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Seattle laments stumble against Colts
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Nearly an entire calendar year had passed since Pete Carroll walked into the Seattle Seahawks headquarters on a Monday and faced his team coming off a regular-season loss.
Even he is curious to see how the Seahawks will react after losing 34-28 on Sunday in Indianapolis, a game Carroll lamented as one that got away.
"I don't want to get real good at this. I don't want to get good at playing after losses, but we need to handle it well, but I'm curious to see if we do," Carroll said. "We'll take care of that stuff day by day and watch what is going on and listen to them and make sure we're on track and getting a great preparation."
There was no sluggish start for the Seahawks this time. They led 12-0, but the closing punch Seattle had shown was absent, outperformed by Andrew Luck and the Colts in the second half and specifically the fourth quarter.
Indianapolis outscored Seattle 11-0 in the fourth quarter and handed the Seahawks their first regular-season loss since Nov. 25, 2012, at Miami. The Seahawks had won nine straight regular-season games.
"It's a very frustrating game to leave out there," Carroll said. "We started out very well, played very well for a good part of the game and then a really good Colt team put it together and did a good job finishing the football game. The quarterback was terrific and the receivers were excellent and they made plays that got them the field position and opportunities they needed."
Familiar problems from last year resurfaced for Seattle, including struggles on third down offensively and defensively and untimely penalties. The loss took on a similar tone to defeats last year on the road in Arizona, Detroit and Miami, where Seattle simply couldn't close it out late.
The fourth-quarter struggle seemed most surprising after Seattle had thrived by being the better team late in games.
Seattle had outscored opponents 44-7 in the fourth quarter through four weeks, then got dominated in the final 15 minutes on Sunday. The Colts controlled possession, holding the ball for 12:11 of the fourth quarter, rolling up 110 total yards and most importantly, outscoring the Seahawks.
Seattle had 30 total yards, ran eight offensive plays and gained one first down in the fourth quarter. It was the fewest fourth-quarter yards by the Seahawks since last October at San Francisco.
Seattle also had lapses on special teams with a field goal being blocked and returned for a touchdown that served as a major turning point in the game after Seattle had jumped out to the early lead. The Seahawks also left points on the field when Jeron Johnson's recovery of a blocked punt in the end zone was ruled a safety and not a touchdown.
Carroll agreed a day later it was a difficult call to make but he believed Johnson had control and it should have been a TD that would have given Seattle a 17-0 lead.
"It was hard for the officials to trust that he had control of the ball," Carroll said. "He controlled the ball so quickly and so well, he jumped up and got the ball to his other hand. He knew he had the ball and it happened so fast it was hard for the officials to rely on that. ... It was a great recovery is what it was. It was a very difficult call."
Russell Wilson rushed for a career-high 102 yards and threw for another 210 yards in the loss, but Carroll said he's concerned about the load he's carrying. Wilson has been under pressure more and taken off running sooner the last two weeks with three starting offensive linemen currently out.
Notes: Seattle will carry some injury concerns into the week. Tight end Zach Miller's status won't be known until late in the week as he recovers from a hamstring injury suffered last week that kept him out of the Colts game. Seattle will also be watching starting linebacker Bobby Wagner, who suffered a sprained ankle. ... Seattle ran for 218 yards, easily a season high. According to STATS Inc., it was just the fourth time in franchise history that the Seahawks rushed for at least 200 yards and lost, the last coming in 2004 against St. Louis.


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The nights have a long sleeve sort of chill, the lake seems optional not essential as it did in the blaze of Summer.
Things are starting to shift to Fall. I feel like a frantic squirrel gathering nuts for winter. Yeah, I just said WINTER and it's only September. But, whoosh, it will be here before you know it! Or least the mittens and jackets and boots that plauge my tiny house will. Truth be told it's not just the seasons guiding my need to whip things into shape around here…
Something about sending my boys off the "real" school for the first time is throwing me into a cleaning and organizing furry that even sleeping will not stop. I am dreaming of sorting through clothes and reorganizing!! I have scrubbed nooks and crannies with a tooth brush. Can you say, "anxiety cleaning". I feel like the whole Summer has been building towards this moment —- Kindergarten!
So how do I deal with my somewhat mixed emotions of my twin boys going off to Kindergarten, growing up, going to school.
Apparently I go out to the barn and build the rustic wall storage bins I saw on Pinterest.
So, here is my new mitten, hat and boot station for my big school boys. Here's to hoping they can find all that winter detritus by themselves – hahaha.
Things I like about this project -
I love the weathered grey stain made with black tea and vinegar. Tutorial here. Non toxic so the kids could help me apply it. Very cool.
I love that I could use a lot of recycled wood making the project cheaper. I even used some wood from an old pallet.
It took me quite a few tries to decipher how to map out the measurements out the angled cuts. In the end it was super easy to do, critical seeing as I don't really know how to build furniture.
Now, on the hunt for a coat hook for hanging backpacks, crushing on this one.
Oh and wishing I had a wide angle lens for my camera because these are pretty much horrendous photos, but how does one take pictures of the nooks and crannies of their houses…. it's HARD!

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Since I wasn't interested in the cooking menu that was on offer, there are many cakes and breads for the second half of March.
This walnut and banana cake may not look like much, but hidden inside the batter are caramel coated banana pieces, almond powder and rum.
It tastes of perfectly ripened bananas, sweet with just a hint of alcohol. Jason and I agree it's the best banana cake we've had. We like it with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
After recovering from my strawberry-picking weekend, I went for a bread course, and made this cheese filled loaf.
Jason maintains his stance of being indifferent to butter breads, but my friend Rachel seemed to like it. I thought it was quite flavorful too, and chockfull of cheese.
Right after the bread session, I scheduled a free trial lesson with Rachel, and we each made a cute little chocolate mousse cake with cherries inside. You probably can't tell from the picture, but it was tiny.
We baked a small chocolate chiffon cake and split it into three rounds. Two of the rounds served as base for our cakes, and the other round we cut into cubes to pile on top of the chocolate mousse layer. I took this cake to a friend's house for tea, but because I didn't expect it to be so tiny (probably because it was free) I had to make another pumpkin pie so I had enough food to feed four people. My friends really loved the cake though, and I thought it was all right too but you couldn't really taste the cherry.
My next bread lesson was hotdog and hamburger buns.
Nothing too exciting, but the buns turned out really chewy and flavorful as far as buns go. I am even considering making my own hotdog buns from now on, since the ones sold in supermarkets are totally tasteless and way too soft.
The next cake I made was the exact opposite of the banana cake, looks fancy but tasted surprisingly blah. My friend Anna said it reminded her of a Ho-Ho, and I think she's right. Needless to say, Jason didn't think too much of it either.
Chocolate plum cake: I was way too greedy with the white chocolate drizzles and the lines turned squiggly because it was still warm and not completely set when I brought it back on my bicycle.
I then scheduled two free trial lessons with Rachel and Tomoko, back to back. It was a long day.
First, Rachel and I made the café aulait bread, which I made before joining the school. Then Tomoko and I made these cinnamon coffee almond rolls.
I took these pictures before we drizzled them with coffee flavored icing, and you can see the cinnamon sugar oozing out of the rolls because we were too greedy and put in probably twice as much cinnamon sugar, hehe… Tomoko and I shared one while it was still hot and it tasted like cinnamon roll, but not as sweet or fattening. Jason, predictably, didn't think it was all that great, and I have to agree with him.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
4 comments:
- Jessica said...
Oh my gosh, do you have the recipe for the banana cake?
- Helen (AugustusGloop) said...
Wow - a baking frenzy. I can't believe you made your own hot dog rolls!
The banana cake sounds very good. Caramel coated banana? Yuuuum! Can you please please please post the recipe?
- Lynn said...
Uh oh, that means I have to translate that recipe from Japanese to English and convert all the grams to cups and teaspoons...
Tell you what, when I make it again next time, I will post the recipe, good?
Oh Lynn, a recipe for everything would be wonderful, but SPECIALLY the banana cake, please? please? pretty please?
Thanks in anticipation
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Since the reopening of business in the financial district in lower Manhattan, the Cingular Interactive data network continues to provide good coverage in that entire area. Though seven base stations near ground zero still lack power and/or telephone links, fully functional base stations in northern New Jersey and Brooklyn are providing coverage that is more than sufficient for emergency teams and businesses that have been using Cingular service in the area since the disaster.
Cingular is increasing network capacity by 10-20 percent around the nation's major airports to handle expected higher call volumes due to longer wait times for airport check-in and security. Wireless traffic across Cingular's network is back to normal levels across the nation, including the New Jersey and Washington D.C. areas.
Information regarding the Cingular network during the crisis:
Cingular Wireless experienced increased traffic levels on its wireless network during the height of the crisis Tuesday. Cingular's network experienced NO OUTAGES. As of late afternoon on Tuesday, the network traffic volumes had returned to normal across the nation, except in the D.C. and New Jersey markets.
The most congestion Cingular's network experienced was in the DC and New Jersey markets. In the Piscataway, NJ, mobile telephone switching office, which serves New Jersey and greater New York areas, Cingular's network experienced a 1000% increase in attempts to use the network, between 10-11 am today. Also between 10 and 11 am in the Washington, DC area, there was a 400% increase in attempts to use the network (an "attempt" is whenever a caller hits the "send" button to initiate a call, whether or not the call actually goes through or is completed).
The rest of Cingular's network nationwide experienced a 200-250% increase in attempts on the network during the height of the crisis. Blocking occurred in long distance and sporadically throughout the network during that time.
Of the 60 cell sites for the Cingular Interactive network based in Manhattan, only one went down. It is backed up by others in the area, so there were no outages.
Cingular retail stores and offices remained open throughout the day.
There were no incidents reported at any Cingular facilities.
Cingular Wireless has a critical communications role during times of crisis and our personnel worked tirelessly to maintain the network in order to provide these vital services.
Cingular will continue to monitor and maintain the network in order to facilitate our customers' calls.


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A digital image is only as good as the paper it is printed on, and Innova is one of the premier lines of inkjet paper. The Innova FibaPrint Series of Photo Printing Papers aims to meet the demands of the fine-art photographer with highly critical tastes in printers, inks, and substrates. FibaPrint papers are designed to emulate traditional fine art light-sensitive fiber papers; its hand and tooth closely resemble the texture of traditional museum-grade prints. Innova papers are a truly archival, acid-free paper with a natural grade, and are precisely coated for inkjet printing. It is offered with a variety of surface textures between smooth and matte, as well as choices between a bright white and warm tone color base.
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The death of 10-year-old Kansas boy Caleb Schwab on the world's tallest waterslide raised concerns again Monday about the loosely regulated amusement park business, which isn't overseen by any federal agency.
Caleb, the son of Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab of Olathe, died Sunday on the Verrückt ride at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan.
An autopsy showed that Caleb, who was in a carriage with two women, died of an unspecified neck injury at the end of the ride in the water pool, Kansas City police said. The two other riders, who weren't identified but who were described as not being related to the Schwabs, were treated for minor facial injuries, police said.
Kansas City police said they were investigating the case as an accident, NBC News reported.
Clint Sprague, lead pastor of LifeMission Church, where the Schwabs are members, said the family almost didn't go the park, which was holding "Elected Officials Day" on Sunday.


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Induction banquet is Saturday evening at Kewanee Dunes
The Wethersfield Academic Foundation will holds its fifth Academic Hall of Fame induction ceremony and banquet at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Kewanee Dunes.
Inductees and their families have been invited on a tour of the school buildings before being introduced at Friday night's A-W Titans homecoming football game.
Alumni to be inducted in 2013 are:
- Capt. John B. Hollein (Class of 1996), stationed with the Future Operations section of U.S. Army South Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas.
- Dr. Hipolito D. Lopez III, DDS (Class of 1985), general dentist and partner, Rockford Dental Care, Rockford, Ill.
- Diane Dungey (Class of 1977), deputy managing editor, Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald.
- Rev. Dan Craig (Class of 1967), pastor, Church of Peace, and music worship leader at First Baptist Church, both of Kewanee.
- Judge Dana R. McReynolds (Class of 1968), associate judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit, presides over cases in Kewanee Division, Henry County Court, and in Cambridge.
Staff inductees for 2013 are:
- James and Jane Carney, both longtime teachers at Wethersfield and founders of the Wethersfield High School Scholastic Bowl team.
Master of ceremonies will be Superintendent Shane Kazubowski. The invocation will be given by the Rev. Ron Toliver (Class of '83).
Junior-senior high school principal Jeremiah Johnston and elementary principal Janean Friedman will present the awards.


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scottyboy needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 46 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
We are a young team of professionals who know's what it takes to have a great website. We are well funded and are looking for someone who can continue working on this website as it grows
males & females 13-35.
We have 2 mockups that you can work from. One is the homepage and one is the product page. Instead of wireframing the traditional way, we took elements of other sites and made a mockup from it. We'd like for you to just make these mockups and turn it into a professional website.
As the designs are now, they're not a cohesive unit. They're jumped, text is too small, some things dont look right (e.g. featured on the frontpage)
Some things to focus on:
-Comments -- making that look much better
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Damn, Gen-Chan, that's harsh.(not to mention ungrateful, the man's been watching out for you for quite some time an' all...) What would your Master think (you know who I'm talking about) about you referring to an Ancestor in such a tone??? (check your family tree, me buck.) I think you should be more grateful that your story's coming out at all, when so many others die horribly in obscurity, you should be grateful to Kaichi-San for his patient, careful, detailed, chronicle of your life and works, rather than sulking in the manner of a spoiled brat because you blame him for your misfortune. Perhaps if you were more conscientous about your behavior, and more concerned with how your words and actions reflect on those who came before, you would not be suffering so much. (Of course, then again, I'm the descendent of people who painted themselves blue and slaughtered Roman soldiers by the basketful, pictish and celtic barbarians that drank the blood of their dead... not much room to talk here.) I think you should count yourself lucky that you have such a strong voice in among the world of the deep past... and that your people, at least, know exactly where they're from. It makes it far simpler to know where you are going.


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The postfix package in [extra] is compiled with sasl support:
The postfix package in [extra] is compiled with sasl support:
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The postfix package in [extra] is compiled with sasl support:
pacman -S postfix
An example line for the
/etc/postfix/main.cf file to enable the SASL is below.
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain myorigin = $mydomain smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination,permit broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes relay_domains = *
You might want to change various options to suit your needs though. Setup Postfix as you normally would and start it with :
/etc/rc.d/postfix start
or add it to your
/etc/rc.conf file so Postfix starts each reboot.
SASL can use different authentication methods. The default one is PAM (as configured in
/etc/conf.d/saslauthd), but to set it up properly you have to create
pwcheck_method: saslauthd saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux mech_list: plain login log_level: 7
To read about other authentication methods please refer to http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
Hopefully you should be able to telnet to your Postfix server with :
telnet localhost 25 You should then type : EHLO test.com This is roughly what you should see : Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain Escape character is '^]' 220 justin ESMTP Postfix EHLO test.com 250-justin 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH PLAIN OTP DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250-AUTH=PLAIN OTP DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250 8BITMIME


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by Tom Utescher
In an interesting "measuring stick" meet last Tuesday, the boys' track team at Germantown Friends played host to the George School Cougars, who are considered the top challengers in the Friends Schools League to 2011 co-champions GFS and Westtown.
The Tigers passed the regular-season test convincingly, gathering points from across the spectrum of events to win 98-52 in front of the home crowd.
Senior Derek Kern proved to be a regular iron man for the host team, finishing first in four different field events. He dominated the three throwing contests, discus (95'1.5"), javelin (134'10"), and shot put (32'4"), and he also won the pole vault, clearing the bar at 10'6".
"I hated to load him up like that, but we don't have a lot of depth in the throws, so he really helps us there," commented Germantown coach Tom Myran. "I was impressed with what he did in the javelin, because last year he was throwing in the mid-120's, and in this meet he actually had two throws over 130 feet."
Conversely, the coach noted, "the distance events are always a strength for us."
Here, the Tigers were able to spread the workload around, with even the top athletes from the school's accomplished cross country squad not having to race more than once or twice during the afternoon.
In the 3200, juniors Sami Aziz and Henry Shah ran side-by-side throughout the race, sharing the winning time of 10 minutes, 35.8 seconds.
There were one-two finishes for GFS in the 1600 and the 800, as well. Junior Lyle Wistar won the 1600 (4:40.4) just a step ahead of teammate Christian Brady (4:40.6). Brady, a senior, will continue his running career at Dickinson College.
In the 800, senior Kyle Musto clocked in first at 2:05.4 and sophomore James Finney was runner-up in 2:06.3.
GFS had started off the meet with a victory in a sprint relay, the 4 x 100. Senior Nick Miller, junior Jordan May, Uriah West, and freshman Ahshar Williams completed the one-lap race in 45.2 seconds, three seconds ahead of the George School quartet.
May went on to win both the 200 (23.2) and the 400 (51.3), while Williams won the 100 meters (11.8) and was runner-up in the 200 (23.5) and the high jump (5'10"). On the track, Tigers junior Patrick Araya was third in the 400 meters (55.1).
Miller, meanwhile, saw a lot of action in the field events. He won the long jump (18'6") and placed third in both the triple jump (35'8") and the pole vault (8'6"). West was third in the long jump, at 15'10".
Surrounded by good George School hurdlers, GFS junior Eliott Baron pulled out some points for the host school by winning the 300 intermediates with a new PR of 42.5 seconds and taking third in the 110 high hurdles (18.2).
"Eliott has put in the work, and it's nice to see it starting to pay off for him," Myran said.
The Tigers put an exclamation point on the meet victory with a 14-second victory in the final event, the 4 x 400 relay. The winning time of 3:35.9 was recorded by May, Musto, and juniors Jonathan Bailey and Araya. Coming in third in the same race was the GFS quartet of Finney, juniors Jeremy Wright and Paul Maxson, and freshman Mathias Hammer.


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Writing for Telemundo with Paul Chitlik
Check out Bas Rutten's Liver Shot on MMA Surge: http://bit.ly/MMASurgeEp1 Paul Chitlik wrote and directed his first play when he was eleven, considered somewhat late by many studio executives barely out of their teens. As a college student, he went to Spain to study at the University of Madrid. There, he also learned how to duck water cannons and charging horses. After receiving his degree in comparative literature and tear gas at UC, Berkeley, Chitlik traveled all over Europe, finally landing in London where he worked as a translator and journalist for several years. When he returned to Los Angeles he began teaching English as a second language at Long Beach Community College. Soon, he was an administrator devising programs for non-literate students, a skill that has enabled him to read unsolicited manuscripts without flinching. During this time he was also on the board of directors of La Escuela Laboral, a bilingual school for adults in East Los Angeles, and the Human Powered Transit Association, a bicycle advocacy group. He also served as Executive Director of AVAZ International Dance Theatre. He was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to attend the first White House Conference on Library and Information Services. Chitlik has served on the School Facilities Committee of Burbank, overseeing the expenditure of $200 million in the rebuilding of the city's schools for ten years, nine as chair. He also serves as President of Project Chicken Soup, an organization that provides kosher meals to people with HIV/AIDS. In 1984, he did a career about-face and began to write for television, first as the executive story editor for a syndicated series, "Guilty or Innocent," and later as a staff writer with writing partner, Jeremy Bertrand Finch, for the Showtime series, "Brothers." Chitlik and Finch wrote for CBS' "The Twilight Zone," ABC's "Who's the Boss?," and NBC's "Amen." When "The Twilight Zone" was revived for syndication, Chitlik and Finch were brought on board by to set the direction and tone of the program as story editors. Chitlik and Finch won a Writers Guild of America award nomination for one of the "Twilight Zone" episodes they wrote during this time. Chitlik and Finch developed "Poltergeist" for television for a partnership of MGM, Paragon Pictures, and ARD; sold a romantic comedy to Bay Productions of Vancouver; created a sit-com for Republic Pictures; wrote a pilot for "Lifetime;" and developed "Alcohol Lake," with KCET for American Playhouse. Chitlik went on to be coordinating producer for 'Real Stories of the Highway Patrol.' In addition to overseeing the story development, scripting, directing, and editing of over 260 reenactment segments, he field produced and directed more than a dozen himself. From Real Stories, Chitlik went to 'U.S. Customs Classified' a syndicated series starring Stephen J. Cannell. He has also written features for Rysher Entertainment, Promark Entertainment, NuImage, and Mainline Releasing, one of which won a Genesis Award for outstanding children's movie. Chitlik wrote and produced 'Alien Abduction ' The McPherson Tape', a movie for television for UPN and dick clark productions, for whom he has written episodes of 'Beyond Belief.' He also contributed episodes to 'Los Beltr'n,' a Spanish language sitcom for Telemundo, one of which was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. In 1996, Chitlik founded The Dime Novel Co. and published a complete mystery novel as a magazine supported solely by advertising. In the summer of 1997, he published the second edition, featuring 'Deviant Numbers,' a science fiction novela about cloning. His most recent book, Rewrite, is published by MWP. Chitlik is a visiting assistant professor in UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, as well as a lecturer at Loyola Marymount University. He has also given master classes in screenwriting at the University of Barcelona's film school, and consults for the government of Chile's film development program. Buy Rewrite Here: http://amzn.to/oikjEG
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Wow! It's been awhile since I've shown you any birds here. The last one was Sassy Zany Birds in February. I drew this bird back in March because well….I was
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Back in April, we talked about how history's greatest investor, Berkshire Hathaway's
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Another big, sarcastic thank-you, Warren!
Sounds great on paper, and that mind-set certainly helped Buffett on his path to billions. Practically speaking, though, the only way for us to be absolutely sure we won't lose money is to stuff it under our mattresses.
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I told you back then about five value traps to avoid -- the Quarter-Life Crisis, the Too-High Yielder, etc. But having spent a few more months digesting our recession, watching industries shake out, and debating with fellow Fools until they turn the lights on at our favorite local pub, I've defined three more value traps that we should all avoid.
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I learned this lesson the hard way with Valero when I recommended it to Fool readers in June of 2008. I predicted (correctly) that oil prices were due for a fall, but was wrong that lower gasoline prices would spur demand. Turns out that gasoline volumes fell in lockstep, dragging profits -- and Valero's shares -- down with them.
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Companies usually go public for one over-arching reason: Their investors want to cash in some chips, and they've found just the right time (and price) at which to do it. They think they've found a patsy -- you. Really, did you think the financial whizzes at Blackstone took the company public in the summer of 2007 so that you could join in their successes?
But what about, say, Chipotle
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Owning shares of these declining businesses is playing with investing fire. Sure, you might luck out with a turnaround or a dead-cat bounce, but failure is practically inevitable.
Better know a trap!
Remember: In addition to avoiding the original five value traps, you can dramatically improve your long-run performance by:
- Avoiding middlemen businesses that are two-way price-takers.
- Staying away from the IPO hype.
- Shunning declining, rule-taking businesses no matter what their price.
The Anti-Trap
Now consider one of our recent recommendations at the Fool's value-focused premium service, Inside Value: Monsanto. Monsanto is the 800-lb. gorilla of the world seed market, dominating competitors like DuPont
Monsanto is a darling compared to our traps. Unlike the Middleman, Monsanto has strong pricing power, consistent cash generation, and earns huge returns on invested capital.
Unlike most freshly IPO'd businesses, Monsanto is a proven business that has produced market-thumping returns over the past several years. And with Monsanto CEO and Chairman Hugh Grant owning more than half a million shares of Monsanto, you can be darn sure he's working on shareholders' behalf.
Oh, and Rule-Taking? Consider this: Not only is Monsanto the global leader in seed sales, but most of Monsanto's competitors actually license its intellectual property for their seeds. Monsanto doesn't take the rules -- it makes them.
Two for the price of one
Monsanto isn't your run-of-the-mill value stock, but that's the way Philip Durell and I like it at Inside Value. Knowing that value comes in all shapes and sizes has been a secret to the product's success over the years, helping Inside Value to beat the market by more than 7 percentage points per recommendation since its inception in 2004.
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This article was first published December 4, 2009. It has been updated.
Senior analyst Joe Magyer has no financial interest in any of the companies mentioned in this article. You can email him here. Monsanto is an Inside Value recommendation. Netflix is a Stock Advisor recommendation. Baidu and Chipotle are Rule Breakers recommendations. Berkshire Hathaway is both a Stock Advisor and Inside Value pick. The Motley Fool owns shares of Chipotle and Berkshire. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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The first part of a documentary filming the creation of a fountain that will soon flow to life in downtown Hendersonville has hit the Web, as city officials consider locations for more public art.
The first part of a documentary filming the creation of a fountain that will soon flow to life in downtown Hendersonville has hit the Web, as city officials consider locations for more public art.
During a meeting Wednesday morning, the Main Street Advisory Committee adopted a list of places for future art on and around Main Street. The list of potential locations was recommended by Main Street's design subcommittee.
Nine possible locations were identified for rotating art, along with seven spots with existing art and five locations on or near buildings that are prime for an artist's touch.
Rotating or permanent art could brighten the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Main Street, and more places exist for rotating art between each block from Sixth Avenue to Second Avenue.
Future art could also highlight the city's southern gateway to downtown, the sides of Flat Rock Playhouse's building at Main and Allen streets, Sherman's at Main Street and Second Avenue, and Art MoB at King Street and Fourth Avenue. Another spot identified for artwork exists near the Henderson County Public Library at Church Street and Third Avenue.
Construction continues to go well on the fountain, designed by Arden artist Berry Bate, in the First Citizens Bank Plaza at Sixth Avenue and Main Street.
Main Street Executive Director Lew Holloway said the first part of a film documentary chronicling the piece was posted on YouTube and Historic Downtown Hendersonville's website April 15. The YouTube video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFkNKiFpgWs) has garnered several dozen views in its two-day infancy.
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Once work is complete on the fountain's installation, construction crews will clad its basin in brick and pour the concrete sidewalk around it. Historic Downtown Hendersonville is hoping work will be finished in time for the Bearfootin' reveal planned for 4:30 p.m. May 10 in the bank's square.
Holloway said crews have already installed some of the brick crosswalks on Main Street that many have said seem more like speed humps than crosswalks. After the final layer of fresh asphalt and coating is laid on the street, the walks will be flush with the road, he added.
In other action, the committee unanimously approved a motion from design Co-chair Marty Payton, who recommended they investigate using brilliant gold for the south side gateway sign's "H." She said the subcommittee agreed a "brilliant gold" would match the gold of the city's flag, the courthouse dome and the new sign coming to Main Street's north side, which will be illuminated at night with a golden hue.
Historic Downtown Hendersonville will host its first Rhythm and Brews Summer Concert Series on May 16, beginning with a mile-long fun run at 5 p.m. Downtown will also welcome merchants, customers and guests to its sidewalk antique festival and vintage show on June 15.
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To the editor: I believe that one thing we all can agree on is that our public school teachers deserve better compensation in relation to their performance. North Carolina ranks 49th in the nation for starting pay and 40th for average teacher pay. We must do better than that.
So the question is: Who is to blame for undervaluing our teachers? Is it the Republican-led Legislature or the N.C. Department of Public Instruction? Some believe it's the new Legislature that just passed the largest state appropriation in N.C. history for K-12 at $7.9 billion. In addition, our local school board received an increase in funding of $870,846 from Henderson County for a total of $22 million.
Locally our school board spends $124 million per year on education. Where does all this money go? Could our superintendent, David Jones, cut overhead to fill the 22 teacher assistant positions that were vacant at the end of the school year?
Is a 19 percent pay raise for our superintendent appropriate while every teacher is on a pay freeze?
Please attend the next school board meeting at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at 414 Fourth Ave. W. It's your money. Where does it go?
Chairman of the Henderson County Republican Party Flat Rock
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I marched at Selma for the Voting Rights Act. I lived in Nassau County, N.Y., where the GOP political machine had so rigged the system that it took a federal court to force voting reforms to establish one-man, one-vote. I have worked with human rights activists from around the world, including people living under tyrannical regimes.
What the N.C. Legislature has passed is worse than either Chicago or Nassau County. It is the effective imposition of a poll tax because the documents that are needed for a state ID card all cost money.
College IDs are disallowed, even though getting those obviously requires providing identification. Every paragraph of this new law is another way of restricting access to the polls, especially for likely Democrats.
Voting, unlike flying on an airplane, is a constitutionally mandated right.
After my activism in Chicago, marching for the VRA, and being disenfranchised in New York, I cannot believe I still have to fight for this basic right because a political party is abusing our electoral system.
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To the editor: As a former teacher, I was angry about the completely different "facts" from the teachers association and the N.C. Legislature.
I looked deeper into the current sound bites and protests about the new education budget and laws and found a site that provides explanations and links to original source documents, including new laws that in actuality support teachers and show the increase in education spending — quite different from current headlines.
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|2012-08-14, 12:50
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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I think people are overreacting as usual.
They have a personal view of a character they thought was always tough and unbending, but we just saw what more than likely is her real personality and it's a tough pill to swallow.
A lot of people tend to forget that part of this mission was for morale purposes and it was said that they were going to have a photo shoot sometime in the future. Well, there it is.
Of course, that's completely forgotten when all the hate floods your brain.
She's still tough, it's just that when a person who has to act that way all the time suddenly gets struck with a new emotion, you can't expect them to be robotic like you want to them to be. That wouldn't build or add to her character arc.
I don't think it cheapens the character and I really feel that people are way too strung on the trope aspects to make anything feel original anymore which only leads to the masses to be disappointed when it doesn't reach their personal standards of excellence.
Anyways, I think it shows that Yui's not really the harden emotionless wench that she makes herself out to be. The conversation between her and Cryska about why she made Yuuya test pilot Japanese TSFs made that apparent and wanted to defend him, but she couldn't out of pride.
But seeing Yui sulking and how insensitive Yuuya was to actually point that out to her was pretty hilarious.
|2012-08-14, 13:37
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|2012-08-14, 17:20
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|2012-08-14, 18:01
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*rubs temples* For crying out loud, what was with Yui's tsundere jealousy mode there? This turned last episode whiplash from straining into downright neck-cracking.
I said as much during last weeks episode, but this cliché stranded-at-a-beach gag was the worst route they could have taken for developing the Yuuya/Yui relationship. Aside from the setting being a polar opposite of the setting in the previous episodes, right now Yui just seems like an entire different character with zero lead-up to whatever stage she just reached.
|2012-08-14, 21:59
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|2012-08-15, 02:08
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For MA or PhD, Yui doesn't need to throw away her katana i.e. she can recycle her martial art skills for PhD in robotics. If Yui is successful in her field, she may get a honorary PhD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree
|2012-08-15, 03:01
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But when you said :
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|2012-08-15, 03:36
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I have no intentions of joining in with the fray, but.... Can you be so kind to remove that image please? It's a spoiler for one of the major events later on in TE. The innocence of those unfamiliar with the content is at stake.
|2012-08-15, 03:39
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I gave you real life examples of high ranking US combatants with PhDs.
A PhD is just another name beyond Master of Arts (i.e. a Master's degree).
In the anime, it shown Yui studying a prototype schematic.
You still have the normal combatants.
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|2012-08-15, 04:12
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Some more thoughts on the episode...
I wanted to wait on commenting some more until I'd re-watched the episode, which I finally did. Looking at the scenes in isolation, I would say I'm happy with about 80-90% of them. There's a number of nice touches, particularly in the first half.
The problems I have are mostly at a higher level - there's a distinct lack of continuity (for story and characters) between eps 1-2 and eps 3-5 and also eps 6-7: it's as if 3 completely different people wrote them with some band-aids attached at the last minute.
I dont know what happens in the novel but it feels like the anime skipped a story-arc or some important scenes/clues that could explain Yui's behaviour in some parts of this episode. Either that or it just feels like the writers ran out of ideas or couldn't be bothered to develop the characters properly or only care more about giving otaku some cheap fan-service than the long term plot or characters. I can overlook some things but I'm increasingly getting the impression that "character development" and "plot" is being driven by short-term commercial interest rather than trying to tell a compelling story. When I get a feeling like this then it's hard to care about the plot and characters.
For example, back in ep 1 we have a scene of the school girls watching some news and reacting to it in various ways - a similar scene would be very useful to see again because we could get a better understanding of how the various characters see the BETA and also to remind the viewers about the threat. For example, we have various characters from countries who have been overrun by the BETA - have they given up and become apathetic about it? Are the Americans (overly) confident about being able to face them? With Japan still on the front lines, how would Yui react? And how would the characters interpret the reactions from the other characters? A short scene like that could be very useful in many ways.
In this story arc clearly we're supposed to see a "softer" and more vulnerable side to Yui. Fair enough. But, the writers could at least use elements specific to her character rather than using generic plot devices (and apparently we're supposed to believe that nobody checked the weather for incoming tropical storms and that the only ones affected were our 3 stranded main characters). For example, when talking about his past Yuuya could have brought up some bad experiences at school and then asked Yui if she'd ever had similar experiences: but Yui's experiences "at school" were much starker - her classmates either quit (we saw one girl leave after someone died in training, crashing their TSF), died in combat or were eaten, and Yui herself was mere inches away from being eaten. I wouldn't expect Yui to go into all that, but mentioning some of it could make for good development: remind viewers (and Yuuya) about the BETA threat, help Yuuya realise that there's much worse problems out there than those he faced while also helping him understand and sympathise with Yui. It could also help fill in the readers about Yui's been up to in the last 3-4 years and why.
I dont mind fan-service to some degree - I find it pretty hit and miss in this series. The wonder-bra pilot suits dont work for me - too "cheap". A few eps ago we had VG joining the women in the shower - while it might be part of a "basic" fan-service scene it at least shows some boldness on the character's side which is rare. Rather different to the cheap and cowardly VG who wants to spy on the same women at the resort. At least Yuuya is "genre-savy" and gentlemanly enough to warn the women, copping an eyeful as a reward. The final scene in this episode was a travesty of cheap exploitation. It's as if someone said and did "Oh no, we haven't met our fan-service budget for the episode, what's the first idea that comes into your mind?" What next for the TSF development team - an idol pop concert? It really feels like a "race to the bottom".
I'm still waiting for an explanation as for why Yui had to do what she did in ep 5 (using her personal TSF to teach Yuuya a lesson) - she got approval/support from others for her action (the captain at least) so surely there is some justification to taking such extreme action. Why did she have to push so hard so fast? So everyone could have a nice time at the beach? In the absence of any proper explanation I'm forced to conclude that it was for plot convenience... which again leads to a feeling of disappointment.
|2012-08-15, 04:46
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Black Steel Knight
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|2012-08-15, 05:03
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At the second thought, sertainly - it would be better let such misunderstandings to be. Especially when we remember fovorite Yoshimune Kouki`s hunting habits: Innocent reader/viewer closing to the trap without noticing it and then... BAAAAM!
|2012-08-15, 06:34
|Link #115
Senior Member
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From EP03 08:39, seems to be normal Yui when interacting with Inia.
From EP03 18:23, Yui shown to be slightly impress with Yuuya's move(1) by exploiting Tarisa 's excess momentum. There's a slight upwards movement with Yui's eyes and eyebrows after Yuuya's move(1).
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|2012-08-15, 11:05
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To expand upon my "distinct lack of continuity" comment: from what I understand, eps 1-2 are anime original, to help start the anime with a bang and to introduce anime-only viewers to the franchise. I think they did a good job with that... then failed to carry it through properly in following episodes, when they could instead of referred to or followed-up on events from eps 1-2 to help improve the character development, plot and overall atmosphere of the series. Eps 1-2 are Yui centric and after that much focus you should expect most viewers to be keenly interested in Yui - but in eps 3-5 there's very little (maybe 2 minutes in total) from her point of view. We're not even given her official job/role in Alaska! I'm not saying that the episodes should be from Yui's point of view overall, just that there's a disconnect between the story arcs that doesn't seem to serve any purpose and ends up being annoying. It's as if the writers didn't properly account for the change in perceptions caused by adding eps 1-2 to the series. There are some marginal references but they're at the level of a band-aid, as I said previously.
|2012-08-15, 12:27
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|2012-08-15, 14:02
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I did get a feeling that for ep 1 of MLA:TE the writer(s) were fans of GunBuster. Doesn't feel like they're trying to re-create GunBuster to me though.
Actually, one thing I like (so far) about MLA:TE is that the series doesn't feature some super-duper once-off robot that'll save the day. Feels more real. Not that I have anything against super-duper once-off robots but it's nice to see something different.
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