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'Doublers' are worth consideration
Andrew Murdoch, President of Somerset Wealth Strategies
Steve Gregory is a big fan of long-term care insurance. His mother paid $1,700 a year for a LTC policy and after 10 years wound up in a nursing home in upstate New York. She survived there for two years, accumulating a tab of more than $100,000. For every dollar she paid, she got about $6 in benefits.
So Gregory bought a LTC policy in 2002 for himself and his wife from a now-defunct insurance company, then bought another one from John Hancock in 2007, after his former insurer exited the business.
"I see the value that an LTC policy provides," says Gregory, unperturbed that his bill increased from $4,500 annually to $6,000.
Gregory is a noteworthy exception to the negative trend gripping the LTC insurance market. Stung by inadequate pricing and low interest rates, LTC insurance has been slowly fading away. Only about a dozen insurance companies sell these policies today, down from 100 a decade ago. Prices, meanwhile, have been rising sharply as former no price increase guarantees have vanished. Gregory represents a small minority who can afford rising premiums and isn't worried that his insurer will disappear again.
For most people, though, a relatively new development in the insurance industry – so-called annuity nursing home doublers – may represent a better alternative. About 10 insurance companies have rolled them out. They typically double payments for up to five years or until the cash value of the annuity is drained. Doublers are offered for free or minimal cost as a tool to gain market share.
Technically, the term "doublers" is imprecise. Depending on the insurer, the supplemental payments may increase only 50%. In one case, payments triple. Regardless, they help customers who cannot afford long-term care insurance foot the bill at a troubled time in life when they are already overwhelmed with health problems. Doublers help mitigate the fear of exhausting savings in retirement.
The fact that most annuities do not charge for the doubler benefit is particularly noteworthy. Consider, for example, a couple, ages 58 and 61, that buys a $300,000 annuity with a doubler from one insurance company and defers payments for seven years. After that, they will receive $19,580 a year in payments, a 4.2% income stream, which is fully competitive with annuities without doublers.
If the older partner winds up in a nursing home at age 75, the income stream increases 150% to 6.3% and the couple's annual annuity income jumps to $29,370.
In another example at another insurer offering a doubler, assume a 70- and 71-year-old couple buy a $600,000 immediate annuity. They will immediately receive $29,388 a year, or 4.9% of their money -- again, fully competitive with annuities without doublers. If one of them winds up in a nursing home after a mandatory waiting period of two years after their annuity purchase, their annual income will triple to $88,164.
For all their appeal, doublers do not rival the benefits of long-term care insurance. A stint in a nursing home can cost as much as $9,000 a month, far beyond most doubler payouts. That is why most people who buy annuities with doublers cannot afford long-term care insurance.
Like Steve Gregory, James Davidson, a retiree who lives with his wife Nancy in Georgetown, TX, has LTC insurance and sticks with it despite stiff rate increases. In fact, his insurer hit the couple with more than a 75% increase this year, boosting their annual premium from $1,750 annually to $3,100. He stayed with the company after shopping around and learning the new insurer would charge the couple at least a third more than their new premium.
"LTC insurance still makes economic sense to me," Davidson says.
But, tellingly, neither he nor Gregory dismisses the appeal of annuity nursing home doublers. Davidson already owns an annuity and says he would not buy another one simply for the doubler benefit. But if he were in the market for an annuity, he adds, he would seek an annuity with the doubler and if he liked what he saw, he would consider cancelling his LTC insurance.
"If you wind up in nursing home, a bigger annuity payment is a lot better than nothing," Gregory adds.
The bottom line is that doublers provide some measure of relief at a crucial juncture in a person's life. Without financial resources, a nursing home resident winds up on Medicaid. That's the view of Eileen Dunn, who grew up in a family-run nursing home and is the owner of Trinity Eldercare in upstate New York, which advises clients about long-term health planning and insurance. "Without financial resources, the person has overwhelming sadness that he or she worked all their life and then had to exhaust their resources on healthcare," Dunn says.
Annuities with doublers have either home healthcare riders or confinement riders. The former provides a person with professional at-home care or a stay in a nursing home or other qualified care facility if they cannot perform two of six activities of daily living, such as eating, bathing and dressing. A confinement rider covers a person if they are simply confined to a nursing home or other qualified care facility.
There are some drawbacks to some doublers. In joint annuities, for example, only one spouse is entitled to the benefit. And while the exercise of a doubler does not impact the amount of post-doubler payments, it does impact the cash value of the annuity and hence the amount of money left for beneficiaries.These are minor issues, however. Most people who want to buy an annuity and who do not have LTC insurance – which is the majority – would be wise to consider buying an annuity with the doubler.


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The Cambridge Film Festival is back.
The 34th Cambridge Film Festival started last night with, among other things, the UK debut of Woody Allen's new movie, Magic in the Moonlight (the festival has a long-standing relationship with Allen, 20 of whose films have seen their UK premiere in Cambridge – other films to have previewed include Reservoir Dogs and Pirates of the Caribbean).
The festival runs for ten days (28th August – 7th September), and hosts a startlingly wide range of UK and international movie releases – something like 150 features, documentaries, shorts and animations.
Cambridge does not have many cinemas – there is the Cineworld complex just over the bridge from the school, the Vue in the Grafton Centre, and the 3-screen Arts Picturehouse on Regent Street, which specialises in smaller art house releases. The latter has been endangered for just over a year since its take-over by Cineworld, when the Competition Commission (now the Competition and Markets Authority), the regulator responsible for overseeing questions of monopolies arising from takeovers, announced that either the Cineworld complex or the Arts Picturehouse would have to be sold.
The situation is still not resolved, and the Cambridge Film Festival (which has its offices in the Arts Picturehouse) cannot run screens in the Cineworld complex until it is; for this reason it has extended its range of venues to include Emmanuel College (just over the road from the Arts Picturehouse, or I suppose vice versa) and St. Philips Church on Mill Road.
You can browse the films on offer at the festival website, here.

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MARTINEZ (CBS SF) – Two young men will spend three decades to life in prison for their roles in the brutal 2009 beating and gang rape of a 16-year-old girl outside of a homecoming dance at Richmond High School.
Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barbara Zuniga sentenced Jose Montano, 22, of Richmond to 33 years to life and Marcelles Peter, 20, of Pinole, to 29 years to life in a Martinez courtroom Thursday afternoon.
Both were convicted last month on charges of rape in concert, sexual penetration in concert, and oral copulation in concert causing great bodily injury.
Prosecutors said both men played major roles in the gang rape of the victim, referred to as Jane Doe in court.
The night of Oct. 24, 2009, the girl was beaten, sexually assaulted, dragged over 200 feet of pavement and robbed over a more than two-hour period in a dark courtyard on the Richmond High campus as some 20 men and boys stood by, according to Senior Deputy District Attorney John Cope.
"The only kindness shown to her that night was that she was beaten so badly she can't remember what happened to her," Zuniga said before handing down the sentence.
"It is beyond shocking that a human being could dehumanize someone to the extent that Jane Doe was that night," she said.
"You dehumanized her…she became a toy for you to torture and play with," the judge told the defendants, neither of whom showed emotion throughout Thursday's hearing.
During a rare dual trial in which both defendants were assigned a separate jury, prosecutors presented evidence that Montano had sex with the girl as she lay unconscious, and Peter admitted to touching the girl's vaginal area. DNA from both men was found at the scene.
Sitting next to his attorney in court, Montano offered an apology.
"No words can undo what's been done," he said. "All I can do is
apologize for any of my actions and wish to move forward from the situation."
The night of the gang rape, the victim suffered bone fractures, hypothermia, head wounds and burns, among other injuries, and was admitted to a hospital with a near-fatal 0.35 blood alcohol level, according to police and prosecutors.
It was only when another student walking by the area learned of what was going on and called 911 that the attacks stopped.
Police found the victim half-naked and draped over the wooden beam of a picnic table.
In court Thursday, a victim's advocate read the girl's words.
In her statement, the victim said that at 20 years old, she is still struggling to earn her high school diploma and suffers from nightmares, panic attacks, anxiety, body aches and migraines, among other effects of the attack she survived nearly four years ago.
"All my friends got to walk across the stage and I didn't get to with them. I was left behind," she said, telling the court that the defendants caused her to miss her final two years of high school along with the many rites of passage that go with them.
"You both took a lot from me. More than you will ever know. But I just want to say to the both of you, I forgive both of you," Doe said. "But no matter how hard I try and wish I could, I'll never forget, and there are parts of me that will never be healed."
The court also heard prepared statements from Doe's parents, who said the gang rape has forever changed their family.
Members of both defendants' families present in court Thursday could be seen wiping away tears.
The judge said she has received numerous letters from relatives pleading for leniency for the two young men.
Peter's attorney, Gordon Brown, maintained his client's innocence Thursday and said he plans to appeal the ruling.
But Zuniga reminded Brown that she found Peter's pre-trial statements to be inconsistent and not credible.
She also cited the callousness of Peter's actions, including a recording of him and another co-defendant in a police patrol car laughing as they were driven to Juvenile Hall after the attack.
Montano's attorney, Jane Elliot, who requested a 15-year-to-life sentence for her client, said Montano has shown sincere remorse for his actions and is ready to turn his life around.
"I think he has shown tremendous growth in the years I've come to know him," she said.
The judge said she has appreciated both defendants' courteousness throughout the trial proceedings but could not ignore their heinous crimes.
"If I could, I would give Mr. Montano more years, because what he did was despicable," she added.
Two co-defendants in the case, 19-year-old Ari Morales of San Pablo and Manuel Ortega, 22, of Richmond, are serving 27-year and 32-year sentences for their participation in the gang rape in exchange for plea deals with the district attorney's office.
Richmond residents John Crane, 46, and Elvis Torrentes, 25, are both awaiting trial on lesser sexual assault charges for their roles in the rape.
Cope said outside of the courtroom Thursday that he is pleased with the verdicts, and hopes the news will bring a sense of closure for the victim and a message "that her life has value and what was done to her was wrong."
He added that his office would continue to work to match unidentified DNA profiles found at the scene of the gang rape to outstanding suspects.
"Some of the people out there who think they've gotten away with it—we're still working on this case," he said.
Zuniga said Thursday that up to 12 people are believed to have sexually assaulted Jane Doe on the night of the rape.
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Ma Huateng is one such entrepreneur who has the biggest of Internet firms in China and probably the largest. Ma Huateng is the founder of Tencent Inc. and not only the founder, he is the President, chief executive officer as well as executive board of member also. Tencent controls china's biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, internet and mobile phone value-added services and also operate online advertising services in China. Other services include social network, web portals, e-commerce and multi-player online games and behind all this, one man is credited for Tencent Holdings success, Ma Huateng.
His life story.
Early life and education
Ma Huateng was born in Guangdong. In his early age, Ma Huateng dreamt of becoming an astronomer when his father got the job as a port manager where Ma Huateng accompanied him on a daily basis. Later Ma Huateng as a teenager was shifted to Shenzhen where he completed his software engineering.
Work period
After completing his studies, Ma worked at various companies such as China Motion Telecom Development Ltd. and Shenzhen Runxun Communications Co. Ltd. in the research and development department for Internet paging systems and Internet calling systems, respectively.
Tencent Inc.
As it happens with most of startup stories of companies, Tencent Inc. also shares the same beginning. Ma co-founded Tencent Inc. along with his friends but after establishment the company didn't go as per planned and Ma had to face some challenges on establishing the firm. He took up various roles ranging from janitor to website designer, in order to keep the company afloat and initially Tencent offered e-mail and internet paging services.
Success path from Tencent
Tencent launched its internet messaging service called QQ. Tencent began to offer the service as a free download In order to capture a greater market share and as a result, Tencent got its user base expansion within a year of its release.
Increased maintenance costs
The messaging services were free and thus the users grew constantly, but this led to increased maintenance costs and for this, Ma came up with a solution. He turned a profit by taking monthly fees for premium users and later Tencent began selling shares. Ma expanded their services with group messaging, news portals, e-commerce and entertainment in the shape of multiplayer online games.
Ma started providing more services for cellular phones and customized some products such as ringtones and memberships which eventually led to the expansion of the company and Tencent became the largest instant messaging service in China. Ma did not rest assured that Tencent was going to continue being successful instead he continued the expansion while retaining the core instant messaging business.
At a time when players like Apple, Facebook and Google were in search for an instant messaging app that can led to group chat was still in competition as there were no instant messaging app and they sought to provide one and in the need for one, Ma teamed up with two teams of engineers and made them compete against each other and they came up with a group chat called WeChat, the messaging platform on which millions of users are registered worldwide.
Profitable web-based corporation
Huateng's company Tencent Inc. is known for being one of the most profitable web based corporations in China presently. At one point of time, it was deemed as "China's answer to AOL" and ranks in the top three internet companies in China.
An enthusiast explorer
Ma considers himself as an enthusiast explorer. As per his words, he is still striving to create something really cool, something which couldn't be imagine without new technologies and he is still clinging to this enthusiasm.
Ma believes in extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner and excluding wealth, creating a good product will help with more satisfaction and its well received by users.
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Edward Kim and his app, Car Locator, were big news back in March for netting nearly $13,000 in a month on the Android Market. At the time Edward wrote on his blog that he would "post again in a month or so with hopefully even better numbers!"
The update on his earnings never came as Edward's income from Car Locator decreased rapidly after March when he was no longer listed as a Featured app in the Android Market (See the graph at the top of the post). Just a month after falling from the list Edward was back to earning $4,000 a month from his app. $4,000 a month for a single person working on an app isn't exactly a slap in the face, but such a dramatic downturn in revenue after months of exposure on the Featured list definitely points to how quickly an app can get lost in the Market.
Naturally Edward was disappointed in the sudden decrease in profits and he decided that he was going to take action to correct the two main factors that he felt were holding back his earnings.
The first of those issues was piracy. Edward used Flurry analytics to track his total new users against the purchases made through the Android Market and found that roughly 4 times as many users were pirating his app rather than purchasing it. This issue has been echoed by many Android developers and is devastating to potential profits.
The second issue was tangentially related to the first and that was that the paid Android Market was only available in 14 countries which greatly limited the audience for his app. The solution for many of these users, unable to legitimately access the paid Market, is to turn to pirated copies of apps that they are interested in.
With these two main issues in mind Edward started looking into potential solutions and in July he first implemented the fruits of his labors, something which he refers to as "Android Licenser," on Car Locator and lo and behold he saw his sales rise again for the first time since February.
Android Licenser adds an activation layer to Car Locator which provides a code upon purchase that must be input by the buyer within 24-hours and then permanently unlocks the app on that handset. This rendered the piracy issue obsolete and also substantially resolved the international availability problem as Edward was now able to sell the "locked" .apk directly to people via Google Checkout which is available in over 150 countries. With these direct Google Checkout purchases Edward takes 100% on the sale of the app rather than the 70% that is offered in the Market, but the vast majority of Edward's sales are still coming through the Market.
In August Edward's earnings were back up to $10,500 and while he didn't have his final figures for September in time for this post they were on pace to finish higher still. Edward has his sights set on continuing the upward trajectory of his sales this time around with a goal of reaching $15,000 a month by the end of the year.
Ideally Edward should not have found it necessary to take it upon himself to secure his app from piracy and expand his sales beyond the Market, but that was the state of things and its hard to argue with his results.
It should be noted that Google is aware of and trending in the right direction on both of these issues as in late August they made a licensing service available which allows developers to determine the license status of users and just last week Google announced that the paid Market will be available in a total of 34 countries in the next two weeks.
While it hasn't been the smoothest of journeys for Edward he is still excited about the promise of Android and his story is proof positive that there is money to be made here and with some refinements to the Market and new users and new countries coming quickly the opportunities are still expanding.
If you are interested in checking out Edward's Android Licenser, we'll be taking a closer look at it in an upcoming post, or you can find details on it at www.androidlicenser.com.


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The announcement is the latest twist in a dramatic week for the team. On Friday, the 63-year-old Pinkel announced his resignation, effective at the end of this season. Doctors have been treating Pinkel for lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, since May. Pinkel says his health and not the turbulent week at MU drove his decision. Royals Union Station Rally Caps World Series Celebration By Greg Echlin • Nov 4, 2015 Hundreds of thousands of Kansas City Royals fans lined the parade route and gathered at Union Station to celebrate the World Series championship. As loud as Kauffman Stadium gets when Kansas City Royals fans make their voices heard, never before has it sounded like this amphitheater around Union Station when the fans chanted, "Let's go Royals!" The player fans wanted to hear from the most was the World Series Most Valuable Player Salvador Perez. "Today we are No. 1 in the whole world, guys," said Perez. Crowned: Basking In The Glory Of A World Series Win By Steve Kraske & Lisa Rodriguez • Nov 2, 2015 The Kansas City Royals became World Series champions last night and their hometown is buzzing with excitement. Up To Date retraces the team's incredible journey and hears from fans around the city. Guests: Your Guide To Kansas City's Royals Victory Parade And Rally By Cody Newill • Nov 2, 2015 City of Kansas City It's been a long 30 years since the Royals last earned the title "World Champions," but Sunday's 7-2 victory over the New York Mets has put Kansas City back in the winning mood. To keep the good vibes flowing, the city has decided to hold a parade and celebration Tuesday to honor the boys in blue. Since it's been a generation since the last local World Series parade, we decided it might help to give Kansas Citians a quick primer on the ins and outs of the party. Kansas City Royals Fans Celebrate Being #Crowned By Alyson Raletz • Nov 2, 2015 Cody Newill / KCUR 89.3 If you went to bed Sunday night thinking the Royals would return to Kansas City to finish off the World Series this week, by now you know you were dead wrong. Kansas City's Riverfront Park Opens For World Series Party By Sam Zeff • Nov 2, 2015 Sam Zeff / KCUR Late Sunday afternoon the Port Authority of Kansas City put out a Tweet and a Facebook post. They were going to have a party. The authority and the Friends of the River KC put up a 26-foot screen, brought in some food trucks and created a brand new place for Royals fans to watch the World Series. About 1,500 Royals faithful gathered at a park by the Missouri River just north of downtown. After 30-Year Wait, The Kansas City Royals Take The Crown By Briana O'Higgins & Jeremy Bernfeld • Nov 1, 2015 Cody Newill / KCUR A generation's worth of Kansas City hopes and prayers and pleading was finally answered Sunday night in New York. The Kansas City Royals are World Series champions. It took 30 years for the Royals to once again reach the top of the baseball mountain. Thirty years of Opening Days pregnant with promise. Thirty years of long, hot summers drifting aimlessly toward autumn. Thirty years of disappointment turned in a flash to shock, and quickly on to joy, when in the twelfth the Royals took the championship 7-2 after a turn in the ninth when the Mets left in their starting pitcher, Matt Harvey, with more than 110 pitches. Royals Are One Victory Away From A World Series Championship By Greg Echlin • Nov 1, 2015 The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Mets, 5-3, to move closer to winning a World Series championship with a three games to one lead. The Royals rallied late to take the lead and turned to their closer, Wade Davis. Davis protected the lead with a six-out save in the eighth and ninth innings. Davis says it was something he knew he could do, especially in the World Series. "A couple more outs really doesn't change anything," says Davis. The Royals and Mets will play Game Five on Sunday night in New York. For Faithful Fans, A Royals Shrine Keeps Good 'Voodoo' Flowing During World Series By Cody Newill • Oct 31, 2015 Cody Newill / KCUR Baseball is a notoriously superstitious sport for both players and fans. The superstition is so powerful that it has led two Royals fanatics to make a portable shrine to keep the boys in blue lucky during their battle for the World Series against the New York Mets. Valdez Campos and Jon Watkins both love the Royals and they both work at Blvd. Tavern. One slow Sunday night at the bar, they got to thinking about how they could honor the team and create a good luck charm to see them through the Series. Paulo Orlando, First Brazilian In A World Series, Helps Bring Baseball To His Home Country By Greg Echlin • Oct 30, 2015 Minda Haas / Flickr -- CC When Kansas City Royals outfielder Paulo Orlando replaced Alex Rios as a late-inning defensive change last Tuesday, he made history. Orlando became the first native of Brazil to play in the World Series. The next challenge is for Orlando, and the sport of baseball, to gain more notoriety in Brazil. Mets And Royals Fans Share Bond Over Years Of Frustration By Maria Carter & Sam Zeff • Oct 29, 2015 Sam Zeff / KCUR Most Kansas Citians already knew it's hard not to love the Kansas City Royals, but even die-hard Mets fans can't help but like the boys in blue. Cody Rogers drove 21 hours from Catskill, New York, to get to Kansas, where he's been working for the summer in the wind turbine industry. A Mets fan, he was at Game 1 of the World Series at Kauffman Stadium. "The Mets mean everything to me," says Rogers. Kansas City Takes Commanding Two Game Lead In World Series By Sam Zeff • Oct 29, 2015 Sam Zeff / KCUR This was the pitching match up baseball fans had been waiting for. Power versus power. Ace versus ace. Hair versus hair. In the end the Royals Johnny Cueto and his dreadlocks trounced the Mets Jacob deGrom and his flowing warrior locks 7-1 to go up two games to none in the World Series. In Kansas City, Johnny Cueto Is An Enigma, In Cincinnati He's A Legend By Greg Echlin • Oct 28, 2015 Keith Allison / Flickr -- CC Game 2 of the World Series is Wednesday night with the Kansas City Royals up one after winning, 5-4, Tuesday in 14 innings. The Royals say they have the pieces to go all the way against the New York Mets, and the biggest splash was the acquisition of pitcher Johnny Cueto from the Cincinnati Reds last July. Though it was difficult for some Reds fans to say goodbye, Cueto's up-and-down performances since then have left the Royals feeling blue. Think Like A Royal: The Psychology Of Kansas City's Postseason Successes By Kyle Palmer • Oct 28, 2015 Sam Zeff / / KCUR I wouldn't make a good Royal. In Game 4 of the ALDS in Houston, after the Astros hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh to go up 6-2, facing near-certain elimination from the postseason, I gave up. Stopped watching. Walked out of the bar, swallowed the bitter bile gathering in my throat, looked up resentfully at blue sky and thought it might be a good time to rake some leaves. Bring on football season, I thought. Royals Win Game 1 Of The World Series In 14 Grueling Innings By Sam Zeff • Oct 28, 2015 Sam Zeff / / KCUR You knew from the very beginning it was going to be one of those Royals games. You just weren't sure which kind. It took 14 innings and five hours for the Royals to take game one of the World Series, beating the New York Mets 5-4. The game had drama, quirks and emotion. To begin with, there was some question whether the game would even be played. It rained all day, and the tarp was on the field until about an hour before the first pitch. Batting practice and infield were canceled. Both teams warmed up in the locker room. Pay Attention To The Pitchers As The World Series Returns To Kansas City By Sam Zeff • Oct 26, 2015 Sam Zeff / KCUR 89.3 It's a cliche but it must have some truth because you hear it before every World Series: good pitching stops good hitting. Who Royals Manager Ned Yost was going to pitch in Game 1 Tuesday evening at Kauffman Stadium had a lot of people worried. Would he go with Johnny Cueto, the mid-season pick up who got shelled in his last start against Toronto (he gave up eight runs in just two innings) or would Yost hand the ball to the veteran Edinson Volquez? Meet The Mets: The Royals' World Series Opponent, A To Z By Kyle Palmer • Oct 26, 2015 Keith Allison / Flickr--CC By now, many Royals' fans know these facts about Kansas City's World Series opponent, the New York Mets: they have tremendous starting pitching, infielder Daniel Murphy is on a historic postseason home run binge, and their season changed when they acquired Yoenis Cespedes in late July. But did you know the franchise was once managed by a Kansas City-native nicknamed the 'Old Professor'? Or that they once set the modern mark for regular-season futility? Or that their ticket prices to this year's World Series purport to be the most expensive in Major League Baseball history? Welcome Back: Royals Headed To The World Series, Again By Jeremy Bernfeld • Oct 23, 2015 Jeremy Bernfeld / KCUR 89.3 This is not a dream. The Kansas City Royals are headed to the World Series for the second-straight year. Kansas City eliminated the Toronto Blue Jays four games to two, after winning Game 6 by a score of 4-3 to take the American League pennant. The team will face the New York Mets for the Major League Baseball title. The clinching win was anything but easy. UMKC Assistant Basketball Coach Resigns Over Louisville Recruiting Scandal By Elle Moxley • Oct 23, 2015 UMKC A University of Missouri-Kansas City assistant basketball coach under fire for allegedly paying for strippers at another program has resigned. These Royals Fans Want You To 'Mute Buck' And Listen To Them Instead By Kyle Palmer • Oct 22, 2015 Kyle Palmer / KCUR 89.3 This story was rebroadcast as part of our best-of 2015 series. It was originally reported in October 2015. Ask a Royals' fan about FOX announcer Joe Buck, and you might get a response like Adam Jones'. "I think it's safe to say he did not call last year's World Series with any kind of objectivity." Family Ties Turn Royals Gear Into Treasures For Kansas City Fans By Alyson Raletz • Oct 21, 2015 Courtesy Photo / Mary Mathews It turns out, some of the best Royals' stuff comes from family. Every Christmas, fond memories rush over Mary Mathews of loved ones who are no longer with her — and the Kansas City baseball team. When we asked fans this week to share their most loved Royals stuff, Mathews, of Grandview, Missouri, took a photo of two simple Christmas ornaments that commemorate the team's 1985 World Series win. A Fan's Notes: Out Of The Blue By Victor Wishna • Oct 20, 2015 Lisa Rodriguez / KCUR It was a familiar scene on Wednesday: Once more, a team in ugly orange uniforms had come to the K for a series-deciding finale, and put up an early lead. But this time, the game, like Johnny Cueto, was nearly perfect. The Royals grounded the Houston Astros to claim their rightful place as hosts of the American League Championship Series, which starts tonight. The specter of last year's heartbreak lingers, but its exorcism continues. Yet most of all, best of all, this is fun again. ESPN Details More Of Andre McGee's Role in Louisville Scandal By Kyle Palmer • Oct 20, 2015 A new report says five former players and recruits say McGee paid for strippers at on-campus parties. This story was updated at 2:45 pm to include comments from UMKC officials. Right now, things don't look good for UMKC men's assistant basketball coach Andre McGee. A new report from ESPN's 'Outside the Lines' program corroborates allegations made by a self-described former escort that McGee paid her to provide strippers and sex for players and recruits. In the documentary, a portion of which aired Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America", Powell says McGee paid her $10,000 for "side deals", including sex with some players. Win Or Lose, Someone In The Butera Family Is Going To The World Series By Greg Echlin • Oct 20, 2015 Greg Echlin / KCUR 89.3 For the first time since 1998, a father is in one baseball dugout of a playoff team, while his son is in the other. In this case, Drew Butera is the Kansas City Royals back-up catcher while his father, Sal, is a Toronto Blue Jays coach. The family matriarch is Gina Butera, who planned for this year's playoffs. "I actually had a T-shirt designed and it's blue," said Gina Butera. "On one side it is the Jays logo and on the side it's the Royals logo. The back says, 'Butera's house divided.' Yeah, I had no doubt that both of them were going to be in the playoffs. No doubt." Royals Author Remarkable Comeback To Take 2-0 ALCS Lead By Jeremy Bernfeld • Oct 17, 2015 Jeremy Bernfeld / / KCUR 89.3 Don't ever count the Royals out. Down three runs. Who cares? Just nine outs to go. So what? Facing a near-unhittable pitcher? Big deal. A five-run rally in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday vaulted the Royals from losers to winners over the Toronto Blue Jays and rewrote with a happy ending what had looked like a lost day for the home side. The 6-3 win means the Royals will bring a two-game lead to the north as the best-of-seven series shifts to Toronto, and that the club needs just two more wins to book their place in the World Series. Royals Take ALCS Game 1 By Jeremy Bernfeld • Oct 16, 2015 Jeremy Bernfeld / KCUR 89.3 With baseball's top offense coming town, the Royals were hoping to hit just enough to end the game on top. Throwing a shutout will help. An outstanding pitching performance led the Royals to a 5-0 win Friday over the Toronto Blue Jays and allowed them to take the first game of the best-of-seven American League Championship Series. Kansas City starter Edinson Volquez fired bullets through the first five innings, allowing just one Toronto hit. Back-to-back walks to open the sixth caused trouble, but Volquez got himself out of the jam and the Royals never looked back. Tell KCUR: Show Us Your Most Loved Royals Stuff By Alyson Raletz • Oct 16, 2015 Hey Royals fans, you know all those T-shirts, baseball cards, banners and bobbleheads you've collected over the years? We want to see them. Tell KCUR: Show us your most loved Royals stuff. Share photos of your most prized Royals gear and memorabilia on Twitter with the #TellKCUR hashtag or go to our Facebook page and leave your photo in a comment. Don't forget to tell us why you love it so much!! Home-Field Advantage Should Benefit The Royals, But Not For The Reasons You Suspect By Jeremy Bernfeld • Oct 16, 2015 Jeremy Bernfeld / KCUR 89.3 By virtue of winning the most games in the American League this season, and a win for the AL team in the All-Star Game, the Royals have home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. But does the potential to play more at home really give the Royals a leg-up? Isn't that just another one of those sports myths, like the one about the team with more heart and hustle always winning? "The home field advantage: definitely no myth," says Jon Wertheim, executive editor of Sports Illustrated. Bring On The Jays: Royals Move On To ALCS By Jeremy Bernfeld • Oct 14, 2015 Jeremy Bernfeld / KCUR 89.3 It just seems the Royals wouldn't have it any other way. And now they're headed to the American League Championship Series. Kansas City defeated the Houston Astros Wednesday to win the decisive game in their best-of-five series. Down in a two-run hole, the Royals rallied in a three-run fifth inning to go up 4-2 and take a lead they'd never give back. The Toronto Blue Jays, who beat the Texas Rangers to advance Wednesday, are next up for Kansas City. The story of the night: Royals starting pitcher Johnny Cueto. Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last »


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OMG it's Chad Danforth naked!!!!!!!!!!! What will all of the kids at East High think when they see this?
Okay, so this is a promo shot for the Corbin's new show The Beautiful Life, which is about a group of models. And I think that I should have waited until the end to add the picture, because now naked Corbin Bleu is staring at me as I write this and it's a little awkward.
Anyway. On the one hand, this is obviously different from the Vanessa Hudgens "scandal" because Corbin Bleu posed for his naked picture in the context of a role and knowing that it would go public. He did it on purpose. On the other hand, he did it on purpose. He chose to put a naked picture out there, and as far as we know, Vanessa Hudgens never made that choice. But the reactions to the two situations are really different.
For example, here are a few comments from Pink is the New Blog readers about the Vanessa Hudgens picture leak:
She is an attention-whore. If you are famous and take nude pictures they are going to leak. There is no exception to this rule. AND she has already dealt with this. This girl is a major dumbass and doesn't deserve her career. Seriously, Disney needs to pull the plug on her already.And here are some comments from Pink is the New Blog readers on Corbin's picture:
dirty hoe.
What a little whore. I mean seriously….
She was underage, but I dont feel bad for her. What an idiot. And uh kind of slutty and desperate.
She is fucking dumb. She needs to get slapped.
goddd, prosti-tots are idiots..
I've been thinking Corbin Bleu was hot for a good while now. I definitely appreciate the picture.So if you're playing a character who publicly gets naked in front of a camera it's perfectly okay, but if you privately get naked in front of a camera in your real life you're a dirty tramp? If getting naked is a career choice, more power to you, but if it's part of your sex life that gets leaked without your consent, you're an idiot who doesn't "deserve" a career at all. Got it.
Wow, Corbin. Can I say yum? I might just watch this show for him.
Go Corbin woot woot
I've wanted him to shed his cookie cutter, bubblegum image for a while now - excited for this drug-filled, twisted show!
I def thought Corbin Bleu had potential in HSM. Clearly he has fulfilled it, haha.
Is anyone worried about what impressionable young High School Musical fans will think when they see this picture? It certainly doesn't seem like it, even though I'm sure some of the Disney crowd will be tuning in to The CW to see Corbin's new show. I guess we're only supposed to worry about that with Vanessa Hudgens' pictures, because after all, young girls might want to imitate her! And we can't pass up an opportunity to police the sexuality of young women by making a slut-shamed example out of Vanessa. I have to wonder what people would say if it was Vanessa or one of the other female stars of HSM who had joined the cast of The Beautiful Life and participated in this photo shoot.
To be clear, I'm not saying that Corbin did anything wrong by posing for this picture. He's an adult and he's got a new show to promote, and the picture itself is not really a big deal. And he can't stay in the HSM universe forever. I am saying that Vanessa Hudgens didn't do anything wrong either, and the double standard at work here is stupid.


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FZW is proud to present Liveurope, the first pan-European initiative supporting concert venues in their efforts to promote emerging European music.
What is Liveurope?
Liveurope is a European quality label awarded to live music venues committing to standards of excellence and European diversity in their programming policy. The objective of this programme coordinated by Ancienne Belgique is to boost the programming of young European acts across the continent and help them reaching new audiences.
How does it work?
All participating venues are encouraged to program and promote emerging music talent from Europe, through incentive support provided by the 'Creative Europe' Programme of the European Union.
Young artists supported within this system should be established in Europe and be committed to achieving a professional music career beyond their national borders. Thanks to Liveurope, Ancienne Belgique and its partners will promote hundreds of new, exciting live acts from Europe every year.
Who is participating?
Along of Ancienne Belgique, this initiative brings together some of the most popular concert venues on the European continent:
One of the goals of the platform is to attract an ever-growing number of participating concert venues in Europe, in order to bring Liveurope to as many countries, cities, and audiences as possible. If music has no language, then it shouldn't have any borders either!
What's next?
For more information about the Liveurope label, a website will very soon be available. It will give you all the information you need about concerts supported by Liveurope, members, events and more.
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From my friend Peter who lives in Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Peter "Datechguy"
Wednesday I covered Donald trump's Worcester appearance as credentialed press
As usual there is an assortment of interviews with attendees and I did manage to get a question in during the press conference before the speech
As it was not a question with the normal "why are you a racist bigot or an idiot" meme Trump liked it.
There were several local radio hosts in attendance and we did a bit of a mash up together after the event, the audio is here
I recorded separate audio on all the stuff, it's embedded in the post
Incidentally you won't want to miss this excellent post by Fausta on some of what is being said and done
"They have guns, they can shoot at us because they have guns and are bad," the boy continues."Well, they have guns, but we have flowers," the father says."But flowers don't do anything," the boy argues."See all the flowers?" his dad asks. "They're to fight against the guns.""Are they there to protect?" the boy asks. "The candles too?""There you go," his dad says. "It's to not forget those who left us yesterday.""The flowers and the candles," the boy concludes, "they're there to protect us."The reporter jumps back in and asks the boy, "So are you feeling better?""Yep," he says. I'm feeling better."
Now, I understand that Le Petit Journal is a program interviewing kids, and that Dad may be having a Kumbaya moment in front of the cameras not to alarm the little kids in the audience, but . . . my reaction was "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND, DAD?"Even the five-year old (excuse me for the guess, he may be older) is aware of the fact that "flowers don't do anything," other than, perhaps, give you a feel-good moment.You may recall that last January 7 Islamist terrorists killed the Charlie Hebdo staff. Last Friday's massacre was also well-planned, premeditated, and meant to be an attack on civil society, be it in France or anywhere in the world. Like Friday's attack, the victims were unarmed.Like there were in January, there are now a lot of public displays of grief, with flowers, candles and sundry tchotchkes, including a guy who carried his piano on his bicycle so he could play Imagine in front of the Bataclan, where five score people were massacred.
For some reason the French aren't using their planes to drop flowers on ISIS in syria or shot flowers from their guns in their raids.
I wonder why?
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An exciting, hands-on collection of ideas and activities designed to introduce your students to the fascinating world of ancient Egypt. Unearth ancient treasures in your own archaeological dig, make a model of the Nile, create a pharaoh's crown or write your name in hieroglyphs. Map skills, time lines, even an ancient Egyptian game add to the wealth of information included in this outstanding resource!Materials Egyptian Number Chart aTax Timea worksheet (page 19) Getting Started Enlarge and post the Egyptian Number ... Number. Chart. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 15 22 39 100 200 1000 10000 Bread was a staple food for Ancient Egyptians.
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Hi Karim, On 10/1/07, Gmail Directeur <email@example.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've intentionnally submitted http://yahoo.co (without the "m" for com) > to the markup validator and here's what it returned as a soap12 output: > > <?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?> > <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" > xmlns:m='http://www.w3.org/2005/10/markup-validator'> > <env:Body> > <env:Fault> > <env:Code> > <env:Value>env:Sender</env:Value> > <env:Subcode> > <env:Value>m:Exception</env:Value> > </env:Subcode> > </env:Code> > > <env:Reason> > <env:Text xml:lang="en-US">HTTP Error</env:Text> > </env:Reason> > <env:Detail> > <m:errordetail xml:lang="en-US"> > Unexpected HTTP response > 500 Can't connect to yahoo.co:80 (Bad hostname 'yahoo.co') > while trying to retrieve http://yahoo.co/. > > If you made recent changes to your domain name (DNS) configuration, you may > also want to check that your > domain records are correct, or ask your hosting company to do so. > > </m:errordetail> > </env:Detail> > > </env:Fault> > </env:Body> > </env:Envelope> > > This seems fine, except for the "m:errordetail" tag's content which IMHO > should be wrapped inside a CDATA for it contains an html link  > Ah yes. It should be encoded or wrapped in CDATA. > Can you please publish more details about this api, especially for > the FAULT part of it? > > I've also submitted in a precedent email some other suggestions, > but i didn't recieved an answer :( > > How can i help? :) > I've found the best way to help is to get the validator running locally from the CVS version at http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/ and start understanding how it works internally. Then monitor the mailing list (as it seems you're already doing) and the bug tracker --- then start submitted patches for bug fixes. This mail to the list is a good start. I would file a bug report for items you know are bugs, and dig into the source to see if you can provide a patch with your bug report. Take a look at the file validator/share/templates/en_US/soap_fault.tmpl and I'm sure you can easily see what needs to be modified. > Thanks for all ! > > Karim > -- > http://akoncept.com > Innovate Humanum Est. > > -- -Brett Bieber http:saltybeagle.com aim:ianswerqReceived on Tuesday, 2 October 2007 13:48:39 UTC
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Full of Secrets contains virtually everything you need to know about Twin Peaks. This fascinating collection of essays considers David Lynch's politics, the enigmatic musical score, and the show's cult status, treatment of violence, obsession with doubling, and silencing of women. Also included are a director and writer list, a cast list, a Twin Peaks calendar, a complete scene breakdown for the entire series, and a comprehensive bibliography.
What a comeback event the first few episodes of the third season of Twin Peaks was. No doubt one of the seminal shows of television history, this book analyses the first two seasons and prequel film Fire Walk With me but rest assured as ever, there are no spoilers contained anywhere within this review.
The twelve detailed analyses contained in this collection are part of the fascinating world of deconstruction that never ceases to revolve around this enigmatic show. It is a shame, then, that it is such a challenge to tease out the interesting bits from a lot of overblown posturing.
Any attempt to intellectualise Twin Peaks (as written by these authors all with a Ph.d) will predictably straddle the fine line between pretentious and sometimes insightful. There is a lot called on here to illustrate points from art and literature all the way through to Semiotics. It underlines the point that when something is a mystery, more obscure references must be pulled in to explain points and thus widen and convolute the original enigma.
The selection of subjects is of varying interest, the internet chatrooms – in their infancy in the early 90's – is interesting, as the state of US TV and how programmes are marketed to different demographics. Any mention of Umberto Eco is always likely to make my day as well. Read the rest of this entry »


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Once again, we're back with more exclusive character breakdowns for Titans, the upcoming live-action Teen Titans series debuting on DC's still-untitled streaming service. And once again, we've got another potentially huge reveal for you. We've got two breakdowns to share with you this time around that we think go hand-in-hand, but to be completely honest, we're not 100% sure about one of them.
Let's start with the breakdown we can call for sure:
[YOUNG JOHN CROSSLAND]Male, Caucasian, To play 10-13, athletic, lean, approximately 5'0″ and not afraid of heights. Please list height on submission. RECURRING GUEST STAR
This, as the note about heights indicates, is a breakdown for a young Dick Grayson, who you all will remember was a circus acrobat before his parents were killed and he was adopted by Bruce Wayne. While Batman's origins have been portrayed on screen ad nauseam, we've only seen Dick's origins in live action once, in the hilariously awful Batman Forever. Hopefully, Titans will do a better job.
There's an important question raised by the fact that Titans will be flashing back to Dick's childhood: will we actually see Bruce on the show? Could we even see Batman and Robin in action together? We have no idea, but the possibilities are exciting to consider, and they lead us to our second breakdown.
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[DAVE STORY]Male, mid 30s-40s, Caucasian. The downfalls of others only make this man stronger. Polished. Unwavering. Think a young Jack Nicholson. RECURRING GUEST STAR.
As I mentioned, we're not totally confident about who this character might be, but the current consensus around Hashtag HQ is that this is a breakdown for Bruce Wayne himself. Think about it; the description of the character as polished, unwavering, and a young Jack Nicholson calls to mind the slicker portrayal that Christian Bale brought to Bruce's public-facing persona in the Dark Knight trilogy. And the deaths of his parents, tragic as it is, certainly made Bruce stronger. Unfortunately, there's not enough specific detail to say with complete certainty that this breakdown is for Bruce, but given that we're going to see Nightwing's past, it makes sense that Bruce would make an appearance.
And there you have it, folks. Exciting right? Even if "Dave Story" doesn't turn out to be Bruce, the chance to see Dick's origin done well in live action is more than enough to kick the hype engine into gear. Are you as excited as I am by these new additions to Titans' cast? Have any other theories about who "Story" might be? Let us know in the comments.


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Neolith Joins the Tiny House Movement
Neolith's Tiny House pays homage to the material by displaying a number of applications in a small space, including exterior and interior cladding, flooring, countertops, shower walls, fire places and furniture.
According to Mar Esteve, marketing manager for TheSize, the goal of the mobile space is to bring Neolith closer to the residential A&D community across different states and to showcase all the properties of the material: lightweight (great for transportation), durable, uv-unalterable; anti-grafitti, etc.
"We want to convey the message that every space – no matter how big or small – can look great and high end if the right materials are selected," added Esteve. "We want to communicate that TheSize is aligned with sustainable architecture as well as a way of live."
Neolith is seen in the Tiny House in the following applications:
– Exterior Cladding (Calacatta gold, Basalt Black, Textil White and Iron Frost)
– Interior Floors (Strata Argentum)
– Interior Walls (Iron Frost)
– Countertops and Island (Estatuario Polished)
– Bathroom Walls (La Beheme, Calacatta Gold)
– Fireplace (Steel Marengo)
The home features an OG36 36- in. outdoor barbeque grill with four individually contained burners for independent heat control, including a sear zone to seal in juices and a two-position rotisserie system. The master bath features the TOTO Neorest 550H toilet with a heated seat, built-in bidet system and choice of an efficient 1.0 or 0.8 gallon per flush. This is paired with a Kiwami Renesse lavatory faucet and a slim Villeroy & Boch washbasin and vanity, which is wall-mounted to save space. The shower includes an Upton rain showerhead and Gyrostream body sprays with rotating heads. In the guest bath, there is the TOTO Aquia Wall-Hung Toilet that takes up less floor space, gives the bathroom a more open feel and is easier to clean.
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By Dana Milbank
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Does anybody have a good plan for Iraq?
Not President Bush. He arrived in Jordan yesterday for a crucial meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, only for the White House to discover that the Iraqi was a no-show. "It was going to be more of a social meeting anyways," Bush aide Dan Bartlett told reporters at the Raghadan Palace in Amman.
Neither does the Pentagon appear to have a solution. Gen. Pete Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called a news conference yesterday to advise the American public not to expect big conclusions from a major Iraq study he ordered. "There's not an end product," he announced.
Nor, apparently, do the Democrats have the answer. Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), a Democratic point man on Iraq, called his own press briefing in the Capitol yesterday to call for (drum roll, please) "a high-ranking special envoy to work with the Iraqi government."
And what of the congressionally appointed Iraq Study Group? After nearly nine months of studying, the commission will finally give some recommendations next week. Its deliberations are so relaxed that its co-chairmen, James Baker and Lee Hamilton, found time on Monday to pose for an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot for Men's Vogue. (The current issue has features on "the new Bond temptress," the "Alpha Suit" and "power" wristwatches.)
Political Washington is in a state of suspended animation these days: waiting for Bob Gates to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense, waiting for the Baker-Hamilton commission, waiting to see whether Bush will raise or lower troop levels. But with good ideas in short supply, and hopes falling that the Men's Vogue Study Group will produce a magic solution, leaders of both parties seem unable to do much more than heap blame on Maliki and argue about whether or not to call the Iraq carnage a civil war.
Yesterday's installment began when Reed, a former Army Ranger from the 82nd Airborne, hopped onto the stage in the Senate press gallery. Demanding "immediate and tangible" actions by Maliki, the senator stipulated that "the critical issue is what the Iraqi government is going to do to keep their government together, quell the violence and provide the services to the people that a government should and must provide."
Having established that, Reed made his entry into the great nomenclature debate. What's happening in Iraq, he said, "is a working definition of a civil war."
Other than his envoy suggestion, Reed had little in the way of fresh ideas for Iraq. But he made it clear that he didn't expect ideas from the Baker-Hamilton group or the Pentagon either. "I don't think we can afford to wait for the Iraqi Study Group report," Reed advised, questioning "how much detail and specific guidance they can give and still reach a consensus."
His hopes were not much higher for the Pentagon. Asked about Pace, the Joint Chiefs chairman, Reed smiled. "I think he's been extremely loyal to the secretary and the administration." Previewing the general's news conference, the senator said it "will probably be the best sort of indication of whether there is a new sense of candor or whether his position remains the same."
Pace opted for the latter. Under the watchful eye of Bryan Whitman, Rumsfeld's spokesman, he energetically offered his view that Iraq is not in a civil war but provided little other information, because "we need to be circumspect about what we say in public."
How about current efforts to increase troops in Baghdad? "That is a province of General Casey," he demurred.
Gen. John Abizaid's warning that violence must be controlled within six months? "I doubt that General Abizaid meant to pick a particular point on the calendar," Pace said.
Abizaid's caution that the military couldn't sustain a big increase of troops in Iraq? "The United States military can today and tomorrow handle any additional challenge."
Over in Amman, White House aide Bartlett was delivering the less-cheerful tidings that Maliki would be skipping the meeting that Bush had rearranged his schedule to attend -- and that the postponement to today had nothing to do with a leaked White House memo saying Maliki was either ignorant or incompetent.
"Since the king of Jordan and Prime Minister Maliki had a bilateral themselves, earlier today, everybody believed that negated the purpose for the three of them to meet tonight," Bartlett argued.
He continued this line of logic: "They had a very good conversation, and afterwards they felt, well, since we had good conversations, we addressed issues, there was not an agenda for the three for a trilateral that they felt was necessary."
No agenda? It was an odd way to characterize the Iraq war, civil or otherwise. But Bartlett and his colleagues were not the only ones feeling unhurried.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell discovered that the Baker-Hamilton commission had taken time from its deliberations for "a class photo . . . shot by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz." The Washington Post's Robin Wright learned yesterday that Men's Vogue would be publishing the spread.
"Through coverage of art and architecture, travel and food, politics and finance, books and sports, custom tailoring and fine watches," the magazine's mission statement says, it "will define a new male sensibility -- smart, worldly, mature, and ready to discover more." Such as how to fix Iraq.
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We all have feelings, but what should we do with them, especially when we're upset? Should we analyze them, or should we ignore them?
According to University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross, the best way to move ahead emotionally is to analyze our feelings, and apparently the best way to analyze them is by stepping back a ways and getting a little perspective on the matter.
With University of California, Berkeley, colleague Ozlem Ayduk, Kross did a series of studies that show the benefits of analyzing depressive feelings from a "psychologically distanced perspective."
Kross, a faculty associate at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) and an assistant professor of psychology, said that humans have the ability to review their mistakes, but that doing so repeatedly tends to be a dead-end to negativity. "It can be very helpful to take a mental time-out, to sit back and try to review the situation from a distance," said Kross. Buddhists, transcendental meditators, and others have been doing this since time began, but we can all learn to do it, he said.
"Using a thermostat metaphor is helpful to many people. When negative emotions become overwhelming, simply dial the emotional temperature down a bit in order to think about the problem rationally and clearly," he said.
Kross, who is teaching a class on self-control this fall at U-M, has published two papers on the topic this year. One provides experimental evidence that self-distancing techniques improve cardiovascular recovery from negative emotions. Another shows that the technique helps protect against depression.
In the second study, the researchers randomly assigned 141 participants to one of three groups ("immersed-analysis," "distraction," and "distanced-analysis"). Each group used a different strategy to cope with a guided imagery exercise during which they recalled an experience that made them feel overwhelmed by sadness and depression.
Participants returned to the lab either one day or one week later. The "immersed-analysis" and the "distraction" participants didn't do nearly as well in the long term as the "distanced-analysis" participants. Distraction and distanced-analysis were equally effective in the short term, but the long-term results were different. Those who had used the distanced-analysis approach continued to show lower levels of depression than those who had used self-immersed analysis and distraction.
These findings support the researchers' hypothesis that distanced-analysis not only helps people cope with intense feelings in the short term, but also helps people work through negative experiences over time.
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When Rachel and Stacy decided they wanted to come to CO and conquer a 14er together, I was SO excited!!
They booked their trip and we were in the planning phase. Which one, how far, when to go and tracking the weather situation. Our excitement for this trip was taken down a notch when I started talking to my neighbors and researching a bit more online. We began to worry about the elevation change for Stacy and Rachel and if they'd even be able to make it up a Colorado mountain at all? Hearing stories (lots of stories!) of people coming here from the east coast and acclimating for a week, then trying this giant hike only for their fingers to turn purple and almost passing out because of the lack of oxygen just half way up.
They said screw it. We were trying this regardless! We were determined to make this a reality! Rachel almost bought one of these masks-- they're supposed to help you get used to the altitude change before hand. Your suppose to train with it on. She didn't. We just rolled the dice instead.
The girls had 20 hours to acclimate. Ha! The day they got in we decided to hike the Flat Irons in Boulder. A big 7er (elevation 7,132 ft) Just half of the elevation we'd be trying the following day (14,000 ft). We thought it'd be better than nothing.
Boulder bound.
There's the Flat Irons peak.
Some steep parts and lots of rocks.
They crushed it. The girls did amazing!
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My 14 year old daughter, diagnosed at age seven, came home from cheerleading camp with a rash on one leg from top to bottom. Only one leg, nothing anywhere else. The doctor said this could be from her not taking care of her diabetes. Can you give me more information on this?
I have no clue what a rash might be from a brief e-mail description. It seems unlikely related to diabetes, however. Go get a second opinion.
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Meet the new RX
Meet the new RX
The RX pioneered the luxury SUV phenomenon when it was launched internationally in 1997. Since then it has gone on to become one of the world's most successful cross-overs. In fact, the RX heads the sales of Lexus in the US and outperforms its most direct European competitors two to one. It also enjoys the honour of being the vehicle with the highest customer satisfaction rating ever recorded in the JD Power quality survey.
Espousing the 'everything included' philosophy, a generous slug of standard equipment is a given if you're shopping for a Lexus, but the RX350 Special Edition really does pull out all the stops.
According to Justin Ryan, General Manager of Lexus South Africa, "the RX350 Limited Edition offers exactly the blend of virtues and specification that most buyers of this vehicle will be looking for.
"In addition, the recent styling revisions, most notably the more assertive frontal treatment and dynamic new 19-inch alloy wheels, make a bold statement and give the RX a sportier persona.
"In the cabin, small but telling tweaks have been made to trim details as well as the shape and functionality of some of the controls, particularly the Remote Touch controller which operates more like a computer mouse. The Lexus attention to detail even extends to increasing the opening angle of the centre console box lid, to make it easier to reach items inside – now that's true luxury," says Ryan.
On top of the already well-endowed EX model, the new Special Edition gets the following equipment top-ups:
- Adaptive Front Lighting System (AFS). For enhanced night-time visibility, especially on winding roads, the Dual-swivel AFS in conjunction with the High Intensity Discharge (HID) Xenon headlamps pivot the left headlamp up to 15 degrees and the right headlamp up to 10 degrees, helping to illuminate more of the road through turns. Naturally, headlamp washers are standard.
- Electronically adjustable steering column with memory.
- LED door scuff plates.
- Side mirrors with memory function. Of course, even the EX model comes with auto-folding and electrochromatic dimming as standard.
- Side monitor. A miniature camera, incorporated into the passenger door mirror, transmits video images to the vehicle's central display. Ingeniously, the camera will continue to work even if the mirrors are folded back when negotiating a narrow entrance. The side monitor is activated by operating a button on the steering wheel.
- Bamboo cabin trim. Slivers of silky blonde bamboo wood trim adorn the steering wheel (combination wood and leather), interior doors, instrument panel and cup holder garnish, providing the perfect counterpoint to the buttery soft, jet black leather which 'coats' all the upholstered surfaces, including console box. Please note that the front seats are not only heated but come with integrated seat ventilation as well as memory settings for both front pews.
- Heads up Display. Projects simple navigation directions, audio information and vehicle speed onto the front windscreen, so you can spend more time focused on the road ahead. And unlike other systems, it includes a distance countdown and an animated arrow that guides you intuitively through turns.
- 15-speaker Mark Levinson audio system. Key to its superlative performance are no fewer than 15 speakers, each custom-engineered for the particular acoustic characteristics of, and location within, the cabin. It provides perfect 7.1-channel surround sound for your favourite CD, DVD or music from your phone or MP3 player.
The Lexus RX Range – The face of progress
- Two engine options (3.5 V6 and Hybrid Electric) and three-model line-up – RX 350 EX, RX 350 Special Edition and RX 450 SE.
- Recently refreshed styling displaying stronger frontal styling with de rigueur spindle grille and deft L-Finesse design touches, a redesigned interior with a wider choice of colours and trims, a new-look instrument binnacle and a second-generation of Lexus's Remote Touch Interface.
- New 19" alloy wheel design for the RX 350 EX.
- 3.5 V6 vital statistics – 204 kW @ 6200 rpm / 346 Nm @ 4700 rpm (0-100 km/h in 8 secs / ave 10,6 litres per 100 km).
- Hybrid vital statistics – 220 kW total system output for 3.5 V6 petrol engine with 2 high-output electric motors (0-100 km/h in 7,8 secs / ave 6,3 litres per 100 km).


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The Digitization megatrend
By the year 2020, an entire generation, Generation C (for "connected"), will have grown up in a primarily digital world. Computers, the Internet, mobile phones, texting, social networking — all are second nature to members of this group. And their familiarity with technology, reliance on mobile communications, and desire to remain in contact with large networks of family members, friends, and business contacts will transform how we work and how we consume.
The phenomenon of digitization is reaching an inflection point. The effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every corner of our lives because three forces are powerfully reinforcing one another:
- Consumer pull: Consumers, and particularly Generation C, are already fully adapted to the digital environment. They naturally expect to be always connected, are willing to share personal data, and are more likely to trust referrals from their closest friends than well-known brands.
- Technology push: Digital technology continues to expand its influence. The infrastructure backbone of the digital world is bringing affordable broadband to billions of consumers. In parallel, low-cost connected devices are being deployed in every industry, and cloud computing, and the vast information-processing machinery it requires, is developing quickly.
- Economic benefits: The economic benefits to be captured through digitization are real. A wave of capital has poured into the new digitization technologies and companies, and the public markets reward early movers with unprecedented valuations
Compare your "digital behavior" — how you use electronic tools and how you exchange information — with that of other people. Do you behave like a member of "Generation Connected," even though you're 85 years old? Or are you 25 but have fewer facebook friends than your grandmother?
The next big thing
The digital revolution is fundamentally changing the world. Our first "Next big thing" video highlights some of the major changes that digitization brings to governments, businesses, and consumers.
Partners Bahjat El-Darwiche and Roman Friedrich discuss the impact of digitization on worldwide economies and the importance of putting policies in place to foster growth.
Digitization — Are you ready? Because it is already here
Partner Christopher Vollmer discusses at the November 2012 Cisco Live Latin America in Cancun, Mexico, how key digitization trends are impacting consumers, businesses and governments and what the implications are for both strategy and capability development.
Key publications on the Digitization megatrend
The fourth industrial revolution — characterised by the increasing digitization and interconnection of products, value chains and business models — has arrived. German industry will invest a total of €40 billion in Industry 4.0 every year by 2020. Applying the same investment level to the European industrial sector, the annual investments will be as high as €140 billion per annum.
The digital interconnection of billions of devices is today's most dynamic business opportunity.
While digitization — the mass adoption of digital technology through connected services and devices — has proven to accelerate economic growth and facilitate job creation, its impact is not uniform.
With information and communications technology access approaching ubiquity, policymakers are faced with the challenge of ensuring individuals, businesses, and governments are making the best possible use of networks and applications.
Digitization in emerging countries could deliver US$6.3 trillion in additional nominal GDP and 77 million new jobs over the next 10 years.
In the course of the next 10 years, a new generation—Generation C—will emerge. Born after 1990, these "digital natives," just now beginning to attend university and enter the workforce, will transform the world as we know it.
The Arab Digital Generation, a tech-savvy demographic born between 1977 and 1997, accounts for 40% of the MENA population and is distinguishing itself economically, socially, and politically.
With the latest mobile technology, the ability to deliver seamless, omnichannel consumer experiences is finally within reach.


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Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Film Critics' Workshop: Day 1
For the first time this year, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, which began on October 6, is hosting a Film Critics' Workshop. Six participants—three writing in Japanese, three writing in English—were chosen to watch, discuss, and write about documentary films under the mentorship of professional critics. Starting today and continuing for the next three days, the English-language texts from the workshop will appear in Notebook.
Here is the first batch of reports from one of the world's outstanding documentary film festivals, by three writers who are relatively new to writing about cinema.
Stranger in My Own City: Sameera Jain's My Own City
I am in my own city, but why do people keep gazing at me like a stranger? This is the constant incongruity haunting the experience of the leading character, a female driver in Delhi, of My Own City (Mera Apna Sheher).
The use of hidden cameras in the film contributes a lot to such a sense of alienation. The most obvious reason to use such cameras is to capture some subtle details that might get consciously covered up by people, such as the look full of contempt from a street food seller when the heroine wants to eat at his stand with the male customers instead of taking home her food. The hidden-camera images are sketchy and fragile, emphasizing the heroine's anxiety. The hidden lens, carried sometimes by the cinematographer, sometimes by the actress herself, is usually around waist height, giving an upward view of many scenes. (Imagine how stressful it was when, as children, we looked up at a large crowd of busy, indifferent adults.) The only space in this metropolis that this "stranger" can escape to is her car. There the camera tells how she defines her own way by giving frequent close-ups to the steering wheel and the shift gear.
In this city, women are supposed to be quiet, submissive, and invisible when necessary, a rule this female driver obviously disobeys. Nevertheless, the heroine, though negotiating her gender identity by choosing an unconventional job, is still to a large extent defined by the society. Evidence for this emerges through the camera's diligent effort to record every piece of jewelry she wears, the traditional Indian dress she's in, and the color of her nail polish.
Among all the spaces, one shows up most frequently—the street she passes through every day. The camera surveys it in a stationary high-angle shot, with everything subject to change at every minute, mostly by men. They rush on motorbikes, fight over a traffic accident, and more than seven of them pee behind the same tree, while women just keep passing by silently. Director Sameera Jain also repeatedly shows a soccer goal post in a park beside that street, revealing the different behaviors of boys and girls in front of that frame-like shape, to point out that the process of socialization actually starts so early.
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." says Simone de Beauvoir. The film starts with this street, and also ends there with a blurry upward view from the hidden camera carried by the heroine, intimating how young girls in this city start becoming a woman, how they become one, and how they betray as a stranger. —Di Wu
80% Pro: Hirano Katsuyuki's Kantoku Shikkaku
In 1997, Hirano Katsuyuki, a married, middle-aged AV director, and his 26-year-old actress and lover, Hayashi Yumika, set out to cycle from Tokyo to Hokkaido. Two video versions of their trip already exist, the intimate documentary Yumika and its gonzo porno alter ego 41-Day Adultery Bicycle Tour. Hirano's Kantoku Shikkaku reframes this ambiguous relationship in light of Yumika's death in 2005.
If we accept the director's word, then this film is a love letter, so we anxiously wait to see what kind of unorthodox intimacy may emerge. As with any good road trip, there are moments of free-wheeling exhilaration. Handycam set askew atop a rock, the couple strip naked, crisp and exultant in the cold air of Japan's far north. However, these unencumbered moments are the precious exception. Largely, what we get is two lovers arguing. On a boat, in a tent, under the sky…delivered via the woozy, autofocus, handheld trappings of late capitalist screen "reality." Largely stripped of the poetic and the erotic, we are left with a pornography of emotion.
Another aesthetically rewarding interlude serves as both a relief and a warning. Yumika steals her first moment behind the camera. Singing child-like, she captures the sunset with an unexpectedly steady hand. It's a welcome break from the increasingly claustrophobic road trip, but the relief we feel at the director's sudden absence brings to the fore lingering doubts about the power relations at play. In flashback, a fellow porno director ex-boyfriend asks Yumika how she feels about the trip. "Just work," she says, hesitating… "well, 80% pro." Hirano is crestfallen. Surely they go as lovers? Yumika: "well… that's your fantasy."
Yumika ostensibly consents to everything, allowing Hirano to shoot her boozing, bawling, pissing, puking, confessing. However, the director flexes his omnipotence by interspersing these ragged moments with intertitles. Ranging from expository to confessionary, Hirano's white-on-black captions hem in Yumika's increasingly uncontrollable breakdowns ex post facto, shaping and molding her trauma to fit the director's version of events. Crucially, a fleeting montage of the couple's SM-tinged erotic back-catalogue surfaces, raising uncomfortable questions.
It's 2005, and once again the camera sits askew upon the ground, this time capturing the discovery of Yumika's corpse. The still rolling camera records everything, and Yumika's mother's raw grief lends the film its first truly shocking moment, pure horror movie excess. Intertitles narrate the director's breakdown, culminating in a five-year vow of cinematic silence, Kantoku Shikkaku (A Director Disqualified). A final interview with Yumika's damaged but eerily philosophical mother, shot in rich HD, hints that new perspectives are possible, but as a broken Hirano reels into the night on Yumika's bicycle, camera in hand, we are left exhausted and skeptical. —Jamie Morris
Amplified Images of Endurance: He Yuan's Apuda
Apuda (Apuda de shouhou), by Chinese director He Yuan, may be one of the most subversively naturalistic documentaries playing at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival this year. A 144-minute-long visual poem, the film is about the lives of Apuda, an indigenous Naxi apple farmer in China's Yunnan Province, and his ailing father.
Filmed mostly in long takes with a stationary camera placed at either flat or 45-degree angles to the subjects, Apuda focuses on the minutest details of the father and son's impoverished existence, which include getting up, spitting into a pan, walking in the yard, smoking from a pipe, chatting with visiting relatives, etc. Accompanying the visuals is the copious usage of ambient sounds from other natural and human lives, the sources of which are almost never shown. Language plays a third role here. Apuda and his father speak in a minimalist manner, often repeating phrases. Occasionally, a self-revelation is muttered, such as Apuda's father calling his life "absurd." However, these occasions are scarce, and for the most part, language is just another element of the film's sound design instead of a track of its own. He Yuan's documentary aesthetic thus emerges—showing life as a series of amplified still images.
He Yuan displays astounding patience in his observations. The deliberately slow scenes of daily activities gradually reveal that Apuda's father is teetering on the end of life, even though he still has the stubborn attitudes of a needy patriarch. Apuda, constantly hounded by flies wherever he goes, carries himself with a certain existential dignity despite his hardship. He has heavy eyelids that conceal a defiant gaze, and he is attuned (or at least thinks he is) to the business calculations of an apple farmer.
With its dense images and sedate rhythm, Apuda will demand the viewer's utmost patience and willpower to decipher. More often than not, the oppressive emphasis on details forces the viewer to try to find meanings in parts where none can be extrapolated.
In the portrayal of Apuda's father's death at the end of the film, He Yuan breaks from the living-quarter vis-à-vis that has been the film's predominant style, and dots in images of nature and mourning, which though well composed, seem overly artful, a forceful attempt to bring the film to a more cosmos-reaching resolution. It might have been better to simply end the film without them. For while death is inevitable and unsurprising, it is Apuda's perseverance in the face of crushing wretchedness that inspires our reverence. —Ian Wang


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Mikey was a little overwhelmed and emotional about all the attention he received tonight. Watching him bat each and every game is a memory none of us will ever forget.
Each and every game Mikey would insist to bat independently. He has severe CP and it takes great effort and focus for him to lift that heavy bat and hit that ball off of the tee. His ball never went more than a foot or two but for him it was a home run- look at the joy on his face!! When I am old and gray one day Rocking on my front porch, will never forget watching this child be a ball player. To God be the glory!


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Although many patients are diagnosed with earlier phases (also known as "precursor conditions") of blood cancers, in most cases, there are no effective, disease-modifying therapies available. This means that most patients do not receive treatment until their cancer progresses.
Precursor conditions include early cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia called monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis (MBL); early cases of multiple myeloma or Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia called monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS); and early cases of myelodysplastic syndrome and myeloproliferative disorders.
In order to understand why some patients with these precursor conditions go on to develop progressive disease, while others do not show progression — and to develop better targeted therapeutic agents to prevent progression, or even eliminate the disease before it leads to symptoms — the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center (DF/BWCC) Center for Prevention of Progression of Blood Cancers (CPOP) has been created.
Although the last decade has seen the development of effective target therapies for patients with blood cancers, their clinical use has been hampered by drug resistance, clonal evolution, and disease progression — all of which limit the extent and duration of patients' response.
Of note, most blood cancers — including multiple myeloma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and acute myeloid leukemia — are preceded by clonal disease states that then progress into disease. However, the genomic, genetic, and epigenetic factors governing the process of progression and therapeutic resistance have not been systematically characterized.
The CPOP is a research initiative focused on understanding the progression and clonal evolution of blood cancers, with an ultimate aim to develop targeted therapeutic agents that can eliminate the early clones of disease.
Irene Ghobrial, MD, Describes the CPOP Research Initiative
Irene Ghobrial, MD, on Identifying High Risk in Smoldering Multiple MyelomaIrene Ghobrial, MD, discusses her team's genomic analysis of patients with smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM), a precursor to full-blown blood cancer. The study helped identify which patients with SMM are at high risk of progressing to overt myeloma.
Sequencing offers clues to progression toward multiple myeloma
Researchers at Dana-Farber have carried out the largest genomic analysis of patients with smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM), a precursor to full-blown blood cancer that doesn't show outward symptoms ...
Read more about this study
Researchers at Dana-Farber have carried out the largest genomic analysis of patients with smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM), a precursor to full-blown blood cancer that doesn't show outward symptoms ...
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PCROWD Study: Understanding Blood Precursor Conditions
Blood Cancer Research Partnership
DF/BWCC Hematologic Oncology Treatment Center
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
If you are a patient — or the physician of a patient — who is willing to have samples of blood and cancer cells collected for the CPOP research effort during a medical appointment, or if you would like additional information, please email email@example.com or call 617-582-8664.
For urgent and after-hours requests, please call the Dana-Farber page operator at 617-632-3352 and ask to send a message to Precursor pager #40144.


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Egg Bioscience and Biotechnology
Egg Bioscience and Biotechnology
Jan 2008
376 pages
DescriptionEgg Bioscience and Biotechnology provides a very focused look at the most recent advances in the study and value-added use of the bioactive components of eggs. This book focuses mainly on biologically active substances derived from egg components and their potential use. These include substances with anti-microbial, anti-adhesive, immunomodulatory, anti-cancer, anti-hypertensive, and anti-oxidant properties.
1 Structure and Chemical Compositions of Eggs (Eunice C. Y. Li-Chan and Hyun-Ock Kim).
2 Biosynthesis and Structural Assembly of Eggshell Components (M. T. Hincke, O. Wellman-Labadie, M. D. McKee, J. Gautron, Y. Nys, and K, Mann)
3 Bioavailability and Physiological Function of Eggshells and Eggshell Membranes (Y. Masuda and H. Hiramatsu).
4 Bioactive Components in Egg White (Y. Mine and I. D'Silva)
5 Bioactive Components in Egg Yolk (Hajime Hatta, Mahendra P. Kapoor, and Lekh Raj Juneja).
6 Egg Allergens (Marie Yang and Yoshinori Mine).
7 Production of Novel Proteins in Chicken Eggs (Robert J. Etches).
8 Egg Products Industry and Future Perspectives (Glenn W. Froning).
""The publication describes the most recent advances in the study."" (Food Science and Technology Abstracts, September 2008)


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Looks can be deceiving. And costly, too.
That's what a Queens-based security company learned after one of its guards blocked a man with vision problems and HIV from entering a public building in 2009 with his service dog — even though he had a permit for the pooch.
Charles Romo Jr., 47, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was awarded more than $35,000 last month after an administrative law judge ruled that ISS Action Security — a state vendor — discriminated against Romo.
ISS did not return calls for comment.


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While planning a renovation or redesign, it is key to keep your family needs in mind. If you love playing games, ensure there is a large table for game night. If your kids are all about video games, there should be plenty of seating and the TV setup should be fully stocked. And if you want to encourage studious behavior, add a built-in desk, bookshelves and a handy reading nook. To start your process, your first priority is thinking about your focal point. Many living rooms are not complete without a fireplace, but if you live in a warmer climate, maybe a large entertainment center is your best bet. Once you figure out your top feature, invest in those built-ins.
When it comes to decorating, neutrals are always the safe option because they look good and never go out of style. If you do want to try out a bolder color scheme, add color with walls and accessories. That way, if you get sick of a color, you can quickly repaint the walls and find new knickknacks, instead of having to replace your sofas every time trends change. Popular colors include blue, green and gray, but do not be afraid to try bright colors like red or yellow, even if it is just on an accent wall. Finally, make sure there is plenty of light. Recessed or track lighting are great ways to hit every corner — better yet, add more natural light by installing additional windows or a skylight.