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IBM and OpenJDK
IBM and Oracle are going to bring their combined resources together to collaborate in OpenJDK. The natural question arises about what this means for the Apache Harmony project.
Apache Harmony has always been clear about the goal of innovating on a compliant and compatible implementation of Java SE. It's also common knowledge that Apache have been requesting a compatibility test kit license for a number of years, and that a suitable license has not been forthcoming. There's little prospect of that situation changing.
So what's best for the Java ecosystem? I believe that compatibility is vital, and rather than risk divergence the right thing is to bring the key platform development groups together on a common codebase. Lessons learned on Project Harmony will be of value to OpenJDK, and I know there is immense mutual respect between the IBM and Oracle engineers.


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Alabama A&M Financial Aid Number
Phone: 256.372.5400
Fax: 256-372-5407
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Student Financial Aid and Scholarships
Alabama A&M University
P.O. Box 907
Normal, AL 35762
Welcome to Student Financial Aid and Scholarships
The primary mission of the AAMU student financial aid and scholarships office is to make a quality education both possible and affordable. We realize that a college education will be one of the most important investments a student and family will make. We do also realize that the financial aid process can be a sometimes daunting endeavor. Our goal is to provide our parents and students with the necessary information and guidance needed to make this process as simple and as manageable as possible.
Dear Bulldog Family and prospective students,
The Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships welcomes you to "The Hill". Whether you are a returning student or joining our campus community for the first time, our office is a resource that will be invaluable to you during your matriculation here at Alabama A&M University.
In a perfect world, you should be able to choose a college based on your "fit" with it—the education it offers, and how well it fits your goals and interests. You shouldn't have to decide where you'll get your education—or if you get your education—based on costs.
We don't live in a perfect world. But Alabama A&M University (AAMU) was
founded as a land-grant college, committed to the idea of an affordable education. Our goal is to help you understand the process of paying for your education and to help you access programs that will help make financing your education possible here at AAMU.
What you make of your education is the return on your financial investment. Is the cost of your education going to be worth the benefits reaped?
Statistics on those who get a higher education as opposed to those who do not offer overwhelming and proven evidence. Those who pursue a higher education will be more employable, adjust to career changes better, live a longer, higher quality life and make a much higher income.
We do ask you to remember that financial aid, like all the rest of your financial matters, is a resource that needs to be governed carefully. I urge you to review all the resources on this site and make your decisions wisely. And please do not hesitate to contact us should you have questions or need additional information.
We do look forward to serving you.
Darryl L. Jackson
Director; Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships
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GranBio and Rhodia sign partnership deal to produce bio n-butanol
GranBio, a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the same raw material that is used to manufacture second-generation ethanol and which is abundant in Brazil.
Under the partnership, the companies plan to build the world's first biomass-based n-butanol plant in Brazil, which will enter into operation in 2015. Both companies will benefit from agreements that each of them has already made with companies that own the technology.
The project is a key step for GranBio and Rhodia in the manufacturing of chemicals made from renewable sources.
"The partnership with Rhodia is fully aligned with our business partnership model and our strategy to develop solutions that can replace fossil fuels and chemicals with renewable products," says Bernardo Gradin, CEO of GranBio.
"This innovative project reflects our focus on technologies based on renewable resources, and the partnership with Brazil's GranBio demonstrates our confidence in the country's great potential in this field," says Vincent Kamel, CEO of Coatis, a Solvay Group business unit based in Brazil.
An essential chemical in the production of acrylates and methacrylates, n-butanol is widely used in the paint and solvent industries, in which Solvay is South America's market leader.
The investment in the biomass-based n-butanol plant requires the approval of the companies' boards. The structure of the agreement is to be submitted for clearance by Brazil's antitrust body, CADE.
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Rafa: Torres happy with Ba arrival
Rafael Benitez has insisted Fernando Torres is "happy" about Chelsea signing Demba Ba, despite being at risk of losing his place in the side again.
Ba's arrival at Stamford Bridge on Friday arguably provided Torres with the biggest threat to his position as centre-forward since Didier Drogba left the club last summer. Torres endured a wretched first 18 months with the Blues after finding himself in Drogba's shadow and his form has improved significantly since that competition disappeared.
But interim Chelsea manager Benitez had no fears that his fellow Spaniard would suffer a relapse following the signing of Ba from Newcastle. "He will be happy with good players around. The question is how many, and which names?" said Benitez.
Benitez, who has handed Ba his debut in the FA Cup third-round tie at Southampton and given Torres a rest, added: "Demba Ba is a good option for us. We can manage both and it will be good for the team in the end. I was talking with Torres in the last couple of weeks and he said we needed more bodies."
Benitez suggestion that Torres's acceptance of added competition depended on the number and name of new arrivals hinted that the striker may have been less happy with the signing of a Radamel Falcao or David Villa.
The Chelsea boss nevertheless insisted Torres needed both competition and back-up following Daniel Sturridge's sale to Liverpool. He also refused to rule out play both Torres and Ba together in the same side, revealing a 4-4-2 formation was "an option".
Benitez sidestepped questions about whether Chelsea were right to start the season with just two recognised centre-forwards. "The main thing for me now is to manage the two strikers that we have," he said. "Two strikers should be enough for us, as we have other players around who can contribute."
Meanwhile, Benitez revealed his "surprise" that captain John Terry had gone public with his devastation about Frank Lampard's impending Chelsea departure. Lampard is currently set to leave Stamford Bridge when his contract expires this summer, with no sign of the Blues offering him a new one.
Friday saw Terry post a picture on his Instagram account of him and Lampard holding the FA Cup, accompanied by the comment: "Devastated is an understatement. We should retire the number 8 shirt in honour of Lamps. #theheartbeat #hero #legend #hero #goalmachine #friend #ktbffh (keep the blue flag flying high) #cfc #chelsea."
Benitez said: "I was surprised when they told me but that's it. I don't have any problem. We have to talk."


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Special equipment: A spice mill, mortar and pestle, or coffee mill dedicated to grinding spices and butcher's string
For the edamame:
Add soybeans in their pods to a pot and cover with water. Boil until tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and set aside until cool enough to handle. Remove soybeans from their pods and add to a pot (reserving about 1/2 cup for texture in a separate bowl) along with chicken stock. Set aside until needed, at which time you will heat and then puree just before serving.;
For the rice:
Rinse rice in strainer under cold water. Add rice, 3 3/4 cups cold water and salt to a saucepot. Cover and let soak for a half hour. Remove lid, then turn heat to medium and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 15 minutes without removing the lid. Transfer to a mixing bowl, stir in tarragon, vinegar, and cover with a clean damp kitchen towel and keep at room temperature.;
For the stuffing:
Remove the meat from the Peking duck, reserving the skin and bones in a saute pan. Finely shred enough duck meat to make 6 tablespoons shredded duck, and place in a mixing bowl. Stir in scallions, hoisin sauce, and ginger soy syrup and set aside at room temperature until needed.;
For the filet mignon:
Cut a slit in the top center of each steak to hold the stuffing. With a spice grinder, with a mortar and pestle (if you are strong and persistent), or with a coffee grinder dedicated to grinding spices, pulverize the wasabi peas, peppercorns, and salt, together. Stuff the steaks with even amounts of the duck mixture and tie up with butcher's string to help them keep their shape through the searing process. Coat each filet with the wasabi/peppercorn mixture and set aside briefly.
Return to the edamame and heat the beans and chicken stock over medium-high heat until the chicken stock is reduced by half. Remove from heat and keep warm.
For the sauce:
To the pan of duck skin and bones, add enough water to cover and the demi-glace. Cook until the liquid is reduced by half and strain through a chinois. Discard the skin and bones. Season the reduction with salt and pepper, to taste. Transfer to a small bowl and keep warm by nesting the bowl in another bowl of hot water.;
To cook the filet mignon:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Heat 1 tablespoon of the grapeseed oil over medium-high heat in a saute pan with oven safe handles (reserving the other tablespoon of oil). When the oil begins to shimmer add the steaks to the pan, stuffed side down first, and sear, leaving undisturbed for the first 2 minutes or so to let the caramelization process begin to allow the stuffing to integrate into the meat and to prevent tearing the beef. Add the reserved grapeseed oil and flip the steaks, searing the other side in the same way, leaving undisturbed for about 2 or 3 minutes. Transfer to the oven to finish to an internal temperature of 125 degrees F as measured with an instant-read thermometer, about 8 to 15 minutes depending on the thickness. Remove from oven and let carryover cook to about 132 degrees F for medium-rare, or cook to your liking.
When you have placed the filet mignon in the oven, puree the edamame with an immersion blender and toss in the reserved whole beans for texture. Cover and keep warm.
Remove steaks from oven, if done, and let rest as indicated above.
For the rice:
Using a 3-inch circle cutter, form the sushi rice into "cakes." Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat and lightly fry the rice circles until golden brown on each side. Leave each side undisturbed for the first 2 to 3 minutes to prevent the "cakes" from breaking apart.
For the carrots, heat the canola oil in a saute pan and deep-fry carrots.
Spoon some edamame puree in the left center of serving plate and some duck essence (sauce) on the right center of plate. Place a sauteed circle of rice in the center topped with a stuffed steak and 2 fried carrots on the very top.
In a pan lightly coated with oil, combine garlic, ginger, and scallions over medium heat, season with salt and pepper, and let sweat. Deglaze pan with soy sauce, honey and lime juice. Let reduce by 30 to 40 percent until the mixture becomes a syrup, about 10 to 15 minutes. Let cool and transfer to a bottle. Store in the refrigerator.
Yield: about 2 cups or 32 servings of 1 tablespoon each.


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Saturday, August 18, 201811:00AM - Sunday, November 4, 20185:00PM
At Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, located at 129 North Main Street in Farmville, VA.
Organized by LCVA
A Shared Legacy: FOLK ART IN AMERICA tells the story of the extraordinary work created by self-taught or minimally trained artists in New England, the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic, and the South between 1800 and 1925. Made by artists in rural areas, these works did not always adhere to the academic models that established artistic taste in urban centers of the East Coast. Yet, because of the large number of professional and amateur artists who created folk art in the years following the Nation's founding — and the sheer quantity of art they produced — folk art was the prevalent art form in the United States for more than a century.
The exhibition showcases more than 60 works by some of the most admired 19th-century American artists. Included are rare and very fine portraits by such artists as Ammi Phillips and John Brewster, Jr.; vivid still lifes, allegorical scenes and landscapes, including a mature Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks (above)
August 17, 5-8:00pm: Opening Reception for A Shared Legacy: FOLK ART IN AMERICA


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The biggest innovations in insurance over the next three years will not be in the technology tools themselves, but in how we design them with employees, customers, intermediaries and other human partners in mind.
The annual Accenture Insurance Technology Vision identifies the emerging IT developments that will have the greatest impact on insurance organizations in the next three to five years. This year, our research reveals how we're shifting to a people-centric technology environment where the power lies with people to shape technology as they see fit.
The technology we use today is more human and interactive than ever, thanks to innovations in touch displays, mixed reality, and natural language processing. Because of advances in contextual analysis, image recognition and deep learning algorithms, technology can learn to adapt itself to our wants and needs, rather than demanding that we learn to adapt to it.
And the next wave of platform technologies and business models is seeing organizations become partners with customers, agents and employees, and with digital ecosystems of businesses beyond their walls. Success is increasingly tied not only to the success of products and services, but also to the success of partners.
As we look toward a future where quantum computing's near-unlimited processing and algorithmic power will solve difficult problems in entirely new ways across multiple industries, where robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will work side by side with people in every discipline, we are reshaping our entire world and ourselves within it.
Yet insurers are keenly aware that they cannot move into this new world alone, but will need to form part of ecosystems if they are to succeed. Agents and other intermediaries, customers, the contingent workforce, venture capitalists, technology companies, insurtech startups, and organizations in adjacent industries such as auto manufacturing, healthcare and home security will all be partners of the digital insurer of the future.
The digital insurance leaders are already starting their journey to make the big plays; by empowering people with more human technology, businesses will transform the relationship with them from provider to partner. Through this process, they'll also transform internally. By helping people reach their goals, these new partnerships will help insurers cement a place in the next evolution of society.
The first step to empowering people: Providing technology that works with them
Changing the relationship with people in a digital age means changing their relationship with technology. If insurers are to be partners, and technology is how they will empower people, then the goal is to design technology to be on their side. But making this happen also means changing the way insurance organizations think about their business models and their relationships with both customers and employees.
Adapting technology to people
The first pillar of partnership is designing technology that works for people, not because of them. That means moving beyond technology tools with power that is only unleashed when customers and employees adapt to them. No longer: Technology's great new strength is in its growing humanity. Tools that interact with people, learn from those exchanges, and adapt for future interactions make the experience of using them all the more human. That's the first step to empowering people—providing technology that works with them.
Aligning goals to people's goals
To put these new adaptive technologies to use, insurers must adopt people's goals as their own. This is a sea change for companies that have long sought to maximize each opportunity for profit: From the analog business's perspective, the ideal relationship is one where every interaction with a customer results in an immediate sale. But these relationships are only as strong as the customer's need for products and services.
A partnership, by contrast, is much more powerful—and enduring. To become a true partner, insurers will need to shift their thinking, and replace the immediate sales goals of the past with the goals that customers and employees have for themselves. Doing so will change the game: The more goals a company helps people achieve, the more confident they will be in the partnership, and the relationship will grow stronger with each interaction.
When it's established that a company truly wants to help people reach their goals, they'll come to the company first for as many of the goals as can be addressed. And when people succeed, so does the company.
The People First approach to business and technology
Making all of this work means dedication to a People First approach. Whether it's customers or employees, their goals and needs must come first. Insurers will meet this demand with their technology. More than ever, technology is an agent of change—and now it can empower people in an interactive, collaborative way, on everyone's terms.
When insurers truly enable people, they're contributing to growth at both the individual level and the societal scale. Leaders have always strived to solve big problems. But the digital age brings opportunities to attack larger challenges than ever, by combining the strength of the enterprise with the passion and power of individuals. Technology that works for and with people makes it possible to have it both ways: Insurers can empower the individual and the group at the same time.
"Leaders will empower people—customers and employees—by transforming technology from tools they must learn to use, to a powerful partner that will work with them rather than just for them."


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Chelsea playmaker target Luka Modric has hailed former manager Jose Mourinho as a 'fantastic coach' – but distanced himself from speculation over a move to the Blues.
The Croatian international initially struggled to make an impact at the Santiago Bernabeu following his £32million move from Tottenham Hotspur, but found form towards the end of the campaign both domestically and in Europe.
It's subsequently led to speculation that 'the special one' could look to bring the 27-year-old back to England, after he left the Spanish capital to return to the Chelsea helm.
However, Modric has admitted that, whilst it was a pleasure to work under Mourinho, he's hoping to give Madrid fans more of his top performances next season.
"I can only speak well of Mourinho. He's a fantastic coach. It was a pleasure to work with him. He taught me how to play more aggressively. He always tries to get more than the best out of every player," Modric told Marca.
"If you give 100% he asks for 110%. If you don't play to the best of your ability, someone will come and take your place.
"I showed what was expected of me at Old Trafford. I found my form in the right place and at the right time. It was an amazing 30 minutes and that was just the start. There will be more performances like that."
Mourinho has been linked with a couple of his former Madrid stars since being re-appointed at Stamford Bridge, with Xabi Alonso also reported to be on the Blues' radar.
But luring players away from the Santiago Bernabeu is unlikely to be easy, and the Chelsea chief may have to look elsewhere in the coming months of the summer transfer window.


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Daily Devotional
October 23
Twilight: The Servant of the LORD
by the Rev. Andrew Kuyvenhoven
Monthly Theme:
Isaiah's God is the Holy One of Israel. In God's presence we have to be morally clean. God has chosen his Servant, who will rule in righteousness in a kingdom of peace.
Bible Reading:
Isaiah 49:1–7
Bible Text:
"I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth" (lsa. 49:6).
"Who is the servant of the Lord in the poems of Isaiah?" (Isa. 42–53). That's a question you'll want to consider in your study of Isaiah.
It's the same question once asked by a man who traveled from the heart of Africa to the city of Jerusalem. The man was sitting in a chauffeured vehicle, the Cadillac of chariots, and he was reading Isaiah 53. "Who is the servant?" he said. "Is the prophet talking about himself or someone else?" (Acts 8:33).
Philip the evangelist helped the man see that the "servant" is Jesus. But from our own study we know that the "servant" is also sometimes Israel, sometimes the remnant of Israel, sometimes the prophet as a picture of Christ.
And sometimes that servant is us.
We call Isaiah 43:6 the great commission of the Old Testament: The servant must be a light for the Gentiles and bring salvation to the ends of the earth. At first that servant was Israel, but Israel was unable to complete the task. Only Jesus could fulfill the commission of Israel. Simeon called him the "light for revelation to the Gentiles" (Luke 2:32).
God's suffering "servant Jesus" has now been glorified, said Peter (Acts 3:13). But he gave us his Spirit. Today the light that brings the knowledge of salvation to a dark world is carried by the restored Israel, God's people in Christ Jesus. They fulfill the great commission of the Old Testament, says Paul: "I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth" (Acts 13:47).
Andrew Kuyvenhoven's Daylight, a modern devotional classic, was originally published in 1994. This edition is copyright by Faith Alive Christian Resources, from whom may be ordered Daylight, the predecessor of Twilight.
A man of many accomplishments, Andrew Kuyvenhoven is probably best known for his contributions to Today (formerly The Family Altar), a widely-used monthly devotional booklet associated with the Back to God Hour. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations for this edition of Twilight are from the New International Version


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The week after the Fourth of July is full of free food, including Chick-fil-A and 7-Eleven Slurpees. IHOP and Krispy Kreme are offering heavily discounted treats, too.
IHOP was first on the calendar, offering a shortstack of pancakes for 56 cents on Tuesday, July 8, in celebration of the company's 56th anniversary.
But Friday, July 11, is the day for free food lovers.
Friday is the popular Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-fil-A restaurants. Customers who wear a cow costume can get a free breakfast, lunch or dinner meal. Kids who are dressed as cows, will get a free kids' meal.
Customers who are partially dressed as cows can get a free entree....


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Should Apple bring iOS 7's new, clarified, deferential, depth-driven look and feel OS X? For the last few years Apple has worked diligently and deliberately to bring iOS nomenclature and metaphors back to the Mac, and create a more consistent experience between their two platforms. Right now, however, iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks couldn't look further apart.
iOS 7 has an all-new physics and particle engine, making it feel like a collection of objects in space, and work more like a video game, as well as a completely new paint job with icons and interface elements the likes of which we've never seen on an Apple product before. They've both had their richly rendered textures removed, but where Mavericks lost the old leather, it didn't lose it's Aqua-era gloss, at least not entirely. It didn't gain any of the new modern, ultra-thin, color-tinted look, at least not yet.
Macs are often said to enjoy a halo effect from iOS devices. People buy iPhones and iPads and then start considering the Macs well. For the last few years, no matter how different the two platforms, the interfaces looked similar -- and more importantly, familiar -- enough that the Mac was approachable to iOS users in a very direct and comforting way.
Likewise, Jony Ive is now vice president of all design, not just hardware, and not just iOS. It's not unreasonable to think his grand digital plans will eventually encompass future versions of OS X, as well. (Even the best designer and design teams in the world can't do everything at once.)
On the surface it feels more like a question of when, not if, Apple's platforms regain their semblance of uniformity. And of what iOS looks like by then, and how well it's translated to OS X.


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Some say it'll be called the Cabrera while others believe it'll be the Deimos. But the name doesn't matter. Lamborghini is bringing out a new V10 car to replace the Gallardo, and this is what it sounds like. SPOILER ALERT: It's incredible.
Just one day after the last Gallardo rolled off the assembly line, Lamborghini unveiled the Hexagon Project, which is the website they are using to slowly tease their newest entry level car.
Presumably the car won't be called hexagon. That's either the internal name for it or there are six teasers coming before we see the car. See, a hexagon has six sides, that's why I say that. I know, pretty clever.
For now, all there is to see is an Aventador-style start button that, when clicked, unleashes some lovely V10 fury. Can't wait to see more.


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"It used to be that people used computers for computations where there was a single, hard, logical right answer," says Martin Rinard, a professor of computer science at MIT. "Now, the landscape is changing." When you do a Google search, for instance, the exact order of the first few results may not matter as much as getting an answer quickly. In the Internet age, when Web servers are performing computations for thousands of users at once, and sending the results across thousands of miles optical fiber, programs that can efficiently find adequate solutions to a problem are often preferable to ones that inefficiently find the perfect solution.
Researchers in Rinard's group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a system that automatically looks through computer code for areas where a little bit of accuracy can be traded for significant increases in speed. In one set of tests, the system halved the time that it takes to encode video data for transmission over the Internet, with no noticeable effect on the video quality (see the related video). But the same approach could have advantages for any system that needs to process data in real time, such as stock traders' analytic software, or location-tracking or environmental-monitoring systems that use networks of sensors. It could also pay dividends for systems that need to look for patterns in huge masses of data, such as the recommendation engines at sites like Netflix or Amazon.
In their paper Quality of Service Profiling Rinard, Sasa Misailovic, Stelios Sidiroglou, and Henry Hoffmann concentrate on a version of the system that alerts programmers to sections of their code where accuracy could be traded for speed. But the system could just as readily make that tradeoff automatically, on the fly. For instance, video-chat software running on a laptop could use the standard method of encoding data when the laptop's processor was otherwise idle. But if the processor got overburdened trying to handle several applications at once, the video-chat software could switch to the less computationally intensive version of the encoder.
The researchers' system exploits a remarkably simple trick which they call "loop perforation" because it punches holes in loops: It simply skips every other step in the loop, or every two steps, or whatever it can get away with skipping without sacrificing too much accuracy. In the case of the program for averaging numbers, it might skip the first number on the list but add the second to the running total; skip the third but add the fourth; and so on. Since it's adding up only half as many numbers, it takes only half as much time. But if the numbers follow a fairly normal probabilistic distribution, the answer will be close to what it would have been, anyway: The average height of 1,000 randomly selected Americans is probably not that far from the average height of 500 of them.
The researchers' system is itself a loop: It searches through a program, perforating each loop in turn, executing the program and using standard measures to gauge the effect on performance. It then determines which loops' perforation provides the greatest increases in speed with the smallest drop in quality.
Loop perforation is so simple, and its effects so dramatic, that it may seem odd that it isn't already in wide use. But for computer scientists, it's very counterintuitive. "There's a visceral sort of reaction against it," says Hoffmann, "because people spend a lot of time thinking, 'This is the best way to do this.' And what we're saying is that you can throw out half of what you thought was the best way to do that, and it still produces a reasonable answer." Hoffmann recalls, for instance, that one of the applications on which the researchers tested their system was a machine-learning application, which learned to perform a classification task by looking for patterns in sample data. "Sasa knew a lot more than we did about what that app was doing," Hoffmann says. When the system suggested the perforation of one particular loop, "Sasa was like, 'This is wrong. You can't do that." But the application seemed to work perfectly well with the perforated loop. "It seems like the closer you are to the application, the more reluctant you are to accept these things," Hoffman says.
"I like the simplicity of the technique and also the generality of it," says Cristian Cadar, a lecturer in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. "You can apply it to a wide variety of programs." But, Cadar adds, "the main impediment to adoption of this technique, at least in the automatic form, is that developers are reluctant to adopt a technique where they don't exactly understand what it does to the program."
To allay developers' fears, Rinard and his group are working to explain the technique's success with greater mathematical rigor. And since loop perforation is such uncharted territory, Rinard suggests, its theoretical exploration could have totally unforeseen consequences. "You never know what's going to happen when you understand something," he says. "The great aspect of science is these unpredictable, unanticipated breakthroughs that come just because you're curious."


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Green Bed and Breakfast in Washington
March 11, 2009 by: Susan Goldsmith
In this changing world, we find it is becoming more and more important to think about running a sustainable business. That is why Boreas Inn prides itself on being a Green Bed and Breakfast.
Let me share with you some of the things that our Washington Bed and Breakfast does to stay Green:
We use environmentally sensitive amenities (shampoo, conditioner, soap etc.)
Our Bed and Breakfast Washington is very diligent about recycling everything we can. We also use biodegradable trash bags whenever possible.
Boreas sometimes offers "Voluntourism" or eco-tourism specials such as a wine package deal when guests volunteer to pick up trash off the beach during our Grass Roots Garbage Gang Beach Clean-ups that are quarterly. These big clean-ups are attended by hundreds of volunteers who clean up TONS of trash along 28 miles of beach on the Long Beach Peninsula. Check out Boreas Inn's newest "Voluntourism" Special on our Package page. Guests can come anytime and participate!
Boreas prides itself on unique dining, and as part of that we use as much organic produce & ingredients as we can.
We ask our Bed and Breakfast Washington guests to hold on to whatever linens or towels they will use again to cut down on laundry water & detergent use. We do use environmentally sensitive laundry detergents and fabric softeners.
As you can see, we are committed to preserving not only our strip of coast but doing our part to spread the seed of conservation and sustainability to all those that cross our doorway. We hope to see you in Long Beach Washington soon!


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Nottingham to Nottingham Travel Bug Race
Trackable Week presents a new story Monday through Friday this week about creative ways to experience Trackables. Geocaching.com Trackables allow people to tag and track an item from geocache to geocache. Trackables typically come in three varieties, Geocoins, Travel Bugs® or Promotional Trackables like the Find the Gecko, Geico campaign. (Watch a video on Travel Bugs)
See the bottom of this article for a place a share your Trackable stories, links to other Trackable stories and a limited time special offer for 30% of individual orders of Travel Bugs this week only (US costumers only). Check out Monday's installment for Trackable Week:
Nottingham to Nottingham Travel Bug Race
By Kelly Ranck
The geocaching community is becoming larger every day, but the global community is using geocaching to make our world increasingly smaller.
Take the Travel Bug, for example. Grab a small item, attach it to a Trackable keychain, assign it a destination and watch it travel across the globe as it is passed from geocacher to geocacher, most of whom are strangers to one another.
As a way of bringing the geocaching community ever closer, Jacaru and Balrgn have created a Travel Bug race. The race challenges cachers to send Travel Bugs between Nottingham, United Kingdom and Nottingham, New Hampshire, United States. They organized a race which began over the weekend. It involves more than 90 Travel Bugs.
According to Jacaru, the originator of the race, "It came about as I had been thinking that it would be good to organize a race between Nottingham here in the UK and another one abroad. We could then become the geocaching equivalent of twin towns."
Jacaru emailed a few geocachers in the Nottingham, U.S. area with his idea. Balrgn responded that he would gladly like to help out. Both geocachers worked with local reviewers to establish a Travel Bug hotel cache in each location.
These Travel Bug hotel caches are the starting and finishing points for the race. They then started contacting local geocachers and asking whether they would like to enter a TB into the race. According to Jacaru, "Word soon got round and I had quite a few locals wanting to participate. The same happened over in New Hampshire." By race day, they expect about 30 entrants from both locations.
The organizers have created a Nottingham to Nottingham Travel Bug race blog
where, once the launch promotional events finish and the two hotels go live, owners will be able to track their Travel Bugs as they race across the globe.
"Entrants can go and find the hotel as a normal cache and pick up a bug. However, they cannot pick up their own bug," says Jacaru. "The first bug to arrive at the UK hotel, and vice versa will win its owner a new specially designed Geocoin, only two of these coins have been made."
For more information, Jacaru and Balrgn have also created a Facebook page, where geocachers will receive weekly updates on the race.
"This is turning into an exciting race that has really taken shape now and inspired people to join in," says Jacaru.
This is just one of the many examples of the ways in which geocachers are working to creatively build the geocaching community and promote involvement, with a hint of friendly competition.
Quick tip alert: If you are racing several bugs at once, check out this helpful hint in our Knowledge Books. It gives you a code so that you can view the status of all of your TravelBugs on the same page.Additional Trackable Stories:
Watch a soldier receive a Travel Bug tattoo.
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13 Mukhi Rudraksha is the symbol of the King of Heaven i.e Lord Indra. This bead is blessed by KamDev so it fulfills all the desires of the wearer. Continue reading about 13 Mukhi Rudraksha.
हिंदी में पढने के लिए क्लिक करें तेरह मुखी रुद्राक्ष |
The term Rudraksha (Rudra i.e. Shiva + aksha i.e. eye) stands for the eyes of Lord Shiva implying thereby that it was pleasant to the eyes of Lord Shiva, and hence named in His Honour.
How to wear 13 Mukhi Rudraksha ?
13 Mukhi Rudraksha must be worn after Siddhi (method of purification & charging with Mantra). Before sending the bead to you, we always perform Siddhi free of cost. It should be worn on Monday. Wash it with milk.
The mantra to wear this bead is "OM HREEM NAMAH". After wearing it, one should enchant 5 rosaries of the above mentioned mantra or 5 rosaries of "OM NAMAH SHIVAYA" everyday to get rid of all sins and to get all luxuries and pleasures in life.
Why Rudrakshas are oiled?
Rudrakshas are oiled to strengthen them and to save them from insects. Oiling doesn't change a low quality bead into fine quality. Oiling is done only to improve the skin and strength of the bead. ALWAYS keep the bead oiled. After regular cleaning, oil it and treat it with incense. This is of UTMOST importance, especially when not using the bead for sometime, or storing it for a while.
How to check quality of Rudrakshas?
Many get confused with the shape and size. One should not seriously worry about it. Just see that the Mukhs are well defined and corns & contours are natural.


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The vast majority of Americans are shrugging off the prospect of canceled Saturday mail delivery, according to recent surveys.
A poll released Thursday by the U.S. Postal Service and conducted by polling firm IPSOS said 80 percent of respondents between Feb. 8 and 11 supported USPS' decision to cancel Saturday mail service.
That finding echoed a CBS News poll released Tuesday that said 71 percent of respondents favored the delivery cuts.
"These survey results illustrate the strong public support for our new delivery schedule in communities across the country," Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe said in a statement. "The American public understands the financial challenges of the Postal Service and supports this new delivery schedule as a prudent, responsible and reasonable approach to address our urgent financial situation."
IPSOS found no statistically significant difference of opinion across urban, suburban and rural areas, or different age groups. CBS found Americans under the age 30 were the least likely to use the Postal Service, while 47 percent of those age 65 and older use it frequently.Some have worried Postal Service cuts will especially affect poor and rural residents. The CBS Poll indicated that residents earning $50,000 or less a year in household income were less likely to support the cuts, but still were broadly in favor of the move.


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The TransAM contest series is back! The first stop is Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. If you're on the East coast you don't want to miss out on this.
To register click HERE
Have more questions about the TransAM? Click HERE
First place male and female riders from stops one through eight will automatically qualify to compete in the finals at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah. First place qualifiers also win airfare to the finals courtesy of Zumiez, Park City VIP treatment courtesy of Skullcandy, and lodging during the TransAM finals weekend.
The 2013 TransAM would not be possible without our dedicated sponsors: Ride Snowboards, Anon Optics, Zumiez, Coal Headwear, High Cascade Snowboard Camps, Muscle Milk, Wend Waxworks, Sanuk, Giro, and presenting sponsor Skullcandy.
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text: I have a visualization cluster that has four systems connected to the four DVI inputs on an IBM T221 monitor. Each system drives one quadrant of the monitor. I'd like to set things up such that a user only has to log into one of the systems and then be able to display X applications on the other three without having to manually log into the other three systems. For example, the user logs into node1, then starts dmx and it controls all four systems. It doesn't matter to me if they would have to run a script that would ssh onto the other nodes and start X or set authority keys or something on the other nodes. I'd like to keep some semblance of security in the process, but there would be a fairly limited number of users needing this, and I am potentially willing to grant them some sort of elevated privileges, if necessary. Does anyone have any ideas of a good way to do this? _\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_ | Roger L. Smith Phone: 662-325-3625 | | Sr. Systems Administrator FAX: 662-325-7692 | | roger at ERC.MsState.Edu http://WWW.ERC.MsState.Edu/~roger | | Mississippi State University | |____________________________________ERC__________________________________|


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Are you a endurance sport participant that is looking to fundraise for cancer? The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Team in Training can help you with all of your needs. Don't miss the kick off 1/28!
If you know of anyone that would be great. For more information and to find out how you can join.
The kick off will be held at the Southfield,
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If you need more information before then there are still a few informational meetings left.
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Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is the scientific study of working and the application of that science to workplace issues facing individuals, teams, and organizations.
The scientific method is applied to investigate issues of critical relevance to individuals, businesses, and society.
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc.
Printed copies of this publication are not available. Graduate Program information is updated on a continual basis.
Please note that SIOP does not screen or endorse any particular educational programs, but lists only the programs that responded to the annual Graduate Training Programs in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Related Fields survey or programs that have requested to be listed. Some of the programs listed may be distance-learning type programs, but the exact number of such programs is not clear. Those that did clearly indicate they were distance-learning programs are listed in a special section. Other programs may or may not have distance-learning as part of their curriculum.
SIOP makes no guarantee regarding the quality of education offered by any of the programs listed in Graduate Training Programs in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Related Fields nor for the accuracy of this information. Scroll down for information about rankings of programs.*
Description of SIOP & I-O Psychology
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An Evaluation of Research Productivity Among I-O Psychology Doctoral Programs
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Research Productivity of I-O Psychology Doctoral Programs in North America (Oliver, Blair, Gorman, & Woehr) http://www.siop.org/tip/backissues/July05/07oliver.aspx
Most Published Authors in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology During the 1990s http://siop.org/tip/backissues/TipApril00/3ones.aspx
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Ranking I-O Graduate Programs on the Basis of Student Research Presentations at IOOB: An Update (Surrette) http://siop.org/tip/tipjuly02/18surrette.aspx
The Mismeasure of I-O Psychology Programs (Lobsenz & Gold) http://siop.org/tip/lobsen.aspx
Institutional Representation in the SIOP Conference Program: 19862000 (Payne et al.) http://siop.org/tip/backissues/TipJul01/12payne.aspx
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Police Have Confirmed The Cause Of Death For Sydney Family
Police have confirmed that the family of four who were found deceased in a house on Sydney's North Shore were poisoned with gas.
The gas was released from multiple bottles that were found throughout the house.
A police source told the Daily Telegraph ''There was a lot of pre-planning that went into this."
None of the bodies
The family has been named as mother Maria Lutz (43), father Fernando Manrique (44), daughter Elisa Lutz (11) and son Martin Lutz (10) - were found, along with the family dog, after police broke into their home in Davidson yesterday.
Both of the children were deaf and living with non-verbal autism.
Police entered the house at around 11:20am yesterday after a family friend raised concerns for the family's welfare when Maria hadn't shown up for a shift at the school's tuckshop.
Family neighbour Sonja Perry told the newspaper that mother Maria had struggled with her children saying ''Maria used to tell me how hard it was
"She said it was a heavy thing on her heart and some days she found it impossible to cope."
Police are now searching for where the family could have purchased the gas bottles from. They are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
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Good Ventures needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 10 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
I need some business cards, letterhead and email footer to go with my FANTASTIC logo (which was created on 99 designs about 6 months ago). Its quite a simple project but I need artwork I can give to a printer. FYI in keeping with my brand, the print will be on to recycled paper with eco inks
Good Ventures
1. Business cards 85x55mm
2 sided - logo on front, contact details on the reverse
Logo and fonts required provided here
Will provide actual contact details to winning entry, for now assume
Should be supplied as a hi res PDF + photoshop file
2. Letterhead.
Should use white colour scheme of the logo and have space for address details and VAT number at the bottom
Should be provided in word so it can be used as a digital template
3. Email footer
Something that can be attached to the signature of an email with same contact details as the business card above.
- Style should be in keeping with the logo - modern - simple - and should not introduce more colours
- No more colours or design variations on the logo - I'm very happy with what I have


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Character Sets in Linux or: Why do I See Those Weird Characters?
In the Beginning was ASCIII bet you've seen it too -- email looking like Figure 1.
Sometimes you can figure out from context that �€œ means a left double quote and �€™ means an apostrophe. But who wants to try to read messages like that! What causes them?
Today's article will explain character encoding, how it works in email and web browsers and you you can make sure that your messages don't look like that.
In the beginning: ASCII
In the beginning there was ASCII: a simple set of 127 characters (7 bits). You can see the ASCII table by typing man ascii.
ASCII was fine for English and most programming languages. But pretty soon those pesky Spanish, French and German speakers started complaining: �coutez! �Oye! Pa� auf!
127 characters wasn't enough for all the characters those languages needed. So OS vendors started using that 8th bit. That solved the problem ... for about a month, until Greeks, Russians, Chinese and the rest started demanding ways to type their languages.
Before long there were dozens of encodings for different languages and OSes. ISO-8859 was an attempt to standardize them, and included ISO-8859-1 or "Latin 1" for western European languages, ISO-8859-2 for Central European, and so on.
Some programs switched to use the new ISO-8859 standards, but others clung to older encodings, like Windows 1252 (Western European languages) and cp1251 (Microsoft Windows 3.1 Cyrillic). Meanwhile, there was another problem: lots of Asian languages have more than 256 characters.
Unicode and UTF
Unicode was the solution: a table that includes all characters from all the world's languages. Originally it was intended to fit in two bytes -- but 65,536 (216) "code points" turned out not to be enough. Today Unicode has 1,114,112 code points.
Representing 1,114,112 characters requires 21 bits, though, and no one wanted
to make every character three bytes long.
So the Unicode Transformation Formats were developed.
UTF-16 can represent most Unicode characters in two bytes, spilling
over to more bytes for unusual and seldom-used characters. UTF-8 uses
a single byte when possible -- and for simple English messages containing
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Betty Crocker recently released their "Top 10 Holiday Recipe Trends" and since I'm a sucker for a new recipe, I took a look. Yum. There are several recipes I'm planning on trying but I knew I had to make the Reindeer Feed as soon as humanly possible. It didn't disappoint! It was super easy to make {only 3 ingredients!} and I haven't been able to keep my hand out of the bowl for longer than a few minutes. Dinner shminner…
Instead of using the small candy canes I bought a giant candy cane for .79. I used 1/3 cup and have about 1/4 cup leftover. I also used white chocolate bark in place of the white chocolate chips, only because that's what I had on hand.
Reindeer Feed
- 6 cups Rice Chex® or Chocolate Chex® cereal
- 1 bag (12 oz) white vanilla baking chips (2 cups)
- 1/3 cup coarsely crushed peppermint candy canes (14 miniature, unwrapped)
1. Line cookie sheet with foil or waxed paper. {I just put wax paper on the counter top.} Place cereal in large bowl.
2. In microwavable bowl, microwave white vanilla baking chips uncovered on high about 1 minute 30 seconds, stirring every 30 seconds, until chips can be stirred smooth. Stir in half the crushed peppermint candy.
3. Pour over cereal; toss to evenly coat. Spread mixture in single layer on cookie sheet. Immediately sprinkle with remaining candy. Let stand until set, about 20 minutes. Gently break up coated cereal. Store in airtight container.
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- London 2012 - Cycling
Awesome Wiggins powers to time trial gold
Bradley Wiggins capped a golden summer by storming to gold in the London Olympics 2012 time trial.
Having become the first Briton to win the Tour de France a matter of weeks ago, Wiggins followed up to take gold on the road - and in so doing he became the most decorated British Olympian with seven medals.
Having put in such a monumental effort in winning the Tour and then working so hard to no avail in the road race on Saturday, there was a fear that Wiggins may be fatigued. But he dispelled that with a power-packed display that took him to gold in a time of 50:39.54.
Wiggins proved his superiority in the time trials during the Tour, winning both of the against-the-clock stages, and he timed his run to perfection over the 44km course that started and finished at Hampton Court.
World Champion Tony Martin went out strong and was up at the first check, five seconds ahead of Wiggins, but the Brit stepped on the accelerator and was 11 seconds ahead at the 18km stage.
Martin moved to respond and put distance between himself and the rest of the pack, but Wiggins was relentless and at the third time check he had stretched his lead to 22 seconds.
With Fabien Cancellara struggling on account of his fall in the road race and Luis Leon Sanchez losing all chance on account of mechanical issues, the final battle boiled down to Wiggins against Martin and the imperious Briton held his form to claim GB's second gold of the games.
It has been a brilliant year on the bike for Britain and Chris Froome, who did so much work for Wiggins in the Tour, produced a blinding ride on a course that would not fully suit him by taking bronze in a time of 51:47.87.
In the women's time trial, America's Kristin Armstrong produced a display of total dominance to defend the title she won four years ago. Armstrong led at every timecheck of the 40km course and came home in a time of 37:34,82, with Judith Arndt second and Olga Zabelinskaya following up her bronze in the road race with third.
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Equity release specialists are crying out for greater innovation in its product range to lenders at a time when the lifetime mortgage market potentially enters the biggest growth phase of its history. Failure to do so could result in products such as the new Marsden Building Society Retirement Mortgage & the Vernon Interest Only Retirement Mortgage shaping retirement lending to the over 55's in the years to come.
Here I would like to share my views on why the equity release industry needs a major rethink of its products, understands more of its consumer requirements & how some of the smaller lenders such as Marsden & Vernon may have an impact on this thought process, even future product design.
Is Equity Release Innovating Sufficiently?
The launch in September 2015 of the Marsden Retirement Mortgage could represent a wake up call to equity release companies, which until now have offered little in the way of sweeping changes, consistent with driving the post retirement lending market forward.
Until now, lending into retirement has been hampered by the after effects of MMR (Mortgage Market Review) and how lenders gauge affordability for pensioner mortgages. This has seen terms 'interest only time bomb' being banded about as high street lenders start reigning in their mortgage book, when normally then would have renewed or extended mortgage terms. This has left mortgagors stranded with the dilemma of having to decide whether to sell & downsize, or find alternative lending such as lifetime mortgages.
These mortgage prisoners have been one of the main reasons why the equity release industry has seen major growth recently & should not be fooled somewhat into thinking it itself has played a part in its own expansion. Equity release must not become Mr Complacency. People looking to offload their traditional mortgages in favour of a voluntary repayment lifetime mortgage or interest only lifetime mortgage has been clearly evident at Equity Release Supermarket. This market has still not reached its peak, yet innovative products are still out of reach for this purge in demand awaiting redemption & rebirth.
The Corridor of Uncertainty that exists between Residential Mortgages & Equity Release
With some recent relaxation in retirement lending rules, some residential mortgage lenders are set to take advantage by introducing retirement mortgage products that can fill the 'corridor of uncertainty' between the traditional mortgage market & equity release schemes. This void exists due to the gap in both distribution and the advisory process, but mainly the lack of products that can fill this area.
For instance people looking to borrow at age 60 over say a 20 year term looking for a 40% release of equity would struggle currently to raise such an amount. The reason being mortgage lenders are frowning upon lending beyond 70-75 and equity release providers have loan-to-value ratios at 60 that are insufficient to release this amount. So where can these people go?
Their prospects are currently limited to several companies, one of which is only accessible via advisers with lifetime mortgage permissions. This is the creditable Hodge Retirement Mortgage. Several smaller, local building societies will lend on an individually underwritten basis, but are obscure in research and not looking for large mortgage books for this kind of product. We saw this effect when the Halifax Retirement Home Plan eventually had to be withdrawn due to demand in July 2011.
The future of the equity release market lies in the hands of the lenders who define the products on offer to the over 55 lifetime mortgage brigade. 2015 for me is the landmark year that could evidence how these products are to be aligned in the years to come. With the upheaval to annuity sales and the new pension freedoms in place, equity release has remained too rigid in concept, yet has seen buoyancy, despite its many detractors in the press. Yes this is positive news, yet does not address the underlying issues within the equity release industry.
How Non-Traditional Equity Release Companies Can offer Equity Release
Recent news & industry talk is that smaller traditional building society's are set to move in to the retirement lending space, which effectively could throw a spanner in the works of some equity release lenders and advisory firms who do not embrace these products. The term 'equity release' is generic, yet advisers & product providers alike, associate this term with either a lifetime mortgage or home reversion scheme.
Wrong! Equity release simply attributes itself to any form of mortgage vehicle then enables the release of equity from a homeowner's property. The industry needs to move away from the stigma of historic equity release terminology & move into a new era of flexibility, innovation & a market not defined by just 9 lenders offering copycat products. If these lenders do not embrace the changes needed, other traditional lenders could spot their opportunity & move in.
This has started already. With news of two new bold retirement mortgages from what would be classed as two of the somewhat 'smaller' building societies. The first to launch was the Vernon Building Society's Interest Only Retirement Mortgage with two rates dependent upon whether a LPA (Lasting Power of Attorney) was in place & registered with the Court of Protection; an unusual move, but clever thinking behind this. The Vernon's non-LPA rate at 4.45% (4.9% representative APR) is actually higher than the Hodge Retirement Mortgage at 4.39% (4.7% representative APR), so a welcome addition, but not groundbreaking.
Why the Marsden Retirement Mortgage is Competitively Advantaged
The launch of the Marsden Retirement Mortgage plan is significantly different to the Hodge Retirement Mortgage. The Marsden has no affiliation with the Equity Release Council and therefore no constraints with regards to no negative equity guarantees and membership. This can provide greater freedom & the passage of savings in interest, clearly evident on this products launch interest rates of either 2.79% or 2.99% discounted rates, dependent on whether the interest only, or capital & interest route is selected.
The Marsden Building Society have made this semi exclusive retirement mortgage plan only available only through qualified intermediaries. This is not a direct to consumer product and is a move commensurate with ensuring best advice is given to a potentially vulnerable age group.
The Marsden Retirement Mortgage Product in Finer Detail
The minimum age at application for this mortgage in retirement product is age 55, with a maximum term being 30 years, hence this is not a lifetime mortgage. It is available to anyone looking to make a new house purchase, remortgage away from an existing mortgage provider, maybe due to expiry, or even general capital raising purposes where no mortgage exists currently. This could be for home improvements, gifting to children/family or any other lifestyle choices that make an improvement to their standard of living in retirement.
This Marsden pensioner mortgage is available on an interest only retirement mortgage basis or even capital & repayment. The option selected will be reflected in the interest rate which at launch in September 2015 are discounted until 31.01.18 at which point it will revert to the Marsden standard variable rate currently 5.95%. At this point no early repayment charges will exist.
The minimum release of equity is £50,000 and the maximum loan that would be considered is £500,000. Properties are accepted in England & Wales only & must be valued at least £200,000.
Set up costs are competitive priced compared to equity release schemes. There is a free valuation on properties upto £500,000 and booking fee & arrangement fees of £299 each. For remortgages a fee assisted package is available where standard legals fees are covered along with free valuation fee as previously mentioned.
Other essential features of this retirement mortgage are as follows: -
- Income multiples are 4.5x single & joint incomes, subject to affordability checks
- Minimum income levels are £20,000pa, either single or joint.
- Only pension income can be accepted, but rental & investment income can be considered
- Maximum loan-to-values are 40% for interest-only & 60% for repayment mortgages
- For interest only a sensible repayment method must be in place at the end of the term
The way forward for the post retirement lending arena is a swathe of flexible, transparent mortgage plans that meet the varied need of retirees. Whether this be a lifetime mortgage, retirement mortgage or interest only lifetime mortgage the key word is CHOICE. The Marsden Retirement Mortgage is just the start of new lenders filling the void between equity release plans & standard residential mortgages.
For more information & advice on which form of equity release is best for you, or to request a Marsden Retirement Mortgage quote, please contact Mark Gregory on 07966 889597 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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American Behind $5 Billion Aegis Deal to Join Dentsu Board
Tim Andree, the 51-year-old American negotiator behind Dentsu Inc.'s $5 billion deal to buy U.K.'s Aegis Group PLC, is making a big leap.
Dentsu said Thursday that Mr. Andree, currently senior vice president, will become the first non-Japanese to join the board of Japan's biggest advertising agency, pending approval at an annual shareholders meeting in June.
Mr. Andree's promotion is part of Dentsu's push to go global as advertising spending in Japan declines.


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Hot off Anderson Silva's victory over Forrest Griffin last week, The Spider is ready to take on The Iceman, Chuck Liddell. Does Silva have enough gas in the tank to take on such heavy hitting competitor? Does Liddell have what it takes to stop the Silva onslaught? After this will we ever kiss a girl again? We'll find out as the plastic starts flying in:
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Justin Bieber's Car Chasing Paparazzo Has a Criminal Record
The paparazzo charged with being the ringleader of the Justin Bieber chase on the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles earlier this month has a shady past. Turns out Paul Raef has a criminal record and was slapped with a restraining order back in 2010 for driving recklessly and punching a peer in the face.
Well, we already knew that he was a dangerous driver since he chased the Biebs on a major roadway. But now we've found out that he has a major attitude, too.
Raef was deemed the lead pap chasing Bieber and creating a dangerous scenario for all motorists and is facing four criminal charges as part of a new pap law that imposes stricter punishments. But back in 2010, he was trying to snap a shot of model Heidi Klum and got violent with another photographer. Apparently, Raef blamed the other snapper for blowing the chance to shoot Klum and therefore chased him through traffic and blocked his car. Since that's productive and all.
According to TMZ, Raef approached the other pap's car and when he rolled down the window, he took the opportunity to punch him in the mouth and cut him. The victim got a restraining order against Raef, but neglected to follow up and the case was then dismissed. Despite the dismissal, this could be damning to Raef's reputation in the Biebs' case.
Sounds like Paul Raef is a real stand up dude.
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