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In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Xerbo is the Suel god of the sea, sailing, money, and business. His holy symbol is the dragon turtle.
Description[edit source]
Xerbo is depicted as a large man with matted, kelp-like hair, wearing armor made from a dragon turtle's scales. He wields a trident called Murky Deep.
Relationships[edit source]
Xerbo is married to the sea-goddess Osprem, and is depicted as being a rival to both Procan and Zilchus.
Worshippers[edit source]
Xerbo is worshipped by Suel peoples across the Flanaess, especially the Lordship of the Isles, the Sea Princes, and Sunndi. He is also revered by the Suel barbarians of the Thillonrian Peninsula (the Frost, Ice, and Snow Barbarians), primarily in his role of sea-god.
Temples[edit source]
Temples to Xerbo are found throughout the lands where he is worshipped. Notable temples include a joint temple in Greyhawk City co-dedicated to Osprem, and Sasserine's Azure Cathedral, where his faith has been combined with those of Osprem and Procan.
References[edit source]
- Brown, Anne. Player's Guide (TSR, 1998).
- Conforti, Steven, ed. Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2.0 (Wizards of the Coast, 2005). Available online: [1]
- Gygax, Gary. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (TSR, 1983).
- Gygax, Gary, and Frank Mentzer. The Temple of Elemental Evil (TSR, 1985).
- Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).
- Lakofka, Lenard. The Assassin's Knot (TSR, 1983).
- Lakofka, Lenard. "Gods of the Suel Pantheon." Dragon #90 (TSR, 1984).
- Moore, Roger E. Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins (TSR, 1998).
- Niles, Douglas, and Carl Sargent. The City of Greyhawk (TSR, 1989).
- Reynolds, Sean K. The Scarlet Brotherhood (TSR, 1999).
- Reynolds, Sean K, and Chris Pramas. Slavers (TSR, 2000).
- Sargent, Carl. From the Ashes (TSR, 1992).
External links[edit source]
There is an article about Xerbo at the Great Library of Greyhawk.
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Milwaukee civil rights leader talks about first March on Washington
Milwaukee's Vel Phillips knew the man so well-known for his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Phillips talked with WISN 12 News' Kathy Mykleby about her friend 50 years after the remarkable March on Washington.
Phillips is remembered for passionately fighting for housing discrimination legislation in Wisconsin.
At 89 and still living in Milwaukee, her memory of being at the March on Washington 50 years ago is as clear as it was yesterday.
"I'm so glad I went. I had never seen that many people," Phillips said.
As for the dream speech, Phillips said her favorite line was the last. She said it represents to her the greatness of her friend Martin Luther King Jr. and how he might assess what's happening today.
"'Free at last. Free at last.' We are not in terms of jobs and crime and prejudice. I think Martin Luther King, he would still say, it's not over yet," Phillips said.
Among her many firsts, Phillips was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin law school and to serve on the Milwaukee Common Council.


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I just want to inform you that WordPress in ALL their wisdom suspended my blog for little over three hours immediately after I published my post : February U.S. Temperature trend/decade: – 12.7 F COOLER in 100 years (see below)
And there was NO warning, NO nothing. WordPress just suspended my blog a couple of milliseconds after I had pushed publish for my post.
This IS NOT a PROPER modus operandi for a company such as WordPress. Especially since they claim, they are ALL about free speech.
If you took this seriously, you would first warn and correspond with the person/blog in question. We all know that "certain groups" make a systematic tactic to silence people they don't like by "reporting them as "spammers", "abusers" etc.
This modus operandi by WordPress plays into their hands. And thereby helping to quell free speech.
Of course, I made a hell of a lot of noise to put it middle. And the reason?
This was the answer I got:
"Your site was flagged by our automated anti-spam controls. We have reviewed your site and have removed the suspension notice."
And this is part of my answer to them:
"This is not acceptable, especially since it seems that these "automated anti-spam controls" are worthless. This is a danger to ANYONE publishing on your platform!
You have a great problem. AND you make a great and unnecessary problem for us serious and professional journalists.
You need to fix this "automated anti-spam controls" PRONTO. Or you will go out of business because NO ONE will trust you as a serious publishing platform.
I want an answer and a THOROUGH explanation why this could happen from the person in charge of your customer service/team leader etc.
Because this is, as I said, NOT ACCEPTABLE in any shape or form.
As a journalist, if you were a newspaper, TV or radio, I would be screaming bloody murder if this happened. It's called political censorship.
So I hope you understand why I take this "technical issue" as serious as I do. And why you need to fix it immediately. Or you are going to be in serious problem."
So to all bloggers out there on WordPress – watch out and react immediately if the same thing happens to you.
Yes, I can understand the need to shut down some sites that are heavy spammers, or are breaking every press rule there is etc.
But my GOD, the persons who wrote these algorithms is a threat to free speech!
And WordPress say they are about free speech. To quote from their website:
"We strongly believe in freedom of speech. WordPress.com enables anyone to freely express their ideas and opinions, without censoring or endorsing them."
Yeah, as long as their "automated anti-spam controls" don't kick in and stop you dead in your tracks.
So "dear" WordPress, you better fix this problem "PRONTO" if you want to be considered a serious publishing platform. And show that you really mean your words about free speech.
UPDATE March 17:
It has now gone 5 days and WordPress in ALL their "servicemindness" didn't "bother to reply. Well guys, that's how you effectively destroy a brand and a reputation as a "serious" and "professional" publishing platform.
And it renders ALL your talk and statements about your protection of free speech meaningless. It's just empty "nice" words without meaning. Since you show in practice that you don't mean it.
If you don't see the seriousness of this problem, well, then your problem is worse than I thought.
Maybe WordPress think that they are "too big to fail". Well, I just want to remind you that Google, in all its might, effectively has destroyed Blogger as a serious platform. As a result, many have left that platform.
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"Pardon me, but I have some growing up to do."
I remember that introduction by Peter Gabriel like it was yesterday.
I last saw Peter in concert back in 2003, in Toronto, the North American leg of his 'Growing Up Tour' in full swing.
The last concert I attended.
Until now.
Our 13-year old cornered me (after mom's clever deflection) holding her IPad like it was a sacred scroll, a gleam of want in her eye. The band 'Fall Out Boy', her absolute favorite, just announced a 2017 concert tour, with a stop in Toronto.
Who is this Fall Out Boy, you ask?
Good question.
They sing the song 'Uma Thurman'.
Now you know as much as I do.
The words 'are you kidding, you're not grown up enough' resounded in my head, but I held back, opting to listen patiently to a well-rehearsed argument. I left her with a firm 'I don't think so', to which she promptly replied, 'tickets go on sale in two days'.
Thanks for the deflection mom.
The decision was left with me.
Not grown up enough.
I considered the expression, what it meant.
And it got me thinking.
I've grown older since my last Peter Gabriel concert, fourteen years ago.
But I've not grown up.
Not yet.
And that's okay.
In the words of Walt,
Within an hour of hearing this outlandish request –and, having had the foresight to tap into my American Express card's 'Membership has its Privileges' option, I ordered a pair of pre-sale tickets, two days in advance of the general ticket release date. Great floor seats.
We're going to see Fall Out Boy, at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.
I guess both of us still have some growing up to do.
Until next time,
Five things you might (not) hear me say at a Fall Out Boy concert,
"The drums could be louder."
"What's with all the phones, doesn't anyone hold up lighters anymore?"
"Hey, pass that sh*t this way."
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Undertale! It's set the whole Internet ablaze with commentary and praise, despite it being the work of just one man. It's Cave Story all over again!
With the general intention of getting around to Let's Playing it eventually, I've tried to avoid spoilers about the game. Starting out, I know only a handful of things, mostly gleaned from the trailer:
- The game is RPG-style dialog choices, with some sort of actiony "he knows about timed hits!" combat.
- It is possible to win without killing anything you fight.
- You can date a skeleton.
This is going to be a Blind LP. I might occasionally ask for guidance to make sure I don't miss something important, but please keep spoilers to a minimum. w/e
Episode 1, Playthrough 1: The RUINS
Episode 2, Playthrough 1: Toriel's Home
Episode 3, Playthrough 1: Skeleton Crew
Episode 4, Playthrough 1: The Part With The Dogs
Episode 5, Playthrough 1: I'm Really Bad At Counting Dogs
Episode 6, Playthrough 1: Snowdin Info Leak
Episode 7, Playthrough 1: Bonetrousle Tussle Trouble
Episode 8, Playthrough 1: You Can Date a Skeleton, Then Lunch Date His Brother
Episode 9, Playthrough 1: Undyne Tries to Murder You
Episode 10, Playthrough 1: A Bit of Ridiculous Nonsense Serving As Comic Relief, Bookended by Undyne Trying To Murder You
Episode 11, Playthrough 1: Undyne Tries to Murder You Again
Episode 12, Playthrough 1: Who Does Alphys Have a Crush On?
Episode 13, Playthrough 1: Alphys Is Annoying
Episode 14, Playthrough 1: Alphys Is Really Annoying
Episode 15, Playthrough 1: Kiss of the Spider-Muffin (Alphys is Super-Annoying)
Episode 16, Playthrough 1: It's Raining Somewhere Else
Episode 17, Playthrough 1: It's an Acronym
Episode 18, Playthrough 1: Dog Residue
Episode 19, Playthrough 1: I Am So Bad At Bullet Hell You Guys
Episode 20, Playthrough 1: Photoshop Foe
Episode 21, Playthrough 2: Fast Forward to Hotland
Episode 22, Playthrough 2: You're a Gay Fish
Episode 23, Playthrough 2: Bratty, Catty, and Burgerpants
Episode 24, Playthrough 2: Alphys Is Annoying And Takes You To The Garbage Dump For Some Damn Reason
Episode 25, Playthrough 2: Alphys Is Just, Like, An Objectively Terrible Person All Around
Episode 26, Playthrough 2: The Monster Is Me
Episode 27, Playthrough 2: Original Character Do Not Steal
Episode 28, Playthrough 2: True Name / Identity Crisis
Episode 29, Playthrough 2: I Summarize Kind Of a Lot Of The Ending Because I Had Over 700 Screenshots To Cover
Episode 30, Playthrough 3: Hard Mode
Episode 31, Playthrough 4: Think About Those Names
Episode 32, Playthrough 5: Spider Bake Sale Fundraiser
Episode 33, Playthrough 6: Wearing a Bepis
Episode 34, Playthrough 7: Very Nearly Every Phonecall
Episode 35, Playthrough 7: True Pacifist, True Reset
Episode 36, Playthrough 8 and 9: Descent Into Cruel Turpitude
Episode 37, Playthrough 10: Kill. Everything.
Episode 38, Playthrough 10: The Heroine Appears
Episode 39, Playthrough 10: Alphys Is Absent, So Things Are Less Annoying
Episode 40, Playthrough 10: In This World, It's Kill Or Be Killed
Episode 41, Playthrough 10: A Crummy Juncture
Episode 42, Playthrough 10: That Expression On Your Face...
Episode 43, Playthrough 10: Memed Into the Afterlife
Episode 44, Playthrough 10: Meet Rtwo
Episode 45, Playthrough 11: A Non-Walking Enigma
Episode 45, Playthrough 11.5: Do You Think You Are Above Consequences?
Episode 46, Playthrough 12: The Mysterious Case of W.D. Gaster
Episode 47, Playthrough 13: And Things Will Get Better


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You've started a blog, you visit and comment on others' sites, you hang around with those cool kids over at The Daily Post — all fantastic ways to find your readers and become a part of the WordPress.com community. If you want to try and speed up the process, though, you can jump-start your site by participating in blogging events.
Blogging events can take lots of forms, but typically, a blogger will issue a challenge or task, you'll publish your response, and the host blogger will round up all the responses on his/her site so all participants can check 'em out. In essence, it's kinda like what we do with writing and photo challenges, just initiated by individual bloggers.
There are events out there for everyone — fiction writing, travel photography, cooking and recipe development, poetry challenges, DIY project events, and more — so you can quickly meet other bloggers who care about the same thing you do.
You can find blogging events by skimming the Challenge and Blogging Challenge topics in the Reader. We've also rounded up a few examples for you:
Often, blogging events have their own Twitter handles to make following along easier, and many offer badges to show off your participation. In fact, checking out the badges on blogs you already love can be a great way of finding interesting events.
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Google has released a simple, BASIC-like programming language called, well, Simple. However, while the original BASIC language implementation was created as an educational tool to teach programming, Simple is intended for developing Android applications.
"Bringing an easy to learn and use language to the mobile world and the Android platform is the goal of the Simple project," said Google's Herbert Czymontek. "Simple is a BASIC dialect for developing Android applications. Simple allows programmers to quickly write Android applications by using the components supplied by its runtime system."
According to Google, Simple programs are form definitions (which contain components) and code (which contains the program logic). The interaction between the components and the program logic happens through events triggered by the components. The program logic consists of event handlers which contain code reacting to the events.
Simple is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. The source code for the implementation is freely available, along with sample applications. A tutorial on how to build Simple and write applications is available here.
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US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Roofing Company Charged with Racial Harassment, Discriminatory Job Assignments, and Failure to Promote African-American Employees
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Elmer W. Davis, Inc., the largest commercial roofing contractor in New York State and one of the top 40 largest commercial roofing contractors in the United States, will pay $1 million to African-American employees to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. This is the largest EEOC settlement ever in Rochester.
The EEOC's lawsuit (Civil Action No. 07-CV-06434), filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York in Rochester in 2007, charged that black employees at Elmer Davis were subjected to a pattern of race discrimination, including harassment, unfair work assignments, failure to be promoted, and retaliation for complaining about discrimination from at least 1993 through the present.
According to dozens of African-American employees, they were constantly subjected to racial slurs by their white foremen. Blacks were routinely referred to as "n----r," "lazy n-----rs," "sambo," "slave," and "monkey." Foremen also frequently made comments like, "All n----rs should get on a boat and go back to Africa." They were also exposed to nooses and racially offensive graffiti like "dirty n----r," "KKK" and swastikas written on the walls of the portable toilets at work sites.
The lawsuit also charged the roofing company with subjecting African-American employees to disparate treatment in job assignments, claiming that it generally reserved the most difficult, dirty and less desirable jobs for black workers, including "tear off" and "hot tar" jobs, often referred to as the "bull work," while whites were assigned to detail work and service trucks to conduct repairs.
African-American employees were routinely laid off first at the end of the roofing season and called back last in the beginning of the following season, while whites were laid off later and called back earlier.
The EEOC further charged that the company systematically excluded black employees from promotion opportunities, which it accomplished by using a subjective system of promotions without job announcements or an application process, and actively discouraging black employees from seeking promotions.
The EEOC alleged that Elmer Davis's conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The case was investigated by the Buffalo Local Office of the EEOC before it proceeded to court.
Elmer Davis will be bound by a five-year consent decree which, in addition to the $1 Million monetary relief for the victims of discrimination, enjoins the company from engaging in further race discrimination or retaliation. The decree requires Elmer Davis to hire an EEO Coordinator to provide training, monitor race discrimination complaints, and report to the EEOC on hiring, layoff and promotion. The decree has been submitted to U. S. District Court Judge Siragusa for approval.
"This settlement marks the end of decades of ugly and unlawful discrimination against African-American employees at Elmer Davis," said Spencer Lewis, district director for the EEOC's New York District Office. "No employee should have to endure slurs and other harassment in order to do his job. The EEOC will remain vigilant to protect workers from these types of abuses."
Trial Attorney Judith Biltekoff added, "This consent decree will not only right the wrongs perpetrated against the African-American employees at Elmer Davis, but also promote a race-neutral work environment for all employees going forward."
The EEOC has a fact sheet on race discrimination available on its website at http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-race.html.
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Vator is bringing its popular evening event to the Big Apple!
For the first time, Vator is holding Vator Splash NY, which will be held at Webster Hall in Manhattan on the evening of December 15.
Many early-stage startups are sprouting up in NY! And, venture capitalists are starting to take a serious look.
Vator, a leading platform for innovators and entrepreneurs to connect and learn from each other, and a provider of news and information through VatorNews, is looking to recognize and 10 promising startups across technology, including digital media, social media, consumer Internet, software, SaaS, iPhone apps, mobile, etc.
See our last competitions in February, May and September of this year.
Time frame: Oct. 21, 2010 to Dec. 3 at 11:59 PST.
This competition is now over.
Who should apply? Entrepreneurs with seed- to early-stage startups across technology. This means you can launch at the event. Or you can be a company that's received no more than an A round and is no more than three years old. Those who've already made the stage "twice" at prior Splash events will not be allowed to present again.
What should you submit? Submissions are in the form of a Vator company profile. We encourage video as it gives us a better sense of who's behind the company. But you don't need one.
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It's quick, easy and free. First register. Then create a profile for your company. The more comprehensive your company profile is, the more likely to get votes, ratings and be reviewed. Once you create your company profile, then just click the "participate in this competition" button on the top right of this competition page.
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The semi-finalists (either the top 15 or top 20) will enter Round 2. The judges will rate their 15 favorite semi-finalists and their input will account for 60% of the vote. The judges will take points away if a company does not provide enough information for them to rate. The popular vote will account for 40% of the vote, with each contestant's vote weighted against the leading vote-getter.
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The first group to be relocated under a German programme for up to 5,000 Syrian refugees includes "women and girls at risk, people with serious medical conditions, survivors of torture or others with special needs," said UN refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming.
The programme announced by Germany in March gives refugees the right to work under two-year residence permits that could be extended if Syria's crisis remains unchanged.
In that regard, Germany currently has the world's largest such relocation programme for Syrian refugees, "setting an important example" for other nations, Fleming said
The first group of 107 Syrian refugees is due to leave Lebanon on Wednesday and head to Hannover, Germany, where the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, known as the UN refugee agency, will help them on arrival. From there the refugees are being transferred to an accommodation centre in Friedland, in Lower Saxony, where they are to stay for 14 days.
During that time, they will get oriented to their new culture, including basic language training, how the schools and health works, and help in interacting with local authorities, Fleming said. After that they will leave for temporary homes across Germany, mostly small centres or apartments where they have access to schools, medical facilities and social services.
The programme is expected to be full by the end of this year, and Germany also is getting some support from the International Organization for Migration, another Geneva-based intergovernmental group. Austria also has pledged to temporarily relocate 500 Syrians.
Other countries including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland have pledged to quickly resettle 1,650 Syrians, including 960 this year, who are considered to be "highly vulnerable" and needy.
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I have some problem with reading the result of OpenGL ES 2.0 conformance result.
I see that there is a file named log.pl, is that log being used to create summary of the conformance result?
I tried to run the log file by executing it by
perl log.pl log.xml OR perl log.pl log.txt
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syntax error at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at /usr/lib/perl15/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 187.
I can't see any problem with the perl module file … Please advice me how do i read the result log…
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7 Ways to Improve Your Credit Score
If you need to boost your credit score, it won't happen overnight.
Credit scores take into account years of past behavior you can find on your credit report, and not just your present actions.
But there are some steps you can take now to start on the path to better credit.
7 steps to raise your credit score
- Watch those credit card balances.
- Eliminate credit card balances.
- Leave old debt on your report.
- Use your calendar.
- Pay bills on time.
- Don't hint at risk.
- Don't obsess.
1. Watch those credit card balances
One major factor in your credit score is how much revolving credit you have versus how much you're actually using. The smaller that percentage is, the better it is for your credit rating.
The optimum: 30 percent or lower.
To boost your score, "pay down your balances, and keep those balances low," says Pamela Banks, senior policy counsel for Consumers Union.
If you have multiple credit card balances, consolidating them with a balance transfer credit card or personal loan could help your score.
What you might not know: Even if you pay balances in full every month, you still could have a higher utilization ratio than you'd expect. That's because some issuers use the balance on your statement as the one reported to the bureau. Even if you're paying balances in full every month, your credit score will still weigh your monthly balances.
One strategy: See if the credit card issuer will accept multiple payments throughout the month.
2. Eliminate credit card balances
"A good way to improve your credit score is to eliminate nuisance balances," says John Ulzheimer, a nationally recognized credit expert formerly of FICO and Equifax. Those are the small balances you have on a number of credit cards.
The reason this strategy can boost your score: One of the items your score considers is just how many of your cards have balances, Ulzheimer says. That's why charging $50 on one card and $30 on another instead of using the same card (preferably one with a good interest rate) can hurt your credit score.
The solution to improve your credit score is to gather up all those credit cards with small balances and pay them off, Ulzheimer says. Then select one or two go-to cards that you can use for everything.
"That way, you're not polluting your credit report with a lot of balances," he says.
3. Leave old debt on your report
Some people erroneously believe that old debt on their credit report is bad.
The minute they get their home or car paid off, they're on the phone trying to get it removed from their credit report.
Negative items are bad for your credit score, and most of them will disappear from your report after seven years. However, "arguing to get old accounts off your credit report just because they're paid is a bad idea," Ulzheimer says.
Good debt — debt that you've handled well and paid as agreed — is good for your credit. The longer your history of good debt is, the better it is for your score.
One of the ways to improve your credit score: Leave old debt and good accounts on as long as possible. This is also a good reason not to close old accounts where you've had a solid repayment record.
Trying to get rid of old good debt "is like making straight A's in high school and trying to expunge the record 20 years later," Ulzheimer says. "You never want that stuff to come off your history."
4. Use your calendar
If you're shopping for a home, car or student loan, it pays to do your rate shopping within a short time period.
Every time you apply for credit, it can cause a small dip in your credit score that lasts a year. That's because if someone is making multiple applications for credit, it usually means he or she wants to use more credit.
However, with three kinds of loans — mortgage, auto and more recently, student loans — scoring formulas allow for the fact that you'll make multiple applications but take out only one loan.
The FICO score, a credit score commonly used by lenders, ignores any such inquiries made in the 30 days prior to scoring. If it finds some that are older than 30 days, it will count those made within a typical shopping period as just one inquiry.
The length of that shopping period depends on the credit score used.
If lenders are using the newest forms of scoring software, then you have 45 days, says Ulzheimer. With older forms, you need to keep it to 14 days.
Older forms of the software won't count multiple student loan inquiries as one, no matter how close together you make applications, he says.
5. Pay bills on time
If you're planning a major purchase (like a home or a car), you might be scrambling to assemble one big chunk of cash.
While you're juggling bills, you don't want to start paying bills late. Even if you're sitting on a pile of savings, a drop in your score could scuttle that dream deal.
One of the biggest ingredients in a good credit score is simply month after month of plain-vanilla, on-time payments.
"Credit scores are determined by what's in your credit report," says Linda Sherry, director of national priorities for Consumer Action. If you're bad about paying your bills — or paying them on time — it damages your credit and hurts your credit score, she says.
That can even extend to items that aren't normally associated with credit reporting, such as library books, she says. That's because even if the original "creditor," such as the library, doesn't report to the bureaus, they may eventually call in a collections agency for an unpaid bill. That agency could very well list the item on your credit report.
Putting cash into a savings account for a major purchase is smart. Just don't slight the regular bills to do it.
6. Don't hint at risk
Sometimes, one of the best ways to improve your credit score is to not do something that could sink it.
Two of the biggies are missing payments and suddenly paying less (or charging more) than you normally do, says Dave Jones, retired president of the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies.
Other changes that could scare your card issuer (but not necessarily hurt your credit score): taking cash advances or even using your cards at businesses that could indicate current or future money stress, such as a pawnshop or a divorce attorney, he says.
"You just don't want to do anything that would indicate risk," Jones says.
7. Don't obsess
You should be laser-focused on your credit score when you know you'll soon need credit. In the interim, pay your bills and use credit responsibly. Your score will reflect these smart spending behaviors.
Are you getting ready to make a big purchase, such as a home or car? At least a few months in advance, have a look at your credit score.
While the score that you get through your bank or a service may not be the exact same one your lender uses, it will grade you on many of the same criteria and give you a good indication of how well you're managing your credit. It will provide you with specific ways to improve your credit score — in the form of several codes or factors that kept your score from being higher.
If you are denied credit (or don't qualify for the lender's best rate), the lender has to show you the credit score it used, thanks to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Another smart move is to regularly check your credit reports.
You're entitled to one of each of your three credit bureau reports (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) for free every 12 months through FreeCreditScoreandMore.com.
It's smart to stagger them. Send for one every four months, and you can monitor your credit for free.


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* IndustriALL targets $74.6 mln fund for Rana Plaza
* Victims of Tazreen fire in November also under discussion
* Primark frustrated at delays, extends short-term aid
* Wal-Mart, Benetton, Mango did not attend
By Emma Thomasson
BERLIN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A group of retailers and clothing brands failed on Thursday to establish compensation funds for the victims of two Bangladesh factory disasters, as many companies that sourced clothes from the buildings decided not to take part in the process.
At talks chaired by the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, the brands discussed setting up funds to compensate the victims of both the Rana Plaza disaster in April, when an eight-storey building collapsed, killing 1,129 people, and a fire at the Tazreen factory in November 2012, which killed 112 workers.
The collapse of Rana Plaza, a factory built on swampy ground about 20 miles outside Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka, ranks among the world's worst industrial accidents and has galvanised brands to try to improve safety standards at suppliers.
But only nine out of the 28 brands being supplied from Rana Plaza came to the Geneva meeting, with some of the absentees saying they preferred to pursue their own compensation plans or citing issues with the approach adopted at the talks.
The IndustriALL trade union, which coordinated the talks, said the group that met on Thursday agreed to contribute to a fund, but would meet again in the next two weeks to establish such a fund, coordinating the process with parties including the Bangladesh government and employers.
"It is difficult to understand why some brands are using any excuse to try to avoid responsibility. The workers are waiting for money and medical assistance," Monika Kemperle, assistant general secretary of IndustriALL, told Reuters.
The Primark discount chain owned by Associated British Foods , present at the meeting, also expressed frustration.
"The company remains concerned about the length of time it is taking to agree a framework for long-term compensation. As a result the company will now pay a second tranche of emergency aid, lasting three months," Primark said in a statement.
It added it had created the first comprehensive database of most of those in Rana Plaza at the time of the disaster, registering details of 3,333 workers as part of its aid plan.
About 3.6 million people work in Bangladesh's clothing industry, making it the world's second-largest clothing exporter behind China, but some of the workforce, which is mostly female, earn as little as $38 a month. About 60 percent of garment exports go to Europe and 23 percent to the United States.
The other brands at the talks that sourced from Rana Plaza were Canada's Loblaw Cos Ltd, Bonmarche, Matalan and Store Twenty One from Britain, Mascot of Denmark, Camaieu of France, Kik of Germany and Spanish department store chain El Corte Ingles. European retailer C&A and Germany's Karl Rieker attended talks on Tazreen compensation on Wednesday.
Several retailers were criticised for staying away from the talks, including U.S. group Wal-Mart, which sourced garments from the factory hit by the fire, as well as Italian clothing retailer Benetton and Spanish fashion chain Mango.
Benetton's chief executive Baigio Chiarolanza said many companies had not joined the Geneva talks due to a "lack of clarity" around objectives and a lack of involvement by several key stakeholders.
"We decided to focus our efforts and resources in working directly with those affected by the Rana Plaza disaster and their families so that we can provide them with concrete help while they need it the most," he said in a statement.
Mango did not attend because it did not have commercial relations with factories at Rana Plaza, a spokeswoman said, though the company has said it ordered test samples from one supplier in the building.
Zara-owner Inditex, which had originally been expected to attend, said it did not join the talks as it was not supplied by either the Tazreen or Rana Plaza factories.
Asked about the talks, Wal-Mart spokesman Kevin Gardner said the world's biggest retailer was focused on investing its resources in improving safety in factories, but did not comment directly on compensation demands from victims.
Wal-Mart is part of a North American alliance launched after Rana Plaza that seeks to improve worker safety at suppliers.
A European-led group, also brokered by IndustriALL but separate from the compensation talks, is working on the same issue, but retailers signing up to its accord accept a binding arbitration process on safety issues, enforceable in the courts of the country where a company is domiciled.
IndustriALL aims to set up long-term funds of $74.6 million for Rana Plaza workers and $6.4 million for Tazreen, with 45 percent to be contributed by brands.
IndustriALL said the compensation plan it was working on was based on a scheme it developed following other factory accidents that takes into account loss of earnings, pain and suffering, as well as medical costs, funeral costs and other family expenses.


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The Federal Reserve has released another dove or two today to fly above financial markets and make soothing cooing sounds as part of the central bank's ongoing damage-control effort this week. New York Fed President Charles Dudley today became the latest in a line of Fed officials to publicly state that markets basically misread the Fed's communications last week, after said communications produced acute sell-offs in bonds and stocks alike. Michael S. Derby reports in the Wall Street Journal today:
"A rise in short-term rates is very likely to be a long way off" even as it's possible that the central bank may slow the pace of its bond-buying program later this year, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said in a press briefing.
The official noted the shift in market rates that followed last week's monetary-policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee meeting is seen by observers as signaling rate rises could come "much earlier than previously thought."
Mr. Dudley, who is at the core of Fed monetary policy decision making, said "let me emphasize that such an expectation would be quite out of sync with both FOMC statements and the expectations of most FOMC participants."
Also speaking Thursday was Fed Governor Jerome Powell, typically less dovish than Dudley but delivering a similar message today, as Victoria McGrane
"Market adjustments since May have been larger than would be justified by any reasonable reassessment of the path of policy," Mr. Powell said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
In particular, he said that market indicators suggesting investors believe the Fed will raise short-term rates sooner than before they did in May are out of whack with what the Fed's stated policy plans and forecasts would indicate. In its so-called "forward guidance," the Fed says it will keep short-term rates near zero until the unemployment rate hits 6.5%. Fed officials have repeatedly said that the figure is a threshold, not a trigger, and they are likely to keep rates there for a considerable time after they end the bond-buying program. Economic projections the Fed released this month show the vast majority of Fed officials don't believe they will raise rates until 2015.
Some of the markets that have sold off most sharply of late seem to be pleased with the Fed's latest remarks, or at least repairing themselves after the Fed's remarks last week. The ten-year Treasury note is up 12/32 in price Thursday, pushing its yield back below the 2.5% level to 2.496%, per Tradeweb data, while the 30-year bond is up 12/32 to yield 3.552%.
Mortgage real-estate investment trusts are having a solid day as they look to put two months of steep losses behind them. . Two Harbors (TWO) is up 2.7% to $10.54, American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC) is up 1.5% to $22.75, MFA Financial (MFA) is up 2.1% to $8.51, CYS Investments (CYS) is up 1.5% $9.20 and AG Mortgage Investment Trust Inc. (MITT) is up 1.2% to $18.78.


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Is it possible? We write a lot about bottled water and how it's bad for the environment, but lately bottling companies have been trying to remedy the problem while saving their brand through more eco-friendly alternatives. We've compiled a list of some of the top brands. But after much research, I still have to go with a Kleen Kanteen reusable Stainless Steel bottle. It seems to be the most cost-efficient option, and it's just as convenient.
The following three brands feature bottles made with plastic from natural plant materials. Enjoy.
This natural corn-based bottle is made 100 percent from plants and is recyclable and completely compostable in 30 days in a commercial composting facility (minus the cap and plastic ring). The source of the water is admittedly municipal, though it goes through a seven-step purification process even after it meets FDA standards. In national taste tests, three out of four consumers preferred prima to other natural bottled spring water brands, and four out of five preferred it to tap water. The bottle's label, made from paper, is also recyclable, but what's interesting is that the prima logo strikingly resembles the BP logo. The website avidly states that the bottles are not made with crude oil. Coincidence? In light of the recent oil spill, I hope so.
Similar to prima, the BIOTA bottle is corn-based, making it completely compostable in a commercial facility (though it takes more than twice as long.) Instead of a modified BP logo, BIOTA's label is a picture of a mountain, reflecting its claim that the water is naturally sourced from a spring. But is this claim really true? Pepsi's Aquafina mountain logo attracts consumers in the same way, but the water is known to be municipally sourced.
Here we have another corn and plant-based bottle housing "naturally-sourced spring water." Again: can we trust these claims?


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Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office (OPSO) deputies will receive pay raises in 2018. The pay raises come from an additional $3 million being included in OPSO's 2018 budget to cover costs associated with the agency's consent judgment. The New Orleans City Council approved OPSO's budget Dec. 1, 2017.
Under the approved budget, sheriff's deputies' base pay will go up an additional $2,000 annually Jan. 5, 2018. Sheriff's deputies will receive another $1,500 annual pay increase starting July 1, 2018. The total $3,500 increases mean that a sheriff's deputy's base salary of $26,000 after six months will rise to $29,500 annually. Sheriff's deputies who qualify for state supplemental pay will receive an additional $6,000 annually, boosting their annual salaries to $35,500.
Sheriff's deputies are also expected to receive an additional $3,500 pay increase in January 2019. That anticipated increase means a sheriff's deputy who starts with the agency today and becomes Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) certified could earn $39,000 annually by the end of 2019.
In a joint statement, Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman and Independent Compliance Director Gary Maynard said, "Raising the pay for the trained law enforcement professionals of the OPSO has been a primary goal for this office for years. It is also key to reaching the benchmarks outlined by the consent decree. These increases were hard fought and the decision of the New Orleans City Council and Mayor to support them will help better the security operations of the Orleans Parish jail facilities on a 24-hour-a-day basis. These pay increases will also help with staff retention and recruitment."


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I'm on a boat! Yes, mydangblog is travelling. I've been superbusy this week getting work stuff done and then getting packed up to go, so here's what I have for you. You know I write this blog, and you might know that I'm a published novelist, but I also write short stories. I've only ever posted one (Donut Store Memories), but I thought I'd share this one with you just for fun. OK, it's not particularly funny–in fact, it's kind of dark, but I hope you like it. I'll be back next week with tales of my adventures but for now…
Brotherly Love
Jackson Wills had loved Joy Wills from the first moment he'd seen her in the Stag And Horn Pub five years ago. She had come towards him, smiling, hand outstretched. Even from a distance, he could see the delicate bones of her wrist, the porcelain skin, and the fine veins beneath it. When she laughed, he could have sworn he heard tiny silver spoons tapping against crystal wine glasses. Her eyes were brown, a honey-caramel colour that he could have stared into until the end of time. Her long, brown hair was tucked behind one ear, a perfect, shell-like ear. He thought that if he could just lean in a little, he might hear the ocean in that ear. As they spoke, the world around him faded away, and the only thing in the vacuum of silence that remained was Joy. He'd felt that way 5 years ago, and he still felt that way now. There was only one problem. Joy Wills was married to Jackson's twin brother, MacKenzie.
Mack. The outgoing one, the "fun" twin. Identical to Jack in every way physically, but as different in personality as two people could be. Jack was quiet, introspective, preferring books to people. Mack was loud, a daredevil, always surrounded by a coterie of the equal-minded and equally loud. On the playground when they were children: Jackson always on the periphery; MacKenzie always in the centre. As high school students: Mack, the captain of every team, the president of every club, never without a girlfriend, never lonely on a Friday night; Jackson, on the bench, student council treasurer, invited to parties only as an afterthought.
In university, Jack came into his own, his preference for academia making him popular with professors and to a certain extent, with women. Mack continued to be Mack, but floundered under the pressures of his program, skating just above the cut every semester, spending more time in campus bars than in class. The field of play, such as it was, had finally leveled out. Jack was happy. And then Mack introduced him to Joy.
Mack and Joy had met in a class that she was taking out of interest; he was taking it in the hope that it was an easy credit: Introduction to Sartre. Unfortunately for Mack, it wasn't easy, and he had turned one afternoon to the beautiful girl sitting next to him in the lecture hall and whispered, "I don't get the point of this." She had laughed, that silver-spoon-on-crystal laugh, and replied, "Good one!" He had no idea what she meant by 'Good one', but he went with it as he always did, and laughed along with her. Then he asked her out. When he confessed to her that night that he didn't actually understand what the course was about, she found him charmingly candid. He confided this to Jackson some time after the wedding, laughing at the irony of Joy's confidence in his honesty. Jackson said nothing, the tapping of silver spoons on crystal still ringing in his ears. It surprised him that Mack even understood the concept of irony. And he continued to say nothing each time Mack asked him to cover for him. Even as an adult, Mack was never without a girlfriend; it didn't matter that he also had a wife.
Of course, Jackson's silence was completely selfish. The first time Mack had used him as an excuse ("I'm spending the night at Jack's. He's going through a rough time right now…"), he was understandably furious. He found out after the fact when MacKenzie called him, begging him not to tell Joy the truth, that he'd gone out for drinks after work, and went home with a woman in Human Resources whose name he couldn't even recall. Jackson's first instinct was to go straight to Joy. But then he stopped. He realized that if Joy knew the truth, she would leave Mack, and he might never see her again. He was sure of one thing, and one thing only—the absence of Joy in his life would kill him.
So, for the past five years, he had been complicit in Mack's dalliances. But it wasn't for nothing. Mack started "going out of town for business" which gave Jack the opportunity to spend time with Joy. They liked the same books and spent hours discussing them; they went to the movies, to concerts, and they drank wine, simply talking. As eager as Mack was to get away from Joy, Jack was equally as eager for him to be gone. It was heaven. But then Mack would come back, and everything would return to normal.
One day, it occurred to Jackson that there might be a better solution to his dilemma. Divorce was impossible—he would lose Joy forever. If she and Mack split up, there was little chance that she would want to spend time with a man who looked exactly like him. And Joy seemed to have little concern about the fact that Mack was rarely home. She had a good job herself, and friends, and Jackson, to whom she had referred more than once as her "best" friend. More importantly, when Mackenzie WAS home, she seemed happy, and gave no indication that she even suspected that he was seeing other women. Jackson would watch them together, as seemingly delighted to be a couple as they were the first time Mackenzie had introduced Joy to him in the Stag And Horn. He burned with jealousy and desire, tempered only by the plan that he was slowly and carefully formulating, biding his time until the moment was right.
Then, one Saturday night, they were all out together—Mack and Joy, and Jackson with a woman from his software firm named Kim. He spent most of the evening focused on Joy, barely speaking to his date, who eventually gave up and just ordered a double scotch. Mack was in fine form, though, subtly flirting with Kim. It had long ago occurred to Jackson that he and his brother had never once, even as children, pretended to be each other. It would have been as difficult for Mack to stay quiet as it would have for Jack to be loud. But now, as adults…
Finally, Mack excused himself to go to the restroom, and Jackson followed. Once they were both alone, he broached the topic.
"Kim's lovely, isn't she?" he said, as they stood facing the urinals.
Mack looked at him sideways. "Great body," he said. "Have fun with that. I'm jealous."
"She's not my type. She was spending a lot of time watching you when you weren't looking."
"Oh, I was looking," Mack smirked. "Too bad."
"Well," Jackson hesitated. "Here's a thought…."
He carefully explained the plan to his brother, expecting that the combination of Mack's obvious interest in Kim, combined with the fact that he was slightly drunk would make him compliant. But Mack was outraged.
"You're a sick person, you know that?!" He jabbed his index finger hard into Jackson's chest. "I can't believe you! And there's no way Joy wouldn't realize it was you! Stay away from us, from now on!"
Jackson felt sick to his stomach. He had been absolutely convinced that MacKenzie would jump at the chance to switch places, and now—now he'd ruined everything. He'd never see Joy again, never smell the air around her, never lean close to her perfect shell-like ear in the hope of hearing the ocean. He slumped down onto the dirty bathroom floor and began weeping. MacKenzie looked at him with a mixture of concern and contempt.
"Are you OK? Jack! Come on, stop crying!"
"Just take me home, please. We can go out the back—I don't want anyone to see me like this," he sobbed.
He got up off the floor, and staggered out of the bathroom and into the parking lot, Mack following close behind.
"I messaged Joy that you suddenly got ill and I'm just running you home, then I'll come back for her and Kim," he said, his anger flaring again. "Joy's actually worried about you. I should make you walk, you piece of shit."
Jackson just sniffed and got in the car. Mack tossed his wallet and phone into the backseat angrily. "You know I've had a bit to drink. You'd better hope we don't get pulled over."
They started driving down the highway in silence, Mack staring straight ahead, eyes fixed firmly on the road. Jackson's mind was racing. They were approaching an underpass. He didn't know what else to do—he was a desperate man driven by desperate desires. He surreptitiously slid his own wallet out of his pocket and let it drop to the floor of the car. As they got closer to the underpass, he suddenly reached over and popped the button on Mack's seatbelt. The belt flew up, and Mack looked at him, confused.
"What the hell are you—" he started to say, as Jackson grabbed the steering wheel. The car swerved sharply to the right. As it made contact with the concrete foundation of the underpass, the last thing that Jackson saw was his brother flying up over the airbag and hitting the windshield. Then everything went dark.
When the light came back, he was lying in a room that smelled like rubbing alcohol and blood. He tried to turn his head, but an explosion of pain made him groan. Someone by the bed exclaimed, "He's awake!"
Another voice, quiet but excited, asked, "Do you know who you are? What's your name?"
Without thinking, he replied hoarsely, "Jack." There was a flurry of voices, and he heard someone start crying. He realized suddenly, even through the pain, that he had one chance. "Jack," he repeated. "Is my brother Jack OK?"
Three weeks later, he was finally released from the hospital. Joy had been there every day, taking care of him, and it was the heaven he had dreamed of. It was easy to pretend to be Mack when he was in recovery—no one expected a man who'd almost been killed by his insanely jealous brother to be loud. And he played up his role, telling Joy that "Jackson" had been madly in love with her, that he'd insisted on driving and that before he drove them into the underpass, he had declared he couldn't live without her, and that if Jack couldn't have Joy, neither could Mack. She didn't say much, just wiped her tears and told him she was glad that he had survived.
At the memorial for "Jackson", he was appropriately solemn, but inside he could barely contain his excitement. This was the closure he had been waiting for, and once the ceremony was over, he could finally have the life with Joy that he'd dreamed of since the first day he met her. He delivered his own eulogy with just the right amount of gravitas and tears, trying not to giggle hysterically at the realization that Mack could never have been so eloquent. Joy sat in the front pew, tears streaming down her cheeks. It filled him with tremendous empathy for her, and the friend she had lost, but he would more than make it up to her as Mack.
When they got back to the house—HIS house now, too—Joy was quiet. She went immediately up the stairs and disappeared into the bedroom—HIS bedroom now, too. He'd spent the last few days in the guestroom at his own insistence—he still woke up in the night in pain and didn't want to disturb her. At least, that's what he told her. The truth was much darker and inexplicable—he wanted Mack's urn in the ground before he silently claimed Joy for his own. But tonight, he felt as if he could conquer mountains, and she had had enough time to process her grief at the loss of a dear brother-in-law. He sat in the kitchen waiting for some sign of her. One hour passed, then another. Finally, he couldn't wait any longer. He started up the stairs, just as she was coming down. She was carrying a suitcase. They both stopped and stared at each other.
"Are you going somewhere?" he asked, looking at her and then the suitcase in confusion. "Did we have plans?" Joy continued to stare at him, her honey-caramel eyes making him weak at the knees. "I don't understand," he said.
"And I don't understand how you could possibly want to stay in this sham of a marriage," she said. "Do you really think I don't know about all the other women? The disgust I feel for you? I was planning this weeks ago, of telling Jackson how much in love with him I was, hoping beyond hope that he would come away with me…then the accident happened, and I put it off until you were better. But now—with Jackson gone, there's nothing left for me here. I'm leaving you."
As she pushed past him on the stairs, he leaned in close to her perfect, shell-like ear. "I love you," he whispered. He heard the ocean roar, and then she was gone.


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'The Help' Star Octavia Spencer Says: This Film Will Inspire You To Be The Best Person You Can Be!
The film takes place in the 60s, but the message crosses all generations and Octavia believes there's still more work to be done where racism is concerned.
Octavia Spencer says if you've ever felt like an outsider then go see The Help. The film stars Emma Stone [Skeeter], a young girl in Mississippi who decides to tell the real stories of black maids in her town. HollywoodLife.com spoke with Octavia, who plays Minny Jackson, one of the main maids in the film and she says The Help will make you want to "stand up for what you believe in."
"I hope that people first see the civil rights aspect for what it is a back drop and appreciate it," Octavia says. "Making a statement of how far we've come and still have more work to do. These three woman from culturally different backgrounds form these relationships that changed their lives and their community. It's about finding your voice and standing up for what you believe in."
The film is based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling book, and it's directed by Octavia's long-time friend Tate Taylor.
"I met Tate in 1995 when we did 'A Time To Kill', and our friendship blossomed," she says. "Tate always told us about Kathryn. I remember her saying she was writing a book and five years later she finished the book and called me and said that she loosely based one of the characters on me. So I read the book and realized that the short chubby woman was me!"
Check out The Help when it hits theaters Aug. 10!
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Earlier this week, we reported that Michael Bay would be rebooting his own damn franchise with Transformers 4, an idea so stupid that it's truly fitting of these movies. In a recent interview with E! Online, Josh Duhamel says he's not coming back for the sequel and neither is anyone else:
"I don't think anybody's doing it. I know Shia [LaBoeuf]'s not doing it. I don't think Tyrese or Rosie [Huntington-Whiteley] or anybody else is doing it."
Take this with a grain of salt. Actors are the last to know anything regarding a movie's production. LaBeouf previously stated Transformers: Dark of the Moon was his last one, but then again, so did Bay. Either way, it's not like the cast makes much of a difference in these movies. Transformers 4 opens June 29, 2014. [Update: Some new and more reliable rumors have surfaced regarding the film. Hit the jump for more.]
While Duhamel is talking about casting for a movie that doesn't even have a script yet, Badass Digest has some more believable news regarding the plans for the sequel. The movie will be a true sequel and follow the events of Transformers: Dark of the Moon but the "reboot" aspect comes from changing the point-of-view from Sam Witwicky to the Transformers. That's not a horrible idea and it's a worthwhile approach provided they write strong characters. If you end up writing transformers like Skids and Mudflap, the movie will be unbearable.
Additionally, a source tells BD that the movie will be more like the last hour of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. That means a lot more action (if that's even possible, but I'm sure Bay will find a way) and a lot less silly humor. Since intentional humor hasn't really been the series' strong suit (although there were plenty of fun moments in the first movie), I wouldn't mind cutting back on stuff that doesn't work. Stuff that did work: Jon Voight's pronunciation of the word "robot".
Of course, filming is still a ways off so all of this can change, but these non-casting rumors are at least beginning to get me back on board with a new Transformers movie.


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April 25, 2013
Follow the Direction in Which the House Is Growing
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A well-planned landscape enhances the value of your home and lets you extend the walls of your home from lot line to lot line.
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April 18, 2013
April 20th and 21st: Nationwide Open House Weekend
Posted in Buying by Tara Sharp
This weekend, April 20 and 21, thousands of REALTORS® from around the country will be holding open houses as a part of the Nationwide Open House Weekend event, sponsored by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR).
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April 09, 2013
Words for Windermere
Posted in Windermere by Tara Sharp
During the months of February and March, we asked Windermere Owners, Agents, and Facebook followers to share the words that come to mind when they think about Windermere. We were pleasantly surprised by the consistency across all three groups and decided to create a word map with the results.
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April 04, 2013
Social Connections: See how you are Connected to a Windermere Agent
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Have you ever posted a question on your Facebook page to find useful information from your friends? Such as a local gym recommendation, a restaurant review, or a resource for children's birthday parties?
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Royals send top prospects to Rays
The Royals will send outfielder Wil Myers, right-hander Jake Odorizzi, southpaw Mike Montgomery and third baseman Patrick Leonard to the Rays for right-handed starter James Shields, reliever Wade Davis and a player to be named or cash.
Myers, Odorizzi and Montgomery were ranked first, third and sixth, respectively, in Kansas City's Top 20 prospects. Myers is currently MLB.com's No. 3 prospect in all of baseball, while Odorizzi is ranked 30th on the list.
"It's not easy to give up prospects, but it's important that we start winning games," Royals general manager Dayton Moore told MLB.com.
Now in his fourth year of professional baseball, Myers -- who turns 21 on Monday -- was selected in the third round of the 2009 Draft out of Wesleyan Christian Academy. The outfielder split time between two levels in 2012, batting .314 with 37 homers and 109 RBIs between Double-A Northwest Arkansas and Triple-A Omaha.
Topps named Myers -- who finished one homer shy of Reading's Darin Ruf for the Minor League lead -- its Triple-A Minor League Player of the year. With above-average power and a patient approach at the plate, many scouts believe Myers will see the majority of his time in right field at the big league level.
In the 22-year-old Odorizzi, the Rays acquired a pitcher who went from the Texas League to the Majors this year. Odorizzi, who has a mid-90s fastball, a curveball, slider and changeup, went a combined 15-5 with a 3.03 ERA in 26 games -- including 25 starts -- between Northwest Arkansas and Omaha. He struck out 135 batters over 145 1/3 innings before earning a September callup.
In two big league starts, Odorizzi went 0-1 with a 4.91 ERA. He suffered a loss in his debut at home to the Indians on Sept. 23, and he did not factor in the decision when he allowed a run on two hits and three walks over two innings in Cleveland six days later.
"I was a little surprised by it, with the timing of the evening and all that, but I'm excited -- I'll have a lot of opportunities with Tampa Bay. It's a young team, just like here in Kansas City," Odorizzi told MLB.com. "So I'm going to take it as an opportunity and make the most out of it."
Montgomery, a 6-foot-4 left-hander out of California, was selected by the Royals 36th overall in the 2008 Draft. He spent all of 2011 in the Pacific Coast League with Omaha, but he split time in 2012 between the Naturals and Storm Chasers after struggling at the higher level before being demoted in mid-July. He went a combined 5-12 with a 6.07 ERA across the two levels as batters hit .298 against him.
"I think it's very possible that Wil Myers and Jake Odorizzi help us win games in 2013, and Mike Montgomery as well," Rays executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman told MLB.com.
The fourth player the Rays will receive is third baseman Patrick Leonard, a 6-foot-4 20-year-old prep athlete selected in the fifth round of the '11 Draft. A two-time All-State selection in Florida, Leonard hit .251 in 62 games in his first year of pro ball after turning down a chance to play at the University of Georgia.
The 20-year-old slugged 14 homers, tying for the Appalachian League lead with Elizabethton's Adam Walker II, and plated 46 runs in 234 at-bats for Kansas City's Rookie-level affiliate. He also hit nine doubles and three triples while stealing six bases in eight attempts. He drew 30 walks, struck out 55 times and was named an Appy League postseason All-Star.
"We're constantly working to balance the present and the future and always trying to thread the needle," Friedman said. "As an organization, we rely more on the contributions of our young players than anyone else in baseball. But with this trade, we're hoping to replenish our system and add a lot of players we feel can help us sustain this run of success we've had for the last five years."
In exchange for the prospect-laden quartet going to Tampa, the Royals landed a pair of Major League veterans.
Shields owns an 87-73 record over seven big league seasons with the Rays. In 2011, the 30-year-old finished third in the American League Cy Young voting behind the Tigers' Justin Verlander and the Angels' Jered Weaver after posting a 16-12 mark and a 2.82 ERA while leading the league in complete games (11) and shutouts (four).
This year, Shields went 15-10 with a 3.52 ERA for the Rays, who finished third in the AL East Division, five games behind the Yankees.
Davis is a 27-year-old former third-round pick, who signed a four-year $10.1 million contract with the Rays that would have seen him stay with the club through 2014. He will earn $2.8 million in 2013 and $4.8 million the following year.
Davis spent his first three seasons in the Rays rotation before being moved to the bullpen this year. He went 3-0 with a 2.43 ERA in 54 relief appearances in 2012.
With three of Kansas City's top youngsters on the move, 2011 first-rounder Bubba Starling becomes the team's No. 1 prospect. Right-hander Kyle Zimmer moves to No. 2 from No. 4, with fellow righty Yordano Ventura jumping up two spots from fifth to third. Third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert, a 6-foot-1, 20-year-old signed out of Nicaragua, becomes the Royals' second-ranked position prospect.
"The Glasses have allowed us to create a great environment in which people like to work and they've given us the resources to build a strong farm system and make the necessary moves at the Major League level to improve and to win," Moore said. "It's time for us as an organization to win at the Major League level and we have to use all our resources. Our farm system is certainly one of them."
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com.


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The rising scream of pain emanating from the people of eastern Congo, trapped in a horrific and accelerating cycle of murder, mutilation, rape, exploitation and mass displacement, is barely heard. While the world has focused on Syria, Barack Obama's re-election, and now Gaza, the plight of nearly 800,000 people uprooted this year by near-anarchy in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces hardly rates a mention.
With rebel forces now demanding immediate concessions in return for sparing Goma, North Kivu's largest city, this slow-motion disaster is reaching crisis point. The world's biggest UN peacekeeping operation, Monusco, appears powerless to halt a descent into chaos. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government and its undisciplined security forces are part of the problem. And according to a new report by Oxfam, the plight of the civilian population grows ever more desperate.
"Communities are being preyed on mercilessly by their own government's troops and officials, as well as rebel groups and local militias," the report, Commodities of War, states. "Congolese civilians are not only suffering violent abuse on a massive scale … but are also being subjected to an unprecedented level of financial exploitation, as belligerents loot and extort illegal taxes in their battle for control," the report says.
Elodie Martel, Oxfam's associate country director, said: "This is a humanitarian catastrophe on a massive scale and people cannot continue to turn their backs … It is reprehensible that another year goes by with people telling us they go to bed afraid of killing, lootings and abductions and that women are too afraid to go to their fields for fear of being raped. The Congolese government, the UN and the international community must listen and respond to the people paying the ultimate price for the conflict."
But knowing what to do involves deciding who to blame – and that is the problem. In Congo, just about everybody is at fault. The DRC government led by President Joseph Kabila is weak, truculent and corrupt. Even if it were not, it would have trouble controlling so vast and undeveloped a country.
The government's efforts to reform the army, backed by international donors, have been patchy at best. The withdrawal of troops from parts of the Kivus while the reorganisation was under way last year created a power vacuum that was filled by armed groups. The army's own depredations remain a prime cause of insecurity, according to aid workers, though civilians mostly still prefer it to the rebels and mai-mai (local militias), whose abuses are legion.
A parallel attempt to integrate former rebels of the Tutsi-dominated National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) into the DRC army collapsed in the spring amid a mutiny that saw the creation of a new rebel force, the M23, which is now threatening Goma. Instability was further exacerbated by a joint DRC army-UN offensive, begun in February, against the Rwandan Hutu-dominated Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), mai-mai and remnants of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. This fighting also sparked a new round of human rights abuses and internal displacement.
Monusco, the 19,000-strong UN mission, has become increasingly compromised by its military support for the DRC's army. UN helicopters have been flying combat missions to try to halt the latest rebel advance. But the UN was forced to look on helplessly at the weekend as the tide of refugees swelled and a temporary camp for 60,000 people at Kanyaruchinya outside Goma emptied overnight.
Congo's neighbours are to blame, too, according to the UN. A report leaked earlier this year said Rwanda and Uganda were aiding and abetting the M23, motivated as in the past by a desire to control and exploit eastern Congo's vast mineral wealth. Both countries flatly rejected the allegations, although their denials are viewed with much scepticism.
The ultimate source of international authority, the UN security council, has done little to address Congo's worsening plight this year. Meeting in emergency session on Saturday, it said: "The members of the security council strongly condemn the resumption of attacks by the M23 and demand their immediate cessation." Beyond that, in terms of concrete steps, it did not go.
The hands-off attitude of the western powers was exemplified by William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, speaking on Sunday. "I urge those with influence over M23 to call on them to stop fighting and not to provide them any external support. I call … for all parties to engage to resolve this crisis without further bloodshed," he said. All British nationals should leave Goma, he added. Duty done, Hague moved on to other matters.
Yet the fact that Britain, the UN, Rwanda, the DRC government, the M23 and other parties directly or indirectly involved in this tragedy continue to act irresponsibly, or fail to act at all, is partly a result of the ignorance and indifference to Congo evident among public opinion in the developed world. In theory, the world cares, which is why the UN is there in strength. But for whatever reason, Congo does not register internationally as a cause or an issue. It is a stain on the global conscience that is largely ignored. For this lethal state of denial, all are to blame.


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Check out 3 stills from the "Saw" video game, a project which we knew was in development but haven't heard anything about in a long time. The game from Konami is set to hit shelves for the 360, PS3 and the PC this October, to coincide with the release of "Saw VI". Sounds smart to me.
"Cirque Du Freak" has a new release date, January 10th, 2009. The film stars Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly and Orlando Jones, and is about a vampire who drafts a 14 year old to serve as his assistant. This date puts it on the (for now) same date as the US remake of "Let The Right One In". Thinking about all those vampire movies in one weekend is making me sick to my stomach already.
Richard Kelly hits up his Myspace to set the record straight on all things "The Box", his latest film set for release opposite "Saw VI" this October. If you take his words at face value, he seems to be tempering the bad buzz that all of the release date shifts have caused. Then again, doesn't every director do that? I guess we'll find out who was right in about 6 months.
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Users seek each other out online and arrange discreet meetings to discuss distribution channels. Vendors won't speak to reporters on the record because they are afraid the government will shut them down. Until recently, it was not unusual for transactions to take place in back alleys; a plastic bag handed over in exchange for a fistful of cash.
The product is not cocaine or marijuana. It is nicotine delivered via electronic cigarettes, which cannot be legally imported or sold in this country, but are widely available south of the border. The users are smokers or former smokers who have unsuccessfully tried to stop using government-approved products such as gum and patches, but found the only quitting method that works for them is also the one that happens to be illegal.
West Vancouver resident Gary Adelson tried everything — gum, patches, willpower, acupuncture, even hypnosis — to get off cigarettes because he could feel the physical toll smoking was taking on his body. A two-pack-a-day smoker for almost four decades, the 58-year-old made about a dozen attempts to quit in as many years, but the addiction was just too powerful.
Adelson was a couple of days into his latest quit attempt in 2010 and surfing the Internet when he stumbled across electronic cigarettes, devices that were supposed to deliver the nicotine without the smoke. He found someone in Vancouver on Craigslist who sold them and met him in an alley, where he exchanged cash for a plastic bag containing the device along with a nicotine-infused liquid.
"I swear to God it felt like doing a drug deal," he recalled.
Electronic cigarettes come in many shapes and sizes, but most work the same way. Nicotine-containing cartridges are screwed on to the end of a rechargeable battery. When the user inhales, the e-cigarette combines the nicotine with vapour, which is often flavoured. Because there is no combustion, the user does not inhale all the toxic chemicals contained in tobacco smoke.
The cartridges — which have the equivalent number of "puffs" as a pack of cigarettes — cost between $2 and $3 each. The amount of nicotine in them varies. Starter kits including batteries and chargers start at about $50.
When Adelson first tried the "e-cig," he had low expectations. But when he felt the vapour circulating in the back of his throat, creating a similar sensation to cigarette smoke, he thought this was something that just might work.
"I exhaled it and I blew a smoke ring and I said ... 'Holy shit, where have you been all my life?'"
He has been tobacco-free ever since.
Internet forums on e-cigarettes are filled with stories similar to Adelson's, but they remain banned in this country for good reason, according to Health Canada: There is no clinical evidence of what's in them or that they are safe.
"Although these electronic smoking products may be marketed as a safer alternative to conventional tobacco products and, in some cases, as an aid to quitting smoking, electronic smoking products may pose risks such as nicotine poisoning and addiction," according to a 2009 advisory posted on Health Canada's website, which says Canadians should not purchase or use electronic cigarettes.
Electronic cigarettes fall under Canada's Food and Drugs Act and as such require market authorization by the department before they can be sold, Health Canada spokeswoman Sara O'Dacre said in a statement. Cigarettes are regulated by the Tobacco Act and therefore fall under a different set of rules.
"Companies wishing to sell electronic cigarettes in Canada must submit scientific evidence to Health Canada demonstrating the safety, quality and efficacy of their product for a given claim," she said. "To date, none of these products has been granted the necessary marketing authorization by Health Canada."
The department has authorized the sale of a number of nicotine-based smoking cessation aids, she noted, including gum, patches, lozenges and inhalers. Electronic cigarettes that do not contain nicotine are also legal for sale in Canada.
Dr. Milan Khara, clinical director of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority's Tobacco Dependence Clinic, said he steers clients toward these legal options when they ask about electronic cigarettes.
"The problem with the e-cigarette is that though it delivers nicotine, we don't know what else it really delivers," he said. "Now, it's probably safer than the cigarette because it doesn't have the thousands of chemicals. It probably has many less. But we already know that one of the chemicals, something called propylene glycol, is not a great thing to be inhaling. It's a known lung irritant."
Nicotine is an addictive and toxic substance that has been linked to high blood pressure. It is not, however, a known carcinogen.
Khara said he has also heard the e-cigarette miracle cure anecdotes, but pointed out this is not the same as scientific data.
"At this point, we don't have clinical trials that tell us that these products are either safe or effective."
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also does not endorse the use of e-cigarettes and posts a similar advisory to Health Canada's on its website, but because of differences in U.S. legislation, they can be legally sold in that country.
Adelson said Canadians should also be able to choose whether or not to use e-cigarettes after educating themselves as to the benefits and risks, the way they already do with cigarettes and alcohol. As the law stands, the legal options Adelson is left with are either smoking or nicotine replacement therapies that haven't worked, he said.
"Many of us feel that Health Canada is giving us the finger."
Adelson is even willing to offer himself as a guinea pig to test the health effects of e-cigarettes.
"I'd be the first one in line if I could ... have the good part without the bad; if I could have a way to smoke without killing myself and hurting people around me — my wife, my daughter — and without having to feel like a second-class citizen."
Khara noted that such studies are already taking place around the world.
"I suspect it will be a year or two before we get the answers to this."


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Groundhog Day on the continent is a celebration that celestial winter is half way done. By contrast in south Florida we are content to never let winter never end.
Our summer on the other hand is another story.
What continental transplant (me included) hasn't at some point during Florida's unending summer craved a little dose of fall air, especially come Labor Day when friends and relatives from "up state" and "off peninsula" are just beginning to rejoice in the first of many rounds of crisp autumnal air. Meanwhile down on the south peninsula we are left to sweat out another six weeks of Old Man Summer. It usually isn't until Mid October that finally (and at long last) a cold front blasts through.
In my mind that's what makes Labor Day South Florida's Groundhog Day equivalent.
Only south Florida's groundhog doesn't emerge from ground to look for his shadow: It appears as giant cloud (see photo above) ...
Casting a shadow on us instead.


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