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On Friday night a Scott County family was set to gather at the Red Lobster in Cape Girardeau for a special holiday dinner.
The tab was being paid for by Specialist Jesse Venable of Scott City who told his mother and other family members that he would not be home for the holidays.
The special dinner was his gift to them.
Spc. Venable is with a platoon out of Fort Riley, Kansas and he had served seven months in Afghanistan before having a seizure.
Venable says it had never happened to him before, and he has since been undergoing treatment.
He hopes to be cleared for duty again very soon.
Meanwhile, the Army medic said he hadn't been back to the Heartland in one year.
"I told my mom they were sending me back to Afghanistan," said Venable.
He told the white lie so his mother, Cindy Joyce of Benton, would not be suspicious.
Once the family gathered at the restaurant, Venable, who once worked as a waiter at Red Lobster, grabbed a tray full of biscuits and headed to the table full of family members.
His mother immediately jumped to her feet, and hugged her son.
"It's tears of joy, I'm just so happy he's home, " said Cindy Joyce.
Venable brought flowers for his mother, grandmother, and Glenda Cassout who along with her husband Jay served as Venable's guardians since Venable was 14 years old.
"Words can't describe it, we are just so blessed he is here," said Glenda Cassout.
Specialist Venable says he misses his comrades who are still serving in Afghanistan.
"They are doing a great job over there, " said Venable.
He said one of his fellow servicemen died during their time in Afghanistan.
"It was really hard, I was his medic, " said Venable.
He hopes everyone here at home doesn't forget about the sacrifices continuing to be made.
He wants others to remember those servicemen and women who are serving overseas and here at home that won't be able to come home for Christmas.
Specialist Venable says surprising his family was an amazing feeling.
"I can't even put it into words what it means, " said Venable.
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Help Me Make a Better No-Bake Cheesecake!
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Q: I just made my first cheesecake with gelatin and while I'm pleased with how easy the process was (loved that I didn't have to bake it and heat up our apartment), my husband complains about the "Jello-y-ness" of the texture of the finished product.
Did I do something wrong, or is this just a fundamental characteristic of cheesecakes held together by gelatin? Is there anything I can do to make it less Jello-y? It was a plain key lime cheesecake, would the Jello-y quality be less noticeable if it had some elements of texture to it?
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Editor: Sarah, I have never made a no-bake cheesecake (although it is high on my list of things to do this summer!) so I am afraid I'm no help. Readers, we'd love your advice. Do you make no-bake cheesecakes with gelatin? How do you get the best texture?
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I made the Cook's Country Lemon Icebox Cheesecake recently and while you do use gelatin (you mix it w/ the lemon juice and then nuke in the microwave to warm it and help the gelatin dissolve) I didn't feel like it had any sort of "jello-y" quality to it. The recipe also called for heavy cream and lemon curd in addition to the cream cheese, which might have helped make it lighter and creamier.
Hi Sarah, did you use 'sheet' or 'powder' gelatin? I do my no-bake cheesecake with these proportions: 2 sheets of gelatin, 100ml of double cream and 200g of cream cheese. My wife loves it!
Nigella Lawson has one that uses no gelatin and really holds up in terms of texture and flavor. I've made it TONS of times and I think it's delicious. You may have to tinker with it to make it key lime-flavored, but it's great in its original form as well.
did he think that there was a gelatin texture because you told him there was gelatin in there? i have learned after 10 years of cooking for my fellow that he is often best left in the dark when it comes to the details of my recipes.
I recently made a Sour Cream Cheesecake in the slow cooker and it turned out really great. Doesn't answer your question directly, but does address the problem of heating up the house baking a traditional cheesecake. It was a Food and Wine recipe.
I agree with kristian. Try it again, but leave out the bit about the gelatin. That method always works well for my husband, particularly when he's eating ground turkey in something. ;)
I've never used gelatin in my no bake. It is fluffy, but it works. It is basically cream cheese, whipped cream, sugar. So good.
He may have a mental ideal for cheesecake - and anything that isn't a match, isn't cheesecake. Therefore, use your cheesecake recipe to make panna cotta instead: individual servings instead of a cake, and fruit on the bottom instead of a crust.
try either sisterfunkhaus' recipe or whip together equal parts cream cheese and drained greek yogurt (add sugar to taste and other flavourings) and chill for at least an hour for a rich but light no-bake cheesecake.
If I'm making a cake with gelatin, I wouldn't be surprised if it tastes like gelatin. Just saying :P
Oooh I'm on board with the panna cotta idea or anything else that's basically a curd. You'd have to deal with the fact that it's not cheesecake, so it's not going to magically become cheesecake :(
I agree with TMax, I use the Nigella recipe and have adapted it to other flavours successfully. I had made no-bakes without gelatin for a long time in any case, and the first time I saw a recipe with gelatin in thought it odd - maybe because I'm in the UK (and the only time I made it thought it revolting).
I love the Nigella version that others have mentioned. I'm also a big fan of her no-fuss fruit tart, which has a similar approach and I make it with key lime curd instead of lemon curd when we have a craving for key lime cheesecake. (Honestly, in this application, regular lime curd may work just as a well.) It's a great way to use up a bit of extra fruit too--when all you have left is too small for a true serving, it works great as a tart topping! Plus, you can fool yourself into thinking that it is better for you, because there's fruit to counteract any of the bad calories. :)
Forgot to mention: years ago, before I discovered Nigella's cheesecake, I used to make Rachael Ray's no-bake. It isn't the fanciest, and it isn't really that great for show stopping, buuuutt, it is extremely simple and very easy to adapt for other flavors. We've done key lime with both fresh key limes and bottle key lime juice in place of the strawberries in her recipe. We've also don't other fruit flavors, and all worked out fine, but the key lime was a pretty big hit.
Thanks everybody for your answers! I actually bought the gelatin to make homemade marshmallows with, and the recipe on the packet I had leftover was for cheesecake, so I figured I'd give it a go. It was powdered gelatin, not sheets. I wasn't sure what to expect, as I didn't eat much jello as a kid, and I'd never used gelatin on its own before. I think next time I'll attempt a cheese with more elements of texture to it, and maybe include some whipped cream to make it lighter. I was really pleased with how well it held up and came together, I just wish it hadn't been quite so...bouncy.
Mark Bittman's No Bake Cheesecake recipe is incredible. It's made with a mixture of ricotta and cream cheese and no gelatin I won't use any other recipe for cheesecakes now. You may be able to find it on the New York Times website.
Jamie Oliver's Cheescake requires no baking, is super-easy and magnificent!
I second the recommendation for Cook's Country Lemon Icebox Cheesecake - it's delicious.

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Now that Opening Day is out of the question, Girardi made it clear that Derek Jeter will take things slow:
Now that Opening Day is out of the question, Girardi made it clear that Derek Jeter will take things slow:
"Derek's the kind of guy I think who really pushed to get to where he could play opening day. It just didn't work out. We'll take a deep breath here, try to get him back on the field in a couple days where he feels good. He's going to experience some of the soreness, but we think it was probably too much to have him out on the field. Now that the date has passed that he's not going to be ready for us, slow it down a little bit. "I don't know if he pushed himself too hard, but he was determined to get out there. And I think what he realized is that there just wasn't enough time. As a player you really don't know until you actually try. But he pushed. "When he's ready, we'll welcome him back with open arms. But it's when he's ready, and he can do the things he needs to do."
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Let students be teachers and curriculum developers
I've been thinking about this for quite a while now and since I'm an undergraduate student myself, I think there is definite potential here. We have the idea of teaching assistants at university level - but that just doesn't do it. The main idea is that our curriculum needs to be given thought to by students themselves - let a student in on the curriculum development board and ask for their input.
At this point there are many things that need to be discussed, mainly:
- Who gets to decide which students are worth being 'teachers' or 'curriculum developers'.
- What courses can be developed and taught by students.
- How do teachers ensure feedback about a particular course.
- What level should this be implemented at: Middle school, High school, or college/university?
- And a personal favourite of one of my professors: Would students make good teachers?
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Are you or someone you know a part of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)? Typically, you are buying a weekly share of fresh fruits and vegetables from a local farmer. Well, Big Alice Brewing, a new brewery in Long Island City, NY, was inspired and have launched a great idea.
For the last two days, there has been a back-and-forth of press releases and social media attacks between two brewers: West Sixth of Lexington, Kentucky (whose logo is pictured on the left), and formerly-craft-now-crafty brewer Magic Hat, once of Vermont and now a brand owned by North American Breweries, which itself is owned by Cerveceria Costa Rica (whose logo for their beer #9 is pictured on the right).
The long and short of it: West Sixth claims that rather than work in good faith to resolve a despite amicably over the similarity of their logos, Magic Hat lawyered up and filed suit against the small brewer. West Sixth was upset, and expressed their discontent publicly in a microsite they created (which crashed under the weight of its own popularity yesterday). The site called for a boycott and encouraged the craft beer community to sign a petition urging Magic Hat to drop the suit.


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Newegg has a new offer on this Brother MFC-J265w Wireless All-in-One Color Printer priced at only $89.99 – $30 Instant Savings + Free Shipping = $59.99!
Perform all of your printing tasks quickly and easily at a very surprisingly low price! This All-in-One Printer from Brother combines the ability to Print, Scan, Copy and Fax all in one super sleek and stylish device. It is designed to print in very high quality and it definitely shows with the top 6000 x 1200 dpi available and on top of that a super fast 27 page per minute speed will deliver all of your prints quick enough to alleviate any waiting time. It utilizes a 4-Cartridge Ink System and has a monthly duty cycle of about 2500 pages. It supports SD/HC and MemoryStick cards for on-demand photo printing and is very easy to use with the 1.9-Inch Color display.


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Synapse provides reliable RF Engines® that support a range of frequencies and bandwidths. These small, low-power, transceiver modules, running from sub-GHz to 2.4GHz, have a range of up to three miles and the lowest power consumption in the industry. The RF Engines come loaded with the SNAP® network operating system. Typical applications include a wireless serial port , sensor monitoring, actuator control, or an intelligent embedded controller - the possibilities are limitless.
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Synapse prepared their products and manuals very well, I could find all kinds of information with a variety of application examples which helped us to start many steps ahead.
Debugging SNAP and the python code programming examples were also very straightforward, even though I have not had any experience programming in python before. I could not imagine how many months we would spend to find the bugs if we would be using C or assembly.
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Departure* from the U.S.: Saturday, August 3, 2013Arrival*: Vienna International Airport on Sunday, August 4, 2013Orientation: August 4-9, 2013Program Dates: August 4-December 20, 2013Please note: The Marburg fall semester officially runs through February 14th, 2014, but fall semester-only students may depart as early as December 20th, 2013, if they need to return to their home campus for spring semester in early January.
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Start your experience in the culturally-rich city of Vienna as you learn German at the prestigious Internationales Kulturinstitut Wien language school. Spend 8 weeks focusing on German language and culture before the semester begins in Marburg (8 weeks is standard time for the program but 12 weeks is recommended. There is an additional fee(s) for the 12 week program).
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During the pre-semester phase of the BCA Marbug program, all students participate in an intensive language course, a cultural and history course, and they are also guided through a thorough orientation at both the Vienna and the Marburg locations. Once students arrive in Marburg, their student ID is valid for free public transportation within the state of Hessa. The orientation covers everything from shopping tips and basic navigation to setting your academic schedule.
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Translation is seldom taught at U.S. colleges and universities, but translation is a very valuable tool that can readily be applied toward a career. By the time many BCA students are wrapping up their studies in Marburg, they are asking questions about how to pursue a career in translation. And since the BCA Marburg director is a CT (Certified Translator), students can benefit greatly from information from someone with professional experience in the translation industry.
Both Vienna and Marburg are excellent jumping-off places for exploring the rest of Germany and Europe. Vienna is convenient to an airport, and Marburg is only 90 minutes from the Frankfurt International Airport, which is Europe's third largest airport. Marburg lies on the main train line between Frankfurt and Kassel. More about BCA Germany's location.
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Crazy 88 Auto launched to help applicants obtain car ownership regardless of their credit type.
San Francisco, CA, United States of America – July 8, 2014 /MarketersMedia/ –
Getting a car can be the key that unlocks a future for people who have to commute to work, or even travel door to door for work such as plumbers, electricians and even mechanics. The problem for many seeking to get back to work is that they are unable to because of lack of transportation. Crazy 88 Auto was launched to provide an all-in-one solution that can transform the fortunes of individuals overnight.
The service allows individuals to secure a finance package for an automobile in less than sixty seconds, with clear terms and conditions and no obligation. They still go further however in paring the applicant with local car dealerships so that individuals can go straight from securing the cash to purchasing the vehicle.
Crazy 88 Auto has a guaranteed 100% acceptance rate, able to cater to anyone willing to accept the competitive rates they offer.
A spokesperson for http://Crazy88Auto.net explained, "We have done everything we can to provide a complete solution, putting customer service first to provide individuals with everything they need to get the vehicle they desire with the least amount of aggravation. We offer some of the best finance rates in the industry for people with less than perfect credit histories and our dealer matching software really simplifies things for the applicant."
About Crazy 88 Auto:
Crazy 88 Auto was launched in June 2014 to simplify the car buying experience for applicants with not so perfect credit. Crazy88auto.net has simplified the car buying process by leveraging technology that instantly matches the applicant with the closest and most appropriate car dealership. This process is completed based on the information that the applicant has entered in our simple and free online application.
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As the Adrian Peterson case makes headlines across the country, a heated debate continues in Oklahoma over whether it is ever acceptable to physically discipline a child.??More >>
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Dr. Raymond Hall's TEDxMalibu Talk is now published for public viewing on YouTube. The Celebrity Chiropractor and Sleep Expert, Dr. Hall (aka "The Pillow Doctor") presented his stimulating TEDx Talk entitled "The Science of the Body Meets the Mystery of the Mind" on December 8, 2013. Dr. Hall was one of an elite and diverse group of eighteen "thought leaders" to speak at the third annual TEDxMalibu conference, an independently organized event licensed by TED.
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In his TEDx Talk, Dr. Hall eloquently put the complex nerve, brain and physiology pathways of the body into riveting and provocative facts and questions about how the mind interprets our senses and our changing environment. His presentation highlighted the power of meditation and positive thoughts to shift matter and produce positive change in one's life.
Dr. Hall is a leading chiropractor with over 29 years of clinical experience and the visionary behind PILLO1, a preventative all-natural solution to neck and back pain and sleepless nights, landing him the nickname "The Pillow Doctor." He has intriguing insight into the body, mind and spirit of our human system and culture of change.
Dr. Hall's talk reflected his unique perspective along with TEDxMalibu's intriguing theme: DESIRE. The event theme was inspired by a number of philosophers and teachers including Thomas Hobbes who asserted that human desire is the fundamental motivation of all action.
"Millions of Americans suffer from chronic sleep, health and pain issues," explains Dr. Hall. "My TEDx Talk offers a fantastic opportunity to further educate and empower individuals to positively change their thoughts, bodies, and ultimately, their lives."
Dr. Hall's presentation is now available for public viewing on TEDx YouTube channel at http://youtu.be/nabXiXfZqFo
Connect with PILLO1 at: http://www.PILLO1.com, https://www.facebook.com/pages/PILLO1/137090716321081, and https://twitter.com/PILLO1.
About Dr. Raymond Hall:
Dr. Raymond Hall is a celebrity chiropractor, sleep expert and the inventor of PILLO1. With over 29 years experience treating and healing thousands of patients, Dr. Hall's mission is to redefine what a pillow SHOULD do to support your spine, neck and head during sleep and provide a healthy alternative that is non-toxic and eco-friendly.
Dr. Hall is a member of the American Academy of Spine Physician, the California Chiropractic Association, and the American Chiropractic Association. He was recently honored by the "International Association of Chiropractors" with the prestigious award of the "TOP CHIROPRACTOR IN LOS ANGELES". His extensive patient base includes top film and television actors, as well as several professional and Olympic athletes.
Currently, Dr. Hall's practice is integrated with the world-renowned Pacific Coast Sports Medicine in Los Angeles, California, where he is regarded among the most coveted chiropractors in the country. He continues to develop and oversee new ideas and advancements in sleep health with PILLO1.
About PILLO1:
Made in America, PILLO1 is a premium, hand-crafted pillow designed to give you a full night's rest and support perfect spinal alignment. Created for both back and side-sleepers, PILLO1 is the most eco-friendly pillow on the market, built with a triad of eco-luxury foams. It's innovative design features precisely engineered contours and a meticulously hand-crafted design. http://www.pillo1.com
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In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.
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TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California almost 30 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes on a diverse mix of topics. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The TED2014 Conference will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, along with the TEDActive simulcast in neighboring Whistler. TEDGlobal 2014 will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed; and TEDBooks, short e-books on powerful ideas. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
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So let's see. Way back in December 2007, Google Reader add the socially option to share items from your RSS feeds with anyone in your Gmail contact list. These people are your so-called "friends," though most of them you probably haven't heard from in two years. Last May they premiered the ability to add a note to items you were sharing and share items from anywhere on the Internet. In August, they finally let us better control what friends we shared with.
Now, you can not just share with a note, but share with comments. And the people you've shared it with can comment back. In the lovely "Comment view," found under the Friend's Shared Items pane, you can browse and share in the shared conversations amongst your friends about items they've shared. It's a lot of sharing.
As a Google Reader user, I guess this is kind of cool. I actually still don't particularly care for letting my friends share stories with me (but I do it anyway), and it happens so rarely that I don't know that I'll be getting into any comment conversations on GReader any time soon. But that's just me, and I'm sure there are plenty of avid users out there.
As a blog owner/editor, however, I'm not as enthused. I love that subscribers can use feed readers to gather all their favorite blogs' new posts into one place. But maybe I'm just crazy, but the whole "social" part of blogging is in the comments to me.
By giving subscribers a different, possibly more convenient place to comment, I'll miss out on that feedback and those conversations. For sad (really). Is there going to be a way to notify feed owners of comments—and if so, would we want to know what people don't want to say on our sites?
I can see how some things don't really belong in the comments of a blog post (your friends' inside joke about Henry Kissinger probably won't add to a story about him, eh?) and of course, since you can share anything you want in GReader, not every page will have a place to comment. But most of the time, I do feel like the wider audience will be missing out on a lot of the conversation if we fragment things like this.
Whether you agree with the GReader-user-me or the blog-publisher-me, though, you have to admit this is a different direction for feed readers. What do you think? Will you use these features? Will you benefit from them?


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- 12 clickers per package.
- 2″ long and 1¼″ wide.
- Made of plastic.
- Assorted colors.
There is an insect invasion headed for your home! Play with your very own insect assortments, or even use them to scare your friends. Realistic plastic insects are perfect for any gag and for that curious kid to play with. With realistic insects like these who needs to go dig in the dirt?


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Big technology blog news: ReadWriteWeb just got acquired by SAY Media, the advertising/publishing company that also owns SixApart.
I'm thrilled to announce that ReadWriteWeb has been acquired by SAY Media, a digital publishing company headquartered in San Francisco. ReadWriteWeb will anchor SAY Media's growing Technology channel, which reaches more than 75 million global consumers each month.
ReadWriteWeb is going to get bigger and even better. Our plans include widening ReadWriteWeb's editorial scope and expanding our team. That starts from today, with the addition of SplatF's Dan Frommer to our team as an editor-at-large. We will also be doing a re-design, utilizing the sophisticated designers at SAY Media. With SAY's technology and services, we'll be able to scale ReadWriteWeb in ways previously unavailable to us. So I'm very excited about our team joining SAY Media. We're going to take ReadWriteWeb to the next level!
Congrats to RWW, a blog that's largely kept its integrity as it's grown to a massive size. They wrote a piece on SFB a few months back which put a lot of attention on the cool work that the Tumblr community is doing with journalism at large. Hope they can keep it up.


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Trade-Ideas: Lululemon Athletica (LULU) Is Today's "Water-Logged And Getting Wetter" Stock
- LULU has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $122.1 million.
- LULU has traded 1.1 million shares today.
- LULU traded in a range 212.9% of the normal price range with a price range of $3.51.
- LULU traded below its daily resistance level (quality: 26 days, meaning that the stock is crossing a resistance level set by the last 26 calendar days. The resistance price is defined by the Price - $0.01 at the time of the signal).
Stocks matching the 'Water-Logged and Getting Wetter' criteria are worthwhile stocks to watch for a variety of factors including historical back testing and volatility. Trade-Ideas targets these opportunities because the stock is exhibiting an unusual behavior while displaying negative price action. In this case, the stock crossed an important inflection point; namely, "support" while at the same time the range of the stock's movement in price is twice its normal size. This large range foreshadows a possible continuation as the stock moves lower. EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Get the inside scoop on opportunities in LULU with the Ticky from Trade-Ideas. See the FREE profile for LULU NOW at Trade-Ideas More details on LULU: lululemon athletica inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and distributes athletic apparel and accessories for women, men, and female youth. It operates in three segments: Corporate-Owned Stores, Direct To Consumer, and Other. LULU has a PE ratio of 37.9. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Lululemon Athletica a buy, 3 analysts rate it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold. The average volume for Lululemon Athletica has been 3.2 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Lululemon has a market cap of $8.0 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and consumer non-durables industry. The stock has a beta of 1.87 and a short float of 16.4% with 10.73 days to cover. Shares are down 8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12-months. Learn more. TheStreetRatings.com Analysis: TheStreet Quant Ratings rates Lululemon Athletica as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company is trading at a premium valuation based on our review of its current price compared to such things as earnings and book value. Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 5.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 21.0%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displaying stagnant earnings per share.
- LULU has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. Along with this, the company maintains a quick ratio of 6.46, which clearly demonstrates the ability to cover short-term cash needs.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 57.56% to $25.14 million when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of 14.90%.
- LULULEMON ATHLETICA INC reported flat earnings per share in the most recent quarter. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, LULULEMON ATHLETICA INC increased its bottom line by earning $1.85 versus $1.27 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.00 versus $1.85).
- The gross profit margin for LULULEMON ATHLETICA INC is rather high; currently it is at 52.77%. Regardless of LULU's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, LULU's net profit margin of 13.67% compares favorably to the industry average.
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Elephants "Get the Point of Pointing."
In the New York Times science section, Carl Zimmer discusses a recent demonstration that puts elephants amongst a select group of animals, including dogs, that understand the meaning of a pointed human finger. One would think that chimpanzees intuitively understand that pointing is meant to draw the individual's attention to something, but they don't. However, in a test involving elephants, Dr. Richard Byrne of the University of Saint Andrews, found that elephants understand the concept and get it right at about the same percentage as one-year old human babies.
Big Cats Are Big Suckers for Big Name Perfumes.
Zoo insiders have long known that the big cats respond to perfume scents. But in 2010, the Wildlife Conservation Society decided to do some scientific experiments to see just how the big cats responded. Bronx Zoo curator Pat Thomas describes the reaction of some big cats to perfume sprayed on a tree: "Sometimes they would start drooling, their eyes would half close, it was almost like they were going into a trance." Of the popular brands, Calvin Klein's "Obsession for Men," is quite popular among the big cats. In fact, jaguars in Central America have been persuaded to visit camera traps by a liberal use of the scent.
Do Dogs Really Love Us?
When Gregory Berns lost his dog, Newton, of 14 years, he decided that he wanted to know whether Newton really loved him. And since Berns was a leading expert in interpreting human brain scans, he took a scientific approach to the problem. Using fMRI testing, he soon learned what he, as a dog owner, long suspected. In dogs, as in humans, the same region of the brain, the caudate nucleus, is activated when strong emotional responses are experienced. Bern's book, "The Emotional Lives of Animals," explores in details the similarities and differences between the emotional lives of humans and other animals.
Echos of Jurassic Park.
A discovery reminiscent of the story line in classic movie, Jurassic Park, played out in real life. It turns out that a fossil of a 46 million-year-old mosquito encased in amber had been in the possession of a collector for the past 30 years. Recently, Dale Greenwalt, a retired scientist, noticed something unusual about the fossil. The body of the mosquito was obviously engorged by the blood of whatever creature it has last bitten. But here the similarity to Jurassic Park ends. For one thing, dinosaurs were already extinct 46 million years ago. For another, it is unlikely in the extreme that DNA this old can ever be reconstituted.
Armored Fish Resists Piranha.
The arapaima is a fish that lives in a bad neighborhood. Its home in the fresh waters of the Amazon river is shared by the vicious piranha fish, whose razor-like teeth can make fast work of most other fish. However, the arapaima has evolved a suitable defense: scales that act like armor protect it from even the bite of the piranha. Scientists studying the scales of the arapaima have learned that the overlapping scales are composed of spiral like structures that have some elastic properties. This means that when bitten, the arapaima's scales can distribute the load of the force of the tooth and avoid rupture. In another hats off to nature, there also may be military applications for the arapaima's unique defense.
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Just as children learn to use tools by watching adults use them, primate youngsters also learn from example. The more available these artifacts are in a primate population, the more likely that young primates will begin learning to also use them. A key component is the durability of the tools. Stone tools, such as the large stones that are used by some chimps to break open nut shells, are durable and remain within the population group for a long time. These type of artifacts, as opposed to organic matter that disintegrates over a short time, best support the generational transfer of technical learning among primates.
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An Underwater World Just Off Manhattan's Coastline.
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pretty damn sure i love you.@3 years ago
im simple. yet completely complicated at heart.
ive been through a lot in life and taken several different paths. i have a very different outlook than most. chances are, theres no surprising me in life.
i wanna be shown that theres still hope left in the world.
love: photography. tattoos. music. (lyrically and rhythmically) trees. water. sunshineee. and maryjane.
hate: fake. insecurity. doubt. depression. lies.
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what an awesome weekend. although, atlanta is sketchy as fuckkk. so strung out.@3 years ago with 4 notes
im1004 said: wait what? you live in atlanta? how have i not known this lol
i'm going to the local natives shows too :)
no i live in florida! (: im driving up there to see them because they never come here. ahhh are you really? thats so exciting i wanna find you there! hah@3 years ago
sometimes i dont know what i see in you. but other times i dont know what there is to not see. it hasnt been that long but im already craving you at night when im not with you. its kind of sad how fast im falling. and i know im falling. but i really hope youre okay with catching me. because honestly, i cant take another heartache. especially not from you.@3 years ago
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'Cedar Rapids': A Mildly Enjoyable Journey
Glenn Kenny, Special to MSN Movies
Director Miguel Arteta, who brings a knack for discomfiting comedy to work in independent film and ostensibly "edgy" television (he's directed episodes of "Six Feet Under," "The Office" and "Ugly Betty," among other series) seems to also have a penchant or affinity to awkward man-children who find, or make, themselves fish out of water. In 2000's "Chuck & Buck" it was Mike White's goofy, cheerful, snaggletoothed Buck, who very inconveniently reintroduces himself into the life of his childhood best friend who's gone on not only to actual adult socialization, but substantial showbiz success, and who doesn't want or need to be seen with such an overeager weirdo. In 2002's "The Good Girl" it was Jake Gyllenhaal's persistent Holden Caulfield wannabe, who wormed himself into the life of bored housewife Jennifer Aniston. Unlike those characters, Ed Helms' Tim Lippe, the thrifty, brave, clean and reverent insurance salesman hero of "Cedar Rapids," Arteta's latest film, has no interest in getting out into the greater world. Tim has what seems like a perfectly content little existence in the small town of Brown Valley, Wis. He lives in the house he grew up in, fills up his cute little bird feeder every morning, and helps his neighbors out by giving them decent deals on genuinely useful insurance products. Oh, and he also has regular sex with his former grade-school teacher Macy (Sigourney Weaver), who he still reflexively refers to as Mrs. Vanderhei.
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Tim's realm is in for some long-overdue shaking, it's clear, and it looks like it might be coming from Macy, whose mere good time Tim is taking for a grand passion that will lead to wedlock. But before Macy can drop the bomb on him, duty calls: The autoerotic asphyxiation death of a hotshot colleague (Thomas Lennon, reliably droll, who comes and goes) lands him a gig representing his firm at a big annual insurer's convention in the Iowa city of the film's title. Helms, always at the very least likable and at most hilarious and acute at portraying all-American Candides, provides good value enacting the almost de rigueur mini-scenarios that follow: Tim's first time on an airplane! Tim's first time at a hotel check-in; boy, isn't he squirrelly about giving the reception guy what's most likely his only credit card! Tim mistaking the prostitute hanging around at the hotel's entrance for a nice young lady who really ought not be smoking! And so on.
It certainly doesn't get any less predictable, or more memorable, from there. The hard-partying, obstinately vulgar rival salesman whom Tim's boss warned him to stay away from ends up as one of Tim's suitemates, and of course turns out to be not such a bad apple at all. This character, or "character" is played by John C. Reilly with typical "sure, I'll do five pages of dialogue with my gut hanging over the waistband of my boxers and wearing nothing else" uninhibitedness. The other suitemate is, as Tim puts it to Macy in a freaked-out voice, "an African-American man" played by Isiah Whitlock Jr., and if you've seen the trailer for this and thought, "Wow, that African-American man looks likely to walk away with the whole picture," you're not far wrong.
The women who conspire to loosen Tim up are played by Anne Heche, who's brisk, lively and still quite fetching as a wife and mom for whom Cedar Rapids is a kind of Vegas equivalent; and Alia Shawkat as the aforementioned prostitute, Bree, who at one point plies Tim with crystal meth, which made this viewer rather nostalgic for "The Breakfast Club," in which a mere marijuana cigarette sufficed to relax the kids and get them to "relate" to one another. (What's the saying? Oh, yes: "Kids, don't try this at home.")
As Tim despairs about the deep, dark secrets he's learned about his supposedly upstanding elders in the biz, Bree philosophizes, "We're all just selling something; me, a f---; you, insurance." Those who insist that there's something of a qualitative difference between the two goods/services that makes the sale of one permissible and the sale of another not, will not necessarily enjoy the ethic on which the film ultimately settles. The less uptight, as they say, will have an amusing enough time getting there, and some might even be glad that here Arteta's removed enough edge from his man-child hero that there's no chance of any of his quirks resonating in one's head the way that horrible rhyming incantation from "Chuck & Buck" did.
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- Sodium: 171mg
- Calcium: 0.0mg
- 1 cup reduced-fat gingersnap cookie crumbs (about 25 cookies)
- 2 tablespoons reduced-calorie margarine, melted
- 4 cups low-fat praline and caramel ice cream, softened
- 2 3/4 ounces commercial fat-free brownies, cut into cubes
- 1/4 cup finely chopped pecans, toasted
- 1/4 cup fat-free caramel-flavored syrup
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons praline liqueur
- Line a 1 1/2-quart bowl with heavy-duty plastic wrap. Combine crumbs and margarine; press into bottom and up sides of bowl, leaving a 1-inch space around top of bowl. Combine ice cream and next 3 ingredients; spoon into bowl. Cover and freeze at least 8 hours.
- To serve, let stand at room temperature 5 minutes. Invert onto a serving plate; remove bowl and plastic wrap. Cut into wedges. Drizzle 1 tablespoon liqueur over each wedge. Serve immediately.
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13 Healthy Snacking Strategies
To Maintain Your Weight
Budget your snacks. To figure out how many calories you can "spend" on between-meal bites, multiply your weight by 14 (if you work out several times a week). Then subtract the number of calories consumed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; what's left is your snack allowance for the day. Another option is to follow the 100-calorie-per-hour rule, says Sass. "In other words, a 400-calorie lunch should last you four hours." If you ate that lunch at noon, you'll be ready to nosh again at four. If dinner is scheduled for six, try not to exceed 200 calories for that snack.
Practice portion control. Even foods considered "healthy" can cause you to gain weight. Read the labels to compare prepackaged snacks (one muffin may have 170 calories, another 400). Pick up single-serving packs -- or buy in bulk and portion snacks out yourself (measure or weigh for the most accurate calorie count).
Fill up on fiber. Increasing fiber intake seems to be a largely untapped tactic for appetite and weight control. Most Americans consume 15 grams a day (the daily recommendation is at least 25). Boost your fiber intake by eating apples, raw veggies, popcorn, nuts, and dry whole-grain cereals. (We like Puffins by Barbara's Bakery, which contains six grams per three-quarter-cup serving, and Kashi Good Friends, with eight grams per three-quarters of a cup.)
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What do you recommend to someone who is losing their native language? I immigrated to the united states when I was six years old. I grew up in the city of San Francisco, went to elementary school, middle school and high school here. Now I am in college and starting San Francisco State for the fall…
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Fresno's The Village Educational Center views social and communicative competence as the focal point in each child's educational experience. Using a developmental-behavioral approach to instruction and curriculum, children are engaged in productive, meaningful activities that target cooperative learning experiences for all students. A staff to student ratio of 1:6 ensures that every student receives support and encouragement whenever needed.
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This story follows The Bee's special report, "State of Denial," published on April 27.
The morning after successfully lobbying for a historic vote to better manage West Coast rockfish, environmental consultant Dorothy Lowman was not celebrating; she was slumped in a hotel lobby chair.
For months, Lowman -- adviser to the conservation group Environmental Defense -- had worked to persuade the Pacific Fishery Management Council to consider a new Canadian-style quota system that could save both the West Coast trawl fleet and its increasingly scarce rockfish, commonly known as red snapper.
Now the daunting reality of drawing up a quota system and implementing it was settling in.
"We have our work cut out for us," a tired Lowman said in the Seattle lobby the morning after the Sept. 11 council vote. "It's going to be a challenge."
Individual fishing quotas represent a quantum shift in marine management -- one that seeks to conserve fish stocks less through traditional limits and seasonal closures and more through giving a slice of the yearly catch to individual fishermen, then letting them decide when to catch it, trade it or sell it.
In Canada, as in Alaska, quota systems have halted the frantic fishing derbies that occur when government restricts when, where and how much fleets can fish. Even there, however, quotas remain controversial, complex and, as the council will soon encounter, hard to put into place.
In British Columbia, fishermen, processors and federal officials found that a six-year-old quota system has led to healthier stocks of groundfish -- including rockfish -- better prices and less waste. But one Vancouver Island fisherman, Brian Mose, said designing a system "was a war."
The biggest challenge is deciding who gets how much quota -- a process that in Canada left some trawlers feeling shortchanged. Hurdles also include making the system work financially for fish processors, finding ways to allow young fishermen to get started and developing policies to prevent the economic consolidation of quota in the hands of a few.
"There will be rocky spots," said William Hogarth, director of fisheries at the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, which oversees the Pacific council.
Hogarth praised the council's vote to create a committee to draw up plans for a quota system for all groundfish. That committee is expected to meet for the first time in October.
"If they get to an impasse, I am committed to finding ways to get past that impasse," Hogarth said. "We can't continue with this economic roller coaster, with fighting each other."
At the Seattle meeting, most trawlers were inclined to agree.
"We are sharing a dream (of quotas) because we are living a nightmare," said fisherman Brad Pettinger of Brookings, Ore.
The search for solutions took a big step in June when Lowman and two Environmental Defense staff members, inspired by The Bee series "State of Denial," traveled to Canada to learn more about that nation's quota system. They invited three West Coast trawlers and a Pacific fisheries council economist.
The U.S. trawlers were shocked and elated at what they found: a Canadian fleet that had encountered their very same problems -- overfishing, economic despair and throwing back fish because of regulatory restrictions -- and conquered them with quotas.
"We came away with a contagious sense of enthusiasm," said Marion Larkin, a Washington trawler who traveled with the group.
Canada's system emerged from a fleet so constrained by limits and closures that it rushed to sea in a frenzied dash known as "Olympic fishing." Quarterly catch limits were exceeded in just a few days.
Today, with the right to harvest a yearly portion of the catch, Canadian trawlers work at a more leisurely pace, choosing to fish when prices are higher. With a proprietary stake in quota, they have an interest in keeping fish stocks healthy, too.
Now, Canadian fishermen actually catch less, but earn more. In 1996, B.C. trawlers caught 29 million metric tons of groundfish, worth $21 million Canadian dollars. In 2000, they landed 26 million metric tons but earned $34 million.
Over the same period, U.S. West Coast ground fishery earnings tumbled. The catch of rockfish, for instance, plummeted from $35 million in 1996 to $17 million in 2000 -- and $13 million last year. In California alone, the value of the rockfish catch plunged from $15 million in 1996 to $6 million last year.
"In some ways, it takes a crisis for fishermen to decide to change," said Lowman, a former economist with the Pacific council. "In Canada, we found common ground."
Lowman and the others weren't content just to bring tales of Canadian success to the Seattle meeting. They brought the Canadians themselves, including Vancouver Island trawler Mose.
When the Canadian system began in 1997, "I was adamantly against it in a very significant way," Mose said. Today, he is among its most fervent disciples. He catches fewer fish -- about 4 million pounds a year compared to 6 to 8 million pounds before quotas -- but times his fishing trips to coincide with spikes in demand in California, where most B.C. rockfish is sold.
Mose drew laughter from the U.S trawlers when he said managing quotas has turned the once financially unsophisticated Canadian trawlers into "Excel spread-sheet wizards."
Though he was once suspicious of government fish managers, Mose spoke glowingly of Canada's at-sea monitoring program, which places a government observer on every boat to record what's brought up in the nets.
The scientific information that injects into the quota system gives it credibility, Mose said. Without it the system would be open to criticism.
The Seattle meeting also provided the first glimpses of the likely upcoming struggle over quotas in the United States.
Tim Horgan, chief operating officer for Pacific Seafoods -- a major West Coast processor -- expressed concerns about how such a system might affect processors. Some processors are concerned about the ways in which quotas could cut into their profits by shifting more control of the market to the trawlers.
"We haven't come out with our position yet," Horgan said. "We believe processors need to be recognized. If there is a proposal that does not include processors, we would be opposed."
A 2002 U.S. General Accounting Office report found that a quota system for halibut and sablefish in Alaska yielded mixed results for processors.
"Some processors were adversely affected ... while others benefited," the GAO found. "It is difficult, however, to quantify the actual benefits."
Murray Chatwin, a buyer for Ocean Fisheries Ltd. -- a Canadian processor -- said initial decisions over the allocation of quota to trawlers, processor involvement and other economic details were agonizing in his country.
"We went through quite a gut-wrenching experience putting the system together," Chatwin said. "I feel like I aged five years in one.
"My advice is separate out the socioeconomic issues and deal with them on their own," he said. "Don't confuse them with fisheries management, which is not that complicated."
Although fishermen tend to welcome the additional control quotas could give them, they worry about how that quota would be doled out.
Canadian officials used a formula based on the size of a trawl owner's boat and catch, hiring a retired judge to make the final call. Some trawlers fared well; others didn't.
Policies to prevent economic consolidation include caps on how much quota of each type of groundfish a trawler can accumulate.
Despite lingering concerns, a sense of urgency is building among many U.S. fishermen.
"They've got to do something," said Troy Vought, a trawl owner from Eureka who has been forced by the fishing downturn to start a new career on land. "The industry is collapsing. The markets are collapsing. We're not going to survive."
Ralph Brown -- the Pacific council member who introduced the motion to create the quota committee -- concurred.
"We've got an opportunity to try to fix this fishery," he said, "and it would be literally criminal for us to miss it."
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KBB 2013 Brand Image Awards has some obvious and oddball winners
March 30, 2013 by Toyota Bloggers · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Etc. , BMW , Buick , Chrysler , Ford , Honda , Lexus , Mercedes-Benz , Mini , Porsche , Toyota The sixth edition of the Kelley Blue Book Brand Image Awards have crowned a wide range of winners – in a couple of cases the recipient of the laurels might say more about KBB users than they do about the actual winner. Compiled from the responses of more than 12,000 shoppers on KBB.com over the past year, there are 13 categories broken into non-luxury, luxury and truck segments "representing the combined wisdom of the American car-buying public." The award categories have been revamped this year , with some dropping off, some new ones appearing and at least one other given a new term. What isn't surprising is that Honda won Most Trusted Brand for the second year running, Best Value Brand for the third year in a row and took Best Overall Brand, which wasn't on last year's list of awards. On our own shores, in the non-luxury categories Chrysler got Most Refined Brand and Buick took Best Value Luxury Brand. Neither one of those marques won anything in last year's Brand Image Awards, while Cadillac , which won Best Interior Design Brand and Best Comfort Brand last year – those awards disappeared this year – went home without a single accolade. Winners that made us go "Hmmm…" are Toyota for Best Overall Truck Brand and Mini for Best Performance Brand in the non-luxury segment. Last year's truck award was for the Most Rugged Truck Brand and was won by Ford ; the switch to "overall" takes things in a completely different direction for KBB users, it seems. And Mini dominating non-luxury performance is something we'd like to hold some focus groups to find out more about. Check out the press release below for all the winners and the details.
General Motors and Volkswagen may benefit from anti-Japan protests in China
September 21, 2012 by Toyota Bloggers · Leave a Comment
Filed under: China , Japan , Buick , Cadillac , Chevrolet , GM , Honda , Nissan , Toyota , Volkswagen The unrest in China may have positive consequences for automakers like Volkswagen and General Motors , according to Automotive News . As protesters continue their streak of violence, many owners of Japanese vehicles are leaving them home for fear of damage. Protesters have vandalized Japanese businesses and those that sell Japanese goods, including car dealerships, as well personal property. Reports indicate some owners are swapping their Toyota badges for those of Chinese automaker BYD in hopes of fooling vandalism-minded mobs. Nissan , Toyota and Honda have all reported attacks on their dealerships, and China's Passenger Car Association has predicted Japanese automakers may lose their market lead to those based in the U.S. and Germany. General Motors sold a total of 1.84 million vehicles in China under a total of three brand names, while Volkswagen moved 1.49 million units this year. By comparison, Nissan has sold just 485,000 vehicles. The protests mark the 81st anniversary of the Manchurian Incident, which saw Japanese forces invade China. General Motors and Volkswagen may benefit from anti-Japan protests in China originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:01:00 EST.
These are American senior citizens' favorite cars
December 16, 2011 by Toyota Bloggers · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Car Buying , Etc. , Buick , Cadillac , Chevrolet , Hyundai , Toyota The stereotype of elderly drivers preferring Lincolns and Buicks has to come from somewhere. TrueCar.com took a look at the past two years of car sales to buyers at least 65 years old and found a couple common threads. The first thing these buyers are looking for is familiarity. The nameplates and vehicle types that were popular when these buyers were younger rank high with senior buyers, kind of the same way people's musical preferences get frozen in time. Value is also a big attractor for the senior dollar, a consideration for buyers nearing the end of their careers or already on fixed incomes. The brand names on the list may not surprise anyone, though the Cadillac and Buick brands high scores show that those divisions' push for a younger average buyer age hasn't put off longstanding customers. In fact, there are some models that owe their continued existence to this older demographic. So which cars are they? Hit the gallery and find out.


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On this week's episode of Media Mayhem, Allison speaks to Esquire's Editor at Large and bestselling author A.J. Jacobs. Allison and A.J. talk celebrity interviews, the nature of investigative journalism and how alternative media has changed the way journalists work. Allison and A.J. also discuss his best selling books and laugh about some of AJ's particularly interesting encounters.
A.J. Jacobs is Editor at Large at Esquire magazine and author of three bestselling books: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically and My Life as an Experiment: One Man's Humble Quest to Improve Himself. A.J. has written for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and New York magazine. He has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. A.J.'s latest book Drop Dead Healthy will be released in April 2012.
00:00-01:40 Introduction: AJ Jacobs
01:40 AJ's style of Journalism.
02:35 When you interviewed Ellen Degeneres, did you hesitate to interview and make fun of her in prose?
04:00 If you think you won't be interviewing someone again, will you "have at it" with them?
05:00 When you do a "write around" do you feel like you have to be more careful?
06:10 When you interview a celebrity are their lines you can't cross and do you discuss those with them before the interview?
07:45 Has anyone ever told you that you've gone too far?
10:05 Have things changed in terms of interviewing celebrities?
14:40 Do you think there are more attempts to control what journalists put out by publications?
18:25 Do you find that there are very few other journalists who like to come out from behind their desks and do real investigative journalism?
19:25 How can you not consider yourself an investigative journalist?
20:30 Do you think other journalists tend not to get out there?
21:50 Kardashian coverage.
22:50 What is your reaction to it?
25:10 Have you ever thought about getting involved in television?
28:00 Ever consider having your own reality show?
29:55 Did you get a lot of negative feedback from "The Year of Living Biblically"?
32:09 Tell us about your experience with the Amish.
35:40 VIDEO: Today Show with AJ living biblically.
36:50 MEDIA MAYHEM segment with Producer Nick.
37:25 Headline 1: Scarlett Johansson Nudes.
39:10 Headline 2: "One Year of Prison Costs More Than One Year at Princeton".
40:35 Have you found educating yourself is more useful than the education you received in college?
42:05 Headline 3: "Cane Faults Perry as More Allegations Emerge".
43:10 Do you see any of the candidates today acting appropriately according to Washington?
44:07 Do you think Obama's civility gets used against him? And are politics something you find interesting to write about?
45:30 Headline 4: Just How Many Explosions Have Michael Bay's Movies Had Anyway?"
46:40 Headline 5: "U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners"
48:25 Headline 6: "Time for John McCain to Retire… This Joke".
49:45 Do your family remembers mind being in the books?
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This is my big bang for lost_land . It's a collection of picspams, writing, and songs, all centered around the last half or so of "The End" from Jack's point of view. I would post it all here, but you might all run away because it's giant and stuff, so check it out if you're so inclined.
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People always said life comes full circle. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Out of the cradle and into the coffin, but Jack never imagined it quite like this. Lying on the ground and staring up at the sky, at trees and blue, and really this is where his life began. The moment they crashed, that first breath of the island's air. He was born here, this bamboo forest. A plane passes overhead. Nobody dies alone, Jack. He hears his father's voice in his head, words never spoken, but he knows they're true. Jack smiles. He clasps his hands over the hole in his skin and he can't feel the pain anymore.
When Jack closes his eyes, it doesn't feel like dying. It feels like moving on.
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Veronica Mars
Slow it down, make it stop or else my heart is going to pop
'Cause it's too much, yeah it's a lot to be something I'm not
I'm a fool out of love 'cause I just can't get enough
I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don't know where to go, can't do it alone
I've tried and I don't know why
I'm just a little girl lost in the moment
I'm so scared but I don't show it
I can't figure it out, it's bringing me down
I know I've got to let it go and just enjoy the show
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Firefly
Every dawn gets its day like
Every frown gets her way like
Every step to the daylight keeps you stumbling on
Every backward blackbird
Standing out through the rafters
So sure he can meet her
Thinks he bears a tone
So wake up, wake up, wake the sun
Who hired the walls of the station
To arrest my imagination
Profit from my place under the callous thumb
Every dawn gets its day like
Man, they blindly parade like
Every step that we weigh down plays out like a drum
To wake up, shake up, to wake the sun
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Dollhouse
- I am an anarchist, an Antichrist, an asterisk
I am an anorak, an acolyte, an accidental
I am eleven feet
okay, eight…
six foot three…
- I fought the British and I won
I have a rocket ship, a jet fighter
a paper airplane
- Say what you will,
I am the kill
The only thing that keeps you
really, truly safe
from being real
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Buffy the Vampire Slayer
If you're still alive my regrets are few
If my life is mine what shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going, I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing and my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft, tough to be tender
Come take my pulse, the pace is on a runaway train
Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Angel
Marionettes on weakening cables
Huddled up with fear and hate
Because they know their fate and it's a lot to put them through
We've taken on a climb
And it's long enough to put the best of us on our backs
Walking up a slide
And there are those we know who'd have us five miles off the track
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Supernatural
My love, I am the speed of sound
I left them motherless, fatherless
Their souls they hang inside-out from their mouths
But it's never enough
I want you
Carved your name across three counties
Ground it in with bloody hides
Their broken necks will line the ditch
'til you stop it, stop it
Stop this madness
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): The Vampire Diaries
The moon it moves in cycles and
We're subject to its will, its whims
The tide, the time, the age, the law
Run back and forth from idle dogs
History is not a highway
Straight an narrow always
But a roundabout and round again
We ride around and hope for change
Then the world is upside down
And we're walking on our hands
But we keep on spinnin' round
And who knows where we'll land
In the end
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Misfits
We'll travel like gypsies, only with worse luck and far less gold
The kids you used to love, but then we grew old
We're the lifers, here till the bitter end
Condemned from the start
Ashamed of the way the songs and the words own
The beating of our hearts
Are we growing up, or just going down?
It's just a matter of time until we're all found out
Take our tears, put 'em on ice
Cause I swear I'd burn the city down to show you the light
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Merlin
Things are shaping up to be pretty odd
Little deaths in musical beds
So it seems I'm someone I've never met
You will only hear these elegant crimes
Fall on your ears from criminal dimes
They spill unfound from a pretty mouth
Things have changed for me, and that's okay
I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say
Things have changed for me, and that's okay
10 Favorite Shows of 2010 (in no particular order): Doctor Who
Oh, naive little me
Asking what things you have seen
You're vulnerable in your head
You'll scream and you'll wail till you're dead
Creatures veiled by night
Following things that aren't right
And they're tired and they need to be led
Or you'll scream and you'll wail till you're dead
But give me to a rambling man
Let it always be known that I was who I am
Why You Should Watch Doctor Who (for Anonymous's friend)
A 900 year old time-traveling alien from the planet Gallifrey, who travels in a phone box from the 60's and changes his face to stay alive. His companions; brave and loyal and brilliant, each and every one of them. An assortment of aliens, from the vicious and mindless to the old and the kind. Glimpses of history; Vincent Van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens. Stories to make your mind spin, lines to make you smile, scenes to make you cry. A crew of brilliant and gorgeous actors and actresses, producers and writers. Beautiful landscapes, planets, places and colors. And a small screwdriver.
For the Anon who wanted the pregnant actresses picspam. It's not exactly "massive", but I hope your friend finds it ~inspiring~


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Generational Equity Proudly Announces its 2012 Rankings
DALLAS, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Generational Equity, a leading mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately-held, middle-market businesses, is pleased to announce that once again it is one of the top ranked M&A advisory firms for deals valued below $50 and $100 million, respectively.
Rankings are compiled annually based on deals submitted to Thomson Reuters. The 2012 rankings can be seen by clicking on the following link:
Thomson Reuters 2012 Middle-Market Rankings
In addition to ranking in the top 10 in two categories, for the seventh year in a row the company is ranked number one in deals closed with disclosed values below $10 and $25 million.
"Our ability to repeatedly rank as one of the leading M&A advisory firms servicing privately held companies in North America is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our entire deal team," stated Dwight Jacobs, Executive Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions for the firm. "I am quite pleased with our team's work in 2012 given all the uncertainty facing both buyers and sellers last year."
According to Ryan Binkley, President of Generational Equity, "Being ranked as we are is really an honor but what pleases me the most is that we are helping owners of privately held companies monetize their largest asset, helping them to diversify their holdings and reach their individual dreams."
Tom Farrell, Executive Vice President for the firm added, "With the momentum we gained at the end of 2012, we are looking forward to 2013 being another record year for our company. It will take quite a bit of hard work, but I am confident that we have assembled the finest deal making team in the industry."
About Generational Equity
Generational Equity provides mergers, acquisitions, strategic growth advisory services, and information for privately held and family-owned businesses to exit their business successfully. Generational Equity uses a four-phase approach that includes education, financial analysis and reporting, sales documentation and deal-making ability to offer business owners an unparalleled level of commitment and experience, all focused on helping to release the generational equity and wealth in every business. Generational Equity is headquartered in Dallas, TX, has more than 200 professionals in North America, and was recognized last year by the M&A Advisor as the M&A Consulting/Advisory service firm of the year. For more information visit the following websites at www.genequityco.com, www.gecpress.com or http://blog.genequityco.com/.
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