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Why Use a Novel Synopsis
by Suzanne Pitner awa Suzanne Lilly
Finding a publishing agent for a manuscript requires a compelling query and novel synopsis. Here is how to write a synopsis.
The novel synopsis is the sales pitch for a novel. To entice a publishing agent to consider a novel manuscript, the synopsis needs to be just as compelling as the novel itself. Therefore, synopsis writing is just as important a skill for the writer to learn as dialogue, pacing, and plot.
A synopsis is a narrative summary of the book. As mentioned above, it is the sales pitch for the completed novel. The agent or editor reading it must be intrigued enough to want to see the complete manuscript, so novel writers do well to spend extra care in creating the synopsis.


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I've suffered from extreme allergies all my life from food allergies to skin allergies. I've been on and off almost every brand name allergy medicine for as long as I could remember and the only one I fell back on for a long time was Benadryl though it constantly caused me to pass out for the rest of the day and night. My mother recommended to me to take this though I was skeptical because I had already tried Allegra and Claritin with no luck and ever since I tried it, I've been happy. It's given me the freedom to not worry about feeling drowsy and it's also helped me fight off sudden allergic reactions to food. I carry it around in my purse for emergency sakes and I've also recommended it to friends who even agree that they'll never try anything else.

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Earth Day is a time to think about caring for the world we have. Reusing and recycling materials are ways to be responsible. In this activity children can recycle materials to use for painting and can explore the letters of the alphabet, too.
Painting with Recycled Objects
It is such fun to explore fun and easy painting ideas using a wide variety of objects. Earth Day would be a great day to focus on ways to paint with recycled objects. We did a grand search to find objects to paint with that began with each letter of the alphabet. Some of objects we found were not recycled, but the children did use the object in a new or different way. We decided that is a form of recycling, too.
We tried to create letters of the alphabet with the painting idea that started with that letter although you really wouldn't have to paint this way. You could easily let your children come up with their own easy painting ideas for each of the letters of the alphabet.
Another easy painting idea using painting tools for A to Z is to have them use the tool that would come before and after each letter to create a letter. It would give your children who are ready for a challenge a chance to work on letter order.
Honestly the most creative easy painting idea would be to put out all the recycled and found objects. Then set your children loose to paint letters or explore the various designs that the objects make.
Painting Tools
Let me share with you the list of materials we gathered from A to Z:
A= Automobile (You could use acorns instead if you have some.)
B= Beads on a Mardi Gras necklace
C= Comb
D= Droppers
E= Elastic Strip
F= Fork
G= Game Pieces
H= Hairbrush
I= Ice Pack
J= Juice Box (We used an empty juice box.)
K= Keys
L= Lids
M= Marbles
N= Nuts
O= Onion Skin
P= Paper clip
Q= Q-tips
R= Ribbons
S= Straw
T= Tube Made of Cardboard (We used a cut down paper towel tube.)
U= Umbrella Tops Made Cupcake Liners (Yes, This is a little bit of a stretch.)
V= Veggie and Yogurt Pouch Caps
W= Wine Cork
X= Xylophone Stick
Y= Yellow Telephone Book Page (We wadded ours up into a ball to paint with it.)
Z= Zipper from Old Blue Jeans with Worn Out Knees
Abstract Thinking
The goal of this project was to come up with a way to explore the alphabet using found objects to paint with. As I mentioned above we found a couple of easy painting ideas we could try while exploring the letters.
Using recycled or repurposed objects for painting helps children develop their thinking and creativity skills. They can begin to see things in different ways, thinking about using items in ways other than their intended use. This kind of thinking helps build abstract thinking and helps children begin to see things in more than one way. As you help children begin to think abstractly, you are helping create a foundation for future math and literacy thinking.
BIO: Deirdre is the author of JDaniel4's Mom where she shares other learning activities, printables, crafts, and food creations. She loves growing and learning beside her son. You can find her on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram.
More Ideas for Earth Day—
Earth Day Project: Homemade Seed Paper
Sensory Play for Earth Day
Upcycled Plastic Egg Music Shakers
Talking About Recycling with Preschoolers
Follow my Earth Day Theme Pinterest Board for more great ideas!


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What does that rejection letter mean?
You dread receiving that #10 envelope addressed to you with the label you stuck on it and sent with your poems to "Journal X." Or, it's that email you see in your inbox and cringe as you open it. The form rejection letter.
Here's a link to an article decoding 4 rejection letter types you may see. http://lizkay.net/2014/05/03/advice-for-poets-what-it-means-when-a-journal-says-no-or-anything-other-than-yes/.
By the way, I prefer the term "response" over the negative term "rejection."
Have you received an unusual response? Post a comment if you'd like to share.
Poets, this is a must read.
Have you ever wondered why you received your poems back from a journal with no note, acceptance or rejection? Have you waited more than two years for a response? This is worth reading (and forwarding). http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/2010/10/21/AnAppealToPoetryEditors.aspx


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61.8% of Germans, 69.7% of French, and 77.5% of British people would "be in favour" or "quite in favour" of an initiative "against mass immigration". In Germany the number of those in favour of freedom of movement for persons without reservations is less than one third of those entitled to vote, in France around one fifth, in England only 15% of the population. This is the result of a representative poll conducted by the Swiss market research institute Isopublic on behalf of BLICK. It shows that the uneasiness of the population with regards to uncontrolled labour immigration is much more widespread in the core EU lands than in Switzerland.
Source: Blick.chhttp://www.blick.ch/news/politik/europaeer-extremer-als-schweizer-id2674792.html


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Pieta House therapeutic model
Our therapy is centred in compassion and respect for each person who comes to us in their hour of need.
All our therapists are experienced, compassionate men and women who understand the complex reasons behind suicide and self-harm. As well as their professional qualifications*, each therapist is trained in the Pieta Way.
This therapeutic healing model is focused on solving problems and building emotional strength.
We're confident the Pieta Way works. We'll be sharing this knowledge with other professionals at the next International Association of Suicide Prevention Conference.
We are also working on research involving people who have been through the Pieta Way and are happy to share their experiences of our therapeutic model with us.
*All Pieta House therapists are psychotherapists or psychologists whose qualifications are recognised by the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP), the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) or the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).


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November 10, 2010 - Fed Support for Ag
"Making a Federal Case for Agriculture"
Originally aired on RFD-TV Network November 10, 2010
In this episode, Farm Bureau's Voices of Agriculture host Reggie Hall spends time in our studio talking with directors of three United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies in South Carolina to find out just what their agencies have to offer farmers and private landowners. You may be surprised about the vast array of services they have to offer (for free!).
It's not your father's mess hall! We take a trip to one of 13 kitchens in the nation's largest Army training facility-Ft. Jackson in Columbia for our Carolina Cooking segment. There we talk about the attention the Army has placed on nutrition and about their move from Kitchen Patrol, or KP.
Our Palmetto Portrait aired around Veteran's Day, so to commemorate that time we dedicated the segment to our brave men and women that have, or currently are, serving our country by showing a variety of memorials.
For more information, you can find the links below:
South Carolina Farm Service Agency
Laurie C. Lawson
1927 Strom Thurmond Mall, Suite 100 Columbia, SC
(803) 806-3830
USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
Eddie Wells
1835 Assembly Street Room 1008 Columbia, SC
(803) 765-5333 or (800) 424-9406
NRCS South Carolina State Conservationist
Ann English
1835 Assembly Street Room 950 Columbia, SC
(803) 253-3935
Fort Jackson Dining Facility
Francisco Cruz
Building 4270
Johnson Food Services, LLC
Ft. Jackson, SC 29207
(803) 751-5991


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Saturday, 1 March 2014
17 comments:
Just beee-oo-tee-ful!!! Totally...can't believe they're 6 weeks already! The heart, embossed, is a LOVELY touch & I adore these colours...I think I saw a pink Paige page [!!] over at Scrap AFrica??? Just saying ,it's a STUNNER too....these babes are certainly bringing out the best of your scrapping, Val!!!!ReplyDelete
So good to see you scrapping baby pages! and a stunner one for sure. I love the colors, and the way you used them.ReplyDelete
I also love what you did with the watercolors and gelatos. I think if you put some gesso on the paper it will get less wrapped. at least that's what I do...
Matting all the papers is so great and the embossed hearts are gorgeous! love them.
Hi Val I am totally not a "baby person' , but it is hard not to be moved by these lovely photos of your Grandchildren. Your layout has truly done them justice and is the first of many I am sure. Lovely soft colours and subtle embellishments.ReplyDelete
so darn beautiful, love love love xoooxReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous! I love these photos so much and you scrapped them so beautifully using the sketch as your basis! You ROCKED this challenge, my friend!ReplyDelete
Just amazing! I love Page Drafts sketches and you rocked this one!ReplyDelete
I just love this!!! So soft, and perfect colours to compliment the eautiful pics. Enjoy your Nanna time it's the best time of your life.ReplyDelete
Congrats to this two wonderful cuties <3.ReplyDelete
The page is really beautiful, the photos are so sweet and the colors are perfect. Love this! The journalling is very heartful.
xxx Evelyn
Soft and tenderly beautiful and great use of Em's sketch…love the heart and the Prima stamp work. Ah yes Val, I understand exactly what you mean. These two precious morsels are perfect and so lucky to be welcomed into a home and extended family where they will be love unconditionally. I think now that we are Grannies, we do better because we know better. When we had our own, we were often weighed down by making ends meet, and finding our own way in the world. Enjoy every precious moment; it's such a joyous time :DReplyDelete
Fabulous:) I love it and the layers are just awesome. Being a grandma is all the joy, none of the stress. It is a wonderful blessing. You are a super grandma and mama and mom-in-law to do a sleep over :)ReplyDelete
So very beautiful. What a great photo, you are going to have the most amazing photo's to scrap with this little pair. Your love comes shining through. Love the watercolour effect, gives a lovely soft feeling. The pearl flourish and the embossed heart looks great. Heartful journalling.ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous layout with your beautiful photo and gorgeous colors.ReplyDelete
Such a precious and beautiful page and you did a great job with the sketch, as well as the colouring! Lovely photo too! Love the sentiment too....and it's such a lovely saying with so much hope and expectation...Just perfect!ReplyDelete
This is the sweetest page ... such precious photos and such gorgeous colour!! Your love for these adorable babies certainly shines through on this page Val!!! So, so beautiful!!! oxReplyDelete
So precious, beautiful and stunning! <3ReplyDelete
Beautiful and so so soft...I teared up imagining how it must have felt for Spence to finally be back next to his sister. Gorgeous work, Val.ReplyDelete
chiming in with everyone else, what an adorable photo and such a precious layout! just love love love it and its colours. Wonderful take on Em's sketch too! xoxoxReplyDelete


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EMarketer: 88 Percent Of U.S. Companies Will Market On Facebook By 2014
In a new report, market research firm eMarketer estimates that 88 percent of U.S. companies will be marketing on Facebook by 2014.
That's more than double the estimated 43 percent that were using Facebook in 2009, and would be up from the 83 percent that are estimated to be marketing on Facebook this year. (And significantly higher than the 17 percent of marketers using or planning to use Pinterest that we reported earlier today.)
Here's the eMarketer growth estimate for Facebook marketing adoption:
Facebook has been offering free Pages for businesses since 2007, but needing to increase its revenue, has recently been focusing more on creating paid marketing options. The latest of those is sponsored search results, and other recent paid marketing options include promoted posts. Our Greg Finn has referred to this as the "paid organification" of Facebook.
The company's been successful in onboarding businesses of all sizes. In its first earnings call a month ago, COO Sheryl Sandberg announced that 11 million businesses have Facebook pages — that's more businesses than have claimed their Google local listing.
Earlier this week, Kenshoo reported that marketers are increasing their Facebook ad budgets at a faster rate than their paid search budgets.
And still, questions remain about the effectiveness of Facebook marketing/advertising. But questions or not, eMarketer's data suggests that uncertainty isn't stopping businesses from getting involved on Facebook in some way.
(Note: The eMarketer survey reflects companied with 100 or more employees and includes the use of any Facebook marketing tool, free or paid.)
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The olympics
It was 2012 london olympics my sport was boxing.
My first opponent was Nick Diaz he's one of the most strongest fighters in boxing history.
I was awfully frightened from him i thought i was going to die.But I dogged every hit he threw. Then I made him so tired that he just couldn't through anymore. then I stopped. And thought oh he's so tired maybe I could start hitting then every hit I threw I got him. Then I came in with a huge UPPERCUT pow and I knocked him out yes I said yes yes yes then I got the golden medal it was the best day ever.


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Tuesday, 6 May 2014
David BOWIE: Tonight
7 comments:
- Ned Raggett said...
Am I wrong, though, or didn't he return to the top in 1989? Or is Tin Machine something...other?
- 6 May 2014 at 18:34
- Marcello Carlin said...
The first Tin Machine album peaked at #3 in 1989. The second one made #23 in 1991. There is a greatest hits coming up in 1990, though.
- 6 May 2014 at 19:28
- Alfred Soto said...
"She had more things to say about Bowie and 1984 than the 1984 Bowie did"
Amen to this. In America 1984 is often considered the high water mark of pop music, and Bowie's creative confusion is especially weird given how his hand guided many of those radio/MTV hits. The only conclusion I can come to is how terrible a pop song writer he was when surrounded in all sides by sterling examples. It's like he couldn't handle the competition.
- 6 May 2014 at 20:01
- Ned Raggett said...
Thanks -- for some reason I always thought it had gone number one as well.
- 6 May 2014 at 20:19
- Ed said...
I have been waiting - ulp - 30 years for this.
In answer to your question "who bought this", the answwer is: I did.
My question is "*why* did I buy this?"
- 6 May 2014 at 23:59
A good read. Tonight certainly has it's problems and you covered most, if not all, of them very well. Also well done for mentioning Gilbert & George. I do listen to the album (Never Let Me Down too) from time to time, and enjoy it - call it something of a sentimental attachment. Particularly when compared to what would follow with Tin Machine it's very listenable. Looking forward to your review of Black Tie White Noise ('93) - now there's Bowie album I don't care for.
- 7 May 2014 at 02:57
- Steven said...
I love Bowie and yet I enjoyed reading this. Evidently a career-low (I enjoy half of Never Let Me Down and half of both Tin Machine albums. Black Tie White Noise is OK - or at least a vast improvement on this). I do enjoy Blue Jean though, but I'm an easy score when it comes to anything as catchy. Which is probably why I'd go so far as to say that I like Shining Star (Makin My Love).
I think the one unifying thing across Bowie's entire career is how uneven his albums are. Speaking as someone who loves him, probably the only LP without weaker tracks on it is Station to Station, presumably because it's only 6 tracks long. Ziggy has It Ain't Easy on it, Young Americans has Across the Universe, Aladdin Sane had the Stones cover. The problem from Lets Dance until Outside is that the balance of good tracks to bad ones gets horribly skewed.
Something to note with regards to Bowie's loose shirt and pinstriped suit. Both were from (I think the very first) Yohji Yamamoto Homme collection, which shows that while Bowie's taste with regards to music had utterly deserted him, he at least kept his eye on the ball on other areas, becoming an early adopter of, you know, the single greatest living designer, (arguably the best ever). I adore Yohji's clothing and it's a bitter shame that he wasn't able to dress Bowie at a more interesting point in his career.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Duran Duran jumped on the Yohji train shortly after - which is almost surprising, to see that Bowie continued to set trends even when operating at his very lowest creative ebb. (I actually own one of Simon Le Bon's old Yohji suits, weirdly enough).
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The very mention of the concept of budgeting when it comes to talking about your personal finances, will probably have plenty of people quickly glazing over and stifling a yawn, but without keeping tabs on your cash, it could be a challenge to stay on top of your money.
There are short term options like Captain Cash if you need some extra money to pay a bill, and you can learn how it works on their website. Looking ahead, however boring you think the word budget actually is, there is a lot of sense in getting a monthly plan in place that you can live with, and stick with.
Budget basics
A budget is a financial plan that is designed to help you take greater control of your finances, and getting into the habit of recording all of your monthly expenses is an excellent way to make you money go further and to stop you overspending.
There are a number of key indicators that if they apply to your finances, are a good sign that you would benefit from working out a budget.
If you constantly find that money is a bit tight and you don't know where your money is going each month. If you are constantly struggling to pay bills on time and clear your debts, or you can never get enough money together to put some savings away, these are classic issues that a household budget could potentially resolve or at least improve.
A budget is simply a matter of creating a list of all of your expenses, so that you can see exactly where your money is going and whether you are currently living within your means.
What you want from a budget
Whilst a budget serves a basic purpose in general terms, you can adapt this form of financial planning to suit your specific financial goals.
Before you start creating your own budget, take a moment to think about what you want to achieve from your plans. It might be that you want to try and clear your debts or it might be that you are saving for a big event or specific item, or it could be that you are trying to make plans for your retirement.
Having some goals and targets in mind that matter to you, will definitely help to define the reasons why you are putting a budget together in the first place, and provide you with the incentive and discipline to stick with it and watch your plans take shape.
Working out your monthly income and expenses
It is often easier to work out your budget based on monthly figures, especially as a lot of your regular bills are paid monthly rather than weekly.
If you get paid weekly or fortnightly rather than monthly, simply multiply your weekly cheques by 4.33 and multiply fortnightly payments by 2.167. If you have a sporadic income but know what you will earn over a 12 month period, simply divide that total by 12. These formulas work to give you an accurate monthly income figure and will allow you to start your calculations from a solid base.
The next step is to write down all of your expenses each month. Keep receipts for everything you spend and don't leave anything out.
There is sometimes a temptation to disregard small amounts spent on coffee's and other relatively small purchases, but these figures can soon add up to a significant amount each month. Identifying these classic indulgence expenses is often quite illuminating when you put your budget together, and it helps you to see exactly where all your money is going.
Working it all out
Once you have all of your income and expenses down on paper or on a spreadsheet, this is the moment of truth, and you can see whether the figure is positive or negative.
A negative number is the wake-up call your finances need, as it illustrates that you are spending more than you are earning. Even a positive number might show you that there is room for improvement in your spending habits.
Whatever the outcome, the exercise of putting all your finances under the spotlight and recording all of your income and expenses can give you a much greater feeling of control over your money.
Budgets suddenly don't seem so boring anymore, so get to work on a monthly money plan that you can live with.
Joseph Faulkner writes articles based on personal finance topics. He learnt how to make, and live by, a budget after he was made redundant 2 years ago and his wife was pregnant with their 2nd child. He shares his tips and hopes to help others.


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It's been a busy week for the team at Heatwave Interactive! The game launched on Tuesday and they've already been hard at work on patch 184.108.40.206, making improvements to everything from Billing to the Minion System to the Social UI. Check out all the details.
The Gods & Heroes Development Team will be taking the servers offline briefly for a major publish. We have many things going into this patch. Here are the latest, Patch Notes 126.96.36.199. You can leave your feedback on this thread on our Community forums. Thank you!
* Significant changes to billing system have been made. We have made it easier to subscribe with credit cards and we now credit the 30 days of gametime as soon as the retail code has been confirmed.
Read more and see the whole list at the Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising Official Website.


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IMAGINE being able to set up a tollbooth on the Internet. Now imagine collecting a small fee every time anyone in the United States clicked on the Web to watch a video of a car advertisement, to listen to an audio clip of a garage band or to review an updated credit card statement.
Sound far-fetched? Acacia Research Corporation, an obscure but well-financed company in Newport Beach, Calif., has a portfolio of patents that, it claims, allows it to do exactly that.
Acacia holds five patents covering streaming video and audio. The earliest one, numbered 5,132,992, was issued in 1992.
In 2002, the company began sending out letters demanding licensing fees, largely from the lucrative online pornography industry. But of late, it has stepped up pressure on financial and educational institutions and news organizations, including The New York Times Company, which has received a letter from Acacia relating to its corporate Web site. In June, Acacia sued nine cable and satellite companies, including Comcast, DirecTV and EchoStar Communications. In late July, it sent out more letters demanding licensing fees from educational organizations that offer Web-based classes.
''We don't want to make irresponsible statements like the patents cover every kind of streaming media,'' said Robert Berman, executive vice president of Acacia.Continue reading the main story
However, he said, anyone viewing stored streaming video or listening to stored streaming audio on the Internet using the most common media players -- those produced by Apple Computer and RealNetworks, for example -- are probably violating his company's patents.
Moreover, he said, the patents cover stored digital streaming media not just on the Internet but also over cable and satellite networks.
Johns Hopkins University received a letter last year from Acacia, which asked for what would amount to 2 percent of the university's revenues.
''Is it reasonable to even make this kind of request?'' asked Wes Blakeslee, associate general counsel of Johns Hopkins University. ''We are nonprofit institutions who are already worried about leaving a pack of people behind because education is too expensive. The idea of long distance learning is to make education more affordable.''
Hopkins fired back a letter asking for more information but has not yet received a response. Acacia's new round of letters appears to have gone to small colleges, like Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nev. The letters ask for about $5,000 a year in annual licensing fees.
Marc S. Kaufman, a patent lawyer with Nixon Peabody in Washington, who is not affiliated with the company, said that, at least on their faces, the patents appear to be extremely broad. ''They are able to go after anybody who is streaming any kind of content over the Internet,'' he said.
But whether Acacia will prevail in the courts is another question, Mr. Kaufman said.
From the steam engine forward, proprietary claims for nascent American technology have been thrashed out in court, but Acacia appears to be the first publicly traded company whose sole business is the licensing of patents.
''They are not a technology company; they are just a company full of lawyers,'' said Dan Rayburn, executive vice president of StreamingMedia.com, a Web site and industry association. ''They acquire patents and then sue.''
Mr. Berman said such distinctions were irrelevant.
''It's not like we steal the patents from the inventors and the companies from which we buy them,'' he said. ''Individual inventors and many companies don't have the money or expertise to enforce their patents. They receive royalties from our licensing and enforcement efforts and they can devote their time to inventing.''
Mr. Berman said that Acacia Research had about $30 million in cash on hand. The company was formed in 1992 as a venture capital firm financing biotechnology, dot.com enterprises and chip design. One company it invested in was Soundview Technologies, which it ultimately acquired. Soundview owned a patent covering the V-chip, which allows parents to screen their televisions for content. In 2002, Acacia Research split into two subsidiaries, Acacia Technologies and CombiMatrix, a biotech firm based in Mukilteo, Wash., which unlike Acacia Technologies develops its own technology.
The V-chip patent earned Acacia $26 million in licensing fees from a wide range of electronics manufacturers.
This year the company is expected to receive $2 million to $3 million in royalties for the streaming media patents from 169 licensing agreements.
In July, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that is skeptical about the value to society of software patents, announced the winners of its ''busting patents'' competition, which sought nominations for the worst Internet-related patents.
''Acacia was overwhelmingly the winner, by about 4 to 1,'' said Jason Schultz, a lawyer for the association, based in San Francisco. ''It's a clear indicator as to who public enemy No.1 is.''
Mr. Schultz said his organization was assembling documentation to formally request that the patent office re-examine the Acacia patents.
The pornography industry also has proved to be a feisty foe. Early on, Acacia licensed its patents, under undisclosed terms, to the some of the largest players in the industry, including the publishers of Hustler and Playboy as well as at least a half-dozen smaller players like SmutBucks.com. Nonpurveyors of porn, like the Walt Disney Company, have also signed agreements.
But a group of porn companies, led by HomeGrownVideo.com and represented by Fish & Richardson, a well-known intellectual property law firm, have banded together to fight Acacia. Their suit is pending in federal court in California and likely will not be resolved until next year.
Last year Technology Marketing magazine hired PatentRatings, a consulting firm in California, to independently analyze the strength of Acacia's patents, using a computer algorithm that compares patent claims. The company said that Acacia's patents were ''very solid.''
But those who are targets of Acacia's licensing program may take comfort in a recent victory handed to three companies -- Sony, Sharp and Toshiba -- who refused to pay any royalties to Acacia for its V-chip patent.
Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, the nation's highest patent court, upheld a ruling that those television manufacturers do not infringe the V-chip patent and thus owe Acacia no royalties. The companies that have already paid Acacia $26 million in V-chip royalties, however, will receive no refund.
Patents may be viewed on the Web at www.uspto.gov or may be ordered through the mail, by patent number, for $3 from the Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C. 20231.Continue reading the main story


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At a nominal cost an additional Hasp & Staple can be added to your product enabling you to padlock your bin store. Should you require this then please select this on the drop down menu to the right when ordering.
Check Your Bin Size
Please check your bin size by using the 'Wheelie Bin Size Chart' icon located in the header bar to ensure the correct size store is ordered.
Additional Information
Manufacturer: The Garden Village (ourselves)
Usual Delivery Time: 5-7 Working Days
Direct Technical Help: Yes - Please call 01254 814343
(Please note gas struts are no longer available)
Product Guarantee
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Building The Store
All products must be erected on a level surface without this we recommend purchasing a Deck Base to ensure the product stands firm. A Deck Base can be purchased under the Available Options icon located at the top right of this page. The Hasp & Staple can be used to padlock the store should you wish to do so (padlock not included). This option is also available at the top right of the page under Available Options.
Following our simple instructions the store can be built within 1-2 hours. We also have a direct telephone line to our technical support team should you require any assistance.
Quality Materials
Made from the highest quality tanalised redwood planed timbers, these stores are built to last. Redwood is the harder of all softwoods, all our timber is from an FSC Source.
All the timber in the store comes pressure treated for a long and durable life. However we advise that a stain or oil based treatment should be applied annually to further extend the longevity and keep the store looking as new.
The item will arrive flat packed and shrink wrapped on a pallet with a full set of assembly instructions fixtures and fittings. The delivery is a kerb-side delivery and the smallest vehicle available is a 7.5T wagon, if this is unable to access your property further delivery charges may be applied.You will be contacted shortly after you place your order to arrange a suitable delivery date. Extra delivery charges may be applied to offshore islands, Ireland and Northern parts of Scotland as well as inner London postcodes. Please enquire before ordering if you think this might apply to you. Your delivery maybe delayed if not checked at point of order. Offshore, Ireland & Northern Scotland may take up to 10 - 14 working days for delivery.
Please ensure that goods are checked on arrival, please sign for goods as "damaged" if the item appears damaged or opened in any way.
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Thanks to the grand opening of the new fruit market across the street we enjoyed bing cherries at $1.99 lb. for a week. Just to make sure it wasn't too good to be true, I asked the owner if his prices were always going to be this low or if it was just because they were opening. He assured me that they would always be lower than anyone else on the block. Today I proved him wrong and I'm hoping that me taking note of the raised prices will whip his store into shape and move those $3.99 lb. cherries back down to $1.99. lb!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
1 comments:
- Auntie Em said...
I hope you commenting on the price makes a difference. I didn't realize it was time to start nabbing cherries off my neighbors trees yet. hum... now I want cherries. :0)
- June 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM
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Gold Medal Effort
Personally, I can't remember a more dramatic two days of Olympic road racing since 1984 in Los Angeles.
I guess enough time has passed now, and everyone is aware of today's women's road race at the Olympics. It was a heartbreaker following an amazing effort by Mara Abbott, after charging up the final climb at the head of, first the chase, and then the break, what must have have been the nerve rattling sight of Dutch rider Annamiek van Vleuten, whom Mara was chasing on the descent, lying motionless against the curb, and then being caught so close to the gold medal finish line. Circumstance, more than anything kept her from the podium, and though she might not be returning home with a medal, hers was a gold medal effort, none-the-less.
As for the crash, the only worse one I have ever watched as it happened, was the one that took the life of Wouter Weylandt at the Tour de France a few years ago. Today's was horrific, and I was not surprised that broadcasters held off replaying it until there was some positive news; the mrs, fearing the worst, cried as she watched, the boy came running downstairs to find out what the ruckus was all about. Best wishes to Annamiek during her recovery.
Going back a few years with this one - Mara Abbott, 2013 San Dimas Stage Race Champion.


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People v. M.
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2018 NY Slip Op 07924
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People v O.X.
The court held that the Appellate Order should be affirmed in this case. The question of this case is whether a 4th amendment consent to search a premises is a question of law or fact (People v. McFarlane 21 NY 3d 1034). The court said that the voluntariness of the consent in this instance is up for dispute. Although the court's power to review the affirmed findings of fact are limited. The findings of the trial court are supported by the record (People v Morales 42 NY2d 129, 138 [1977]).
Judge Rivera stated that there was a home visit by law enforcement for the purposes of making a warrantless arrest. It is not justified by another exception of the warrant requirement.
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added some buzz to the anti-virus software space with Tuesday's acquisition of GeCAD Software for use in its flagship Windows platform.
Financial terms of the purchase, which included GeCAD's intellectual property, were not released.
The Bucharest, Romania-based GeCAD makes software for anti-virus detection and data security. With GeCAD's technology built into the Windows platform and other Microsoft-branded products, the software giant could emerge as a major competitor in the network security space now dominated by Computer Associates, Network Associatesand Symantec.
"In addition to developing new solutions, Microsoft will use the GeCAD engineering expertise and technology to enhance the Windows platform and extend support for third-party anti-virus vendors so they can provide customers with increasingly secure and comprehensive levels of virus protection," Microsoft said in a statement.https://o1.qnsr.com/log/p.gif?;n=203;c=204660766;s=9477;x=7936;f=201812281312070;u=j;z=TIMESTAMP;a=20392931;e=iThe company did not provide additional details of its anti-virus software plans.
The GeCAD acquisition comes amid Microsoft's all-out Trustworthy Computing initiative it launched to counter embarrassing publicity over a string of security glitches in some of its key software. "The GeCAD acquisition is an extension of these [Trustworthy Computing] efforts," Microsoft said.
Just last month, Microsoft teamed up with Network Associates and Trend Microto launch a Virus Information Alliance (VIA) Web-based repository for information on viruses affecting Microsoft's technology.
In April this year, Microsoft also launched a new Windows File System Filter Manager Architecture aimed at simplifying anti-virus software development.


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The new BRN skill expands their reach to Echo users who can now access Quality Christian Talk Radio at the sound of their voice. Now, it's almost effortless for anyone to listen to BRN live and hear America's best Bible teachers on Bott Radio Network - from the home, the workplace, or anywhere in the world they have an Amazon Echo.
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We have started a new video series of tutorials and frequently asked questions! Our first video is about everything you need to know about Royalty-Free music…so before you decide to use Royalty-Free music in any of your work, take a look at this video first!
Leave us a comment about what you want us to talk about next! We will be updating these weekly and putting them in our newest Video Tutorials page.


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I'm a little curious if anyone can identify this establishment before I reveal it? Want to take a guess? Here's a hint...they have happy hour that doesn't involve adult beverages.
RAK challenge #38: Visit Sonic and leave a RAK card + gift card attached to the menu.
Wouldn't it be so fun to pull into your spot and find this great little treat?! Admit it, you know you'd be looking around to see if anyone was watching, then snag that gift card like nobody's business. And rightly so, because that's exactly what you're supposed to do!
Make sure you plan ahead before heading to Sonic. You'll need to print a RAK card and bring along some tape.
Such an easy way to put a smile on someone's face today. It's your turn now and you know the drill...go out and be kind!


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Crack cocaine addiction affects the lives of millions of individuals, mainly between the ages of 18 and 25 every day. Many people seek rehab for cocaine use and most of these rehab seekers use crack.
For the individual wanting to quit a crack cocaine addiction, they may experience different stages of withdrawal that may include despair, depression, mood swings, and avoidance. Since crack cocaine is water soluble, these symptoms can last a varying amount of time depending on the amount of the drug that was used, how often crack cocaine was used, and how long it was used.
While the individual is using crack cocaine, they may have auditory hallucinations such as hearing people talking, hearing sirens, or music. They may also imagine that they see bugs crawling on their skin in visual hallucinations. In some individuals there is a high level of paranoia and crack users become suspicious of any movement.
Within a few hours after the last time crack was used, the individual may become consumed with having enough money to purchase more crack. They may sell personal items, beg, or steal to be able to buy crack. Within the first 24 hours after the last time crack cocaine was used, the individual may "crash" and experience feelings of deep depression and possibly have suicidal thoughts. The crash may be followed by feelings of successfully beating their crack cocaine "addiction".
Crack cocaine users may show personality and behavioral changes toward family and friends. They may become withdrawn and their mood may fluctuate from depressed to energetic. Users may neglect their personal hygiene and often exhibit flu-like symptoms such as a runny, irritated nose and watery, red eyes.
There are a number of different programs available to help with crack cocaine use including 12 Step programs, holistic programs and Cognitive Behavioral Education (CBE) programs. 12 Step programs promote the false belief that crack cocaine use stems from an incurable brain disease of addiction that you genetically inherited from your family through an as yet undiscovered addiction gene.
While 12 Step programs are typically free of cost to the substance user through government or charitable funding, you truly get what you pay for when coming to these programs. 12 Step programs are built on the belief that the only treatment is meetings for the rest of your life, total abstinence and surrendering to a belief in a higher power. They also believe that you will fail in your attempts to resist using crack cocaine and that relapse is absolutely going to happen. 12 Step programs are telling you that, while abstinence is a treatment and in their opinion the only treatment, you will not be able to abstain, you will relapse and you are going to fail. This philosophy goes a long way toward explaining why there is a 95% dropout rate among 12 Step programs.
Cognitive Behavioral Education (CBE) teaches that crack cocaine use is not a disease, but it is a choice that you make to use drugs. There is no such thing as an addiction gene and there is no crack cocaine disease or addiction, rather it is a habitual behavior. Like any other behavior, crack cocaine use can be changed, stopped and controlled if you wish to do so. Once there are productive habits established that meet your behavioral needs as well or better than substance use, the need for crack use will slowly fade. No matter how badly you feel "hooked" on this drug, be assured you have the power to change your life. You can start a new chapter in your life making the choice to move forward free of substance use. Call one of our Guest Service Consultants to find out how you can take the next step to find your own personal freedom from crack cocaine use.


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East Greenbush v. City of Rensselaer v. DEC
Lead Agency Dispute
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Commissioner's Determination of Lead Agency
under Article 8 of the
Environmental Conservation Law
PROJECT: 4 C's Development Corporation: Designation of lead agency for the review of a proposed Construction and Demolition Landfill in the Town of East Greenbush in Rensselaer County
- Town of East Greenbush
City of Rensselaer
Region 4 Office, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
This decision to designate the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Region 4 Office as lead agency for the conduct of an environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) process is made pursuant to Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law and 6 NYCRR 617. I find that the Department of Environmental Conservation has the broadest governmental powers for the investigation of the impacts of the proposed action, as well as the greater expertise required for a thorough environmental review.
The proposed project is by 4 C's Development Corporation to increase the operating hours of its permitted landfill known as the Cristo's C&D Landfill and to accept disposal wastes from sources other than its own demolition jobs. The applicant requests a modification of the existing permits to reflect these changes and a renewal of the permit which expired on December 8, 1993.
In resolving a dispute about lead agency, I am guided by the three criteria listed in order of importance in paragraph 6 NYCRR 617.6(e)(5). These are: (1) whether the anticipated impacts are primarily of local, regional or statewide significance; (2) which agency has the broadest powers for investigation of potential impacts; and (3) which agency has the greatest ability to provide a thorough environmental assessment of the proposed action.
In consideration of the first criterion, the Town contends that the impacts are primarily local because the landfill will be located wholly within the Town. The Town further states that many potential issues have been brought to the attention of the Town by citizens who live in residential areas adjacent to the landfill. Such issues include: the dumping of inappropriate materials, excessive noise, inadequate cover, access to the site by children, operation beyond permitted times, noxious odors, and possible stream pollution. The DEC contends that while the facility itself may be located within the Town of East Greenbush, it is located adjacent to the boundary of the City of Rensselaer, and the potential impacts identified by the Town of East Greenbush would, if realized, clearly transcend the Town/City boundary, thereby resulting in impacts that would be more correctly construed as "regional" in nature. The sole access to the site is through the City of Rensselaer via Partition Street. Other impacts from solid waste management and traffic may be felt well outside the Town of East Greenbush and the City of Rensselaer because the modification proposes to accept wastes generated by others in addition to the wastes currently generated by the project sponsor.
Therefore, I conclude that the anticipated impacts are primarily regional.
The next criterion to consider in this dispute is the breadth of jurisdiction. This criterion also favors DEC as lead agency. The Town's jurisdiction appears to be limited to the issuance or denial of a cut and fill permit as established by Local Law No. 1 of 1987. The purpose of that ordinance is "to regulate and control the grading and filling to land, the removal of topsoil and underlying material, and the removal of vegetation within the Town of East Greenbush and to prescribe regulation for said control." That purpose can be achieved regardless of whether or not the Town is lead agency for SEQR review through its review and imposition of conditions for the permits that may be issued by the Town. The Town has also indicated that the Town Zoning Ordinance precludes operation of a landfill within the "R/A" Zone. However, it acknowledges that the current facility has been in operation since 1988 and may, therefore, be construed as a pre-existing, non-conforming use.
The City of Rensselaer will have discretionary approval with respect to storm water and leachate discharge if the project proponents elect to discharge effluent through the city sewer system. The City has not indicated a preference in the selection of a lead agency, only that it be considered an involved agency and be informed of any changes or decisions regarding this application.
The Department has comprehensive authority under 6 NYCRR Part 360 (solid waste management regulations) to review all issues relating to solid waste disposal, some of which may affect areas beyond the borders of the Town. Therefore, DEC has the broadest powers to investigate any and all potential impacts.
The third criterion also favors DEC as lead agency. DEC staff has considerable experience in the review of not only this proposal as previously permitted but other solid waste projects throughout the region. Department staff reviewed the environmental impacts related to the operation of this landfill in 1988.
I conclude, based on the facts presented, that DEC Region 4 should be lead agency for review under SEQR for the 4 C's C&D Landfill application because of its broad jurisdiction, the expertise of staff in reviewing construction and demolition landfills, and because the potential impacts are regional in nature.
This decision does not in any manner limit or minimize the responsibility of all other involved agencies to review the proposed action and to assist the DEC in the environmental review process. The issues raised by the Town of East Greenbush and the City of Rensselaer must be considered by the DEC in making its determination of significance.
Langdon Marsh, Acting Commissioner
Dated: May 13, 1994
Albany, New York
Distribution of Copies:
- John F. Ryan, Mayor, City of Rensselaer
Michael Van Voris, Supervisor, Town of East Greenbush
A. Cristo, President, 4 C's Development Corporation
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation:
- Acting Commissioner Marsh
A. Adamczyk, Director, Region 4
M. Gerstman
G. Kamaras
J. Stallmer
W. Clarke
R. Guthrie


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The Islanders Aren't Going Anywhere Quite Yet
Yesterday, the Long Island Press, citing an unnamed source, reported that the ambitious Lighthouse project — which would include a renovated Nassau Coliseum as well as residential and office space, a hotel, and more — had been "abandoned internally by New York Islanders team owner Charles Wang." And, the logic goes, the end of the Lighthouse project would have meant the end of the team on Long Island. But Islanders owner Charles Wang today said that the report was "bogus," and that "there are no plans to abandon the project." Celebratory fish sticks for everyone!
Of course, this doesn't mean that the Islanders aren't moving. It just means they're still waiting on what Wang calls a "yes or no decision" from Hempstead town supervisor Kate Murray. (The Hempstead town board will need to vote on whether to approve the necessary rezoning.) Essentially, we're back to where we've been for a while now: If that vote doesn't go Wang's way, then it's likely off to Kansas City or Queens or a mini-rink in Brooklyn. As for the original report, Long Island Press editor Michael Martino stands by his story, telling Newsday he thinks today's response "is a scramble to handle a possible PR nightmare." Which would make sense, because if there's anyone who knows how to handle a PR nightmare, it's the owner of the New York Islanders.


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MSI upgrades 27" All-In-One with new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900M GPU
MSI refreshed its 27" All-in-One gaming PCs so they now utilize the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and GTX 980M video cards, powered by the Intel Core i7 processor, up to 16GB DDR3L RAM, MSI Super RAID technology, and the Killer E2200 Game Networking.
"Gamers crave performance and our new lineup of 27-inch gaming AIOs will leave them breathless," said Andy Tung, MSI Pan America CEO, in a press statement. "The outstanding combination of state-of-the-art components, including NVIDIA's latest GPU, deliver the most immersive gaming experience available and is guaranteed to outperform any other unit on the market."
The NVIDIA GeForce 900M series has received a large amount of attention from consumers, as OEMs roll out a new generation of mobile gaming products.


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Hello Guys!!!!!
It's a pleasure for me to find you here. From today on, we will begin blogging actively in order to develop our writing and blogging skills. As we know, blogs are useful tools for teachers nowadays because blogs provide a communication space that teachers can use with students whenever there is a curriculum need to develop writing, share ideas and reflect on work being undertaken in the classroom.
I know that you already have experience sharing your ideas, opinions, and whatever comes to your minds in your blogs. So today you will have the first task. Do your best!!!!!
You are going to choose one of the following topics.
1. Tips for blogs
2. Using Blogs to Integrate Technology in the Classroom
3. Ways to Use Weblogs in Education.
After you choose the topic, you will read the information in the link to write a new post. Then you will illustrate the blog with pictures related with the topic. Finally you will post it, and send me the link of your blog. You can use copy and paste, but include the link of the website in your blog, and give your personal point of view about the topic. You can summarize it, and show the main information.
Post a comment telling me the topic you chose. Let's begin working and use your creativity!!!!!
Post a comment telling me the topic you chose. Let's begin working and use your creativity!!!!!
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Some say that men and women clearly define themselves by the goals they aspire to. For whichever reasons, some people aspire to spend less when buying an new digital camera. It isn't an infrequent choice. There may be great news for people who choose this goal. It actually is fairly easy, when you fully understand just how to approach it!
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The 1st step is take a look at product sales leaflets in the paper. You really need to do this mainly because since most digital camera models go on sale much cheaper then a regular retail price. And you will want to avoid just getting a camera without doing research while in the process. It'll be very important to get this 1st step done properly and well. In the event you don't succeed in this, then you'll pay to a lot of extra dollars for your digital camera.
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Just got in this day, Penshoppe which is a local fashion retail company tied up with Status Magazine to bring a kick ass shoe design contest. Sound exciting? Yeah right. Another great contest that you don't want to miss. So what you waiting for, download the template HERE. Follow the rules make sure your entries on or before the deadline. *If the link does not work, try this one, PenshoppeXStatus, right click on the blank shoe canvas template (second picture) and save image. More details and intructions is posted on the Status Magazine site.
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Penshoppe will pick 3 guys and 3 girls entries that will be produce to a limited edition collection which will be sold at selected Penshoppe shop. Winning designs will also featured in a 6-page fashion spread in Status Magazine that will come out on September issue. In addition, winners also get a sure VIP seats at the Penshoppe SS14 show in next Philippine Fashion Week season and a 5,000 worth of Penshoppe cards. Isn't that an awesome prizes?
For more info and updates, follow Penshoppe @PENSHOPPE and Status Magazine @statusmagazine or you may like their facebook pages, PENSHOPPE (Official) and STATUS Magazine.


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It's only recently that I've learnt how important having being in the studio is to my productivity. It's a really important part of the 'creative process' (cringe) to be involved in and around other people who you can bounce ideas off as well as having a space of your own to reflect and organise your thoughts.
As a request from the ever brilliant Emma of Fin De L'Histoire (a life/art/study abroad blog) I am going to give you a sneaky peek at what is going on in my little section of the studio. Not because the work is particularly secretive, but because I'm not about to bore you with a full on post on my practice.
Of course, I wasn't going to take photos of the whole studio, it's a bit rude to post photographs of other peoples work on the internet I suppose. It's a odd atmosphere in there at the moment, usually there is a bit of a buzz, people milling around and constructing- the studio I am in is predominantly sculpture/installation artists, though recently my practice has been considered to be painting which is kind of difficult for me to come to terms with! However as it's the Easter Holidays it's very quiet recently, it's a nice kind of calm but it'll be much nicer when there are more people around again.


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By Mark Colbert
Expert Consultant, Life Insurance Company Fraud
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
insurance products, sales methods, and how they are often misrepresented.
Whole or "Traditional" Life is the kind of policy your parents or grandparents may have had. These policies cover you for your entire life, not just a specific period. Both your premium and death benefit, or face value, remain the same for the life of the contract. (With term insurance, your premium increases as you age to account for the fact that you're a bigger health risk.) Insurance companies keep both the premium and the death benefit constant during the life of a whole life policy by charging you a premium that's higher than the actual cost of the insurance when you're young and using some of the profit to pay for the higher cost of your insurance when you're older.
As required by law, the insurance company invests the premiums in low-risk instruments , mostly bonds and mortgages. The policyholder has no say in how the company manages these funds; long-range returns are comparable to bond funds'. Over and above the guaranteed rate of return, some companies offer policyholders the opportunity to share in the company's profit, just like shareholders do. The company pays policyholders dividends, based on the success of the company in the previous year. Policies with this benefit are called "participating policies" as opposed to "non-participating policies" - that is, ones that do not pay dividends. Think of it as,"participating or not-participating in the profitability of the company."
** Please note that amount of the annual dividend is based on many different factors and most companies will never guarantee them.
One of the more attractive features of any permanent life insurance is that earnings are tax deferred until they're withdrawn, and then only to the extent that they exceed the amount paid as premiums (capital gains). The invention of tax-deferred retirement plans, like 401(k)s and IRAs, and the phenomenal growth of mutual funds have made traditional whole life less popular as a means of college or retirement saving.
Another great feature of participating whole life policies is: it is also possible to offset premium payments in later years. With this option, annual dividends are put back into the policy and used to purchase additional amounts of paid-up insurance called paid-up additions. Once these additions or "paid-up adds" are sufficient to cover the premium, they are surrendered each year to make the premium payment. However, if the policy does not perform well you may have to make premium payments again.
Another significant benefit of the whole life policy is the fact that you can borrow against your cash value, usually at interest rates significantly lower than market rates (usually 8 percent). The rates are low because the lender is assuming little or no risk. If you don't repay the loan (plus interest), the company will take the money from your account. When you borrow against a policy, you don't have to pay any fees, and you can usually get a check in just a few days. If you die before the loan is repaid, the outstanding amount is deducted from the death benefit.
Some companies will pay a "terminal dividend", a type of
bonus, if you will -- upon the death of the insured. Of course, a company makes no
guaranty that it will pay this dividend (or any dividend, for that matter).
However, most annual and terminal dividends are, indeed, paid.
Due to the simplicity of whole life, it is not an easy policy to misrepresent. However, over the years, the imaginative minds of some greedy salespeople have contrived some doozies.
The Vanishing Premium: In this scenario, an agent highly exaggerates the earning potential of the whole life policy. A potential policy owner is "sold" on the company's financial strength and ability to earn sizable profits for its policy owners. Based on these "illusions of grandeur", policies are sold under the premise that they will be self-sufficient or "paid-up" much sooner than possible. Thus, policy owners are often wrongfully led to believe the premium will "vanish".
Premium Redirection: As I elaborate on this section, keep this in mind: very seldom will a whole life policy survive without its dividends or accumulations. In essence, dividends are the policy's "life blood" in later years. Agents may sell additional policies to the policy owner or members of the family by representing that; since the older policy is now self-sufficient, you can use its dividends to finance a new product -- basically, robbing Peter to pay Paul. In very few cases will this work successfully and in most cases, both policies will eventually lapse with no value.
The Christmas Club:
Although I've
seen this particular "scam" called by several different names, "The Christmas
Club" stands out as the most flamboyant.
When the "victim" selects the new policy, the agent has them unknowingly sign
the appropriate forms to withdraw money from their policy's own cash value
and secretly uses this
money to pay several years' premiums on the new policy in advance. If the policy
owner decides on the cash, which is very seldom the case, the money is given
back to them in a check from the company. In just a few years, the old policy
lapses because its cash value was taken and the new policy lapses because the
premiums paid in advance have "run out". As you may expect, I have not yet seen
an agent who's sold policies like this stay with the same company very long.
The U/L or Universal Life policy: was introduced to the insurance marketplace back in the early 80s when interest rates were in the 10 to 12 percent range. Universal Life insurance is a form of whole life insurance--but with much greater flexibility. Like whole life, you have two components: a term insurance policy and an investment account from which the term insurance premiums are paid. But with universal life, you get to choose your options, and your choices are generally laid out in front of you. You know how the premiums may change the death benefit and cash value, and it's much clearer how much of the premiums go toward your insurance protection, how much toward your cash value, and how much toward administrative expense (including commissions). Beginning with a planned death benefit that you worked out with your agent, you determine your planned premium, based on how much you can afford and the cost of the insurance. The company subtracts an expense charge based on its fees, usually a fixed percentage of the premiums. You're left with a cash value that generates interest.
But understanding universal life insurance doesn't end there. From the cash value, the company subtracts the current cost of insurance (the mortality charge), including the charges for any options (or riders), and monthly administrative expenses. And then the company adds in interest that your investment money earns. Your ending cash value is the accumulated value that belongs to you when you cash out (or in some cases, to your beneficiary when you die).
Often, companies charge you a termination fee or surrender charge to cash out (known as back-loading), leaving you with the surrender value. The surrender charge, which usually decreases over 15 or 20 years, is most often a percentage of the total cash value. I have seen cases where agents have advised people to surrender old policies, representing that the earning potential of a new policy is enough to more than make up for the loss. This is very seldom true and policy owners usually lose a great deal of money.
A few of the "hi-lights" are:
If you decide to stop paying premiums, the company will continue to pay the premium for you by deducting from your policy's accumulation fund. The company will continue to do so until no cash value is left. This is another way to continue coverage without paying premiums.
The interest rate is usually tiered, in which part of the cash value earns one rate while another part earns a different (usually higher) rate. For example, your interest rate may be 4 percent for the first $1000 and 6.5 percent for the balance.
You can also borrow against the cash value of your policy at a fixed interest rate, usually below market rates
Like whole life, you have two basic components: a term insurance policy and an investment - or cash value account from which the term insurance premiums are paid. But with the U/L policy, the policy owner gets to choose the options, and the choices are generally laid out in front of you. You know how the premiums (or lack thereof) may change the death benefit and cash value, and it's much clearer how much of the premiums go toward you basic cost of insurance, how much toward your cash value, and how much toward administrative expenses (including commissions).
In the past, while teaching the universal life concept at seminars, I've used the following analogy: (This is by no means intended to fully explain the intricacy of the U/L policy. It is a basic synopsis of the U/L theory for those without the insurance education possessed by some, but certainly not all, agents or company reps.)
For this example, we'll use a $100 monthly or "Target" premium, a $100,000 death benefit, and a 35 year old, male, non-smoker who is in "preferred" health.
The premium is placed into a "fund" managed by a life insurance company. For this, the company will be "contractually bound" to pay the beneficiary $100,000 at the moment your heart stops beating. However, the term (or unseen) cost of insurance for a 35 year old is not $100.00. It is, for our purposes, only $25.00 dollars per month. If only $25.00 goes into the cost of insurance (COI) where does the extra $75.00 go? Into the cash value or accumulation fund - which earns interest. You, as the policy holder do not get to choose where the money is invested.
When you turn 40 years old, your new cost of insurance will be $40.00 per month - so only $60.00 will go towards your accumulation fund. At 60 years old, your monthly cost of insurance will be $70.00 per month - so only $30.00 will go toward your accumulation fund. For all intents and purposes, your cost of insurance will increase each and every year. It goes to figure that - as you get older - you get closer to death. This is called a mortality calculation. Based on this calculation, understand that at some point in the life of your policy, your premium will be $101.00 per month. If you are only paying $100.00 per month, where will that "extra" dollar come from? - Why your cash value, of course. At this time, you are theoretically, "robbing Peter to pay Paul."
However, this is not a bad thing, this is the way the policy was designed to work. Once you have become unable to afford the constantly increasing cost of insurance, the policy will do it for you - internally. Again, for the purposes of this example, this is how policies become "paid-up" - when the increasing value of the accumulation fund surpasses the increasing cost of insurance. Unfortunately, there are far too many factors associated with the U/L policy for me to cover on this page. For those of you who would like to know more, feel free to contact me or any other trustworthy insurance professional.
BEWARE! and keep my expert opinion in mind: I once told a high-profile journalist that, 40% of the agents who make up the whole, or 100% of the industry would "stab you in the back, take your last dime, and not lose one minute of sleep. 59% of those left are the most courteous, kind, caring, trustworthy, honest, wonderful agents ever to bless a kitchen table with a briefcase. However, if one of these great agents find that you've been "victimized" by one of the 40%, they'll usually suggest you replace the policy and possibly ask for your money back. They will by no means "put on the gloves and step into the ring for you" against a major insurance company because quite frankly, "it's just not worth it." So this journalist I was chatting with does her math, "Mark, 40 and 59% is only 99%, that leaves 1%." I smiled and said, "yeah, that's where I live."
I'm afraid that if I were asked to pick the one single product that has most damaged the life insurance industry, it would undoubtedly have to be the Universal or Flexible Premium Life policy. I have often remarked, "if the U/L product is put together correctly, managed honestly, and reviewed periodically, it is a fine policy - maybe even the best. However, this policy can also be made to operate on that fine line separating the "white" from the "black". From this perspective, it can also be an agent's license to steal.
In the example above, I mentioned the term "Target" premium. Remember this as the amount necessary to take a policy through to maturity. According to the most recent cost of insurance and mortality calculations, "Maturity" can only be one-of-two things; the death of the insured or age 95 (or in some cases, age 100). Back in the early days of Universal Life, the target premium only had to be met for one year before it could be voluntarily "flexed" by the policy owner. Thus, if the target premium was $1,200 per year, this goal could be reached any number of ways - either from a single $1,200 deposit, $100 per month, $300 per quarter, or $600 semi-annually. By any means, if that $1,200 goal was met at least once, the following year's premiums could be reduced to as little as $0.
In the early 90s, some of the companies soliciting the U/L policy changed their "Target Premium" requirement from one year to two years. Referencing the example above, this meant that now, $2,400 needed to be placed into the policy before the premium could be altered.
Keep this very important point in mind: It did not matter what your desired payment method was - lump sum, annual, semi-annual, quarterly or check-o-matic; as long as that required amount was paid, your premium could be lowered.
Using this flexibility option to their advantage, agents would "roll, transfer, kick-start, bind, shift or churn" the sometimes large cash values from much older policies into new U/L policies in a practice called, "frontloading". By doing this, they could place more than enough money into the new policy to cover the target premium requirement. Usually at the point of sale, the agents would often have the policy owner sign blank Service Request Forms which could be later used to withdraw the cash values or dividends needed to alter future premium requirements; often without the policy owner's knowledge. Then, last - but certainly not least - came the promise of "much better insurance coverage for far less money".
Once the "frontloaded" money is exhausted and the lowered premium is insufficient to cover the cost of insurance (which was usually just a few years), the policy owner would often get a rather large bill directly from the company. Shaken, they would immediately get on the phone to find that the agent is no longer with the company (or that he/she has been promoted to management level) and cannot be found. From here, the excuses would vary. "Poor interest rates, the policy owner misunderstood the agent, clients only recall what they want, decreasing dividends and poor economic times" are the more common excuses for an agent's dishonesty.
In the times I have found numerous cases against the same agent - thereby establishing a pattern and practice - the company (while never admitting any form of responsibility) would call him/her a "rogue agent not acting in the company's best interest". Call it a "hunch" if you will but, I have found that when agents "strip" older policies of sometimes tens - of - thousands of dollars, making more in commissions than some people earn in a year, then leaves the policy owner without any coverage whatsoever in just a few years, they are certainly not acting in the best interest of the policy holder either!
Although I will not go into any detail on this page, most Economic experts can use terms like, "Mortality, Exposure, and Risk Tolerance" to prove that companies do actually benefit from "churning."
Over the years, I've found that the number of ways in which a life insurance policy can be "sold" is limited only by the imaginations of the agents. As I've said in the past, not every representative from every company needs to use "questionable" sales methods.
Term is the most basic of all life insurance policies. Basically; you pay, you pay, you die - they pay.
Term insurance, at its simplest level, provides life insurance for a specified period (usually one,- five,- ten,- up to 30-year term). For that coverage, you pay a monthly, quarterly, semiannual, or annual premium which remains level during the specified term.
But that's really the only constant. Because so many various options are available, such as decreasing term and increasing term policies, in which the face value or death benefit changes each year (rarely more than 18-20 percent above or below the original policy amount). Both these products are different from level term insurance, in which the face value remains level throughout the specified term.
Remember that term insurance provides a benefit for others if you die during the specified period. It is not an investment. - you receive no benefits other than the security of knowing that if you should die, your beneficiaries will receive the insurance proceeds.
The ideal life insurance policy is the one that's in force at the exact moment your heart stops beating. If you buy a life insurance policy, not only do you want your policy to remain in effect during the specific term you designated, but you also want to be able to keep buying the insurance until you decide to stop - not when the company decides that you've become too great a risk
Most term life insurance policies are renewable - but your premium may not remain constant for the renewed period. Based upon the mortality tables I spoke of in the last section, your premiums will undoubtedly increase as you get older - the older you get, the closer you get to death.
Without a renewability option, the insurance company can decide that it no longer wants to insure you when the terms of your policy expire. This option insures that you can still buy life insurance regardless of your future medical condition; after you qualify the first time, you don't have to take any additional medical exams to maintain your policy. Because you become a bigger health risk as your age increases, not passing a medical exam is the danger of not purchasing a renewable policy.
However, renewable does not mean that you can increase your policy's amount of coverage. If you decide that you want more insurance, the company will require that you qualify for it medically.
Decreasing term: Although maybe suitable for some people's needs, I personally have not found "the right situation" for this type of policy. For "ordinary" term, the face value remains constant and the premium increases over time. With a decreasing term life policy, the opposite is true: After the specified term, the death benefit of the policy decreases, while the monthly premium remains the same. In that way, the insurance company effectively increases its premium, which it must do because, as you age, you're at a greater risk for death. So the same premium purchases a gradually decreasing amount of insurance. This type of policy which is typically sold as a Mortgage Protection policy could end up costing an enormous amount of money for very little coverage.
Level term: A level term life insurance policy makes sense if there's not much chance you'll want (or need) to buy insurance later in life. In a 20 Year Level Term policy, for example, both the premium and face value remain constant for 20 years. The company can assure you a level premium by increasing the premium in the early years of the policy. If the company charges you more "up-front" and invests your premium dollars for themselves, they can afford to charge you less later on.
Convertible term: Most companies who offer term insurance often include a convertibility feature. This option allows you to convert to a different type of policy - whole or universal life - without having to pass another medical exam. Again, because your health is more likely to deteriorate as you age, this feature may be important if you think you'll have the need for insurance later in life.
WARNING! Although the term insurance idea makes sense at an early age when incomes are generally lower and obligations few, please consider it carefully before making the decision to enter into a long-level term contract. The cost of replacing a term with permanent coverage at an increased age could be 2-3 or 400% higher than buying the permanent coverage initially.
Not very likely. The simplicity of term insurance is most often its "saving grace." I would strongly urge anyone looking for a term policy to consider these points:
1) Find a stable company with a good financial history. The ratings of most companies are available through various sources including A.M. Best.
2) "Shop" the price. Some of the companies whom you'd think would have the lowest premiums, (typically Property and Casualty carriers) have got the highest prices in the industry.
3) Research the cost of converting the policy at 10-, 15-, or 20-years. If you discover the need to convert later on in the life of the policy, who will be the most cost effective?
4) Another excellent point that very few people think of is, "checking up on the agent." Who is he? How long has he been selling insurance? Can he give any references besides his Mother? - Don't laugh, I investigated an agent who "ripped off" his own mom. How many different companies has he worked for? Is he from the same general area as you? Most State's Department of Insurance have a toll-free number that you can call to verify his credentials.
Don't be mislead by credentials alone: Agents who often claim to be the "best thing since sliced bread are often found to be toast."
A few years ago, I was named as an expert in a case in which the alleged "bad agent" was the son of the #3 man in a major insurance company. Besides having an income in the mid 6-figure range, this guy was a permanent fixture at all the top functions, social gatherings, Million Dollar Round Table, trips to far-away lands, cruises, etc., etc. By his own admission, he was so good, he could sell snow to an Eskimo. At sales meetings where there was sometimes hundreds-of-thousands of dollars (and life-savings accounts) on the table, this guy was unstoppable. He could "talk the talk and walk the walk" with the best of them.
After examining boxes of evidence and interviewing policy owners for over a year, our team was thoroughly convinced this guy was about as "innocent" as O.J. Simpson. We all felt he preyed on the elderly and relied on his credentials (and Father) to "get him in where the big fish were." In the end, he was found innocent of the allegations and went back to work in search of new blood. In the process, an elderly couple's future was literally "hung out to dry." This outcome was unimaginable to anyone who saw the evidence we did; how could this happen? It wasn't until later that it all came to light. Being that he was, "who he was" his legal defense team had an "open checkbook" with which to work. It's amazing how the ability to spend $millions on a defense team can often work to a person's advantage, right O.J.?
Understand the terms of the policy. Don't be sold a 5-year level term policy by an agent who tries to convince you that the premium will never change. Agents will sometimes represent that a 5-, 10-, or 15-year level term policy will remain level for a much longer time. Remember that you can always fall back on "black and white." A 10-year level term policy has a level premium for 10 years, not "15 years with the possibility of 20."
Look carefully at what you've purchased: I realize this example sounds almost funny, but it really does happen.
A few years ago, I was asked by some senior policy owners to help them review their policy with a "top-rated" insurance company. During my investigation, we discussed what their agent represented the policy to be and what they expected from it. The interview was going relatively well and no "red flags" were shooting skyward when they assured me they purchased a 15-year level term policy. As I reviewed the policy, I found it to be a Yearly Renewable Term or (YRT) policy - this meant the premium was due to increase each and every year. Furthermore, given their age, the premium was incredibly high. As I explained my findings to them, they seemed obviously confused. I later found that the agent had taken a large sum of money from an older whole life policy and used it to pay several years' premiums in advance on the new term policy.
The agent had represented that they would not need to make premium payments at all for several years and when they did, the payments were going to be small. When I showed them the "fine print" on the policy that refuted the "sales pitch" they were completely astounded. Obviously disturbed, they told me they had known this agent for years and he was a "regular" at their church. His kids played with their Grandkids and had even gone to the same school. Imagine their astonishment when, after a brief telephone call, we found that their insurance company didn't even sell a 15-year level term policy.
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