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European Sales Slowdown Pinching U.S. Companies
American companies may be enjoying profit gains, but there's an ugly undertoe that is building fear: sales slowdowns in Europe. Kate Linebaugh explains. Photo: Getty Images.
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Each year on the second weekend in May, dedicated organizations and people around the world plan events to mark World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) celebrating migratory birds and raising awareness about the need for their conservation. Since World Migratory Bird Day was launched in Kenya in 2006, events have been held in over 130 countries stimulating people and organizations to work together to conserve migratory birds worldwide. The global campaign is jointly organized by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals ( CMS) and the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement ( AEWA) and is being supported by a growing number of partners.
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July 14, 2011-- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for 2011 fall turkey hunt lottery spots on the Peason Ridge Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Vernon Parish.
The available dates include a three-day and a four-day hunting period as follows:
Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1 (Thursday, Friday and Saturday)
Oct. 2, 3, 4, 5 (Sunday through Wednesday)
The 150 available lottery spots will be awarded to 75 hunters for each of the two hunting periods. Only one application per hunter will be accepted and applications can be submitted individually, or as a group, with no more than five applications per group.
Applications and additional details on the application process are available on the LDWF Web site at http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/hunting/lottery-hunts [4] and LDWF headquarters by writing to the LA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Attention: WMA Fall Turkey Lottery Hunt, P.O. Box 98000, Baton Rouge, LA 70898. Completed applications must be received by close of business on Aug. 22, 2011. A $5 non-refundable administration fee in the form of a check or money order made payable to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries must accompany each application.
All hunters selected will be required to have all required LA hunting licenses, including 2011-12 turkey tags. Turkeys harvested during this fall season count as part of each hunter's 2011-12 turkey season bag limit. Additionally, hunters selected will be required to obtain a Military Clearance Permit from the US Army, provided at no cost by the Fort Polk Game Warden Office.
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Raj Date is top contender for CFPB director job: congressional source
Former banking executive Raj Date is currently the president's top pick to fill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's empty director post, a congressional source said Friday. The CFPB declined to comment when asked about Date and the director position. The bureau goes live July 21. While Elizabeth Warren, the architect of the bureau, remains a popular choice among progressive policy groups and CFPB supporters, ongoing criticism of the agency that Warren helped shape has dogged the Harvard law professor for months. On the surface, Date appears the opposite of Warren, given his background in banking. He formerly served Deutsche Bank Securities as managing director of the financial institutions group and Capital One Financial as senior vice president for corporate strategy and development. He also joined Cambridge Winter Center for financial policy, a nonprofit that defines its mission as "fostering a rational and informed discourse on U.S. financial institutions policy." "It makes sense politically," said University of Houston Law Professor Jim Hawkins, who has studied the CFPB. "It is a way to choose someone who is really close to Warren, but maybe not too close. I think the big difference is that she never formally worked in the industry. She is an academic. He is an industry person who later formed a nonprofit." While the president's consideration of Warren for the post riled critics who saw her as an academic with no real-world banking experience, the criticism surrounding Date could be just as potent, sources say. Despite his business pedigree, one source said "frankly, he doesn't pass the smell test, there are doubts about his conflicts of interest that have been raised in the past." One of those doubts surfaced last October when The New York Times reported Date's previously worked at a firm that arranged low-doc loans for borrowers with troubled credit histories. At the same time, supporters of Date rejected the article and instead pointed to his research, where he pushes back against excessive Wall Street pay and addresses negatives tied the financial bailouts in the report, The Killer G's. "If he is nominated, it is going to be a nonstarter," one source told HousingWire. Even still, a party familiar with the matter said the argument against the CFPB and director post "is not about one person." "The whole thing has to be rearranged, and the president is not going to do that. From a macro-perspective we do not want a single person running the agency," according to the source. Write to Kerri Panchuk.


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Still waiting on the right hardware for installation. It's been three weeks. I got the part and it looks nice but the hardware kit in the package was wrong. This isn't J&P's fault more like S&S. My issue is that its been two weeks trying to get the right breather bolts for an EVO instead of the Twin Cam ones that were supplied. I never would have guessed two bolts were THAT special, or that an EVO was a rare breed.
Super easy install works great only thing after purchase found it on eBay for 129.00 with free shipping
Good looking air cleaner for the price
super easy install ,high quality product
Easy install and noticable difference
Value for money. Easy tidy fit. Being S&S it works well.
This was an easy install. And coupled with a pair of Samson/Caliber slip-ons and the Vance and Hines FuelPak - WOW. I have awakened a sleeping beast! The extra power, sound and throttle responce is awesome. The stage one upgrade is a wonderful Christmas present for me. After reveiwing the Vance and Hines FuelPak here at J&P almost everyone had good things to say about it and the S&S super stealth air cleaner. Great stuff. Would most definately buy again!
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Can't believe Harley does'nt use this designe. Want a stock look with more air. This is it.
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Easy to install and didn't take too long, along with a V&H fuel pack, I now have a beast to ride. J&P, you are awesome!!!!!
Easy to install, took less than 30 minutes. You can hear the difference right away, HUGE power increase!
A great performance item while keeping the "Stealth" stock look. Always great pricing by J&P Cycle along with the Gold Card discount. It's December. Won't know the performance upgrade for another 4 Months! UGH....
Bike runs a lot better now that it can breathe
Very easy to install. Looks exceptional. Very pleased with the product.
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nice bit. easy install and bike is breathing soooo much better. S&S quality. Highly recommend.
Came highly recommended by the guy who runs my local bike shop for my 13 Fat Boy Lo. I had already installed V&H twin slash cut slip-ons, and I wanted to smooth everything out, and get max performance. I installed it with a fuelpak and it was a very noticeable difference. I still want more power, but this is definitely a great first step.
I had a screaming eagle stage 1 before I bought this kit, and I am never going back to it! The noise and power gain where quite obvious. The bike breathes better, and the engine works "looser" at low rpm, with increased sensibility at the throttle. I loved it, my bike loves it. Definitely worth the price and more. Big bang for the bucks here!
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This was a great addition to my 2013 Softail Blackline. Looks great/easy install and I could actually feel the difference in performance.
Great fit, quality of construction and quick, professional service. Just what you'd expect from J&P.
great product, well priced, easy install. I like that you can keep the stock cover
Great fit. Gives you that sleeper look.
Great fit. Gives you that sleeper look.
works great. Have a super sucker on another bike. I like this one better, excess oil drips at time from the super sucker-- no problem at all with the Stealth. Only wish I would have paid the little extra to have the S&S air cleaner look.
Bolt that holds cover to the cleaner is stripped to wear bolt won't come out, other then that. It's a great product
I had to wait a bit as the part was initially out of stock. Installation was straight forward and the instructions were clear.
Felt a definite increase in power. Also stopped the oil misting that I was getting from mh K & N filter
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Great price, fast shipping, made in USA quality product from S and S. Easy installation on my 2012 FLHR, a gazillion times better than stock. Trust J&P!
Very high quality part and attaching hardware. Looks like it should cost more than it does. Instructions are very detailed and pictures help too.
This air cleaner was very easy to install . Bike runs a little bit better and still looks like stock.
Easy install and looks nice.
I added it to my EGlide for a little EXTRA, and keep the bike's stock air cleaner cover. I can feel the difference, and didn't have to buy the whole Air Breather & Cover set. Nice piece!
Good product as expected from S&S. As always JP Cycle had everything shipped quick and easy.
Woke up the 103. Used with 4 inch rinehart slipons and vh fp3 tuner.
No fault of JP but air cleaner cover won't work without a spacer on 2014 Streetglide. However I think JP should mention that on the site.
Quick delivery and easy installation. Removing the stock throttle body support bracket was a surprise. The mounting bolts (2) are very difficult to access on a 2012 FLHTCU. I cut down a 3/16 allen wrench and it took a lot of patience. The factory used a lot of thread locker.
Much more than expected. Easy instillation, Great quality. Just what "The Doctor" ordered for your ride!
Easy installation and it really woke up the bike. I also purchased the VH FP3 and flashed the bike at the same time. Totally different bike now, no lean misfire and smooth powerband. 2014 Road King
Very pleased with all aspects of this product. I don't know how you all can keep them in stock.
great item and quick shipping too!
Good fit, increased performance.
Great looking air cleaner easy install. Excellant price.
This fits very well, gives my Sporty the lean/mean look and extra leg clearance. I have to wait for the snow to melt to test it out, but it is just what I was looking for. Quick delivery as always with your company.
Nice look good performance I like it
Fast shipping as always. Excellent quality as expected from S&S. Would be nice to have a size on the description but that's what the review is for. FIlter measures about 6" so I'll be ordering 7" round cover which will give 1/2" or so gap for the air to get in. 8" round should do fine on a blockhead but will be a bit to big for my taste on a Sporty. Cheers to J&P yet again.
Still the dead of winter here and no garage, so not installed. Really prompt shipping to Canada and the best price anywhere
Installed with minimal effort. Instructions were both complete and easily understood. While it is too cold at present for extended trips, I have no doubt that this investment was money well spent.
Easy swap out with the stock breather. Looks great. Gotta pay attention to need for extra washers (supplied in kit) so as not to torque the carb. Have not had time to evaluate performance yet.
not happy with the cover for it , thought it was metal but its molded black plastic , cheap , i geuss i get what i pay for
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Very nice product, it gets close to rubbing your knee but gives much better clearance compared to the stock air cleaner. If you like intake growl under acceleration this gives a great sound thats not overly loud. (yes i can hear it over the exhaust)
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Breaking Surinamese 100m national record propels the senior
MACON, Ga. (March 20, 2013) – Senior Ifrish Alberg (Paramaribo, Suriname) of the ETSU men's track & field team was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Track Athlete of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday afternoon.
Alberg earned the honor by breaking a Surinamese national record while blowing away the competition in the 100m dash at Charlotte 49er Classic in Charlotte, N.C. on Saturday, March 16. The Suriname native's gold medal time of 10.31 bested the previous 100m record time in his home country of 10.32 set on May 15, 1982 by Sammy Monsels in Modesto, Calif. In addition at the 49er Classic, Alberg also competed as a member of the men's 4x100 team that placed third with a time of 41.15. The senior's amazing performances were just part of a strong overall showing for the Buccaneers' track and field program which placed teams and individual student-athletes in the top three in 14 events in Charlotte.
Following his record-breaking performance, Alberg holds the edge as the outdoor leader in the A-Sun in the 100m dash and also occupies the second slot in the conference in the 200m. Nationally, the senior's scorching mark of 10.31 is the second-fastest recorded time in the outdoor season this spring, topped only by a dash of 10.20, but with a wind aid of 2.3, by the University of Georgia's Johnathan Smith at the Georgia Relays/UGA Alumni Meet also on March 16.
The honor is Alberg's second career Track Athlete of the Week Award and his first of this young outdoor campaign.
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Ask The Expert: T.38 Fax over IP Design Best Practices – November 18th
Join us on Thursday, November 18th, for our upcoming live Ask The Expert event, inside Cisco Live and Networkers Virtual. Ask the Expert events are part of our content partnership with the Cisco Support Community. Take advantage of these opportunities to get answers to your questions live, in real-time, by a Cisco expert.
The T.38 protocol has emerged as the de facto standard for transporting fax traffic in Unified Communications networks. However, to get the most from T.38 and deploy it effectively, certain design best practices must be followed. This webcast session guides you through these T.38 design best practices and gives you the knowledge to ensure that your T.38 integrations and designs are successful.
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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is
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universities with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water,
the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Water Environment Federation.
The Campus RainWorks Challenge is open to undergraduate and graduate student
teams, who will create an innovative green infrastructure design for a site on their
campus showing how managing stormwater at its source can benefit the campus
community and the environment. Winning teams will earn a cash prize, as well as
research funds for their faculty advisor to conduct research on green
ASLA will provide volunteer judges for the first and second
rounds and will host the final round of judging in the spring. Winners will be
announced on April 22.
"ASLA is very pleased to work in partnership with EPA on the
Campus RainWorks Challenge," said Nancy Somerville, Hon. ASLA, executive vice
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we live, study, and play, including college campuses. The students
participating in this competition are creating models that will benefit future
generations of students and the environment."
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lead, to educate, and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning,
and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. Members of the
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but.. now that I've replaced the battery, it's great. We just added a second camera for the new baby and it was easy peasy to do. I'm just pissed that they sell them with subpar batteries to begin with.
we almost bought a Motorola. Great reviews and quality, but too many unnecessary bells and whistles, if you ask me. I don't need my baby camera singing lullabies to my baby. It's all the way across the room anyways, or up on the wall above them - not really the ideal place for a music box.
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September 3, 2013
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Sporting Kansas City has agreed to send forward Kei Kamara to Middlesbrough FC in England.
Sporting Kansas City will receive two-thirds of the transfer fee to use as allocation money, per MLS rules.
"Over the last four-plus years Kei's progression as a player has been tremendous," Sporting KC manager Peter Vermes said. "We appreciate his service to the team and to the club and we wish nothing but the best for him and his next challenge as a player."
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BREWSTER Ernesto "Ernie" Santos of Brewster recently was named Coach of the Year for soccer in the Caribou Trail League.
Eduardo Perez of Quincy was named Player of the Year.
Omak received the team sportsmanship award.
First team: Arturo Ramos, Fabian Rodriguez, Jason Perez and Justin Rivas of Okanogan; Edwin Tinoco of Brewster; Omar Sanchez of Cascade; Jesus Chavarin, Eduardo Perez and Francisco Alejandrez of Quincy; and Julio Vera, Juan Garcia and Eleazar Galvan of Chelan.
Second team: Enrique Vargas of Okanogan; Orlando Romero, Andy Vargas, Enrique Rivera and Danny Contreras of Quincy; Guillermo Sanchez, Fabian Alvarez and Omar Solis of Cascade; Jonathan Sanchez, Mario Pamatz and Christian Talavera of Brewster; Erik Garcia and Ivan Magdelano of Chelan.
Honorable mention: Mario Hernandez and Lauro Rodriguez of Omak; Juan Galvez, Alejandro Angulo and Diego Avina of Chelan; Joel Cosino, Chewy Alvarez and Brayson Hires of Tonasket; and Cesar Rendon of Brewster.
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Two from the Sci-Fi Radio series of 1990. The Twonky, by Lewis Padgett, in which a man gets a new stereo console, and then finds it can do a number of things a regular stereo can't do, including think for itself. And Shape, by Robert Sheckley, where invading aliens assume a shape appropriate to their function, and wonder at humans who seem to have the same shape all the time.
The Case of the Calico Lobster, from the Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater. Captain Underhill and Dr. Scofield get involved in a love story and the tale of a kidnapped lobster. The Mob seems to be involved, or at least a part of the Mob. Tonight, Part 1, conclusion next week.
The Case of the Calico Lobster from the Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater. This is the conclusion of the story begun last week, involving a kidnapped blue lobster, a mobster, and Captain Waverly Underhill. Then we have a story from the History of detective Harry Nile, called The Case of the Baffled Ballerina. A double header of mysteries.
Do Angels Really Have Wings? – ZBS sends us some answers to some awfully big questions. Jack Flanders has a dream and visits Heaven, and decides to tour Hell while he's at it. So he rides his childhood bicycle – a blue Schwinn Cruiser – to the various levels of Heaven, and meets a few old friends and a talking dog.
Vintage Season – Story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, and this production from Sci-Fi Radio. The story concerns Mr. Wilson who rents his house to some foreign visitors, but then wants to kick them out because someone else is offering way too much money to buy the house – as long as he can move into it right away. The renters insist on staying. Why is everyone so eager to stay just here, and just now?
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Audi will use the 2013 Detroit Auto Show to add a little more speed to its lineup.
The company will be unveiling on Monday, Jan. 14 a revised R8 lineup for 2014, an RS5 convertible and the fastest version yet of its Q5 crossover SUV, the SQ5.
The R8 gang starts by gaining a new member in the form of the R8 V10 Plus. The car will wring 550 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque from the 5.2-liter V-10 engine. Audi says it also sheds about 100 pounds by using carbon fiber for several body panels, swapping in a small fuel tank and adding ceramic brakes.
When paired with the new seven-speed dual-clutch transmission that will be available on all 2014 R8's, the V10 Plus will do 0-60 mph in a scant 3.3 seconds. This time also means it's faster than the (slightly) more powerful R8 GT. The R8 V10 Plus will come in coupe form only, and buyers can also choose a six-speed manual transmission.
Next in the R8 hierarchy is the 2014 R8 V10. Its output remains the same, at 525 horsepower and 391 pound-feet of torque, but with the addition of the new dual-clutch transmission, 0-60 mph times fall by 0.3 second to 3.4 seconds.
Finally, the base R8 keeps its 4.2-liter V-8 engine that makes 430 horsepower and 317 pound-feet of torque. The inclusion of the S tronic transmission helps drop 0-60 mph times to 4.2 seconds.
Both the R8 V10 and R8 are also available with a six-speed manual gearbox, and will come in coupe or convertible form.
RS 5 Cabriolet
Shortly after bringing the RS5 coupe to the U.S., Audi will bring stateside the convertible version, which also made an appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The power train remains the same: a naturally aspirated V-8 making 450 horsepower and 317 pound-feet of torque. The car routs this power to all four wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.
Audi says the car will do 0-60 mph in 4.9 seconds, a decent time until you consider this is a car with 450 horsepower and all-wheel drive. That time is also almost half a second slower than the coupe's 4.5 seconds. This penalty probably is the result of the 411 pounds the Cabriolet gains over the coupe from added structural reinforcements and the roof mechanism.
Audi says the 2014 R8's and the RS5 Cabriolet will go on sale this spring.
Not content to let the cars have all the fun, Audi will also be bringing a faster version of its Q5 crossover SUV. Awkwardly dubbed the SQ5, this crossover takes a 3-liter V-6 and supercharges it for a total of 354 horsepower and 346 pound-feet of torque. The SQ5 will have an eight-speed automatic transmission pushing power to all four wheels via Audi's Quattro system.
This Audi will scoot from zero to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds, the company says. Performance gear like torque-vectoring, paddle shifters and a lowered, sport-tuned suspension help to increase the fun quotient. Also, 20-inch wheels will be standard, while 21-inch versions will be optional.
Audi says the SQ5 will join its Q5 brethren on the sales lot in the summer.
In addition to the debut of these Audi models at the Detroit Auto Show, numerous other brands will have major world debuts. The list includes Bentley's Continental GT Speed Convertible, the 2014 Corvette, BMW 4-Series, Cadillac ELR, Lexus IS, Infiniti Q50, Lincoln MKC, Chevy and GMC trucks, Acura MDX concept and a small Honda SUV. Stay tuned to Highway 1 for live coverage from Detroit.


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You can't beat a system you can't understand
You can't beat a system you can't understand
You Too Can Be A Diet Millionaire – Secrets Revealed
Recently, I entered the word "diet" on an Internet search engine. Almost instantly I had access to 18,600,000 Web sites.
Astonishing, wouldn't you say? Americans spend over $40 billion dollars a year trying to get skinny. Hmmm . . . I wondered how much fat was involved for that much dough. The subject seemed worth exploring.
We sent our crack team of investigative reporters on a twopart mission. Learn the secrets of the diet industry and find out what happened to all the fat. We divided the list of Web sites into several million each and proceeded to gather information. Much to our surprise, the Web sites were fundamentally the same, and not much happened to the fat. For the most part, it's still where it always has been – where it's not wanted.
For a minute I thought we might have something. You know, like a new source of energy to replace gasoline. We could take $40 billion dollars worth of unwanted fat and melt it down to something similar to vegetable oil and use it for fuel. I believe that's the latest craze, converting vegetable oil into fuel. You drive around smelling like a salad, but it's considerably cheaper than buying bottled water or gas.
Anyway, it wouldn't work. Well . . . not yet. Since people are still wearing the fat, I assume they would be upset if we started melting it down. So, we carried on with part one of the project to see if there was something worth exposing other than $40 billion dollars worth of unwanted fat.
Each diet we investigated promised extraordinary results with little or no effort on the part of the dieter. The first page of each website was usually an ad with a graphic of an ultra-fit, computer-generated man or woman sporting a beatific smile. The visual sent a clear message: "Hi there! You are fat and I am not. Don't you wish you looked like me? Not even in your wildest dreams will that ever happen." The picture is accompanied by catchy text that is obviously designed to bait the reader.
Headlines like these: "Are you tired of being charged group rates when you buy an airline ticket?" Or, "Does a message box saying 'one at a time please' appear whenever you step on a digital scale?"
Then comes the clincher – "Lose those unsightly pounds of ugly fat without exercise with the latest new breakthrough in weight loss research – the All Pie Diet." How can you argue with that? Eat pie, don't exercise, and lose weight — that's the diet for me!
To assure that you are convinced, the next page of the promotion is filled with testimonials. Photographs of alleged successful dieters such as Farkwad Spongebelly of Possum Flats, Arkansas show a man on the verge of anorexia holding out the waistband of trousers that are minimally four sizes two large for his emaciated frame. The caption reads: "The all pie diet works! I lost 120 pounds."
Testimonials from women are always included. One picture shows a hugely obese woman wearing a paper bag over her head with the word "Before" superimposed across the picture. Next to the "Before" picture is a photograph of a gorgeous blonde (they're always blonde) woman in her early twenties wearing a skimpy bikini. The caption reads: "Darlene Cheesebottom was so embarrassed she wouldn't show her face. Now she's slender and beautiful thanks to the all pie diet. Her husband loves her again and she couldn't be happier." They leave out the part about her leaving the fatso she married to run off with a male stripper.
On the last page they tell you to buy a book while supplies last and promise that for $19.99 this book will show you the way to the body you always wanted. The book delivers all that was promised.
The diet is indeed, all pie. Unfortunately you are only allowed one piece approximately the size of a postage stamp, once a day. It's all in the wording. You are not asked to "do" anything. You are told "not" to do things like lie down or sit for a total of two hours every day. During that time you must "not" stand in one spot for more than a quarter second at a time. They recommend that this "not doing anything" experience should happen while you are at the bottom of a steep hill and "not" standing in one place while you work your way up.
Of course you're gonna lose weight. And every diet book or video describes a similar scenario. Just name any delicious calorie-laden, fatty, cholesterolheavy, carbohydrate-loaded food, limit it to one gram a day and sell the method in a book or workout video and you too can become a diet magnate.
People eat too much and they get fat. Now they gotta work and show some discipline if they want to be healthy, slender and attractive. Of course very few are willing to do that. The big secret of the diet millionaires is that they don't mind taking advantage of those weaknesses. It's another side of that system that we just can't understand.


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SLAP: Silicone Illuminated Active Peripherals
Bridging the Gap Between Virtual and Physical Controls on Tabletops
Press and Talks
- 2010
- Oct 1: Campushunter.de features SLAP in an article as a trending topic in computer science
- Sep 8: Transmaterial 3 features an article about SLAP (Transmaterial 3, p. 239).
- 2009
- Jun 8: iX online article about multi touch tables features a paragraph about SLAP.
- Apr 9: SLAP was a huge success: notes from EnGadget and Gizmodo.
- Apr 6-9: We presented SLAP at CHI 2009 in Boston.
- Mar 25: SLAP in the press.
- Mar 13: Watch our video for CHI 2009 (21 MB, QuickTime movie).
- Feb 26: We presented SLAP at TEI 2009.
What is SLAP?You find a one-page non-geek version here (PDF, 804 KB).
Physical user interface components such as buttons, sliders, knobs, and keyboards have many advantages: thanks to their haptic nature, they are easy to operate without looking, and their shape guides the user's input gestures. However, they are often expensive, and it is hard to change their labeling on the fly. Computer interfaces have largely replaced these devices with virtual on-screen controls, such as push buttons, scrollbars, rotary knobs and soft keyboards. Virtual controls are very flexible, easily changed dynamically - but they lack the physical, haptic texture and feedback of their real-world counterparts.
Our Silicone ILluminated Active Peripherals, or SLAP widgets, are physical widgets made from silicone rubber and acrylic that combine the advantages of physical and virtual devices: Our SLAP buttons, sliders, knobs and keyboards have the physical shape of real devices to provide the right haptic feedback, but are still easily relabeled using a tabletop rear projection. At the same time, they are particularly low-cost, and easy to put to use.
Figure 1. SLAP Widget set. a) Keypads. b) Knob. c) Slider. d) Keyboard.
Figure 2. Dynamic relabeling of SLAP Keyboard.
Figure 3. Different interaction modes of SLAP Knob. Left: Property mode. Middle: Setting a specific value. Right: Relativ knob for fine navigation.
SLAP widgets are transparent. This means we can always show the current labeling using the table's rear projection underneath the widget. For example, we can change the labels on our keyboard from normal characters to shortcut commands when the modifier key is held down. This makes it easier to use command shortcuts and other special keyboard mappings.
But SLAP widgets are still physical, simplifying their eyes-free use.
The TeamSLAP is a cooperative research project by Malte Weiss, Julie Wagner, Yvonne Jansen, Jan Borchers from the Media Computing Group, as well as by Roger Jennings, Ramsin Khoshabeh, and Jim Hollan from University of California, San Diego. It is funded in part through the German B-IT Foundation, NSF Grant 0729013, and a UCSD Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Grant. Special thanks to our student assistants Florian Schwarz and Stefan Hafeneger for their programming support.
Technical Details
SLAP widget detectionEach SLAP widget, like a keypad for example, has visual markers on its bottom side. When put onto a table, the markers are registered by the table using a technique called Diffuse Illumination, or DI.
In the figure below you see the footprint for keyboards and knobs as image captured from the camera and from the perspective of the user.
The back of the table surface is flooded with infrared light, and a camera, also beneath the table, detects the light reflected from the markers. Our SLAP software toolkit recognizes the unique footprint of each device.
When SLAP widgets are pressed like for example the keypad, keyboard, and knob, however, there is no additional marker to detect. Instead, a different technique called FTIR, or frustrated total internal reflection, is used: IR light fed sideways into the tabletop stays inside the acrylic surface until disturbed by touch. The camera beneath the table detects the point of touch from the scattered IR light.
Connecting SLAP widgets to on-screen target objectsSLAP widgets, like our knob, create a pulsating halo around them when placed on a table, indicating that they are ready to be paired to an on-screen target object, such as a movie window. Pairing is carried out by simply double-tapping the SLAP widget and target in parallel.
The halo turns into green if the connection can be established or into red if not, to give visual feedback. Now the widget can be used to manipulate the on-screen target object.
In all, SLAP widgets combine the strengths of physical and virtual input devices. They are particularly simple and affordable, making them suitable for research and prototyping scenarios. We hope others will join us in further exploring this new kind of input devices for future tabletop interfaces.
- CHI 2009 Video on YouTube or as QuickTime video (21 MB).
Related Projects
|Malte Weiss, Gero Herkenrath, and Lucas Braun. Text Entry on Interactive Tabletops Using Transparent Physical Keyboards. In CHI 2012 Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Text Entry Methods, May 2012. .
|Malte Weiss, Roger Jennings, Julie Wagner, James D. Hollan, Ramsin Khoshabeh, and Jan Borchers. SLAP: Silicone Illuminated Active Peripherals. In Extended Abstracts of Tabletop '08, pages 37–38, 2008. .
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Put $100,000 into undervalued, dividend-paying stocks today. Through a combination of capital gains and reinvested yields, the market could turn that single lump sum into a $1 million fortune over the next 15 to 20 years.
While that's solid advice for any new investor, it can be hard to follow. First, $100,000 is not the kind of money most folks just have lying around. I know I don't. Second, which stocks would you invest that money in if you did? There are more than 3,000 dividend payers trading on the U.S. markets alone, and there's no way to tell at a glance which are good buys.
Fortunately, we can work around these limitations.
Invest more
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Those are wonderful developments for individuals who seek to build a secure financial future. You don't need $100,000 to start investing. You can start with as little as $350 -- the amount needed to keep commissions at 2% on a $7 trade. What kind of returns can you expect from such a small investment?
Good ones.
Constant consistency
Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel has demonstrated that it's reasonable to expect a real return of about 6.5%. That's what's known as Siegel's constant -- and as he told the Fool in a recent visit, he's pretty proud to have a constant named after him. Add inflation to that 6.5%, and you're looking at a nominal return of approximately 9%. Using the nominal rate, the stock market could deliver you a tidy $400,000 nest egg after 25 years of investing $350 each month. Not bad for only $105,000 of principal invested.
High yields and low prices
The key to earning that return -- as Siegel points out in his research -- is reinvesting dividends. And the power of those dividends can be profound.
According to Siegel, the best-performing stock through 2003 in the original S&P 500, which began in 1957, is Altria and its incredible 19.8% annualized return. Why has it done so well? Reinvested dividends.
Investor distaste for tobacco and fear of lawsuits has kept Altria's price depressed, while the company continued to pay out huge amounts of cash -- the yield today is 6.9%. That meant investors could reinvest their dividends at lower prices, thereby supercharging returns.
Today, given the volatility of the stock market, a number of stable dividend payers are on sale with better-than-market average (2%) yields. That includes ...
Current Yield
Sources: Capital IQ and Yahoo! Finance.
All of these companies boast solid yields -- yields that have dramatically increased since this stock market funk began. And if you're short on cash in today's market, buying healthy dividend payers like this and reinvesting their dividends quarterly is a great way to keep adding money during this down market, when valuations are so compelling.
The Foolish bottom line
The answer to the "Which stocks?" question, then, is easy: companies with above-average yields and below-average prices. Those are exactly the types of companies that our Fool dividend guru, James Early, focuses on in his Motley Fool Income Investor advisory service. To see some of his best ideas, click here to take a 30-day free trial of Income Investor. There is no obligation to subscribe.
And if you're not in the market at all, consider getting started -- even with only a few hundred dollars. Great investors like Warren Buffett have said that their only investing regret is not having started sooner.
This article was originally published on Feb. 10, 2006. It has been updated.
Tim Hanson owns shares of 3M and Novartis. SYSCO is an Income Investor recommendation. SYSCO and 3M are Inside Value picks. Novartis is a Global Gains selection. The Fool owns shares of SYSCO. No Fool is too cool for disclosure, not even Tim.


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Nov. 16, 2006
WELLESLEY, Mass. - MIT's women's swimming and diving team opened its 2006-07 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) schedule with a thrilling 152-148 victory over Wellesley College on Wednesday night. Sophomore Nicole O'Keeffe was the driving force behind Tech's triumph, as she was involved in four wins - including three individual victories - out of MIT's seven total.
The Engineers' record stands at 1-0 both overall and in the NEWMAC following the meet, which was their first dual contest of the season. Earlier this month, they finished in first place out of four entries in the Batterman Relays. Wellesley falls to 1-1 overall and 0-1 in the conference.
O'Keeffe took home individual victories in the 1000-yard freestyle (11:01.56), the 200-yard breaststroke (2:32.73) and the 200-yard individual medley (2:17.68). She was also part of the triumphant 200-yard medley relay team with sophomore Jen Chao, freshman Priya Parayanthal and senior Stephanie Sidelko, which clocked in a winning time of 1:53.79.
Chao had two individual wins of her own, in both the 100-yard (1:03.40) and the 200-yard backstrokes (2:19.50). Parayanthal picked up Tech's other victory, touching the wall at 1:01.47 for the first-place finish in the 100-yard fly.
The meet wasn't decided until the final relay, the 200-yard freestyle, which MIT entered with a 146-137 lead. Wellesley's "A" team took the top prize in the concluding race, earning 11 points, but Tech's "A" team of Sidelko, Ashley Pinchinat, Jackee Nowicke and Sasha Brophy copped four points for second-place while the "B" team of Parayanthal, Erika Sandford, Sarah King and Jessica Harpole snatched two points for third. The Engineers' six points from the race were enough to hold off their NEWMAC foes.
Wellesley was helped immensely in the standings by its impressive divers, who swept their events. Stephanie White took the one-meter while Kate Sorenson was victorious in the three-meter. Junior Carolyn O'Hara was also strong for the Blue, winning two individual events and taking part in another relay victory.
The Engineers return to the water almost immediately, as they host NEWMAC foe Babson College and NESCAC competitor Bowdoin College on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 1:00 p.m. Wellesley hosts Simmons College at 1:00 p.m. on the same day.


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