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"Hairspray": 2 p.m., presented by Theatre Tuscaloosa in the Bean-Brown Theatre of the Sandra Hall Ray Fine Arts Center on the Shelton State Community College campus, 9500 Old Greensboro Road. Admission charged. Call 205-391-2277.
Berry Civic Center activities: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Jan Hegoshi, Paul and Ruthie Busby and Robert Yerby play and sing at the Berry Civic Center in Berry.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute:
"Intermediate Photography," 9 a.m.; "Heroines of the Old Testament," 10:30 a.m.; "Show Us Your Bloomers," noon; "Little Known People, Places and Events in Alabama History," 1:45 p.m.; "Operatunities!" 3:15 p.m. All classes at Bryant Conference Center, 240 Paul W. Bryant Drive. Call 205-348-6482.
Dr. Magical Balloons balloon show: 9:30 a.m. at the Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway, and 2 p.m. at the Brown Branch, 300 Bobby Miller Parkway. Call the main library at 205-345-5820 or the Brown Branch at 205-391-9989.
Wellness Walls for Art: 5:30 p.m. at University Medical Center, 850 Fifth Ave. E. Stroll through the new show with Deborah Hughes, artist and coordinator for the exhibit.Show will continue until Sept. 15 and can be viewed anytime Monday-Friday
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Call 205-310-5939.
Teen/Tweens Creative Writing Group:
2 p.m. at Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway. For students in grades six through 12 to share stories, poems, and other writings. Free admission. Call 205-345-5820.
Teen Make-It Lab:
3 p.m. at Weaver Bolden Branch, 2522 Lanier Ave. Experiment with science and technology. Free admission. Call 205-758-8291.
United Way pie-eating contest: 6:15 p.m. at Innisfree Irish Pub, 1925 University Blvd. Door fee of $5 provides five tickets, which equal five votes. To enter the contest, email Julie Mann at firstname.lastname@example.com with your charity of choice.
Tuscaloosa Morning Rotary Club blood drive: 2-7 p.m. in the activity room at Bevill Building, 1013 Bevill Building on the University of Alabama campus. For an appointment, visit www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code "rotary" or call Rich Martens at 205-310-3504 or Donna McClure at 205-753-8253.
Lake Tuscaloosa Opry: 7-11 p.m. at Giles Repair, 12020 Lester Taylor Road, Northport. Live music and dance. Admission $4. No alcohol or tobacco. Call 205-339-5028.
Crimson Pride Barbershop Chorus rehearsal: 7 p.m. at First Christian Church, 627 Paul W. Bryant Drive. Call 205-758-9711.
Northport Farmers Market: 6 a.m.-6 p.m. at 4150 Fifth St., Northport. Call 205-657-2502.
Vance Community Farmers Market: 3-6 p.m. in the Vance Civic Center, 10129 Eaton Road.
Homegrown Alabama Farmers Market: 3-6 p.m. on the lawn at Canterbury Episcopal Chapel, 812 Fifth Ave.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute:
"Intermediate Woodturning," 9:30 a.m. at Black Warrior Studio, 2929 10th Ave. Cost is $120 which includes materials, shop space and tools. Call 205-348-6482.
Legoland Fun: 2 p.m. at Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway. For children 9 to 11 years old. Free admission. Call 205-345-5820.
Teen Zone: 3-6 p.m. at Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway. Build, create and explore with technology and crafts. Free admission. Call 205-345-5820.
West Alabama Regional Commission Board of Directors:
11:45 a.m. in the Conference Room of the West Alabama Regional Commission Building One, 4200 Alabama Highway 69 N., Northport.Call 205-333-2990,ext. 215.
Tuscaloosa Area Metropolitan Planning Organization public meeting: 9 a.m. at the Tuscaloosa Intermodal Center, 601 23rd Ave., for the Draft Tuscaloosa Area 2040 Long-Range Transportation Plan. Call 205-333-2990, ext. 213.
"Hairspray": 7:30 p.m. presented by Theatre Tuscaloosa in the Bean-Brown Theatre of the Sandra Hall Ray Fine Arts Center on the Shelton State Community College campus, 9500 Old Greensboro Road. Admission charged. Pre-show discussion with Trudier Harris at 6:30 p.m. about the history of television integration in America in the Alabama Power Recital Hall. This is a free event, and seating will be on a first-come-first-served basis. Call 205-391-2277.
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Atomic-Free Japan by April Roils Debate on Economic Risks
Japan will lose its last nuclear-generated power in April at the current rate of shutting down reactors for safety checks, cheering opponents of the industry after the Fukushima disaster while adding to concern about potential blackouts and factory shutdowns.
The country has just three of its 54 nuclear reactors producing electricity after one more unit was idled for maintenance today. Another Tokyo Electric Power Co. unit was shut earlier this week for scheduled checks.
With one exception, no reactors taken off-line since the March 11 disaster have been allowed to restart as they await results of so-called stress tests. The checks began after an earthquake and tsunami caused reactor meltdowns at Tokyo Electric's Fukushima Dai-Ichi station that led to radiation fallout over an area about half the size of New York City and the evacuation of about 160,000 people.
With public opinion running against restarting reactors, Japan's becoming free of nuclear power within three months would have a "psychological" effect, according to Yuji Nishiyama, an analyst with Credit Suisse Group AG.
"If we experience a zero-nuclear situation the argument that we don't need nuclear power anymore will be stronger," Nishiyama said by telephone in Tokyo. "But, at the moment we cannot live without nuclear power. We may not need 50 reactors, but we do need about 10 or 20."
Fossil Fuel Costs
With atomic stations providing about 30 percent of Japan's electricity before the Fukushima disaster, utilities have been forced to rely more on oil- and gas-fired power plants to make up the difference.
A switch from nuclear to fossil fuels based on average operating rates at atomic plants would require the equivalent of 323 million barrels of oil a year, adding about $34 billion to the country's import bill, according to Osamu Fujisawa, an ex-Saudi Arabian Oil Co. manager and now an independent energy economist in Tokyo.
Japan relied on imports to meet 81 percent of its net energy needs in 2010, according to the latest data on the World Bank's website. That compares with 22 percent for the U.S. in the same year and 8 percent for China in 2009, the latest data the bank has.
Japan's consumption of liquefied natural gas jumped 32 percent in December, while crude oil use increased more than fivefold, according to the Federation of Electric Power Companies data.
Mothballed Plants
"We do have a number of mothballed power plants, but it takes time to restore those generators, sometimes years," Nishiyama said. "And these plants often have low-utilization rates. Some cannot be used at night."
The cost of burning oil to generate power is almost twice that of gas, he said.
Companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Panasonic Corp. escaped power cuts after they were ordered to cut consumption by 15 percent in some areas during last year's summer when demand peaked. Households were asked to regulate use of air conditioners. The restrictions were lifted as temperatures cooled.
Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano said Japan may have no nuclear plants operating this summer and the government is preparing measures to avoid power shortages, the Asahi newspaper reported, citing his comments in an interview. The safety issue is more important than power supply concerns, Edano told the Asahi.
Reactor Closures
Chugoku Electric Power Co. shut the No. 2 reactor at its Shimane nuclear station today, leaving 6.4 percent of Japan's 48,960 megawatts of nuclear capacity on-line. Tokyo Electric's No. 5 unit at its Kashiwazaki Kariwa station was idled on Jan. 25. The remaining three reactors are due to go off-line for regular checks during the next three months.
Whatever the cost to the utilities, local governments that usually approve a restart of a nuclear reactor have balked. Yuhei Sato, governor of Fukushima, where Tokyo Electric has two nuclear stations including the wrecked Dai-Ichi plant, has vowed to make the region a nuclear-free zone.
Hirohiko Izumida, the governor of Niigata, where Tokyo Electric's Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant is located, will "never" negotiate with the power utility on restarts until all of the deficiencies exposed by the Fukushima accident are explained and corrected, the governor's spokesman Takeshi Kumakura said by phone on Jan. 24.
Stress Tests
Tepco, as Tokyo Electric is known, has submitted to the government results of so-called stress tests on the Nos. 1 and 7 reactors at the Kashiwazaki plant, the company said Jan. 16. The tests set up by the Trade and Industry Ministry aim to show how prepared a nuclear plant is to withstand disasters.
Kashiwazaki, the world's largest nuclear station, has yet to restart three of its seven units since a 2007 quake that led to a radioactive water spill. The work to upgrade Kashiwazaki's earthquake defenses since 2007 would make it one of the better stations to restart, said Penn Bowers, a utilities analyst with CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets.
"If it didn't have the Tepco name out there it would probably be on the top of the list for restarts," Bowers said. Kashiwazaki's units have "been retrofitted to a quake prevention standard that's probably the best out there."
Reactor Wrangles
Reactor restarts is one of three conditions set by lenders as Tepco negotiates to borrow as much as 2 trillion yen to stay solvent, covering rising fuel costs and compensation claims, two people familiar with the matter said this month. Higher power rates and Tepco accepting a capital injection from a state-run fund are the other two conditions, the people said.
Tepco's management is resisting giving up control to the state fund even as it faces collapse under the weight of compensation claims and cleanup costs for the disaster. Tepco shares fell 1.4 percent to 210 yen at 12:28 p.m. in Tokyo today. The stock is down about 90 percent since the day before the disaster.
The company owns three nuclear stations. The Fukushima Dai-Ni station, situated close to the Dai-Ichi site, temporarily lost control of its cooling system following the March 11 record earthquake and tsunami. It remains shut down.
Without nuclear reactors, Kansai Electric Power Co., the main supplier to Japan's second-largest industrial region, may see demand exceed generation capacity by 9.5 percent in February, the biggest shortfall among suppliers, according to a November assessment released by the government.
Kansai Nightmare
"In Kansai it's a nightmare," Nishiyama said. "Saving energy is not enough to save the region. We need to think about restarting nuclear power plants more seriously."
Kansai Electric, which serves a region with an economy the size of Mexico's and has Sharp Corp. and Panasonic factories, is asking customers to voluntarily reduce consumption by more than 10 percent this winter. Kyushu Electric Power Co. will also be short of capacity after it shutters its last reactor on-line for maintenance, Nishiyama said.
"I think we go to zero before we get restarts," CLSA's Bowers said, forecasting the first nuclear units to come on-line before summer when power consumption reaches its peak. By summer Kansai may have supplies falling more than 19 percent short of demand, the government has forecast.
"It's not going to be one switch is flipped and all of them come back on," Bowers said. "Still, if you get a certain amount back on-line you're not going to have a horrible problem. If you have zero, that leads to a significant economic impact."

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DUBLIN (AP) - It's taking a little longer to cross the Atlantic -- but at least the flights haven't been grounded again.
A cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland is now stretching more than 1,200 miles across the North Atlantic, forcing most flights between North America and Europe to divert south.
Hundreds of flights a day are having to carry extra fuel, because the diversions are lengthening flights by up to two hours.
U.S. and European airlines say they're taking it in stride, even though each extra hour in the air will meaning burning more than $5,000 worth of aviation fuel per plane.
American Airlines says its trans-Atlantic flights are traveling 90 minutes to two hours longer, on average. The airline says one flight to London had to be canceled because it wouldn't arrive before the airport's overnight curfew.
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Ithomiini Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) of Antioquia, Colombia
- C E GiraldoAffiliated withGrupo de Investigación en Sistemática Molecular, Univ Nacional de Colombia Email author
- , K R WillmottAffiliated withMcGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Univ of Florida
- , R VilaAffiliated withInstitut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF)
- , S I UribeAffiliated withGrupo de Investigación en Sistemática Molecular, Univ Nacional de Colombia
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Colombia is one of the most biodiverse countries on the planet. However, economic and scientific investment in completing inventories of its biodiversity has been relatively poor in comparison with other Neotropical countries. Butterflies are the best studied group of invertebrates, with the highest proportion of known to expected species. More than 3,200 species of butterflies have been recorded in Colombia, although the study of the still many unexplored areas will presumably increase this number. This work provides a list of Ithomiini butterflies collected in the department of Antioquia and estimates the total number of species present, based on revision of entomological collections, records in the literature and field work performed between 2003 and 2011. The list includes 99 species and 32 genera, representing 27% of all Ithomiini species. We report 50 species of Ithomiini not formerly listed from Antioquia, and found the highest diversity of ithomiine species to be at middle elevations (900–1,800 m). The mean value of the Chao2 estimator for number of species in Antioquia is 115 species, which is close to a predicted total of 109 based on known distributions of other Ithomiini not yet recorded from the department. Nine species are potentially of particular conservation importance because of their restricted distributions, and we present range maps for each species. We also highlight areas in Antioquia with a lack of biodiversity knowledge to be targeted in future studies. This paper contributes to mapping the distribution of the Lepidoptera of Antioquia department in particular and of Colombia in general.
KeywordsBiodiversity Danainae neotropics Papilionoidea
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- Ithomiini Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) of Antioquia, Colombia
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Volume 42, Issue 2 , pp 146-157
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- 1. Grupo de Investigación en Sistemática Molecular, Univ Nacional de Colombia, Calle 59A No 63 – 20 Bl 16-102, Medellín, Colombia
- 2. McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- 3. Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Spain


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Our team judges Canonical's new mobile OS to be the most exciting thing at Mobile World Congress, with Mozilla's software as runner-up.
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I got asked an interesting question regarding the a number of users using a generic login to sign in at the same time across different machines. Is there a particular number that Microsoft recommends given the evident performance hit the environment might eventually see?
Thought it wouldn't be advisable to have multiple people using the same login, there isn't any limits specifically to the number of concurrent connections per username. For capacity planning, treat each individual connection as unique when determining the number of users you need to support. So, if 3000 people are using the same account, plan for 3000 connections in your capacity planning.


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Debt and taxes: Evidence from the real estate industry
Compelling empirical evidence documenting a material effect of corporate taxes on leverage decisions is limited, in part because of difficulties in constructing an effective proxy for the firm's tax benefit of debt. We examine leverage decisions across taxable and nontaxable real estate firms—firms for which we can measure the relative tax benefit of debt with little error. The tax hypothesis implies that for firms with similar asset portfolios, taxable firms should have more debt than their nontaxable counterparts. Consistent with this, leverage ratios of taxable real estate firms are higher than their nontaxable counterparts, but the magnitude of this difference is at most one-half of that implied by studies that employ simulated marginal tax rates.
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Additionally practice statements are consistent with the definition of competence provided by the ANMC. Therefore the framework describes a combination of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values and abilities rather than simply describing the technical skills unique to the profession . The format adopted by the ANMC in the Competency Standard for the Registered Nurse and the ANF Competency Standards for the Advanced Registered Nurse meet this requirement and provided a suitable structure for an ophthalmic nursing framework.
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Director: Ren Savant
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Cast: Dasha (I), Lola (I), James Bonn, Regan Starr, Marc Allen, Blair, Dillion Day
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- Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Release Date: Oct 23, 2009
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Most of all, Earhart wanted to be able to fly free as a bird above the clouds, and director Nair and star Swank make her quest not only understandable but truly impressive.
When this actor (Swank) steps into the right role, she wears and inspires it like Denzel Washington.
A perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman. It confirmed for me Earhart's courage -- not only in flying, but in insisting on living her life outside the conventions of her time for well-behaved females. The next generation of American women grew up in her slipstream.
Swank is no mere impersonator. Her Amelia, like Maggie in "Million Dollar Baby," is unwavering in her gaze, ambition, and drive... In Nair's evocatively art-directed (and sensationally costumed) film, Earhart comes alive.
The actress and the aviatrix are a match made in heaven, but surrounding the soaring performance is a movie that's mostly earthbound.
In an ironic twist, Mira Nair's big-hearted yet by-the-numbers biopic of Amelia Earhart never -- unlike the famous aviatrix -- takes chances.
Inside Amelia is a sharp idea struggling to get out: How does a woman marketed to the public as a star turn herself back into a human being? And at what cost?
This movie was made to be shown to junior high history classes, not audiences in a movie theater.
Swank's moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn't really soar.
A frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen.
The film's basic material, that is the history, is not without interest. And it must be admitted that every so often - for about 10 seconds every 10 minutes - we get a hint of the movie they wanted to make and hoped they were making: One about the thrill of early aviation and the promise of a young century.
Amelia is the Mack truck of flight. Heavy and lumbering, it delivers the goods, but there's not an ounce of magic in the thing.
Perhaps Nair believes that heroism in our tabloid era has become degraded. If so, she overcorrected. Amelia is so pure in heart that it slides right off the screen.
There's nothing more boring than a life embalmed with halfhearted Hollywood bombast, which only makes the film's fleeting pleasures stand out all the more.
The result is verisimilitude without engagement -- a risk-taker's story told entirely without narrative risk -- and a movie that consequently never takes flight.
So a pioneering feminist in the hands of a feminist filmmaker should have been a perfect match. But like her subject, the filmmaker gets lost in the clouds.
Amelia is a stunted epic, an ambitious and handsome-looking picture that tells its story in the dullest, most confusing way possible.
Amelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded--not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject.
Most devastating to the film's effectiveness is its inability to convey that one essential to the story of Amelia Earhart: the tangible pleasures of flying.
There's so much pluck and gumption on the screen you can smell it. Flesh and blood? Not so much.
What rankles most about Amelia is the timidity and lack of imagination with which Nair approaches one of America's most exceptional and intriguing celebrity life stories.
Drawn from two Earhart bios, Mira Nair's dull hagiography comes in about 111 minutes too long.
With any luck this biopic of Amelia Earhart will also vanish without a trace. Hilary Swank is sorely miscast as the legendary aviator.
It's all so glancing and superficial that the movie doesn't seem to have a present tense. It goes by like coming attractions. It is, however, a treasury of bad biopic dialogue.
Considering its focus on a pioneering, rule-breaking icon, the film's utter lack of personality isn't just a failure. It's close to an insult.
Better luck trying to find out what truly happened to the real Earhart than trying to diagnose all that's wrong with this hapless film.
Alas, excesses of any pleasurable kind are absent from this exasperatingly dull production.
Tis embalmed drama is a ghost from the '80s, a decade that regularly produced surprise-free, caramelized biopics. The airless Amelia is missing practically everything.
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Feb 8, 2016This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I didn't pay much attention of the biopic. Hilary Swank was definitely going to be a great choice by playing one of the greatest heroic female-empowered aviators of our time, Ms. Amelia Earhart. But this Amelia movie just plain suck. It"s about 1 and a few quarter hours long and doesn't even have a proper ending to find out more info about Earhart's disappearance. It also didn't help that I was hoping for another Oscar nomination for Swank after her big win in Million Dollar Baby. That didn't happened though the fact that Swank did a decent Amelia Earhart, but the Academy said "no way. Unless it has a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score, there's no chance in hell you'll ever get a shot at the Oscars." Poorly-written but with a splendid cast, but Fox Searchlight just picked the wrong movie at the wrong time.… Full Review »
Jan 10, 2011This movie was superb. Hillary Swank and Richard Gere are terrific. Don't miss it. You will love it; it's low key film-making at its best.This movie was superb. Hillary Swank and Richard Gere are terrific. Don't miss it. You will love it; it's low key film-making at its best. Why it received such low scores is beyond me. It is a 10 in my book.… Full Review »
ChadS.Oct 28, 2009Her plane is slow. Amelia Earhart's Lockheed L-10 Elektra doesn't zip in the sky like the crates flown by test pilots in other Her plane is slow. Amelia Earhart's Lockheed L-10 Elektra doesn't zip in the sky like the crates flown by test pilots in other aviation-heavy films such as Tony Scott's "Top Gun" and Phillip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff". The plane's relative lack of speed doesn't translate well to the screen, but this non-dramatic handicap could easily have been counterbalanced through a clearly delineated rendering of how air travel was far from routine during this era, in which each flight came fraught with the possibility of a crash. To set the stage of Earhart's crowning achievement(her solo flight across the Atlantic), "Amelia" should show, not just tell, about the unsuccessful attempts made by other female aviators, which ended in death. There's not enough midair tension to help illustrate historicity's dual nature of Earhart's piloting career, which ideally would have displayed her heroism, in simultaniety with evidence that backed the claims of her piloting contemporaries who disputed her competence. Since Earhart's professional accomplishments come off as surprisingly dull, the aviatrix's personal life; her marriage to G.P. Putnam(Richard Gere) and affair with Gene Vidal(Ewan McGregor), comes dangerously close to defining her. The sweeping musical score sweeps all the daredevil spirit out of her. It's a soundtrack better suited for a swoony, romantic woman of her times, not an iconoclast with steely ambition. The music turns Amelia into something she probably never was: soft. Childless throughout her marriage to the famed book publisher, the film, perhaps invents a maternal side for the pilot, who is exceedingly nice and motherly to Gene's son. The music reduces this trailblazing woman, as if "Amelia" was about the first stewardess to fly across the Atlantic.… Full Review »


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Just started my position in this fund. Will buy all the way down and dollar cost average. Don't need the money for 40 years. Great long term opportunity here with divs reinvested.
Instead of Buying down why not Buy in at the bottom and make money while it goes up.
Because nobody can predict the bottom, and if your not investing down, you will miss the bottom.
I went back in @ 71.00 after being in the High Yield Bond Fund for the last year.........
Good job/insight.
I myself started recontributing to the VFINX around August 2008. I figured it was time, although in hindsight I should have waited a few months.
I had moved my 401k out of this fund and into bonds, and changed my contributions to the PTRAX bond fund towards the end of 2007, so I didn't lose too much, at least I got the front side right.
I moved 25% out of PTRAX and into VFINX almost 2 months ago, and I am planning to do another 25% on 5/1 (so I don't miss the bond fund dividend). I hope it works out for all of us in 5 to 7 years, since I'm expecting the S&P to be back around 1550 by then, that would put this stock back around $140.
I'll update you when I put more of my bonds back into this fund, expect to be fully invested in this fund, 401k wise, by this time next year.
Good luck with your investments.
Unless the PE/Div corrects, there is very little value to be found in the S&P, and the pattern of bubbles and crashes will continue. You may very well be right about 1550, but only after another very, very nasty re-valuation will it mean anything significant. I won't speculate on a number, but for the S&P PE and Div. yield to be on par would entail a level far below anything we've witnessed. however, the cleansing process is exactly what the market needs.
You sure you want to buy and hold under these circumstances? I'm not flaming people to be nasty, just to help educate the many who are wandering around like Zombies asking "what happened?" It's obvious what happened-people were told to buy and hold and not look at their statements. Inflation was mistaken for a Bull market over the last few years.
Again, go to the S&P website, and examine their month-end data. Study, learn and don't rely on CNBC or the outdated beliefs of the once great John Bogle. His, investment theories arose out of the late 1970's early '80s, in which, by the way, you had a very close ratio between the PE and Div yield-a true Bull market value.
You'll probably not read this, or if you do will not act. The forces of brainwashing are very strong, and combined with hope and emotion are deadly. Best of luck though.
Let guess, Cramer told you.
Great timing!
Started dumping in all the cash I hoarded from '04-'08 into a Vanguard account.
I'm about half invested, and dollar cost averaging.
Despite the current market carnage, I am only down 4%. I am feeling great about my long-term prospects for the portfolio.
I think you will do well in the long term.
Still here and still adding to my position. Good luck to all.
Initiated my position earlier this month, as well.
Been hoarding cash and avoiding all else since '04. Time to buy, baby!
Ditto. When it became apparent the economy was tanking, I put almost 80% of my funds in the Vangard retirement savings trust. I just picked up a bunch at $85 and have 86% of future contributions going into that trust again, hoping I can buy more below $80.


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Official discussion of the repository takes place over in this other thread.
I've been answering some of the decal wishes lately and thought I'd post the better of those designs along with some new ones.
I'm Releasing them under the "CC BY-NC-SA 3.0" license. Meaning:
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- [07/29/2012] Replaced ComicCon Batman with a more complete version. Added Electro Suit Batman
[07/27/2012] Replaced Bizzaro with a more complete version
[07/27/2012] Added SDCC Jean Grey, Bizzaro, Shazaam and Green Lantern Hal Jordan. Also Added Catwoman, Baron von Strucker, Robin, Blackbat and Castle quarter torsos dragon and lion.
[07/18/2012] Added 2012 Batman and Faramir and Ithilien Ranger decals.
[07/03/2012] Added Captain America Dancer
[07/01/2012] Added movie and comic book Elektra and Vampirella
[06/30/2012] Added Comic Con Batman
Manchester Black This is actually just a simple T-Shirt. I made it while watching Superman vs. The Elite though.
Ares The god of war. His Torso is based on the super hero torso. I believe he wore this in the Dark Avengers titles.
Aphrodite She is based of the mermaid's proportions.
Wasp based on her civil war outfit using Wonder Woman's proportions.
2 versions of Jean Grey (Phoenix) one based on the CMF Cheerleader. The other is based on ... childhood fantasies?
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Hera is based on artwork, CMF Lady Liberty and Wonder Woman.
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Praetor Reyna wearing the CMF Lady Liberty toga
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Big Ben's face I really like this one. Recognizable and symmetric. But it misses the dragons in the corners .
Snapshot of my inkscape template.
The template I use for these is based on one found on the minifigcustomizationnetwork. I added official body silhouettes to give my decals more of an official touch. The two female torsos on the top left are not based on official minifigures .
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I don't really like this, but my wife convinced me to add them anyway.
Li Mei According to my wife this is my best decal so far.
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The secrets of the long-awaited "DC Universe Onlineâ massively multiplayer video game from Sony Online were revealed at its panel during Comic-Con International in San Diego. Attendees received beta passes to test out the game after listening to a panel of industry heavyweights including Jim Lee, Marv Wolfman, and Joker voice actor Mark Hamill.
As the panel started, Hamill received a standing ovation, which he extended by showing off the "Batman: The Animated Seriesâ cast jacket he was wearing. Lee then introduced the gameâs trailer created by the studio Blur, who had previously done cut scene animation for games like "Marvel: Ultimate Allianceâ and "X-Men Legends.â
In the trailer, futuristic versions of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Cyborg square off against Lex Luthor, Giganta, Circe, Joker, Harley Quinn, Deathstroke the Terminator, and Black Adam. After a massive battle in which Luthor reigns victorious, Brainiac invades, and it is revealed that the event is being told in the present by a time traveling Luthor to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, before sending out a pulse wave to the earth.
"Obviously thereâs a little time travel going on here,â said Jens Anderson, one of the gameâs directors. "This [game] is telling how all the heroes and villains â you guys â are coming into the DCU.â He then explained how, when Luthor sent out the pulse blast to the earth, he was infecting people with "exogene technology,â which Brainiac used in the future to capture the powers of heroes, giving ordinary people powers in an effort to make an army to fight off Brainiac.
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Wolfman, who is creating mission scenarios for the game, was very impressed by the trailer.
"I saw this last night and I just flipped, that is one of the most incredible trailers I have seen for anything,â Wolfman said. "I have worked on a number of games, and on the year and a half that I have been working on this, itâs better than anyone else ever convinced me it could be.â
When asked about the long development cycle of the game, which was first announced in 2005, Lee was very happy it was finally close to release. "It feels a little surreal,â he said. "Iâll believe it when I see it, but at the same time, I know the game is coming along, so Iâm excited that the game is coming out. For years, we had the same press event and we had to be coy and demure about it.â
The release date of November 2 was then given, and if the game is pre-ordered now, players will be able to use Batman in simulation missions.
Hamill was then asked about his association with the game. "I started doing Joker in '92 with a five year gap,â he said. "TV shows get canceled, Broadway shows close, but itâs fun to get behind the wheel of that crazy car. You have great anonymity and itâs very liberating in a way because you can take chances in a way you canât if someone can see you. Itâs always hard when kids say, âDo the voice, do the voice!â I say, âClose your eyes!â
"Even in this trailer though, I forgot how fun it is to say things like âWeâve got a lot of murdering to do!â dropping into the Joker voice. "How fun is that? It also has great resonance for me because I am a fanboy. I loved comics when I was a kid; I loved the Joker the minute I laid eyes on him. To be in something that was so well handled in âBatman: The Animated Seriesâ through âArkham Asylumâ and now on to this, itâs just stunning. As Joker would say, âFinally, a game named after me, DC Universe! DC â Demented Clown. HAHAHA!
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At the intersection of looping freeways, in a nondescript industrial area of Mountain View, Calif., nearly 200 investors lined up, sweated under August sunshine and waited for a chance to invest in The Next Big Thing.
Although the event rocked, the name–Y Combinator Demo Day–was somewhat misleading.
For one thing, the accelerator's bi-annual pitch session showcasing the shiniest start-ups in social, mobile, enterprise and beyond now lasts two days, not one. It's also not the experimental, low-key affair that one normally associates with the word "demo" or that characterized the early days of Paul Graham's enterprise.
These 63 start-ups (nearly double the number that demoed last year at this time) were poised, polished and prepared to get down to the order of the day: raising money.
"We're kicking it off today," said Nathan Kontny, co-founder of Cityposh, which makes games featuring enterprise brands for companies. Kontny–one of the few who waited in the shade while others battled the crowd–went through the Y Combinator program five-and-a-half years ago when he launched Inkling Inc.
He said the mentoring has broadened. Graham used to simply provide office hours and now there's a YC staff of 17 along with a "massive" network of people and advice givers to turn to. Raising money has gotten easier. Y Combinator companies are commanding valuations between $7 million and $10 million, or about double what other companies at their same stage are commanding that are not in the program, according to a person familiar with the dynamic.
Then there's the boost investor Yuri Milner and SV Angel now offer: a $150,000 loan to any YC start-up with no cap and no discount.
"It's a nice cushion and it puts us in a little safer position revenue-wise," said Kontny, who said he took the offer and doesn't know of any start-up in his class who hasn't.
The guaranteed infusion caused a stir among investors hot to gain early access to fledglings when it was announced earlier this year. Graham said he's fielded multiple offers from investors since then to increase that $150,000 graduation present to each company, but he's turned them all down. And he's holding firm.
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Along with new technology solving old problems (Aisle50 offers a new way to grocery shop while InterviewStreet helps companies hire programmers), there were a host of start-ups with a new take on hot trends.
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Craig Kieswetter blasted a powerful 61 as Somerset made it three Friends Life t20 wins in a row with a nine-wicket destruction of rivals Gloucestershire Gladiators at Bristol.
The home side could post only 125 all out after losing the toss, Hamish Marshall making 33 and Chris Dent 29. Alfonso Thomas claimed 4-35, reward for some accurate yorkers and variations in pace.
Such a total was never likely to test Somerset's big-hitting batting line-up. Kieswetter and Chris Jones, with 53 not out, produced a century opening stand in 13 overs and the outcome was never in doubt as the visitors won with 23 balls to spare.
Kieswetter was in scintillating form, reaching his half-century off just 29 balls - with six fours and a towering six over long-on off Craig Miles - before falling to a skied catch off left-arm spinner Tom Smith.
Jones, who has grasped the opportunity presented by Marcus Trescothick's ankle injury, lost little by comparison. The 22-year-old batsman demonstrated the talent which saw him take a hundred off Australia's attack in the tour match at Taunton this season.
He followed Kieswetter to a half-century, completing it with the winning boundary having faced 47 balls and hit four fours and a six.
Gloucestershire never recovered from losing captain and key player Michael Klinger off the first ball of the third over, bowled by their former player Steve Kirby; the Australian cut loosely to Nick Compton at backward point and departed for two.
There was still no hint of what was to come when the hosts reached 37 for one at the end of the powerplay. The total had advanced to 58 when Dent was stumped by Kieswetter to give leg-spinner Max Waller his first wicket.
Gloucestershire still had a measure of control at 72 for two but, once Marshall was caught behind flashing at Thomas, it developed into a procession with a sequence of sorry shots as the last eight wickets fell for just 53.
Peter Trego returned figures of 1-7 from three overs as the home side lost their way, while Waller bowled Alex Gidman with a googly to finish with 2-22.
Yasir Arafat and Thomas wove a spell over the Gloucestershire batsmen and boundaries dried up, the entire innings featuring only three sixes and nine fours.


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Released: Sep 24th, 2008
Running Time: 102 Min.
Directors: Penny Flame, Tristan Taormino
Companies: Vivid Entertainment Group, Vivid Ed
DVD Extras: Behind the Scenes, Bonus Footage, Bonus Scenes, Fetish Menus, Still Gallery(ies), Trailer(s), Wall to Wall Option
Cast: Christian (I) (TS-friendly performer), Tyler Knight, Penny Flame, Alexis Texas, Justice Young, Daniel (I), Harmony (I), Anthony Rosano, Amber Rayne
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Educational
Penny Flame conducts workshop on hand jobs for both men and women, then illustrates her lessons with hardcore scenes. Too often, when people think of sex, they only think of intercourse, but there are lots of ways to bring pleasure to our partners. Whether part of foreplay or the main course, sometimes, hands are the best tools for the job. Yet hands are often underrated, and people don't take enough advantage of their digits. Penny Flame to the rescue! She and her friends share their secrets for how to bring pleasure to both men and women using their hands. You'll learn: how to find male and female erogenous zones; dozens of different finger and hand skills; the best clitoral stimulation techniques; mind-blowing hand job tricks for men; how to give an unforgettable orgasm with your hands.
Penny Flame demonstrates the art of the hand job, one of the most neglected areas of sexual instruction, as it applies to both men and women, and does so with rare good humor and breathtaking skill.
At a workshop full of fascinated students she demonstrates her fabulous technique, with many variations, on Harmony and Justice Young. Then come three full sex scenes that begin with manual stimulation and go all the way, enhanced by "Penny's Pointers" pop-ups. Alexis Texas gets all worked up by Christian, then returns the favors. Penny herself wraps things up with Anthony Rosano.
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Toast crushed pecans at 350 F until done.
Butter pan and spread the toasted pecans.
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Saturated Fat 0.33 g1.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
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In cats, black fur color is caused by an X-linked allele; the other allele at this locus causes orange color. The heterozygote is tortoiseshell. What kinds of offspring would you expect from the cross of a black female and an orange male?
A) tortoiseshell female; tortoiseshell male
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Harley Quinn Sketch by NOTEBLUE13Watch
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KNIGHT, Ruth M., 57, of Wintersville, Ohio, died Friday, April 25, 2008, at home.
She was born December 15, 1950, in Steubenville, she was the daughter of Jean Bell Smith of Steubenville and the late Floyd Smith.
Ruth was a homemaker; and a Protestant.
In addition to her father, Ruth was also preceded in death by her twin sister, Rose D'Andrea.
Surviving in addition to her mother, are her husband, Bruce A. Knight, Sr., whom she married October 16, 1971; one son, Bruce A. Knight, Jr. (Lindsey) of Mingo Junction; one daughter, Kristine Freund (Raymond) of Bloomingdale, Ohio; two brothers, Floyd Dean Smith of Saudia Arabia and Ronald Dexter Smith of Steubenville; two sisters, Patricia Fankhauser (Donald) and Linda Barker (Howard), both of Steubenville; and four grandchildren, Mackenzie Reinacher, Jean Betancourt, Madison Knight and Bryce Knight.
Calling hours are Sunday from 2 p.m. until time of service at 4 p.m. at the Mosti Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, 4435 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville with the Rev. Sonny Shoe officiating.
Burial will be private.
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Brief musings while working at the Reference Desk
Word of the day: 'exabytes'. Can't wait for the flashdrive.
Slowest day of the year? Seems like it.
Saturday and no library; kind of strange. #intersession
Beginning of Semester: 'Do you have my textbook?' End of Semester: 'Can you help me with my footnotes/citations?'
3 different food events happening here with the helpful Student Assistant bringing me samples. It's a hard life.
Sign that we're getting to the end of the Quarter: 'Just tell me what works -- I've got to hand in the paper in half an hour'.
Showing how to use a microfilm machine (something I do maybe one or two times a year) I kept on reaching for the mouse.
1st day back! Kinda slow. Biggest challenge of the day so far : figuring out why the faculty copier wasn't working (needed paper).
Last shift of the year! Looking forward to 2014!
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My joker fanart, and entry for our joker artjam
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I love that lettering you used. Is it a font or did you hand write it all out? You drew Joker awesomely dude! It's one of the more unique ones I've ever seen
Amazingly unhinged!
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Kentucky State Police are on the look out for a Hart County inmate that escaped from work detail on friday.
Kentucky State Police says Jeffery Shane Cochran walked away from his work detail at a cemetery in Munfordville Friday afternoon.
Cochran is described as a white male,six feet tall, two-hundred pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.
He was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, shorts and tennis shoes
Coccran was serving ten years for trafficking a controlled susbtance.
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Welcome from the Selkirk mnts in the north.
Welcome from the Selkirk mnts in the north.
" The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it."
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. ~Wayne Dyer
Welcome aboard from Florida.
Most of us end up poorer here but richer for being here. Olddog, Fulltime hammocker, 365 nights a year.
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This is the town we stayed in for New Years. It is about 30 mins outside of Amsterdam by train. The first day we took the long way to get there. The hotel is very close to the train station, but we walked all through the town (with our big packs) and asked everyone for directions. It is really a beautiful town.
Here we are caught in a snow storm in Ijmeuden. It hardly ever snows in Holland, so when it does everything shuts down. We managed to catch the very last ferry from Amsterdam, but there were no taxis running because of the snow. A kind bus driver took us as close to the beach as he could but we ended up walking for an hour in a blizzard!! It was almost normal for me, having lived in the Rockies my whole life, but Matt hated it and questioned why we are moving to Canada.
Here we are on a big ferry from England to Holland. This boat was the closest I've ever come to cruising. This ferry had 2 cinemas, 4 restaurants, a casino, childrens area, sports bar. It was very impressive. We found a window seat and stayed there for the duration of the trip.
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Secretary-General's remarks at Special General Assembly Tribute to Oscar Niemeyer and the United Nations Board of Design [as prepared for delivery]
New York, 24 April 2013
Thank you so much for participating in this tribute to the great architect Oscar Niemeyer and the United Nations Board of Design.
I can think of no better commemorative meeting to hold just weeks before we start the renovation of this General Assembly Hall.
It is hard to imagine now that this beautiful 'workshop for peace' sits on the site of a former slaughter house.
So many livestock were killed here, this area used to be called "blood alley."
A Board of Design was created to create a complex that would express the vision of the United Nations set out in the Charter. The Board brought together 11 architects from around the world. It was almost its own "mini-UN".
The youngest member was Oscar Niemeyer. He was also one of the boldest and most creative.
They designed what was then a very modern United Nations Headquarters. The Secretariat building was the first in New York City to have this kind of glass-and-steel structure.
Our architects were ahead of the times. I hope that we will follow their example and stay at the vanguard when it comes to solving global problems.
When the campus opened, United States President Harry Truman said, "These are the most important buildings in the world, for they are the centre of man's hope for peace and a better life."
For Oscar Niemeyer, the purpose of the building was more meaningful than the structure itself.
He often said the most important thing in life is not architecture – it is trying to change the world.
Oscar Niemeyer was troubled by the gap between rich and poor. He responded by creating beautiful buildings that could be enjoyed equally by all people.
Mr. Niemeyer, who passed away last year at the age of 104, lived a rich and meaningful life.
Although I never had the privilege of meeting him, I feel as though I knew him. When I travelled to Brasilia – the beautiful modern city that Niemeyer designed – I felt right at home since he also designed the UN Headquarters.
In a few weeks we will say a temporary goodbye to this room. We will appreciate all the more what a welcoming home it has been for disagreements and debate, for concerts and other special events … and for consensus on some of the most pressing problems of our time.
Although we will not meet in this Hall, we can still be inspired by the Board of Design. They pulled together many different perspectives from around the world to create our beautiful Headquarters.
Let us carry on this spirit of international collaboration to build a better future for all people.
Thank you.
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I have used the list/table combo before to do what you want, and it does work, however it always takes a fair bit of persistent playing around with to get it to do what you want. Drillthrough reports (and/or sub-reports) would indeed make life significantly more simple, so long as you're ok not having all the information in a single report...


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Lace Stockings
Knitted from the top down, these stockings begin with a decorative dewdrop cast-on and a small geometric lace cuff that includes a strand of elastic thread (to help keep the stockings in place) and is bordered with eyelets. Two beautiful and somewhat geometric lace patterns are combined for the main part of the leg, with the larger pattern continuing along the top of the foot. Decreases between the patterns shape the leg "invisibly." The vintage look of these knee-high stockings will add romantic flavor to any outfit.
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After mountain biking in muddy conditions I clean my mountain bike with a high pressure water blaster. I'm assuming that after this I should re-lube my chain?
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I've heard you should keep high pressure water away from your bike, because it can easily work it's way into the bearings, even sealed ones, especially around the bottom bracket and wheels. Pressurized water will push the oil out of the spaces between the chain links, and it's probably not a good idea to use pressurized water at all. You should be able to sufficiently clean the dirt off your bike with some light water, or, if you want to really thorough, use a chain cleaner. And you should always relube after cleaning regardless of which cleaning method you use.


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Anthemideae is a tribe of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, and the subfamily Asteroideae. They are distributed worldwide with concentrations in central Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, and southern Africa.[2]
As of 2006 there were about 1800 species classified in 111 genera.[2] in 2007 the tribe was divided into 14 subtribes.[2]
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- ^ UniProt. "Anthemideae" (HTML). Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- ^ a b c Oberprieler, C., et al. (2007). A new subtribal classification of the tribe Anthemideae (Compositae). Willdenowia 37, 89-114.
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A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
Power Quotes in A Game of Thrones
How we cite our quotes: (Absolute Chapter, Character Name, Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
The broken sword fell from nerveless fingers. Will closed his eyes to pray. Long, elegant hands brushed his cheek, then tightened around his throat. (1 Prologue.109)
Power in A Game of Thrones often stems from violence. Basically, you can argue all you want with someone, but if that doesn't work, the guy with the more dangerous sword is going to win. And though we don't see very much of them, the Others certainly have some bad swords. What will any king be able to do against this sort of power?
Quote #2
"Please, Ned, guard your tongue. The Lannister woman is our queen, and her pride is said to grow with every passing year." (3 Catelyn 1.47)
Joffrey may have always been a bad kid, but the power he was given sure didn't help. (The secret is to threaten children with direwolves – that's what makes them good.) Same goes for Cersei: she probably started out proud, but the power of being queen makes her even more dangerous.
Quote #3
"Ten thousand, that would be enough, I could sweep the Seven Kingdoms with ten thousand Dothraki screamers. The realm will rise for its rightful king. […] They cry out for their king." He looked at Illyrio anxiously. "They do, don't they?" (4. Daenerys 1.34)
Ultimately, the game of thrones will probably be resolved by violence – whether its war or assassination (or a fun mix of both). But here we see that power can come from different sources of violence: either professional soldiers (the Dothraki screamers) or regular people rising up. Viserys thinks that he can combine the two into an unstoppable form of power.