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The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture's annual ArtFest event will stay put in Browne's Addition in 2012.
Museum officials had pondered moving the art, food and music festival from Coeur d'Alene Park in Browne's Addition to the larger Riverfront Park downtown.
The Browne's Addition Neighborhood Council viewed the prospect with alarm and called a meeting Wednesday night to voice concerns.
Forrest Rodgers, the MAC's new executive director, talked to neighborhood representatives and said Thursday that ArtFest will remain at Coeur d'Alene Park next year.
The final numbers are in for "Leonardo da Vinci: Man – Inventor – Genius."
About 38,000 people attended this summer-long traveling exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC).
It came close to the museum's attendance goals and more than met its financial goals, according to the people at the MAC.
The final week – the week before Labor Day – was particularly strong, attracting 6,500 people.
"There were lines out the front door and even out in the street," said museum spokeswoman Rebecca Bishop.
The MAC would have liked to have broken the 40,000-visitor mark set by the "T. rex Named Sue" exhibit in 2007. However, the T. rex exhibit charged regular museum admission while the da Vinci exhibit had special (higher) pricing.
"Leonardo" was also a hit with schools. A total of 3,400 people visited as part of school groups.
The MAC also signed up 500 new members over the exhibit's span.
Forrest B. Rodgers has been appointed the new executive director of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC).
Rodgers was most recently the director of the Central Washington University Foundation in Ellensburg.
From 2001 to 2007, he was the president and CEO of the privately funded High Desert Museum in Bend, Ore., which reversed a decline in paid attendance.
He will take over on Aug. 1 from Ron Rector, who is retiring.
It is, of course, too early to tell what Rodgers will mean to the MAC. Yet I can say that the MAC could do worse than emulate the High Desert Museum, one of the Northwest's best and most entertaining regional museums.
Line I overheard on the bus last week: "That Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the MAC isn't even real! They want us to pay to see a bunch of fake stuff!"
OK, where should I begin?
First, get real. Did you truly expect the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) to have an original da Vinci painting? There are only about 16 da Vinci paintings in existence and unless your museum has the word "Louvre" in it's name, your chances of getting one is just about nil.
Second, most of the exhibit consists of large, wooden models of mechanical devices made from drawings in da Vinci's notebooks. You can call those "fakes," I suppose, except there there is no such thing as an "original" of these devices. Da Vinci never made any.
Third, "fake" or not, you'll learn a heck of a lot about da Vinci, one of the most remarkable minds of all time. And isn't that the point?
Fourth, decades ago, I once saw the "Mona Lisa" on loan to the National Gallery in Washington D.C. Yeah, it was the real thing, all right, but the crowds were so enormous (500,000 in 27 days) and the security was so tight I got about a one-second glimpse of it. We were whisked past it on moving walkway. The one I saw at the MAC was a fake — a digital reproduction — but I sure got a better look at the old girl.
I wrote an update for Wednesday's paper about the MAC's layoffs, which you can read here.
I would like to expand on Ben Mitchell's legacy as art curator at the MAC. I do not consider myself an authority on visual art, but I am nevertheless convinced that Mitchell did an outstanding job of honoring our region's cultural life. He is responsible for giving Harold Balazs the serious, comprehensive retrospective he so richly deserved. He worked hard on this for years, because — well, because our important artists must be given their due.
He did the same for another local artist, Ruben Trejo, who was less well-known, but incredibly influential not just in the region but in the country.
And most recently, he introduced many of us to a Colfax artist, Timothy Ely, who was legendary among the cognoscenti, but had been relatively under-the-radar here.
And when Mitchell did exhibits like these, he went all the way. In the case of Balazs and Trejo, he even helped produce handsome coffee-table-sized art books which will enable their influence to continue to spread.
I do not blame the MAC for making the decision to lay him off. The MAC is stuck in an impossible financial position. The MAC was forced to make a decision it would never have made except under severe budget duress.
Yet I suspect that someday, and soon, we will look back on Mitchell's tenure as a remarkable age of art at the MAC, in which local artists got the shows, and the scholarly, intellectual respect, that they had earned.
Ben Mitchell, the senior curator of art at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), was laid off this week.
The museum had to make a five percent budget cut, after it barely escaped closure when the state budget was finalized.
One other position, was also cut, in the collections department, but I could not get confirmation of a name.
With staffing already cut to the bone — the museum's staffing was already down 40 percent over the last two years — finding any positions to cut was agonizing, according to Rebecca Bishop, the museum's marketing and communications director.
It came down to the fact that the museum felt it had "backup" in the area of art — other staffers who can step in to do art exhibits. But don't expect to see as many art exhibits in the future.
Will the MAC be able to do exhibits of the caliber and scope of the Timothy Ely exhibit, the Ruben Trejo exhibit and the Harold Balazs exhibit, just to name three examples of Mitchell's exceptional work?
I'd say it's doubtful. Right now, we don't even know if the museum will even have the position of art curator.
I'll try to find more information next week. If anybody has any insight, please weigh in.
I just walked through "Leonardo da Vinci: Man – Inventor – Genius" while installers and curators readied it for a June 3 opening at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), 2316 W. First.
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This exhibit, which will run all summer, ought to be a hit with kids and adults. Tickets are now on sale through TicketsWest outlets.
Please note that I said "reproductions" of the paintings. The originals are far too valuable and delicate to be hauled around the world. In the case of "Last Supper," you'd have to uproot an entire Italian church. It's painted on a wall in Milan.
A bunch of Browne's Addition restaurants and shops have initiated MAC Madness, in which you get a discount for writing a letter to your local legislator urging support for the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC), which is facing the possibility of closure due to state funding cuts.
So the following places are partnering with the Save the MAC people to encourage a letter writing campaign for the month of March. Here are the deals you get:
The Elk, 1931 W. Pacific Ave.: $1 off drinks throughout the week when you write a letter (beginning March 6) Also, Sundays from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., informal letter writing party.
Italia Trattoria, 144 S. Cannon St.: Saturday and Sunday brunch, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., write a letter while you dine and they will treat you to an Italian doughnut with your a purchase of an entree.
The Avenue, 2001 W. Pacific Ave.: All day Wednesdays, $1 off drinks with a letter; MAC Special is any two topping medium pizza for $10 (regularly $14) with a letter.
Tully's, 2001 W. Pacific Ave.: Seven days a week, receive 10 percent off any barista beverage that is accompanied by a letter. Browne's Addition location only.
Also, the Roberts Mansion, 1923 W. First Ave., is offering free tours on Friday, March 4, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (First Friday) if you write a letter to your legislator.
Letter templates, by the way, will be provided.


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Three Main Levels of Spina Bifida
There are three main degrees of severity within the congenital condition of Spina Bifida: Spina Bifida Occulta, Meningocele, and Myelomeningocele.
1. Spina Bifida Occulta, or hidden Spina Bifida, is when the vertebrae of the spine do not close before birth, but the membranes surrounding the spinal cord and the spinal cord itself stay within the spinal column rather than protruding through the opening. Skin covers this defect, so it remains hidden and usually will not yield the side effects of the more severe types of Spina Bifida.
2. Meningocele is the middle of the road in terms of severity. The meninges, or membranes surrounding the spinal cord, poke out of the opening in the vertebrae and create a sac, usually filled with fluid. Meningocele patients may experience a few to no symptoms, and the condition may be correctable with surgery.
3. Myelomeningocele is the most common and most severe form of Spina Bifida. In patients with this form of Spina Bifida, the spinal cord joins the meninges in protruding through the opening in the vertebrae. This can cause serious problems due to damage to the nervous system's main highway (spinal cord).
Within each of these three forms, there are varying degrees of severity as well. Symptoms can extend from very minor physical problems to severe disabilities, both physical and mental.
Reasons for Varying Severity within Each Form
There are several individual considerations that can affect how severe the symptoms are in each case of Spina Bifida.
1. One of the most impactful elements of the condition is the placement of the opening in the vertebrae. The proximity to the brain and the part of the spinal cord affected can make a form of Spina Bifida more or less severe with regard to symptoms.
2. Another item that can affect the degree of severity in Spina Bifida is the development of related conditions. Patients with Spina Bifida are at a greater risk for Hydrocephalus, Meningitis, Chiari II malformation, latex allergies, learning disabilities, skin problems, gastrointestinal difficulties, and depression. With each of these related conditions, additional symptoms add to the severity of the condition.
3. With Meningocele and Myelomeningocele, the sac that protrudes from the back on the spinal column may or may not be covered with skin. If a protective layer of skin is not present, the patient is at a much greater risk for infection. Infections can cause added symptoms and may exacerbate the existing symptoms.
4. Severity may also be influenced by when the condition is diagnosed and speed with which treatment is implemented. There is no cure for this congenital condition, but some cases are diagnosed while the baby is in the womb. Surgeries are now being performed prenatally to try to prevent damage occurring to the nervous system.
1. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/spina_bifida/detail_spina_bifida.htm
2. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001558.htm

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The Newest Pledge (2012)
Cop 1: Is this a party?
Renato: What about me?
Steak Mungro: Steak... out.
Richie Sambora: Alright, so I wikipedia'd babies over here and it says that babies cry as a form of instinctive communication.
39: so the baby is trying to talk to us?
Merkhaus: Tell it to speak English!
El Nino: Yeah what is he some sort of immigrant baby?
Thames: It's a male.
Night Train's Date: He is so cute!
Rodney 'Night Train' Maine: I know, I'm just glad he's not mine.
Night Train's Date: Am I the first white girl you've ever been with?
Rodney 'Night Train' Maine: Hell naw!
Night Train's Date: Well it only takes one white girl to make a white baby.
Rodney 'Night Train' Maine: What?
Thames' Father: Let me tell you about the Omega class of 1932. The stocks were down, way way down. Oh, but so were the girls skirts. Ha ha ha. And we, the Omegas, we invented the boobs! The way to go, the way to show, the way to get the job done right? Skirts and down, the boobs are out, everything is flowing man! Like who needed consequences? We're no candyasses. We got it done, we made it work baby! The Omega, Omega, Omega! Yeah!
Thames: You want to know about that corn? Let me tell you about that corn; It took me SIX DAMN YEARS to raise that shit! And when you rip it out, you rip me out!
39: Didn't you learn your lesson last year?
Rico: The better question would be what kind of lessons have you learned since last year?
Merkhaus: That makes no sense.
Rico: Think about it.
Merkhaus: I just did it makes no sense.
Max: [THE BABY IS CRYING] How do we make him stop?
Giles: I don't know do something!
Max: Like what?
Giles: Anything. What are you good at?
Max: I can tell really, really good knock-knock jokes.
Giles: Ooh, let's hear one.
Max: Knock-knock.
Giles: Who's there?
Max: Fanny.
Giles: Fanny who?
Max: If anybody calls, I'm out.
Giles: That's even worse. You just made it even worse.
Rodney 'Night Train' Maine: You know I thought about it long and hard, and I came to the decision that my favorite food is corn dogs with teriyaki sauce.
El Nino: So I've been thinking about publishing my memoirs and calling them "El Nino: How I Bring the Rain," because El Nino is like a state of mind you know...
39: Actually, El Nino is a climate pattern that occurs in the tropical Pacific ocean about every five years effecting the surface temperature of the ocean water and the pressure of the air above it resulting in global climate anomalies some of which are drastic.
Pledge: I still don't understand how you're graduating college and yet you can't remember to put the diaper on the baby before you put him in the crib.
Richie Sambora: Hey you know what Pledge, enough. You don't understand the pressure of having the actually graduate college. When my aunt Debbie graduated college she opened up an orphanage; an orphanage for midgets. It went really well until they started getting their hands on candy. A couple of years later we never heard from aunt Debbie again.
Rico: Rico out!
Rodney 'Night Train' Maine: Spending all our money.


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Shamans can do anything and everything. Since Cata and all the patches I have still yet to see another healer heal more than my shaman on the healing charts. It does not matter whether I am healing the raid or the tank. It is so easy to keep the raid healed through Healing Rain and CH. If your haste/mastery/crit are at acceptable levels then your Healing Wave will heal for about 15k+ hp and will be able to rip off one after another. It all depends on the situation and knowing which spell to use. I can heal a tank for days by using Unleash elements, Riptide, Healing wave x2. Healing wave is so powerful if you have your stats to back it up and you do not even have to worry about mana regen because the spell costs hardly any mana. Throw in an occasional GHW and resto shaman are still superior. I laugh when I read or hear people complain about their shaman healing because I know that is just 1 more person who doesnt know how to play their class.


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MMarket research firm Infonetics Research has released preliminary analysis from its second quarter (2Q12) Optical Network Hardware vendor market share report. (The full report available for purchase with forecasts and detailed analysis was published on August 24.) Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst for optical at Infonetics Research, commented, "The optical hardware market outlook looks decidedly different depending on which market you sell into."
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Unshakable Faith in a Shaken World: God, Where are You When My World is Shaken? | Psalm 139:23-24 | Devotional
Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
In a time of personal reflection, the prophet Jeremiah wrote, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9) Left on my own, there isn't much I can't rationalize. Even sin can be seen as something deserved. Whoever believes his heart is not deceitful is deceived. That's why today's passage should be our daily prayer.
When I understand that I am not the best judge of my motives, it's time to bow before the God who is all the way through my heart. Let's ask Him to do some serious searching.
Father, I ask you to shine your search light on my heart. Make the sin show up in a clear and disgusting way. Make known my heart. Show me where I am missing the mark. Make known my anxious thoughts so I can turn from worry to trust. Show me where I am offensive to you and others. Please don't let me live my life doing things that offend others by my personality or actions or words and not even know the damage I'm causing. Please don't let me live in an offensive way to you and never seek your forgiveness. Father, help me to follow hard after you as you lead me home. In Christ's Name. Amen.
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text: Whatever Happened To Country Music Star Margo Smith? By Randy McDaniel January 21, 2014 When we talk about the great ladies in country music history, names like Kitty, Tammy, Loretta, and Dolly invariably come up. Well, in the 1970's, when I first began a career in radio broadcasting, there was another name. Read More|Comment Category: Country Music News, Whatever Happened To... Tags: Margo Smith, Whatever Happened To... Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


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I'm quickly approaching my two-year mark of being a vaper. One thing you'll realize after you've been vaping a while is you build up a large amount of personal vaporizers and items you either used once and didn't like, or have simply moved on from. This applies especially to people who have moved up to mods. Instead of just letting them become dust gatherers there's actually a few things you can do with them.


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It has been a busy Spring in Somerville. In addition to the Mayor's Urban Agriculture Initiative which kicked off the season with a series of events about urban food production, a new proposed Urban Ag Ordinance and City Hall garden, the Morse Kelley Playground opened with 19 new gardening plots. The MK community garden and some of its gardeners were featured in the May issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine when the City's Senior Planner for Landscape Design, Luisa Oliveira, responded to the editor's question of what are the ways "that landscape architects can reshape the future of the food supply?" with the examples of what is happening in the 'Ville. You can read the editor's original article about landscape architects and food here: http://www.asla.org/land/LandArticle.aspx?id=34367(link doesn't seem to be viewable on a mobile device)
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Ask the Readers: What's the best way to prepay your mortgage?
Published on - October 4th, 2013 (by Ellen Cannon)
Recently, Mandy sent a question via our Facebook page (like this site, it's a really active community with more than 35,000 followers). We turned to our colleague Keith Gumbinger, vice president of HSH.com and a mortgage expert who is regularly interviewed by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications, for an answer to her question. Others who want to pay off their mortgage faster may also benefit from this guidance.
Here's the question:
I would like to have a weekly withdrawal from my bank account to pay my mortgage payment. My lender offers a biweekly advantage plan, but there is a fee for each transaction. I spoke with a rep yesterday who told me if I send in weekly on my own, the payment will be sent back to me. Even if I sign up for the biweekly, the payment is not applied until the entire payment for the month has been received. How does this save money on interest, other than making the one extra payment (because of two extra withdrawals) toward principal a year? Would you recommend I just pay my monthly payment as normal and make an extra payment each year on my own? I don't like the idea of paying a fee to try to save money. I am now in a position to try to pay down my mortgage faster, but feel like I'm being held back by the bank and I just don't know how to do it. Thank you for any help you can offer!
And here's Keith's response:
It's admirable that you want to pay off your mortgage faster. Over the long haul, the savings from doing so can be appreciable.
Please know that your lender isn't simply being mean in refusing your offer of weekly payments, nor are they trying to gouge you with excessive fees for a biweekly payment plan. It is most likely that even if the lender wanted to take money from you on a weekly basis, their servicing software simply isn't set up to do this; at most, biweekly is the fastest frequency available.
With regard to transaction fees, it is also likely that the EFT or auto-debit arrangement will have some small per-transaction costs. Some of this may be beyond the lender's control, especially if the money comes from some other institution. There are also overhead costs which must be covered, too, so provided the fee isn't much it should not overturn your decision to accelerate the amortization of your mortgage.
Think of it this way: If you could save $50,000 over the next 20 years, and the cost of doing so is $1,000 (2%) — saving $49,000 painlessly still has tremendous value, no?
To know exactly what your savings will be (so you can evaluate this against any costs), you should check out HSH.com's Amortization Calculator, which will show you your savings from whenever you start your prepayment plan.
Most lender-offered biweekly plans work exactly as you describe; two biweekly payments are accumulated and applied. As such, you are making that 13th monthly payment per year, which as you note, you can do on your own. However, doing it on your own requires discipline, so if you're diligent about your money management, you can certainly handle this. However, too many folks aren't good about this, and so the auto-debit arrangement is a kind of mandatory discipline for them — they will save money despite less-than-perfect debt management practices.
Before you consider paying down your mortgage quickly, you'll want to look across your financial landscape and see if those funds might be put to better use, though. Such uses include retiring higher-interest debt (like credit cards, or student loans), filling up your retirement coffer or building up emergency savings, investing in your children's education, procuring life, disability or even long-term-care insurance and other uses for spare cash (including some fun ones!).
In the end, how to make these payments is up to you. If you are concerned about transaction costs but have the discipline, there's nothing wrong with simply sending in an extra payment every year. If the transaction fees aren't much, you might enjoy the convenience of having this process happen automatically for you. Best of luck.
So, readers, are you accelerating your mortgage payments? What method are you using?
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Auto transfer from bank account(Main) to bank account (Mortgage Bucket) every WEEK using auto bill pay/or auto transfer. Then use auto bill pay 1x per month to send the payment off from Mortgage Bucket to the company?
Our mortgage lender (a credit union) allows us to designate an additional principal amount to be automatically paid with each monthly payment. We can also physically go into any branch and pay additional principal at no charge. I believe, although I have never tried it, we could also mail in a separate principal payment.
You didn't say how much your current interest rate is, if it is above the current going rate of about 4.5%, perhaps re-financing with a more cooperative lender would be worth looking into.
Wellsfargo allows weekly payment free of charge. They were happy to set it up for me!
I round up my payment to the nearest whole dollar. Any additional that I would pay towards my mortgage I put in a mutual fund that has historically made about 7% or more. My mortgage is at 4.625% so I'm "making" about 2.4%. When my mortgage payoff matches the balance of that account, I will pay it off. That way, if a huge emergency comes up before then, my cash isn't locked into my home, but in an account I can withdraw from (though I don't intend to).
We round up our payment to the next hundred, which for us is roughly equal to an extra payment each year.
It makes total sense to pay off your mortgage early and save all that interest money. What I can't mathematically determine is how much by paying extra in whatever interval VS socking the extra away in a potentially higher investment option until enough is saved to pay it off in full. My brain screams that the investment is the way to go as you are paying yourself the interest instead of the bank getting the interest on your additional payments…but I want to see numbers on paper.
Ben's comment is a very wise approach and something I'm definitely considering. We refi'ed last year to a low rate 10 yr fixed and have been making double payments to get it paid off in less than 5. BUT….now we are considering moving, and have stopped the extra payments and built up the extra cash in savings. A low risk investment might just be the best of both worlds – guarding against job loss and giving the flexibility to decide if and when to pay the whole thing off.
Most companies allow you to view your mortgage account online and pay extra principal towards your mortgage electronically through ACH.. Of course a smaller mortgage company may not have this feature but I have found it convenient just to go in and make an extra principal payment for whatever amount whenever I had extra money to spare.
Surprisingly, Bank of America doesn't let me do this. I either have to send in a check to a special address or add an ongoing extra principal payment to my monthly payment. With other mortgage holders, I was able to just go online and make an extra principal payment whenever I felt like it.
We decided to use quarterly lump sum payments to pay off our mortgage early. We're targeting May 2014 to have our mortgage completely paid off. Check out the post for details. We really like the idea that these lump sums were adding to our emergency fund.
An alternative might be to deposit money to your savings account equivalent to your mortgage payments i.e. if you are paying $1000 and can pay up to $2000, better keep extra $1000 in separate account and let it earn you something. You can negotiate with your bank to let you pay bigger payment and most banks will do it because their risk of overall mortgage portfolio keep on changing and they might look for bigger payments to manage their own liquidity.
The incremetal interest you pay by waiting for your payment to be posted at the end of the month, rather than weekly, is very small compared to the cost of joining a biweekly payment plan. Just make a +50% payment in your two "extra pay" months. Move this month up if you can..if you make your "extra" payment on the first month of each year, you will do better than if you pay biweekly, for example, because you buy down your principal early.
ALternatively, you can pay 1.087x your normal mortgage payment each month and accomplish the same goal.
It requires discipline…but don't let small differences derail you…what will get you to an earlier payoff is paying more than your mortgage payment as early and often as possible.
I put my annual bonus and my tax return towards my mortgage principal each year. That ends up being around $4000 extra per year historically.
It makes little sense to pay a fee for the privilege of making extra payments, though I understand the reasons many lenders charge for accepting them. Why not just pay a little extra each month with your regular payment?
We're currently dedicating over 40% of our net monthly income toward bi-weekly mortgage payments. This translates into monthly mortgage payments that are 3-4 times the normal amount. The rationale behind this approach is to be debt-free well before we are 40 in order to free up cash flow for short-term/long-term investing, traveling, and personal improvement. As we are aggressively paying down the mortgage, we are still maxing out our Roth IRAs, contributing 5% of income to 529 accounts, and also putting 10% of income into 401k/403b accounts.
My wife and I pay down 15% per year, pursuant to the mortgage agreement – it feels great walking in with a big cheque, dropping it on the mortgage, knowing that we had the discipline to both save it and not touch it during the year.
Paying a cent to commit to a bi-weekly mortgage rarely makes sense. The upfront fee and ongoing monthly fee is wasted. Keep in mind, the average 30 year mortgage lasts 7 years, either due to a refinance or sale of the house.
If you wish to use a bi-weekly plan, it's simple. (a) deposit the weekly amount to a side account, (b) every month, make your regular payment, (c) when you see the account has an extra half payment at bill time, send in the extra as 'extra principal.' This will happen twice a year for people paid bi-weekly, an extra 1/4 payment will happen ever three months for those paid weekly.
If paying off that loan is a priority, don't be shy. In any month you have some extra money, you can just pay extra principal. There's no magic in how the bi-weekly works, you are right, it's really just making 13 payments a year or about 8% extra to principal over that year.
We simply add 1/12th of our mortgage payment to each monthly payment. This adds one payment per year with no fees, and we use an automated online payment from our bank so we don't need to remember each month.
Depending on your interest rate you may do better to consider the following: Take the extra monthly payment and place in an index fund with Vanguard, Scwab, T Rowe whatever and let that build and earn dividends and interest until you have enough to pay off the mortgage. We are doing this to our mortgage (178k @ 3.5% 30yr fix). The assumed return of 7% on a total stock market fund is greater than the 3.5% you save in interest. This means you could acheive a lump sum payoff sooner than one by incremental payments. Also, the funds are still more liquid than if they were used to pay the mortgage monthly. If you lost your job/got injured/got eaten by a yeti etc… would your bank give a damn if you had been paying ahead? Would 2 years of paying ahead buy you 2 years of no payments? If not then save the cash and make the lump sum.
We add a few extra dollars on to the monthly payment to the principal and always make an extra months full payment when we get our tax return.
I have a mortgage with the same setup mentioned in the original post: we have set up the biweekly payments but the bank holds the payments and applies it once a month.
Our bank also allows us to include additional principal payments in each biweekly payment. At first I added just enough to round up our payment to the nearest $50, it works out to about $55 per month additional payment towards principal. The power of compounding interest means that small extra monthly amount knocks about 4 years off our 30 year mortgage. When we have paid off other debt and want to snowball the payments to knock down the mortgage faster I will increase the additional principal payment amount so it's all done automatically.
My advice would be to sign up for the bank's biweekly payment scheme and ask the bank to include additional principal payments of whatever amount you want to pay.
I purchased a camp (with a mortgage) on leased land. Due to the lease, banks would only loan 15yrs @ 8% (in 2009).
I paid my $745 monthly and it broke down to about 255 principle and 490 interest.
I switched to $200/wk payments (roughly $55 more per month, plus a few extra payments). My 4 payment principle/interest changed to about 400/400.
Paying an extra $50 over 4wks, increased my principle payment by $150. I've continued these auto deductions and am way ahead of the game. I have actually accelerated the process by upping the weekly payments to $300/wk (for a whopping $900 in principle per 4wks).
I started with making an extra $25.00 (for six months) applied to the principal, then moved to $50.00 (for two months) then quickly moved to $75.00 (for five months). Then I had to scale back to just the monthly payment. (my job was terminated, but I was picked up in another part of the plant that I worked in) This made it tough because my wages were just barely keeping us afloat (with mortgage,truck and car payments…)
Then the bottom fell out. The company I worked for closed shop, but GOD!!! (and I really believe it was GOD!!!) was kind to me and I secured new employment at a new job that has been fantastic. I started to increase my extra principal payment$ by $100.00 dollars, then $150.00, then up to $200.00 per month and as high as $243 and some odd cents a few times. Unfortunately every September and October is that part of the year where a slew of bills converge…. (vehicle registration, bi-annual insurance premiums and house payments, the perfect trifecta (LOL LOL LOL)) Fortunately, I have always been able to secure a lot of overtime during this period (again, i think that GOD!!! is helping me out!!!) and this year is no different. I will be starting up the cycle on November first as I have already jumped ahead on my amortazation schedule by about 30 months. 30 MONTHS!!!. Good golly, it's gonna be great when I tell B of A they can KMA!!! and give me my title. Think I'll start with $300.00 extra AND try to refinance to a lower Rate/Period, something like 20 years and $130.00+ less a month (Already started the math with one of my pastor's who is also my loan agent( thank you GOD!!!))


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DYCHE | Grimes Got Her Guy: Obama
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Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes was a proud Barack Obama delegate at the 2012 Democratic convention. She did not declare her independence from Obama then, but instead worked hard to help reelect him as president. Thanks a lot, Alison!
Grimes got her guy in the radical liberal Obama, but now she is desperately and deceitfully trying to distance herself from the man she so enthusiastically supported less than two years ago. Let's review the Obama record for which Grimes bears her share of responsibility.
The American economy actually shrank in the first quarter of 2014. The hard winter contributed to this contraction, and spring should bring a rebound, but the Obama recovery remains remarkably, indeed historically, weak.
Obama broke his repeated promised to reform the Veterans Administration. His secretary of veterans' affairs recently resigned amidst a sickening scandal of incompetence and deception that exposed Obama's outrageously inept management.
Despite having a constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws, Obama regularly breaks them. He has done so repeatedly with Obamacare, but is becoming an ever more brazen tyrant.
Obama recently negotiated with terrorists to free five dangerous Taliban leaders from the Guantanamo prison camp in exchange for an American who apparently deserted and cost the lives of other soldiers who searched for him. The administration then sent National Security Advisor Susan Rice onto the Sunday shows to lie again, just as she did after the deadly attack on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Rice amazingly claimed the American had "served the United States with honor and distinction." Many American soldiers who were in Afghanistan with him at the time vigorously disputed her claim. Seeking the soldier's release is understandable, but breaking the law by not consulting Congress, freeing five jihadists, and lying about the facts is disgusting.
Obama demonstrated more contempt for the Constitution and his oath of office when he recently said enforcing the law to deport some illegal immigrants was "not smart" and did not "make sense." This cavalier announcement accompanied revelations that his administration last year released 36,000 illegal immigrants who had deportation proceedings pending.
According to a USA Today story, the freed illegals included "193 people who had been convicted of homicide, 426 of sexual assault, 303 of kidnapping and more than 16,000 with drunken-driving records." This was not smart and did not make sense!
Next, Obama's Environmental Protection Agency released a carbon emission reduction plan that would devastate the Kentucky coal industry without actually even affecting global carbon dioxide levels. Obama previously admitted that his plan would cause electricity rates to skyrocket, but now the same man who fraudulently promised "if you like your health plan you can keep it" claims the new carbon restrictions will somehow reduce utility bills.
How about the deal for destruction of Syrian chemical weapons that Russian leader Vladimir Putin brokered after Obama retreated from his call for military action against Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad for crossing a disappearing "red line" by using chemical weapons? Assad is flouting it by failing to declare all his chemical weapons, missing multiple deadlines for destroying those he did declare, and launching attacks with chlorine gas.
A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll taken after Obama's defended his foreign policy in a speech at West Point (and after his team divulged the name of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan) showed more (50 percent) disapproving of his handling of international affairs than approving (41 percent). Nearly three-fifths (58 percent) believe Obama has covered-up facts about Benghazi.
In a television ad Grimes comically claims, "No matter who the president is I won't answer to them; I'll only answer to you." But she backed Obama, helped him get nominated, and worked to reelect him.
Her opponent, incumbent and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, has opposed Obama's leftist agenda every step of the way. McConnell did his best to make Obama a one-term president. Maybe that is why First Lady Michelle Obama says it is critical to elect Grimes.
Grimes also doubled down on her dealings with Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who is Obama's biggest legislative ally, especially in the "war on coal." She raised money with the anti-coal Reid in Washington right after he blocked McConnell's bill to stop the Obama carbon restrictions.
The slippery Grimes will not say whether she would have voted for Obamacare. She apparently opposes a bill to ban late-term abortions after 20 weeks. She cannot say how much her "jobs plan" will cost or how many jobs it will supposedly create. She cozies up to those who would sacrifice Kentucky's coal jobs on the altar of "climate change."
No wonder a recent Rasmussen Reports poll put McConnell ahead 48 percent to 41 percent. All of the 14 polls shown on the respected Real Clear Politics website have shown McConnell leading except for two Bluegrass Polls conducted for The Courier-Journal, WHAS-TV, the Lexington Herald-Leader and WKYT-TV. The Washington Post's "election lab" says there is a 97% chance McConnell will win.
Grimes wanted an Obama a second term. She got it, and it has been a disaster. He was her man, so she, and unfortunately we, are stuck with him until 2017.
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Damiano Damiani is perhaps the Italian filmmaker most inspired by American cinema. He links political commitment to excellent thriller style. "La moglie piu' bella" is still shocking for me, knowing it is inspired by the true story of Franca Viola in 1965. The atmosphere is disquieting thanks to the the film-making and Ennio Morricone's music. This is also the first film of Ornella Muti, who was 14 years old at the time and pretended to be ill not to go to school for two months - the time of recording. It reminds me "La ragazza con la pistola" (The girl with the gun) by Mario Monicelli with Monica Vitti, although this one is much more ironic and aims at ridiculing certain Sicilians customs to better fight them.
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The Most Beautiful Wife is the kind of movie I usually avoid. I usually
don't go for these overly depressing tales. But The Most Beautiful Wife
is oddly compelling and drew me in from the start. The film is based on
a true story and deals with the barbaric treatment of women (who am I
kidding, these are girls) at the hands of their future husbands. Rape
was an acceptable means of forcing a marriage. No other man would want
the woman as she was no longer a virgin.
But as depressing as the subject matter may be, director Damiano Damiani and cinematographer Franco Di Giacomo created an incredibly lovely film with The Most Beautiful Wife. The contrast between the green, lush farm lands and the crumbling city scenes is pleasing. And Ennio Morricone's score is what I've come to expect a work of genius. It suits the film perfectly.
Ornella Muti gives a terrific performance in the title role. And when you consider that this was her first film and that she was only 14 years old, it makes all the more amazing. As the whole film is centered around her and as she is the focal point of almost every scene, it's imperative that her performance be believable if The Most Beautiful Wife has a chance at all to work. She pulls it off flawlessly. I doubt an actress twice her age with years of experience could have done any better. It's an impressive piece of work.
Ornella Muti has always been an interesting actress. Like a lot of her
Italian contemporaries--Eleanora Giorgi, Jenny Tamburi, Gloria
Guida--she has been in a lot of "exploitative" roles and movies (in one
movie of hers I saw, for instance, her character willingly loses her
virginity to her own father), but unlike these other actresses she has
also managed to turn in a lot of superb roles in more highbrow art
films, and her career has thus lasted a lot longer. On the other hand,
her courage in choosing film roles has also allowed her to endure a lot
longer than a lot of American actresses who never want to risk doing
anything that might be exploitative and as a result never do anything
really interesting either. The director Damiano Damiani is the same
way--he's done art films like this, on one hand, but some the most
exploitative trash imaginable (like "Amityville Horror 2"), on the
other, but his films are rarely less than interesting.
This movie based on true story is about a young Sicilian girl (Muti) who is raped by the son of a Mafia don who is trying to force her to marry him by taking her virginity, but she instead goes to the police, which is something women just didn't do at the time (and something only a few brave souls in Sicily ever did to the Mafia). Muti is really good, which isn't that surprising perhaps, but so is her future husband, Alessio Oranio, who plays the mafioso, and who I had always pegged as a talentless pretty-boy. It may seem hard to believe the androgenously handsome Oranio would have to rape anyone (although it seemed to be his specialty for some reason--he also raped Jane Birkin in "May Morning", a drugged Elke Summer in "Lisa and the Devil", and Femi Benussi, kind of, in "The Killer Must Kill Again."). It's made clear in this movie, however, that the abduction and rape is a matter of pride, not sex, after this beautiful but poor peasant girl spurns the wealthy and vain young man's proposal of marriage.
I don't want to give away too much more of the plot, but it is a well-directed and well-acted and ultimately very powerful film. It's not one of Muti's more exploitative roles (she was only fourteen at the time), but she had plenty of those too. Check this one out for sure.
Most other comments are right on the spot.
Excellent movie, good acting and marvellous music.
There are a few things i'd like to add. Sometimes, this film slows down a bit, but never long enough to It's not a genre movie at all, but if you would want to tag it, I'd give it a thriller label.
The main trouble with films like this is that it so hard to 'like' them. Not that this one is pure depressing, but you'll get to see a desperate world on the bottom of the mafia and the place where it has its roots. And it isn't like the godfather.
My final verdict is an 8 out of 10. There is nothing wrong with this movie, but it hasn't the 100% perfection for a higher score. Still, very gripping and plain good.
Starting from the surprisingly excellent "I am not scared" (strongly recommended), I started to become interested in Damiano Damani's movies and I was stunned to discover what a great and socially committed director he was! This movie surely ranks among his best. It deals with the condition of women in the regions of mafia, where mentality is so narrow and ignorant to become almost hilarious when not dramatic. The character played by the beautiful and very young Ornella Muti is a real marvel. In her village she is one of its kind: she is intelligent, sensible, has a strong temper, sense of justice and anti-conformist views. In other words she cannot easily merge in the social context she is growing in. The plot develops slowly and little by little one is sucked into the story thanks to a group of very good actors, a nice score by Morricone and mainly Damiani's masterful screenplay. The end is very touching, as the tears in the sensitive young girl represent the tragic but necessary result of a chain of events that it was impossible to stop. This movie, together with "L'istruttoria e' chiusa: dimentichi"; "Pizza Connection"; "Confessions of a Police Captain" and "Un uomo in ginocchio" should constantly pass through the Italian national TV schedules, as the lesson(s) is still far from being learnt.
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Shawn Henry, who is preparing to leave the FBI after more than two decades with the bureau, said during an interview that they are 'not winning' in the war against cyber crime.
Henry said that computer criminals are simply too talented and defensive measures too weak to stop them.
"I don't see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology or changes in behavior, because with the status quo, it's an unsustainable model," The Wall Street Journal quoted Henry, as saying.
"Unsustainable in that you never get ahead, never become secure, never have a reasonable expectation of privacy or security," Henry added.
His comments came as the government considers two competing measures designed to buttress the networks for critical US infrastructure, such as electrical-power plants and nuclear reactors, the report said.
According to the paper, Henry said FBI agents are increasingly coming across data stolen from companies whose executives had no idea their systems had been accessed.
"We have found their data in the middle of other investigations. They are shocked and, in many cases, they've been breached for many months, in some cases years, which means that an adversary had full visibility into everything occurring on that network, potentially," he said.
Henry said while many company executives recognize the severity of the problem, many others do not, and that has frustrated him.
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AUGUST 22, 2011: The 2012 Jeep Wrangler is hitting the dealerships now, but unless you take the test drive, you may not immediately notice the difference from the 2011.  The 2012 Wrangler is now powered by the aluminum block 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 and that alone is an improvement worth noting.  Horsepower?  40% more, now at 285 hp.  Torque?  10% more, now at 260 lb.-ft.  Match this great powerplant with either the A580 5-speed Automatic or the NSG 370 6-speed Manual and the result is summed up in one word: Fun…simply put, the power made the 2012 Wrangler fun to drive.
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I had the opportunity to test drive the 2012 Wrangler in and around the Tillamook State Forest outside Portland OR.  Tillimook has wineries and cheese as far as you can see…and plenty of twisty winding roads to get around.  The Pentastar V-6 powers well up the the hills and through the turns.  The 4-door Sahara hard top we were driving handled well, though we could get the inside rear tire to unload on hard cornering (the ABS would trigger).  Brake fade was present, but not unnerving.  Passing (50mph to 90+mph…sshhhh) was admirable. Our Pentastar V-6 was paired with a the A580 5-speed Automatic and it shifted precisely.  Downshifts under quick power changes happened promptly…none of that irritating hesitation.  Braking (60 to 0) was straight and controlled, even the transition from the pavement to the gravel shoulder was barely noticeable.
I'll be the first to admit I want to experience that power across Vail Pass on I-70…with a 3500# camper in tow. Â Tillimook was fun, but the grades were not steep enough or long enough to truly push the Pentastar. Â I'd also be curious on decent, how the transmission gearing holds back the trailer weight.
Offroad, it's a Jeep. Â For most terrain, you point, it goes. Â 'Nuf said. Â Our offroad testing opportunity was understandably limited, since the Pentastar power is most appreciated on the road. Â We had the opportunity (under Jeep Jamboree handlers) to run a short and simple off-road course. Â The Pentastar V-6 makes nice steady power, and the throttle is easy to control. Â My first run was with an A580 5-speed Automatic and one of the Jeep Jamboree spotters wondered if i had the 6-speed manual…climbing power was smooth. Â Second run was with the NSG 370 6-speed Manual and I barely touched the throttle the entire climb (and it if hadn't been for traffic, I wouldn't have needed the clutch either) Â The Pentastar V-6 lugs down sufficiently and the fuel injection system keeps things running.
Inside, you'll notice few differences from the already improved 2011 models. Â Jeep has conveniently added storage points in the rear deck for the hardware used to hold the factory hard top in position. Â (yet, the two hand-screws for the t-tops still don't have a storage spot…) Â Road noise with the full hard top was very acceptable. Â A few other factors inside tie the iconic Jeep form together.
Outside, the side and rear window sizes are increased helps reduce those irritating c-pillar blind points. Â The factory hard top and flares are available as color-matched on the Sahara and Rubicon models. Â And check out the windshield…yes, it's the little things…
Honestly, no one notices when a design works cleanly…but everyone notices when a design fails to come full circle. Â Nothing jumped out at me as being out of place in the design and aesthetics. Â Hey, no one wants an ugly truck.
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Simply put, I'm a fan. Â The "no replacement for displacement, gota have a Hemi" crowd will be mostly silenced. Â Jeep has completed the circle with the Pentastar V-6 and has pushed the Wrangler from off-road capable, on-road acceptable into a truly enjoyable off- AND on-road experience.
Final note: Â The approximate average age of a Wrangler Unlimited owner is 44. Â Buyers are 75% male. Â 60% have college degrees. Â As a 44yo male with a college degree, Â I guess it's time to go shopping!
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(#) trueLIEx3 2007-04-07 09:11:30 PMAwwwe. I wish it was over. ='(.
That's so sad!
I want more!
Author's responselol don't worry, it'll be good.
i'll probaby update again tonight! :D
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(#) theblondeone0828 2007-04-07 09:29:10 PMUh ohh!!
Nooo not bad stuff again!
Update soon!
Author's responselol you have a little while until more bad stuff happens, I promise. Thanks girl.
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(#) fobgal1 2007-04-08 06:23:53 AMPlease please please update soon! If not I shall die!
Author's responselol I will! :D
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(#) tacku 2007-04-08 08:36:20 AMi think my feeling can be summed up by OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please update soon i fear i may explode with excitement
Author's responselol calm down my dear, I'll update soon!