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MIAMI -- Carlos Beltran reached a milestone in a game filled with offense on Saturday.
Beltran hit his 350th career home run -- his second of the game -- and the Cardinals outslugged the Marlins, 13-7, before 16,098 at Marlins Park.View Full Game Coverage
MIAMI -- Carlos Beltran reached a milestone in a game filled with offense on Saturday.
Beltran hit his 350th career home run -- his second of the game -- and the Cardinals outslugged the Marlins, 13-7, before 16,098 at Marlins Park.View Full Game Coverage
The 36-year-old led off the second inning by smashing a ball off the right-field foul pole to extended his hitting streak to 14 games. But Beltran was not done yet.
"I feel great and I have to thank God for that," Beltran said. "I've been healthy and working hard. Good things are happening for me and the team. I'm just happy with where we are right now."
The switch-hitter, who tripled in the eighth, homered from the right side of the plate in the ninth to cap a 3-for-6, two-RBI game. The two-dinger performance marked the second multi-homer game of the season for Beltran, who went deep from both sides of the plate in the same game for the 11th time in his career.
"Everything that you do in this game is always great," Beltran said. "But right now, I don't really think about milestones. I think about trying to find ways to help the team win."
While Beltran had a big game for the Cardinals, the entire lineup had success against Marlins starter Tom Koehler. The Cards sent 10 men to the plate and scored five runs in the first inning. But the Marlins responded, scoring four runs in the bottom half against Cardinals starter Lance Lynn. The two teams combined to throw 64 pitches, score nine runs, smack eight hits, walk twice and hit two batters over a first inning that lasted 36 minutes.
"When you get five runs in the first, you can't come back and give up four," Lynn said. "It was a bad day."
Beltran's homer in the second gave Lynn a two-run lead, but Miami's Giancarlo Stanton crushed a two-run shot to right-center field in the bottom of the second to tie the game at 6.
"I only had one pitch today and it was the fastball," Lynn said. "When I threw it, they got hits on it, and I wasn't able to get any other pitch over for strikes."
David Freese broke the short-lived stalemate and gave the Cardinals their second straight inning with a leadoff homer, crushing a first-pitch slider over the right-field wall to open the third.
Two innings later, Lynn was due up with two outs and the bases loaded in a 7-6 game. Mike Matheny decided to let his pitcher hit, and the manager was rewarded as Lynn smacked a two-run single to put the Cardinals ahead, 9-6.
"Pitchers don't like it, but Matt Holliday says a lot of times when they come to bat to 'go ahead and get lucky,' and I think that's kind of what happened," Matheny said. "The thought is I want to put confidence in our pitcher. He had a one-run lead in the fifth inning. It was an opportunity to show him that he is one of our horses. He wasn't sharp tonight and there are going to be times like that, but I want him to know that I want him on the mound. Fortunately, he came through and got a couple of runs."
Lynn's hit proved key as he allowed another run in the fifth on a Greg Dobbs RBI double. The right-hander got through five innings and picked up his ninth win of the season despite giving up a career-high seven runs on nine hits.
"It definitely wasn't one of his better games, but fortunately the offense came in and really gave a lot of room for him to figure a few things out," Matheny said. "It was one of those struggles from the first pitch on that you could tell it was going to be a tough one. He got through five and then the bullpen came and did a terrific job."
The Cardinals added three runs in the eighth to put the game out of reach and improve their MLB-best record to 44-24.
"We just weren't able to hold them off long enough to give ourselves a chance to score some more runs," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "It's tough to hold those guys down, too. They have a pretty good offense."
David Villavicencio is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Our recently-completed Mechanical Systems WEEK/ Comfortech show in Schaumburg, IL was a learning and networking and experience for the many new attendees we met, as well as the regular participants who have the event chiseled into their calendars each year.
This event has always been the ideal way to put an exclamation point on the summer season, a time to share success stories with peers, and find new ideas for the heating season and into next summer. And despite the rocky road of a lousy economy, the positive vibes of contractors refusing to participate in a recession were felt throughout the hallways and classrooms.
"The show is phenomenal," said Bart Prusser, service manager, American Weathermakers, Northbrook, IL. "I found some tips that will improve our marketing, and many customer service related ideas. No matter how good your advertising is, when the technician knocks on the door, the first impression has to be a good one. We found resources to improve our first impressions and incorporate new technologies. There are many quality products here."
That's the point of Mechanical Systems WEEK/HVAC Comfortech: to bring together HVAC contractors in search of business and product innovations with seminar presenters, peers, and manufacturers who have what they're looking for.
Watch for our special Mechanical Systems WEEK report in the November edition of Contracting Business.com.

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Burberry Body is a moisturizer that retails for $50.00 and contains 2.8 oz. ($17.86 per ounce). There are 6 shades in our database, which you can select from in the View a Shade dropdown menu below or jump to these sections: Description.
Burberry invites you to discover the new fragrance for women. Burberry Body is a feminine and sensual floral-woody fragrance with an eclectic combination of luxurious, refined notes, like a precious iconic trench coat wrapped around a woman's body. The scent has top notes of fresh green absinthe, illuminating elegant peach and refined freesia. The floral bouquet of natural rose absolute and iris blends gently with subtle warm tones of sandalwood to form the heart notes. Woody cashmeran, creamy vanilla, sensual amber and musk compose the base notes of this unique and seductive fragrance. Notes: freesia, green absinthe, peach, rose, iris, sandalwood, cashmeran, musk, amber, vanilla.
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Because I own both the original Body and the Intense I will talk about them both. The original Body translates on me as a softly suggestive scent that isn't too heavy on any of it's notes. It isn't overly flowery or woody. There is just something about it that invites people to come in for a closer smell. It is the number one perfume I have ever worn that seems to get most guys attention (which can be a good OR a bad thing). It does seem to wear off more quickly than you want so you may find yourself reapplying at some point in the day. It doesn't go completely away, but it becomes a whisper of the scent.Intense is as the name suggests...a more intense version of this perfume. Initially I loved this one more because I felt like it lasted longer, but after revisiting the original I realized that although it still smells good it just doesn't have that soft suggestive sexiness to it. That's not a bad thing, but I prefer the softness of the original. Overall having both in my collection isn't a bad thing. The difference in both are noticeable enough to not feel like a redundant purchase.


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Rumors of a sequel to Terry Zwigoff's jet-black comedy Bad Santa have been making the rounds ever since Billy Bob Thornton's wicked character survived being gunned down by police officers on the front steps of a young kid's suburban home. Now that producers of the 2003 hit and executives at Dimension Films are moving ahead on a potential sequel, they hinted that they might be ready to fill audience member's stockings with not one additional Santa but potentially two installments that would complete a devious trilogy.
The L.A. Times, which reports the sequel deal, says up-and-coming writers Johnny Rosenthal and John Phillips have been hired to come up with two separate ideas for a sequel script. And if two really good ideas come across the Bad Santa team's desk, they are not opposed to greenlighting a second and third Santa.
Zwigoff's Santa earned an impressive $76 million in worldwide grosses in 2003 by flying in the face of the expected cheery holiday film. The Times says Zwigoff is not attached to any sequel, and mentions that original screenwriters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa – who are directing the upcoming Crazy Stupid Love with Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell – will not be contributing anything to subsequent Santa films. But they did say Thornton's eager to reprise his black-hearted role and added that potential sequels could address the spoiled relationship between Thornton's disgruntled Willie Stokes and his partner in crime, Marcus, played by the irascible Tony Cox. Is there a chance they can bring Lauren Graham's character back as well?
I also wonder if Cameron Diaz has her agent on the phone pitching not one but two potential sequels to this summer's Bad Teacher, as well?


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To tide everyone over until the next installment of his 'History of TDZK' series is complete, this week we're turning to you, our inactive, grumpy audience to regale on past achievements and complain of rounds past.
When did you start playing TDZK? What are your fondest memories? Any fun IRC quotes you would care to share? Alliance histories, politics, etcetera? Forum drama (you know you had some!)? Etcetera. Let us know in this thread.


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Video: 'Saturday Night Live' Jeno's Pizza Rolls Commercial Sketch
Saturday Night Live finally made the video available for "I Am Your Mother," the Jeno's Pizza Rolls commercial skit that aired on the April 11 episode. It stars Zac Efron, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, and Fred Armisen, and its premise is that they're all shooting a commercial for the pizza snack. Like a lot of SNL sketches, it goes on a bit too long, but Armisen is amusing as a mom cooking up an after-school snack for her kids who just can't follow the director's coaching.
Funny enough, this isn't the first time that the idea of a Jeno's Pizza Roll commercial has been mined for humor. In the 1960s Stan Freberg made a parody of a Lark cigarette commercial that subbed Jeno's for smokes.
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Palin calls for new Alaska vote after Stevens case collapses
WASHINGTON — Gov. Sarah Palin and the head of the Alaska Republican Party said Thursday that Sen. Mark Begich should give his Senate seat up to a special election now that prosecutors have abandoned their case against Ted Stevens. "Alaskans deserve to have a fair election not tainted by some announcement that one of the candidates was convicted fairly of seven felonies, when in fact it wasn't a fair conviction," Palin said in a Thursday interview with the Daily News.
The governor said she does not want to "split hairs" on whether Begich should resign or not but agrees with the Republican Party's call for a special election.
The Republican Stevens represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate for 40 years before Begich, a Democrat, narrowly beat him last fall. The election came just a week after a Washington, D.C., jury convicted Stevens of lying about gifts that he'd received.
Begich fired back Thursday, saying that although he believed it was clear there was misconduct during the senator's trial, he stepped into the race "long before Senator Stevens' legal troubles began, because Alaskans were looking for a change and a senator as independent as Alaska.
"Today, with our country in a severe recession, it's more important than ever that we have a senator focused on fixing our economy so Alaskans have the jobs they need to support their families," he said. "That is my job in the Senate, and I'm honored to serve Alaskans for the next six years."
The chairman of the state Republican Party, Randy Ruedrich, said that the only reason Begich won his race was because "a few thousand Alaskans thought that Senator Stevens was guilty of seven felonies."
He added that he thought Begich should step down "so Alaskans may have the chance to vote for a senator without the improper influence of the corrupt Department of Justice."
Palin, a Republican, had called for Stevens to step aside after he had been convicted but said Thursday that "I believed in justice through our legal system."
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday that the Justice Department will move to dismiss the indictment against Stevens, who was convicted Oct. 27 on seven counts of failing to disclose gifts, including home renovations, on his U.S. Senate financial disclosure forms. Despite Palin and Ruedrich saying there should be a special election, the Republicans in Alaska's Congressional delegation said it's time to move on.
"In light of the good news yesterday, I am sure many of us wish we could turn the clock back to last November," said Begich's Senate colleague, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. "Unfortunately, that is not an option."
Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young told Fox News Channel after Wednesday's announcement by Holder that although he thought Stevens "would have won hands-down. I would say by 70 percent had the Justice Department investigation not figured into his re-election campaign.
"The seated senator there, Mark Begich, will be in the Senate, he will do a good job," Young said in the Fox interview. "It's just sad that Alaskans were frankly hoodwinked into malfeasance of office work by the Justice Department itself."
Alaska Democratic Party Chair Patti Higgins said the call for a special election is an insult to the intelligence of the Alaskans who voted.
"The fact that the Obama Administration has decided to not pursue a case that the Bush Administration lawyers handled in a faulty manner does not take away the fact that Ted Stevens broke laws," she said in a written statement.
U.S. Attorney General Holder moved to dismiss the indictment after Justice Department attorneys handling the post-trial motions in the case discovered that the trial team failed to turn over to Stevens' lawyers notes from an interview conducted with the star prosecution witness in the case. It was the most recent ethical lapse by some members of the prosecution team, which was repeatedly chided by the judge in the case during the trial, and then cited with contempt after the trial when prosecutors failed to follow a judge's instructions to turn over documents to Stevens' lawyers.
DOJ found discrepancies between the interview and the courtroom testimony of the star witness, Bill Allen, the former oil-services company chief executive officer who plied Stevens with gifts. Those gifts, which went unreported on Stevens' senate financial disclosure forms, included renovations that doubled the size of the senator's residence in Alaska. Allen, who pleaded guilty to bribing state lawmakers in Alaska, is awaiting sentencing in his own case.
Begich's victory was a coup for Democrats in Alaska. But it also was a victory for Democrats in the U.S. Senate, who with Begich's win landed 58 of the 60 votes they need to have a filibuster proof majority.


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Though development of i3bar is very active and support for custom formatting and fonts has been announced, dzen2-svn has an edge over i3bar (as of August 7th).
Though development of i3bar is very active and support for custom formatting and fonts has been announced, dzen2-svn has an edge over i3bar (as of August 7th).
== Suspending with i3lock ==
== Suspending with i3lock ==
Revision as of 23:26, 3 March 2013
i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager inspired by wmii that is primarily targeted at developers and advanced users.
Clients (windows) are organized in a tree data structure within containers. The tree branches via horizontal or vertical splits, and containers can also be set to tabbed or stacked layouts. Floating windows are available for corner cases that don't mix well with tiling, and remain on a separate layer above the tiled windows.
Install the i3 package group from the official repositories, which includes the i3lock, i3status and i3-wm packages. Install
i3-wm for the window manger,
i3status to write a status line to i3bar through stdout, or
i3lock for an improved screenlocker.
Additional packages are available in the Arch User Repository. Install i3-gitAUR for the development version. Install i3-gnomeAUR to add a GNOME-session.
Edit your
~/.xinitrc and add:
exec i3
If you want i3 to log its output (useful for debugging), add this line to
exec i3 -V >> ~/.i3/i3log 2>&1
If you use the Nvidia binary driver <302.17 you need to add the --force-xinerama flag to
~/.xinitrc. A detailed explanation can be found at i3wm.org.
exec i3 --force-xinerama
Status bar
The internal status bar, i3-wsbar, was deprecated and replaced by i3bar in i3 v4.0.
New method: i3bar
Unlike i3-wsbar, which requires dzen2, i3bar does not have any dependecies other than i3-wm. It can be used to view information generated by conky or i3status. For example (as of version 4.1):
bar { output LVDS1 status_command i3status position top mode hide workspace_buttons yes tray_output none font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1 colors { background #000000 statusline #ffffff focused_workspace #ffffff #285577 active_workspace #ffffff #333333 inactive_workspace #888888 #222222 urgent_workspace #ffffff #900000 } }
For further information see the Configuring i3bar section of the official User Guide.
Comparison of i3bar and dzen2
This comparison of i3bar and dzen2 only takes into account how well the two programs can handle the input from conky or i3status.
|Color Codes
|Special Fonts
|No, right aligned
|No (UTF8 only)
|No, left aligned
|Yes (the svn version)
Though development of i3bar is very active and support for custom formatting and fonts has been announced, dzen2-svn has an edge over i3bar (as of August 7th).
Alternative: py3status
- py3status – an extensible i3status wrapper written in python
Quickly jumping to open window
- quickswitch-for-i3 – A Python utility to quickly change to and locate windows in i3
- i3-wm-scripts – search for and jump to windows with particular names matching regexp
- winmenupy launches dmenu with a list of clients, sorted after workspaces. Selecting a client jumps to that window.
Suspending with i3lock
You need to add unit file below and enable it with
# systemctl enable suspend@<user>.service.
[Unit] Description=Starts i3lock at suspend time Before=sleep.target [Service] User=%I Type=forking Environment=DISPLAY=:0 ExecStartPre= ExecStart=/usr/bin/i3lock [Install] WantedBy=sleep.target
i3 currently uses dmenu as a application launcher, which is bound by default to Template:Keypress+Template:Keypress.
See also
Arch Linux Forums
- The i3 thread - A general discussion about i3
- i3 desktop screenshots and config sharing


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With the pre-season coming up and the draft approaching there is one important question to address.
Should a team be folded and their players distributed across the other 5 teams? That way there are more CW players on each team rather than being spread thin.
The league will consist of 6 teams this season.
After voting please post and choose one of the following options
a) 6 CW Teams as is the current situation
b) 5 CW Teams and a 6th team made up of out of work foreign players added (Nixontown Nomads)
c) 5 CW Teams and an invitational team from another country and league added. Team to change every season.


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Reigning Miss America Laura Kaeppeler does not shy away from her father's prison past.
In fact, it's an integral part of Kaeppeler's personal platform as Miss America, which is to advocate on behalf of children who have a parent that either is or has been incarcerated.
The 24-year-old raven-haired beauty was in Buffalo on Wednesday for two Peaceprints Prison Ministries events held at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, 641 Delaware Ave. She was scheduled to interact with some local children whose parents have been incarcerated and later meet with local business and community leaders to talk about the services that Peaceprints provides to formerly incarcerated individuals seeking to transition back into the community.
"In sharing my story, I let children of incarcerated parents know that, whatever their background, it doesn't have to define their future," said Kaeppeler, who hails from Kenosha, Wis.
When Kaeppeler was 17 years old, her father began serving an 18-month prison sentence after being convicted of mail fraud.
"Everyone in my small town knew, but no one had any experiences with a parent going to prison, so they couldn't relate to me going to visit my father in prison on the weekends. It was isolating and embarrassing," she recalled.
"Fortunately, I've never received any negative commentary by sharing my story. I think people respect the message of overcoming adversity," Kaeppeler added.
Her message was not lost on 7-year-old Na'ima Flores of Buffalo, whose father, Juan, completed a prison sentence four years ago and is a graduate of Peaceprints' job and counseling program for formerly incarcerated individuals. Na'ima and 14-year-old Shania Brenon of Pendleton decorated some paper Christmas ornaments with Kaeppeler Wednesday and took turns wearing her crown. Na'ima said they are already seeking to follow in Kaeppeler's footsteps.
"Yes, we both do beauty pageants," Na'ima said.
Kaeppeler, a former Miss Wisconsin, was crowned Miss America 2012 on Jan. 14. She is a 2010 graduate of Carthage College in Kenosha and plans to use the $50,000 scholarship she won as Miss America to attend law school once her reign is over.
"I plan to study family law," she said.
As Miss America, Kaeppeler has traveled thousands of miles for personal appearances around the country to advance her personal platform. By the time her yearlong reign ends, she estimated that she will have spent about 340 days on the road.
"It's the equivalent to a presidential campaign tour, except you already hold the title," Kaeppeler joked.
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A Valentine's Day card can easily cost $5 and before you know it, it's in the recycling bin. This year, how about taking that $5 and putting it towards a highly personal, very easy (and edible!) candy love poem. All you need is a handful of candy bars, a poster board, a marker and some creativity! You don't have to be a poet, just let the candy be your guide. If you really can't get those creative juices flowing, feel free to copy ours. We won't tell!
And candy poems aren't just for romantic love. You can adapt this for anyone like your child's teacher:
I "Wonka" thank you for being my teacher. Whether we're learning about the "Milky Way" or the Duke of "York," I always learn "Mounds" when I'm in class with you.
For a twist on the candy bar idea, buy conversation hearts and write a letter to your loved one. Insert the little candy hearts that say things like "HUG ME" "ALL MINE" and "LET'S KISS" along the way.
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Homer Bailey threw this season's seventh no-hitter in shutting down the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight 1-0 in what was the first no-no ever thrown at PNC Park.
Bailey allowed only a walk (another batter reached base on a Scott Rolen error) and struck out ten in the Reds' first no-hitter since Tom Browning pitched a perfect game against the Dodgers in 1988. It was only the third time the Pirates had been no-hit since 1898 and the first since Bob Gibson held them hitless August 14, 1971. [FS Ohio/WLW]


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Zac Efron's latest foray into movie stardom appears possess all the magical realism, earnest melodrama and furrowed brows one could hope for.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Three teams honored with annual Bowditch Prize
Three innovative teams were honored with this year's Nathaniel Bowditch Prize, which recognized their significant contributions to enhance the delivery of quality patient care while also reducing the cost of that care. The annual award is named for the self-taught 19th century celestial navigator who helped raise funds for the construction of the MGH in the early 1800s.
"We don't often stop to recognize our colleagues who work continually – and many times, unnoticed – to make a difference in our everyday work lives," said David F. Torchiana, MD, MGPO chairman and CEO. "The Bowditch Prize gives all of us who work at MGH the opportunity to do just that – to acknowledge our co-workers and to thank them in a tangible way for all they have done and continue to do in developing new ways of practice and creating a workplace that is rich with creativity and individuality."
The Antimicrobial Stewardship Team, led by David Hooper, MD, chief of the Infection Control Unit, was recognized for improving the timeliness of appropriate antibiotic use in sick hospitalized patients while minimizing antibiotic overuse, resulting in a 9 percent decrease in total antimicrobial expenditures during the 2012 fiscal year.
The MGH Department of Surgery's Quality and Safety Program, led by Matthew Hutter, MD, MPH, was
selected for its work in leading quality and safety improvements in the department and across the hospital, resulting in a 20 percent reduction in the Department of Surgery's readmission rate over the past three years.
And, the MGH Diabetes Care Redesign Group, led by Debra Wexler, MD, and Stephanie Eisenstat, MD, was honored for significant improvements in insulin management and for generating enormous momentum for diabetes care improvement across the institution. The processes they created will be implemented in all primary care practices by the Primary Care Transformation Council in the first half of 2013.
On May 12, during the 13th annual Bowditch ceremony in the Trustees Room, Andrew Warshaw, MD, former MGH surgeon-in-chief and chairman of the Bowditch Prize Selection Committee, commended each member of the winning teams and took time to thank and congratulate the other 10 groups and individuals nominated this year. "As in past years, we had a very difficult time making a decision," he said. "All the nominees were outstanding, and every effort important."
Peter L. Slavin, MD, MGH president, said, "I congratulate the winners of this year's Bowditch Prize and applaud all of you who have been nominated for this distinction. Your desire to think creatively and strengthen the already high-quality care we deliver to our patients helps make the MGH a leading health care resource for the community, the region and the world."
MGH Board of Trustees Chair Cathy Minehan said the board established the Bowditch Prize in 2000 through the generosity of Charles and Nancy Munger and the Alfred C. Munger Foundation.
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The combination of loose monetary policy and massive U.S. debt has led to concern about looming inflation. The commonly accepted belief is that a healthy allocation to equities can serve as an inflationary hedge as returns on stocks have far outpaced both bonds and inflation from 1926 to the present – but does this tactic work in the short-term?
To answer that question, and to help you properly set client expectations, we have examined the performance of several different asset classes during a number of short-term inflationary periods (less than five years) dating back to 1936, and what we found doesn't necessarily harmonize with conventional wisdom. We also thought it worthwhile to examine the pros and cons of investing in relatively newer asset classes such as TIPS and Floating Rate Loans to decide if they warrant an allocation in an inflation-focused portfolio.
Pre-1971 Inflation
To begin, we separated the inflationary periods we examined into two categories: pre-1971 and post-1971 (when the United States officially came off of the gold standard). It's important to make the distinction between the two as the price of gold remained relatively fixed from 1936-1971 and, as a result, did not behave the same as it does in modern markets. Therefore we did not include gold in the pre-1971 comparison. Instead we focused our study on the performance of 30-day treasury bills, a 50/50 combination of intermediate and long-term government bonds, and large and small cap equities.
The pre-1971 inflationary periods were overall in-line with what most people expect in terms of asset class performance. Government bonds failed to outpace (in 4 out of 5 inflationary periods) while large and small cap equities outperformed inflation in three of five inflationary periods. Figure 1 illustrates these results.
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Post-1971 Inflation
Moving on to the post-1971 category, we examined six different inflationary periods (see Figure 2). It is
important to keep in mind that after interest rates peaked in the latter part of 1981, they began a steady decline to today's historically low rates. As a result, bonds fared much better during the post-1971 inflationary environments.
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Performance During Inflation
Figure 3 demonstrates that bonds outpaced inflation in the three most recent inflationary periods that we examined and Treasury bills startlingly outstripped inflation in two of the six periods. In terms of equity performance during all six periods, there was no discernible pattern that existed as equities outperformed in some of the periods while underperforming in others and there appeared to be no real correlation between large and small cap performance. If there was one fairly consistent theme that held during all of post-1971 periods, it would be gold's steady outperformance.
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The Newer Asset Classes and Inflation Performance
In addition to the traditional asset classes we have discussed, today's investors have access to relatively new asset classes, such as TIPS and floating rate loans, that are more or less designed to protect against inflation
risk; however, there is limited historical data to evaluate how they actually perform in various markets. TIPS, or "Treasury Inflation Protected Securities," are designed in such a way that their underlying principal value adjusts semi-annually to align with the CPI index, which thus offers protection against unexpected inflation. In the two most recent periods we examined, (7/02-10/05 and 11/06-8/08) TIPS have managed to outperform inflation by posting annualized returns of 6.5 and 6.8%, respectively, versus annualized inflation rates of 2.6% and 3.8% over the same periods.
Floating rate loans are designed so that their interest rate resets every 60 to 90 days to a market rate plus a spread. This feature makes them less vulnerable to the interest rate risk, which negatively affects other fixed income products in inflationary environments when the Fed attempts to combat inflation by raising rates. Floating rate loans managed to outperform inflation in Period 5 but failed to keep pace with inflation in Period 6 due in part to interest rates dropping over that same period. In today's environment, where interest rates have almost nowhere to go but up, floating rate loans deserve consideration.
In order to make prudent portfolio positioning decisions, it's important to understand how certain asset classes perform in different inflationary environments. What we have found is that pre-1971 equities generated the best real returns during inflationary environments and that post-1971 gold has been the best play–this seems to fit with conventional wisdom. Post-1971, equities have failed to consistently outpace inflation during short-term inflationary environments; however, they have outperformed inflation over the long-term.
TIPS and floating rate loans have certain features that are advantageous in inflationary environments; however, due to their limited track records, it can be tough to gauge how they'll perform in various market environments.
Author's disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed are provided for general information only and do not constitute specific investment advice or recommendations from the author.
Note: In order for a period to be considered "inflationary," Consumer Price Index (CPI) returns on annualized rolling 12-month basis had to increase for at least 12 months. Also, the annualized inflation over that same time period had to be greater than the long-term historical inflation rate of 2.5%.


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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Prem (Shahid Kapoor) may be an eligible bachelor but he is not yet ready for marriage. He agrees to meet Poonam (Amrita Rao) just to please his dad (Anupam Kher) and finds a woman he can really grow to love.
An awkward, formal exchange of words grows into a deep, meaningful conversation as Prem and Poonam soon discover that they are soul mates. Poonam, an orphan, has grown up in a small town, where her Chacha (Alok Nath) has brought her up to want for nothing. Chachi (Seema Biswas), however, is jealous of Amrita's beauty, simplicity and charm, as her own daughter Rajni (Amrita Prakash) is overshadowed. Gentle, softspoken Prem, the scion of one of Delhi's most prosperous business houses, has grown up living in the fast lane, but retains his respect for family traditions and values. The two hit it off and soon they are engaged. They are to be married in six months.
Prem and Poonam now enter the most magical and romantic time of their lives. Six months fly by. Just when everything is set for the wedding a crisis puts their love through a trial by fire.
Vivah is a heart warming tale of unconditional love. The golden period between engagement and marriage is every couple's fondest memory; and the unexpected encounter which deepens into love is something all young people will be able to relate to.


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sheet out a bit here, fellas.
shouldnt we all give the folks at real a chance to respond? i mean, dudes, this a public forum, and in most of the world, except maybe china and iran and a few other fascist-religious states, we are innocent until proven guilty.
i know nicky from real and i know he tries to be a righteous dude, has helped me out of a jam or two in obx when he could have said "blow it out your bum." and man, he is one dude who is not just all about customer service.
so lets all settle a bit and wait for for what trip and the boys have to say. who knows, maybe someone stole THEIR property.


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11109 Angleberger Rd.
Thurmont, MD 21788
Used 2018 Grand Design Reflection 367BHS
Grand Design Reflection 367BHS fifth wheel highlights:
- Extra Room
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Get close to a living, breathing dinosaur! Fun, educational, and interactive, Dinosaur Encounters features NHMLA's life-size dinosaur puppets. Each presenter focuses on a different topic, including theories on dinosaur behavior, extinction, adaptation, and the relationship between birds and dinosaurs. Please note these are not small hand puppets. The Museum's puppets are very large, realistic interpretations of wild animals.
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Today, Mash Tactics is web-slinging into Spider-Man: Edge of Time. This is the newest addition to a long line of Spider-Man licensed games. Jon Carnage is a true fan of friendly neighborhood web-head. Tune in to see how he takes to this latest attempt to put the player in Spidey's tights.
Mash Tactics airs Monday through Friday at 4pm Pacific. Watch Jon Carnage and Wesley Ruscher let loose with off-the-wall humor and discuss the issues of the day in the live chat on Destructoid's Twitch TV channel. Also, there are videogames being played. Join us for your chance to win prizes, talk to industry guests, and witness all of the glorious antics.
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|If you are not familiar with how to prepare dark greens, this recipe is an easy way to start.
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|Serves: 4
|Cooking Time: Over one hour
|In a large soup pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Saute onion and garlic for about 2 minutes. Add beans, greens of choice and water or stock. Bring to a boil, cover and gently boil until greens are tender, about 15 minutes. Add tomatoes and seasonings and simmer another 15 minutes. Adjust seasonings to taste.
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Fourth segment of Rocket to the Stars describes a new rocket propulsion technology called Variable Specific Impluse Magnetoplasma Rocket or VASIMR for short.
Genre: Educational
Keywords: NASA Connect; Rocket to the Stars; Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz; VASIMR; Variable Specific Impulse; Magnetoplasma Rocket; Plasma; States of Matter;
Duration: 00:05:27
Popularity (downloads): 850
|NASA Connect - RTTS - Nuclear Energy
Third segment of Rocket to the Stars describes Nuclear Energy and how NASA Scientists will use this energy in space exploration.
Genre: Educational
Keywords: NASA Connect; Rocket to the Stars; Dr. Anita Krishnamurthi; Prometheus; Jupiter's Moons; Propulsion Technology; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Reaction; Nuclear Fission;
Duration: 00:04:42
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|NASA Connect - WFS - Propulsion In Space
NASA Connect segment exploring how NASA is researching to design, build and test a new propulsion technology that uses magnetism, electricity, and tethers instead of rocket engines.
Genre: Educational
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NASA Connect Segment involving students in an activity to gather and graph statistical data and build mathematical models in a project involving rocket propulsion.
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Second segment of Rocket to the Stars contains a preview of the Program's Hands on Activity which allows students to investigate the relationship between height a marble is released and...
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faz! necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
Nuqoud (نقود)
We are starting a new business with a world famous telco, where we provide all (business) sales & cash collection services for a new mobile based payment system. The system will allow customers to pay for goods at these businesses which are typically retail shops. Customers will also use these shops for getting mobile money topups as well as for obtaining cash. Our company will sign-up these businesses as well as handle the cash to/from these shops i.e. handle distribution.
We are hoping this will be huge!!!
We will be servicing the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) market, specifically retail shops, and large manpower companies. Hence this is mainly business to business.
Although most of our audience are non-English speakers and our name is an arabic word - the logo can incorporate the English name. We would be happy if we get designs that incorporate the name in arabic, but this is not a mandatory requirement.
We are looking for a logo to represent our company.
Noqoud means money in Arabic - but we don't want logos with notes or similar 'clipart' like graphics.
We would like the logo to incorporate the brand name in English, Arabic or both. Designs that do not include the full brand name, will also be considered. We would like the ability to use either the text or graphic alone. We would like a very strong focus on the graphic rather than the typeface, obviously both are important.
Our core values should ideally be reflected in the logo: ethical, transparent & trustworthy.
The winning design will be all 5 of the following:
Professional (P): Great enough to be used by a Fortune 500 company
Relevant (R): Communicating the nature of our business - which is all about making payments using mobile phones.
Original (O): Unique enough to be memorable, but not so unique as to be strange
Simple (S): Easy to read, easy to grasp. Remember this is predominately for audiences in the MENA region.
Elegant (E): Graceful, sophisticated, and alluring.
Please feel free to experiment with colors and keep the designs fresh and original! We appreciate your creative ideas and looking forward to a great contest! :-)
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Melt margarine in oven in 9x13 inch glass baking dish or non-aluminum baking pan. Tilt evenly to coat dish.
Separate dough into 13 biscuits; cut each biscuit into eighths. Place biscuit pieces in large bowl; toss with salsa. Spoon evenly into prepared dish.
Sprinkle with cheese, bell pepper, onions, and ripe olives.
Bake at 375° for 35-45 minutes or until edges are deep golden brown and center is set.
Let stand 15 minutes.
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Seaside Heights Owners Can Reclaim Towed Vehicles at No Charge, State AG Says
Hundreds of Seaside Heights residents can reclaim their vehicles tomorrow at no charge from a Toms River towing company who was harshly criticized for alleged price gouging and inappropriate towing practices in Sandy's wake.
The registered owners of the vehicles or boats can meet a consumer affairs representative on location to reclaim their property between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. tomorrow Nov. 21 and Friday Nov. 23.
NJ's Division of Consumer Affairs and the president of APK Auto Repair Corp. Matthew Zucaro earlier brokered an agreement where the towing company agreed to release and return all vehicles and watercraft at no cost to the owners if the vehicles were removed between October 27 and November 9.
"We have brokered an agreement that ensures Seaside Heights residents will not have to await the resolution of ongoing investigations into the legality of the towing company's activities, before claiming their vehicles. Just as important, it also ensures those residents will not have to pay the towing bills," Attorney General Chiesa said.
To reclaim your vehicle from APK Auto, follow these steps:
- Make sure your vehicle is on the list and see what lot your property is located in by using this online inventory list.
- If you're unable to access the inventory list online, you can call the Division of Consumer Affairs at 1(800)242-5846 to reach an investigator who can help you.
- Visit the lot where your vehicle is located. The Bamber Lot is on 2630 Lacey Road- County Road 614 in Forked River. The Coolidge Avenue Lot is on 2032 Route 37 East in Toms River and the Impound Inventory Lot is on the corner of Bay Boulevard/ County Road 629 and Sumner Avenue in Seaside Heights.
- You can work on site with a Division of Consumer Affairs representative between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Nov. 21 and Nov. 23.
"The bottom line here is that these vehicles were towed due to no fault of their owners," Eric T. Kanefsky, Acting Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, said. "Since we learned about this situation, our top priority has been to help the consumers reclaim their property – and spare them from towing fees that were not their responsibility. The owners of these vehicles and watercraft are now free to move on with the more important tasks of assessing the damage to their homes and rebuilding their lives. Meanwhile, the Division will continue to investigate whether this company's actions violated New Jersey's consumer protection laws."
Consumers who suspect price gouging or any other violation of consumer protection laws, particularly as a result of Hurricane Sandy, are urged to call the Division of Consumer Affairs at 800-242-5846.
Consumers who believe they have been cheated or scammed by a business, or suspect any other form of consumer abuse, can file a complaint with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs by visiting its website or by calling 1-800-242-5846 (toll free within New Jersey) or 973-504-6200.


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Three years after private investors purchased the undesirable Al-Ahram Beverages from the government, the company has been transformed into one of the most profitable in the beverage sector.
The company's blockbuster product is a non-alcoholic beer that has been a hit in Egypt and other Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia. As of the end of June 1999, company sales had jumped 60 percent and profits by 30 percent or an estimated $26 million. Production has increased 4 times.
Islam prohibits Muslims from drinking alcoholic beverages. Because of this prohibition, the company offers a low-cost home delivery service for people who want to buy the beverage but do not want to buy the drink in a store where passerbys may mistakenly believe they are actually buying real beer.
Al-Ahram has used traditional beer-and-alcohol-type media campaigns to market the product and the company plans to soon sell the alcohol-free beer in Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic country, and Nigeria.
Al-Ahram's success has defied the odds. When the government first placed the company for sale, investors stayed away because of the difficulties of managing and marketing the product.
And although the business has proven successful, the management must adhere to strict government privatization laws, including one that forbids the company from laying off workers. Thus, the company has reduced the number of workers producing the product from over 3,000 to 800 and directed the remaining workers to other areas such as storage and transportation.
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newday necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1710 diseños de 348 diseñadores freelance.
iLoud.com is an upcoming database of music which brings you information of an impressive database of albums, tracks, artists, record labels and music videos,. covering wide range of music genres and is being frequently updated by its users and moderators.
iLoud.com is sophisticated yet user friendly designed to satisfy both novice & professional music fans. Lots of advanced features...
generally our audience are younger generation, music artists and record labels and artist's fan.
since we provide wide range of languages so we have visitors from all over the world.
1- do not inset ".com" in this logo it must be iLoud and not iLoud.com
2- it must start with lowercase i letter followed by uppercase L and the rest (oud) can be in lowercase or uppercase. if upper case is used preferably use smaller font size than L letter.
3- you are free to choose colors and design, try to be innovative, do not limit yourself to current site design and colors cause it will totally change as soon as possible.
4- it is nice to have a symbol related to web site's subject (music) along with logo. but a great logo which made of font is also acceptable. e.g. headphone with arrow inside of it in beatport.com
5- it must be very easy to read. we are not looking for complicated logos.
6- being creative and unique along with friendly and high-tech design are major keys to become the winner. by the way try to keep it simple but not too simple.
7- we have big plans for our website and your name will be registered as logo designer in our web site which may help your for your future successes.
so we are looking for a great artwork not just a logo
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Kristina N necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
CORE Therapy Services
The Core Therapy Services clinic has opened its doors in March 2008 in Dublin, Ohio. Dublin is a suburb of Columbus. The staff of the company has dedicated every aspect of their services to the patients that come through their door. The services that clients receive are very personable, the clinic staff is eager to see individual improvements as well as provide encouragement, support and comfort, therefore such atmosphere is what it separates this clinic from the chain physical therapy clinics. In addition the clinic provides massage services that can be part of the treatment plan or purchased as spa services.
The targeted audience is twofold: doctors who send the patients to the clinic for rehabilitation and the actual patients who user the services.
Doctors range: neurologists, family doctors, physiatrist, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, nurse practitioners and chiropractors.
Patients: ages 6 to 106 years old. The majority of patients are "weekend warriors" or active aging population.
The logo should be soft, not busy, possibly medical colors, but clear and memorable. It should speak to the company's purpose and possibly express the following message: health through motion. restore function, mobility and improve quality of life.
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You already know, yeah you already know how this will end. ~ Devotchka - How It Ends. Has the apocalypse already happened, or is it just about to? thats the thing with dreams, you know, but at the same time you don't. thats what makes them surreal...
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only thing i wanna point out is that the front right paw looks sorta awkward. other than that EPIC JOB!!!
Amazing! I love everything in tis drawing. The colours, the animal itself, the composition... 5/5 and faves!
omfg i love your work! -adds to collection of cute creatures-
beautiful and dark! 5/5, faves, and added to Mysterious Dreamscapes collection.
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Obama, Senate move on immigration
Immigration reform appears to be on the move on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, with both the White House and a bipartisan group of senators preparing for action next week.
At the White House, President Barack Obama met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Friday morning, and the Obama will talk immigration when he travels to Las Vegas on Tuesday.
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said Obama reiterated that immigration reform was his top legislative priority and would be leading the charge. "The president is the quarterback and he will direct the team, call the play, and be pivotal if we succeed," he said in a statement following the meeting.
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The White House said the president and the CHC have a "shared vision" and that "any legislation must include a path to earned citizenship."
Meanwhile, Senate negotiators are working toward a deal in principle could be announced as soon as next week, with the target date of Feb. 1, sources say. That would start the process of drafting the legislation, with the goal of a floor debate by late spring or early summer. The White House is drafting its own bill, but that very likely would not be the main bill that would be considered by the Senate if the bipartisan deal takes shape.
In the Senate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has joined the bipartisan group of senators working on the issue, and the group may be ready to announce a deal by next Friday.
As for Rubio, he has been coy about his involvement with the bipartisan group of negotiators. While he said he's met with the group in the past, he now is more directly engaged and appears poised to sign onto the emerging consensus forming, sources said.
That could mean that the group has moved in Rubio's direction on how to deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. Rather than a direct pathway to citizenship, as Democrats in the group have called for, Rubio has said that illegal immigrants should be able to stay in the country and access the legal immigration system. He has been aggressively pitching the plan to conservative voices in his party and has received a warm reception.


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This ready to hang piece in a gold ornate frame features a colorful painting of a woman. Art and animals these two passions define Dean a Brooklyn based artist who uses vibrant Pop Art colors and bold abstract patterns to give a voice to his favorite subject - animals.
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Having done the top of the head, the bottom jaw came together much faster.
After a heck of a lot of carving and sanding, and a garage floor that looked like this:
I managed to assemble some of the torso.
At this point the body was still a little too large, the neck was mostly unfinished and I didn't have a clue how I was going to attach the legs and tail yet. I was still entertaining the idea of allowing the legs, tail and possibly the arms to be detachable to make the whole thing a bit more portable. That didn't eventually happen. I should also mention by this point I had the aid of some hot-wire sculpting tools I had ordered to help shape the torso and neck.
Before I moved on to the legs, I needed to figure out how they would be affixed to the torso. I settled on carving and sanding a flat space on each side of the Deinonychus body.
Using measurements from the sources I mentioned in the first post, I drew the legs on stacks of styrofoam and cut them out with a Hotwire Foam Factory hot knife.
Since they were flat on the inside (well, on both sides at this point), there was plenty of surface area to attach them to the body. I used Foam Fusion glue and wooden skewers to attach them and held them on with clamps.
After some time carving them away, it became apparent to me that the legs were too long!
Due to me accounting for too much space above the femurs, the upper part of the legs was just way too long. Because it was so obvious to me, I had no choice but to fix it, so I sawed them off at the seams, took about 4 inches off the top to the legs and reattached. After a lot more carving and sanding, mostly with the sanding sponges, this is where I was:
I should mention that by this point I was about two weeks into sculpting, having not worked on it every day. But now, things were going to get tricky, as it was getting too big to hold in one hand and carve with the other. I needed to start thinking about a stand...
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RAYNHAM — Young anglers covered fishing spots all over the small Johnson's Pond in Raynham on Saturday, as they competed to see who could reel in the biggest catch.
The Raynham Firefighters annual Raynham Youth Fishing Derby drew 95 children who competed against each other, along with their parents. The young anglers got to use small boats or just set up shop on the edge of the water, some fishing from the island that juts out into the middle of the pond.
"We had a great turnout," said Raynham Fire Department Lt. Jim Mansfield. "Everyone is not necessarily catching a lot of fish, but some fish. But I think everyone is enjoying themselves from what I can see."
Johnson's Pond is stocked annually by the state, and is populated with trout, rainbow trout, largemouth bass, pickerel, calico bass, sunfish, perch and pond trout, Mansfield said.
The fire department handed out prizes for biggest individual fish and for total weight of all fish caught.
Raynham Fire Chief James Januse rode around on his personal boat to help weigh fish at different locations throughout the pond.
"He goes around and we actually do some weigh-ins with a portable scale," Mansfield said.
Dominic Monteiro, 13, and his stepfather, Roger Kennedy, had four fishing poles going at once, waiting for a bite on any of them.
"This is excellent for the kids," Kennedy said. "A lot of kids are catching a lot of fish. Everyone is having a good time."
Monteiro, who said he means serious business, caught four fish, all rainbow trout, using Berkley Powerbait.
"I've been fishing mostly all my life," Monteiro said. "It's kind of relaxing. It's really relaxing. I go fishing a good once a week. It's just nice to come out here and look at the water. It's exciting once you catch a fish."
Brian Lee was there with his two young sons, Kevin and Wyatt.
"It's a good event," Lee said. "They've done it every year for the last seven years. We're not being too productive, but the kids have fun and see all their friends from school."
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They still haven't made it so that formatting is preserved when going between mac and pc.
Microsoft will slot photo editing into its Mac version of Office and add mini charts to the software giant's Excel application. Office for Mac 2011 should be released in October this year, according to Microsoft's roadmap. Redmond said in a video posted on its Office for Mac website yesterday that the company would give Apple …
I've always wondered if they keep updating the Mac version to make money or to keep everyone using Office.
Given the high number of Mac laptops sold to students it seems to me like it is about keeping Microsoft Office in use by future generations as well as the current generation. I doubt Microsoft see it as a cash cow.
In some ways it is a bit of a shame that so many people are still so Office orientated. Editing documents, spreadsheets and mailing them around to people is so 1990s.
Keynote: Much, much better than PowerPoint
Pages: Fine for most purposes except the highest end (LaTEX territory anyway)
Numbers: Is quite *different* to Excel - uses multiple sheets very differently
And of course
OmniGraffle for the Visio-demanding
Bento for those who like toy databases like Access (here's a nickel sonny... I wish Apple would stick their UI smarts on the front of MySQL)
It tends to get reviewed in terms of "for small offices and home users", but I couldn't name any missing features compared to Office. That said, I work in a small office, so...
Biggest innovation is the spreadsheet, Numbers, in which the top level object isn't a table but rather a page which may contain one or more tables, with cells addressed using symbolic names and dots like Javascript, C# and everything else since the 80s. Besides that there's Keynote (presentation software) and Pages (the word processor), which are both extremely competent but inevitably just a tiny bit incompatible with Office. iWork also has an iPad port and a web version in beta.
Outlook-compatible email, calendar and address book apps ship with the OS, so they're not present. There's no equivalent to Access, but Microsoft don't ship Access for the Mac either.
I'm not sure if it's about confidence or striving for legitimacy, or if they actually don't see the products as overlapping, but if you go to Apple Store you'll still see Microsoft Office boxes on conspicuous display.
Like it or not, MS Word file format seems to have become the standard for documents in academic life. Historical journals (for instance) all require articles to be submitted as .doc files.
Apple's Pages program will save files in .doc format, but I suspect most people would rather stick to Word rather than experiment.
Apple's Numbers spreadsheet has an enormous advantage over Excel 2008 (I don't know about the new version) - Excel doesn't understand dates before 1900/1904, while Numbers handles them properly, gives the correct weekday, etc.
I will, just as soon as they make it usable.
Clarification for those that will downvote me: Office 2010 costs $149. That $149 is paid back to me in the form of things being quicker and simpler to do. OpenOffice may be free at the point of purchase, but it costs you in productivity. Endless menus, document handling bugs... you name it, as soon as I have to work around it, I'm not interested.
Whenever I mention paid software someone, somewhere, inevitably says "why don't you just use X... it's free."
Yes but, as you point out, when you've found your way around a confusing menu of options, a user-interface that's so badly laid out the developers must never have used the application, and bugs - sometimes the price tag is worth it for the increase in productivity.
To re-inforce this point, I'll use MySQL Workbench. It's free. I wanted to create a database. It took me 10 minutes, and a Google search to find out how to do this. Of course the developers thought it was so obvious - you just connect to your database using Query (not Admin as you would think), then see where you've got those tabs for each database? Right-click on one of those. Then click "Create Database."
OF COURSE! You add a database using an option that's on the right-click of an existing database - why didn't I think of that before? And you use a tool for querying existing databases to create a new one, not administering the server.
I bought a piece of commercial software a little while later where it's the first option on the main menu - "create database."
£70 for iWork is a bargain compared to the bloated cr*p that is OpenOffice. And Alastair - don't forget to add "time spent converting documents to PDF to send to people because OpenOffice documents don't always look right in MS Office."
Sorry, but the later versions of MS Office are unusable by people who have been working with the more advanced feature set of Word. It's OK for beginners, but I have lost countless hours trying to unearth where the &&%ç% Microsoft moved option so-and-so, to the point where I would cheerfully introduce the architect of that layout to sensing the shape of the resale box by means of their rectal cavity. Example? Try custom document fields.
This is the key redeeming feature of OpenOffice: it may be as confusing at first, but it's only confusing once. There's no marketing droid who wants a new layout to have a reason to sell again, so subsequent versions just, well, work.
I have iWorks as well as MS Office and OpenOffice. OOo is used 90%, 9% iWorks (presentations look better), and 1% MS Office - mainly to open client documents for layout compatibility. And even that doesn't work well.
MS Office? No thanks, on any platform.
Because there isn't a worse piece of garbage available for the platform. Endless bugs, sluggish-beyond-belief performance and an UI that doesn't work the way the rest of the OS and other apps do are its raison d'etre. OpenOffice.org isn't much better, but Office for the Mac is bloody awful.
Albeit that this is just a long winded way of saying "no, it doesn't have pivot tables", per the PC World review:
"Numbers is still lacking in a couple of features that experienced Excel jockeys will miss. First is support for pivot tables. Numbers approximates the effects of pivot tables with a new table categories feature, which is arguably easier to work with. Table categories allow you to group data from one table and categorize it in another. The categories are based on existing columns in the original table and can be easily expanded or hidden with a disclosure triangle.
The effect is similar to a pivot table and requires much less effort for novice users, and it works well for almost anyone wanting to quickly view related data. However, longtime Excel users may feel the feature doesn't match what they're used to."
Also absent: macros.
What is so incredulous about these "updated Office for Mac" announcements, and even the whole mentality behind Microsoft Office for the Mac is that the Mac using public are and have always been second class citizens with regard to Microsoft software on their platform of choice, and these "one step closed to full acceptance" stances are ridiculous and laughable - but in a sic type of way.
No, it isn't heresy, hear me out on this.
Received a corrupted MS Office file recently at work.
Office 2003, no go.
Office 2007, no go on the Windows machine.
MS Office on the Mac, no go.
But, Pages opened up the document, and was able to print it out just fine.
St. Steve, obvious reasons. Too bad he'll end up ditching OS X for iOS. Also, a capital idea of putting a decent Mac OS X gui on top of MySql.
This feature is almost hidden. But when you select open from word and chose a supposedly corrupted file from the file selector. Notice how the open button has a drop down menu which has "Open and repair". I've not met a corrupt document which i've not been able to salvage with this option.
Ha Ha.
I'd like to see you go to one of those fine emporiums(aka PC World, tongue firmly in cheek btw) in my part of the world and try to find anything with an Apple logo on it!
Granted they did have some MacBooks once. Theny they relaid out the store (means can't find owt) and there was suddenly no room for Cupertino kit.
Now the aisles are much father apart. Less product on display. Dell's jostling for space with Hp's & Advent crapware.
No big iMacs.with their lovely display. Oh No. That might show up really how bad the kit from Dell & HP is these days.
Actually, there is no decent kit there at all now.
So really just don't bother going at all. you won't learn anything.
esp if you go to PCW in Leicester who (As of last week) are still asking for bona fide names & addresses even for cash purchases. Guess what part of the country I live in then?
They have a dedicated Apple section in most of them now - Macbooks, iMacs, iPads, even a decent number of accessories. They also quite heavily promote Macs in posters and big in store displays.
Unfortunately they still know nothing about them - I overheard someone telling an iPad customer that he could get 'Work and Excel' on it, but that he would need to the 32GB version if he wanted to install any apps. He then said that most apps were free, but a few cost Ten Dollars.
This is in the Sheffield Meadowhall PC World.
"Microsoft will slot photo editing into its Mac version of Office"
Why? Because every other photo-editing app for the Mac in existence is so terrible at image editing? How about instead spending money and resources on fixing the *real* problems with Office for the Mac, like proper inter-operability with the Windows version and the Exchange server. Maybe if they fixed that, then perhaps people wouldn't be so inclined to look for alternatives over time.
Microsoft is out of time and out of touch.
If you have a Mac, you have iPhoto. Why would you need yet another mediocre photo editor? Are they bringing something new to the table, or just trying to squeeze out the competition with more bloat.
Indesign and Express users: Time to add yet another item to your ever growing list of headache inducing things from the horror that is Word and Excel.
<Evil laugh>We'll make MacOffice so good it will encourage them to live half in MacWorld and half in WindowsWorld. They'll stick with it, but it won't be so good as to be seamless and like hpfs compatibility in NT, we'll remove the support later! Their pain will be unending!
(no, there is no end-tag for <evil laugh>)
Icon: I'll get my Mac
Before I part out *any* money for new/old Office 2010/2011 I need to hear that it runs at the speed that a normal application should.
The current version is seriously deficient in this regard despite being "native". I'm on an 8-core Mac Pro and it runs like molasses in winter.
Won't be fooled again.
Why on earth you paid for that overpriced piece of Apple junk, instead of buying / building the same machine from components for half the price, is proof of how foolish you are.
Of course you will be fooled again, as soon as Skeletor releases another slightly different shaped box.
The irony that you bought an Apple product, but then decided you needed to use PC software, pretty much sums up the whole problem - people are stupid.


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"Food and language have frequently been served up together on the same plate at the anthropological research table." From this starting point, authors Jillian R. Cavanaugh and Kathleen Riley authored an article with collaborators Alexandra Jaffe, Christine Jourdan, Martha Karrebaek, Amy Paugh to provide a fascinating look at emerging food-and-language studies in, "What Words Bring to the Table: The Linguistic Anthropological Toolkit as Applied to the Study of Food." This article is the second in a series on methods in linguistic anthropology that appears in the new issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology available now on AnthroSource.
The article emerged from a roundtable at the 2013 AAA Annual Meeting entitled, "Food Talk as Semiotic Substance: Steps toward an Integrated Anthropology of Foodways and Discourse." The authors identify "intriguing parallels" that link food and language and describe methods they have used in studying food and language simultaneously. Anthropologists interested in methods will particularly appreciate the discussion of "(e)merging food-and-language methodologies." Punctuated by author reflections and contextualizing narrative, the authors provide unique insights into their use of anthropological methods in studying food and language, including participant-observation, ethnolinguistic analysis, food-oriented interviews, language socialization, collaborative transcription, and semiotic analysis of documents and media. In concluding the authors note their hopes for introducing this line of discussion:
First, broadly speaking, we hope to promote the value of looking across cultural modalities, not only language and food, but also language and a range of other expressive media. Secondly, and more specifically, we are seeking to encourage the application of linguistic anthropological and linguistic ethnographic methods and analytical tools to the study of food in order to open up new and productive terrains and topics (94).
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Setting up the characteristics of default fonts is a matter of setting various Mozilla Preferences. Since the topic comes up regularly, we will give it its own space for some special attention here.
All of the font preferences work on a per-encoding basis, meaning that to set any particular characteristic, you may have to set multiple prefs for all of the different encodings that you use.
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Dunkin' Donuts Using Pork Pastries & LeBron James To Woo China
A plan that includes pork donuts and LeBron James might not work so well in say, Cleveland, but Dunkin' Donuts is betting those in China will just love it. Its parent company is shooting for the stars over in China, where it aims to open another 100 stores.
Reuters says Dunkin' already has 150 locations in China, and wants to expand on popularity there with a very specific plan in mind.
"Donuts are a very flexible product. You can do savory donuts, you can do donuts with shredded pork — that's in China," Chief Executive Officer Nigel Travis told Reuters. "We also have a range of other savory products that we have been testing and introducing country by country."
Targeting the Chinese consumer with James as the brand ambassador is a specific move, as he's got a huge following there. He'll appear in ads, in-store marketing and even appear in person at the stores, where milk tea and bagels with pork floss will be on the menu. Might sound gross to Americans, but hey, to each his own.
"While we compete in very competitive markets, I think the key is to focus on the consumer, to understand their needs better than anybody and deliver on that," said Travis.
Does this mean I can expect a cheese donut line hawked by Ryan Gosling? Thanks in advance, Dunkin'!
Dunkin' aims at China with pork donuts and LeBron James [Reuters]
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