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Total TimePrep: 35 min. Broil: 5 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1 large sweet potato, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 large Yukon Gold potato, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 medium red potato, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 3/4 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary or 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 3/4 teaspoon minced fresh thyme or 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- In a 10-in. ovenproof skillet, saute the potatoes, onion and seasonings in butter and oil until vegetables are golden brown and tender. With the back of a spoon, make four wells in the potato mixture; add an egg to each well. Remove from the heat; sprinkle with cheese.
- Broil 3-4 in. from the heat for 3-4 minutes or until eggs are completely set.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 297 calories, 11g fat (4g saturated fat), 223mg cholesterol, 262mg sodium, 37g carbohydrate (7g sugars, 4g fiber), 12g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 1-1/2 fat, 1 medium-fat meat.
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My son introduced me to his version of this recipe a few months ago. He prefers to scramble the eggs and adds any chopped vegetables that he has on hand. This is a great way to stretch your eggs. He is on a budget so only uses 2 eggs and a little water whisked together and poured over the other veggies after they have cooked a little. There's so much of the other ingredients you don't miss the eggs.
Aug 18, 2012
I would try this recipe a little different. Instead of putting my eggs in the skillet with the pototoes and putting them in the broiler. I would just cook them by themselves and then put them on top. The eggs were rubbery but they probably cooked to long. It did need some spice.... I love the flavor of the different kind of pototoes :)
Sep 18, 2011
Easy & delicious. Everyone in my family loves it. I have to make 2 batches. We eat it all the time, usually for supper.
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Feb 3, 2011
Eggs turned out rubbery. Potatoes stuck to the bottom of the skillet horribly, even with more oil and more stirring and deglazing. Needed something green, like a whole green bell pepper, diced. It also needed a lot more salt and pepper than called for.

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There cannot be man, woman, child or beast alive who does not know that on November 6, Fox will debut its new series 24. Long before the fall season was to begin, it had already been appointed the most anticipated and beloved show of the year--by critics who had seen only one episode, no less. Much was made of its gimmick: The series will be told, more or less, in real time, meaning each episode covers one hour of one day. And much was made of its plot: The head of the government's Counter Terrorist Unit, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), has a single day to stop an assassin's plot to execute David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), an African-American senator and the first black man with a viable shot at the presidency. And in case one missed the extensive press coverage, Fox has beaten the faithful about the head and torso with a bludgeoning ad campaign; it's impossible to watch the network for 10 minutes without stumbling across a 24 promo, accompanied by Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst growling that it's "just one of those days." It's as subtle as electrodes attached to the nipples.
Then there has been the kind of publicity no new network series wants: In the days and weeks since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 24 has been chief among the series mentioned whenever talking heads gather on TV to discuss the need for the entertainment industry's restraint in the wake of televised real-life horror. The show's pilot episode had long been available to TV critics, and its climactic scene--in which a female terrorist leaps from a 747 seconds before we see the airplane blown to bits--overshadowed whatever else the show is about. As far as audiences were concerned, that's all the show dealt with: terrorists, airplanes, explosions, corpses.
"It's not the way we want them to be talking about the show," says the series' co-creator Joel Surnow, "but I guess..." Long pause. "It's fine."
If Surnow, who conceived 24 a year ago with partner Robert Cochran, is to be believed, terrorism is not a central plot. (At press time, only the pilot had been made available to critics.) Rather, he insists, it's a show about two men--Jack Bauer and David Palmer--trying to keep their tenuous family ties from being torn asunder in the midst of crisis; Jack's 15-year-old daughter Kimberly (Elisha Cuthbert) has gone missing, while David's trying to keep a scandal from becoming public on election day. It's also a show about office politics: Jack cannot rely on his colleagues--one likely is in on the hit--nor do they trust him, after he slept with one co-worker (played by Sarah Clarke) and busted three others for taking bribes. Surnow constantly reminds that despite the media's bounding them together in a neat little package, 24 is not The Agency, CBS' new set-in-the-CIA series that had to scrap its pilot, with references to Osama bin Laden, and reschedule another episode that dealt with anthrax.
"We're really not a terrorist-of-the-week show," he says, as much to deflect criticism as explain what the show's really about. "It's a much smaller, more contained story we're telling than that. It's funny, because we did have the explosion of the plane in the pilot, but we really aren't doing stuff like that in the series. In the first 12 episodes, that's really the only terrorist act as such that we even have in the story line. It just happened to be in the first one, so we get a little more for it. I think the subtext of our show is all emotional...and that subtext drives the whole show. That's why it's not a terrorist show. That's why it's not like The Agency."
Last week, Fox sent out a revised version of 24's pilot that no longer contains the graphic image of the airplane's destruction; instead, all we see are small pieces of flaming debris in the nighttime sky--different visual, though the impact and intention are no less visceral. It also trims a second or two of a scene in which the terrorist is seen injecting a stewardess' neck with some kind of knockout juice. But the plane crash could not be deleted in its entirety: The explicitness could be muted, but the act itself is central to at least the first six episodes. To eliminate it would have meant pushing the show back and spending millions of dollars Fox doesn't have in these tenuous economic times. (Indeed, the revised pilot also loses a lot of expensive music by the likes of Madonna and Radiohead, a result of a tightened budget post-September 11.)
"The first week, everything was swirling around," Surnow says of the days after the attacks. "But after that, our first instinct was, 'Should they try and push us back even further? Is it going to take more time?' Nobody knew what the hell was going on in the world, but once we got pushed back a week and things started to settle down after a couple of weeks, we went to Fox and said, 'We'd like to lose that,' and they were happy to do it as well."
The irony is, even as some TV shows self-edit content and feature filmmakers digitally erase the World Trade Center from New York's skyline, it took only moments, in pop-culture time, for television to make fiction out of terrifying fact. NBC's Third Watch has already aired three episodes directly addressing the events of September 11; the first, in which real-life firefighters and police officers addressed the terrorist attacks on Manhattan, walked that fine line between heartbreak and exploitation.
The West Wing bowed this season with a lecture masquerading as entertainment; not since Dragnet has a network series been so condescending and pedantic. In its forthcoming premiere, N.Y.P.D. Blue has shoehorned a handful of clumsy references to the destruction of the World Trade Center. Even those clammy do-gooders at Pax are pressing Billy Ray Cyrus into duty: His show Doc, about a country doctor living in Manhattan, will feature an episode about a firefighter who survives the collapse of the Twin Towers. And that doesn't even take into account the network newsmagazines that scare the hell out of us with hourly anthrax updates by telling us not to, ahem, panic about anthrax.
So much for letting wounds heal. So much for giving us some distance and letting the nightmares fade.
But maybe that was to be expected, even after the hand-wringing that took place in the days after the attacks. Maybe it's because those horrific events happened on television--those planes, those buildings, those flames, those bodies--that TV feels the need to respond so quickly, even if it also does so clumsily on occasion. As has been said more than once since September 11, at least fiction provides the one thing fact does not: closure. The president warns of a prolonged war, but that doesn't stop the networks from giving us a tidy resolution, an ending (though, not always a happy one). Real life is unsatisfying: It's nothing but government talking heads, black-and-white shots of bombs hitting (and missing) their targets, grainy videophone footage of reporters miles from the action. And so fiction steps in to make us feel better, if only for the moment.
"Closure really means uplifting," says Surnow, who was a show-runner on The Equalizer and a writer for Miami Vice and Wiseguy. "People want to be uplifted. They want that in their leaders, and they want that in their entertainment. In England, their art depicts the grimness of life, and we're almost childishly destined to want to have heroes and want to see heroism. That's how we see ourselves as America: We're the heroes to the world--the white knights--and I think it makes people feel good."
In the weeks after the attacks, movie studios postponed releasing films with terrorist themes, and theater owners hurried to fill the multiplexes with feel-good product. Network executives and others have suggested that as new series are canceled, they will be replaced by fluffy shows--light romantic fare, the stuff of smiles. The return of Friends to the top of the Thursday-night schedule, where it was once beaten soundly by Survivor (and never has a series' name rung so hollow), confirms their motives; audiences want their comfort food, their happy half-hour.
But Surnow makes the case for shows that deal with the uncomfortable reality--shows that inform our real life by letting make-believe do the heavy lifting. He mentions a friend who went to a network to pitch a show about an undercover law enforcement official infiltrating a criminal organization, but he had trouble coming up with who that organization ought to be. Should it be a group of money-launderers? The Mafia? Everything he came up with felt phony and pointless--save for a story about penetrating a radical terrorist organization. "That is relevant," Surnow says. "That helps me as a viewer." But there is no way a network would touch that--not now, not with ground zero still smoldering and so many bodies still unaccounted for.
Surnow likes to say that he's a conservative who hates art that indulges in "America-bashing"; he has no tolerance for conspiracy-mongers, for filmmakers and show-runners who posit ours is a corrupt government. At the end of the day, he insists, 24 is a feel-good show--one about "hope," he says. He hopes only that people will watch it that way, without prejudice. It's not just a show about a plane blowing up, he says. It's about victory.
"I think people are going to be disappointed if they come in expecting to see us deal with terrorism every week, because it's not that kind of show," he says. "We want people to feel like the good guys are competent and that they ultimately will prevail, even though it's gonna be bleak at times, and it will be. This show has some really hard stuff in it, and it will continue to do so, but ultimately, the good guys will prevail."
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Blech. I'm not looking forward to dining on a small, black bird. But here goes.
It's time to eat some crow. I wrote a column about four months ago about Facebook's stock. It was called Facebook does a face-plant. We even included this less-than-flattering illustration at the top of the piece.
At the time, Facebook (FB) was a terrible stock. Shares were trading around $24 and change -- more than 35% below their offering price. Making matters worse, this was happening during a red hot market.
Facebook was down nearly 10% year-to-date at that point while the Nasdaq was up more than 15%. And Facebook rivals Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO) and AOL (AOL) were all doing better than the Nasdaq.
But oh how times have changed. Just look at the new image we have at the top of this story! Facebook has more than doubled since my overly bearish take on the social network.
The stock is up nearly 4% Tuesday on the back of a Citigroup analyst upgrade. Shares are now flirting with the $50 level and have soared an astonishing 85% this year.
So to anyone who bought Facebook at $45 on the first day it started trading, your patience has finally been rewarded. Congrats on being above water on that investment.
And if you scooped up the stock a few months ago in the mid-$20s ... or when it hit its all-time low of under $18 back in September 2012 ... then you don't need my congratulations. I could probably use more of your stock tips.
Related: Facebook stock finally tops $45
Now why was I so horrifically wrong? What did I miss? Simply put, I underestimated how much of an effort Facebook was putting into getting its mobile business on track.
Facebook's second-quarter earnings report looks like a huge turning point for the company. The growth in mobile users and mobile ad revenue was nothing short of phenomenal. The biggest knock on Facebook at the time of its IPO last year was that it didn't seem to have a viable mobile strategy.
That is no longer the case. Mobile ad sales accounted for 41% of total ad revenue in the second quarter. More than 800 million people now use Facebook on a smartphone or tablet. As a result, analysts have been busy raising their earnings estimates for Facebook for this year and next.
So can the momentum continue?
I reached out to Sean Udall, author of the TechStrat Report and a trader who owns Facebook shares. I quoted him in a piece in Money magazine I did last year about Facebook and other high-profile stocks. At that time, he predicted that "mobile could soon account for 40% to 50% of the company's ad sales."
He was spot on with that call. And he still thinks Facebook is a good bet. But he has some reservations.
"I'm a value guy. I can't like Facebook as much at $50 as I did at $25," Udall said. "But I still see a path for a higher stock price. It could get to $60."
Udall says he thinks that a big chunk of online ad dollars are shifting away from Google and toward Facebook ... at least temporarily. And Facebook still has room to grow on the mobile front. Still, he's more worried about Facebook now than he was a year ago.
For one, Udall said Twitter's upcoming IPO could steal some of Facebook's thunder.
"Once Twitter starts trading, it could do better than Facebook and all the other social media stocks," Udall said. "Momentum money could shift from Facebook to Twitter. Of course, it depends on how good Twitter's earnings are. But I will probably throw more money at Twitter than Facebook."
Related: Will Twitter avoid Facebook's IPO flubs?
Udall also said that Google remains a tough competitor. He referred to the company as the "Internet version of Berkshire Hathaway."
Comparing Google to Warren Buffett's conglomerate is heady praise. But Udall thinks that Google has been a great investor of its cash and has an "unparalleled acquisition strategy." He points to the relatively inexpensive (and wildly successful) deals for YouTube, DoubleClick and Android.
Another potential problem for Facebook? Within a few short months, Facebook has gone from a company that probably could have impressed Wall Street with earnings that barely topped forecasts to one that now must crush estimates to keep the hedge funds and other Big Money traders happy.
"If Facebook just beats by a penny or two when it reports earnings next month, the stock is not staying at $50. It will tumble because of higher expectations," Udall predicts.
All that said, it's probably not a good idea to bet against Facebook anymore. I've learned my lesson. Sure, the stock is by no means a bargain at more than 50 times 2014 earnings estimates. That's substantially higher than Google, Yahoo, AOL and Apple (AAPL).
But as crazy as Facebook's P/E ratio may seem, it pales in comparison to smaller social media stocks that are also on fire this year, such as LinkedIn (LNKD), Yelp (YELP) and Pandora (P).
Udall said that for Facebook and many other social networking stocks, the P/E may not be that relevant either. It's all about growth and momentum. Yes, we've heard that before. 1999 anyone?
Still, Facebook's current valuation may be misleading. If the company reports strong growth again in the third quarter, 2014 earnings estimates will likely climb even higher.
So can Facebook's stock keep going up? To borrow a phrase that the Federal Reserve loves, it's going to be data dependent. And for the time being at least, Facebook's data is pretty darn good.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
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Shenango Township police officer died in car crash with suspect Kylee Barletto
Thousands of police officers went to New Castle on Wednesday to attend the funeral Mass for Shenango Township Police Officer Jerry McCarthy, who died in the line of duty. (See a photo slideshow.)
A long line of police cars left St. Vitus Parish after the Mass and joined a procession through the community. They also passed by the Shenango Township police station en route to the funeral at the Crestview Memorial Park cemetery in Grove City.
"We greatly appreciate it. I mean, our family's going through a really tough time right now. Jerry was the world to all of us," stepson Phillip McFall said at a viewing on Tuesday. "It just means the world to us that everyone's showing their respect and coming out here. We appreciate all the officers out there that are putting their lives on the lines for us and all the fallen officers who have died to keep us safe and healthy."
"Everyone that came today, they knew Jerry as a great police officer. His passion was to serve and protect," nephew Anthony D'Ambrosia said.
"It's a great loss to the community," said Joe Lombardo, the former police chief of Union Township. "He was a great man."
"He was an excellent police officer, but he was an even better person. Every conversation ended with him telling me, 'God bless you, stay safe,'" said New Castle police Lt. David Cumo.
"We're going to miss him. It's a tragedy, and it's going to be very difficult for me," said New Castle Mayor Anthony Mastrangelo, who was also a friend of McCarthy's.
Gov. Tom Corbett ordered all Pennsylvania flags at the state Capitol in Harrisburg and at state facilities in Lawrence County to be lowered to half-staff until sunset on Wednesday. All Pennsylvanians are invited to join the flag tribute.
State police said New Castle police tried to pull over 25-year-old Kylee Barletto, who they said was driving erratically on Thursday night, but she didn't stop and eventually hit the 60-year-old McCarthy's police car.
Barletto has been released from a Youngstown, Ohio hospital and is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania to face charges that include homicide by vehicle and manslaughter involving a law enforcement officer.


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- How Does Recreational Drug Use Affect HIV?
- Drugs And Getting Infected With HIV
- Drug Use And HIV Disease
- Drug Interactions
- The Bottom Line
- For More Information
How Does Recreational Drug Use Affect HIV?
Recreational drug use can increase the risk of HIV infection. Also, for people taking antiretroviral medications (ARVs) to fight HIV, there can be some serious interactions between drugs and ARVs. These interactions can lead to under- or overdoses of ARVs or recreational drugs. Some of these may be fatal.
Drugs And Getting Infected With HIV
Drug and alcohol use increases the likelihood of a sexual encounter, and using alcohol or drugs before or during sexual activity greatly increases the chances of not following safer sex guidelines Fact Sheet 151 and HIV/STI infection. This risk is further increased for people who exchange drugs for sex.
If recreational drugs are injected using shared needles, there is increased risk of infection with blood-borne diseases, including HIV and viral hepatitis (Fact Sheet 506). See Fact Sheet 155 on ways to reduce this risk.
Drug users should be tested regularly for HIV. The long-term symptoms of persistent drug use may be similar to those of HIV or AIDS. Be sure to tell your medical provider about any of the recreational drugs you use.
Drug Use And HIV Disease
There is little research on drug use and HIV disease progression. We do know that heavy drug use may negatively impact a person's sleep schedule, appetite and overall health. Drug use can cause the immune system to weaken and exacerbate the side effects of ARVs. In turn, this can provide a pathway for opportunistic infections to develop (see Fact Sheet 500).
Another risk of drug use is missing ARV doses and poor adherence. This can lead to HIV resistance (see Fact Sheet 126) or treatment failure. For more information on adherence, see Fact Sheet 405.
Drug Interactions
Recreational drugs will likely interact or interfere with ARV therapy, increasing or decreasing ARV drug levels. This can lead to ARV treatment failure. Also, drug interactions can cause a serious, possibly fatal increase in the level of recreational drugs.
There is little research on the effects of interactions between ARVs and recreational drugs on the human body. This is because the use of recreational drugs is illegal and they cannot be provided to people with HIV, even to study the effects.
The liver metabolizes most ARVs and all protease inhibitors. Recreational drugs metabolized in the liver can cause serious drug interactions.
Excessive alcohol use may weaken the immune system function and threatens the long-term benefits of ARV therapy. Alcohol can increase blood levels of abacavir (Ziagen, Fact Sheet 416). Chronic alcohol use affects treatment adherence by interfering with a person's ability to stick to a regular ARV regimen. Alcohol use may increase the risk of pancreatitis when used with didanosine (Videx, Fact Sheet 413).
Although interactions between cocaine and ARVs are unlikely to increase cocaine toxicity, the cocaine use may decrease ARV effectiveness by diminishing adherence.
Crystal Meth, Methamphetamine, Crank, Glass, Tina, Others
A recent study found that gay men who use crystal meth have five times the risk of HIV infection as non-users. Serious and dangerous drug interactions are highly likely. When methamphetamine is used with ritonavir (Norvir, Fact Sheet 442), including when used for boosting other ARVs, amphetamine levels can double or triple.
Ecstasy uses the same liver pathway as protease inhibitors. This can cause very high levels of ecstasy in the body of people taking protease inhibitors. There is one documented case report of a death due to an interaction between ecstasy and ritonavir. Ecstasy can also increase the risk of kidney stones when used with indinavir (Crixivan, Fact Sheet 441) due to dehydration.
GHB (Xyrem, "Date Rape Drug")
This drug is primarily metabolized by the liver. There are no known interactions between GHB and ARVs. Protease inhibitors may increase GHB levels. Protease inhibitors may increase GHB levels.
Ketamine (K, Special K)
This drug is primarily metabolized by the liver. All protease inhibitors may cause high levels of ketamine. This could cause hepatitis. To date, there are no case reports or studies of interactions between ketamine and ARVs.
The metabolism of LSD is not understood. Interactions with ARVs are possible but unknown.
Marijuana (See Fact Sheet 731)
There are no known interactions between marijuana and ARVs. Interactions may be greater if marijuana is eaten rather than smoked. Use with protease inhibitors may increase effect of marijuana.
The Bottom Line
Some recreational drugs may interact with some ARVs. The information on these interactions is incomplete, but interactions can be dangerous or fatal. Drug users should be tested regularly for HIV. Be sure to tell your medical provider about any of the recreational drugs you use.
For More Information
National AIDS Education and Training Resource Center at www.aids-ed.org/resource/recreational-drugs-and-hiv-antivirals-guide-interactions-clinicians
Interactions Between Recreational Drugs and Antiretroviral Agents by Tony Antoniou and Alice Lin-in Tseng, published in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2002, pages 1598-1613


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A woman from Richardson, Texas, took a crazy idea and turned it into a phenomenon: cats dressed in wigs.
When the Internet-based company Kitty Wigs took off, a book deal followed. Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs goes on sale October 1.
Former Star-Telegram photographer Jill Johnson remembers the day a friend proposed the unusual project.
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"'Would you want to do a book for Chronicle Books on Kitty Wigs, cats in wigs?' And I thought, 'Serious journalist, cats in wigs. Serious journalist, cats in wigs.' So, I did it," Johnson recalled.
"And within a month's time, I was meeting cats named Fishstick, Soda, Fern, Chicken, Rooster ... and was hanging out for two months shooting cats in wigs. "It was the funnest time as a photographer," she said.
Kitty Wigs is owned by Julie Jackson.
"She likes to stay behind the scenes, she's a mystery," Johnson joked.
"She's one of those idea people and the difference is, she goes through with it," Johnson bragged as she explained how the idea to sell wigs for cats was born.
"There's a lot of dogs that are dressed up and there just aren't a lot of glamorous cat photos out there," Johnson said. "So she just thought, 'What the heck? I'm gonna do this.' And it took off from there."
The cats featured in Glamourpuss are all from North Texas. They wore all kinds of wigs: straight, curly, wavy, blue, purple, red, pink, yellow, silver and even rainbow.
Johnson learned she needed catlike moves to get the right shots to tell the story.
"You have a window of opportunity when you get him or her with the wig on, looking right with all the right elements in it," she explained. "Then you snap the picture. You don't have very much time."
The result is a book Johnson hopes will make people smile and simply enjoy the moment.
"Something really silly and fun and at the end of the day, (to) not take life so seriously, and that's what it boiled down to," she said.


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Ten books to get you off on the right foot in finding your roots.
1. The Idiot's Guide to Genealogy by Christine Rose and Kay Germain Ingalls (Alpha Books) — This best-selling how-to genealogy book is perfect for beginners. If you've been wondering how to get started climbing your family tree, Rose and Ingalls will guide you along with easy-to-follow instructions. Written by two highly respected professional genealogists, The Idiot's Guide to Genealogy will get you started on the right path.
2. Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy, 3d ed., (Betterway) and The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook: Essential Forms and Letters for All Genealogists, (Betterway), both by Emily Croom. Genealogists love forms to help them organize all of the data they collect on ancestors, and a big part of genealogy is letter-writing to obtain records and family information, since most people don't live where their ancestors did. Between these two guides, you'll have everything you need to get started on your genealogy and to keep track of your research.
3. First Steps in Genealogy: A Beginner's Guide to Researching Tour Family History by Desmond Walls Allen (Betterway). Need a simple, quick-to-read, easy-to-follow guide that will give you the basics? Allen's book is the one for you. Not only will it show you how to get started, but there are interesting case studies to illustrate use of the sources available for research.
4. Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity by Dee Parmer Woodtor (Random House). In this excellent guide to African-American family history research, Woodtor teaches readers how to begin the step-by-step process of searching for your roots, including how to sidestep the roadblocks common to black genealogy research. She also shares case studies of other African-American researchers and how they discovered their heritage.
5. The Everything Family Tree Book: Finding Charting and Preserving lour Family History by William G. Hartley (Adams Media Corp.). In this beginner's guide, Hartley not only addresses records available for research, but gives thorough advice on conducting oral history interviews, writing autobiographies, writing and publishing your family history, and ideas for preserving treasured heirlooms. There are also sections on research for those who are adopted and for those of African-American or Native American heritage.
6. Instant Information on the Internet: A Genealogist's No-Frills Guide to the 50 States & The District of Columbia by Christina K. Schaefer (Genealogical Publishing Co.). This guide is designed to help researchers find the most important genealogy sites on the Internet, giving addresses of the best Web sites for genealogy in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It's organized by state, and will help you pinpoint where information can be found on the Internet.
7. Genealogy Software Guide by Marthe Arends (Genealogical Publishing Co.). This is the guide genealogists have been waiting for. There are many genealogy software packages available, but which one is suited to you? Marthe Arends details the features of genealogical software programs and shows examples of printouts. A must for deciding which software to buy.
8. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, new revised ed., edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Ancestry). Don't let the price scare you. This is a classic in the field of genealogy and on every genealogist's bookshelf. Need to know more about researching land or courthouse records? This massive book will give you an in-depth look at each record source, from those that are commonly used to those that are more obscure.
9. Netting Your Ancestors: Genealogical Research on the Internet by Cyndi Howells (Genealogical Publishing Co.). Cyndi Howells is the creator and webmaster of "Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet," the most popular genealogy Web site guide <www.cyndislist.com>. Her Netting Your Ancestors book is designed to explain how to take maximum advantage of the Internet in genealogical research. If you're hesitant about entering the overwhelming World Wide Web of genealogy, Cyndi can guide you through it.
10. The Handybook for Genealogists, 9th ed., (Everton Publishers). Another classic in the field of genealogy that has a spot on every genealogist's bookshelf. The Handybook has been published since 1947 and is one of the most popular guides for tracking down addresses of record repositories. State profiles cover history, sources, maps showing county borders, and the custodians of the records you seek.


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In the current lending climate, investors are seeking out ways to make their capital go further. So what exactly are the benefits of a VTB.
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Today's theme for the TeamTEENAuthor group post is Break-Ups. But since it's been a loooong time since I've had one of those (1997, to be exact) I've decided to write about friendship break-ups, which is a huge part of my book, REUNITED.
Though if you've recently had your heart broken, go put on a pair of comfy PJs, open up the Ben and Jerry's, and see my recommendations for the best break-up albums and movies at the end of this article.
Divorcing Our Friends: When Friendships Fall Apart
I got dumped freshman year of high school. Not by my boyfriend, because, sadly, I didn't have one, but by Shannon*, the girl who had been my best friend since age ten. Shannon and I had spent the past five years practically living at each other's houses. We went of our first double date together, attended the same summer camps. In fifth grade we wore matching Van Halen baseball shirts to school once a week.
Then high school came and something shifted. For reasons I couldn't explain, Shannon started spending more time with Chrissy* and Megan*, two pony-tailed blondes from our soccer team. Each weekend, the three of them would go off to cool upperclassmen parties, while I sat at home, pining for the carefree days of sleepovers, riding bikes, and making prank phone calls. Sure, I wouldn't have been opposed to tagging along for a keg party or two, or making out with any number of cute boys from the varsity soccer team. The problem was, Shannon never asked me along.
Then one winter night, a few months into the school year, I was trying to coordinate plans for Shannon and I to attend a hockey game, when she simply stopped answering my calls. After ten or twenty desperate attempts to get her to click over to the other line, she finally picked up, only to tell me that she'd already made plans to go to the game. With Chrissy.
"Fine," I told her, not getting the message, "I'll meet you guys there."
"No," Shannon said, her voice oddly distant. "Chrissy and I don't want you to come."
So, it was very healing, twenty-five years later, when I managed to land my first book deal because of that painful experience. Reunited, my debut young adult novel, tells the story of three ex-best friends who take a road trip from Boston to Austin to attend the one-night-only reunion show of the band they all once loved. And though I've never had the pleasure of driving cross-country with my ex-best friends, thanks to Shannon, I was able to connect with the complicated feelings of a friendship gone south.
But whether or not we've gone through a traumatic split like mine, we've all had the experience of losing a friend. Usually, we don't mean for it happen. But over time things change—we move, we get involved in romantic relationships, we spend more time on our careers, our marriages, and our kids.
Sometimes, friendships crumble simply because our lifestyles have become too different. It seems like everyone has at least one friend who never quite managed to grow up. Back in college; you two partied like it was 1999. Hell, it was 1999. But a decade later, you're busy attending school plays and shopping for lawnmowers, while your old pal is still out hitting the bars five nights a week.
Then there are friendships that break up due to some act of transgression, jealousy, or deceit. Angry words are exchanged Real Housewives-style, eventually culminating in a dramatic, and usually permanent, parting of ways. I don't think this phenomenon is all that common, at least among the rational, self-aware women I know, though it seems to be one of the few kinds of female "friendship" portrayed on reality TV.
So, what's the real culprit? Why do some friendships fall apart while others stay together?
I think it all centers around our ability to be open—not just to intimacy, which of course, is a big part of any meaningful relationship, but also to having people in our lives who may not be exactly like us. The older we get, the more we figure out who we are, which is mostly a wonderful thing, but can also be limiting, if we're not careful. Understandably, I prefer to spend my time with people who share my values, interests, and my undying, irrational love for Pa Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie. But over the years, I've learned that connecting with people is about more than just that. It's about building a special world together that only you share, a secret clubhouse of sorts, only without the "No Boys Allowed" sign tacked to the door. Though it's strongly implied.
Personally, I am lucky enough to have remained close with a big group of old friends who date back to my childhood. Some of us still have a lot in common. Others, it's doubtful we'd strike up a friendship had we met today. But even though our lives may be quite different, there's something quite great about sharing a history with someone, a comfort, and even a vulnerability, in knowing that this friend understands the person you used to be—and still are, at your core.
I am also blessed to have lots of "new" friends who I share a lot in common with and who live close by. For the past three years, this group of women and I have spent every Tuesday night together, barring a snowstorm or a kid with a high fever. Together, we put a lot of energy into nurturing our friendship, making sure to prioritize it in our hectic daily lives, because keeping a friendship alive takes work, just like a marriage does.
Unfortunately, the busy twenty-first century world we live in is too often a killer of friendships. We're always juggling a million things at once, so friends are squeezed in like an afterthought, in between romantic partners, kids, and work. It doesn't help that with the advent of Facebook, the very definition of word "friend" has been trivialized to include "that kid you once sat next to in Calculus class."
Sure, our friendships as women might take some effort to maintain. And they'll never have the same intensity they did when we were girls, back when our best friends were our everything. But the laughter, wisdom, and emotional support my friends and I give each other gives back to each of us in profound and significant ways. Because of my Tuesday nights out, I'm a better wife, a better mother, and a happier me. And if I ever have an overwhelming desire to discuss Pa Ingall's sex appeal, I know I'm not alone.
*Names have been changed for privacy.
And now, a little something for the lovelorn…
Hilary's List of "Best Break-Up Movies"
Weirdly, Zooey Deschanel's in two of them.
Hilary's List of "Best Break-Up Albums"
Not weirdly, two of them are by Joni Mitchell.
Oh, and the all-time best break-up song ever… Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U"
For more teamTEENauthor posts about break-ups, check out these:
- E.C. Meyers, author of FAIR COIN http://ecmyers.net/2012/12/breakups/
- Elizabeth Amisu, author of the SACERDOS MYSTERIES series http://elizabethamisu.com/post/37793090182/breaking-up-a-teamteenauthor-blog
- Janci Patterson, Author of CHASING THE SKIP http://www.jancipatterson.com/2012/12/14/teamteenauthor-breaking-up/


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Persistently low interest rates may have created a challenging environment for annuity carriers in recent years, but many clients remain deeply skeptical about the prospect of returning to the more volatile equity markets. Indexed variable annuities (IVAs), while developed to help insurance carriers manage risk more accurately, can represent the perfect solution for these market-shy clients.
IVAs—known to some as structured annuities—offer clients an investment alternative that can provide the stability and many of the product offerings associated with annuity products but also the potential for participation in any equity market gains. However, they also offer substantial downside protection to cushion against potential investment losses.
Indexed variable annuity basics
Although known by several different names and subject to a broad range of potential product features, an IVA is essentially an annuity product where investment returns are tied to the performance of one or more stock indexes (e.g., the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones). Unlike straight equity investing, however, the product itself offers a cushion against investment losses in exchange for a cap on the potential for investment gains.
The carrier may offer 10 percent, 15 percent or 20 percent (or more) buffers against investment losses, meaning that if the underlying investments generate a loss, the insurance carrier absorbs a set percentage of that loss before the client experiences any loss. As such, if the chosen index declines, for example, by 10 percent and the client has chosen a 15 percent buffer, the client's account value will decline only by the 5percent loss that exceeds the contract's downside protection.
However, as a trade-off for the downside protection afforded by these contracts, participation in the linked index's gains will be subject to a cap for a fixed term of years. Despite this, the term of years can be as short as a single year for some contracts, allowing the client a degree of flexibility that he might not otherwise find available in a fixed indexed annuity product. Further, some contracts provide for an upside cap that fluctuates annually — or, in some cases, as frequently as weekly or monthly.
Some insurance carriers even offer products that cover 100 percent of the downside risk of the investment, but these carriers also set the upside caps on these contracts at a lower percentage (in some cases, as low as 1.5 percent) that resets frequently (for example, every two weeks).
Despite their lack of guaranteed income, in addition to these product-specific features, IVAs continue to offer many of the benefits that traditionally accompany an annuity product, including the valuable elements of tax deferral and death benefits for account beneficiaries.
Why choose IVAs?
Unlike a traditional variable annuity product, IVAs do not come with the types of lifetime income guarantees that are typically associated with today's annuities. Despite this, as most financial advisors are already well aware, it is these guaranteed benefits that have caused many carriers to seek modifications to existing contracts or to exit the annuity business altogether through implementing a buyback strategy.
Because the performance of an IVA is tied to the market, and performance gains are capped, insurance carriers are able to more accurately measure their risk exposure to ensure proper reserve levels. This reduces the risk that a client will be faced with a product modification or buyback offer down the road.
While not all insurance carriers currently offer IVAs, depending on the carrier and jurisdiction, those products that are on the market may be fairly diverse in the potential options offered to the client. Accordingly, it is more important than ever that advisors review the fine print on any IVA contract to determine whether the product is right for the individual client.
See also;
- Growth for VAs with alternative options expected
- Variable annuity market makeover continues
- Extreme makeover: Variable annuity edition


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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
I just got off the phone with my daughter. She called because she needed a teacher's opinion.
Her teacher in grad school likes to use the overhead projector. He was busy lecturing and trying to finish up for an exam when she noticed the overhead was on fire. She interrupted him to point this out. He got agitated and angry at her for interrupting the class. He blamed her because he was not able to finish using the overhead in class. She called to ask if maybe she shouldn't have said anything (not really, she wanted her voice validated.)
I don't know this guy. I'm willing to bet he is a senior professor in no danger of being rated unsatisfactory or of being sent to the rubber room. Too bad he doesn't work for the NYC DOE. But, he probably would be an administrator or someone else with immunity from the system.
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- JUSTICE not "just us" said...
What a jerk!
Too bad he didn't catch on fire!
- 8:27 PM, October 31, 2007
- Anonymous said...
He sounds more than just a tad unhinged....your daughter is sensible, unlike him. He also is delinquent in his actions, endangering all those students in that class. If he were a NYC teacher, this is a prime example of someone who should be in a rubber room, as opposed to a rational someone just hated by administration. Prof. Firestarter should really be canned.
- 10:13 PM, October 31, 2007
- NYC Educator said...
What a great story. It's remarkable how certain people can manage to remain pompous and pedantic, no matter what foolish nonsense they're to blame for.
It's inconceivable to such individuals that anything can be their fault.
- 10:34 PM, October 31, 2007
- 17 (really 15) more years said...
Now seriously- why should a little thing like a fire stand in the way of higher education?
What a pompous ass - my mouth is hanging open reading this post.
- 7:00 AM, November 01, 2007
- Mrs. T said...
Un freaking believable.
I think someone should sneak in there before class every time it meets and leave a big book of matches on the overhead for him, in case he wants to start a fire again and not be interrupted. What an ass.
- 7:37 AM, November 01, 2007
- LSquared32 said...
I was listening to Bill Bryson on CD (Audio book: Notes from a small island) on my way into work this morning, and I have this great urge to rewrite this as though they were both British:
Student: Um, excuse me, I'm terribly sorry but your overhead appears to be on fire.
Teacher: Oh dear is it? [stamps out fire] Now look what's happened, I can't finish the problem on that overhead, now can I? I'm sure you needed to mention it, but I do wish you had waited until I was finished with this problem
Student: Oh, right. Sorry for the interruption
Teacher: Yes, quite all right, now then, where were we...
Still--I have a hard time understanding how one one would want to be left in ignorance of one's burning overhead. I can't imagine that the lecture would have gone any better if the professor had gotten burned, or if the fire alarm had gone off.
- 2:25 PM, November 01, 2007
- Pissedoffteacher said...
I thought about writing this as a story, but it is too unbelievable.
- 3:36 PM, November 01, 2007
- Anonymous said...
After all the news about fires lately, this guy is an idiot.
What about the other students?? Didn't they back her up. Don't tell me they are future teachers who keep their mouths shut about any injustice.
I would report him to the dean.
- 4:27 PM, November 01, 2007
- Pissedoffteacher said...
Not teahers, engineers. I don't know what the rest of the class said. I'll have to ask her.
- 6:45 PM, November 01, 2007


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We're not ones to admonish Premier League referees here on Pies as we are generally appreciative of the largely flawless job they do, but Vince Kompany's red card against Arsenal this evening was several different kinds of wrong…
It's not that we can't see why Mike Dean may have thought otherwise, but that is a textbook 'head on' sliding challenge. An almost perfect example. The defensive art is almost dead in the water.
Wilshere over-ran the ball slightly and Kompany capitalised by getting his foot behind it – as the man himself Tweeted, 'contact was inevitable'.


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The HTC EVO 4G is arguably one of the most ambitious smartphones ever to ship with Google's Android mobile operating system. Exclusive to Sprint, the device is one of the first to deliver 4G network connectivity. Its appeal is boosted by impressive hardware specs and a roster of outstanding capabilities, like support for high-definition video capture. It comes loaded with HTC's unique user interface enhancements and custom applications, which round out its feature set nicely.
Despite its strong assortment of merits, the device falls short of greatness due to mediocre battery life and a handful of other limitations. In this review, we'll take a close hands-on look at the EVO 4G.
The EVO uses the same 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that powers the Nexus One; it also sports 512MB RAM, 1GB of internal storage, and a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen that renders at 800x480. A 1.3MP camera is embedded on the front for video chat, and there's an 8MP camera with an LED flash on the back. As for wireless connectivity, the EVO is a CDMA device with support for EVDO, WiMAX, WiFi, and Bluetooth. These specs make the EVO a step up from Google's Nexus One handset. Although both devices have the same processor and the same amount of RAM, the EVO has a bigger screen, a better camera, and twice as much internal storage.
The EVO's build quality is modestly higher than average, but isn't excellent. It has a solid feeling in the hand and the screen is very robust. Unfortunately, the back plate doesn't slide off like on other HTC handsets—you have to snap it out with your fingernail. When I remove the back plate, I always feel like I narrowly avoided causing damage. When it goes back on, it never really feels like it has snapped all the way in. The power button is a bit mushy and doesn't always respond right away. The phone doesn't feel cheap, but these characteristics detract a bit from the build quality.
The EVO has a power pushbutton on the top edge of the device and volume toggle buttons on the right edge. These are the only actual physical buttons on the device. There is a row of capacitive buttons at the bottom of the device's face, right below the touchscreen. These capacitive buttons perform the standard Android operations: home, menu, back, and search.
The Android compatibility specification requires devices to make those functions immediately accessible to users, so they're found on every handset that has the Android market installed. The order of the buttons differs from one device to another, however. The N1 and Motorola Droid both use the following order: back, menu, home, search. The EVO swaps the home and back buttons so that home is the furthest on the left.
Unlike the Droid and the N1, the EVO has no directional pad or scroll ball. This doesn't really hamper basic navigation because Android's user interface is heavily designed for efficient touchscreen interaction, but there are a few cases where the absence of directional navigation hardware is frustrating.
When I'm browsing the Web on a mobile touchscreen device, my fat fingers often click the wrong link by accident. On my N1, I regularly use the scroll ball when I'm trying to hit a specific link that has many others in close proximity. I really miss being able to do that when I'm using the EVO. I also miss having the scroll ball when I'm trying to navigate or select text that I'm editing. On the EVO, I often have to resort to using on-screen arrow keys for moving through text.
The EVO has a metal kickstand that pops out so that the device can be propped up in landscape orientation and placed on a flat surface. It's extremely useful for when you want to watch videos, but it doesn't hold the phone firmly in place. The device will tip over if you hit the top-right corner and will slide around on the table if you push the touchscreen.
The EVO's 4.3-inch screen is considered by some to be the device's principal selling point. It's roughly half an inch larger than the display on the N1, but it's the same exact resolution. This means that you don't necessarily get to see more content—it just stretches everything to a bigger size. This is evident when you look at the EVO closely next to an N1.
You won't be able to fit more icons on the home screen, for example, but there are some cases where the large screen is very beneficial. For example, it makes the browser's "small" font size easily readable. Even the "tiny" size is manageable on the EVO if you have good eyes. You can change the browser's default font settings and use one of those sizes in order to take advantage of the better screen and see more text at one time.
The EVO's large screen is particularly nice for watching videos or reading e-books. I did some tests with the third-party Aldiko reader application and found that reading on the EVO's big screen is much easier on the eyes than reading on my N1.
The single most profound advantage of the EVO's larger screen is that it makes the touchscreen keyboard significantly easier to use. Having bigger keys makes an enormous difference for on-screen keyboard usability. My error rate during fast typing is dramatically lower on the EVO than it is on the N1. The EVO is big enough that I can even type with two thumbs in portrait mode, which is something I can't do on my N1.
The big screen has some advantages, but there are also some downsides. It makes the device cumbersome and awkward to use for one-handed operation. I often have to reposition it in my hand so my thumb can reach the top-left corner of the screen or slide down the notification pane. Much like a tablet, the EVO tends to be more comfortable to work with when used in landscape mode with two hands. When using it with one hand, I find that it works better to balance it on the ends of my fingers rather than bracing it against my palm. Holding it in one hand isn't uncomfortable, it's just awkward to operate it that way with your thumb.
Several readers have written in to ask if the EVO is comfortably pocketable. That's a tough question to answer because it depends a lot on the size of your pockets. The phone fits fine in my loose-fitting corduroy pants, but it's not going to be pocketable in tighter jeans. Its dimensions make it feel more like a small tablet than a large phone. In fact, it's very similar in size to Nokia's N810 Internet Tablet. I personally consider it pocketable, and I haven't had much trouble carrying it with me in my pocket while traveling.
If the EVO had a higher-resolution display, the larger screen size would be an unambiguous win and the awkwardness would be a relatively small price to pay. Unfortunately, because it has the same resolution as the N1 and other Android phones with smaller screens, it ends up largely being a wash. Whether the large screen is actually useful to you in practice is going to depend on what you do and how you like to use the phone.
If you're thinking about getting an EVO and you typically operate your phone with one hand, I strongly recommend trying the device before you buy so you can see if it's comfortable for you. It might be a non-starter for users with small hands. If you want to watch a lot of videos or read books, then the screen size has got some big tangible benefits.
Although the EVO's bigger screen offers a better typing experience than smaller Android-based devices, I wouldn't necessarily endorse it as a good device for heavy messaging. Users who do a lot of typing are still probably better off buying a device with a physical hardware keyboard. Android's on-screen keyboard completely obscures the contents of the screen in landscape mode, which makes it frustrating to use for Internet chat or SSH.


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Dancing With The Stars At Sea: Fun Summer 2013 Photos
Dancing With The Stars troupe member (and new pro for Strictly Come Dancing In The UK) Emma Slater, has been posting some really fun photo albums of she and all the pros and celebrities who are doing "Dancing With The Stars At Sea" this summer. Be sure to check them all out at her Facebook Page when you get a chance. There is a fun new group shot with the cast: Jocelyn Wu, Jaymz Tuaileva, Drew Smith, Alexander Andreev, Jason Venner, Sabrina Hinojos, Tristan Mac Manus, Emma Slater, Jeff Knaggs, Shawn Johnson, Anya Fuchs, Mary Ellen Bosché, Rachel Lieberknecht and Brent Borbon. Also, this take with Carson Kressley had me on the floor. lol Don't miss seeing them all when you get a chance. You'll be able to see the cast doing some sight seeing while they stop along their journeys too. Too fun! (I pray all of these links work. If not, do a search at facebook on Emma Slater and you'll find her page)


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South Korea Divers Carry Out Ferry Mission in Near-Total Darkness
President Calls Sewol Crew's Actions 'Tantamount to Murder'
Once Kim Su-ho slipped into the sea's violent currents in his mission as one of the divers searching the hull of the sunken Sewol ferry, he encountered a hazy nothingness.
The visibility below the surface was so poor that he needed a lantern to check his wristwatch, he said Monday after emerging from the waters off the southwest coast of South Korea.
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The people of Australia spent $1,173.2m (A$1,125.5m) on cinema tickets in 2012, a 2.8% increase on the previous year but about $7.6m (A$7.3m) less than they spent in a record-breaking 2010.
It is the third consecutive year that annual revenues have exceeded $1bn.
The Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA) released the figures but, as usual, chose not to estimate admission numbers so early in the year.
It is likely that 85 to 90 million tickets were sold – the population is 22.9 million.
The five films that lead the pack in 2012 all grossed more than $30m:
- The Avengers (Walt Disney);
- Skyfall (Sony Pictures);
- The Dark Knight Rises (Warner Bros);
- Ted (Universal);
- The Hunger Games (Roadshow).
The next five all exceeded $20m:
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (Hoyts/StudioCanal);
- Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (Fox);
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (Paramount);
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox);
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (Roadshow).
"Clearly 2012 benefitted from a tremendous mix of commercial and highly entertaining movies and consumers continue to demonstrate strong support for the timeless and unique appeal of going to the cinema," said Marc Wooldridge, chair of the MPDAA, in a statement.
The managing director at Twentieth Century Fox Australia also said that Australia boasts some of the best cinemas in the world and a night at the movies continues to provide "a tremendous, good value, out-of-home experience".
Of the 548 films (421 were new releases) that earned some money in 2012:
- 231 (42.2%) were from the US
- 63 (11.5%) from the UK
- 43 (7.8%) from Australia
- 211 from other countries.
According to government agency Screen Australia, the amount spent on tickets to the 43 Australian films was $49.8m (A$47.9m), which represented 4.3% of the total gross, and a few million dollars more than the five-year average.
The annual domestic share has not been higher than 5% for the past 10 years and no higher than 10% for the past 25 years.
The top grossing Australian film, The Sapphires, grossed $15.1m (A$14.5m). The others in the top five were Happy Feet Two, Kimderella, A Few Best Men and Mental.
Australia has 1,995 cinema screens and the MPDAA estimates that 72% of them are now converted to digital. Of these, 57% are 3D capable.
Wooldridge also noted that Australian exhibitors lead the world, on a per capita basis, on the number of screens accessible to disabled audiences.