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Today's top gainers include the company Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) which is in the industry Regional – Southeast Banks, gaining -2.25% today. In the last week its performance is -1.04%, and 21.66% for the past quarter. Currently, Regions Financial Corporation, RF has a target price of 10.12, so today's gain of -2.25% is a significant step towards its target price. The GAP today is therefore -0.92%.
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF), has a market cap of 11999.62, and is based in USA. Insider ownership is at 0.30%, and institutional ownership is 76.70%.
At the current price of 9.56, it has a dividend yield of 2.62%, and its target price is 10.12. This is with a profit margin of 27.40%, and total debt/equity of 0.25. Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) has a P/E of 12.03, as well as a forward P/E of 10.58.
With a current EPS of 0.8, and a forecasted EPS growth for next year at 8.52%,Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) has had a EPS growth for the past five years at 27.30%. For the next five years EPS growth is projected to be 5.58%.
Performance for the year is 8.16%. Since its IPO date on 3/26/1990, the total performance to date is 1.67%.
Volume today for Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF), is 16965800, while its average volume is 18577.9. Whilst the total gain today was -2.25%, it did have a day high of -5.16%.
Volatility for this week has been at 1.73%, and 2.06% for the month. The 52-week low for Regions Financial Corporation, RF has been 39.43%, while the 52-week-high has reached -5.16%.
Looking at its return of investments, which is 13.70%, and its return on assets is 0.80%. Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) has an operating margin of 81.80%. With a sales growth of 7.80% quarter over quarter. Bearing in mind that Regions Financial Corporation, RF is in the sector Financial, its long-term debt/equity is 0.25, and has a current ratio of *TBA and *TBA for quick ratio.
So what is the value of Regions Financial Corporation? Well its PEG is 2.16, and the P/S is 3.2, along with a P/B of 0.73. Meanwhile it has a p/cash of 2.76.


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What could possibly be the best way to celebrate new year - blitz! Seen in pic playing against me is my dear friend WGM Nafisa Muminova from Uzbekistan (she holds 3 IM norms and will get the IM title once her ratings reaches 2400. Currently she is 2349). She was in Kuantan since Sunday (30/12/12) to celebrate new year here. We played a good game of blitz chess and she gave tips on how to teach better chess and play better. According to her, parental support and self determination is the key factor to work hard and perform better in every tournaments she participated.
Well Nafisa we thank you for the chess tips and we welcome you again to Kuantan. Anytime dear friend! Have a safe journey back home! :)
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currently, we only implement a few controls, those that we support. In the API, if one wants to use another control to send it to another LDAP server, he has to use an OpaqueControl. So far, so good, except that it's really painful as the value has to be encoded and decoded by the user.
I would suggest we create a shared-ldap-extra-control module, where we will b able to add the Controls other LDAP server are using. We can have a package for each LDAP server, assuming they use some special controls not shared with any other. For shared controls, we can put them in the base model.
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Las Vegas, NV (May 19, 2014) –The third annual CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS AMERICA finished its three-day run here in Las Vegas with more than 2,000 attendees from the secure payment, identification and mobile technologies industries discussing the critical issues driving these markets. With an expanded exhibition hall to accommodate the 166 exhibitors (a more than 20 percent increase over last year), this year's CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS AMERICA hosted more than 80 educational sessions during 6 conference tracks and 5 keynote sessions.
Keynote sessions featured speakers from the e-payment, smart card and digital retailing industries including: Patty Walters from Vantiv outlining strategies to meet next year's EMV compliance; Patrick Gauthier of PayPal sharing a vision of an omni-channel payment infrastructure; Dominique Piotet from Rebellion Lab explaining a digital 360 degree consumer retail engagement model; Ben Milner of Dwolla detailing his company's internet-based consumer-to-retailer payment strategy; and Steven Singer of ABnote talking about how HCE will drive EMV adoption and mobile contactless payment.
Another highlight of this year's conference was Tuesday night's American SESAMES Awards recognizing technology innovation for smart cards, digital security, identification, secure transactions and contactless technology developed for the U.S. market. This year's winners included Oberthur Technologies, SkimProt, and Zwipe AS for e-payment and access control security.
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Hello all, let me start by saying tersely how I was introduced to this fine sport.
Every year, usually, my family takes a trip to Colorado to go skiing(and I myself partake in snowboarding). Well, I'd had a longstanding interest in pursuing flyfishing at some point already, because my father had once lived in Denver(I'm in Texas) and had a nice rod/reel combo somewhere, so when I saw a pamphlet for a day-long flyfishing trip/learning experience, I was thrilled to try it. My father and I went out and had a lot of fun with it, I was sparked in my interest, though I caught no trought on Gore Creek in Vail(if any of you know that area, beautiful area). I came home from the trip and immediately ran to several sporting-goods stores to find myself a cheapish, but decent, little combo set. I bought one of those cheap plastic-wrapped combos; when it came down to it and the rod broke, the reel I could not get the backing to hold to, I went out and ended up buying a nicer rod around 40 bucks, and a pre-rigged reel for about 30. Got myself an assortment of flies that to me resembled what fish seem to go for in our humid, bass and sunfish-laden area. Now: I've had some fun, including a day where(they seem to bite at anything!) I caught 7 sunfish out of this tiny, tiny creek by using a small popper mostly as a no-action dry fly. Heh, funny. And excuse me, one of them was a tiny striper. So I'm starting to wonder about wet flies/nymphs and I know I've bought several already; I won't worry about tying right now. How am I going to go about fishing a wet fly, for one? Also, I haven't been able to find any strike indicators, all they sell around here are the regular little plastic-ball bobbers. They make too much noise for my taste; how could I perhaps make a small indicator myself with no special materials? Further: Summer is indeed coming, I suspsect soon enough I'll want to dig again into my wallet, go to a more respectable shop like Bass Pro Shops(which for me is a good long way away, so I haven't been able to go there yet) and actually get some decent equipment. Anyone know of some solid reel/rod combos or reels and rods that I could put together for under 200, 300 bucks? I suspect for that much I ought to be able to get a good setup, no? Also, how might I entice a bass with a dry fly? I've had trouble getting the few largemouth bass in these little streams to go for anything. Please, feel no need to condescend to me; though I am but 17, I will understand(or be able to look up) even the most remote terms of fly-fishing use. Thank you all for any help! |
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A new Knotice study has revealed strong increases in the interaction of mobile devices with email marketing. In the first six months of 2012, 36 percent of emails sent were opened on a mobile device – a 32 percent increase over the last half of 2011, when 27 percent of sent emails were opened via a mobile device.
That's massive in the span of just a few months.
What's it mean? Email marketing is becoming mobile marketing.
Not search marketing, you say? No, maybe not directly, but indirectly – this brings email marketing a lot more attention.
Attention is something email marketing has been lacking for a long time. It's by and large done very poorly, even when it has the potential to be the highest converting form of online marketing. By becoming a subset of mobile marketing, hopefully email marketing becomes mainstream and "sexy" to more businesses.
I've been a massive fan of email marketing for many years. The issue? It doesn't get a lot of traction at search marketing conferences or on blogs because, while it's a marketing channel that operates online, to date it hasn't had a heavy influence on search.
If email marketing is the new mobile marketing, what can you do to compete with the few and proud that do it very well? In the past, email marketing was the thing you had to do, was done at the last minute, and was largely a send it and forget it proposition.
Hopefully that attitude is about to change.
It's estimated that nearly 26 percent of email is accessed via mobile phones. Android and iOS operating systems are pulling away from the pack when it comes to usage. Most mobile phone users with purchasing power now have smartphones. Making sure your email marketing pieces are readable and accessible via mobile devices is quickly coming an important part of converting your message into dollars.
Some tactics will help improve conversions on mobile device emails. Keep in mind you need to test, and test some more, to see what works for your specific position. These tips are designed to help make the most of the users who view your blasts on mobile devices.
Make sure you use text and images in your blast. A blast that comes full of images actually loads very poorly until the user allows the blast to load the images. There's not a lot in these types of blasts to draw the eye.
Check out the blast version on the left compared to the version on the right below:
On the left, the only clickable option is to unsubscribe. On the right, recipients can click the link to the deal online, and a good amount of text that tells the reader what the blast consists of, there's also the brand name within the image box before it loads.
Along with optimizing your images to be mobile friendly, make sure the header you deliver to mobile devices is much smaller than the normal email header. Those take up a lot of room and aren't very pinch-and-flick-friendly.
This blast from Coach Factory Outlet is one gigantic image that has a logo that's centered so when it loads on my mobile phone, it's mostly just white space. This is a wasted branding and sales opportunity!
Put a link to a version of your blast at the very top and make sure it's left justified. You can then send the user to a landing page that is very simple and mobile friendly.
The messaging in this example is good because it encourages you to make the email a priority and has the message in text within the link. The recipient knows what this blast is about, even before the images appear.
Right below your website link – make sure you have a phone number that would render "click to call" on a mobile phone. I would love to show you all an example, but I can't find anyone who's doing this – you'd be the first – send me an example if you do!
As you can see, common sense and testing can make your email blast friendly for both mobile and non-mobile devices. Good programs can help you render nice emails. So can some planning and design thought before you're ready to send.
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I've only been playing USTA for a year now, and when I signed up, the computer rated me as 3.5C but I'm actually a strong 4.0. I've been playing in 4.0 leagues and winning the majority of my matches. I should finish the season with a winning record... is this enough to bump up my rating to 4.0? I noticed that other players, for example, had two seasons in a row undefeated... 9 wins 0 losses, and yet they remained the same rating. What does it take to move up?
Just beat a couple of 5.0's in double bagels, I'm pretty sure they will move you up fairly quickly. -Fuji
The simplest explanation is this. To increase your rating, you need to have match results that are better than the current dynamic ratings of the players involved say you should. This means winning a match by more than expected, or losing a match by less than expected. Correspondingly, to improve your rating a lot, you need to have the delta between the actual and expected result be large, or to continually keep doing better than expected even as your rating increases and the expectations for your matches become greater. The details are that it is far more than win/loss record that matters. Instead it matters who you play (and who you play with in doubles). If you happen to play weak opponents, or with a very strong partner, you may be expected to win by a lot so a close win could actually decrease your rating. This is one of the reasons why you may see players that go undefeated but don't get bumped up. If you were a 3.5C in the 2012 year-end ratings, and are now playing up at 4.0 and winning a lot, there is a high likelihood that you'd get bumped up, but it does depend on the specifics. If you happen to be playing weaker 4.0s or other 3.5s playing up, and doing so with a strong partner, your results may not be quite as strong as you think. Or if you happen to have any of your losses be to weaker opponents, that can offset some of the good results. If you are interested in knowing more specifics about where your rating might be, I can probably generate a report for you. See this blog post or contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you want to know more.
if your a 3.5C playing 4.0 and winning you will be bumped. Sorry but if you are a strong 4.0 you would not have a 3.5C either. Just keep winning and computer will do its job
Thanks for all the replies... this is great information. I've been winning, but not exactly kicking ass... many of my wins have been in tie-breaks. Sounds like I need to get some more clean wins and beat the stronger players to move up. Definitely something to work on!
First - You were rated as a 3.5C this year when you signed up or when you first started playing USTA? You don't get the "C" until you play matches against other rated players and establish your own rating according to the "C"omputer. Second - Your rating is not based on wins and losses. You can win a match and have your rating go down, or lose a match and have your rating go up. You can win all your matches and not get bumped, or only win very few matches and get bumped. What matters is the rating of the people you play against, and the score of your match. As an example, losing to a 4.0 by a score of 5-7, 6-0, 0-1 will probably raise your rating because the computer sees that you won 11 games and your opponent won 8. It doesn't care that you lost the overall match. Third - all that said, if you are playing in a 4.0 league and your opponents are actually rated as 4.0's (not 3.5's playing up) and you are competitive(with your scores not your win loss ratio) you will quickly get bumped to 4.0. Lastly - Just play and let the computer sort it out. I'm also in a similar position to you in that I am ranked 3.5 but everyone tells me I'm a 4.0 when I play them. At the end of the year I expect that I'll get bumped and that's just fine ... If by some chance I dont get bumped that will be just fine too.
There are only two reasons you should care. 1) You want to play at a higher level and somehow your current rating is negetively affecting this .... 2) It is important for your ego that you have a higher rating .... Either is fine, but the ultimate goal should be to become as good as possible and the computer will eventually determine when the time is right to bump you up. However, if all you really care about is getting bumped up ... then play as good an opponent as you can find and work like hell to beat them. Generally speaking the only surefire way to get bumped up is to play up a level and perform well. It works every time ... eventually.
As suggested above, your dynamic rating changes based on computerized estimation of a score difference between your current level and the level of the opponent. So, if you have a computer rating in the 3.5 range and are playing competitve matches against computer rated 4.0 (not losing 6-0, 6-0), you rating will go up out of the 3.5 range (**even if you lose every one of those matches**). If you are a 4.0 and win every match at 4.0, you may not go up if you are having competitive matches.
Win 76 06 76 (even better would be winning a third set match tiebreak) Play only against self rated players or lower rated players who are playing up. Play doubles with people who have high ratings but aren't that good.
Here in Norcal, third set is recorded as 1-0 for the winner, regardless of whether it's a full third (and what the set score is) or whether it's a match tiebreak. So it doesn't matter how you win the 3rd set as far as rating impact goes. We have our own version of tennislink though, so maybe this is specific to norcal. Do other sections differentiate for scorekeeping and ratings?
It's mostly ego. I'm one of the strongest players on my team, but on the roster I'm the only one who's rated 3.5, so on paper it looks like I'm the worst. Other than that, I don't care. I was just curious how the ratings system works.
It does matter a little bit now, because now you must have 75% of your team be of the nominal team rating (4.0) and only 25% of the team can be from the level below (3.5). It seems you can beat everyone at your level and not get moved up. If you want to move up, then play a few higher level tournaments. Even if you lose, you will likely be bumped up if the matches are reasonably close.
How do you move up? Stop leaking games. I see it all the time. A 3.5 doesn't move up year after year, even though she wins a lot at 3.5 and has decent losses at 4.0. But if you look at the 3.5 record, she tends to give up 6-8 games. IME, this is due to a loss of focus, leading to streaky play. Rather than just appeal up, better would be to work on the mental game when playing the lower level and try to hold opponents to 2 or fewer games per set. If you can do that, you'll move up.
Personally, I would like to move down a level. If you are at the top of your level, then you get invited by the best teams to play in the best events. You would get to play on the best tri-level teams, combo teams etc and the best USTA teams. Playoff atmospheres are awesome.
Like some others I don't quite understand what you are claiming since you don't get a computer rating until a year end, not when you first sign up to play. It sounds like you started playing league in 2012 and played enough matches to get a 12/31/2012 3.5 computer rating, right? Wins and losses really don't factor into the determination of a year end computer rating, it is margin of victory and also yours and your opponent's dynamic ratings at the time of the match that matters. Are you now exclusively playing up at 4.0 or are you also playing 3.5 as well? Post a link to your tennislink stats if you want more definite answers.
This comment is so spot on. I start to feel sorry for weaker competition, and once I am up a couple of games, I start trading games to finish the set. Too bad my stronger opponents don't show such kindness to me in my total lopsided losses.
That's actually really interesting. I wouldn't have thought that something like that would make a big difference in USTA rating. Thanks for the info! -Fuji
I don't know that it is feeling sorry for opponents or just playing down to their level or a fading of attention which leads to those leaked games and it may be a mix of those things and more. In my last league doubles match we soundly beat the other team 6-1 in the first set where they only won their first service game after a number of ad-out opportunities were squandered by our team. It was clear that we were not at all in jeopardy of losing the match. Then with that set comfortably in hand we proceed to drop our first service game and let them hold to go down 0-2. We each just made a few lazy shots and had a double fault or two and ba-bing we're in the hole. Order in the universe thankfully set back in and we won the last six in a row but honestly that should have been a 1 and 0 victory or maybe 0 and 0 if we'd started as strong as we finished. The two games lost in the second set were definitely because of our mistakes and not due to the other team's play. The problem imo is that a lack of mental toughness to push through and beat a team 6-0 which should be beaten 6-0 will come back and bite you in the ass when you are up against a good team and you're up, say, 5-4 and serving for the match (or down 4-5 and trying to break to stay in the set). You've got to close the deal and shut the door against them and make solid plays and good decisions just like you do against the team you'd beat 6-0.
Yes you are correct. This is a good example of how clueless I am/was about the ratings system. I thought the computer auto-rated me as 3.5 when I signed up, but what I've learned here is that it was a year end rating. I did poorly my first season because I was coming off a 4 year hiatus and lost a lot of matches or barley squeaked out wins against weak players. I should have explained this in my first post... my bad. Now I understand why I received the 3.5 rating. So my initial question was more about how to move up.
I'm no expert on moving up but I hope to move up for the first time this year end based on my 2013 results so far. I think you've gotten some good advice in this thread, namely play up and try to do as well as you can, particularly against good opponents. Also as much as you can try to dominate weak opponents at your own level by not giving away games when you are capable of beating them badly.
Yep, it absolutely makes a difference. The algorithm uses games won/lost, not the match win/loss, so there is a difference between 6-4,6-4 and 6-2,6-2 that is pretty significant. The scores I mention are likely just one break of serve and if you consistently get that break every match rather than letting it stay close, your rating could easily end up being a tenth or more higher.
I actually ended up losing one like this this year (6-7,6-0,0-1). I have lost 3 matches this year, but by game differential I have only lost 1 and barely at that. They really should use the W/L as well in their formula. I admittedly was close in ability to my opponents in these matches, but they were clearly more mentally tough which put them an easy level ahead of me.
Just keep playing. If you're really 3.5C, your rating won't change until the year end ratings come out in December. There's no way to change a C rating mid-season. If you're beating or even just playing competitively with 4.0 rated players, you'll be moved up for sure. Also, if you really are C rated and you haven't joined a 3.5 team, wait until there are 3 or 4 matches left in the season and join whichever looks like the best 3.5 team in the district/state. Play a couple matches for them then kick ass in the districts and sectionals.


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Robert S. McNamara (letter, Sept. 14) tries to minimize President Kennedy's responsibility for the Vietnam War. Although commitments to a non-Communist South Vietnam went back to President Truman, it was J.F.K. who put the prestige of the United States on the line with his Vietnam policy. As he explained to John Kenneth Galbraith in 1961:
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Oohroo is an enemy in Kirby Mass Attack. From time to time, Oohroo will fume angrily and spin his fists about rapidly. If any Kirby contacts them at this time, he will take damage and be flung back.
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Like I did it right this time , finally. Like Bill Murray at the end of Groundhog's Day.
Annoyed at the audacity of people to stick their noses where they don't belong. And just surreal how people trust face value and what they are reading on the internet. What a sad humanity we have.
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A no-nonsense client sees me a certain way. Either that, or she was in a particular 'mood'.
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I'm thinking a golf tee with a logo in the top left or something, kind of like your Starfleet (pardon the usage of such sinful references) one, CMR. If not, then a regular tee with a logo on the top left, and then on the back a bigger design.
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She lay face up. She was naked. Her skin was soft, slightly discoloured. Her eyes were chocolate brown, her hair was sticky grey. Her fingernails were black crescents and her right leg was pinned where it had been broken and fixed.
Anyone here know this woman?
Muna put her hand up. I took her history.
Um she was an alcoholic- and- Muna paused. She looked at the woman laid on the table. Two days ago this person had been admitted with a broken leg. Within seconds of their meeting, Muna knew that she was talking to a basket case. She'd thrown herself under a taxi.
He didn't stop for me! she'd exclaimed. Bloody cretin needs an optician!
The pathologist nodded. Alcoholic. Anything else?
Sixty-two years old She took Diazepam for seven years Muna thought back. Er no children
Thank you. Boldly, the pathologist sliced the skin, down the middle of the woman's chest, right down to the low end of her belly. Then he picked up a powerful set of shears. With expert precision and plenty of force he snapped each rib until he was able to open the front of the woman like shutters, exposing her innards. Dark blood oozed out like treacle.
Muna watched with a detached sort of horror. She'd never seen a dead body before. I'm a medical student! she said to herself. Get used to it. Suddenly she was thinking of Giles.
Giles was a friend of her auntie. He was a plastic surgeon, with a large practice in Harley Street. Even better, he'd agreed to give her a free consultation.
So, you're Aisha's niece, he'd smiled when she came in. A fine woman. And what do you do, Miss Ahmed?
I'm a medical student.
His eyes lit up. What year are you in?
First year.
He had a confident smile and a square Egyptian jaw. First year is the best, Miss Ahmed. Everything is new and exciting- and not too many exams either. Wonderful stuff. What are you studying at the moment?
Anatomy. We've got an autopsy next Monday.
He met her eye. Autopsy. Do you know the Greek root?
Muna felt intelligent. Yes. Auto- meaning self. And 'opsy'- meaning look.
Not just a pretty face. Giles said softly. Now, what's the problem?
Muna rubbed her face. The autopsy room was cold. It had been a big weekend. Last night had been ridiculous. They had only meant to stay for one drink, but ended up totally slammered. She actually had her sweaty dress shoes in her bag right now.
The pathologist indicated the woman's lungs, withery-black. if you ever wanted a reason not to smoke he announced, then carefully lifted one out of it's chest, severed the tube with his scalpel, and put it on the scale.
Muna felt sick. It was partly the smell, the distinctive aura of rancid lard. She could smell stale beer on her fellow students too. She hadn't been the only one partying.
Giles came into her head again. He was single. Well, he didn't have a wedding ring. And he was beautifully dressed. The suit was Prada, but understated. What's the problem? he'd asked her respectfully.
She had blushed. My friends say it doesn't matter she halted. They say I'm pretty anyway
He held up his hand. If it matters to you, it matters to me.
Well, it's She indicated her front. It's here. I'm so flat.
She had dreaded that he might take off her shirt, exposing her boyish chest, but he didn't.
There are a number of options he began slowly. They're all straightforward procedures. Let me show you this DVD.
By the end of the hour, she was sure that she wanted an enlargement. She was also sure that she wanted Dr. Giles Hammed to be her surgeon. She would feel safe in his slim strong hands, no doubt about that. He seemed to understand her completely.
Meanwhile, back on the table, the pathologist was pulling a bobbly brown thing. It looked like a deep fried steak. This is the liver, he said. Advanced cirrhosis. She had probably been drinking for forty years.
He put the liver in the scale.
Muna looked at the woman's head, hanging backwards off the body block. Her hair was a grey tangle. When Muna had spoken with her, the woman had been wearing makeup. Cherry-pink lipstick, some, clumsily on her teeth.
Her mouth was hanging open now. Her eyes were open too, staring at the plain white wall of the autopsy room.
The office in Harley Street had handsome wallpaper- Farrow and Ball, something out of a magazine.
You must think hard. Giles had said in parting. It's my duty to remind you that this is a major operation, which will affect your body in a number of ways. Chat it over with your aunt, Miss Ahmed. She'll give you good advice. Then, when you're ready, call my office and we'll book you in. The start of the summer holidays would be a good time, don't you think? He took her hand in his. Goodbye Miss Ahmed. It was a pleasure to meet you. Please pass my best regards to your aunt and her family.
She was flushing now, just thinking about the way his hand had felt. Accomplished, delicate, and utterly capable.
Meanwhile, the pathologist was detaching every organ in turn, examining, weighing and bagging. Then he closed the doors of the woman's chest. Suddenly she looked much more human.
Without speaking, he made an incision beneath one of her breasts. Taking the breast in both hands, he squeezed it hard.
A firm oval sack of silicone popped out.
Muna shut her eyes, feeling sicker than ever. As soon as class was finished, she was going for a drink.
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TOP songwriters today stepped up their campaign against Google's YouTube video sharing site in a bid to win a better deal for their work.The stepping of the campaign comes on the same day as PRS for Music announced that it has agreed commercial terms with the new music streaming service Spotify, which ensures that its 60.000 songwriters, composers and publishers will be fairly paid when their music is used on this new internet service.Pete Waterman told how his massive Rick Astley hit 'Never Gonna Give You Up' had received 154 million hits on the YouTube site and he had received a cheque for just £11.He told a special PRS For Music press conference to mark the launch of www.fairplayforcreators.com that he would receive more from the song being played on Radio Stoke than on YouTube.Guy Chambers, who wrote the Robbie Williams hit 'Angels' said: "Google/YouTube are in effect asking songwriters to give away their songs for nothing. The longer music is available for nothing or next to nothing online, the quicker the demise of the recording industry."Google is manipulating the PRS for Music dispute in a deeply cynical way; to confuse the public into believing that the industry is outdated and behaving in a protectionist manner. Nothing further could be from the truth."Singer and songwriter Beverly Knight said: "It's great that the internet allows anyone the freedom of accessing and enjoying all kinds of music easily. However those of us who actually create the music constantly lose out when big companies pay labels to exploit that music. "The creators get cut out of the deal when they are not paid royalties. This is entirely wrong. Everyone expects to be paid for their work and musicians are no different."Jools Holland, broadcaster and songwriter said: "Google is a big commercial entity which must properly pay the very people who make the YouTube service a success."PRS For Music Chairman Ellis Rich said: "Google, a massive commercial enterprise with profits last year of £3 BILLION, decided to ride rough shod arrogantly and ruthlessly over the music creators that contributed to YouTube's success. Maybe we should be calling them me tube because they certainly don't care much about you. "PRS for Music is proud to represent every one of our 60,000 members and help them guard their rights and collect the income we believe they are entitled to. They all deserve fair recompense for their creativity, whenever and wherever it is used by for profit, benefit or advantage. Google's Youtube is a big internet business that thinks it can steamroller over small businesses – and many of our members are very small businesses!"Mr Rich added: "The song writing royalties we collect are vital in nurturing creative music talent. They ensure music creators are rewarded as would anyone else be for their work. We understand the world has changed and is still changing, but this does not mean that creators do not still deserve to be paid for their efforts."Music matters so much to us, and why we will not allow Google or any other faceless monolithic corporation to disrespect us. All of our guest performers are hard working songwriters and composers whose livelihoods are affected by the decisions of big business, they rely on royalties to pay their bills in the same way as everyone else. "We need support to make big businesses like Youtube realise that they do not have the right to trample over the soundtrack to our lives – it's time for them to face the music and pay a fair price for it." Today's launch included performances from Billy Bragg, film composer Debbie Wiseman and Alisha's Attic star Shelley Poole and songwriters included Lynsey de Paul, Peter Cox and Richard Drummie from Go West, Honey Ryder and Feargal Sharkey. PRS For Music is calling for Google/YouTube to - Pay fairly for their musical works when they're used online; to appreciate that they have to pay going rates for music like everybody else; and it is unfair for the UK's creative community to subsidise a billion dollar making internet giant.
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"The Warriors" is a real peculiarity, a movie about street gang warfare, written and directed as an exercise in mannerism. There's hardly a moment when we believe that the movie's gangs are real or that their members are real people or that they inhabit a real city.
That's where the peculiarity comes in: I don't think we're supposed to. No matter what impression the ads give, this isn't even remotely intended as an action film. It's a set piece. It's a ballet of stylized male violence.
Walter Hill, the director and co-writer, specializes in fables like this. His first two films were "Hard Times" and "The Driver," and they were both at arm's length from realism. Hill likes characters that take on a legendary, mythic stature, and then he likes to run them through situations that look like urban tableaux.
"Hard times," a good and interesting film, starred Charles Bronson as a professional street fist-fighter who went up against opponents with all the dimension of a James Bond villain. "The Driver" didn't even have names for its characters; they were described by their functions, and they behaved toward each other in strangely formal, rehearsed, unspontaneous ways.
"The Warriors" takes that style to such an extreme that almost all life and juice are drained from it; there's great vitality and energy (and choreography and stunt coordination) in the many violent scenes of gang fights and run-ins with the cops. But when the characters talk, they seem to be inhabiting a tale rehearsed many times before.
One example: Three members of a street gang are lined up in a row. The camera regards the first one. He speaks. The camera pans to the second, and he speaks. The camera pans to the third. He speaks. Because the movement of the camera dictates the order and timing of the speeches, there can be no illusion that the characters are talking as their words occur to them.
This same kind of stiff stylization dominates the film. The street gangs take stances toward each other as if they were figures in a medieval print. The deployment of the police and gang forces is plainly impossible on any realistic level; people move into their symbolic places with such perfectly timed choreography that they must be telepathic. And the chase scenes are plainly impossible, as in one extended shot showing the Warriors outrunning a rival gang's school bus.
All of this is no doubt Walter Hill's intention. I suppose he has, an artistic vision he's working toward in this film, and in his work. He chooses to meticulously ban human spontaneity from his films; he allows only a handful of shallow women characters into his stories; he reduces male conduct to ritualized violence. And in "The Warriors" he chooses, with a few exceptions, to cast against type: Only three or four of the movie's characters look and sound like plausible street-gang members. The rest look and sound like male models for the currently fashionable advertising photography combining high fashion and rough trade.
All very well, I suppose, except that Paramount chooses to advertise the movie as a violent action picture — and action audiences, I suspect, will find it either incomprehensible or laughable. Walter Hill has a considerable visual skill, and he knows what he's doing in "The Warriors" and does it well. But is this style suited to this material? And does Hill have other notes to play? All three of his films have shown a certain skittishness in the face of human juices and the unrehearsed flow of life. And so his street gangs, and his movies, walk lockstep through sterile streets.
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With DOD spending over $200 billion annually to acquire products and services that include everything from spare parts to the development of major weapon systems, our numerous, large, and mounting fiscal challenges demand that DOD maximize its return on investment and provide the warfighter with needed capabilities at the best value for the taxpayer. In an effort to encourage defense contractors to perform in an innovative, efficient, and effective way, DOD gives its contractors the opportunity to collectively earn billions of dollars through monetary incentives known as award and incentive fees. Using these incentives properly--in concert with good acquisition practices--is a key to minimizing waste, maximizing value, and getting our military personnel what they need, when and where they need it. Congress asked GAO to testify on DOD's use of award and incentive fees and the role they play in the acquisition system. This statement highlights the risks of conducting business as usual and identifies the actions DOD needs to take to use these fees more effectively. DOD concurred or partially concurred with the seven recommendations GAO made in a previously issued report on award and incentive fees. GAO looks forward to seeing DOD turn these promised steps into actual policy and practice.
DOD's use of award and incentive fees is an issue at the nexus of two areas that GAO has designated "high risk" for DOD--contract management and weapon system acquisition. Contract management has been a long-standing business management challenge for DOD because it often cannot assure that it is using sound business practices to acquire the goods and services the warfighter needs. For weapon system acquisitions, the persistent and long-standing nature of acquisition problems has perhaps made a range of key decision makers complacent about cost growth, schedule delays, quantity reductions, and performance shortfalls. DOD's strategies for incentivizing its contractors, especially for weapon system development programs, reflect the challenges in these areas. DOD programs routinely engage in award-fee practices that do not hold contractors accountable for achieving desired outcomes and undermine efforts to motivate contractor performance, such as evaluating contractors on award-fee criteria that are not directly related to key acquisition outcomes (e.g., meeting cost and schedule goals and delivering desired capabilities to the warfighter); paying contractors a significant portion of the available fee for what award-fee plans describe as "acceptable, average, expected, good, or satisfactory" performance; and giving contractors at least a second opportunity to earn initially unearned or deferred fees. As a result, DOD has paid out an estimated $8 billion in award fees on contracts in GAO's study population, regardless of whether acquisition outcomes fell short of, met, or exceeded DOD's expectations. Despite paying billions of dollars, DOD has not compiled data or developed performance measures to evaluate the validity of its belief that award and incentive fees improve contractor performance and acquisition outcomes. These issues, along with those GAO has identified in DOD's acquisition and business management processes, present a compelling case for change. By implementing the recommendations GAO has made on award and incentive fees, DOD can improve incentives, increase transparency, and enhance accountability for the fees it pays. At the same time, by working more broadly to improve its acquisition practices, DOD can set the right conditions for getting better acquisition outcomes and making more efficient use of its resources in what is sure to be a more fiscally constrained environment.
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Are you trying to charge it using a PC or laptop? You shouldn't have any issues charging it using a standard outlet. Did this just start recently? Any new apps that could have affected it? The google connectivity sounds like a wifi issue. It's worth trying a hard reset of your iPad. Hold down the home button and the power button on top for a few seconds until you see the apple on your screen. Then let it do its thing. My iPad 2 is almost two years old and works just like it did out of the box. They should last a while. 2/3 brightness is actually pretty high but that alone won't affect charging. Any more details?
I get that message about not being supported from time to time on my gear. I just unplug and replug and I'm usually good. Sometimes, electronic connections are not well made. The 30 pin connect has a lot of connections. Your iPad will last until it won't hold a charge. Once you get to that point, it will be a good idea to consider making a decision of some sort.
The last time I added a new app was 2 months ago. I use a standard outlet, not pc. If by reset you mean a complete shut down then yes, I've done that. But that's the funny thing, that doesn't always fix it. And it happens with several wifi networks, I can be next to the router and still have that happen. Which reminds me, I do occasionally have trouble with wifi connectivity, it varies time to time, I can be sitting at my desk where the router is and lose wifi, and connect right back up, and drop again. I know it's not the router, I get an error unable to connect if that happens. Not only that, but I cannot synchronize to my pc's hard drive. It's only 6 weeks old and is a top of the line HP, which has everything on my iPad there, saved, but if I hook my iPad up to add something, I lose the new item and a couple other apps and a bunch of songs. Which is a recent problem. I'll give your method of restart a try and edit this post.