKF recognizes that the really important temperatures for reliable operation lie within a smaller range. This range depends largely on the type of base oil and thickener used as well as the additives. The relevant temperatures are given by the SKF traffic light concept. They are schematically illustrated in diagram 1 and diagram 2 in the form of a double traffic light.
It is evident that grease in the red zones should not be applied at all, as damage may occur. Within the green zone the grease functions reliably, and the grease life can be determined accurately.
At temperatures in the amber zone above the high temperature performance limit (HTPL), grease ages and oxidize with increasing rapidity and the by-products of the oxidation have a detrimental effect on lubrication. An amber zone also exists for low temperatures. Short periods in this zone, e.g. during a cold start, are not harmful since the heat caused by friction brings the bearing temperature into the green zone.


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and Mark in Montmartre, Randy comes to Paris regularly and we try to meet often. We made big plans for her return to France in September, and go to Ste Marie aux Mines with the other girls.
Look what she brought me: Bonnie Hunter's latest book and i'm tempted to start soon with the quilt on the page as shown.
I've got the cheddar , a big leftover from another quilt finished lately, all the rest is peanuts - i mean the gathering of the scraps......
And the little schoolhouse quilt is finished too, it measures 20 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches and was made with antique fabric purchased from Mary and Joe Koval.
Amazing what one can do with little amounts.
Mary will probably show this little quilt in Nantes, so if you're going, take a look , but not on wednesday, i'll come on thursday....
Wheather is gorgeous, sunny and warm, have a good weekend you all, Will V in Paris


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Peer pressure comes in many different forms. You might feel it in group situations, or you might have friends who try to get you to do things that make you uneasy, like smoke cigarettes, steal your parents' prescription medications, cheat on a test, or skip school.
It's hard to stand up for what you believe when everyone else is pushing something different. It's hard for adults, and it's especially hard for teens. So how do you do it—how do you resist peer pressure? What ideas do you have for staying true to you?
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Just say No, and walk away!!
Resisting peer pressure can be done by choosing the right friends to hang out with. Your friends are the people who decide whether or not to struggle with peer pressure. Choosing good friends influence you to be yourself. If your friends pressure you to do something that you are not interested in, then do not prove to be your true friends. True friends are always with you and motivate you to do good things. They respect your deeds and help in expressing yourself. Above all, true friends never motivate you to do things that are destructive to yourself or others.
I resist peer pressure by hanging out with friends who won't force me to do stuff.
You can find friends that keep you strong and also ones who are not into drugs and smoking.
You should just do the right thing, even if other people aren't. In the end, they will just be in a worse situation than you.
I think that a good way to avoid peer pressure is to just walk away from anybody that tries to pressure you into using drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc.
I resist peer pressure by picking the right friends that i may not have that problem with. I might just walk away and tell them no and that its not right to do so.
To avoid peer pressure I would surround myself with people who don't do bad things or want me to. I think that it is best to avoid the temptation and situation by avoid people that will take you down a bad road.
just stay away from it and hang out with good friends. say no
You have to pick the right friends and I don't really listen or take peer pressure seriously.
peer pressure is a really sad thing and i am up to stand against teens thinking they have to do things to be cool or because there friends are doing it.
When you under peer pressure you could use refusal skills to help you make a decision on weather to go along with your peers or decline it.
Peer pressure is hard to avoid. It is all around you. This is why you need to work on your refusal skills.
I tell my peers i'm not really going to trust that stuff. I'm not going to mess up my life on taking or doing stuff. I want my life to be good and not all horrible and on drugs or anything.
How I deal with peer pressure is by picking the right friends in the first place. I find friends who believe what I believe in, and can have a good time without getting in trouble. If I were ever offered to smoke, drink, or anything of that nature, I would probably just say no or walk away. I don't like to make it complicated with long explanations and I think that they would understand that I don't want to take part in tobacco or alcohol. For me it is just easiest to say no.
Peer pressure is a growing problem, and sometimes it is sort of hard for me to avoid it. But I usually just walk away or ignore them. If one of my close friends tries to persuade me, I think about finding better friends who won't push me to do something I don't want to do. Anyone knows a good friend wouldn't force you to d something. I don't really try to argue with someone if they try to persuade me because I don't like getting involved with that sort of thing which could easily result in threats or fights. I think teens everywhere should really be aware of who they hang out with because sooner than they may think, they will be pushed into something they don't want to do.
You can't really avoid peer pressure. It is all around you in media, school, and just everyday situations. If I were someone who is being pressured into doing something, such as alcohol/drug abuse, I would not walk away. Instead I would confront the person who is offering the drink/drug and ask them why they would want to do it. Then I would tell them all of the bad things that come with drinking and doing drugs and this would hopefully persuade them to stop pushing it on me and stop doing it themselves.
smoking is bad for you and i think it should be illigel because it kills you and it can get to the piont were when you get a cold it gets hard to breath and then you die
My comment is that you should try to Avoid Peer Pressure and think in your mind that you hate Peer Pressure you never wants Peer Pressure. If its not working then you should make friend who choose to not use it. And if your other friend who also trying to Avoid then you and your friend should try together to Avoid Peer Pressure.
I pick friends who do not choose stupid choices. If I encounter someone who makes poor decisions I just disregard them. Also if they ask me to try something over and over again all I do is ignore them and walk away.
If i see someone who does drugs i would refusal.
just do what you want to do and do not let any one let you think that you should do anything else.
I think about how it will back fire in the future.
Pick friends who don't pressure you to do things that you don't want to do.
I resist peer pressure by not hanging out with the people who do bad things and make bad choices.
just say no and think possitive.
I think it is important not to be around people who try to make you do things and if you are, then you should have someone else there that will stand up for you.
I would not listen to what they are saying and go my own ways.
I think it is true that it's hard to stand up for what you think is right. Some people give in to peer pressure, but often they find out later that it was the biggest mistake of their lives.
In order to resist peer pressure you must be assertive and firm in your decision to not participate in drug use. You need to let the other person know that there is no way you will listen to them. If they continue to pressure you, simply walk away.
I resist peer pressure by ignoring the people who are pressuring me to do something. It's really not that hard if you just learn block out the bad things.
When I am under peer pressure I just tell my friends no and say that we should do something else. If they are good friends they will understand.
I just think of myself and what damages i may be doing to myself. i try to think about where i would be in 10 years if i did start smoking or started taking drugs. I also set a goal to myself and i follow through until i can get to my goal. Starting to smoke or take drugs certainly would ruin my chances of ever reaching that goal.
You think about the consequences and remind yourself that it doesn't matter what your friends do.
I would stand up to peer pressure by knowing what it can do to your life and thinking about the consiquenses.
I walk away or tell them no. You should have a plan in mind of what you're going to do before they ever ask you. Then you know what to say at the time.
you can use refusal skills.