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Loyal Maid LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
Nice to Meet You LOYAL MAID LTD is professional cleaning company operating in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and surrounding areas providing highest standard cleaning services. We specialize in commercial and domestic cleaning. LOYAL MAID LTD will make sure we maintain the high standards we have set for ourselves with the personal touch in every project we undertake. Please consider our company for all your needs. We shall provide you with the efficient, punctual and hassle-free cleaning services. You can check out our portfolio of recent work and services online at www.loyalmaid.co.uk We look forward to a partnership with You and keeping your office and houses beautiful and spotless every day. Please feel free to call me at 0808 169 9325 or at email@example.com, if you require any further information.
IAS CLEANING LTDCertificate of Excellence 2019
Professional Cleaning Services We provide cost-effective commercial cleaning services to businesses across London including Offices, Shops, Restaurants and Bars. Professional office cleaning services At IAS Cleaning we take great pride in our work and also our customer service. For many years we have built and maintained a reputation for providing first class office cleaning services across London and Surrey. Retail & shop cleaning services We have years of experience providing cost-effective cleaning services for shops & retail stores across London and Surrey. Restaurant, bar & pub cleaning services We have years of experience providing highly qualified cleaners and cost-effective cleaning solutions for Restaurants, Bars & Pubs across London and Surrey.
CleanDeer LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
Cleandeer is a brand created with the idea of perfect cleanliness in mind. We offer: - one of:/ daily/ weekly cleaning - moving in/ out, end of tenancy cleaning - construction sites - office cleaning - carpet& Upholstery cleaning - we work on Karcher Puzzi 30/4 E Spray Extraction Cleaner. We cover Milton Keynes, Bedford, Northampton area.
Cheap Deep Cleaning LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
We welcome you as our new customer to our company.Our company provide cheap and quality cleaning.We offer commercial and domestic cleaning services .We will give you a complimentary price quote fot cleaning services that will fit your needs and your budget.
Orton longueville carpet cleaningCertificate of Excellence 2019
We are a family business , big enough to cope but small enough to care , all our work is fully insured and guaranteed , for a personally guaranteed service choose us , Longueville carpet cleaning , we have been trading for 20 years and have a very reliable network of professionals located up and down the country so we can get a professional to you wherever you are ! , we have an honest up front pricing policy and we never upsell or try to apply extra or hidden charges , the price we quote is the price we will honour and we guarantee you complete satisfaction or your money back .. Call/text or email us anytime day or night 7 days a week , we will respond to you quickly and attentively .
email@example.com of Excellence 2019
Domestic and Commercial cleaning services Outstanding Cleaning Services is a family run cleaning company covering Oxfordshire and Berkshire. We provide all the cleaning equipment and products and we'd love to have the opportunity to earn your trust and show you your home at its very best. Please have a look at our profile in Rated People: https://www.ratedpeople.com/profile/outstanding-cleaning-services/
Titan specialist cleaningCertificate of Excellence 2019
A award winning proffesional specialist cleaning company with ethical and sustainable buisness practices established since 1990 in pursuit of exellence with high customer satisfaction high standards of cleanliness and reliable and honest service bespoke services to customer requirements with a wealth of experience and knowledge and know how in the domestic market our technicians have been fully trained to every aspect of the job and are fully accrediated .we only use eco freindly products which have been tried and tested we have a experienced team available in all these above areas, we specialize in one off cleans,end of tenancy cleans,all provided with full inventory cleaning receipts for agents or landlords spring cleans,deep cleans,oven cleaning dishwashers cleaned and carpet and upholstery cleaning mattress cleaning, rug cleaning curtain steam cleaning, ,stain removals, leather cleaning, mould removal,ciggarete tar removal, fumigation, sanitizing,trauma cleaning one of the very few cleaning service provider companies in the uk that cater for every aspect of the domestic cleaning market your one stop cleaning experts we have recently won the elite proffesional 2019 certificate of exellence which is only awarded to the top 10 percent perfoming companies.
BFA - CleaningCertificate of Excellence 2019
YOUR DEEP CLEAN & FLOOR RESTORATION SPECIALISTS BFA are commercially renowned for providing a wide-ranging unique cleaning services that there is no cleaning or restoration job that is too big or too small. At the beginning of 2017 we decided to bring our commercial expertise to the residential sector and expose customers to a new level of service never experience before.
SunnycleanCertificate of Excellence 2019
Professional Cleaning Services for Shining Properties Choose the cleaning service you need and get any building professionally cleaned. All cleans are carried out by experienced cleaners, with special equipment and chemicals. ⇒ End of tenancy cleaning Top to bottom deep cleaning of rented buildings. Special discounts for landlords and agencies. ⇒ Carpet cleaning Dirt and stains removal from carpets with professional Prochem equipment and chemicals. All carpet cleaning services are available at a discount when booked together with another service. ⇒ Domestic cleaning Regular home cleaning, catering to individual needs. Weekly and fortnightly rates available. ⇒ Office cleaning Daily, weekly and one-off cleaning of offices and commercial spaces. The entire London areas are covered, M25 included.
Kali's carpet care
Professional domestic and commercial carpet and upholstery cleaning
Supreme Carpet Clean
Supreme Carpet Clean offer a professional cleaning service at an affordable price to both the domestic and commercial market. We offer a number of services from deep carpet cleaning, mattress cleaning, upholstery cleans, hard floor buffing along with a number of other services.
CleanPro Services LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
CleanPro Services specialize in a compact range of cleaning services to ensure a quality service is provided to the customer by qualified members of the team. Our services include : Construction Cleaning, Contract Cleaning, Carpet Cleaning, Office Cleaning, EOT Cleaning, Window Cleaning, Oven Cleaning, After Builder Cleaning, Pressure Washing, Public Sector Cleaning All staff are dbs checked and we are fully insured for your peace of mind. Dont hesiate to get in touch for a quote/enquiry
Clean Smart SolutionsCertificate of Excellence 2019
Clean Smart Solutions are Northamptonshires leading commercial cleaning & office cleaning company covering Corby, Kettering, Northampton, Peterborough & Bedford. We pride ourselves on providing a 1st class service thats different from the rest. Clean Smart can help your business with all aspects of commercial cleaning from basic daily/weekly/monthly office cleaning to a thorough end of tenancy clean or pre tenancy clean of your home.
P.C.S Pro Clean Service
For Quotes please contact us Via our website, expertcarpets.co we offer; carpet cleans residential house cleans commercial cleans deep cleans end of tenancy cleans oven cleans patio or drive way cleans spring cleans
Maintain Cleaning Services LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
We are a family run, local cleaning company that has over 28 years experience in the industry! Our aim is to leave each and everyone of our clients feeling like they have spent their money extremely well. Offering a wide range of services to the following areas - Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, North & West London. At Maintain we understand that day to day life can be very busy and stressful and we always try to work to our clients needs. Get in touch today for more information about us, advice or to book in your free written quote! Sean and the family look forward to working with you. Check out our latest promotions and offers on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram or take at look at our website for more details www.maintaincleaningservices.co.uk
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Our goal is to provide the highest standard of cleaning at a reasonable and competitive price, and to meet your highest demands. CQD Cleaning Services has special teams of cleaning technicians operating all over High Wycombe, Marlow, Reading, Maidenhead, Milton Keynes Chesham,Slough,Oxford & surrounding areas still growing,using industrial and commercial cleaning products, detergents and dust which is all too often left over daily. Property sizes and conditions can vary widely when it comes to after cleaning. Prices for our cleaning service, including materials, equipment, and a team of cleaners are subject to no obligation site inspection.
Absolutely Fabulous Carpet, Rug, Upholstery & Stone Floor Cleaning
Wool carpet cleaning upholstery cleaning Persian Rug Cleaning Oriental Rug Cleaning Antique Rug Cleaning Silk Rug Cleaning Stone floor cleaning marble stone floor cleaning and polishing limestone floor cleaning tile and grout cleaning
Cleanbright Solutions UK has over 30 years experience providing high quality cleaning services to the Barnet, North London and Hertfordshire area. Being a family run business we pride ourselves on delivering a reliable, professional and affordable cleaning service to both our local commercial and domestic customers. Our wide range of cleaning services include Carpet, Curtain and Upholstery Cleaning, Tile and Grout Cleaning and Patio and Driveway Pressure Washing. If you need cleaning for your home or office look no further than Cleanbright Solutions UK. Using the latest American Truck-mounted Cleaning machine we can promise our customers the deepest and driest clean possible leaving your carpets as fresh as the day they were laid. Please visit our website for full details on how we can help you.. www.cleanbright.co.uk or call us on 020 8449 0209
Revive and Sanitise
Welcome to Revive & Sanitise and our page. Please visit us regularly to keep up to date with our latest special offers. Revive & Sanitise are a family-run domestic and commercial Carpet and Upholstery cleaning service. We are based in central Bedford - and cover up to 25 mile radius, including Bedfordshire, parts of Buckinghamshire (Milton Keynes, Bletchley), Northamptonshire (Rushden, Wellingborough) and parts of Cambridgeshire (St. Neots, Sandy, Biggleswade) – and we may consider further afield if required. We offer a wide range of excellent services, starting with our standard deep-steam cleaning plus Sanitising, Deoderising and Stainguard protection. Below are just some examples of what our clients have hired us to clean. Full house end of tenancy cleaning Carpets and Stairs Regular and Oriental Rugs Settees, sofas, chairs and footstools Floor coverings Leather furniture Antiquated furniture office space carpet and upholstery cleaning Cars and Motor Home interiors And even coach and bus interior cleaning!
KMS LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
Cleaning services Pest control Waste management Feminine hygiene bins Window cleaning Gardening/landscaping
Clean Secure Watch, The Campbell Group Ltd
Clean Secure Watch is a facilities management company specialising in cleaning and bespoke security solutions. We benefit from directorship with over 15 years' experience in the highest sector of the security industry, Close Protection. From these years of experience has come the meticulous attention to detail you will find throughout every aspect of the company and the services we provide. We were founded with the aim to make our local communities, a cleaner, safer and more welcoming environment for all those that work, live, study and visit them. This is achieved through our Clean, Secure and Watch departments offering a wide range of facility management solutions, tailored to the client's individual and exact requirements. Ensuring both, great customer service and a bespoke but cost effective solution whatever the service, you're in need of. With our registered offices in Central London we cover the South, South East and South West of the UK. We benefit from local offices and Security Control Centers operating 24 hours, 7 days a week. Meaning you can get through to us everyday and at anytime. All of our operational staff are security screened to British Standards BS7858, to ensure that they are reliable, honest and trustworthy. That's because C S Watch knows that its about a friendly face, the highest levels of professionalism and a methodical attention to detail. Clean Secure Watch offers a wide range of services and products including: Domestic & Commercial Cleaning Furniture & Carpet Cleaning Window Cleaning Exterior Building Cleaning Street Cleaning & Graffiti Removal Security Guarding Mobile Patrols Key Holding Emergency Alarm Response Event Security & Door Supervision Security Drivers & Close Protection CCTV & Security Systems Installations & System Integration Maintenance, Fault Finding & Repairs Sensors & Alarms 24/7 Monitoring Gardening & Landscaping Fencing & Barriers Building Maintenance Ground Maintenance Looking for a competent, reliable and flexible facilities management provider in your local area? Then look no further - and welcome to Clean Secure Watch!whichever service, you're in need of.
Welcome to A1 Cleaning UK Ltd is a one stop cleaning company when it comes to premier, commercial and domestic cleaning services. We provide high quality cleaning services. Based in Slough Berkshire. We're always ready to clean anytime and any day, and we're capable of meeting both domestic and commercial needs. The areas we cover are Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and North West London and we also service other areas that are within 40 miles from Slough. all you have to do to experience awesomeness in cleaning is to contact us right away and book a service! We offer a broad range of affordable services while ensuring that they're of excellent quality. Our cleaning services include Domestic Cleaning, Office Cleaning, Retail Cleaning, Hotel and Restaurant Cleaning, Holiday Letting Cleaning, Property Cleaning ,One of Cleaning, After Builders Cleaning and End of Tenancy Cleaning. We also render School Cleaning, GP & Dental Practice Cleaning, After Builders Cleaning as well as Carpet and Rug Cleaning. We also deliver your desired results when it comes to Mattress Cleaning, Upholstery Cleaning, Curtain Cleaning, Kitchen and Oven Cleaning. Mobile Car Valeting and Jet Washing aren't also left out of our trusted cleaning services. You can also seize the advantage of our exclusive pricing system, discounts and unique offers to save big on your cleaning expenses.
Professional carpet and upholstery cleaning, mattress cleaning, rug cleaning. Dirt and odour removal. Pet stains removal. We are a small company, striving to deliver excellent service. If you are looking for professional carpet cleaning services in London to take care of your expensive floor coverings you've reached the right place. We will use state-of-the-art equipment and modern techniques to clean your carpets. Not only we eliminate dirt, stains, and bacteria, we also help you prolong the life of your carpets. Our specialists carpet cleaners are certified to use the equipment, minimising the risk of damage and accidents. We care for your floor coverings in a way you'd like us to, and select cleaning chemicals carefully after analysing the quality and material of your carpet. We use mild chemicals that protect the carpet fibres, while ensuring 100% elimination of any dirt. We make no compromises – we make sure your carpet looks like new. Every time!
Nw4 carpet cleaning
We provide professional carpet cleaning services in North London and all London. All of our carpet cleaning involves individual treatment and removal of stains using professional products and powerful steam cleaning extraction machines, ensuring your carpets are left as clean and dry as possible. Thoroughly cleaned carpets are anti-bacterially treated then deodorised. All cleaning agents used are bio-degradable and environmentally friendly. Our carpet cleaners are trained professionals and can advise you on the best cleaning system for your carpet.
Katerina Fridlova
House cleaning , office cleaning, builders cleans, start & end of tenancy cleans, ironing, window cleaning, carpet cleaning, oven cleaning. Fb page: Kat's cleaning services Mobile: 07769175427, Katerina
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Easy Cleaning London
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Carpet Magic
J Clean
We specialise in personalised cleaning services plan for our clients as well as general cleaning services. Residential & Commercial We serve clients of all nature. Whether you require assistance around the house or want regular cleaning of the office. We are here to take care of it all. Regular & Seasonal Cleaning For the occasional or seasonal clean out or a regularly scheduled service. We can take the burden of cleaning off your shoulders leaving you to get on with the more important stuff. Specialist & Eco Friendly We use specialist equipment and Eco-friendly products to assure you excellent quality of work and a great healthy environment.
Aqua Cleaners LTD
Aqua Cleaners Ltd offers professional carpet, upholstery and hard floor cleaning. We are Prochem trained and certified, therefore we operate to a very high standard producing excellent results. Aqua Cleaners Ltd also has full public liability insurance to give our customers that added peace of mind.
Essex DBCCertificate of Excellence 2019
Here at Essex DBC we cover a wide variety of services including Small building work Painting a decorating (10 years experience) Flood damage All types of removals Gutter cleaning Window cleaning Professional carpet cleaning Car valeting General garden works Ect no job to big no job to small 247 out of hour calls accepted
Capitol Cleaning Services
Capitol Cleaning Services offer all services in the cleaning industry although regular services are our biggest area. We have been running for 13 years and in that time we have grown into a sizeable operation by offering a high quality service to our clients, which has enabled us to keep those clients. We tailor each service to meet your specific requirements and we work closely with our clients to build long lasting relationships and maintain our solid reputation.
Cats domestic cleaning service
I currently offer a range of services from weekly standard cleans through to end of tenancy deep cleans. A list of my services are; Weekly / fortnightly cleans Office cleans End of tenancy deep cleans Oven cleaning Patio/wall pressure washed Gutter / fascia cleaning If there is anything not listed above that you require please feel free to messege me and I will try my best to accommodate you.
DAISY'S CLEANERS LTDCertificate of Excellence 2019
Our reputation and integrity is our greatest asset, we say this with all amount of humility. This is because we maintain a very high work ethic, we personalize our service, recognizing the uniqueness of each client. We are small company but we are proud that we have never lost any of our customers, that speaks volume about who we are; we have never any reason to apologize to any of our customers. All our cleaners are carefully recruited, CRB checked, referees vetted and well trained on maintaining a professional work ethics. Over 500 End of Tenancy undertaken in a year Free assessment appointment High performance Cleaning Equipment Specialized Detergents We guarantee our service, if you are unsatisfied, we will return to site at no extra charge Steam Vacuum Cleaners Fully insured cleaners comprehensive unrushed cleaning services which is not restricted by time
Edges 'N' Ledges Window Cleaning
At Edges 'N' Ledges we pride ourselves on delivering first class cleaning solutions to residential and commercial properties.From everyday window cleaning to solar panel cleaning to bespoke soft washing whatever your need.
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What type of building is this for?
Commercial premises
What needs cleaning?
A few specific carpet stains, Carpets in whole rooms, Hallways & landings
How many rooms need cleaning?
5 rooms
How many staircases require cleaning?
What kind of stains need cleaning?
Dirt, Food stains, Oil / Grease stains
Who will move the furniture?
I would like the pro to move furniture
Are there any smokers or pets on the premises?
Neither smokers nor pets
Which carpet cleaning service(s) do you need?
I'm looking for guidance from the pro
Any additional details?
What type of building is this for?
Private home or residence
What needs cleaning?
Hallways & landings, Stairs
How many rooms need cleaning?
Whole property
How many staircases require cleaning?
One set
What kind of stains need cleaning?
No stains
Who will move the furniture?
There is no furniture to move
Are there any smokers or pets on the premises?
Neither smokers nor pets
Which carpet cleaning service(s) do you need?
Carpet shampooing
Any additional details?
Looking to move on 28/3 to the property so would like to complete the cleaning prior to that date.
What type of building is this for?
Commercial premises
What needs cleaning?
Carpets in whole rooms
How many rooms need cleaning?
9 or more rooms
How many staircases require cleaning?
What kind of stains need cleaning?
Who will move the furniture?
I would like the pro to move furniture
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WARREN, Ind. – Ruth Ellen Wiggins Edwards, 86, of Warren, Ind., passed away Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at her residence, Heritage Pointe Home in Warren.
Born in Dixon, she was the daughter of Frank Davis Wiggins Sr. and Frances Irene (Taylor) Wiggins. In 1945, she married Herbert LeRoy Edwards of Lanark.
After her mother's death in 1933, Ruth left Dixon High School to care for her four siblings. She was supervisor at Freeman Shoe Co. of Dixon, making army boots during World War II. At the age of 64, she fulfilled her dream of a high school diploma from Rensselear Central High School in 1990. With family as her career, she worked part time for W.T. Grant store; as a Title 1 reading tutor for Warsaw Community Schools; and was a licensed practical nurse at Murphy Medical Center in Warsaw, Ind.
Volunteering in her community, Ruth was a chaplain assistant at Murphy Medical Center. She served as treasurer of the Jasper County Hospital Auxiliary and as a clerk in the hospital gift shop. Herbert and Ruth volunteered for mission work trips to Laurel Mission in Kentucky and Stillwell, Okla. While living at Heritage Pointe, Ruth volunteered in the gift shop and with bingo activities.
Surviving are her husband of 67 years, Herbert; four daughters, RoxyAnn (Michael) Casper of Decatur, Ind., Marsha Edwards of Indianapolis, Theresa (Gary) Wright of Frankton, Ind., and Denise Edwards of Corvallis, Mont.; one sister, Betty Jean Murray of Dixon; two brothers, Gerald Herbert Wiggins of Deltona, Fla., and Harold Allen Wiggins of Dixon; seven grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and seven step-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and one brother, Frank Davis Wiggins Jr., on March 22, 2009.
Visitation will be from 12:30 to 3 p.m., followed by a celebration service at 3 p.m., Saturday at Heritage Pointe Chapel, 801 Huntington Ave., Warren. Burial will be at Spring Hill Cemetery at Heritage Pointe. Glancy-H. Brown Chapel in Warren is handling arrangements.
Memorials have been established to UMMH Foundation in Warren, and Family Life Care in Berne, Ind.
Visit www.glancyfuneralhomes.com to send condolences.

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The Toyota Camry is a huge seller in the states. Although the Camry is popular, there is still a large crowd that feels the Camry Sedan is too family-oriented and bland for the tastes of younger drivers. Enter the Toyota Camry Solara, which comes as a sporty two-door coupe or convertible. Introduced in 1999, the first generation ran until 2003 before its second-generation update. Sales of the Solara were disappointing, and the vehicle line was discontinued in 2009.
The first generation of the Toyota Camry Solara was produced in 1999. The car's mechanics were based on the Toyota Camry model that was produced from 1997 to 2001.
The first Solara was a two-door coupe that was a bit larger than the average consumer sport vehicle. It provided the extra room of a sedan, but with a little added performance.
Two trim models were available in the first generation: the SE and SLE. Two engines were available with the trim models. A 2.2-liter, 135-horsepower V-6 was available, as well as a 3.0-liter, 200-horsepower V-6. A five-speed manual and a four-speed automatic transmission were available in the first generation.
The Solara was known as the sportier version of the safe and family-friendly Camry vehicle. The Solara failed to perform as well as the Camry, showing signs of tricky handling according to many drivers.
A manual transmission was not available in the second generation, although the car was a sport version of the Camry. A five-speed transmission with a manual gate was provided instead. The paddles gave the feel of a manual transmission with the security and fuel economy of an automatic transmission.
The suspension on the vehicle gave a smooth ride. Better handling was available on the SE trim model offered in the second generation of the Solara.
The Toyota Camry Solara was discontinued after the 2008 model year and the last was produced in 2009. No plans for a re-introduction of the vehicle have been planned.
In 2002, a new 2.4-liter engine was introduced. It produced 157 horsepower, boosting the base speed and power for the Solara. Front and rear steering mechanics were tweaked to improve the sometimes-squeaky handling. The manual transmission was discontinued for the 2003 models.
The extra power produced by the V-6 engine made the car exciting, and the room made the car practical. The boring steering and overall lack of design appeal, however, made the Camry Solara somewhat disappointing, given that its purpose was to appeal to younger drivers.
The second-generation Solara was introduced in 2004 and sold until 2009. The mechanics and styling closely resembled the Camry sedan models produced from 2002 to 2006. The second generation added the convertible option to the coupe. A varied trim selection was also available: the SE, SE Sport, and SLE.
The base model SE coupe had a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine that produced 157 horsepower. The five-speed automatic was introduced on this line. A 3.3-liter V-6 engine with 225 horsepower was standard on the convertible models and offered as an option for the coupe models.
The base SE trim had a decently equipped interior and exterior. The SE Sport added better suspension, bigger wheels, a modified body, and improved leather interior. The SLE added stability control and navigation features exclusive to that model.
The interior was spacious in the front but somewhat cramped for tall passengers in the back. Still, the Solara offered more room than your average sport vehicle.
The convertible version of the Solara had one disappointing feature: a cloth top. Although sexy on older vehicles, other sport car models being manufactured during this period offered hard-top designs that proved much more desirable than the Solara's cloth. This design flaw made the convertible less appealing than the competition.
The steering and handling on the sporty convertible and SE sport models led to an improved driving experience. Still, the body of the Camry was never meant for the top speed excitement that a consumer would expect from a sportier vehicle, and the design aesthetic wasn't exactly inspiring.
Although the Camry Solara has some interesting features, the bottom line is that is lacks the flash and flare you would expect from a sport vehicle. You can rely on the Camry build for reliability and comfort, but overall you'd be better served looking at the competition from the same era for a more exciting and powerful sport vehicle.
2008 Toyota Camry Solara
Convertible, Coupe, Midsize
The 2008 Toyota Camry Solara is a well-rounded choice for a sportier sedan-type vehicle.
2007 Toyota Camry Solara
The Toyota Camry Solara is available either as a midsize coupe or a convertible.
2006 Toyota Camry Solara
The 2006 Toyota Camry Solara is introduced as a more sophisticated and sportier cousin to the sedate Camry family sedan.
2005 Toyota Camry Solara
The 2005 Toyota Solara proves ideal for drivers who seek a vehicle with a bit more flash and power.
2004 Toyota Camry Solara
The 2004 Toyota Camry Solara is a midsize couple/convertible that was created for sport-minded drivers.
2003 Toyota Camry Solara
The 2003 Toyota Camry Solara is a midsize convertible and coupe derived from the Camry.
2002 Toyota Camry Solara
The 2002 Toyota Camry Solara has a freshened up look but it still uses the previous Camry platform.
2001 Toyota Camry Solara
2000 Toyota Camry Solara
While marketed as a coupe version of the best-selling Camry sedan, the 2000 Toyota Camry Solara features markedly different styling cues.
1999 Toyota Camry Solara
Coupe, Midsize
The Toyota Camry Solara is more commonly referred to as the Solara, and it replaced the Camry coupe models for the 1999 model year.


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Redo Logging in InnoDB
By annamalai.gurusami on Jul 15, 2013
InnoDB is a general-purpose storage engine that balances high reliability and high performance. It is a transactional storage engine and is fully ACID compliant, as would be expected from any relational database. The durability guarantee provided by InnoDB is made possible by the redo logs.
This article will provide an overview of the redo log subsystem or log subsystem of InnoDB. We will look at the following details:
- The global log system object, which provides access to important data structures and information.
- The mini-transaction (mtr), using which all redo log records are created.
- The global in-memory log buffer (or just log buffer), into which the redo logs are written to from the mini transaction buffer. This log buffer will be periodically flushed to the log file on disk.
- The redo log files on the disk and their high level internal structure.
- We will discuss about the concept of LSN, and how the various values of LSN are used to implement the write-ahead logging (WAL).
Redo Log Generation
In the article, Data Organization in InnoDB, we already saw that the user data files of InnoDB (.ibd files) are considered to be a sequence of equal sized pages. These pages are uniquely identified within the InnoDB system using the space_id, page_no combination. If we want to read or modify any page, it needs to be loaded into memory. So there are two copies of the pages - on disk and in memory. Here are the high level steps in redo log generation.
- Any changes to a page is first done to the in-memory copy of the page. The page that is modified in memory and not yet flushed to disk is marked as the dirty page in memory.
- An associated redo log is generated in memory, in the local mini transaction (mtr) buffer. This will then be transferred to the global in-memory redo log buffer.
- The redo log record is written from the redo log buffer in memory to the redo log file on disk. This is subsequently flushed. These two steps are considered separate - writing to the redo log file and flushing the redo log file to the disk. This is to account for the file buffering done by the operating system.
- The dirty page is flushed from memory to disk at some later point of time as part of the checkpointing operation.
The order of these steps are important. The redo log record of a change must be flushed to disk before flushing the corresponding dirty page to the disk. This is the concept of write-ahead logging (WAL).
The generated redo log record will contain information necessary to repeat the same operation later during a database recovery. So the redo log record will contain information about the original set of pages and what has been changed in them. Using the redo log record the set of dirty pages will be re-created during database recovery.
Redo Log Files
By default, InnoDB creates two redo log files (or just log files) ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 within the data directory of MySQL. In MySQL versions 5.6.8 and above, the default size of each redo log file is 48MB each. This can be configured by the user by making use of innodb_log_file_size server option. The number of log files is controlled byinnodb_log_files_in_group server option.
A log group consists of a number of log files, each of same size. As of MySQL 5.6, InnoDB supports only one log group. So I'll not discuss this further.
The redo log files are used in a circular fashion. This means that the redo logs are written from the beginning to end of first redo log file, then it is continued to be written into the next log file, and so on till it reaches the last redo log file. Once the last redo log file has been written, then redo logs are again written from the first redo log file.
The log files are viewed as a sequence of blocks called "log blocks" whose size is given by OS_FILE_LOG_BLOCK_SIZE which is equal to 512 bytes. Each log file has a header whose size is given by LOG_FILE_HDR_SIZE, which is defined as 4*OS_FILE_LOG_BLOCK_SIZE.
Redo Log File Header
Each redo log file contains a header occupying four log blocks with the following information:
- The first 4 bytes contain the log group number to which the log file belongs.
- The next 8 bytes contain the lsn of the start of data in this log file.
- First checkpoint field located in the beginning of the second log block.
- Second checkpoint field located in the beginning of the fourth log block.
The checkpoint field mentioned above contains information necessary to identify a checkpoint - a checkpoint number, the LSN of the checkpoint, checksum information and more.
Log Blocks
A redo log file can be viewed as a sequence of log blocks. All log blocks, except the ones belonging to the log file header, contain a header and a footer. The header is of size LOG_BLOCK_HDR_SIZE bytes (which is defined as 12 bytes). The log block trailer is of size LOG_BLOCK_TRL_SIZE (4 bytes). The log block header contains the following information:
- The log block number. This field is of 4 bytes.
- Number of bytes of log written to this block. This field is of 2 bytes.
- Offset of the first start of an mtr log record group in this log block or 0 if none
- The checkpoint number to which this log block belongs
The log block trailer contains checksum of the log block contents.
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
The log sequence number (LSN) is an important concept. The LSN is an offset into the redo log file. Within InnoDB the log sequence number is represented by the type lsn_t, which is an 8-byte unsigned integer. There are different LSN values that are of interest. The following table lists some of the LSN values discussed in this article. (Note: Thelog_sys is the global log system object which is explained in next section.)
|The redo log record that will be generated next will make use of this lsn
|The redo log file is flushed upto this LSN. All redo log records whose LSN is < flushed_to_disk_lsn is safely on the disk.
|There is a currently running write operation which will write upto this LSN.
|There is a currently running write + flush operation which will write upto this LSN.
The LSN is what that links the dirty page, the redo log record, and the redo log file. Each redo log record when it is copied to the in-memory log buffer, it gets an associated LSN. When each database page is modified, redo log records are generated. So each database page is also associated to an LSN. The page lsn is stored in a header for each page. The page lsn gives the lsn upto which the redo log file must be flushed before flushing the page.
Global Log System Object
The global log system object log_sys (of type log_t) holds important information related to log subsystem of InnoDB. Here only those information related to redo log buffer and redo log files are discussed. The global log_sys identifies the "active area" of the log buffer, which contains redo logs that are yet to be safely written on the disk. It also identifies the area in the redo log file, into which the active area of the log buffer will be written/flushed.
/** Redo log buffer */ struct log_t{ lsn_t lsn; /*!< log sequence number */ ulint buf_free; /*!< first free offset within the log buffer */ byte* buf_ptr; /* unaligned log buffer */ byte* buf; /*!< log buffer */ ulint buf_size; /*!< log buffer size in bytes */ ulint max_buf_free; /*!< recommended maximum value of buf_free, after which the buffer is flushed */ ulint buf_next_to_write;/*!< first offset in the log buffer where the byte content may not exist written to file, e.g., the start offset of a log record catenated later; this is advanced when a flush operation is completed to all the log groups */ lsn_t write_lsn; /*!< end lsn for the current running write */ ulint write_end_offset;/*!< the data in buffer has been written up to this offset when the current write ends: this field will then be copied to buf_next_to_write */ lsn_t current_flush_lsn;/*!< end lsn for the current running write + flush operation */ lsn_t flushed_to_disk_lsn; /*!< how far we have written the log AND flushed to disk */ };
- The member log_sys->buf points to the in-memory redo log buffer. This is the buffer into which an mtr_commit() writes the redo log records. The size of this buffer is given by log_sys->buf_size in bytes.
- The member log_sys->buf_free is the offset within the in-memory redo log buffer, where the next redo log record will be written. This is the end offset for the next redo log flush to disk.
- The member log_sys->buf_next_to_write is the offset from where the redo log records are not yet written to the redo log file. When the redo log buffer is flushed to disk next time, it will flush from this location. This is the start offset for the next redo log flush to disk.
- The member log_sys->flushed_to_disk_lsn marks the lsn upto which we have written to the log file on the disk and flushed it. So upto this lsn, the redo logs are safely on the disk. This will always be less than or equal tolog_sys->write_lsn and log_sys->lsn.
- The member log_sys->lsn represents the current lsn. This member will be updated whenever we do mtr_commit(). The function mtr_commit() writes the bunch of redo log records generated in the mini transaction to the global or system wide redo log buffer in memory. This will always be greater than or equal tolog_sys->flushed_to_disk_lsn and log_sys->write_lsn. This will be the LSN of the redo log record written atlog_sys->buf_free.
- The member log_sys->write_lsn represents the end lsn of a currently running redo log buffer write operation. This will be greater than or equal to log_sys->flushed_to_disk_lsn and less than or equal to log_sys->lsn.
- The member log_sys->current_flush_lsn represents the end lsn of a currently running redo log buffer write + flush operation. This will be mostly equal to log_sys->write_lsn.
The global log_sys object points to various positions in the in-memory redo log buffer and on-disk redo log files. The following picture shows the locations pointed to by the global log_sys object. The picture clearly shows that the redo log buffer maps to a specific portion of the redo log file.
Global In-memory Redo Log Buffer
The in-memory redo log buffer is global and all redo logs generated by user transactions will be written into this buffer. The size of this buffer is configurable and is given by the innodb_log_buffer_size. The default size of this redo log buffer is 8MB.
When a transaction is running and if it is modifying the database, then it will generate redo logs and populate this log buffer. This log buffer will be written or flushed to the log file, either when the transaction commits, or when the log buffer gets full.
When the redo log buffer is full, and there is not enough space for an mtr_commit(), which will transfer a group of redo log records to log buffer, then a synchronous flush of the log buffer is done to the redo log file by using the function log_buffer_flush_to_disk(). This function will write the log buffer from log_sys->buf_next_to_write to log_sys->buf_free. In terms of LSN, the function log_buffer_flush_to_disk() flushes the redo logs from log_sys->flushed_to_disk_lsn to log_sys->lsn.
The mini transaction (mtr)
A mini transaction (mtr) must be used to generate all the redo log records. A mini transaction contains a local buffer (called the mini transaction buffer) into which the generated redo log records will be stored. If we need to generate a group of redo log records such that either all make it to the redo log file or none makes it, then we need to put them in a single mini transaction. Apart from the redo log records, the mini transaction also maintains a list of pages that has been modified (dirty pages).
The normal usage of a mini transaction is as follows:
- Create a mini transaction object of type mtr_t
- Start the mini transaction with mtr_start() function. This will initialize the mini transaction buffer.
- Generate the redo log records by making use of mlog_write_ulint() family of functions.
- Commit the mini transaction with mtr_commit() function. This will transfer the redo log records from mini transaction buffer to the global redo log buffer. The list of dirty pages is added to the buffer pool flush list.
The definition of a mini transaction is given here for your reference. The member mtr_t::log contains the mini transaction buffer which will hold the redo log records, and the member mtr_t::memo contains a list of pages dirtied by this mini transaction.
/* Mini-transaction handle and buffer */ struct mtr_t{ dyn_array_t memo; /*!< memo stack for locks etc. */ dyn_array_t log; /*!< mini-transaction log */ unsigned inside_ibuf:1; /*!< TRUE if inside ibuf changes */ unsigned modifications:1; /*!< TRUE if the mini-transaction modified buffer pool pages */ unsigned made_dirty:1; /*!< TRUE if mtr has made at least one buffer pool page dirty */ ulint n_log_recs; /* count of how many page initial log records have been written to the mtr log */ ulint n_freed_pages; /* number of pages that have been freed in this mini-transaction */ ulint log_mode; /* specifies which operations should be logged; default value MTR_LOG_ALL */ lsn_t start_lsn;/* start lsn of the possible log entry for this mtr */ lsn_t end_lsn;/* end lsn of the possible log entry for this mtr */ };
Redo Log Record Types
When we modify a database page, a redo log record is generated. This redo log record either contains what information has been changed in the page (physical redo log) or how to perform the change again (logical redo log). InnoDB uses a combination of physical redo logs and logical redo logs.
To understand this consider an operation like page re-organization. If we generated a physical redo log record for this operation, it is likely that the redo log record generated will be equal to the page size. But instead InnoDB uses logical redo log record for this operation, which will reduce the redo log record size significantly. In the case of logical redo log record to represent a page reorganize, all we need is the information to uniquely identify a page, and "type" of operation which is page reorganize.
So each redo log record has a type. A redo log record type helps to identify the function that will be used to apply or execute the redo log during recovery. The contents of the redo log record must then contain all the arguments or parameters needed by the function.
Life cycle of a redo log recordThe life cycle of a redo log record is as follows:
- The redo log record is first created by a mini transaction and stored in the mini transaction buffer. It has information necessary to redo the same operation again in the time of database recovery.
- When mtr_commit() is done, the redo log record is transferred to the global in-memory redo log buffer. If necessary, the redo log buffer will be flushed to the redo log file, to make space for the new redo log record.
- The redo log record has a specific lsn associated with it. This association is established during mtr_commit(), when the redo log record is transferred from mtr buffer to log buffer. Once the lsn is established for a redo log record, then its location in the redo log file is also established.
- The redo log record is then transferred from the log buffer to redo log file when it is written + flushed. This means that the redo log record is now durably stored on the disk.
- Each redo log record has an associated list of dirty pages. This relationship is established via LSN. A redo log record must be flushed to disk, before its associated dirty pages. A redo log record can be discarded only after all the associated dirty pages are flushed to the disk.
- A redo log record can be used to re-create its associated list of dirty pages. This happens during database recovery.
This article provided an overview of the redo log subsystem of InnoDB storage engine. The major data structures used in the redo log subsystem are the mini transaction (mtr), the in-memory redo log buffer and the on-disk redo log files. The InnoDB storage engine tracks many LSN values to ensure that the write-ahead logging (WAL) happens correctly.
Since data loss is unacceptable for an RDBMS, the redo log subsystem is very critical for a successful RDBMS. And since redo logs are generated synchronously with DML operations, it is important to do it efficiently. The size of redo logs must be kept as minimal as possible.
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Some big names are redoing their webmail interfaces, in response to GMail. They are redoing the whole thing using a richer interface.
Basically, both of them are building something akin Outlook on html / javascript. And they are so wrong.
GMail has show us that you can implement responsive applications on a browser. It raised the bar. But people is not loving it because it uses XMLHttpRequest. Nobody knows what the hell is XMLHttpRequest.
It is because its interface is BETTER than anything else. Excuse me, but I already have Outlook. Why
do I need another Outlook in my browser? I don't want new applications, be it for the web or the desktop to be clones of what I already have.
There is somebody that has got the point. 37signals keeps pumping out little gems.
Excuse my french, these guys have balls! They have done a web page so you could have to do lists! And it's working!
37signals have the gift to see the deep root of a problem, and to deliver an application that fixes this single problem. And then stop. Don't think about "what if"'s. It is done.


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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Wednesday it is recalling nearly 22,000 of its 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks because of a problem with their seats.
GM said that in the event of the trucks being struck from behind, the reclining seat backs might move more than allowed by safety regulators and not provide as much protection from injury as designed.
GM said it has gotten no reports of accidents or injury related to this possible defect.
Owners of the new trucks can have the seats inspected and if necessary repaired at GM dealers.
Of the total of 21,721 pickup trucks recalled, 18,972 are in the United States, 2,575 in Canada, 103 in Mexico and 71 outside North America, GM said.
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As you know, we're big supporters of Share Our Strength and Dine Out for No Kid Hungry, which runs through September 24, 2011. To take our commitment a step further, OpenTable held our first annual in-house bake sale! Our participation in the Great American Bake Sale was a complete success, with employees baking and buying to raise nearly $1,200! Every cent will go directly to Share Our Strength's efforts to stamp out childhood hunger.
There were treats both sweet (cupcakes!) and savory (soft pretzels!), and, by the time the day was over, only crumbs remained.
Peep some pictures of our baked goods-for-good! Then, head over to Share Our Strength for help in running a bake sale at your workplace that will benefit No Kid Hungry! And, don't forget to dine out to during Dine Out for No Kid Hungry!


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June 19, 2012
When you first thought to do this, this was a shot in the dark, right? Timothy's prognosis was pretty grim. No one had actually attempted this type of treatment before. Did you think, "Might as well give it a shot"?
Yeah. I would have felt better if I had tested it before. [Laughs] I knew it was probably possible. It's not easy to test the same condition in animals, but you could see some effects in animals.
In this case, it was clearly a shot in the dark. I studied the literature. I looked in PubMed, up and down, to see if there was anything published on this point: What happens if a patient who is HIV infected changes the CCR5 phenotype? And I found absolutely nothing. It's never been tested before, not even in vitro.
This was very surprising. It could be that no one really thought about this possibility. And the other explanation could be that they have tested it, it's gone wrong and no one got published. I was a little bit nervous about this point.
We were a little bit scared that we didn't really know what could happen: You have high selective pressure against the virus, when we changed this immune system to CCR5 depleted cells, and no one really could say how the virus would behave.
[But then we realized that] the worst thing would be that he changes his tropism to the CXCR4 receptor, and then as long as he takes his antiretroviral medication, there's no harm for the patient. So we got optimistic that we could dare this experiment and that the risks are not too, too big.
I think it's easy for a lot of us to grasp on to this and say, "Here is the cure. Here is the future. Here is where it's going to happen." I'm guessing you've heard this kind of question a lot: "Is this the path forward?"
Yeah. If you look at the HIV research, we have no better answers for cure questions than what we have now with the CCR5 receptor, gene therapy. We have approaches in targeting, unmasking and killing, specifically, reservoir cells. But they are all connected with the cure question.
And the cure question, 10 or 5 years ago, was no real question. If someone said to you, "I want to cure HIV," all you'd have to say is, "You're mad. This is not possible. This is a retrovirus which degrades, and you can't get rid of the genomic material." This was the dogma of this case.
The way of thinking about cure has changed a little bit. This makes the process open for alternatives to the current antiretroviral therapy -- it does not have to be only the stem cell approach. There are other approaches derived from this case, which are also promising.
We've known for a while that the CCR5 receptor is the primary way through which HIV enters a CD4 cell. But there's still so much that we don't really know about the CCR5 receptor. How much have we learned over the past few years?
Very little. We know that the CCR5 deletion is much older than HIV, and the mutation appeared thousands of years ago. The distribution, what we see now -- in Europeans, this deletion is high; in Africans and Asians it is absent -- this is a distribution which happened in the last 10,000 years. There must be some kind of advantage for these carriers, and we don't know all the reasons why.
We don't know exactly the function of CCR5. We know that it probably plays a role in another infection, the West Nile virus infection. But all of the details are very unclear. There are some studies focusing on carriers of the CCR5 deletion, and whether they have high risk of any other disease. But these associations are very weak; there's no clear association of any disease with the deletion.
Why hasn't there been a Patient No. 2 yet?
We have had requests from other institutions -- taken together, I think we have now 15 other patients with HIV in need of urgent transplantation, because of leukemia, lymphoma, and so on. And some of them had just one [potential donor match]. Who gets that donor that was tested and was CCR5 negative?
Some had many potential donors -- 60, 120, such as Timothy had -- but sometimes mathematics fail. And the probabilities [of success] are 1 percent.
So this is a problem. I think it's a question of time. If you wait long enough, you will find a patient who will have the same conditions like Timothy.
The other point is that we don't have access to every patient who has the possibility to do this. There are many more patients with HIV who get transplants by allogeneic transplantation than we get information about. Because some institutions didn't really know about [the Timothy Brown] case. Some knew about this case and said, "Oh, this is so uncommon, this mutation; it doesn't make sense to test for it." They didn't start with it. If you don't start with the investigation, you will never find a second patient.
This is the biggest problem, I think: We have information about less than 5 percent of all these patients who get transplantation. If we have access to all of these and test them, the probability is much more higher to find a second patient.
Is this a uniquely European thing that you did? Could what you did with Timothy Brown not have been done anywhere else?
No: They tried it, too, in the U.S. But the circumstances are not like in Europe, or especially not Germany. We have in Germany a unique situation: We have 80 million Germans, and 3.5 million of them are registered in donor registries. It's very high. It's the highest proportion in the whole world.
Do you know how that compares to the U.S.?
You have 7 to 8 million in the U.S. But the difference, the second difference, is: These 8 million in the U.S. are derived from hundreds of stem cell registries. Every county, every state, every hospital, every institution has its own registry. And in Germany we have a central registry for all of these. So it's much easier to assess these registered donors.
That's also the reason why it works so well. You can do this in any country, but it works so well [in Germany] because we have this central registry, with a large number of registered donors. This was part of the success.
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Managing disasters
Student researcher sees firsthand the importance of emergency planning
A. Sue Weisler
Sam Rinaldo could not have timed his research better. What better way to assess the effectiveness of emergency planning than in the aftermath of a major hurricane?
Rinaldo, a fourth-year civil engineering technology student, spent the summer working on a research project to develop a model emergency preparedness and recovery system for cities. By mid-fall, he was in New York, one of the cities hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy, with his Navy Reserve unit supporting recovery efforts.
He saw how ideal plans can sometimes align with the reality of emergency situations.
Several months earlier, Rinaldo was wearing his student-researcher hat. Working with Professor Jennifer Schneider on her grant-funded project for the Department of Homeland Security, he was inputting information into the Automated Critical Asset Management System, a statewide database of emergency preparedness resources. Large cities like New York have resources in the event of emergencies and natural disasters; small and midsize cities often compete for financial support. The database provides responders with a comprehensive accounting of available resources and outlines responsibilities.
Rinaldo also worked on several sub- projects, detailing Rochester's storm surge areas and assessing power-grid transmissions, not realizing that within a matter of weeks he'd be spending his time shoring up parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Battery Park and Staten Island.
"I've never been in a hurricane before," he says. "It was amazing to see. Everything came to a grinding halt."
He helped distribute food and gas, provided security in areas, and in Staten Island, he searched apartment complexes to locate elderly stranded after the storm. Homes and buildings were without electricity, gas stations rationed gas if they could even get the pumps working with generators. The Coast Guard had closed the Port of New York, not allowing any shipping, including oil tankers, because the debris from the storm could damage the ships. But even in the face of severe damage all around him, Rinaldo saw residents pulling for each other.
"They had no power and Home Depot is running on a generator, and they are buying all sorts of materials to help send out to other parts of the city," says Rinaldo, a Brighton resident who has been with the Navy Reserve for nearly 2½ years.
Rinaldo spends several weekends a year with the Reserves, available for call-ups should the need arise. He continues work on Schneider's research project and expects to graduate in 2014, but in the meantime is starting a student club, the Association of Civil and Environmental Professionals, for fellow students interested in the field. The club, awaiting charter approval from RIT Student Government, will have affiliate support from four professional organizations: the New York Water Environment Association, American Water Works Association, American Public Works Association and the Air and Waste Management Association.
"The research work with Dr. Jenn has a nice parallel with my civil engineering classes. I like it because of the variety, seeing how different aspects come together. I've been able to get a glimpse of it all," says Rinaldo. "And the Navy could have sent me to Afghanistan, but instead they sent me to New York City. I like this field and being able to help out people in America. I feel it is more relevant to the people here. I feel good about serving that way."


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'The Killing' Season 3 Claims Peter Sarsgaard
'The Killing' is still very much alive and kicking over at AMC, where the cast for the upcoming third season continues to grow. Peter Sarsgaard is the latest name to join that list.
After being cancelled and almost heading to Netflix, AMC revived divisive drama 'The Killing' for a third season, and they're lining up quite the impressive cast. According to TV Line, Peter Sarsgaard ('An Education' -- the less said about 'Green Lantern,' the better) is joining the cast alongside indie actress Amy Seimetz, who was also announced today. Seimetz can be seen in Shane Carruth's 'Upstream Color,' which hits theaters in April.
Sarsgaard and Seimetz join the previously announced Elias Koteas and Max Fowler with returning actors Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos. Sarsgaard will be playing a death row inmate, described as "a lifelong convict born into poverty and crime" who has been in and out of prison since he was a little kid. His character is the dominant type, who tries to control his interactions to keep people from perceiving him as weak.
While this new cast definitely sounds fantastic, we're still a little wary given how much seasons one and two felt like a long con. Hopefully this season has a more contained story line.


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'Bold, Loving' Christian Apologist Dave Hunt Passes Away at Age 87
Dave Hunt, a well-known Christian apologist, author, speaker, and radio commentator, passed away April 5 at the age of 87 with his wife, Ruth, by his side.
Hunt, a graduate of UCLA, began working in the full-time Christian ministry in 1973, authoring books and commentating radio programs in an effort to draw Christians back to the fundamental, biblical teachings of their religion.
In order to expand his ministry further, Hunt founded outreach publication The Berean Call in 1992 for the purpose of "encouraging spiritual discernment among those who regarded themselves not just as 'evangelicals' but as biblical Christians."
A recent obituary published by The Berean Call describes Hunt as "bold yet loving" in his approach to Christianity, adding that one of Hunt's favorite activities was to engage nonbelievers or members of other religions in conversations on airplanes in order to convince them of the Good News of Jesus Christ.
"Dave's bold yet loving approach to any situation allowed him entrance into these conversations where many others would have been shut out. His love for Jesus, for Israel, and for people in general was obvious to all," the obituary reads.
"His enthusiasm for the truth, along with his anger over the sin and wickedness that he knew was robbing people of what God wanted for them, flamed his desire to share the Lord with anyone with whom he had contact," the obituary added.
Hunt has managed to sell over 4 million copies of his various books, some of which include The Cult Explosion; The God Makers, which he co-wrote with Ed Decker, and The Seduction of Christianity, which he co-wrote with T.A. McMahon.
The Seduction of Christianity, one of Hunt's most popular books, was published in 1985 and sought to reveal deception in the Christian church.
"To avoid the seduction that is at the heart of apostasy, we must be able to distinguish the voice of Christ through His word from the confusing mixture of truth and error that is spoken in His name," Hunt wrote in his book.
"Those who would escape the growing seduction must get back to the Bible and know what they believe and why, rather than succumbing to the temptation of accepting facile answers provided by 'experts,'" he added.
Along with his prolific writing of books, Hunt also produced videos and wrote two novels, as well as conducted two radio programs, "Search the Scriptures Daily" and "According to God's Word."
Through his various mediums of expression, the influential Christian also sought to critically discuss the religions of Islam, Catholicism, Mormonism and Calvinism, among others.
Hunt was also a Creationist, and often times dedicated many of his talks on his radio programs to discussing evolution vs. biblical creationism.
The Christian scholar was also reportedly an avid traveler, having spread the Good News of Jesus Christ to parts of South America, Australia, Europe, India, and the Middle East with his wife, Ruth, whom he married in 1950, according to The Berean Call.
Hunt was described by many of his admirers as a true defender of faith in that he sought to dispel heresy in modern day Christianity, as well as formulate the difference between cults and biblical faith for the current generation.
Several Christians from around the country who admired Hunt and his books took to The Berean Call to recall their fond memories of the Christian apologist and rejoice that he now joins the Lord.
"I can't even tell you how much I have learned from this man's books and tapes. We went to see him a number of times and though he was a great force during his lectures, he was very humble in spirit in person. Though I am rejoicing that he is with our Lord, I mourn the loss of this great man of God," Vicki Molesky of Pennsylvania wrote on The Berean Call's forum for Hunt.
"Dave left a huge body of work! His ministry of 'watchman on the tower' was sorely needed. and his passing will leave a tremendous vacuum. He had enviable boldness, especially living in our politically-correct society," commented Paul Tatham of Orlando, Fla.
No public memorial services have been scheduled for Hunt, who is survived by his wife and four children.


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Chogyam Trungpa
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Chögyam Trungpa is virtually synonymous with the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Over the course of his seventeen-year teaching career in North America, Trungpa ushered in a radically new approach to spirituality—both rooted in the ancient wisdom of the buddhadharma and thoroughly situated in the contemporary world. His teachings, grounded in what he called the "Shambhala vision," focused on the development of an enlightened society through the transformation of ordinary, everyday life into sacred activity.
Steering between Western biography and traditional Tibetan hagiography, Fabrice Midal takes you on a soaring journey through Trungpa's life and teachings. Touching on all of the most momentous events, this series of glimpses into Chögyam Trungpa's world provides a rare view on the formation of Trungpa's thought and the remarkable body of teachings and writings that remain as his legacy. Included are accounts of:
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- Chögyam Trungpa's education in Tibet under the tutelage of great tantric masters, like Jamgön Kongtrül of Sechen and Khenpo Gangshar
- The founding of landmark centers for Buddhist practice and education, such as the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University), Karmê Chöling, and the Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (now the Shambhala Mountain Center)
- Trungpa's historic meeting with the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa in 1974, the first-ever visit of the Karmapa to America
- Behind-the-scenes stories of Trungpa's most treasured writings, including Meditation in Action, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, and Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
- And much more
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text: Market Outlook: Bright Profit Prospects for 2013 October 8, 2012 12:13 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ed Clark Top Producer Business and Issues Editor Email Budgets project corn gains at $244 more than soybeans Projections for 2013 call for another profitable year but a wide spread between corn and soybean profits, according to University of Illinois budgets for the upcoming year. The 2013 operator and farmland return for corn is forecast at $654 per acre, which is higher than the 2011 return of $573 per acre, but below the projected 2012 return of $699 per acre. Soybean returns for the upcoming year are projected to be $405 per acre, below returns forecast for 2012 at $484 and slightly below 2011 returns of $419. These corn and soybean projections are for highly productive farmland in central Illinois. Trend-line yields are projected at 195 bu. per acre for corn and 57 bu. for soybeans in 2013. The budgets use $6 per bushel corn and $12.50 soybean prices, based on present futures. "A major difficulty in projecting 2013 returns is determining prices to use in the budgets," notes University of Illinois ag economist Gary Schnitkey, who developed the budgets. "These prices could change a great deal between now and harvesttime 2013, resulting in large changes in profitability." The budgets project non-land corn costs of $516 per acre, $4 less than 2012 costs. Fertilizer costs are projected to be $155 per acre, down $10 from 2012. Offsetting the fertilizer decline is a $2 increase in pesticide costs to $52 in 2013, as well as $2 per acre higher seed costs at $100 and $2 per acre higher machinery depreciation at $43. Non-land costs for soybeans for 2013 are projected to be $308, $2 higher than 2012. Fertilizer costs are expected to be $53 per acre, down $5, and pesticide costs $33, up $2. Seed costs also are projected to be $2 per acre higher, at $65 for 2013, and machinery depreciation is forecast to be $42 per acre, up $3. Corn returns for 2013 are $244 higher than soybean returns. "This difference is large compared with historical averages," Schnitkey says. Between 2005 and 2011, corn minus soybean returns averaged $75 per acre. He says the reason for the wider spread for 2013 returns is that a wide spread exists between corn and soybean prices at present. From 2006 through 2012, the soybean to corn price spread averaged 2.38, but it was 2.08 in 2012. "Whether these relative prices persist into 2013 is an open question," Schnitkey says. Some analysts say that either corn prices must come down or soybean prices must go higher. Back to news


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Quiroz lifts Giants past Dodgers in extras
San Francisco, CA – Guillermo Quiroz's pinch-hit home run in the 10th inning gave the San Francisco Giants a 10-9 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second of a three-game set.
In the 10th off of Brandon League (0-1), Quiroz pulled an 0-2 splitter deep over the left field wall for the victory.
Andres Torres hit a solo home run, Gregor Blanco drove in three, while Pablo Sandoval finished the game 3-for-4 with an RBI and three runs scored for the Giants, who have won five straight.
Ryan Vogelsong lasted just 4 2/3 innings as he gave up seven runs on nine hits while Santiago Casilla (3-2) got the win for pitching two scoreless innings.
"We definitely battle to the very end every night and that's a great quality to have in a team," Vogelsong said.
A.J. Ellis hit a solo home run while Dee Gordon and Matt Kemp each drove in two runs for the Dodgers, who have dropped three straight and four of five.
Matt Magill was tagged for five runs on six hits in just 1 1/3 innings in the brief start.
Buster Posey's two-run double and an RBI single from Blanco in the first gave the Giants an early 3-0 lead, and it was 5-0 after two innings as a wild pitch scored Marco Scutaro and Blanco's sacrifice fly plated Pablo Sandoval.
Ellis' solo home run in the fourth got the Dodgers on the board, but the Giants got the run back in the bottom of the frame on a run-scoring fielder's choice off the bat of Blanco.
A big fifth inning saw the Dodgers surge ahead. With one out, Kemp got the scoring started with a two-run single and back-to-back singles from Skip Schumaker and Juan Uribe later in the frame each drove in a run.
Jean Machi then took over for Vogelsong and Gordon greeted him with a triple to center to give the Dodgers the lead and it was an 8-6 game as Nick Punto followed with a double.
The Giants got one back in the fifth on Torres' first homer of the season, a solo shot to center, and tied the game in the sixth as a wild pitch from Paco Rodriguez scored Posey.
A fielder's choice groundout from Carl Crawford in the seventh again put the Dodgers on top, 9-8, as Gordon, who had walked, moved to second on a sac bunt and stole third, crossed the plate.
However, the Giants tied the contest at 9-9 in the seventh as Francisco Peguero doubled to start the inning off of Ronald Belisario, moved to third on a Scutaro groundout and came home thanks to a sac fly from Sandoval.
The Giants loaded the bases with one out in the ninth, but Posey hit into a 4-3 double play to end the frame and send it to extra innings.
Game Notes
Each team had 15 hits in the game ...Los Angeles went 6-for-13 with runners in scoring position and left 11 on base, while San Fran batted just 5-for-17 with RISP and left 13 ... The Giants have won four of the five games against the Dodgers this season.


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Dec. 4, 2007
This feature by John Zant ran in the Santa Barbara Independent on Nov. 29.
When Chisa Ononiwu was recruited to play on the Nigerian basketball team at the All-Africa Championships during the summer, Mark French had one concern: that she safely return for her senior year at UCSB.
"I checked up on the coaches and made sure she would have good people around her," said French, coach of the UCSB Gaucho women. "It was a win-win situation. Chisa could find out about her heritage and get some competitive basketball experience. It was an example of the sport providing an excellent opportunity."
French got a gift out of it: a small African drum that sits in his office. "It will be a nice remembrance of her," he said. But right now, the Gauchos are living in the moment with Ononiwu. She sparked them last week, scoring 17 points in their 79-69 victory at Loyola Marymount and 20 points in their 75-71 home loss to Maryland. She also had a team-high eight rebounds and played in-your-face defense against Maryland's Kristi Toliver, one of the nation's top point guards.
The unbeaten Terrapins came into the Thunderdome ranked No. 3 in the country with most of the same players who crushed the Gaucho women 105-44 a year ago. That game occurred a week before Ononiwu, a transfer from Baylor, became eligible to play for UCSB.
"I wanted payback as much as anybody," she said. "The Gauchos are my family. When they hurt, I hurt. When they lose, I lose. I don't think Maryland respected us. After we almost beat them, they do."
Ononiwu made connections with her more ancient family in Nigeria, the homeland of her parents. She was born and grew up in Houston, Texas. Her unabridged name, Chisaokwu, means "God answers your prayers" in the African language of Igbo. She received another tag when she joined the Nigerian team. "They referred to me as the Masked Woman," she said. "They saw tapes of me playing after I broke my nose." Ononiwu had played several games last season while wearing a protective mask.
She got no special treatment on the national team. Like everybody else, Ononiwu had to do her own laundry every day, squeezing out the clothes and hanging them on lines. After practicing in Nigeria, the team went to Dakar, Senegal, for the championships. The gym was so hot, she said, that they froze their drinking water, and it was warm by the end of the games. Nigeria's quest for the title ended in a quarterfinal loss to Mozambique.
Ononiwu returned to Santa Barbara just in time for the start of the fall quarter. She is majoring in psychology and working toward minor degrees in speech and hearing, and exercise science. "I want to work in speech pathology and help people with stuttering problems," she said. Because she is on track to graduate after four years of college, Ononiwu is not going to seek an extra year of athletic eligibility from the NCAA (she left Baylor in her sophomore year after playing just an exhibition game).
The 5ʹ7ʺ guard is UCSB's third leading scorer and rebounder. She shot poorly in the first few games this season. "It's just mental," she said. "My mindset [against Maryland] was: This is going in. I have to make this." She is working to become a better passer, the area of her game that stands to improve the most, according to French.


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This story is featured in the August 2012 issue of Canoe & Kayak Magazine which can be purchased here.
Words: Joe Glickman
Photo: Keith Benoist
Okay, while he may not have had a degree in history, Farish is the co-owner of the Under-the-Hill Saloon, the Natchez, Miss., watering hole where Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant went on one of his biggest benders of the war, or so the story goes. According to Farish, nobody much cared that Grant was a Yankee. In the lean war years, a customer was a customer.
For the last decade, this smoky joint has also served as the headquarters for the Phatwater Challenge, a 42-mile race that finishes at the boat ramp below the bar. As race director Keith Benoist says, "the Phatwater Challenge was born somewhere between the cap and the bottom of a bottle."
That first race in 2002 featured 11 hearty souls. Last October, 165 paddlers toed the line, with the top male and female competitors vying for $1,000 (with another grand on the table for breaking the course record). Though racing the mighty river may be the draw, Benoist is the reason so many racers return each year. Now 56, the strapping, silver-haired Benoist played linebacker at Delta State University before dropping out to join the Marines. After three years in the Second Force Recon, he worked as an elk-hunting guide in Idaho, and wound up in Durango, Colo., where he got hooked on whitewater kayaking. He returned to Natchez in 2001 when a high school buddy-turned-surgeon repaired a knee he'd injured during a run-in with poachers in Zimbabwe. That's when the twice-divorced wanderer found the love of his life, a sporty gal named Melissa Morrison. She's the other co-owner of the storied saloon.
As I learned on my first visit in 2009, Natchez may be a small, sleepy river town, but it has a long and vibrant history—one in which the past and present blur in a most curious way. As the oldest settlement on a river that stretches 2,320 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf, it's seen a lot of action, like the fateful attack waged by the Natchez, Chickasaw and Yasous tribes against the French in 1729, and the subsequent fighting between the French, English and Spanish to control the bustling port town.
But what gave the town its true character is the crop that divided the country so profoundly. Each fall when the rich alluvial soil on the flat Louisiana side erupted in white, the local plantation owners loaded the cotton bounty onto steamboats at the Natchez-Under-the Hill landing and shipped it downriver to New Orleans or upriver to St. Louis. Slavery made cotton profitable, and the planters grew fat on the fruits of human bondage. By 1861, the dawn of the Civil War, Natchez boasted more than 500 millionaires, more than any city in America except New York. And many traces of that Victorian past still remain, as Grant's campaign to control the Mississippi spared Natchez the fate of Vicksburg.Sometimes you need a reason to travel off the beaten path. The rich history of Natchez was good enough. But really, it was the chance to race down the river that has captured my imagination since my mother read me The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn back when Elvis still had his figure. I first entered the race in 2009 and now it feels like an annual tradition. The first two years, I paddled a single surfski, finishing at the front of the field. That may sound impressive, but my competitors included two stocky lads wearing capes and masks like pro wrestlers and one white-haired fellow in camo attire who smoked a cigarette in his boat as we lined up for the start. This summer I hooked up with Eric Mims, a 34-year-old woodworker from Hermitage, Tenn. Mims and I had taken turns beating each other down the Mississippi and, as he quipped, paddling together meant that we didn't have to race each other. Better yet, we'd have a shot at the course record of 3 hours and 41 minutes set in 2009 by the husband-and-wife team of Patrick and DeAnne Hemmens.
On Friday, Eric and I sat in the boat together for the first time; the following morning, we lined up at the start with 150 other boaters. I was amused by the manly man in a kilt, but I paid special attention to Team Hemmens, first across the line the past two years. Because the Hemmens have logged more hours together than migratory birds, Eric and I agreed that we'd start cautiously, find a rhythm and see if we could break away an hour or two into the race.
At least, that was the plan. But when the gun sounded, Eric tore at the water from the front seat like a rodeo bull exploding out of the chute. Struggling to match his frantic pace, we hammered for 15 minutes: "See any sign of 'em?" he finally asked breathlessly.
I glanced behind but saw nothing that resembled two competitive Californians.
While the water was as flat as the Louisiana Delta, every so often we'd hit a muddy, counterclockwise boil that had our 24-foot skiff slithering like a car tire on black ice. We were consistently clocking between 10 and 12 mph and, though we also were eager not to get caught, we had to stay focused to finding the best line on this wide, meandering river rife with shallows and sandbars.
At the halfway point, setting the course record seemed a distinct possibility. But the headwind grew stronger, and by hour three we knew the mark would stand. We finished just shy of four hours—seven minutes ahead of Team Hemmens and 10 minutes up on the first soloist, six-time Olympic sprint kayaker Philippe Boccara.
It's an odd feeling paddling near your pain threshold for almost four hours. Time slows over the last half of the race as muscular fatigue, numb legs, a sore ass and dehydration compromise your balance and wear at your resolve. That's where having a stalwart partner made such a difference; I knew Eric felt as bad as I did, but as long as he kept grinding, so would I.
As we inched up the boat ramp, Janis Joplin blasted from the speakers outside the bar. Serenaded by the blues, we changed into dry clothes and even more slowly ambled to the bar, where we sat outside for the rest of the day, chatting and watching the big river roll by. Having someone to share the victory with made it that much more satisfying. We tempted the river's wrath and I was already sore, and knew that I'd be sore for days. But, according to Benoist, I looked as happy as a possum eating a persimmon.


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Montevideo Man Indicted for Having Molotov Cocktails
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a western Minnesota man for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails and a pipe bomb.
Twenty-four-year-old Buford Rogers of Montevideo was arrested earlier this month in what the FBI has called a thwarted terror plot.
But Tuesday's indictment does not include any terrorism charges. Rogers was indicted on one count of possessing two Molotov cocktails, one count of possessing two black powder and nail devices, and one count of possessing a pipe bomb.
Rogers also was indicted on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, a Romanian assault rifle. Rogers has a 2011 conviction for burglary and is not allowed to have a firearm.
The FBI has said it stopped a terror attack that was in its planning stages, potentially saving lives.


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Sheldon McClellan scored 23 points off the bench Texas and beat sinking Baylor 79-70 Monday night, sending the Bears to their eighth loss in 11 games.
Baylor, which fell a game short of the Final Four two of the last three seasons, came in needing to make a late push to improve its NCAA tournament chances this year but fell flat against Texas (14-16, 6-11 Big 12), having its worst season in 15 years.
Myck Kabongo scored 19 points and Ioannis Papapetrou scored 18 for Texas. Papapetrou's 3-pointer with just under 5 minutes to play stopped a Baylor rally and Julien Lewis added another in the final 2 minutes that put the Longhorns ahead 70-64.
Pierre Jackson scored 22 points to lead Baylor (17-12, 8-9).


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By Cody Willard
Here's the transcript to this week's Live Q&A chat from TradingWithCody.com along with a few emailed questions from Marketwatch The Cody Word readers. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at TradingWithCody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Q. I am wondering, what makes you so high on Apple today? I see a company that has lost its leadership in innovation. The 5g iphone was a let down to many and among college kids it's starting to lose its coolness. (what happens with all those retail locations if they do lose their coolness?) Samsung Note 2 just came out with twice the display area of the iphone 4 and a galaxy 4 is due next year and HTC just released a new phone with a stunting display. Should I hold on through the holidays and then exit or keep it?
A. The only company of all those smartphone/tablet companies you just mentioned that has its own eco-system and ability to control its innovation and products from top to bottom is Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL . I think Samsung in 2012 is the equivalent of Nokia in 2008 — both had huge marketshare and market caps and both were betting that products built on someone's operating system could drive long-term differentiation and brand affinity. I'm looking to short Samsung sometime in next few months. Apple has locked in billions of users and once you start using the Apple ecosystem and see how easy it truly is to use compared to the Android/Windows or any other eco-system that ties in your computers, your phones, your tablets and simplifies the whole process like it does, it's not easy to leave. Apple's just released a new iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, and iComputers and margins likely bottomed last quarter into those rollouts. If, if, if the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini sell as strongly as I expect they will over the next couple months, Apple will rally back to $700 and we won't be talking about how uncool Apple supposedly has become. Bottomline is that if Apple's bottomline continues to grow as I continue to expect it will, the stock will either be at $1000 in 2014 or it will have $200 billion in net cash, will be yielding nearly 4% and will be trading at a 3.5x enterprise value to forward earnings ratio. That could happen. But I'm bullish on AAPL right here right now at $540 and betting that it will.
Q. Last week when AAPL was at $580, you were buying April calls at $660 to $700. Now that we are in the $540′s, should I be looking at the same calls, or perhaps a little different?
A. Yes, I'm looking at those very calls right now and am probably going to buy another tranche today.
Q. Cody a lot of your analysis has been cautionary for the last couple months, (yellow flags, large cash positions). Do you think that this bull market is about to peak in a few months and how would you trade it if it will?
A. I answered a somewhat related question recently saying that I just feel like we've been sticking around at the poker table for a long time with a lot of gains and that I'm thinking it's time to be less aggressive to the upside. But that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm expecting a newfound grumbling bear market. Feet to fire, I continue to expect that the corporate economy will be bailed out and pumped up and fueled at any expense by the Republican/Democrat Regime and that we've got probably another two years or less before they run out of ammunition and can't kick the debt can down the road any further. Of course that means that the Republicans will be set up to claim that it was just Obama's policies that created the crash at that point and that they can save the day. We'll deal with that and how to trade/invest in that world when it gets here. For now, I think we keep a steady buying pace on crashes and a steady selling pace on rallies.
Q. What say you on the 8% decline in the S&P 1475 to 1365? Once again value, PE and the like matter little. Time to get SHORT and cash out into any sizeable bounce at this point?
A. No, I don't think the cycle has turned bearish for corporate America and the stock market with the Fed and the Republican/Democrat Regime funneling every dollar, tax break and subsidy to these companies.
Q. It's been educational to see how quick the market mood has turned. I am particularly interested in seeing how things get played during bearish periods such as these.
A. The market, the economy and the world continues to educate me every day. No rest for the wicked as my Grandpa Willard used to say. But even as I've been repeatedly aggressive on sell-offs like these over the last four years, I'm not about to buy every stock in half of hell and all of Georgia as my Grandpa also used to say too. Though not about stocks. Usually he was referencing his cattle in Kansas.
Q. Do you believe the decline we are seeing is JUST a correction Based on Fiscal cliff fears or punishing poor earnings? 2 months and counting?
A. Part of the decline is probably simply a part of the normal cycle of rallies and sell-offs that all stock markets go through whether bull or bear. Fiscal cliff seems to be way overhyped to me and is probably more than priced in at this point. The Endless Euro-Debt Crisis is really inflamed right now and that's probably as big a part of the sell off as anything even though it's not focused on as much. Hurricane Sandy and its traumatic after-effects are also weighing on sentiment and the markets right now too. And Israel really seems to be sabre-rattling about the Palestinian application to the UN. None of these things are bullish and all seem to be front and center right now. The time to buy is when the world seems peaceful and the markets and economy are booming right? What does that make this time?
Q. If you believe, as I do, that a resolution of some sort to the fiscal cliff will come before year end, wouldn't that give the market confidence to shake off this slump?
A. That depends on whether or not the market's actually caring about the fiscal cliff at all right now or if that's just something the mainstream media and the Republican/Democrat Regime want us to focus on so they can continue to pretend that there's some sort of difference in their policies enough such that there ever was a fiscal cliff to begin with. There's no fiscal cliff, IMHO. The market knows that too, IMHO. Will take some consumer strength into the xMas iPad/iPhone iSeason to get the markets rocking again. That and some sort of new way of kicking the Euro-debt can down the road for at least a few quarters.
Q. Tactic/strategy question. Rather than buy MAR and APR AAPL CALLs, would it be less stressful and maybe just as profitable to go for LEAPS? Say AAPL JAN 2015 Calls? Thanks for any insight.
A. I'm not sure buying any sort of call option is ever "less stressful" than another set. It'll cost you more for fewer options the further out you go, so there's always a trade off. Just stick with common if the options stress ya'.
Q. Hi cody, I have a question regarding DDD. I know we sold it. As we are thinking that it will go down, why not buy some 6 months out of the money puts or so? Do you think its a good idea to buy puts in DDD?
A. Two reasons – 1. Did you see my commentary and the chart from BVSN yesterday? Look at how that stock ran and ran despite no fundamental reason whatsoever, as I'd said all along. 2. I don't necessarily think that 3D Systems /quotes/zigman/5280737 /quotes/nls/ddd DDD is going to crash, I just don't like to mess around with any financials questions and when I have any kind of a doubt about a company's reports, I get out.
Q. Hi Cody. During your original analysis of the 3D printing space you came up with DDD and SSYS as did I. As I've mentioned to you and the board, I have traded DDD since $14. Now with the concerns brought up regarding DDD accounting practices, are you considering the addition of SSYS to the Revolution Portfolio or are you taking a full time out on 3D printing?
A. I'm looking at SSYS hard right now.
Q. Cody, what do you think of the potential antitrust case against Google? It does bring back the memory of MSFT case, and how MSFT performed after the defeat.
A. No doubt about the similarities to the MSFT anti-trust trial and what could happen to Google if they don't handle this right. I think it'll take a few years to play out anyway, and in the meantime, Google's got to show that it can grow the topline at least 10% and the bottom line at least 15-20% over the next couple years if it's to blow past $1000. The earnings growth would drive the stock until there's some better sense of how bad the anti-trust case gets.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com, which is not affiliated with MarketWatch. At time of publication, Cody was net long Apple, Google. Follow Cody on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard.